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@aoifeforrester.bsky.social
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(she/her) I am an ace trans lesbian, who is pagan and a history nerd. I don't think I will be here a lot, but what I do share will hopefully be interesting and hopefully provide hope for a better world.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescent.net · 06/10/2026
boycott it so your trans friends don’t get a sick feeling in their stomach when they come over to your house for a party & see a stack of HP merch on your bookshelf, politely excuse themselves a bit early without saying anything, and then go home feeling just a little degraded
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Dani Ashe @technomancerwitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
[Technomancer_Witch is Live and Online] Halloween takes a Metroidvania turn with Ender Magnolia, a game about gothic lolita machines. Can't wait to see what it has in store for me ^.^ #stream #vtuber #halloween #metroidvania www.twitch.tv/technomancer...
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Technomancer_Witch - Twitch
A magitech Vtuber. Artificer3/Wizard4. Streams Mondays and Fridays (usually). Home of Megaman Monday! — Technomancer_Witch streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join the...
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Dani Ashe @technomancerwitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
[Technomancer_Witch is Live and Online] The hiatus is over, so Halloween starts NOW!!! and We're kickign it off right with some Dead Estate! Come hang! #stream #vtuber #halloween #deadestate www.twitch.tv/technomancer...
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Technomancer_Witch - Twitch
A magitech Vtuber. Artificer3/Wizard4. Streams Mondays and Fridays (usually). Home of Megaman Monday! — Technomancer_Witch streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join the...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 29/09/2026
Learn more about the TEKS revision process in the AHA’s field guide.
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Texas Social Studies TEKS Revision Field Guide - AHA
Support Honest History in Texas Public Schools One June 26, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) voted to adopt new social studies standards for grades K-8. During it's August 31-September 4 meet...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 29/09/2026
The AHA continues to advocate for strong history and social studies education standards in Texas. AHA senior program analyst Julia Brookins spoke with the Liberty Hill Independent and Austin Chronicle about the revised TEKS, which she said “lowers the rigor” of social studies courses. 🗃️
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Texas U.S. History Curriculum Will Only Mention Islam in Relation to Terrorism • The Austin Chronicle
SBOE approves controversial social studies standards for high schoolers
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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The Copycat Taphouse 🍻🦷 @copycat-taphouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ATTENTION COPYCAT TAPHOUSE GUESTS Tomorrow! Wednesday September 30th at 7pm EST! Will be the 1st anniversary of the Taphouse! We’re celebrating with some DND 5e! Join me and my friends @technomancerwitch.bsky.social @meviluxiamarvelous.bsky.social @samitaire.bsky.social and Izzy Bell
A digital drawing of Copycat Taphouse looming over a table with dice, miniatures that look like their friends, coins, and a mug of beer.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic-official.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To the confident, unshakeable, and radiant Amy Rose: Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Amy cake presented by Sonic the Hedgehog in The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Squeakuel
4 panel comic in which an offscreen chef tries to slip diarrhea into a customer's burger by adding it to various parts of the meal including the lettuce, the bun, the sesame seeds, and then the plate it's served on.  When questioned on this, the chef stoically responds, "Everyone is going to eat diarrhea in 10 years"
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026
guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”
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bocchi minh @kinseijoshi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lesbians have the best pre-game rituals for a successful nazi hunt
Panels from Comrade Girl, Shoot the Enemy. Soviet snipers Serafima and Charlotta share a kiss before going on an anti-Nazi sniper patrol. "Kill one a day. Two if we can manage!"
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They want your age data for targeted advertising, thats literally it. It was never about safety or kids
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean, the average cis person understands so little about their own biology or how hormones control the expression of the biology that they may as well be creationists. I think many genuinely have no idea what HRT does to a body at all.
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Sexy Devonian Stone @devonianstone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
as a cis person, i am upset at how true this is
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Diana Chan @thingsbydiana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Sharing one of my favorite trans creature designs~
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is the essence of a University experience. If we continue to degrade it with workplace skill, AI and employability & all the other shite, we’ll be undermining the key reason students register in the first place. ‘Come study Early Modern History and enjoy 6 hours a week of work place skills’.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 10/09/2026
When Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey came out this summer, many criticized its historical inaccuracies. In #AHAPerspectives, AHA president Suzanne Marchand recalls the same criticisms directed at an ancestral form of historical communication: history painting.
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On History Painting and the Movies – AHA
Long before historical films like The Odyssey entered the conversation, history painters were depicting the past for contemporary audiences.
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ read manuscripts ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔ 🗃️
A hand drawn early nineteenth century draft of a house
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another #OpenAccess article up on Early View. #Skystorians #GenderHistory
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm rightly seeing a lot of conversation about AI as we start this new academic year, so I'm going to keep re-upping my argument here. Rather than just playing defense, let's take this as a vital opportunity to make an affirmative argument for the humanities & higher ed. 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Berensreverie 🤒 @berensreverie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ChatGPT down yippee :3
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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026
Reposting this cause it keeps happening
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DocFantasyArt @docfantasy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Petra Parker x Gwen Stacy where theyre each MtF in both universes and finally get to meet the woman their friend never became. #PetraParker #GwenStacy #SpiderWoman
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There are graphs
4 frame comic. a street journalist asks someone with a light blue dress and a large purse :
miss! do you think gender
transition should be illegal
for kids, given how patients
are rushed into treatments
and how the vast majority
ends up detransitioning?

