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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 1d

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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Harley @beastgoddk.bsky.social · 9h

Girl activities. Happy lesbian day...

A drawing viewing from behind a girl in plaid skirt and sweater holding a taser and looming over another girl in a tracksuit jacket and shorts with a head injury.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 8h

I feel like the problem here is the idea that 15 year olds can't handle social media but adults can

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 9h

Denmark is planning to ban children under 15 from using social media, following Australia's world-first laws to curb social media use among teenagers.

Denmark to follow Australia in banning social media for children

Denmark is planning to ban children under 15 from using social media, following Australia's world-first laws to curb social media use among teenagers.

www.abc.net.au

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 7h

Our hearts cry before our eyes do.
Plz support me

Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 10d

My family,my children have always been my top priority in life. They are the most precious part of me. I dedicated all my time and energy to them, until I nearly forgot myself forgot that I am an engineer who studied and worked hard for more than ten years.
🔗 chuffed.org/project/your...

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 1d

I carry the full responsibility for my family's needs.
No plans, no guarantees — only faith that there are kind hearts who won’t let us fall. 🕊️

Help us give our children a life without worry. 🧡

🙏Donate if you can / Share if you can't.

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Dozing (Dreaming [Wanting]) 💤❤️‍🔥 @dozingdreamers.bsky.social · 19h

hey please please please please PLEASE share this around because stupid government bullshit means they've got my application on hold indefinitely.

i'm gonna figure out another way, but i need my hrt again, even if just a month's worth to hold me over. please help, i am struggling so much without it

Dozing (Dreaming [Wanting]) 💤❤️‍🔥 @dozingdreamers.bsky.social · 1d

hey so. it's been over 2 weeks. the government still hasn't gotten back to me about covering my meds. i'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it's not gonna be good for me to keep going without my hrt x.x

i'm gonna need about $160 CAD, ugh

www.paypal.com/paypalme/doz...

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 7d

Please hear her. Don’t let them keep thinking this kind of treatment is ok. It’s not. Please speak for Soad.

Screenshot from Soad. Reading, “I swear to you, Ray, I didn't do anything. My Blue Sky account has been closed. I am really very tired. This campaign is a lifeline for me and my child. Without it, we will die. Why is my voice not being able to reach you? Why is he treating me like this? Do they want me and my child to die in silence?”

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 1d

i didnt realize this was a thing which could be meant by "singlet". i thought everyone who ever used that term was jokingly demeaning anyone who felt like the sole resident of their body. world is so vast.

shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 1d

well theres also rosaceae

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Dozing (Dreaming [Wanting]) 💤❤️‍🔥 @dozingdreamers.bsky.social · 1d

hey so. it's been over 2 weeks. the government still hasn't gotten back to me about covering my meds. i'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it's not gonna be good for me to keep going without my hrt x.x

i'm gonna need about $160 CAD, ugh

www.paypal.com/paypalme/doz...

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 1d

horrific whiplash in PR, which just several years ago was explicitly affirming our care had to be covered. but already this year PR enacted a criminal ban up to age 21 w/ a 15yr prison sentence, and now this. here's the donation page if you're able to pitch in:
www.trueselffoundation.org/donar/

BOUTHERN EQUALITY

kytranshealth and 3 others

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SUPPORT TRANS PUERTO RICANS

We learned a few days ago that on 10/6, Medicaid in Puerto Rico will stop covering all medications used for gender-affirming care.

True Self Foundation has established an emergency fund to cover the cost of GAC for trans Puerto Ricans, but they need more funding to meet the vast need.

The link to donate is in the KHJN Trans Health page bio.

Trans people in Puerto Rico are facing an unprecedented crisis. This Medicaid announcement comes just months after a ban on gender-affirming care for anyone under 21 was signed into law.

True Self Foundation is assisting trans youth + their families as well as trans adults. Donate to provide direct support to trans people in Puerto Rico.

The link to donate is in the KHJN Trans Health page bio.

kytranshealth: We learned a few days ago that on 10/6, Medicaid in Puerto Rico will stop covering all medications used for gender-affirming care.

True Self Foundation has established an emergency fund to cover the cost of GAC for trans Puerto Ricans, but they need more funding to meet the vast need.

Trans people in Puerto Rico are facing an unprecedented crisis. This Medicaid announcement comes just months after a ban on gender-affirming care for anyone under 21 was signed into law.

True Self Foundation is assisting trans youth + their families as well as trans adults. Donate to provide direct support to trans people in Puerto Rico.

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shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 2d

no, the dhs really needs to be abolished. attacking undesirables was always what it was for. it's younger than me and im just a kid, so clearly its not some foundational pillar of society

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shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 2d

we need to get plum some people to hurt asap

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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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shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 2d

this site is run by the just more faces of the same malignity making the rest of the internet unbearable and i think they should know how hated they are for the way they treat us

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Also, for the same reason:

NEVER sign up for or RSVP to a protest. I don't care who is running it. Don't do it.

NEVER bring your phone to a protest or action and if you absolutely must, disable all location services and biometrics.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Reminder that everything you post can be seen by law enforcement.

Be smart, especially now, and don't snitch on yourself. Posting specifics about actions or promoting violence on social media is just a bad idea. There's a reason organizers and activists use Signal. You can't resist from a cage.

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shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 3d

oh, no, unfortunately roko's basilisk is even dumber than that. the gist of it is the belief that an artificial intelligence is going to subject all humans to hypertorture forever unless they aided in its creation, so the best thing to do is to build the torture ai overlord as preemptive service.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 14d

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

cover of hello sunshine featuring alex laying in a red flowers with eyes. red hands reach up from the ground to touch him. in the background the other four kids and cass the dog stand in a line in a field of daisies

a photo of alex with his back to the camera facing a red monster with daisies for eyes on the ceiling

the protagonists from hello sunshine sitting in a row looking nervous with the daisy eyes monster behind them in the darkness. in the center of the panel is an inset panel showing a cassette tape

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3d

to be clear I was being facetious here. there aren't any mental illnesses that lend themselves to organized and systemic bigotry. but the idea of applying the terms "organized" or "systemic" to anybody with psychosis is like. pretty funny. in a way where I want to decay into the earth in defeat

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3d

"okay but fascists ARE often mentally ill on some level" is not the take fam. especially when we're talking psychosis. go after the mental illnesses that lend themselves to organized and systemic bigotry and leave my people alone

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3d

this post has 7k likes now and nobody except me just now opting to push back against this wording, so just to reiterate: psychotic is a medical term that suggests scared, confused, cognitively struggling, experiencing delusions and hallucinations. not evil, dangerous, cruel, sadistic, or organized

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 4d

the term you are looking for here is not psychotic

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

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www.hottopic.com @chuunitoons.bsky.social · Jul 28

𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘰’𝘴 𝘗𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 (𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥)
Digital Painting
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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shadow the hedgehog @littlebirdbasil.bsky.social · 4d

okay fine but they better brush their teeth every day

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