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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 35m

we were making out and she shoved me into a door, my hand got trapped and scraped a fair amount of the skin off so now I have a scar and reduced sensation between two of my knuckles

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 5h

HEY DIPSHIT WHY CAN I GET A DESIGNER VAGINA UNDER SOCIALISM THEN

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 6h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5h

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 9h

Okay fine: many readers do not know how to read books

That's fine

many writers don't know how to write them either

They think it's just words

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 16h

Have you considered that I am not in fact american and I'd just rather not be so reliant on bluesky's US servers and whilst I may have the ability to run my own I don't particularly care to, so I may as well support some folks who seem to want to do a good thing?

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Mega Meg, The Bourgeois Transsexual @lotushomage.bsky.social · 2d

(Cw slurs) So I have recently begun deep diving into queer academia, and have been reading Trans*
A Quick and Quirky Account
of Gender Variability, by Jack Halberstam. I‘m a bit disappointed to read what I’ve found so far, but I did find some unintentional comedy!

He thinks RuPaul is trans.

Text defending the use of a slur (tr****) while calling RuPaul trans.

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 1d

They tried to use Christianity, but the church at large is having none of it. Two popes have embarrassed Vance, and the current one continues to.

It’s hard to whine about “religious freedom” when you’re pepper spraying clergy and denying communion to detained immigrants.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

While nobody should be calling themselves an ally, the first step to being a good ally is the willingness to make their own life worse to avoid contributing to oppression

Most self-proclaimed "trans allies" do not clear this bar

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 1d

‘Are you willing to state in an offhand manner that you support trans people?’

And

‘Are you willing to forsake a paying gig to support trans people?’

are two very different questions.

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Helena Athena Isabella @helabella.bsky.social · 1d

Add to that the fact they're not actually invested in our survival at all... Like, would it be nice if trans people had rights and were allowed to live in peace and happiness? Yeah, sure. But that's not important enough to them to actually do something about it.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

OKAY BRIEF ANNOYANCE TIME, BABA YAGA DOES NOT MEAN BOOGEYMAN SHE'S A FREAKY LIL WITCH IN HER CHICKEN LEG HUT

THE JOHN WICK FRANCHISE GOT IT MIXED UP Бабайка OR BABAYKA, WHO 𝘐𝘚 ACTUALLY THE BOOGEYMAN

RANT OVER

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Dark Reading @darkreading.bsky.social · 1d

Latest on @darkreading.bsky.social DR Technology: Financial, Other Industries Urged to Prepare for Quantum Computers https://zpr.io/L3Jx5HNQTg7u #DRTechnology #darkreading #cybersecurity

Financial, Other Industries Urged to Prepare for Quantum Computers

Despite daunting technical challenges, a quantum computer capable of breaking public-key encryption systems may only be a decade or two off.

zpr.io

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 1d

People keep inventing new backstories for Kirk when "he survived the space holodomor" is already the coolest origin story you can possibly imagine

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Porn addiction isn’t real
It’s just not
All of the ”science” about it comes from groups with religious ties, anti-sex worker ties, or grifting “therapists”

A compulsive relationship with porn is about the individual, not the porn

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 1d

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on bluesky as if it’s real LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 1d

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on Twitter as if it’s real lord give me strength

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

For the most part it's getting your data off US servers and a hope that the corporate structure and motives of the organisation are more inline with your own ideals (read: not transphobic or racist moderators)

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

That's why I blocked him

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 1d

Never underestimate a man's willingness to try to make his insecurities your problem.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

It's why I don't have sex with men lol

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

By all historical accounts he was an incredibly selfish two pump chump and that is definitely top behaviour

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 2d

How? Did he steal a heart from someone?

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently it's Coming Out day and I don't have much to say except: I'm gay as fuck and it's a good thing. May every queer person now and future know a world where they are loved and welcomed as they are.

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