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Alyssa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social · 39m

What does "effective" mean here because that is an obligate modifier

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 1h

ACLU battles fresh attempt to reinstate Trump’s discriminatory trans passport rules

www.thepinknews.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

ACLU battles fresh attempt to reinstate Trump's discriminatory trans passport rules

Trans Americans supported by ACLU have asked the Supreme Court to reject a request to stay the preliminary injunction in trans passport case Orr vs. Trump

www.thepinknews.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2h

@mrfishcartoons.bsky.social

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 17h

Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙

Call for abstracts Reefs Reimagined: Art and Reefs. International Coral Reef Symposium July 19-24, 2026. Submission deadline Dec 1, 2025.

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🍁🐝Piper🐝🍁 @jazzguineapig.bsky.social · 13h

do I lose my queer card if I say I actively dislike drag shows

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 14h

At the American queer media store

Ask if it's insider queer or queer tourism

Cashier is confused

Pull out an illustrated diagram of what's insider and what's tourism

"It's good queer media, sir"

Look at the media

No trans women, significant drag queens

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Eltripol @eltripol.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Columbo day

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 1d

For #Arachtober, here is a spider that's not a spider. It's Petrophila jaliscalis, a jumping-spider-mimicking moth - see the face-on spider pattern, with orange legs and sparkly dark eyes? I love finding these - I think they breed in my small goldfish pond, because the caterpillars are aquatic. 🌿🐙

A macro photo of a moth, seen from the side, on brown bark. The moth has white wings with lots of dark speckles, and a pattern of four orange vertical stripes, plus a row of dark spots above, with reflective scales in the centers. The effect creates a pattern that looks like a jumping spider seen face-on; the orange stripes mimic legs, and the dark spots mimic a jumping spider's row of large eyes.

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Xolopilli @xolopilli.bsky.social · 22h

Cross Orb weavers...
Did you know their web silk was used to create cross hairs thin enough for stargazing/mapping instruments? 🕷🌠

#sciart #spiders #spiderart #watercolor #coloredpencil #sciencefact #bugfact #space #stars

Picture of a cross orb weaver with its web overlapping a rich blue circle of white stars. One star stretches its 4 points of light across the circle, resembling cross hairs.

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Temperance @t4temperance.bsky.social · 21h

bestie and her beautiful home

A grass spider standing within the funnel of its web, which sprawls out from the center of the photo - dense towards the bottom of the frame and wispy towards the top. The web is strung amongst a dense green yew bush.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Alyssa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a clip from an interview with the folks who own the dog from "Good Dog" and I have not seen it, but apparently it is a miracle of editing and all the noises from the scary bits are noises from playing tug or fetch

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La Jam Nikita🛼🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐱⛷️🚲 @lajamnikita.bsky.social · 3d

The Spider of Pride, aka rhe Sprider. #Pride #spider #entomology #lgbtq

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Alyssa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social · 7d

Portland's fine, Chicago's fine, fascists eat shit

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 8d

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT

The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

www.abc.net.au

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8d

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today.

A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Maggie Emmett @magicpoet01.bsky.social · 12d

The Queer Lives of Frogs
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-queer-li... #Biology #Frogs #Genderstudies #Toxicology via @mitpress.bsky.social

The Queer Lives of Frogs

What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 12d

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢

a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 15d

Books, stickers, merch!

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 16d

Greetings little one 🤓🥹

A sculpture of a pseudoscorpion, 3D printed in gray resin sitting in my hand with its claws up. In the background is a workbench.

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Alyssa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social · 16d

I feel so much better that the teeth you found are just as itty bitty as the ones I've found at Calvert Cliffs. It's such a cool spot!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18d

Texas is limiting the discussion regarding transgender people in 5 universities. It is now banned to acknowledge trans people exist in the classroom.

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

www.texastribune.org

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Alyssa Fuller @ellipsoptera.bsky.social · 18d

My old workplace is hiring!

National Field Organizer

American Atheists is now hiring for the position of National Field Organizer in Cranford. Apply today.

www.idealist.org

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