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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5h

I keep watching Mamdani's video in disbelief of how good it is... centering BIPOC trans street activism, SOPHIE soundtrack, pivoting to supporting funds for trans housing and healthcare...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes I have the sudden realization that I can just sit here in my bra, and then 30 seconds to 30 minutes later I realize I don’t even need that. It’s like following euphoria with a more comfortable euphoria.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 11h

After looking it up that does sound pretty good!

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know what this means, but I like it.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 12h

Finally got to wear my hat out!

A selfie of me lately smirking at the camera while wearing an orange witch hat and skeleton earrings

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michiums @ deadlines @michiums.bsky.social · 1d

rest stop! // jeanwanda doodle just for fun for once

illustration of Jean grey and Wanda maximoff from marvel comics sitting on a building with a cityscape behind them, two pigeons sitting nearby with little lights all around them.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 19h

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 19h

🌈 ramen noodles

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 1d

it was nice, just a few people were there, but it was nice meeting them… but what’s that about vampires?

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 1d

Pulled up to a trans non-binary fire pit gathering while listening to Queer from Garbage.
Late 90s high school me would be so confused yet happy with that sentence .

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 1d

It really is!

A cardboard cat scratcher in the shape of a ghost that also has cat ears

Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 1d

Found this cat tree at Aldi, I think Fortuna likes it!

A small cat tree with a purple base and pillars, one pillar with a pink star to lay on and a second with a cloud and moon hiding a place to lay down and holding a dangly star to play with

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All Elite Wrestling @allelitewrestling.com · 1d

#AEWWrestleDream
8pm ET/5pm PT
Saturday, 10/18

AEW World Title
@hangmanpage.bsky.social vs Samoa Joe

Samoa Joe wants to collect what's owed for helping The Champion beat The Death Riders, but Hangman KNOWS he can outlast the Samoan Submission Machine.

Hangman vs Joe
LIVE on HBO Max PPV!

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 1d

And this one is actually cute

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 1d

When it came out I unironically really enjoyed it. Sure, I was just a couple years old, but seeing him levitate out of all of the pits I fell into was pretty special at the time.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 2d

Such a cute game!

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting how the Indigenous woman kidnapped from the Conscious flotilla isn't getting a fraction of the attention as white participants. Even articles aren't naming her! Her name is Mskwaasin Agnew.

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 2d

Who gives a fuck? Free marketing for fascists and continuing to lose all journalistic integrity certainly is a choice

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Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · 2d

Relaxing at a queer run and friendly coffee shop is just about the best thing in the world

A croissant in a package with a "Drifter coffee" sticker, an iced coffee (salted caramel), the manga "On and off work life imbalance vol 1" that im finally gonna finish

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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