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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️

@lainkaplan.bsky.social

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Level 40+ linguist and trans woman. She/her. Interests: Judaism, human rights, LGBTQ joy, MTG, comics, language, fashion, feminism. New, obnoxious fitness affictionado. Fash begone.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✡️ Black Trans Lives Matter.

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · Mar 30

Reposting a thread I had on Twitter.
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Dear trans people who found out about Judaism’s positing of eight genders,
If you think Judaism sounds like a thing that might work for you, that’s cool, you are welcome to inquire, but Jews have a VERY DIFFERENT perspective on applicants than Christianity.

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 6h

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 8h

You’re almost there! It’s so good to hear you’re back.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 8h

Yup. Completely insufferable, rude as hell when you indicate you aren’t interested, and the ego. So much inflation.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 9h

I like playing Captain Cthulhu. No, I’m probably not going to mill you out.

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 9h

It’s just a matter of perspective. I don’t get tilted when I have to mill. Maybe the cards I won’t draw are bad ones.

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 10h

I do not understand why people get so upset about mill. So you aren’t going to draw a card you love. Isn’t that also the case with your entire library when you win?

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 10h

That is a pretty big mood.
I’ve never seen this card before and wow, that is definitely a cool card.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 10h

The criminalization of opposition parties is what Nazis do. Trump firing anyone who isn’t a loyalist is flouting the rule of law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 11h

Roommate is browbeating me, my job is kicking my ass, i was humiliated, I am just exhausted, I am having a very emotional morning.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 11h

Not doing great today.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 21h

American evangelicals and right wing Christians already hate Jews. You haven’t been paying attention.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, mine is a goddamn mess. Half Ashkenazi, the rest is … I’m a mutt.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 22h

He’s right, but he’s also contributed so much to the problem that I genuinely have no time for him. Is he giving up his career and repenting and trying to make amends?
Because if not, I don’t really have time to care.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

I can send you more excellent music picks if so desires.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

We stopped that millenia ago, you absolute nudnik. And as a person with a fairly dynamic sexuality, I’m currently in my sixth different perspective right now, you really don’t know what the hell you’re going on about.
The most important sexual pert of the body is the brain.

Pass Around Party Pole @g-mobile.bsky.social · 2d

I don't give a shit whether or not your culture or your invisible sky man told you it was "good". The Torah also contains detailed instructions on how to enslave people and sell them. It is not an excuse to perpetrate robbing people of their genitals and forever altering their sexuality.

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I had this made. It is so predictable.

Kaplan’s law: any definition of Judenhass that isn’t centered on Jewish life experiences and how that hate impacts them is inevitably framed in a way to cover the definer’s ass.

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

So… how did it go?

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

Their need to harass anyone not like them is just the worst. And anyone not like them can’t possibly be happy, they think.

The ego is so off the charts.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely have sapphic preferences, but if a guy has good character and a good attitude and doesn’t have red flags, I can be into them. But yeah, I might play a bit with his presentation if he lets me, and then … whew.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

the Nobel Peace Prize committee going “yeah we felt like recognizing opposition leaders who resist authoritarianism was important right now for whatever reason” somehow feels like Trump won -1 Nobel Peace Prizes

like he somehow has one even less than he did before, despite never having had one

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Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

Such good taste.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

I finally got to talk to my therapist last night after about five weeks. Definitely helped.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

Muscle mommy demihuman is … I forgot about that.

Again, no sailing the seas needed. It’s all legal.

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