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Eli is too sapphic for this shit

@forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social

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AuDHD, NB. He/they, ish. Mostly here to heckle my wife. Rock nerd. Book nerd. Nerd nerd. Climbs trees for fun & money. ~~ BIPOC lives matter. Trans lives matter. Disabled lives matter. Sex work is work. Wear masks, please. Esp at protests & Pride. 🔞

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · Feb 22

Daily reminder that if you don't know what to do right now, masking in public is possibly the simplest, most accessible act of resistance available to us.

They're attacking disability rights and our access to healthcare for a reason. Masking is a visible sign of solidarity, and it matters. So much.

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 8h

Reagan, why are you Reagan?

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 8h

You can just name me directly

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 1d

It was weird enough with friends.

Though tbh, the plural parallels made it weirder than the sex scenes did I think.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 3d

"You really think Samus couldn't impregnate both Zelda *and* Pikachu?"
- a real sentence I just brought forth into the world, shared without context as I process what I've said

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 5d

It's a dragon dildo

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 5d

I think it means writing ideas you're excited about is easy for you

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 5d

I'm also going to try mixing glow in the dark, thermachromic, and photochromic pigments together. Imagine a piece of artwork that's different colors in bright light, shade, and the dark. 👀

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all. I've been given too much power. There's a very good chance my encaustic pieces will glow in the dark moving forward.

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 7d

Doooo ittttt

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 8d

😥

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 9d

@anaisl.bsky.social going 0-90 waking up from a fitful hour of rest today after a bad migraine kept her up all night: "Can I use your phone? I need to look something up."
Me, looking at my phone after and seeing a Wikipedia page about Corsica: "What the *fuck* were you dreaming about?"

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 9d

One hour left to learn about a couple awesome minerals and vote for your favorite! If you have no strong attachments either way, do me a solid and vote kyanite. 💖

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 10d

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in 2025 Final Match — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Kyanite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: John Sobolewski and Parent Géry

www.mineralcup.org

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute best thing I've seen come out of this year's mineral cup

Alex Katakis @thatwasodd.bsky.social · 10d

I would say tugtupite is more pink than red, but it's reindeer blood so I'm calling it close enough to Red vs Blue again.

May the best mineral lose.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...

(And you should read Time War!)

#MinCup25 #Tugtupite #Kyanite @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social

The cover of This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The cardinal has been replaced by tugtupite and the blue jay has been replaced by kyanite. The text has been changed to read "this is how you lose the mineral war". The photos of tugtupite and kyanite are both from Mindat.

The image is better than my previous effort in semifinal 1, but I still couldn't get the stagger/slice effect from my phone's default photo app. Oh well.

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DL Whitney @sorosilicate.bsky.social · 10d

I’m very excited that #tugtupite made it to the finals but can it do this? Folded #kyanite in a high-pressure quartzite, western Türkiye. #MinCup25

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13d

Anyone who votes to end birthright citizenship as it is understood now, in defiance of clear law and the tradition they claim to value?

They are voting to create a permanent underclass of rightness, stateless people in the United States. They are voting to bring back slavery.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17d

short 🧵 on what autism and transgender pseudoscience & disinformation have in common:

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18d

so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it...
juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

screenshot from linked to essay that reads: There is a well-studied human cognitive bias, often called negativity bias, that refers to our tendency to dwell more on negative outcomes than positive or neutral ones, and to attribute negative (but not positive or neutral) outcomes to some external agent (reviewed in Rozin & Royzman, 2001; Morewedge, 2009). Or to put it another way, we often presume that positive or neutral events occur naturally or inexplicably, whereas negative events must have been caused by something or someone.

Here is a mundane example: If you were to drive home from work without incident, nobody would care or give it a second thought. It would be considered a taken-for-granted outcome and nobody would expect you to provide an account of how or why it happened. But if you got into an accident on your way home, well, then we would all want to know why and how it happened. You couldn’t say “I don’t know, I just got into an accident” — nobody would take that answer seriously, because something must have caused the accident! And if you do not provide an explanation that is satisfactory in our eyes, people will likely attribute causes or motives for you: Perhaps another driver cut you off? Or maybe you were speeding? Or drinking? Or fell asleep at the wheel?

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 16d

I'm glad something actually mobilized people, but yeah.... it's upsetting that it was this.

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 16d

Kimmel’s average nightly audience is 1.6m (link), and there are 2.8m trans people in the United States alone. Our social maps might be pretty closed but I’m guessing the number of people who know us is more than that www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Jimmy Kimmel, Somber but Defiant, Defends Free Speech in Return to ABC

www.nytimes.com

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 16d

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 16d

defund the police is confrontational, yes. it needs to be, because this is an issue that needs to be confronted. not dodged around, not trying to find some phrasing that you hope tricks cops into not noticing that you're reducing their power. everything else keeps trying to dodge the confrontation.

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 16d

This was not on my bingo card

NO BRAKES NO QUIT @lesleynope.bsky.social · 16d

Shhh let them cook

News › World News ›
Donald Trump
Disappointed
Christians say 'God is delaying the Rapture' until Epstein Files are released
After the rapture failed to happen on Tuesday, many Christians are blaming it on the fact Donald Trump hasn't released a trove of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 17d

"So you see, feminine gender is best understood as a construct serving as store, exchange and justification of status and labor exploitation. That's all it ever was. If its purity, scarcity, material basis or ownership were undermined - well, it's obvious why some take offense! In this essay I will

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 18d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 18d

Worth the read for all, especially any fellow Long Covid, EDS/hypermobile, POTS, and/or MCAS friends.

Jeffrey Lubell (EDS, ME/CFS, LongCOVID Research) @jefflubellc19.bsky.social · 18d

Our paper found that people with generalized joint #hypermobility have a 23% higher risk of #LongCOVID while people with extreme hypermobility have a 76% higher risk of #LongCOVID. This thread focuses on possible explanations for the higher risk. 1/20

Eli is too sapphic for this shit @forbiddenkyanite.bsky.social · 18d

I walked past your room before seeing this post and made a series of strangled noises while attempting to not interrupt your Zoom class participation. So.

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