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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 15h

This whole "its their culture" thing is such bullshit. Their culture isn't the systematic oppression of women and LGBTQ people, butchering journalists, modern day slavery and all this other stuff Saudi Arabia does

Its both infantalising to the people there, and its racist

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 22h

This is comedy gold by the way

Tim Heidecker on socials

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 16h

husbandry (the practice of having a husband)

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✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 20h

a lot of the hate for us is because they can't even imagine the world we live in, where you can choose your gender and your shape of love and your unamerican dream. the freedom is incomprehensible to them,, ,

which is why you should make out with your lesbian polycule in public as often as possible

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1d

Watch Jigokuraku, it's one of the few SJ adaptations whose female characters won't make you want to [redacted] the entire SJ editorial team.

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2d

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2d

I do my utmost to avoid involving the police in anything anyway because I believe they are all bastards, but if I were to go to the UK, I would now have to consider that if I were wronged in any way by another trans woman, trying to do anything about it might be directly facilitating her being raped

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Trans woman jailed after hiding male genitalia during sex with man

Ciara Watkin, 21, concealed she had male genitalia and performed sex acts on a man she had been on a date with - before later texting him 'I'm trans, I'm sorry I didn't tell you'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

The way you'll bring this up and get a chorus of "Oh, I never thought of that" from cis people when it lives eternally in our heads....

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2d

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 17d

say the line Bart meme-

Quote:
Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 4d

There are two demographics that have to regularly justify our right to exist, Indigenous people and trans people. Being part of both groups is exhausting.

Y'all have no idea the levels of bigotry people like me have to deal with.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 3d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 2d

>be island country
>rivalry with nearby land power
>close American ally after WWII
>influential on world finance
>undergo a period of decline in recent years
>be Japan
>pic unrelated

The Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 2d

the fact that those silly inflatable animal outfits are providing effective defense from ICE pepper bullets is just so good.

hardcore militia larpers in their khaki bondage gear squaring off against adorable round frogs is golden

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 2d

Based. The Brighton Centre is getting demolished in a year or two, anyway.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 28d

WE ARE TARRED AS FREAKS AND KILLERS, WHILE FASCISTS WALK THE STREETS PROUDLY CALLING FOR RACIAL VIOLENCE.
BUT BECAUSE WE DEMAND LIBERATION, BECAUSE WE DEMAND CHANGE, BECAUSE WE DEMAND AUTONOMY, THE MEDIA SHUNS US.

AS THE WORLD WATCHES THE FASCISTS BURY THEIR DEAD, WE ARE LEFT TO DIE IN THE DARK

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 28d

STATE MEDIA KNOWS THAT IF THEY DO NOT PUBLISH US WE CANNOT BE HEARD, AND THUS OUR RIGHTS NEVER WON.

THEY SEEK ONLY TO SPREAD AND ENABLE THE LIES AND HATE ESPOUSED BY THE FAR RIGHT

WE WILL SHOW THEM THAT WE CANNOT BE IGNORED

www.transbashback.com

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 4d

IT IS TWO YEARS SINCE THE AL-AQSA FLOOD AND ISRAEL'S ACCELERATION OF ITS DECADES-LONG GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
WE ARE REMINDED THAT WE ARE ENGAGED IN AN INTERSECTIONAL STRUGGLE, THAT TRANS AND PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ARE A UNITED FRONT AGAINST COLONIALISM
WE WILL NOT REST
UNTIL ALL ARE FREE

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 2d

The British left in 2025 is still obsessed with Thatcher because its deep and obsessive misogyny has stymied and real understanding of neoliberalism and the dismantling of the postwar consensus and they all just think if we say "bitch" through clenched enough teeth we'll get council houses back.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 2d

The problem is, we don't see what exposure to ideas does to us. The human brain is a machine for rationalising the irrational. It will tell you you're the same person you were a year ago no matter what you've been through. We all think - every single one of us - that we can't be manipulated.

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 3d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

Asserting that a woman is by default sexually available to men and it's "exclusionary", "biphobic", or even "TERFy" to say that she's a lesbian is common in discussions of queer media.

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 2d

sexuality discourse in fandom is hardly pressing but the whole thing is really fucking difficult as a lesbian (especially when you consider that artists and writers have been harassed and doxxed for “getting it wrong”) who likes art and media.

Lesbian is the “bi-erasure” sexuality to fandomites

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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 2d

Episode Four is now out wherever you get your podcasts!

Give it a listen for amusing discussions on made-up slurs, and much less amusing discussions on how a religious studies dissertation from the 70s was turned into a book whose transphobic policy prescriptions are largely followed today.

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Psotle @psotle.kawaii.social · 2d

Where is the evidence for this so called 'secret policy?' the Tories gutted the policy for hate crime recording anyways.

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