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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 1d

I have literally never heard of this but I am now intrigued 👀

sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 1d

they shouldn't be forgiven especially because these are the outcomes they want for us

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Alt text:
A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

"Belonging to" Antifa makes as much sense as "belonging to" I♥️NY, but the article doesn't even suggest that.

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 1d

he's a pos but he's not wrong

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I think even Marsha knows this.

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 1d

high fevers are dangerous but we have relatively safe, affordable, and accessible over-the-counter medications that can and do save lives. tylenol obviously doesn't cause autism but even if it did, that's probably better than a dead infant right? right??

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 2d

I bring a sort of "actually no state deserves to exist" anarchism that makes zionists really upset

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

ICE is a hostile occupying force that is a danger to everyone.

Alt text: A man in camouflage clothing and a face covering sits inside a gray Jeep, pointing a weapon out of the open driver-side window. The gun is aimed directly at the camera. The man wears gloves and a dark cap, and his eyes are visible above the mask. The vehicle’s door and side mirror are wet with raindrops.

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Jandri🔞 @jandri.bsky.social · 3d

Newsome trying to “sympathize with the sports issue” would be laughable if it weren’t heinous. Last I checked, “sports” wasn’t a group of people

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 3d

me writing okrs for the legacy infrastructure, trying to find a creative way of saying "don't crash or get hacked" for the 8th quarter in a row

sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 3d

No one is coming to save us, my loves. It's on us to care for each other and to help each other heal from the brutality that will continue to intensify. It's our duty to survive for each other. No way out but through.

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 3d

texas undercover cop in a "hello fellow transgenders" t-shirt sitting in on the third secret antifa meeting to argue about what the demonstration's subtitle should be: "um yeah, i guess i can give the land acknowledgment..."

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: “Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.” The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxton’s directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.” The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 3d

What does it mean when Texan soldiers invade Illinois?

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

This morning, Congress had the opportunity to ask Attorney General Pam Bondi anything and didn't ask a single question about NSPM-7 👍

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Fixed.

Screenshot of a New York Times webpage. The headline reads: “Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy Torture.” The words “Conversion Therapy” are shown with red strikethroughs. A smaller subheading below explains: “Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.” The page header includes links like “Birthright Citizenship,” “L.A. Immigration Stops,” “Unsigned Orders in Trump’s Favor,” and “Florida Immigration.”

Would you like me to also provide a shorter, accessibility-friendly version of the alt text (like what a screen reader would ideally read aloud), or keep this more detailed one?

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sam @ieatkillerbe.es · 3d

The best lock is the one people will actually use. Like the rest of the economy, tech is too focused on margins. We half-ass security, store way more information than we need, and then blame users for not protecting themselves. I have a lot to say about it.

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