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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 7h

You either defend trans people and people of color now, or you go out alone when it's your turn. Just like Niemoller thought the Nazis would leave him alone if he was a good German. You're as wrong as he was. You'll find out.

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not even as annoyed by the line curves, bc who knows, that could be how layers work, but my true frustration lies in the parts where lines disappear altogether. As you can see on the unworn photos of the shirt, the algorithm doesn't seem to feel the need to lie so blatantly.

Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 8h

I was looking through our recent pics (bc ofc we're the sort of couple that links pics), and I found a pic @kdotink.bsky.social snapped that showed the back of my head. Guys... It's hard to picture yourself from behind and I knew it was curly, but I wasn't prepared to see the F L O O F.

A view from behind a person (Stiffler/me), walking down a suburban sidewalk on a sunny day. They are wearing a pastel plaid button-up shirt and their hair is basically a flax-colored orb of 3C curls around the general head region.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway you can read the rest of the chapter and next chapters at the link below.

Warnings of pretty much anything you can think of, my writing is based on queer life experiences + religions that fit into horror tropes, so it's entirely messy -- fun!! ⭐ 👻
www.findchaos.com/comic/false-...

False Prophet Page 26 – FindChaos

www.findchaos.com

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 1d

Some of my favorite illustrations, so far.

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 1d

It's been hard to stay away from the FindChaos comic while life has had a way of being so ✨exciting🫠, but now it feels so much more important to get on with things, get messy, say what has been waiting to be said, and enjoy this queer, weird, beautiful rollercoaster together. To be continued...

KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, Google showed me old pages of our comic that is on hiatus and now I need to write more of it unfortunately...

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, Google showed me old pages of our comic that is on hiatus and now I need to write more of it unfortunately...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is a hostile occupying force that is a danger to everyone.

Alt text: A man in camouflage clothing and a face covering sits inside a gray Jeep, pointing a weapon out of the open driver-side window. The gun is aimed directly at the camera. The man wears gloves and a dark cap, and his eyes are visible above the mask. The vehicle’s door and side mirror are wet with raindrops.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 1d

Ohio:

80% of Wayne National Forest is targeted for logging, and they're opening it up for fracking.

Large dog standing at the edge of a paved path in Wayne National

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no, something I just realized while seeing it again: all of the meanies wear masks for some reason. 🤷

A still from the animation Yellow Submarine (1968), with the leader of the blue meanies talking to his troops

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 2d

(I'd like to clarify that I watched this as an autistic Millennial child, not that I was alive upon its release. I'm not a 60-ish-year-old, I only act like one.)

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Literally, all of the bad guys are wearing Mickey Mouse ears, jackboots, and joke about moving to Argentina as their empire falls. Free speech and colors being taken away is literally Act 1, but also the thing that saves everyone. This was from **1968.**

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Yellow Submarine was my watch-every-weekend movie since I was in elementary school and something I've always tried to show people. That passion has never been about band fandom (of which I have extremely mixed vibes), but just how much this movie might as well be a takedown of where we're at today.

a cartoon drawing of a monster and a sheep with a book in their hand

Alt: an animation from Yellow Submarine movie of the leader of the blue meanies angrily trying and failing to grab Jeremy, the nowhere man, with a book in his hand, reciting poetry from a book

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 3d

My new self-imposed physical therapy is "lean your head and shoulders back as far as possible while still doing life" and to say I've spent the last few hours alarmed, yet less cramped and my ears have popped twice, means things have been out of whack and I've been a very stressed shrimp.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 4d

Like I am a bearded trans person with a freaky large dog and a butch spouse with a muppet dog and everyone from every culture felt comfortable getting right up on us and we all smiled and exchanged pleasantries and omg don't the roses smell so good!! The air is perfume!

Fuck man it's all so easy

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 4d

A few minutes ago, @kdotink.bsky.social summarized current events as, "our country is just reality TV now," and I was, for lack of a better word, shook.

We're all being filmed and scrutinized, our socials are on blast, and if the network deems you bad for the advertisers, you're never seen again.

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 4d

It's okay, they initially tried to be really helpful when told we weren't paying $5k+ by dropping the price down to $3k+ plus a company credit card that we could just charge the rest to!

It's amazing how saying, "nah, I wanted to pay $800, tops" saved us yet another $2k. 🙄

KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 4d

The (new to us, not going back to) mechanic wanted $5400 for our beater car to be "drivable" and we said, lol, no, that's okay, we'll just get it towed elsewhere. Suddenly the price went down to $1200.

Anyway I am not a fan of Humans

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 4d

If you get to the Rose Park at the right time, you can be treated to some bagpipes. 💕

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 6d

Cloud Cat is coming for those trees. 😻🌲

A stock photo of a cat with its mouth open wide, about to eat a piece of ham from a table.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 6d

Good sky tonight!

A dark blue sky spotter with streaky pink clouds

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 6d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 8d

If you're willing to throw the smallest group of people under the bus for "the greater good," we've already lost the battle against facism.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 8d

Again, please PLEASE don't listen to cis journalists saying that this isn't an emergency. The more pressure we put on Dems now, the more trans people we can potentially save..

Don't give up because some white cis guy said it "isn't so bad." Please listen to the trans people asking for you to call.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

Today your voices were heard. We will need to be loud throughout the shutdown and continue to put pressure: No anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the final negotiated bill. Only clean bills that don't throw trans and queer people under the bus.

Kicked butt today y'all. Good work.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

It's midnight. We are officially in a government shutdown.

No clean CR was passed. Congress moves on to negotiating during what could be a protracted closure.

Thank you all for calling to let them know that whatever gets negotiated, anti-LGBTQ provisions cannot be in the final appropriations bill.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

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