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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting. 🤭

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 25d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 27

Tonight's event was the closest thing I've ever witnessed to a presentation from @dropout.tv's @smartypantsshow.bsky.social and I think we have now officially launched a series of social PowerPoint presentations. 😍 @mainetransnet.bsky.social

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Sep 23

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 24

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 24

"It's a book. A beautiful, blank book." #Audiobook #IrishNarrators #SimpleSketches #1984

GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 24

My digital and IRL Finches match and I am inordinately excited about this. I love Waffles. #Finch #FinchApp

Screenshot of a discord message that reads DID IT -- my finches match IRL and digital!
ID: screenshot of waffles having acquired neon pink feet digitally, and real waffles
Followed by the photos described

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 23

They want to label us terrorists for even describing what they're doing to us. It's the ultimate exercise in gaslighting and victim blaming.

19thnews.org/2025/09/proj...

Project 2025 architects want transgender people and allies designated as terrorists

The Charlie Kirk killing fueled the anti-LGBTQ+ think tank's latest attack on gender minorities.

19thnews.org

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey caption team for @dropout.tv, I see you editing errors in the first pass when I rewatch. Appreciate you 👏🏻🫶🏼 #Accessibility #CC #AuditoryProcessing

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 8

I watched a movie tonight where a member of the American armed forces immediately shot into a void that he did not understand. Just now playing a new video game, I tentatively approached a creature, not knowing whether friend or foe, and took damage as the creature charged me.
I prefer my approach.

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MaineTransNet @mainetransnet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Welcome to September, friends: we hope to see you throughout the month at various social and support events around the state and online! Check our linktree and website for registration links and the full calendar, email [email protected] with with any questions 👏🏻🥾🎨🎶🫂🏳️‍⚧️

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ACLU @aclu.org · Sep 4

BREAKING: A federal appeals court denied the Trump administration's latest attempt to enforce their discriminatory passport policy.

Transgender, non-binary, and intersex people will continue to be able to obtain accurate passports.

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 3

earthliberationstudio.com/shop/making-...
Felt compelled to reread this zine today. It's a real good one.
@earthliberationart.bsky.social

Photo of a book page from Ursula K Le Guin's the left hand of darkness, the relevant text reads

I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say.
I am telling the truth.

Photo of a white hand holding open a page of a zine. Black text on a red background reads
This pamphlet was written as advice to myself.
The advice in this pamphlet should not be followed.
You might find it helpful.

Photo of a zine on a navy blue cushion. The front depicts A black block on a red background with cut out letters that read making art as an anti capitalist.

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Sep 1

"How arrogant is it to believe that I can turn any of my thoughts, all of my thoughts, each of my thoughts into a poem, or story, in a few lines, that would make someone... stop and think. Maybe even make their breath catch..."
Am I headed into my arrogant era? Arrogant Auntie, is that the brand? 🤔

Notes Screenshot: August 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
August
How arrogant is it to believe that I can turn any of my thoughts, all of my thoughts, each of my thoughts into a poem, or story in a few lines, that would make someone... stop and think. Maybe even make their breath catch. If I just put words out in a constant stream, will the ones that ought to catch, catch? Is there any way to find out other than to try?

GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Aug 30

Without glasses I read this as Rihanna vs Smurfette and I was much more interested before I realized that it actually says "is"

Photo of my television displaying the Roku screensaver in the undersea theme and a digital billboard for the Smurfs movie

GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Aug 30

Probably same raccoon gave me a love bite when I was feeding it crackers

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Aug 30

Sometimes everything is so wildly bad and yet seven people sit around a table in a dome holding paper sunflowers on sticks chanting "Charlie brown, no shirt no panties" and it makes the world a little bit easier to live in. 🫶🏼
@dimension20.bsky.social @dropout.tv #CloudwardHo #AdventuringParty

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Aug 14

I GOT A RACCOON TO CLIMB ON ME.

Nighttime photo of a raccoon standing on what one can assume is a white sneakered foot, as there is another white sneakered foot that looks like it belongs to a pair, with the one the raccoon is standing on. The feet are standing on concrete, the raccoon is standing on grass with its hind feet and what we presume is a white sneaker with its forefeet.

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MaineTransNet @mainetransnet.bsky.social · Jul 10

Immigrant & Trans Mainers are facing escalating, unprecedented threats to safety, dignity, & basic rights. That's why the People's Coalition for Safety & Justice (PCSJ) - a collective of frontline organizations with deep community ties - is launching the Maine Solidarity Fund.

On an orange background, black text reads:
Our neighbors are under attack
Immigrant and Trans Mainers are facing unprecedented threats to their safety, dignity, and basic rights.
The Maine Solidarity Fund (MSF) provides direct, immediate support when our community needs it most.

On a black background, white text reads:
What the MSF covers
For immigrant community members:
• Bail and bond payments for those unlawfully detained
• Legal representation and defense attorney fees
• Emergency family support

On an orange background, black text reads:
For Trans community members:
• Life-saving gender-affirming healthcare costs when insurance won't cover
• Travel costs to receive necessary healthcare
• Legal support for vital identity document issues
• Emergency assistance during discrimination or harassment cases

On a green background, white text reads:
why a statewide fund?
Crowdfunding for individuals is inefficient and leaves many community members invisible and without support.
Maine is one of the few states without established funds for Trans healthcare or immigration bail or bond.
Until now.

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Jul 9

I love this birb so much 🥹
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hk2KY7/

Meet Calvin. He showed up at my window feeder with a scraped up leg and his one little foot curled backwards. The scrape has been healing and he has been learning such good balance just in the last tw...

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Jul 5

I love my neighborhood wildlife.

Photo of a raccoon in my yard, across the driveway from the window where I observe my tiny wildlife feedery.

Photo of neighborhood stray kitty we call Margaux nee Marco, interrupted while eating the kibble I put on my front porch steps for her. While not friendly per se, she responds to returned hisses with eventual croaky meows.

photo of a gopher in tall grass in my yard

Close up photo of a bee's butt in a foxglove blossom in my neighbors' front yard

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GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today I am grateful for my PCP, for prednisone, and for my brother being back home after a week-long solo trip (his first) followed by a 48 hour delay in Baltimore due to the severe storms on Tuesday. If not for him being here, it would be another sleepless night. Monday, we're back to work.

GaymerAuntie @gaymerauntie.bsky.social · Jun 26

Reminder that is not @ anyone in my friends list but that has come up repeatedly of late: using they/them pronouns for binary trans people (transwomen and transmen // folks who use she/her he/him pronouns) is misgendering. 🫶🏼🏳️‍⚧️