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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 14h

Telling liberals they're doing a fascism by throwing marginalized people under the bus on the off chance it'll stave off the "greater evil" a few more years isn't "in-fighting". The "lesser evil" is still fucking evil, and so are they.

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 14h

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 14h

This is probably the only time I'm gonna repost a cop, but yeah, I agree. the fuck?

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Dianthus @diandianthus.bsky.social · 1d

Ever wondered what stories are being told elsewhere? Help us raise funds to translate non-colonial African languages books into English!

https://ko-fi.com/africantranslationproject

You can check their art shop for my zine! You can even donate your own art to the shop! Any reblog helps too!

Image description: A book opens to blooming flowers. Text reads, "The African Translation Project. Donate money or a flash-scope creative piece to raise fund for global fiction and African voices", followed by the URL the post links to. The graphics is in the colors of the South African flag, which are black, green, red, yellow and white.

Fern, various leaves and abstract graphics in soothing indigo, green and white. The text reads: "Slow growth, or 10 ways I cope. A zine on the subject of self-care", followed by the URL the image links to.

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 19h

one day the same parents who subject their children to conversion therapy will be too old and weak to care for themselves, and I don't want to hear a single word against their children when they decide that their parents don't deserve their support anymore

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

Conversion therapy is universally opposed as harmful by major medical organizations, including (but not limited to) the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Medical Association(AMA), American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association (APA), and the American School Health Association.
Links: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/medical-experts-lgbtq-people-agree-conversion-therapy-is-no-replacement-for-health-care

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 16h

Well, A goat, at least

Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 19h

Definitely shows the importance of teething rings

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 1d

The Rapture is fucking weird, hateful, and entirely a-Biblical. You should be embarrassed if you're looking forward to it.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Here is how I appealed the suspension. It took them about an hour to respond. All in all I was down for about 4 hours.

Hello, I have been suspended for a post accusing me of threatening violence. If you look at the thread the post is part of, 1 am describing the evangelical belief system about the rapture, which includes the mass murder of Jews.
I, a Jew, was not making threats against Jews.
I, a Jew, was educating about the dangers that the evangelical community poses to Jews in order to *protect us*
This is obviously and clearly not a threat or an excuse for suspension.
Please reinstate my account.

Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 1d

Again, the mildest criticism of Frau Swift and the cultists rise 🤣

Also, "Freshly Fried Hater Tots"?! 🙄

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 1d

"Freshly Fried Hater Totts"

Are they 12? 🤣

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 2d

look, if you see someone doing some shit, from graffiti to property destruction, let them

with the possible exception of “fires in a residential area”, this is none of your business

cops will make violence as they please, and media will lie about it as they’re told to

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 3d

And of course, the exact same thing happens if a mild criticism of rape apologist Hilary Clinton reaches her rather... ardent stans.

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 4d

this story goes into the many wild and different forms anti-trans discrimination comes in

including what happened with Amazon and my book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix

please read and learn about some of what we’re up against

we’re just trying to live our lives

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 4d

NEW - Trans people are victim to immense bigotry that we experience every day of our lives, ranging from the mundane to life-altering. @thefreeradical.org reports on four stories of large companies discriminating against trans people & what we can do!

Credit to @davidforbes.bsky.social for editing

The Discrimination We All Live With

Four stories reveal just some the discrimination trans people deal with every single day of our lives

transnews.network

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 3d

V/H/S/Halloween
So is the girl who looks a lot like Sandra Escacena just wearing her school uniform, or is she dressed up as Veronica? Thoughts haunting me after watching

#horrorsky
#filmsky

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 3d

Say something mildly critical of her on a platform with enough reach to be seen by the hard core Swifities, get hoards of personal attacks, death threats, and doxxing. Not well indeed.

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 3d

Music for painting all your kid's stuff beige to

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tova @tovanish.kimdokja.company · 4d

yeah they're always human until you start pointing out that means they need to be paid, credited for the work they create, and they need to consent and then suddenly whoa this is just a tool

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SeanKReynolds has a Patreon! @seankreynolds.bsky.social · 5d

Great little vid from Hank Green about how Dr Jane Goodall not only changed our perception of chimps, but fundamentally changed the science of studying animals.

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

Dr. Jane Goodall

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

www.youtube.com

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 5d

Well hello there, Mr. House

Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 6d

This reads like something off the Wisdom of Peterson word salad generator...

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 6d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 6d

Super disappointing to see the writer of a pretty neat rpg using generative AI, especially when they brush off the use of an AI image in a privileged game in a play test promotion. There's no ethical use of generative AI as it currently exists.

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 7d

TBF, Chappelle hasn't been a comedian or actually interested in free speech for decades 🤣

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 7d

Gotta say "anal pyramid" sounds like a techno band touring with The Lords of Acid circa 1994. First album was "Rectal Ventilation". Lots of dragonfly imagery.

#insects

Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 8d

Made the mistake of blowing off both the back porch and driveway with the leaf blower. Completely wiped me out, arms feel like I've been hanging off a bridge for hours. I'm so fucking sick of being this fragile

#chronicpain
#invisibleillness

Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 8d

For fuck's sake. If you say "I'm so OCD", "everyone's a little OCD", or thinks a single unfaced bottle on a shelf bugging you is "my OCD" I entreat you to pick up the DSM-5. It isn't a quirk, it's a living hell. If you haven't learned the clinical criteria, you have no idea what OCD entails.

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