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Krista Brynn
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physics & astronomy nerd | sf&f geek | ttrpg geek | mythology enthusiast | trans | AuDHD | BLM | she/her | https://sites.google.com/view/kristabrynn/home
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Krista Brynn @kristabrynn.bsky.social · Oct 19
Re-intro post: I do most of my social, nerdy, geeky, posting through here, along with more personal takes on trans stuff and while I repost a lot of political content here, I've shifted most of my longer form trans advocacy writing to an alt, the name of which is left as an exercise to the reader.
kristabrynn.bsky.social
"There is such a thing as a tesseract".
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
WHAT HAPPENED?

In the multistate SNAP case, Judge Talwani will:
- keep USDA's 11/8 order that states "undo" full payments or face penalties stayed for now
- issue a TRO mirroring the RI case TRO to protect states directly
- likely address an error states say USDA made in its partial payment tables
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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danielaawolfe.bsky.social
Wrote a book about a bisexual trans woman escaping a high-control authoritarian religion.
Totally not projecting.
Absolutely no parallels to my life as an ex-Mormon bisexual trans woman.

👀

Preorder now.

danielawolfe.com/product/frac...
Fractured Rune
Coming January 20, 2026! When an Aeldstorm splits the sky, Silfra is thrust into the path of Hamari, a stranger marked by tekknik and hunted for her secrets. Joined by Elthar, her exiled mentor, th…
danielawolfe.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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itsviviactually.bsky.social
The Corpus Of Vivian Moira Valentine, Your Third Favorite Transsexual Horror Writer: An Introduction

I've started a gothic fantasy serial, Shadows Over Ravenkirk. The first part is out now, the next comes out in 2026!

It was recently parodied by @midnightpals.bsky.social!

books2read.com/SOR1
A goth woman in a black and purple dress looks on in shock as a large black tarantula crawls across a stone shelf. Behind her, mist rises, obscuring the houses in the background. A full moon hangs just above her head. Illustrated by Lauren Walke. Text reads: Top - Vivian Moira Valentine Middle - Shadows Over Ravenkirk Bottom - 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm. A promotional image for Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm by Vivian Moira Valentine. It depicts the book's cover, featuring a goth woman and her faithful tarantula against a misty cityscape. Text reads: Available Now! Gothic Paranormal Fantasy Haunted Seaside Town Mysterious Inheritance Magic, Mystery, & Murder! An arrow points to the tarantula on the cover, next to text that reads: Her Name Is Samantha!
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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erikklemetti.bsky.social
This is quite a view as well, with twin lava fountains at Kīlauea right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
Twin lava fountains at Kīlauea in Hawai'i in November 9, 2025. Credit: USGS/HVO
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
kristabrynn.bsky.social
Thinking about running for student council of Ohtori Academy...
Quote from Herman Hesse via Revolutionary Girl Utena but in Zohran Mamdani campaign sign form in gold text on a blue background. The text reads: If it cannot break out of its shell, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell [all above in gold block text with red borders] "For" [in italics] The Revolution of the World [in gold sans serif text]
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
kristabrynn.bsky.social
🎶 I gotta roll can't stand still
Lil' Liza Jane
Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill
Lil' Liza Jane

Eyes that shine burning red
Lil' Liza Jane
Dreams of you all through my head
Lil' Liza Jane.

Oh, li'l' Liza!
Little Liza Jane!
Oh li'l' Liza!
Little Liza Jane. 🎶
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Today in @thenation.com: thrilled to have @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on how this week's elections should bury once and for all the toxic myth that trans people are to blame for the Democratic Party's political failures www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Can't Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party's establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
kristabrynn.bsky.social
🎶 Don't stop
to ask

Now you've found a break to make at last

You've got to find a way,
say what you want to say

Break out🎶

youtu.be/NJgCDJ2tD_o?...
❤️ Breakout _ Swing Out Sister | COUNTDOWN 1987
YouTube video by Swing Out Sister - Official
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
“However, when candidates inoculate early and respond directly, they recover those points and sometimes gain additional margin by demonstrating their values and strength,” the memo continued.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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pcberry.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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lilahsturges.com
Again I am asking trans people to share something good that is happening in your life. Can be something really small or even the absence of a bad thing! Hearing the good things in your lives gives me life and hope.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
kristabrynn.bsky.social
🎶All the world is waiting for you...🎶

Before I ever did a "skirt go spinny" move, I was spinning around on my driveway (often on roller skates), playing "let's pretend" superheroes games with my kindergarten age friends in the mid/late 70s, transforming & ready to save the day.
lyndacarter.bsky.social Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 3d
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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handle.invalid
amazing 🧵 on Mamdani's ascendancy and the team he's built to transform NYC. well worth the read.
cascadiaresists.bsky.social Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiaresists.bsky.social · 2d
The real reasons why the elite parasites that we refer to as “wealthy” are scared of “socialists” like Zohran Mamdani taking office isn’t because of the fear of a 2% tax increase. Although, we know they truly do hate having to pay their fair share, the greedy cockroaches. What’s scares them is this🧵
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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mitpress.bsky.social
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.

There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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ddiamond.bsky.social
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
kristabrynn.bsky.social
I just purchased these this morning, so my reading queue is well loaded for the next stretch - not that it wasn't before, but...
benjanun.bsky.social Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 9d
Welcome to Toxic Yuri November! That's not a thing, you say? Well, now it is. Our new bundle is just $15 for TWENTY-FOUR titles, all united by everyone's favorite theme: terrible, no-good, dangerous lesbians.

itch.io/b/3364/poiso...
Toxic yuri november. Danger, obsession, and deadly lesbians. 24 novels/novellas/visual novels.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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trance.bsky.social
And sadder still, more Americans will be mad about their Thanksgiving flights getting fucked up

than millions of Americans going hungry

than children going hungry.

We must do better.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
lmao
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
kristabrynn.bsky.social
Yesterday marked six years since I came out to the rest of the faculty as trans. It was six more weeks before I was out to the students.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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angelafellows.bsky.social
tomorrow we begin the process of casting the movie which is scheduled to be shot between January and April of next year. (it’s kind of a big production)

wanna cover all the bases and make sure we cast the widest net so if you’re in the NY tri-state area, an actor, and trans - I’m looking for ya!
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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itsviviactually.bsky.social
Still not ready for Halloween to be over? Visit Ravenkirk, Maine in my latest novella! Watch Victoria Williams investigate her mysterious inheritance in a haunted town full of magic, mystery, and murder!

Also there's a friendly tarantula named Samantha!

books2read.com/SOR1
A selfie of Vivian, a middle-aged white trans woman, done up in a lightly gothy fashion while sitting under magenta lighting. She is holding up a hardback copy of her book Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm. The cover depicts a goth woman in a black and purple dress looks on in shock as a large black tarantula crawls across a stone shelf. Behind her, mist rises, obscuring the houses in the background. A full moon hangs just above her head. Illustrated by Lauren Walke.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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katecrane.bsky.social
Poet, musician, and software engineer nori li, here as @nori.gay, has died. She was phenomenally talented and dearly loved

💜 🏳️‍⚧️ 💜
honoring the life of nori li
A celebration of nori li, an American poet, musician and software engineer, who was passionate about the arts and trans liberation.
honoringnori.gay
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM