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Med @meddlesome-hero.bsky.social · 1d

Color version!! Happy 3rd Anniversary to G-Witch!

Picture of "Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury" showing Suletta, Aerial and Miorine with space as a backtground.

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paxesoterica.bsky.social @paxesoterica.bsky.social · 2d

en.gundam-official.com/feature/vote...

Screenshot from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.

Top image features Miorine Rembran holding a smartphone with a cold expression on her face.

Text below her reads: "A daily Gundam poll is running until Dec 25th; the winning Gundams in each category get a special illustration."

Bottom image features Suletta Mercury looking up with dismay.

Text reads: "But you can only vote for a single Gundam each day, regardless of category!"

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Making Queer History @makingqueerhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Queer Horror books for anyone interested!
bookshop.org/lists/queer-...

Queer Horror

Queer+Fear

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

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MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

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Kelira Telian @keliratelian.bsky.social · 11d

Cute #SKWY

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

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Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

thumb notch | noun | a notch of a size to admit the tip of a thumb cut in the outer edges of the pages of a book for the insertion of index letters or headings

thumb notches on the new Merriam-Webster 12th Ed. Collegiate Dictionary

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Gespenst @ Home @callgespenst.bsky.social · 5d

Abusing Option Parts in Super Robot Wars games

Jet Jaguar SP with GaoGaiGar's Dividing Driver, Dygenguar's Type-3 Zankantou, and the Nu Gundam's Fin Funnels.

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Lou @adalheidis.bsky.social · Jan 22

🗡️ Intro thread 🗡️

Hello, I'm Lou/Maëliss! I’m an artist living in the countryside of France.

I like knights, history, women in armour, video games. I’m always in search of interesting or bold colour associations!

✱ linktr.ee/catiuapavel
✱ maelissfont.com/en/boutique/

Illustration of a mermaid embracing a human woman in a small pond

Final Fantasy Tactics fanart featuring Delita, Ramza and Ovelia in a theater like composition

illustration of a vampire lovingly looking down on her beloved

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 5d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

I’m looking forward to some of the brownshirts accidentally force-femming themselves in an attempt to go undercover.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. AG Ken Paxton of Texas has announced undercover operations into left leaning groups, citing "transgenderism" and "antifa."

It is the latest in a series of moves that indicates LGBTQ+ people and left-leaning orgs may be targets for domestic surveillance.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces Undercover Operations Into "Antifa," Citing "Transgenderism"

The announcement comes after a flurry of reports that Trump would weaponize the FBI against groups supporting LGBTQ+ people.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

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Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 13d

a cis womans husband cheats on her with a trans woman, so she divorces him. their prenup was pretty strict on infidelity, too, so she absolutely cleans him out

months after the dust settles, she runs into the trans woman at the grocery store. the trans womans eyes burn with anger,

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 5d

There’s a lot going on, so here is a map of the world’s forests, divided by categories of wood.

Map labeled "Geographic Distribution of the World's Forests, Differentiated by Categories of Wood"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5d

1. A new poll shows that Virginia voters prefer Democratic Governor candidate Abigail Spanberger's approach to trans issues over Republican Earle-Sears by a wide margin.

She's ahead 10 points in the race now, and voters prefer her 50-37 on trans issues.

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New Poll: Voters Prefer Spanberger For Virginia Governor On Transgender Issues By Wide Margin, Despite Anti-Trans Ads

The issue also ranked lowest among issues polled. The CNU poll is the second poll showing Spanberger pulling ahead.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 5d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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🏳️‍⚧️June, Your Slasher Wife🏳️‍⚧️ @yourhotclowngf.bsky.social · 5d

Had a dream last night that Tomino announced that he’d always intended Gundam to be a sequel to Austin Powers, which he then confirmed he ghost wrote.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

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Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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みんみ @dadadadadatte.bsky.social · 7d

#sulemio

『機動戦士ガンダム水星の魔女』のスレッタ・マーキュリーとミオリネ・レンブランが手を繋ぎ寄り添っている。目を閉じて微笑んでいる。スレッタの左手の薬指の指輪が光っている。

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5d

I announce that I have hired a spokestoad to handle all my publicity with his chubby little fingers

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Caramel Machete @caramelmachete.bsky.social · 5d

Nos tomó como 7 meses y muchos pero muchos capítulos, pero finalmente hablamos de todos los episodios de Gundam GQUUUUUUX UNO POR UNO. Si, a cada uno le dedicamos su espacio.
Con esto damos por concluida la serie a menos que Tsurumaki insista en decir más.

shows.acast.com/brujas-y-due...

Brujas y Duelos

Donde hablamos a fondo de ficcion

shows.acast.com

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あゆさん✏️ @ayu-san.bsky.social · 5d

🍅 Are you watching the recording of this news again?
🦝 Celebrations are worth watching over and over! And look! Miorine's happy face… ☺️
🍅 Haha, same goes for Suletta, right? 😄

Super late, but happy 3rd anniversary to *The Witch from Mercury*!!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

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