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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com · Apr 19

Are you having trouble finding things now that google search fucked itself with AI garbage?

Take a look and see if a website you were trying to find is listed on Links That Burn, the link directory for useful/fun/informative websites with a narrow scope and specific purpose.

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Links That Burn - Big Tools Won't Save Niche Websites

A catalog of useful links to niche websites - find something useful, fun, and/or informative today!

linksthatburn.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10h

Collective survival and liberation also means collective struggle. And yes, it means everyone who gives a damn has some basic collective duties to do certain things and not indulge in others.

That's also the reality, and it's the only way we — on any scale that matters — win against these evils.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10h

"Every trans person who doesn't leave the country has no hope and neither does their resistance" buys into assumptions about the state's invincibility and the weakness of trans communities that are not just false but actively damaging.

Sadly, I'm seeing it a lot more lately. So, this thread...

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10h

Again, focusing on individuals staying or going misses the point.

What does become a real problem is when the issue gets framed (usually by more gentry expats or those who follow them) as "everyone who stays is doomed."

That is false and it is genuinely, unacceptably damaging.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10h

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.

If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.

So...🧵

(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 9h

Really good thread, because I am frankly tired of "why haven't you left yet" etc.

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10h

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9h

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED STRETCH CHECK. today is Wednesday. everyone do your stretchies. 💪🤖

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 9h

OH THANK GOD.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 11h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10h

this sucks lol

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 12h

This labeler will be shutting down. We will first be unlabeling everyone who is labeled and then will cease to operate. As the unlabeling operation will take an unknown amount of time, we are not setting a specific timeline other than as soon as possible.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11h

happy mental health awareness whatever. you have been made aware of me. im kinda fucked up

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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com · 11h

Having had a concussion bonk, you can change the color settings so it's more yellow, less blue, and that helps with staying on the phone/computer without bad brain feelings.
It won't hurt and it might help. I hope you feel better soon!

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11h

Just as much as Link was a part of this community- so has Sakher been. Bluesky mods are awful.

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 17h

Sakher’s account was shut down — the only place where he spoke to the world about his pain and his suffering.

That account was his only voice, his way to survive and keep going.

Today, Sakher lost his last connection to the world.💔

Complement with comments, don't skip‼️
 gofund.me/f116bf44

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12h

Our release for @peculiarityshop.bsky.social was a wild success. Half the items were gone by day one. I still have three weeks to Halloween and spooky stuff I'd love to move.

20% off.

LGBTQIA+ staffed and owned!

www.peculiarityshop.com/halloween2025
www.peculiarityshop.com/nightborne

HALLOWEEN 2025 PECULIARITY SHOP

General Halloween goodness fromThe Peculiarity Shop.

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Imd...

Rescue beavers making little dams out of assorted stuff is a top tier drug

Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in house

YouTube video by Holley Muraco

www.youtube.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

A person is not guilty just because they are detained or arrested. A person is not guilty just because they are charged or incarcerated awaiting trial. A person is not guilty until the government proves they are. Full fucking stop.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

As soon as we start accepting "proving innocence" into our vernacular, we start normalizing really insidious and dangerous shit, especially now when that is the language being used by this administration to racially profile people.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

An accused Defendant does not have to prove ANYTHING. If I present zero evidence at trial, and the state has not proved its case, my client walks.

*EVERY* ACCUSED DEFENDANT *IS* INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED OTHERWISE.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 13h

Yep. What they *always* mean is "I don't think your life is important enough to care about, and I don't like being confronted with that fact, so I'm gonna make it sound like *your* problem"

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 13h

At this point im starting to wonder if hearing the words “purity test” are a dogwhistle because the most shit opinions in the universe will almost always immediately follow it

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 13h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 15h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

I really hope folks give this a read. There's also an audio version linked in the piece. I firmly believe that we must learn from the Black trans folks who came before us in order to survive what is already here and what is coming next.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

For my newsletter, I interviewed Chastity Bowick, the new executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson Interview about what white trans folks (and cis people) can learn from the Black trans community who have always been under this type of overwhelming oppression. www.burnsnotice.com/black-trans-...

Black Trans Folks Have Been Here Before

A timely interview with Chastity Bowick, the new Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. This interview has been edited for clarity and may differ slightly from the audio version. I've...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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