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♡ Autistic Digital Rights Activist & video game streamer at https://joystick.tv/t/u/joshuaacasey?t=1797a72c ♡ Forever in love my bestie 💕 @bunnyislewd.bsky.social 💕 ♡ "Radical Leftist Antifa Member" ♡ Social media volunteer for @c4osl.org

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · May 29

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Hi, I'm Joshua! I'm an #ActuallyAutistic nerd, gamer, video game streamer (rarely!) and #HumanRights activist. Check out my website joshuacasey.net for all my social links & the extremely rare blog post!

Joshua Casey - Digital Activist and Streamer

Joshua is an autistic gamer and digital activist that is passionate about human rights, free speech, anti-censorship, privacy, autistic people’s rights, sex worker’s rights, criminal punishment system...

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4m

On a chilly morning outside Nash Elementary School in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, teachers greeted students with the usual high-fives and hugs, while handing out sheets with red-bolded words proclaiming in capital letters: “Defend your rights under the threat of occupation.”

Chicago ICE raids, National Guard troops prompt new lesson plans: ‘Know your rights’

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 18h

"Digital rights activists and online speech experts have long warned about this exact scenario: the privacy risks involved in handing over one’s ID to a platform—specifically taking companies at their word that they’re capable of safeguarding users’ data—outweigh any supposed benefits they promise"

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10h

RFK Jr. has a new theory on autism. He thinks circumcision could be a factor.

It confirms what many of us have suspected for a long time.

They genuinely believe their brains are in their dicks.

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 25m

bad news for autistic girls

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h

There’s no evidence to suggest Tylenol causes autism.

There’s no evidence to suggest early circumcision causes autism.

There’s no evidence to suggest we’re in an “autism epidemic”.

There is evidence to suggest that RFK Jr is a eugenicist who’s a menace to society and public health.

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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 9h

SCOTUS could overturn WA’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, putting LGBTQ+ kids at risk of harmful procedures. This is personal.
We cannot put our kids’ health and safety on the line. WA Dems will fight every step to get them the care they need.

SCOTUS case threatens WA's conversion therapy protections

A Christian counselor's challenge to Colorado's law could undercut bans in states like WA.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11h

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 1h

I wish more game developers had the balls and spine to do this.

Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 1h

Fascists should never feel safe to leave their home. The fact that this fascist fuck feels safe enough to be out in the open is a huge problem.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 20h

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 1h

the data hoarder didn't kill himself

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

They should give the Nobel Peace Prize to antifa.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11h

Kentucky has sued Roblox over a "Charlie Kirk assassination simulator" being accessible to children.

BUT their age-verification law doesn't require Roblox to verify, so the AG is suing for *waves arms* "deceptive trade practices."

The right's assault on speech was never going to stop with porn.

Kentucky sues Roblox video game over ‘Charlie Kirk assassination simulators’ amid other child safety lawsuits

The state of Kentucky is suing Roblox, accusing the gaming platform of failing to protect children from predators and exposure to harmful content, including simulations of Charlie Kirk’s assassination...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 12h

Ohio Republicans concede that their poorly drafted age-verification bill may, in fact, have a loophole that excludes many adult sites.

The Speaker of the House says if it does, they'll push to fix it by Thanksgiving.

That hasn't stopped the AG from publicly trying to enforce the flawed law.

Pornography websites ignoring Ohio’s new age verification law, Yost says

Attorney General Dave Yost's office says it found 19 of 20 adult websites failing to comply with Ohio's new requirement to verify users are at least 18 years old.

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 9h

so I get bored and look at clearsky every once in a while for lists added

and lmfao

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 1h

Cops should be ineligible for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 21h

Scholars who study America are saying they won’t visit because it’s too risky.

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 19h

Commentary: Colorado banned the discredited practice of conversion therapy, but a Christian counselor appears to have persuaded justices that the law’s unconstitutional. An adverse ruling could give therapists a license to harm.

Supreme Court could give Colorado therapists a license to harm | Colorado Newsline

The state banned the discredited practice of conversion therapy, but Supreme Court justices appear to be on the side of a Christian counselor.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 10h

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 14h

cancelring.com @fightforthefuture.org

Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 14h

so apparently we've learned nothing from the ridiculously asinine 'sex offense registry residency restrictions'

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans latest censorship strategy: taxing speech.

Alabama is demanding that anyone who sells content in Alabama pay a 10% "sin" tax and to pay for all the damage it believes the industry does to Alabamians.

Alabama’s new 10% ‘sin tax’ on porn websites will help pay for mental health services, sponsor says

"I think the pornography is a driver in causing mental health issues."

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Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @joshuacasey.net · 14h

if the baby is doing the work I believe that would probably violate child labor laws 🤔

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