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LardDragonEzra

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Lab Tech, Dietary Aide, and large guy on the internet. Page will contain art, photographs, random thoughts, and some cool science I should share. 37, Gay/Ace, He/Him. PFP by @syncrotrace.bsky.social Header by me.

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · Nov 7

Welcome everyone to my page. My name here is Ezra or Ez.

While I am a hefty creature on the internet, I'm also a fan of Doctor Who and Star Trek, a lab technician at Rutgers, amateur photographer, and train-rider.

Please feel free to chill.

Fascists will be blocked on site.

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 54m

Which would only explain a subset of males, but not everyone else. Which is the purest giveaway that this whole thing is bullshit.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 4h

We'll see in 2 weeks.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 4h

I just signed this. I may write a letter to UVa as well.

P.S. *Always* investigate petitions before you sign. The group behind this, according to my own research, looks legit.

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 5h

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 9h

Of course we can't be sure whether or not there's a singularity because of the presence of a horizon...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.bsky.social · 2d

Made it easier to share with credit

Panel from original Batman comic book, a brooding Bruce Wayne is thinking out loud: "CRIMINALS ARE A SUPERSTITIOUS COWARDLY LOT. SO MY DISGUISE MUST BE ABLE TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS. I MUST BE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, BLACK, TERRIBLE.. A. A..."

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The frog costume guy stands in opposition to ICE thugs in Portland

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 21h

The bar for politicians to fight for trans people is so low it's in the mantle.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

"I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights."

Then don't expect trans people to sacrifice themselves for your rights either. We are all free or none of us are, and if you can't stand and die on this hill, your country isn't worth dying for.

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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.
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 4d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

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Jovithor @jovithor.bsky.social · Sep 28

His little companion awaits him at home, giving him an extra reason to smile 🐈‍⬛

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fatbearsmallchair @fatbearsmallchair.bsky.social · 1d

Confirmed Toast hates chores and Mutt smells like pancakes

Toast (a very large blue hippo) and Mutt (a coyote mixed with gorilla).

Panel 1 : Mutt comes into the living room to tell Toast it's time for dinner and to set the table.
Panel 2 : Toast screams "MUTT"
Panel 3 : Toast is sitting in the dark and says "You SMELL"

Toast (a very large blue hippo) and Mutt (a coyote mixed with gorilla).

Panel 1 : Toast is sitting creepily in the dark
Panel 2 : Toast turns on the flashlight and says "LIKE PANCAKES"
Panel 3 : Toast laughs manically and Mutt stands there stunned

Toast (a very large blue hippo) and Mutt (a coyote mixed with gorilla).

Panel 1 : Mutt is pictured while Toast continues to laugh and then coughs, and then laughs some more
Panel 2 : Mutt holds up a plate of pancakes and says "Yes, because that's what I made for dinner"
Panel 3 : Toast approaches Mutt fast and says "You know what I like more than pancakes?"
Panel 4: Toast says "Husband" all creepy-like, Mutt blushes and says "Your flirting won't get you out of setting the table."

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 1d

Got my ticket. Ready to board.

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Caligari @caligari.bsky.social · 1d

#Fantasmicalloween Day 8: Ghost Train Conductor

I know there’s no conductor in this, that’s an engineer, but I really wanted to design a ghost train locomotive. I found this one super fun to work on!

#Drawlloween

A sketchbook page showing a drawing done with fountain pen and ink.

A glowing green train locomotive seen from the front, covered in spooky details and unnecessary spikes and such. A skeleton engineer leans out of a side window.

Inks used: The Farewell Poem of Yesterday and The Thorn Songs of Crown from Kitty Inkpot.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

www.erininthemorning.com

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 1d

So that place is where you are a Bodega Cat?

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Luke☕ @fattydragonite.bsky.social · 2d

''Hurf... Haaah... Man these letters are *heavy*. They must have a lot of words written on them...''

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 2d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 1d

"There's no reliable data!" cries a bunch of lawyers. Meanwhile those same lawyers cited research that VERY SPECIFICALLY said conversion therapy was bad to support overturning bans on conversion therapy.

Fucking treat these lawyers like the abusers they are. It is your 1st Amendment right.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.”

This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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Dragontzin Ⓥ @dragontzin.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all!!! American furries!!! Once again I must summon you!!

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!!!

Regardless whether you live in a blue, red, or purple state. Make sure that we know that us furries care about the protection and well-being of wildlife.

www.house.gov/representati....

#TeamWolves

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 2d

WOW....👀👀👀

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 14d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 2d

I really hope this is accurate because it sums up how the universe truly will just give you freebies sometimes.

Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 2d

Can someone confirm that this arrangement of words mean what I think they mean?

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🌿Gin 🌿 @ginwilliamsart.bsky.social · 2d

Artists do NOT accept payment. Always send an invoice.

DO
NOT
ACCEPT
PAYMENTS

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 6d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

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