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Lionel, not Messi
@broadaxe1.bsky.social
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Greetings, traveler!
Lionel || 18+ || 🇩🇴🇨🇴 || He/Him 🏳️‍⚧️

Avid reader, occasional writer, full-time engineering and mathematics student.

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transgenderreport.com
As Republicans turn their attacks towards trans adults, more and more conservatives are pushing to remove trans people from public life entirely.

transitics.substack....

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Republicans Pivot Anti-Trans Rhetoric Away From Trans Kids, Declare All Trans People the ‘Root of Evil’
As Republicans turn their attacks towards trans adults, more and more conservatives are pushing to remove trans people from public life entirely. Here’s what’s been said.
transitics.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself. “It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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transgenderreport.com

GOP candidate claims firing people for being gay ‘is not discrimination’ in Virginia governor’s debate

www.advocate.com/pol...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
GOP candidate claims firing people for being gay ‘is not discrimination’ in Virginia governor’s debate
Winsome Earle-Sears's remarks drew immediate backlash.
www.advocate.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
broadaxe1.bsky.social
You know what? I like Charlie/Cr1tikal/penguinz0, unapologetically. Not only is he the only truly normiebrained person I know, and I mean this postively, he's also just proven to be a truly honest man. Getting thrown free money and still saying 'go spend it on a good cause instead, I don't want it'.
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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sollizyy.bsky.social
solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/10/stop... Alright, I had the writing muse, I wrote something on it
October 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
broadaxe1.bsky.social
I'm frustrated with the amount of fellow trans men/mascs who feel perfectly comfortable spreading false, incomplete and/or hyperbolically disparaging information about phalloplasty/meta.

Or have the gall to tell us who want or have it how bad/ugly/fake our genitals are.

Tired of your bullshit.
October 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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reactiveashley.cat
A grim thread.

Conversion therapists at the Oslo gender clinic stole children’s journals and used them to write a junk paper claiming to link the supposed rise in trans men with self-harm.

It echoes Cass.
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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juneever.green
happy international lesbian day to:

- trans lesbians
- femme lesbians
- non-binary lesbians
- bi lesbians
- trans men lesbians
- agender lesbians
- butch lesbians
October 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
broadaxe1.bsky.social
r/ftmmen going through a crashout huh
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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giuliofirenze.bsky.social
Dunque.

In 10 anni (dieci anni) le Alpi Svizzere hanno preso non 1/10, non 1/8, non 1/6, ma UN QUARTO del loro volume.

Nell'estate del 2022 il 6%, in quella del 2023 il 4%, nel 2024 il 2.5% e nel 2025 il 3%.

Forse non ci rendiamo conto di cosa accade...1/4
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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vashetc.bsky.social
I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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transgenderreport.com


No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

capitalbnews.org/bla...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.
A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.
capitalbnews.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read.

rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...
I. Factual Background The facts presented below are drawn from the testimonies of four survivors: Mario, Monica, Kenia, and Jane Doe. These facts demonstrate systemic abuse at SLIPC. Forced Labor Targeting Transgender and LGBTQ+ People Assistant Warden Mr. Manuel Reyes ("AW Reyes") ran an unsanctioned 'night shift cleaning crew' between 8:00 pm and 6:00 am. This program was not reported in official records and targeted transgender and LGBTQ+ detained people. Mario, Monica, and Kenia were forced into hard manual labor without protective equipment. Tasks included stripping floors, painting, and exposure to industrial-strength chemicals, causing burns, respiratory distress, and lasting injuries. Sexual Assault, Harassment and Exploitation AW Reyes stalked, harassed, and assaulted detained people in camera 'blind spots.' Mario and Monica witnessed AW Reyes coercing sexual acts from others. Monica was groped and assaulted multiple times. AW Reyes also told him that he watched him shower on cameras. Kenia was harassed and threatened with retaliation when refusing to cooperate. Jane Doe was repeatedly stalked, groped, and coerced into performing oral sex under threat to her and her family. The survivors' individual stories are detailed below: Monica (he/him); Transgender Man; Detained Since May 9, 2023 Monica has been detained by ICE continuously since on or about May 9, 2023. In late September 2023, AW Reyes approached Monica about joining a "cleaning crew" to work an "off the books night shift program," alongside another transgender man detained at SLIPC. That month, Monica began to perform hard manual labor at the instruction of AW Reyes. The "shifts" occurred late at night, between the hours of 8:00 pm and 6:00 am. Unlike the other work programs at SLIPC, these work shifts were not recorded in a formal log book or shift schedule. AW Reyes approached transgender people and masculine-presenting LGBTQ+ people to participate in this "program." Each person targeted by AW Reyes identified as transgender or LGBTQ+. AW Reyes would enter the housing units and wake up Monica and the others and bring them to do hard manual labor in various locations inside SLIPC. The "shifts" were randomized and Monica and the others did not have a designated schedule. AW Reyes would compensate them for their labor at times by adding $1/day into their commissary accounts. Other times, he would bring a trash bag full of commissary items and give them to Monica and the others. AW Reyes routinely entered the housing unit late at night, between two and three o'clock in the morning, while detained people were sleeping. He would walk around the unit while people were sleeping and take people's used underwear and sanitary pads from the housing unit. Monica witnessed him say to a detained woman walking to her bunk in her nightshirt, "Is that how your breasts bounce when you are fucking?" AW Reyes required Monica and others to perform hard manual labor without any personal protective equipment, resulting in significant health risks and physical injuries. Despite repeated requests, Monica and others were denied access to gloves, face shields, and steel-toed boots. In response to these…
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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transgenderreport.com
ICE allegedly subjected trans men to forced labor & sexual abuse in women’s facility

www.lgbtqnation.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
ICE allegedly subjected trans men to forced labor & sexual abuse in women’s facility
Complaints were met with beatings and solitary confinement, detainees say.
www.lgbtqnation.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
broadaxe1.bsky.social
Every single time I see Colombia (🇨🇴) written as Columbia, I take a shot. Now I'm preventably dying of liver cirrhosis.

Feeling homicidal about this, by the way. Rapidly approaching the location of all """Columbia""" writers, if you have no haters it's because I'm dead.
September 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.
Analysis | America can’t quit smartphones. Smart glasses won’t help.
We keep hoping that a magical technology can liberate us from what we don’t like about technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
broadaxe1.bsky.social
Friend is intently pushing me to add The Fire Rises to my HOI4 copy. Friend does not understand that I'm not a chud. (sorry bro)

Although I do low-key want to try it just to go down the American Caligula way for the funsies.
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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nytimes.com
State terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the defendant in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive last year, were dismissed on Tuesday, including one that had accused him of first-degree murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/n...
Luigi Mangione, wearing a tan jumpsuit, is led down a hallway in handcuffs by two men in navy blue jackets. A headline reads: "State Terrorism Charges Against Luigi Mangione Are Dismissed."
September 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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spectrum.ieee.org
Can you imagine a night sky without artificial light? Explore the Bortle scale and the quest to reclaim our celestial view.
Are We Losing Our Connection to the Night Sky?
What's at stake as artificial light drowns out the stars, cutting us off from the universe's vastness and the wonder it inspires.
spectrum.ieee.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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eurovisiondrinking.com
Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision?

It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.
September 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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james.claims
Over on Twitter they’re doxxing a group of students for being part of a “RADICAL STUDENT CELL” and urging everyone to call their university

Cos they have a discord chat. And in that chat two joke messages were posted about Kirk.

They made sure to point out which of the group were trans.
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM