True Blue Spark
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True Blue Spark
@truebluespark.com
He/him. Creative mind in a tired body. Happily married to @Skyliting.bsky.social

Still upset about Bluesky bowing to the censors, but I'm not nuking my account here just yet. If I ever do vanish, you can find my other socials at truebluespark dot com.
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may every trans child grow into a trans adult
February 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is absolutely revolting. @ossoff.senate.gov , @warnock.senate.gov , how DARE you sell out my trans family and friends, and for what? An attempt to earn political points with scum who would never vote for you anyway? Consider me a vote for anyone who primaries you from here on.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I just want things to get better, for once

I am so fucking tired
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Breath of Fire IV is $4.99 on GOG (preservation program) buff.ly/wN4IYmv
December 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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People can't handle a trans person changing their name but they'll say "oh that group of people? Collectively they are known as Portugal. The Man. No that's all one sentence, the period is part of the name. Yeah I think they got it from whatever words were visible on the corner of a newspaper"
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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notice period
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"AI is just like calculators"

Show me a calculator sold with the warning "outputs may be incorrect. Please check answers before using"
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
/checks for my county and situation
/living wage is $20 higher than what I make

Yeah... Yeah, that tracks.
Related, here is the "Living Wage" for where I live in Ohio: How much you need to make on a yearly basis to be able to afford things like health care, child care and housing. Depending on circumstances, it can be $100K+, and I live in a "cheap" area in the US.

livingwage.mit.edu/counties/39037
Living Wage Calculator - Living Wage Calculation for Darke County, Ohio
livingwage.mit.edu
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Maybe it is the abuses that create division, not report of the abuse, not consequence for the abuse.

Maybe it is bullying that causes division, not fighting the bully on behalf of the bullied.

Maybe it is lies that cause division, not the telling of truths.

Maybe we need to change the frame.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We need to start to understand that “respecting people’s beliefs” means giving the people holding anti-society beliefs what they want, which is separation from society. Respect their agency that they want what they say they want. Give them credit for the natural logical effect of their belief.
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The Doctor is right and correct
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Is there anything more anticlimactic than Black Friday, a day that has been happening for weeks?
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It's not looking good for your girl. New nebuliser works great but my lungs are not responding well to the treatments or my rescue inhaler. If I am still wheezing hard after my next neb treatment, I am going to the ER. For which I have no health insurance. Nor income.

gofund.me/b025baa58
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gofund.me
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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UwU
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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one of the big lessons re conservatives and especially conservative christians is that they are more satisfied by being comparatively better off than others rather than being better off in absolute terms.

they’re perfectly happy to lose if you lose more.
There are a lot of conservstives screaming "THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS" as their lives get measurably worse.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."

Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM