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West Coast Bride

@lastyearsmodel.bsky.social

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My name is max and i'm pretty confused. Guitar and Voice at Noiseland, Mother Love Blone at the garages, freelancer for Bandcamp Daily, occasional poet, ostensibly a copywriter. She/Her and extremely Bi.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 13h

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier

gofund.me/55321f9d3

Donate to Rent Help For Max, organized by Lila Wolfe

If you’ve spent time in Chicago’s DIY music scene, you probably know Max — a warm, welcoming and fundamen… Lila Wolfe needs your support for Rent Help For Max

gofund.me

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 12h

holy shit the actual studio quality recording?? i've been waiting for this for like, over a decade. one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, the guitar interplay influenced my entire discography. i'm all over this.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 13h

so fuckin' stoked

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 13h

Donate to Rent Help For Max, organized by Lila Wolfe

If you’ve spent time in Chicago’s DIY music scene, you probably know Max — a warm, welcoming and fundamen… Lila Wolfe needs your support for Rent Help For Max

gofund.me

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 4d

if it wasn't late at night for a 37 year old i'd be doing so much photoshopping right now

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 4d

i see your zalbag and raise you a dycedarg

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 7d

lumpy in a good way plus it makes u easy to chroma key

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 18d

and continue to be!

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 24d

yeah i'm really curious about it (liked the first for what it was) but I dunno if I have the stamina for it with everything going on.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 27d

i'm also deeply unemployed and broke and will probably have to move soon so, i mean, if you wanna buy me a coffee, the venmo is @Max-Cohen-39

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 27d

it's always terrifying to live like this but today has been extremely, extremely rough.

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 27d

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 29d

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 28d

whoa i didn't even know he was still touring, what a fuckin' legend

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 29d

EGG is so underrated the aesthetics are just immaculate

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 29d

Hey, uh... we're gonna need every cis ally to call their congresscritters and yell at them, because this is, like... a straight-up deathblow to healthcare that keeps a LOT of us alive.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 8

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision.

It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all.

Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

House HHS Appropriations Bill Would Devastate Trans Adult Healthcare Nationwide

The bill would bar federal funding for any "social, psychological, behavioral, or medical intervention" to treat gender dysphoria.

www.erininthemorning.com

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · Sep 8

yeah but wanderhome was all good times to me. love those giant bees.

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · Sep 8

TTRPGs as a framework for collaborative artistic creation rules

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · Sep 8

genuinely most of my favorite TTRPG memories were both bad times had in sessions of monsterhearts and sleepaway with you and the boys (gender neutral)

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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · Sep 4

it always hurts to be reminded that i can never go home again

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Sep 4

NEW - Here's my update on the Texas bathroom bill, which goes to Gov. Greg Abbot for signing. It applies to publicly owned facilities - universities, schools, courthouses, the DMV, stuff like that. The bill, once signed, goes into effect on December 3rd, by my math: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Texas lawmakers just passed anti-trans bathroom bill after 10-year crusade

SB 8 segregates public bathrooms by a person's sex at birth, not their gender identity.

www.chron.com

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · Sep 3

eh it's philly you can probably just do whatever

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · Aug 25

the fuckers, they finally did it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAN...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

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Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Aug 12

When calling my reps, I think it's just as important to push for "parental responsibility" alongside saying no to KOSA/SCREEN/IODA

If these legislators care so much about family values, then remind them how much they matter to you too! #SaveSpeech

Malibu Apo-Stacey @valerieelysee.bsky.social · Aug 12

nothing is stopping parents from installing web nanny software, nothing is stopping parents from buying their kids flipphones instead of smartphones. Nothing is stopping parents from doing the job of being a parent.

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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) @foxyoreos.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's like a virus. If they put out a statement at 2 weeks and we stop, then the next time they censor even more, we'll have to call 4 weeks to get them to even make a statement.

The fight won't be easier to win a year from now. We just have to be relentless, we can't give them a recovery period.

Coffee cat @honeyedcoffee.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Announcements Only @acvalens.net · Aug 6

Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy

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alpha00zero @alpha00zero.bsky.social · Aug 3

Oh look more authoritarian bullshit trying to weasel itself into our lives.

Be loud and make them know we don't want any of this.

Sharpie Stuff @sharpiestuff.bsky.social · Aug 3

It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209.

Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell.

www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...

Sign the Petition

Stop Bill S-209’s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult

www.change.org

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