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charlie

@roguelocks.bsky.social

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an ancient man (30+) • he/him • jester for hire • 🏳️‍⚧️

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charlie @roguelocks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you for this space. I'm a disabled trans man trying to put together the funds to get out of Texas. Any shares or donations are so appreciated 🫠

gofund.me/a03e84b2
paypal.me/mdbaca
CA $maximoffs | Ven @ residentwarlock

Donate to Help a trans man get out of Texas, organized by Charlie Baca

Hi there! My name is Charlie. I'm a transgender man who has lived his entire life in Te… Charlie Baca needs your support for Help a trans man get out of Texas

gofund.me

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3d

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · Aug 29

going nonverbal at the party and just doing this in the corner until I can leave

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hijade2madre.bsky.social @hijade2madre.bsky.social · 28d

Hi friends! My shop is back up! Please support the art of a Disabled queer woman of color 💖

Every purchase means the world to me ✨

Link: tee.pub/lic/DissentC...

An accessibility symbol of a person in motion, stylized in rainbow colors. Inside the wheelchair circle is a heart filled with the Progress Pride Flag, including Black, Brown, Pink, Blue, White stripes, and the yellow Intersex circle.

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Adrian Ashford @adrianashford.bsky.social · 7d

Want to learn more about trans Texans? We surveyed 90 of them to learn how they're dealing with an increasingly-hostile political climate. Almost everyone said they're feeling more anxious and less safe in public. @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 9d

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

trib.al

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9d

with alt-text

A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. Its dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 9d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 10d

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 10d

i made a graphic so it can be even more visible

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 10d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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charlie @roguelocks.bsky.social · 12d

changed ToS so they don't have to ban a guy that incites violence against trans people, but long record of banning trans people, verified palestinian accounts. and the ceo is now mocking people about it

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 13d

ope stage 5

Lord of Humours @blackgrailenjo... • 3h
Uh huh.
Screenshot of post:
Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com 45m
There are these WAFFLES places in Berlin that, in a nice touch, will write your name in chocolate sauce. This was a good effort! Lebanese (I think) staff working in Germany trying to understand an American guy's name. I love this world.
(Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk)
WAFFLES
Picture of plates of topped waffles with name Jassy written in chocolate sauce
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Indighost / Lavender s... @anonus... •3h
Amazing how Jay made waffles into a nazi dogwhistle in 2 days

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 13d

BSky leadership made "Waffles!" a transphobic bullhorn & they're giggling behind their hands like it's a dog whistle no one can hear.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 14d

Solidarity, now and forever.

“This is the most frightening moment of my life,” she added. "The only thing that has ever worked...is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 17d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 17d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 17d

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly?

Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!

Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this: