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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hey everyone, just a reminder:

A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Jun 24

Why we need to question the salaries of university VCs

www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

Why we need to question the salaries of university VCs - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

For a healthy society and trust in the university sector, the senior management takeover of universities can’t be allowed to continue.

www.indailysa.com.au

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Pedagogy, Culture & Society @pedagogycultsoc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Introducing 'sane-heteroprofessionalism': A critical lens on how professionalism in higher education marginalises queer, trans & m/Mad subjectivities. 🎓🌈

🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681366.2024.2418096

Feel free to share!

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · Jun 19

Read that Bluesky has banned J D Vance. His account lasted about 15 minutes.

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Jun 18

Why we need to question the salaries of university VCs

www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

Why we need to question the salaries of university VCs - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

For a healthy society and trust in the university sector, the senior management takeover of universities can’t be allowed to continue.

www.indailysa.com.au

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Jun 11

reclaiming urban areas for parrots seems worthwhile too though

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 11

The last thing I saw as I was leaving was this person in a parrot costume leading a “Who’s streets? Our streets!” chant. Stay weird, Chicago. ❤️

A person in a parrot costume at a protest

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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Lord of the Rings films are older than ICE.

The Matrix is older than ICE.

Legally Blonde is older than ICE.

We're not talking about a venerable American institution. We're talking about post-9/11 Patriot Act overreach.

Claw that power back. Destroy ICE.

Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · Jun 9

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment.

Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

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Joanna Blackhart [They/Them] @joannablackhart.com · Jun 10

Continual reminder that nobody should fucking use genAI because it is a tool of the oppressor.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 10

“The unreliability of chatbots is adding to the already saturated disinformation landscape on social media now so typical of major breaking news events.”

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse

Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what’s real and what’s not—and getting inaccurate information.

www.wired.com

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Jun 6

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... Even if you don't need public psychology yourself, you don't want people like me going untreated...trust me you don't want that!

Save SA Public Sector Psychology

Public psychologists provide specialist assessment and treatment to people across the lifespan. We are essential for: 1. learning assessments, determining special school placements, behavioural consul...

www.megaphone.org.au

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · May 21

Carol

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · May 21

I had no idea who she was so I googled. She's a CEO so that explains why she doesn't know anything but still expects to be listened to

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · May 21

This assumes that trans women are the only trans folk for a start. That's a pretty big error. It's also simply not true for any of the trans women in my close circles.

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · May 21

Well WTF is the point of society then? If not that then it really is good for nothing

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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · May 16

Be warned Australia

erinmargrethe @erinmargrethe.bsky.social · May 16

Met my first Australian today who got yoinked by US immigration for no good reason. Chucked in a plexiglass cell for the crime of transiting via LAX from Canada. No reason given and allowed to carry on back to Melbourne. She said “never again”, rightly so.

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · May 17

History learning should not be about learning to idolise violent colonists! The chance to tell the truth about heroes blog.aare.edu.au/the-chance-t...

The chance to tell the truth about heroes

The study of history in schools has, Despite efforts by historians and history teachers to shift the methodology to include the stories of people long marginalised, it has always been broadly accepted...

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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · May 9

#auspol #taxgasexports

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · May 9

"Dutton went to the election saying, we don't have a shortage of gas, we're just exporting too much, why don't we tax gas exports. I couldn't agree more."

"Imagine if Labor were to tax gas exports & spend tens of billions on improving health & education."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social on ABC #auspol

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Nanna Jac @jande53.bsky.social · May 8

Disgraceful. LNP .

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Apr 28

Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on teaching blog.aare.edu.au/just-because...

Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on teaching

Reinstate trust in the teaching profession. That might just be the perfect place to start in fixing the teacher shortage.

blog.aare.edu.au

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Apr 18

There is actually a line in the sand. You are not a feminist if you are transpobic because look who you are allying yourself with!

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Hyena in a Petticoat (They/Them) @stefr.bsky.social · Apr 18

The thing about trans people, is no matter what bullshit lobby groups dream up we still exist. We have always existed. We will always exist. So grow up and stop trying to make laws against shit you don't control 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · Apr 16

Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Trans adults and kids deserve to be protected and supported however we can.

Rowling fucking sucks and is also fucking racist y'all.

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · Apr 12

Mollycoddled white libs in the minority white people world like Cathy simply cannot understand that white people like them are not the centre of the universe

Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · Apr 12

He tells her that the US is not the totality of the world, she refuses to understand and claims that it’s 15% of China’s trade. The way he delivers the next line is so sublime…

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