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Watercress @teamwatercress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our #NaNoRenO2025 submission is here! Play Haunted House of Rock now! Thank you to everyone on the team who helped make this NaNo amazing!
watercress.itch.io/hhor

Haunted House of Rock by Watercress

A punk band enters a mysterious house and winds up unstuck in time!

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · Mar 22

This act would cut HRT care for 200,000+ people.

Please take the time to leave a public comment opposing it here: www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

For more info, and ideas on what to comment: github.com/gotfrog/celp...

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability

This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...

www.federalregister.gov

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · Mar 20

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.

Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Zodai @zodai.bsky.social · Mar 12

I've been going a little slowly because of irl + I'm doing an editing pass

But I'm still super excited to keep going on the story. Thought up some stuff to tighten up book 1's plot aaaaa <3

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Squink ✿ Sum Pikmin Magica! @lil-squink.bsky.social · Mar 5

Blue Archive needs to put a warning on the app page that says

"DISCLAIMER: If you are prone to growing attached to fictional characters, this game may cause you to end up with several new anime daughters."

Like holy crap every single one of these girls deserve protection and love.

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Lu Ka-Yun Dawkins| Indie Animator @crashtako.bsky.social · Mar 4

We have 32 followers on the project OMG!! Could we make it to 40 by tomorrow? It might be a stretch but I'd love to aspire for it!!

To follow the trans knight prelaunch page go here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...

Thank you for the love thus far <3!
#IndieAnimation #Moonlit

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Zodai @zodai.bsky.social · Mar 4

Someone read the first draft of my first batch of chapters

And they really really liked it oh my god ❤️ 😭 aaaaa

There are some characterization issues another person picked up on but when it hits right it *really* hits right aaaaa!!

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · Mar 1

CALL YOUR FUCKING CONGRESS PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. IT'S A SATURDAY. YOU GET TO JUST LEAVE A MESSAGE. SCRIPT I'M USING IS BELOW:

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Mar 1

Sen. Mike Lee has introduced the SCREEN ACT, a bill that applies the "harmful to minors" standard used to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources in schools and libraries... and apply it nationally—to the internet.

Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography"

www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/senat...

With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Feb 25

I really enjoyed this chat. We discussed how the right uses the tools & audience relationships of social differently than the left, constantly evolving messages - and how this is very different than institutions taking a top-down approach.

We talked about “free speech as meme,” rather than value.

The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · Feb 25

This is a fascinating conversation featuring @aaronrosspowell.com and @noupside.bsky.social on the topic of the right’s propaganda supermachine.

You can listen to the convo or read it as a standalone transcript.

How the Right Uses Social Media to Create a Powerful Propaganda Machine: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Countering its messaging will require opponents to learn from its strategies while restoring truth-telling and decency

www.theunpopulist.net

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 22

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Feb 22

Build up a supportive, close community of fellow writers! This is the best way to discover who to kill and eat so you can gain their precious, valuable writerly powers. You'll be leveling up in no time!

sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · Jun 26

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

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NobleHeroine @nobleheroine.bsky.social · Feb 22

I'm just constantly remembering those reports I saw out of tumblr back in 2016 suggesting a decent chunk of the online disinfo campaigns targeted leftists, with the specific goal of getting us at each others throats.

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Zodai @zodai.bsky.social · Feb 21

I'd say that's a good place to start. Basic volunteering is a great foundation, and you can build connections from there that help you do more.

I'm around in my queer community and focusing on my writing. Health makes it hard to do much, but it's where I'm effective while maintaining my well being.

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Zodai @zodai.bsky.social · Feb 21

Maybe you could start with engaging with your local community online? A local queer discord for example

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Squink ✿ Sum Pikmin Magica! @lil-squink.bsky.social · Feb 21

Sorasaki Hina is my top pick for Smash 6. No I'm not kidding.