she replies, pulling a bunch of papers from her purse that she hands to the journalist:
I'm glad you asked! yet another
new massive study* just found
that out of 445 kids who were
referred to four different gender
clinics for gender dysphoria, only
2.9% didn't identify as trans or
non-binary five years later.
there are graphs!
a note below the frame gives the reference for the study : Metzger & al. stability of transgender identity in
adolescents seen in multidisciplinary specialized gender
centers. journal of adolescent health. august 2026.
she continues :
then out of the 353 who
started hormones (after an
average wait time of 2.4 years),
only 1.1% had stopped the treat-
ment five years later, which is
incredibly few. I hope that
info helps you!
but miss, do you think gender
transition should be illegal
for kids, given how this study
seems to suggest that it is so
addictive that kids who were
transed might feel trapped to
keep identifying as trans?
she replies, looking tired : stop making sh*t up.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Superman (2025) scene where he's losing his cool

Post from @pastapilled

It takes strength to be gentle and kind you stupid fucking idiot
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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MarcoMaps Bernardini @marcomaps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feral reminder to support the trans community. If you don't, fu*k off from there. You won't be missed, but you'll be ridiculed.
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Trans Transgender
Alt: Trans Transgender
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OPB @opb.org · 05/09/2026
Advocacy group Portland for Palestine plans to hold a rally at the Japanese American Historical Plaza at the Portland Waterfront on Saturday Sept. 5 at 1 p.m. to bring attention to Tareq Zakarneh’s case.
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Palestinian Portland-area resident faces deportation to West Bank amid escalating settler violence
A Saturday protest amplifies fears Portland resident Tareq Zakarneh will be persecuted by the Israeli military if deported to the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026
As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is excellent
stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the new Harry Potter show is becoming like AI to me, in that everyone keeps trying to trick me into resigning myself to its inevitability because they don’t want to let me opt out
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OmegaMagus - WIP arc @omegamagus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
him sounds different... #omart
4 panel comic. panel 1: my sona smiling as speech bubbles surround mt using she/her pronouns and words like "girl."
panel 2: a new, squiggly scraggly speech bubble with the word "him" in it pops in from the right that blows everything away.
panel 3: the speech bubble shrinks and flitters down. i catch it in my hands. it lands with a plop. text reads: "It wasn't even said with malice. but it... it suddenly sounded wrong?"
panel 4: a close up shot of the crunchy speech bubble in my hands. more text surrounding it reads: it feels like a shirt that i've outgrown. did i just never notice? because it's all i've ever worn?"
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 04/09/2026
As sanctions continue to shape international relations today, history can provide critical context. This AHA program, presented to elected officials and congressional staff on Capitol Hill in 2024, offers historical perspectives on the role and impact of sanctions. Watch the recording:
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AHA Congressional Briefing: Historical Perspectives on Sanctions
AHA Congressional Briefing | February 6, 2024 On February 6, 2024, the American Historical Association hosted a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on the role and impact of sanctions as an instrument of international relations. Pan...
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Fawnduu🐮🔜 Big Chillin @fawnduu.com · 01/09/2026
The USDA is trying to recind the Roadless Rule which currently protects 45 million acres of National Forests from logging and deforestation. We have until September 20th to comment and tell the USDA we don't want this! File your comment w/ link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
this takes an incredible amount of character, not just to give it up, but to admit all of this. This guy has more guts than any AI fuck by a mile, and maybe more than us too. People who've managed to escape AI usage are invaluable towards convincing others to do the same.
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LoooveThruuPooke🧡🎃 [commissions closed] @lovethrupoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Big girls also need to get carried piggyback sometimes <3 A delightful commission for @fionawh.im #squirrelgirl #spiderman #petraparker #marvel
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DigiDoggi @digidoggi.tv · 31/08/2026
while I was already planning on boycotting this game, this is important information for people who are still on the fence, and now upgrades this game to the category of 'I will explode you if you try to make me care about it, don't ever talk to me about this thing'
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reminder that the lies of white women have cost innocent Black and brown people everything. They are not bystanders in white supremacy, but active participants.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026
🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's easy
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
if you're Canadian, there is a petition active right now to have him removed and sent back to the US for signaling his obvious allegiances here. There's already a quarter million signatures. Get him out of our country, we don't have time for this bullshit rn www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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arnaerr 🦭⭑。 @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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