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Leah 🖤

@leahoverthinks.bsky.social

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neurospicy zillennial | southerner living up north | former niche internet micro celebrity | posts in english und deutsch | opinions are my own (she / they) MCR 🇪🇺

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Apr 25

I remember saying then, "This is the best cigarette of my life"
Well, I want you just like that
Indio haze, we're in a sandstorm and it knocks me out
I didn't know then that you'd never be enough, oh
Since l was seventeen, I gave you everything
Now we wake from a dream, well, baby

WHAT WAS THAT?

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 11m

Not a fan of this getting dark at 6:30 business. This is why winter sucks because you spend like 70% of your day in darkness in January here

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 4d

The People’s Joker… I genuinely think that might be one of the best movies I have ever watched

Just wow

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 12d

Got asked at the hospital three times today if I could be pregnant and was praised by the nurse for not being pregnant

Am I serving cvnt??

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 16d

3 years ago today, I had GRS and despite being utterly petrified at the time, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done ☺️💖🏳️‍⚧️

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19d

Labour's cruelty is driving trans people to leave the country. Mission accomplished? goodlaw.social/niy4

‘The writing was on the wall’: The gender diverse people fleeing the UK | Good Law Project

While many stay to fight the rollback of rights in the UK, hundreds of trans and intersex Brits are leaving home. Content warning: sexual violence

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 21d

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

What Am I Supposed to Tell My Terrified Friends?

Every time there's a mass shooting in the US, my trans friends and I hold our collective breath. If the shooter turns out to be trans, it could signal the final days of our human rights in a country t...

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 18d

‘It’s just easier’ to do so in order to access benefits or pensions information or whatever else government service it may be

A physical ID card isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but the rollout, data storage, data minimisation and access control and transparency is paramount, plus it must be auditable

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 18d

Saying that it’s going to be required for ‘workers’, is just pulling the wool over people’s eyes. Makes it sound like a smaller group than it actually is. The vast majority of people work, so that’s a lot of the population already. Then people will feel pressured into handing over their data because

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 18d

The only thing I can keep thinking about the digital ID card situation is that it’s a cybersecurity nightmare. It really is going to be a case of ‘when’, not ‘if’ the data is leaked or there’s a breach

A physical card would be more secure and be more accessible and inclusive anyway

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19d

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 23d

If you can’t leave, make sure you know how to access your community, join a union if you haven’t already, plan an escape route from your state if you need to

I’m not sure what we can do from abroad but please know we’re all looking on in horror outside the US

You are not alone 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💖

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 23d

It’s scary to watch from the outside - I can’t imagine how it is inside.

The suppression of freedom of speech, and the US president openly saying he would ban pride flags if he was allowed to, is utterly insane.

Go to Canada, go to Mexico, go wherever is safe if you can

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 23d

If you’re queer and you live in the United States, now is the time to leave for your own safety. Until this point, I’ve supported the ‘stand and fight back’ argument when it comes to queer rights in America, but it’s not viable anymore.

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you 🥰💖🏳️‍⚧️

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 27d

It’s so wild. I completely forgot about it until today. I remember being utterly petrified to come out but I did it and I will never, ever go back. I love myself so much more than I ever did pre-transition

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you, that’s really lovely of you 🥰

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 27d

It’s been 10 whole years since I came out as transgender and bisexual 😌🏳️‍⚧️💖

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wild that my American boyfriend has more right to an EU passport than me 🙃

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · Aug 28

Remembering back around 5 years ago when trans people were regularly accused of hyperbole........ LOL!

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m an autistic, bisexual, polyamorous, transgender woman who believes that people deserve human rights

My entire existence is Daily Ma*l rage bait lol

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Aug 27

I want a cigarette so muuuuuuuch

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Aug 23

‘There’s a feeling I get, when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving’

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Aug 12

‘She got, she got away, she got away, she got away

She’s got, she’s got a way, she’s got a way, she’s got a way’

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Jul 11

‘I’m only a day old, but I know what love is’

Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · Jul 6

The fact trans rights have gone backwards since I started transitioning in 2015 is genuinely depressing. We had no idea how good we had it a decade ago

It’s also scary to think I’m an elder tran now and I’m ‘meant’ to be giving advice to younger trans people but girl idk how to navigate this aha