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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 7d

I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID POSTER'S STRIKE.

No content except mutual aid.

Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing.

And nothing else.

#StrikeForMutualAid

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 13d

Hi chemistry/biology friends, does anyone have a link to resources for writing effective alt text for organic mechanisms and/or biomolecular structures? 🧪

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

Say it with me

The 👏 dems 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21d

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.

shame.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Republican 215 4
Democratic 95 58 38 22
Independent
TOTALS 310 58 38 26

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 21d

Do you believe they're Nazis trying to genocide trans people yet? Because they're Nazis trying to genocide trans people

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22d

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

If y'all don't see me at some conferences this year... it's because this has been YEARS in the making.

Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22d

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

What am I working toward if I'm unemployable? Or can't get federal $$ because I'm on some watchlist? FFS.

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

Are "violent extremists" eligible for professorships? Asking for myself and all of my trans/gender non-conforming colleagues.

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

No one prepares you for how to get a PhD or a faculty job in the throes of fascism, or for how to get a grant when agency priorities are steeped in eugenics and pseudoscience.

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

"bUt It'S iLlEgAl" so is, like, the entire fascist machine at this point. Laws don't matter.

Listen to trans people when we say our lives are at stake. We've been dragging ourselves through critical training stages and research day to day so we don't fall too far behind.

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 21d

If y'all don't see me at some conferences this year... it's because this has been YEARS in the making.

Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22d

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21d

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 22d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · 25d

NMRSky! Is there any way to indicate multiple peak assignments for a single spin system (I.e., exchange where two peaks for one amide are visible) in a BMRB deposition? @nmr900.bsky.social

Thanks!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Aug 19

hey I think this is when trans roundups start

like

pretty damn soon

🧵

www.stlpr.org/government-p...

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · Aug 11

Flipping rapidly back and forth between heartbreak and fury

#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Aug 11

and now they come for marriage

capitulation never pays

abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.

abcnews.go.com

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hi Bluesky peeps. Shortly after moving cross-country and starting my new job, our eBikes (how I commute to work) were stolen. If you're able, please consider helping me and my husband @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social recover financially, or share this post.

Thank you 🫂

gofund.me/69aee7e9

Donate to Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft, organized by Alexander Petrovnia

Hello! My name is Alex Petrovnia, and I have been a trans org… Alexander Petrovnia needs your support for Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft

gofund.me

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hey friends. I hate that I have to ask but please consider helping my husband @idpemery.bsky.social and I recover financially from bike theft, medical costs, + becoming internal refugees.

Thank you so much in advance to everyone who is able to support us or share. <3

gofund.me/26feb2bd

Donate to Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft, organized by Alexander Petrovnia

Hello! My name is Alex Petrovnia, and I have been a trans org… Alexander Petrovnia needs your support for Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft

gofund.me

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Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪 @idpemery.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hi Bluesky peeps. Shortly after moving cross-country and starting my new job, our eBikes (how I commute to work) were stolen. If you're able, please consider helping me and my husband @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social recover financially, or share this post.

Thank you 🫂

gofund.me/69aee7e9

Donate to Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft, organized by Alexander Petrovnia

Hello! My name is Alex Petrovnia, and I have been a trans org… Alexander Petrovnia needs your support for Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft

gofund.me

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Jul 14

last person out the door at the Department of Education needs to rm -rf * the student loan database, please

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 12

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

The Economist @economist.com · Jul 12

Health clinics across America are serving up injections of testosterone. Men younger than 35 are the most eager customers

American men are hungry for injectable testosterone

A legion of new health clinics are serving it up

econ.st

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Jul 10

violent misogyny is a prerequisite belief for fascism and I just am begging anyone who doesn't study feminism, gender, child and domestic abuse, etc, to please just believe us when we say domestic and sexual violence is how they learn to dodge accountability to enact institutional violence later

David Earl Williams III @dewforpolitics.bsky.social · Jul 10

Trump’s 22-year-old terror prevention pick, Thomas Fugate—a former grocery clerk & MAGA superfan—is under fire after reports he sent threatening messages as part of a high school love triangle. DHS claims it’s old drama, but records suggest a police investigation did happen.

Cops Probed Trump Terror Chief, 22, Over Teen Love Triangle

Police were called in after a threatening message was sent to a child by the ex-gardener chosen by the president to lead a key homeland security post, The Daily Beast has learned.

www.thedailybeast.com

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell, 1984

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jul 10

www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...

Red state will require new teachers pass PragerU 'America First' test to keep license

Oklahoma partners with PragerU to implement new teacher assessment to ensure educators who have relocated to the state align with its America-first educational standards.

www.foxnews.com

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Jul 10

hey my husband and I are both internal trans refugees and I was threatened/harrassed by one of my neighbors again

we have decided we urgently need to up our security but are really struggling to afford it

my venmo is @AlexPetrovnia and we need $125 for security upgrades to our home

#MutualAid

#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Jul 10

i was borderlining on a panic attack and one of my shittastic neighbors decided to take another cheap shot at me and i lost it in the street

and now im sitting here having to up MY safety planning about it

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Jul 9

we're doing explicit morality policy again

www.newsweek.com/city-shuts-d...

City shuts down popular dance class due to "moral standards"

The class was titled "Dirtylicious Dance Fitness."

www.newsweek.com

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