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Cosmic the Goblin

@cosmicthegoblin.bsky.social

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A traveling space goblin from a distant galaxy ✨🌟 28 y/o, He/They, Pan-Ace, 🔞

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Cosmic the Goblin @cosmicthegoblin.bsky.social · Jan 18

Can y'all please help me support @marbleqarts.bsky.social/ @marbleq2.bsky.social? I've been financially supporting them as best as I can and it's still not enough for them to get by.

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josh (oldfriend99)

@oldfriend99.bsky.social

The problem with AI is you can't really shoot it in the head yet

August 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Punished Cat Guy (Frankenkranken’s Monstre)

@majima.club

It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist.

It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵

19930918 The AIDS Quilt Comes to Fort Worth

www.rondougherty.com

December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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Brian Hughes

@bmhughes.bsky.social

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM

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yoneda sarah

@scgriffith.bsky.social

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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(Still) An(gr)i Bundel

@anibundel.bsky.social

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People

"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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Jordan`

@jordanthekitty.bsky.social

i want everyone to pay really close attention to the fact that what's making conservatives pissed off is "you should cite your sources" and "don't say that bullying is good"

gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

Trans Professors comment
Mel Curth (She/They)
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive.
While you are entitled to your own personal beliefs, there is an appropriate time or place to implement them in your reflections. I encourage all students to question or challenge the course material with other empirical findings or testable hypotheses, but using your own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc. is not best practice.
You argue that abiding by normative gender roles is beneficial (it is perfectly fine to believe this. but to then say that evervone should act
TPUSA OU

Trans Professors comment
the same, while also saying that people aren't pressured into gendered expectations is contradictory, especially since your arguments reflect a religious pressure to act in gender-stereotypical ways. You can say that strict gender norms don't create gender stereotypes, but that isn't true by definition of what a stereotype is. Please note that acknowledging gender stereotypes does not immediately denote a negative connotation, a nuance this article discusses.
Additionally, to call an entire group of people
"demonic" is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population. You are entitled to your own beliefs, but this isn't a vague narrative of
"society pushes lies," but instead the result of countless years developing psychological and scientific evidence for these claims and directly interacting with the communities involved. You may personally disagree with this, but that
TPUSA OU
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doesn't change the fact that every major psychological, medical, pediatric, and psychiatric association in the United States acknowledges that, biologically and psychologically, sex and gender is neither binary nor fixed.
I implore you apply some more perspective and empathy in your work. If you personally disagree with the findings, then by all means share your criticisms, but make sure to do so in a way that is appropriate and using the methodology of empirical psychology, as aligned with the learning goals in this class. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this or would like some additional educational resources, I would be happy to discuss this further and provide you with them.
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TPUSA OU

Additional professor
Megan Waldron (She/Her/Hers)
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Samantha, I am the other instructor for this course, and I have also taken the time to read your paper. I concur with Mel on the grade you received. This paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment.
Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning.
I find it concerning that you state at the beginning of your paper that you do not think bullying ("teasing") is a bad thing. In addition, your paper directly and harshly criticizes your peers and their opinions, which are just as valuable as yours. Disagreeing with others is fine, but there is a respectful way to go about it. That goes for discussion posts as well as reaction
papers.
Please employ more thoughtfulness in your future assignments
TPUSA OU

December 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Laser

@lasersinger.bsky.social

Fun fact - it's because adult animation isn't actually aimed at adults but at older teens who want to seem cool by watching adult content.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19h

Can animated works aimed at adults please stop doing this silly, adolescent thing where they lard the dialogue with absurd supra-Scorcese levels of pointless swearing the modal longshoreman would find cringy in a desperate attempt to telegraph “this isn’t a kids cartoon!”

December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM

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MartyθΔ🐻‍❄🐮🐗🏳‍⚧🇵🇸

@martybigburr.bsky.social

I only have a few days left to get this filled! Please if you can share it or donate it would help me so much as i need to pay rent

MartyθΔ🐻‍❄🐮🐗🏳‍⚧🇵🇸 @martybigburr.bsky.social · 12d

Hey yall Im waiting to hear back from jobs and am working on my owed art (will be posting soon)! In the meantime i could really use the help to stay afloat! Anything helps! Thank you all for your support it has been getting me through a really hard time💜

cash.app/$merczy

ko-fi.com/martybigburr...

November 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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Izzy's OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS

@izzyfatcat.bsky.social

I wanna highlight the fact that "adopt the technology" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

There's nothing to adopt, these things dont do as theyre marketed.

The lede being buried therefore is "give them free money."

Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 1d

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

www.windowscentral.com

December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM

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David Flor

@brainclouds.net

December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

6 Panel Comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Dude and a Green Dude in an electronics shop. The Purple Dude is holding a box containing a new laptop.
Purple Dude: You’re all set. Here’s your new AI laptop and your guy.
Green Dude: My what?

Panel 2:
A severe looking Red Dude in cap and shades has appeared behind Green Dude.
Purple Dude: Your guy. Every new AI laptop comes with a guy.

Panel 3:
Green Dude is back at home. We see him through the window working at his new laptop.

Panel 4:
Interior of kitchen. Green Dude continues to work at his laptop. The Red Dude is standing next to him.

Panel 5:
Close up of laptop screen. Green Dude is about to turn off the AI features.

Panel 6:
Red Dude produces a gun and presses it to Green Dude’s temple. He hisses: Don’t you fucking dare.

December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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Cartoonist Cooperative

@cartoonist.coop

if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.

allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace

December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM