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✨Brown Transman🏳️‍⚧️ ✨Service Dog Dad🐕‍🦺✨LAMBDA Award 💭Queering Comics✨ ♂️He/Him♂️ Louisiana/Alaska/Ohio Patreon: Patreon.com/FindChaos Spouse: @FindChaos Clintonville OH

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · Oct 25

📌 I'm a Transman/Lesboy originally from Southern Louisiana and Alaska. Married to @findchaos.bsky.social before it was legal. Service Dog Dad.

I'm also a LAMBDA award winning writer, a GLAAD featured disability advocate, and I queer up comics any chance I can get! 💕

Patreon.com/FindChaos

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 4h

It's Banned Books Week. If you are an author, please join @authorsabb.bsky.social! If you work in the publishing industry, please join @pubprosabb.bsky.social! Canadian authors, you can now join Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book bans: linktr.ee/caiabb. Working together feels good! 📚✍️👏

The black and white cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe. The image shows author Maia Kobabe holding a stack of books and pointing at the reader

WHAT IS AABB?
A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators,
librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU?
- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state
- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community
-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more
-Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled!
-A very active discord community

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up!

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing!

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!
-Maia Kobabe, 2025

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2h

kotzebue, alaska declared a mandatory evacuation order

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dirté @dirte.net · May 9

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 3h

Excited to announce that Geronimo Was A Beaver, my first puppet film with @jayackley.bsky.social will be making its big screen premiere as part of DOC LA's film festival!!

We're on Saturday 10/25 at 5pm as part of their short films block!

Tickets: filmfreeway.com/DOCLA/tickets

a image of a carved wooden beaver puppet, with DOC LA official selection laurels above it.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 6h

Yep. What they *always* mean is "I don't think your life is important enough to care about, and I don't like being confronted with that fact, so I'm gonna make it sound like *your* problem"

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6h

At this point im starting to wonder if hearing the words “purity test” are a dogwhistle because the most shit opinions in the universe will almost always immediately follow it

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 22h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 8h

Someone taped a small flat thing to our light post and I want to see what it is but also my brain:

a man in a red shirt is standing in front of a door and says trap .

Alt: a man in a red shirt is standing in front of a door and says trap .

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🇨🇦Brandi K. @kukubee.bsky.social · 21h

back on my bs: spooky edition

A stack of two felt books with a tiny ghost and pumpkin on top

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 21h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 10h

Trans people, I am once again asking you—nay, begging you—to share something good that is going on in your lives right now!

I’ll start: I’m working on a new graphic novel and having a blast with the creative team we’ve assembled!

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 10h

Then it has no right to exist

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 10h

I shared this vid of our trailcam coyote and multiple people thought this was the girl from the Ring

Black and white trailcam screenshot of a coyote, facing away, hind legs towards the camera and tail down.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 19h

Truly the one thing music teaches us is that we can clap back harder than our haters

KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 19h

I love that Cyndi Lauper heard a sad DudeBro Lamentation on women of the modern age and said Lol, Totally! But Make It Dancey

And she won haha

Cause Girls Just Wanna Have Fun !

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 20h

IT IS TIME

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHAI...

No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

www.youtube.com

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Jan 7

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 21h

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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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 22h

Also upsetting (tw) serial killer plot lines that are childhood bird rhymes?? Apparently that is my bag, I shouldn't have read so many Agatha Christie's..

One for Sorrow... 🐦

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek being the only show Dr. King and Coretta let the kids stay up to watch is a personal fave of mine

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · Aug 27

There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love.

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

A comic page from KEEPING TIME. Daniel, a Japanese American man, sits on stage at a grand piano and stares out in disbelief at Denver, a blond punk with a neck tattoo who looks equally stunned. A caption title says, "CHAPTER 1: 2:45 AM"

A second panel. Denver llifts the lid of a dumpster, while two figures stand behind him in a dark alleyway.

A third panel. Denver lights both his cigarette and that of Daniel's. Denver says, "I'm impressed, y'know," while Daniel answers with a, "Hmm?"

A final panel. Denver motions towards Daniel with his lit cigarette while Daniel smiles gently.

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · Oct 16

Do not couples-costume Harley Quinn with the Joker unless he’s a corpse by her hand.

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