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あすとら @astrra.space · 3d

Mother (Moth•er) – a person that likes moths

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 2d

we have!

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Tucker @tuckerdart.bsky.social · 9d

They’re HERE! Just in time for #orctober too! I still don’t know what I want to call these 2”, one-sided orc labubu acrylic keychains 👹 If people are interested, I’m thinking of listing them for $5 + shipping?

#orctober2025 #orc #dnd #dndart

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 10d

jay is a beloved friend, like a baby sister who also saved my life and taught me how to hold compassion for myself and then somehow published my work using only sheer moxy. the patron saintess of weird ttrpgs.

give her money for surgery!

jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 10d

hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?

i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93

Donate to Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery, organized by Jay Dragon

Hi I'm Jay Dragon, a queer disabled game designer best known for her work on … Jay Dragon needs your support for Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery

gofund.me

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 10d

hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?

i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93

Donate to Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery, organized by Jay Dragon

Hi I'm Jay Dragon, a queer disabled game designer best known for her work on … Jay Dragon needs your support for Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery

gofund.me

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 10d

I've been furiously impatient with the steady ooze towards video of all instructions, tutorials, recipes, etc — it's all ad farming, I'll never need a 10 minute video full of sponsors for a three sentence how-to. "Too long," indeed, but "didn't read" has a lovely perverse inverted sentiment here

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 10d

I've been seeing "TL;DR" used to precede a text summary of video media, and every time it fills me with a deep wonder for the absurd evolution of language

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 12d

personally I just don't think John Egbert is allowed to say "fuck"

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 13d

You have likely grown up in a culture so saturated with transmisogyny that if you do not make the effort to see it and understand it, you will fail to.

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Saphie 💉🦈 @saphie.vtubers.social · 14d

Urgently boosting :(

Saphie 💉🦈 @saphie.vtubers.social · Jun 10

Explaining my situation.

ko-fi.com/bmbrshblsh

#mutualaid #transaid

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 16d

there are a lot of queerwave characters with a powerful transfeminine energy or allegorical position (Scorpia, for example) where the voice casting gap becomes conspicuous

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 16d

steven universe, owl house, dead end paranormal park, she-ra — none of the queerwave cartoons really have strong transfeminity rep

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 16d

there's also like...
• "went stealth"
• admiration for human beings, melancholy desire to be like them
• "I'm not a real person"
• cruel reproductive inequality

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 16d

by which I mean: I think part of what you're intuiting is about how "fat woman" is socially constructed as a different gender than "default woman" — often either a hyperfeminine one or a masculinized one or both, which maps to the trans fem experience pretty congruously

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 16d

transgender (female to bbw)

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 16d

there’s a lot to like about that piece, but talking about fandom being ‘famously queer’ rubs me the wrong way as a trans woman who has seen how transmisogynistic fanfic can be. queer, but with a big NOT YOU sign over the door maybe.

we’re always an asterisk wherever we go. fandom is no exception.

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 16d

I actually did get raptured, but the vibes were weird so I left

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 16d

“…two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held there in July have gone missing from ICE’s online database, with their families unable to locate them”

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16d

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.

www.democracynow.org

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 16d

Trump Admin has been sending secret flights to countries like Ghana where they're dumping migrants into prison camps.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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Pokey. you know. that bitch from the crypt. @pokeyscrypt.bsky.social · 18d

Who the hell is this in my copy of We Know The Devil. I want to kill her.

screenshot of we know the devil featuring Venus Jupiter and Neptune all standing in place but also The Princess from Slay The Princess is standing between venus and jupiter, not standing out *too* much because of her also having a monochrome pencil artstyle.

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NightlingBug @nightlingbug.bsky.social · 19d

the worst part is that it sounds like something much cooler than it is

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 19d

To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20d

You don't get to erode trust in science and medicine, refuse to listen to experts in the field and trans people ourselves (which as the sole stakeholders in our own healthcare, you should), and not expect that you've opened the door to the likes of RFK Jr and other cranks and crackpots.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20d

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 20d

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19d

the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!

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