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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 3d

All the cool people are cozy on the Trans Rights Hill 💅

Just saying.

Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 3d

I can't speak for anyone else, but if I have to die on a hill, I think trans rights is as fine a hill as any to die on. 🤷🏼🏳️‍⚧️

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 5d

And we can be careful how everything we say or do has a lot of power given the dynamic. A technique or makeup tutorial becomes a requirement for approval and belonging in the relationship. #disruptivetherapist

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 5d

Is my offering or reflection efficacious for them? Is it consensual to provide it? What are my expectations in sharing? Who am I/ how am I processing this thing later?

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 5d

Every relationship is an exchange of energy, we can’t block the positive experiences we have with clients, the things we learn from them, ways they show us something within us, in parallel. We can’t still be a human in the relationship, while having ethics.

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 5d

How do my therapist/ helper colleagues sit with the fact that most of our human connections since Covid (and maybe ever) are with clients? The power dynamic creates social comfort, but doesn’t allow for balance in need or accountability.

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 15d

#datingtips #AIdatingrecovery

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 15d

Men: the way you heal centuries of sexism is redistribution of the extracted resources and energy. Buy the uber. Call out the sexist bartender. Give femmes space to be heard. Have something interesting to contribute. Be generous kind and curious. And maybe then you’ll get laid again.

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 15d

if you’re still having straight sx with men, what is the benefit? Can you negotiate it beforehand? We likely won’t cum or emotionally connect, so what’s the exchange? Build an ikea desk? Tech support? Drive to appointments? Feed you? #laborexhange #swliberation

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 16d

the folks who benefit most from the criminalization of sx work are the same people consuming it. They maintain the power dynamic they get off on: shame-fueled dehumanization of another #swrights #decriminalization #swabolition

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 16d

We’re still going to play dumb while we’re training you, but now you pay us a fair wage for it.

Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 16d

It all comes full circle...

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 17

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 16d

Haha I’m so glad this thread exists.

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Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 16d

It all comes full circle...

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 17

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 17d

how would you live if you were centering empathy for others?

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 17d

And then the second most bisxual thing happened: we danced and screamed and planned a workshop at the bar, and she goes home with tinder 🐔

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 17d

Like why is it so hard to center and trust femme connections to work out? 🤣

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 17d

The most bisexual thing possible just happened: a girl invited a tinder dude to meet her during our “date,” during which I also left for 10 minutes to try to see a dude crush. 🤣

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 20d

I have this problem that once you start playing with me my demon become sooo hungry they just want bigger and harder things. Is it ADHD (stimming, intensity seeking) or ritualistic demon purging through your members? Fists are usually the most versatile and durable tool. #gaydemons

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 20d

safe(r) community mandates collectively unpacking our internalized isms and their impact transparently and directly, in that same community. If you can hear an upgrade and stay in connection we can grow together. #Accountability #community

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 20d

How many overthinks is overthinking 🤣. Teaching or facilitating always includes at least 5-10 wtf why did I do that intrusives for the day after. Not pathology, just neurospice integration

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 21d

Gender binaries exist to reinforce patriarchal systems of control. White men are the biggest threat, not trans ppl.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22d

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 25d

AI can’t get you a gf irl, because dudes without gf’s trained the AIs 🤣 come to my AI gf support group for real skillz practice #AIgf #AIbf #AIsupportgroup

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 28d

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 29d

Yep, as many layers of control as possible

Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 29d

Criminalizing poverty is wild because we are all (except for the 1%) going to unable to afford to live in America very soon. Like even if you hate poor people where’s the self preservation? In a country of radical independence, no communities or social supports; one bad month and that’s it.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is political violence.

KTLA 5 @ktla.com · Aug 29

Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

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