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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 9h

I wish any British politician would say anything even half as good as this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 1d

Well would you look at that, who could have seen this coming...

Answer? Anyone with an ounce of common sense, from a hundred miles away.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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...

www.404media.co

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry grandfey, I can't hear you over the sound of my swish new album, Switched-On Bach. Let me know if you need me to stop calling my friends about it so you can use your dial up internet. :P

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 3d

I was today years old when I found out that a trans woman by the name of Wendy Carlos was the writer and composer to the soundtracks of both The Shining and the original 1982 Tron motion picture, and likely many other films I grew up with! Neat!

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 3d

I shouldn't have to call it what the Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide has already, repeatedly, called it. But too many people think genocide is only genocide if it's concentration camps and mass graves, instead of murdering an entire social group with a thousand cuts over decades.

GeekOnALeash [Biological trans woman] 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 3d

Call it what it is: Genocide. Legal erasure, ministerial attacks, non-existent health care. This is not a debate. It's an attack on our existence!

medium.com/@geekonaleas...

The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 5d

Uncertain, but i believe Hestia has a boon that reduces fire effect damage to one damage per hit. Uncertain if it works on Prometheus' fire, but mayhaps worth a try?

Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 6d

Might I inquire as to where I could acquire a similar pair?

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 7d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 7d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 9d

Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is an affront to human decency.

My piece for @novaramedia.com.

novaramedia.com/2025/10/02/i...

Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency | Novara Media

Israel’s detention of hundreds of peaceful activists - including my constituent, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu - is both a violation of their human rights and a further act of cruelty against the peop...

novaramedia.com

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 13d

While the previous automated post is technically accurate, we're actually live over on Twitch playing Polyarmoury: High Calibre Love! Do join us won't you?

LucianVGhost - Twitch

Polyarmory: High Calibre Love | From beginning To End | It's To To Do Drugs And Love Guns!

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 13d

I've had two pretty close calls this year with suicide, both times have been pretty messy.

Things do get better, even when it seems like everything is going wrong.

Please donate if you can!

Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · Aug 23

Suicide prevention is a very important cause to me, so this year marks the 2nd annual Gamedevs for Suicide Prevention team at the LA (Santa Monica) Out of the Darkness Walk!

If you're in SoCal, come walk with us! Or you can donate to our team.

afspwalks.donordrive.com/team/371158

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 15d

Somewhat behind schedule, but containing some wonderfully voice weapons and made by a team that surely does love their guns... Or perhaps their guns love them? Who knows! Find out, in Polyarmoury: High Calibre Love!

Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 15d

Fun fact: @polyarmorygame.bsky.social was supposed to be made for last year's #7DFPS game jam.

It took us around 8 months to finish it.

(We might have overscoped somewhat...)

oxyoxspring.itch.io/polyarmory

Polyarmory: High Calibre Love by OxyOxspring, artemis.ronan

The world's only fully-loaded conspiracy theorist gun-nut dating simulation. We'll bang, okay?

oxyoxspring.itch.io

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 21d

With some of the most wonderful visual story telling I've seen in a while, I can heartily reccomend Glitch's new pilot for Knights Of Guinevere

GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 21d

youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

YouTube video by GLITCH

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 22d

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?

✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

We use cookies where necessary to allow us to understand how people interact with our website and content, so that we can continue to improve our service.

goodlaw.social

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 25d

Queen

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25d

This genocide belongs to Britain, too.

The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.

We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pam 'HarvestCraft' @pamharvestcraft.bsky.social · 26d

Help Pam of Pam's HarvestCraft

gofund.me/e0016769f

Facing homelessness, severe cognitive problems

I need help from the Minecraft community! Thank you! Please share everywhere!!

#helpsky #signalboost #patreon #mutualaid #kofi #urgentneed ♿ #needhelp #art #digitalart #minecraft #artist #gofundme

Donate to Keep Pam of Pam's HarvestCraft from being Homeless, organized by Pamela Collins

Hi, I'm Pam, sole creator of the Minecraft mod Pam's HarvestCraft, a… Pamela Collins needs your support for Keep Pam of Pam's HarvestCraft from being Homeless

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · 29d

Talking briefly about semi political language in a lot of news reporting these days.

Note that when a left leaning politician gets murdered, it's described as a "killing" but when it's a right-wing politician, it's treated as an "assassination".

Subtle isn't it.

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Consortium @consortium.lgbt · Sep 2

We've signed the joint statement from @transactualuk.bsky.social, joining over 80 LGBTQ+ organisations in calling on UK MPs to properly scrutinise the EHRC’s forthcoming Code of Practice.

We're urging Parliament to act, and we need you to take action too.

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This image has a rainbow coloured background. The black text reads: Joint statement: Calling for full scrutiny, meaningful debate and a free vote for MPs when the EHRC Code of Practice is laid in Parliament.

This image has a rainbow coloured background. The black text reads: Consortium, along with over 80 partner organisations, are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations.

This image has a rainbow coloured background. The black text reads: We are also encouraging individuals to take action. We have provided a template letter that you can use to write to your own MP, outlining your personal concerns and asking them to push for proper scrutiny of the Code. It is vital that MPs hear directly from the people whose lives will be affected.

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Lucian V. Ghost @lucianvghost.bsky.social · Sep 2

This but also sitting next to an artist friend who consistantly devalues their own artwork.

Me: I'd like to comission some emotes.

ArtFren: Cool, is 5$ per emote okay?

Me: I'm paying you 35$ Per Emote and your going to like it.

ArtFren: I am conflicted and confused.

Lyarrah @lyarrah.bsky.social · Sep 2

conversation I have frustratingly frequently:

Me: "If I could draw I would do (thing)"

Someone: "Why don't you just get (artist friend) to draw it for you?"

Me: "...because I would have to pay them?"

Someone: "But you're their friend!"

Me: "Yes. meaning I respect them enough to pay them."

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Lyarrah @lyarrah.bsky.social · Sep 2

conversation I have frustratingly frequently:

Me: "If I could draw I would do (thing)"

Someone: "Why don't you just get (artist friend) to draw it for you?"

Me: "...because I would have to pay them?"

Someone: "But you're their friend!"

Me: "Yes. meaning I respect them enough to pay them."

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 1

They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with!

All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Sep 1

www.thegamer.com/collective-s...

"Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not

"If Steam and itch.io had been moderating their platforms as they should have, there would have been no need to temporarily delist games."

www.thegamer.com

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Lufina Soulgrabber 🦴🕯️ @lufinabina.bsky.social · Aug 27

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is

- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals

it needs to be stopped, post haste

map of different EU countries' chat control stance as of august 2025

oppose
(austria, czechia, netherlands, poland)

undecided
(belgium, estonia, finland, germany, greece, luxembourg, romania)

support
(bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, france,hungary,ireland, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, portugal, slovakia, spain, sweden)

proposed it
(denmark)

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · Aug 27

To a certain extent, my transition is my effort to exert control over a world that has consistently relegated me to quietly suffering from the decisions of others both mortal and metaphysical.

So of course I'm willing to fight the government over it.

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · Aug 22

one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen @wck.org · Aug 21

WCK’s mobile bakery in Gaza is currently producing 45,000 loaves of bread every day. With more supplies, including flour and fuel, we'd be able to more than double that daily output and support more Palestinian families in need. #ChefsForGaza

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