Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is. 7431172
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Kriss Lowrance @krisslowrance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Yep. The goal of anti-porn laws isn't to stop people from seeing pornography. It's to create a class of speech that's legally suppressible, and then apply it to dissent. 101948723
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".bit.lyHeads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanityThe heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people. 194444199
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.texastribune.orgTexas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned. 722872702
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026Academia: a system that requires years of training to be eligible for basic, entry-level positions yet lacks the capacity to provide those positions to over 90% of the people whom it trains. 110930
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle. 92019709
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026this is something I've been wondering too. while I have no evidence of coordination, it's definitely suspicious that so many Dem candidates not only waited until after the primaries to come out with anti-trans positions, but all did so within a week of each other 321246315
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the last ten years or so have taught us that one of our major problems as a society is that we’re being run by perverts (derogatory) rather than perverts (complimentary) 2587115
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...juliaserano.medium.comOn Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Adsand more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses 231224515
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It feels like an especially awkward, weird, difficult time to be transitioning in rural-ish Texas. But still worth it. Come what may. 371
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026With James Talarico's most recent betrayal of trans people- saying he'd vote for a national ban on gender affirming surgeries for minors- it's prudent to remind an idiot electorate that almost all gender affirming surgeries performed on minors go to kids who aren't trans. 14112
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...bostonreview.netTrans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.” 10935302
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Can we talk about the enshittification of existence? 4455
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I still haven't gotten over the way fascism creates a moral inversion across broad swaths of public life where what was evil 5 years ago is now at least potentially good while what was agreed on as good is all but assumed to be evil. 14917185
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today marks my 6 month hrt-versary; so far, my brain is a much nicer place to be. 280
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/09/2026Heat. Kills. AC is not some kind of fancy luxury for rich people, it is a lifesaving health intervention. Heat is an especially big problem in low-quality housing (like...what poor people can afford) and for people who work outside and need to cool down at night to avoid things like kidney injury.npr.org'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homesHeat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers. 220389
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 433448715
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I had forgotten about this, but it made me smile this AM. youtu.be/pyeyqSFdMhg?...youtu.beRocky Horror Shop - Saturday Night LiveYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 010
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026so why does the White House want you* to take testosterone SO badly ... I wrote a story about this! *cis people only19thnews.orgIt’s a transformative moment for hormones. And kind of a weird one.Want to halt aging, stop divorce and increase national security? The Trump administration seems to believe hormones can do all of that. 16818
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?" 111095234
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 02/09/2026What do you do when you’re the Bulletproof Friend, but you need actual support from your people? I answer today’s Ask the Flytrap:theflytrapmedia.comAsk The Flytrap: Do I Need New Friends?I need real support from my people, not heart-emoji reactions. 14011
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So I just watched "Sheep Detectives" where Wolverine ValJean is a (very attractive) shepherd, who is murdered (gasp), and the sheep work together to solve the murder. And the sheep are voiced by a stellar voice cast. The imaginary friend from MoonBoy, Gandalf, Elaine, Hal from Malcom. all there&,&! 130
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)San Antonio Current @sacurrent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026An Abilene public school librarian has a message for the lieutenant governor and his book-banning crusade.sacurrent.comCome and take them, Dan PatrickTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is threatening to yank books from school libraries. This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a 1138
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Whenever I would get rickrolled I would make myself watch it all, because I had been naive instead of vigilant. And now I kinda enjoy it (?). I realized I hadn't been rickrolled in ages, kinda wistfully. I know i can just go to the video but it doesn't feel the same. It's a whole different song. 052
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Step One: Frogs Gay (CHECK!) Step Two: 0121
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026[apparates into your timeline] please note: there are zero (0.0) writing studies researchers involved in this [disappears in a puff of smoke] 112132
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Put on my cowgirl boots and gonna go out and make a toast to Dolly ✨️❤️ 040
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think trans people are a unique threat to a future that promises Whatever Lie You Want, because the first person we stop lying to is ourselves, and because the demand being made of us is "lie to everyone, forever, including yourself, about who you are, because we are uncomfortable." Fuck comfort. 174
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026this week has declared war on joy itself. Dolly Parton. Tim Curry. Plz stop. 030
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Mags Visaggio 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 26/08/2026gutted. i don't even know what to say. RHPS is so massively important to me, and the world without him feels wrong in a way i can't articulate.static.klipy.comRocky Horror: Even Smiling Makes My Face AcheALT: Rocky Horror: Even Smiling Makes My Face Ache 1516
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this. 109265714393
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Street art in her honor from SE Seattle 766891719
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Mags Visaggio 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 25/08/2026i have calendar openings for next week! help me take your comic writing to the next level. my clients have all come back for more. 01411
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.) 7400121
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7253894511287
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared. 158393158502
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton used her wealth - often without spotlight - to fund children's literacy efforts, give away millions of free books, fund the COVID vaccine and an entire children's hospital, secretly bankroll Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and support LGBTQ+ rights. The world is a dimmer place without her. 141359277
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Mags Visaggio 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 24/08/2026i survive or don't on my freelance income and we could REALLY use a new client booking today 17446
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Mags Visaggio 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 24/08/2026hire me to write comics i am really fuckin good at it 03710
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Really need to chat about Schoenbrun's #CampMiasma with other transfolx who have seen it. 🥺✨️ 161
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026i couldn’t start till i was 43, which was too late in the sense that i needed the access to these resources & possibilities decades before but they did not exist…& not too late because at last at last i could live my own life as my own person & there’s no wrong age for that. i’m 💚💚 for your joy! 123
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I didn't even know a person could actually like how they look and feel. I thought "feeling good in your body" meant like a baseline apathy at best--like numbness and distraction were the best case scenarios. But feeling good in your body can also mean actually enjoying being here. 1171
Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they) @adahubrig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Like feeling cute as heck this new semester ✨️🥰 (wore cardigan over this to teach but tx is a billion degrees rn so took it off after) 030
Reposted by Ada Hubrig 🏳️⚧️♿ (she/they)Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yep. I'm arguing in Nearly a Bleeping Book that "corporatization of higher ed" has some concrete consequences for how higher ed workers are managed (my version is of a piece with many others). This piece shows how beholden those mgrs are to people who pay them directly. They're not just sympatico. 072