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I s2g I draft a comment or reply that I’m positive looks right and then I read it back after posting and it’s like, “man used good was still great”
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i hope you'll read this compelling survey from Sarah Brouillette of the newest work from the always-astute and incisive Madeline Lane-McKinley—it's a tautly reasoned case for affording children greater rights and autonomy, reimagining social institutions that produce suffering and dehumanization.
Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property.
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Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine
Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's newest book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.
proteanmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
i hope you'll read this compelling survey from Sarah Brouillette of the newest work from the always-astute and incisive Madeline Lane-McKinley—it's a tautly reasoned case for affording children greater rights and autonomy, reimagining social institutions that produce suffering and dehumanization.
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Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
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This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
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It's unrealistic to keep up with all of the news happening every single day around the world. Give yourself grace and also a break.
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's unrealistic to keep up with all of the news happening every single day around the world. Give yourself grace and also a break.
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Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
hey take care of yourself today
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
hey take care of yourself today
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Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
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This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.
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The fact that we now have to repeatedly bear witness to the public sexual depravities of the wealthy and elite, and everything going in those Epstein emails, are exactly one and the same thing
It is significant of the growing deprivation of consent within our society enforced by the wealthy and elite upon the rest of the populace
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The fact that we now have to repeatedly bear witness to the public sexual depravities of the wealthy and elite, and everything going in those Epstein emails, are exactly one and the same thing
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FNAF should be just as toxic to queer people as Harry Potter and it isn’t. That is rather disappointing.
Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.
New poster for ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’ featuring the Withered Animatronics.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
FNAF should be just as toxic to queer people as Harry Potter and it isn’t. That is rather disappointing.
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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Everything I want to post is definitely going to get me suspended from BlueSky for three days.
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Everything I want to post is definitely going to get me suspended from BlueSky for three days.
it’s somehow the worst thing to accuse someone of but victims are supposed to shut up and get over it
Survivors are ~so strong~ but expected to go at it alone and accept the consequences of our trauma while our attackers keep their jobs at Harvard
Survivors are ~so strong~ but expected to go at it alone and accept the consequences of our trauma while our attackers keep their jobs at Harvard
Rape and abuse and pedophilia and all these things are bad in the abstract but we’re not allowed to say who’s doing it and we’re not allowed to say who was victimized by it. We can’t come up with ways to stop it from happening, either
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
it’s somehow the worst thing to accuse someone of but victims are supposed to shut up and get over it
Survivors are ~so strong~ but expected to go at it alone and accept the consequences of our trauma while our attackers keep their jobs at Harvard
Survivors are ~so strong~ but expected to go at it alone and accept the consequences of our trauma while our attackers keep their jobs at Harvard
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It's funny seeing how the moment an American pope was chosen, every tradcath adult convert suddenly started going "oh no I need to schism"
Like the whole Catholicism thing stopped being fun for them the moment the pope could go "hey what the fuck are you doing" in English at em
Like the whole Catholicism thing stopped being fun for them the moment the pope could go "hey what the fuck are you doing" in English at em
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It's funny seeing how the moment an American pope was chosen, every tradcath adult convert suddenly started going "oh no I need to schism"
Like the whole Catholicism thing stopped being fun for them the moment the pope could go "hey what the fuck are you doing" in English at em
Like the whole Catholicism thing stopped being fun for them the moment the pope could go "hey what the fuck are you doing" in English at em
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There's a whole thread & it's worth reading. The mods here are not good people.
“sorry you got sex trafficked as a kid anyways you need to be polite to people who literally believe it’s okay to sex traffic kids or we’ll suspend your account. i am being paid six figures to write things like this publicly btw”
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There's a whole thread & it's worth reading. The mods here are not good people.
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She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
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I got federal charged for dancing across the street from ICE in my neighborhood on Indigenous People's Day. Here is the feds evidence photo they are using against me in court.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I got federal charged for dancing across the street from ICE in my neighborhood on Indigenous People's Day. Here is the feds evidence photo they are using against me in court.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
The last couple days I have been trying to be so good to myself, to the best of my ability and resources. Taking a breathing break, focusing on brewing a nice cup of tea, wearing my favorite, comfiest clothes to bed, honoring routine…I hope everyone else is about to take a couple minutes, too.
a heinous news cycle in every sense of the word
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The last couple days I have been trying to be so good to myself, to the best of my ability and resources. Taking a breathing break, focusing on brewing a nice cup of tea, wearing my favorite, comfiest clothes to bed, honoring routine…I hope everyone else is about to take a couple minutes, too.
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
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Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
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not to be a wet blanket but i certainly noticed how many people, cis men in particular, tried very hard to claim that the gaiman thing was a smear job, false allegations, politically motivated lies etc
i appreciate the sentiment but this is rewriting reality. the rape apologia was rampant.
i appreciate the sentiment but this is rewriting reality. the rape apologia was rampant.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
not to be a wet blanket but i certainly noticed how many people, cis men in particular, tried very hard to claim that the gaiman thing was a smear job, false allegations, politically motivated lies etc
i appreciate the sentiment but this is rewriting reality. the rape apologia was rampant.
i appreciate the sentiment but this is rewriting reality. the rape apologia was rampant.
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My lovely and amazing BF made me a graphics to support my goal for fundraising! Here’s the details on why I need a service dog!
August 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
My lovely and amazing BF made me a graphics to support my goal for fundraising! Here’s the details on why I need a service dog!