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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 20h

You’re allowed to identify as disabled, even if you think “others have it worse”.

It’s not something that’s only gatekept by the “most severe”.
Disability is a varied, diverse spectrum.

If your condition(s) affect your life, if they disable you… you are valid.

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 4d

Falcon season has arrived in the desert- juvenile Peregrine Falcon 🪶☀️🌵

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 4d

Are you in a state with a major election this year (CA, ME, NJ, PA, VA etc) and you’re sick of getting calls and texts from volunteers asking you to vote?

Well, I have a solution.

Just vote.

As in, you are still on a list of people who haven’t voted.
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final grrrl 𓂀 @charlotlaveau.bsky.social · 5d

Legendary Trans Activist Miss Major Has Been Hospitalized With Sepsis. Here’s How to Help

She was also diagnosed with a blood clot.

www.them.us

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 7d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 5d

greta ily what an outfit

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 5d

Snack snatcher from my collection, 1963. The back reads “Fluffel, the well fed cat. In our trailer in Cozy Trailer Park, Edison, NJ (he is 6 mo. old).”

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat standing on a seat with its front paws on a dining table, leaning forward as if about to snatch a bit of sandwich on a plate in front of it on the table.

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Aurora Thee Elezen @kylenne.etheirys.social · 6d

anyway yall should read up on the Tiffany Problem.

Tiffany Problem - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Aurora Thee Elezen @kylenne.etheirys.social · 6d

oomf brought this up but I rly think it’s worth repeating that prescriptivist ideas of what does or does not constitute Proper Fantasy Language are often informed by trying to set old cishet white man fantasy as the standard and as other oomf said often not informed by actual history, much like race

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 6d

I think a lot of people don't know this Zoom feature exists: under "React" there's a "Be Right Back" button that mutes your audio, turns off your camera, and puts a label on your square. And then when you come back you just click the "Back" button.

Repost to save us all from "BRB" chat messages!

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🏳️‍🌈 Loud Little Ladybug 💫🖤 @loudladybug.bsky.social · 6d

Can we please stop saying those in charge are "mentally ill"?

They are evil, cruel, and vindictive. They know what they're doing is hurting people and don't care.

That's not mentally ill. That's greed and power.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 7d

unironically think these recent attempts to scrub "difficult" genres into a clean and palatable form is a sign of creeping fascism

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 8d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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Stephanie Ruhle @stephruhle.bsky.social · 8d

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

i finished How to Be Perfec t by Michael Schur and think everyone should be reading it if they feel lost right now.

septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

it's so obvious we were living in a delusion that she was supposed to win and your protest vote in a red state actually meant something and didn't just fuck as all. instead the neoliberals and Republicans got what they wanted—Kamala lost. because we failed to see the forest through the trees.

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

what is Kamala supposed to do? get on her knees and beg the Republicans to do what she was never capable of doing herself as VP? probably should've worried about her being the President before you demanded presidential power from her, huh?

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

hold the Democrats IN POWER accountable. that's literally YOUR responsibility. call your reps and senators and yell directly at them, otherwise what are we doing? it's not holding the powerful people accountable WHEN THEY HAVE NO POWER???

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

my ex friend flat out told me she thought we deserved another Trump presidency by the time the election rolled around. this is just that on steroids as far as i'm concerned. we'd rather yell at strangers online for not doing enough than do it ourselves. AGAIN. for fuck's sake!

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

Germany rebuilt and unified after World War II. even if the US does crash and burn, we'd have a chance to restore the land to Natives and seek justice for Black Americans. instead all i see is people saying we should give up like we're falling for MORE neoliberal and/or conversative propaganda!

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

it is a PRIVILEGE to sit back and say we're all fucked from a distance. HOPE is resistance as much as getting out of your damn house, especially if you CAN'T get out of your damn house. not enough of you have played Danganronpa or watched The Good Place and it shows.

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septum ring theory final boss @glaivemaiden.bsky.social · 7d

white people have and will continue to accept divisiveness as insurmountable because WE'RE THE SOURCE and we're SURROUNDED by it. and then we surround ourselves with a circlejerk of doomerism rather than combat it.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 9d

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably.

The UK's age verification law backfired miserably.

The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably.

So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 8d

I've compiled nearly 200 horror films about or marketed toward teen girls over the last six Halloween seasons, and it's something I look forward to putting together every year.

(If you see the random repeats in there from early years before I had a better system for organization, no you don't.)

This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social · 8d

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Presenting the 6th Annual This Ends at Prom 31 Days of Teen Girl Horror!

(For years 1-5, check the comments and as always, "teen girl" encompasses a wide range of years, often including college/YA)

The Ugly Stepsister
The Bad Seed
Girls Nite Out
M3GAN
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
House of the Devil
It’s What’s Inside
Tourist Trap
The Glass House
Deadly Friend
Unfriended
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Faculty
The Visitor
The Neon Demon
Sorority House Massacre
Lisa
Psycho Beach Party
Nocturne
Are You in the House Alone?
Killer Body Count
Cursed
The Initiation of Sarah
Return to Oz
Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
Little Witches
Clown in a Cornfield
Coraline
My Super Psycho Sweet 16
Twitches
Talk to Me

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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