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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Chief Eagle Testickle is the supernatural gender-fluid superhero we need right now.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 1d

10/10. Amazing exhibition. www.mbam.qc.ca/en/kent-monk...

Kent Monkman History Is Painted by the Victors | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Discover Kent Monkman’s exhibition at the MMFA from September 27, 2025 to March 8, 2026. Book your tickets online, and save $2.

www.mbam.qc.ca

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not closely following all of the Bluesky moderation stuff closely, except that I thought the CEO doesn’t seem to hold themselves to a standard I would consider professional. But I am looking forward to @transrights.northsky.social being a place I can migrate to.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 7d

I wouldn't be shocked if RFK Jr. said we should replace water with Brawndo.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 7d

Watching Idiocracy again; I think President Camacho might be an improvement right now.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 7d

I'm gonna always deadname the Dept. of Defense.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 7d

Team Ta-Nehisi.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! Kids have lost a path to slowly-growing age-appropriate independence - being able to walk to the store alone, bike to the park alone, bike to friends' houses alone - during their ~~10-15 years - and we have just accepted the consequences of that on their mental health.

Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 8d

I hope that people will see Ezra Klein's endless apologia for his Kirk hagiography, his big tent to include MAGA stuff and understand that he's just as wrong about trans 'issues.' I hope people will see MAHA insanity and realize these are the same people fearmongering about gender-affirming care.

Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 8d

It should be a guiding principle for our urban design - can a 10 year old get to school without being chauffeured? Can an ~80 year old get to the grocery store by themselves (safely) ? This isn't just a big city problem; small towns have no sidewalks with massive school campuses outside of towns.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 8d

I fervently believe that the fact that children and elders lead lives of isolation in cities and towns (absent daily efforts of their caregivers to ferry them around) should make plain what a terrible job we've done with building cities over the last 70 years.

The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 8d

New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy."
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 8d

The Piss Police, the Genital Gendarmes, the Toilet Tactical Squad, the Shitter SWAT, the Crapper Cops

Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 19d

I made an alternative cover for JK Rowling's new book, The Toilet Constable.
Coming soon to a bad bookshop near you...

Print file can be downloaded from my website: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

Photo of a Robert Galbraith book with the title changed to The Toilet Constable, a policeman holds his hand out stopping a woman from entering a public toilet.

Back cover of the book. Text reads:
Praise for The Shite novels.
“The best book this year by the world-leading
expert in stranger’s genitals.” - Daily Telegraph
“Galbraith/Rowling lays out his/her dream society where not only toilets, but femininity itself is violently policed by both the state and concerned vigilantes.” - Sunday Times
“In an interesting narrative choice, our protagonist spends half the book crouched in a toilet cubicle waiting for a woman with short hair to yell at.” - New York Times
“Every page seethes with paranoid obsession.” - Financial Times
“In a shock twist ending the author Robert Galbraith
uses the wrong toilet and is punched in
the balls by a transphobe.” - Guardian

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

Oooooooo. Ordered!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9d

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

... are here, and render these markers useless for anything but categorizing people as gender conforming or non-conforming. 2/2

Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

It sounds like the standard is set by a rather arcane group called ICAO, which has considered removing markers before (in the early 2000s) but tabled it. Sex markers were not on passports until the 1970s, spurred by a reaction to the women's movement. While I'm concerned about biometrics, they.. 1/2

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

...marrying an embrace of the New Testament with an anti-billionaire message. He says it's not R-L, it's Top-Bottom. That conviction, that moral rectitude is how Dems win - not with EzraKleining. 10/10

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

... if we nominate another poll-floater, finger-to-the-wind staunchly for nothing Dem, it won't last long. Even if there are left-wing positions you disagree with, I think about @jamestalarico.bsky.social in Texas, who speaks from a place of deep moral conviction for Democratic values.. 9/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

But our country and system are deeply broken, with a sizable segment of the population that are off the deep end of the far right. Do we really think a Schumercrat is going to right the ship? Pack the court, end gerrymandering, end Citizens United, etc.? I am not threatening abstention, but... 8/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

Zorhan Mamdani is taking NYC by storm. But that's NYC, he's an outlier, etc. Always an excuse to keep the faith that compromising with MAGA is the road to victory. If we have elections, and Trump continues to destroy things, maybe a plastic Gavin could win as a better-than-apocalypse candidate. 7/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

A fervent belief that we must endlessly compromise values for polls in order to win is wrong, and yet treated as gospel. Ezra Klein is a current avatar of this kind of thinking. Where is the evidence that this is true? Dems in Congress are polling in the 20s. But we think the country wants that? 6/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

... talent like Obama (who ran much more L than he governed.) Dems' centrist platforms aren't electorally potent. Dems bemoan the loss of young men without reckoning with their characterizing young men as "Bernie Bros" in their (erroneous) conviction that white women would vote for H. Clinton. 5/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

.. Democrats run on something like "your subsidy will be increased by ~$374 per year," which is unintelligible. Are there not people nominally on the R and people who didn't vote who would support MfA? This is just one example of how tacking 'left' could win more voters. Absent a generational... 4/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

...we get a typical Dem 'win' - complicated, wonky, better-than-nothing. Is there real evidence that Medicare for All is only supported by the far left? Anecdotally, most people are pissed and disappointed with our healthcare system. That include providers and patients. (Insurers like it.) But... 3/

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.bsky.social · 9d

... to compromise to win. But what actual evidence is there for this? Consultants and pollsters seem to see everything linearly on a R-L spectrum; but people are more complicated than that. Consider Medicare for All. Dems have, since Bill Clinton, approached this in compromise. As a result.... 2/

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