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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 34m

Gotta admit, the transandrophobic response to Matt Mullenweg's breakdown-fuelled transmisogyny bender* really opened my eyes to how this shit works

*I don't think the transmisogyny was fuelled by the breakdown but the poor judgement was

Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 12h

I'm guessing that they mean those blogs don't reblog their posts about transmisogyny (or their favourite bloggers' posts) and like

Yeah, I'm not going to reblog posts that primarily blame transmisogyny on trans men (and I'm iffy about ones that blame it on 'TMEs' too)

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 2d

So it's a fun game and his main complaint is effectively that he's rotted his brain

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 2d

I've definitely been experiencing more like, "are you robot" verification and "security risk" since using a vpn

On the other hand, it beats having Kier Starmer scrolling through my AO3 history

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 2d

[Type 1 diabetic]

Please please please 🙏 (although maybe not the stomach lining because stomach acid breaks down insulin)

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 3d

Me, mid-30s: yeah, I was that young and immature at that age too, and getting into scrapes and stuff like getting TB tested because someone in my halls drank too much red WKD was a pretty important step to being a less immature person. Also, kinda funny

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 3d

That seems to be accurate from what I remember from the English version

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 4d

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 4d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 4d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 4d

There was a post on tumblr years ago about reblogging from TERFs etc that was like, if it's a good post, someone who isn't a radfem will have made the post too (without the inherent subtext of radfems)

I feel like the same applies here

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 5d

I've come across a number of transmasc writers who are trying to do feminism that considers transmasc issues and perspectives who also include her, and like

Even if what you're citing from her is accurate, maybe you could find a better source?

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 8d

If we are to tear down the patriarchy, we cannot ignore the way the patriarchy constructs womanhood as a means of coercion and control not just of women themselves but of all marginalized people.

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 7d

a black cat is laying on a bed with its tongue hanging out

ALT: a black cat is laying on a bed with its tongue hanging out

media.tenor.com

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 7d

On the more charitable side, they might be astounded that a STEM student considers the human impact of their work

Like, I've encountered a lot of STEM people who think that humanities and social sciences are basically useless

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: The Home Office is giving police new powers to restrict repeat protests like pro-Palestine marches.

Police can consider the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests on an area and could ban the protest / force it to move elsewhere.

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Jane Parker 🏳️‍⚧️ ★ @playingps2.xyz · 8d

How lucky am I that I get to live with her? When she sits like this I call her pretty paws.

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 7d

Man-hating always seems to manifest as homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and misogyny somehow

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 8d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 9d

[hands you a cuddly toy]

(I find they help)

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ BLFC @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 9d

Hi I'm baby
#cats

A red cornish rex (mythos) looking so very sweet in a gray sweater.

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 9d

1. The average AI fan does not think like a human person

2. I kinda want someone to shag the AI actor datacentre just to piss these weirdos off

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 10d

It does remind me of the occasional British terf paranoia that they're being infiltrated by TRAs

(Except the latter has occasionally happened)

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 10d

Trektober 2025, Day 1: Final Frontier. I bet baby Mariner was the BIGGEST TOS nerd and learned the Final Frontier speech before she could walk properly.

Cartoon image of a very young Beckett Mariner from Star Trek: Lower Decks. She is playing with a toy Enterprise and reciting the TOS opening speech. Off-camera, her father can be heard being excited that his kid is passionate about space :)

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 10d

"With how many tgirl impersonators"

Quick question: is there evidence that these impersonators are actually pretending, or is it more of a "doesn't rabidly hate transmascs and won't answer invasive questions about her genitals and that means she's not a real trans woman" kind of situation

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Binkenstein @binkenstein.bsky.social · 10d

Merlin sitting in my bedroom window #cats

A fluffy ragdoll cat sitting in a bay window

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