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Autumn @aquatic.org · 20/04/2025

Add the Equality Act.

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 10/04/2025

📣 The UUA has issued a powerful response to the recent anti-trans presidential proclamation. Trans people are sacred. Trans youth deserve safety, love, and affirmation—not hate. 💬 Read the full statement: www.uua.org/pressroom/pr... #UU #UnitarianUniversalist #Transrights #belovedcommunity

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Michigan Library Association @milibraries.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What is at stake if IMLS is defunded and dismantled from a Michigan perspective? 1/xx

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 12/03/2025

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." — July 4, 1776

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 05/03/2025

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I just voted against them too.

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 14/02/2025

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security: Red Flag Alert for the Anti-Trans Agenda of the Trump Administration in the United States. www.lemkininstitute.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 14/02/2025

I first read "give him a staff" as in a wizard's staff. Now I'm picturing Buttigieg standing on the capitol steps in a heavy cloak and long beard, shouting "you shall not pass!" at the fash.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 11/02/2025

Ferndale Pride just stood on principles and rejected a sponsorship from Corewell Health because they cut access to gender-affirming care. Support is way down this year, so please join me in becoming a sponsor or donating. 🏳️‍⚧️ pridesource.com/article/fern... ferndalepride.com/sponsors/202...

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Ferndale Pride Cuts Ties with Corewell Health Over Trans Care Limits, Rejects Sponsorship for Annual Fest

Ferndale Pride has rejected and returned sponsorship funding from Corewell Health, citing the healthcare system's recent decision to limit gender-affirming

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 11/02/2025

I think I'm going to take the money I saved by cancelling Amazon Prime and put it toward a Rainbow Sponsorship for Ferndale Pride instead.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 11/02/2025

Wow. I was listening to an ATIS literally last night and when I heard the "notice to air missions" section, I just *knew* they were going to be petty enough to change that back at some point. Sure as shit, here we go...

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Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you are seeking healthcare, please continue to do so. If you are providing healthcare in compliance with Michigan law, continue to do so. m.youtube.com/shorts/X6IBy...

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AG Nessel Issues Guidance to Michigan Healthcare Providers and Patients

YouTube video by Michigan Attorney General

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 06/02/2025

I didn't modify my keyboard layout, but I've been using a program called WinCompose. In its default setup, tapping right-alt and then three hyphens --- gives you a nice em dash — among lots of other easy-to-remember sequences for things like degrees ° and accented characters á and such.

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JEFF @jeffisrael.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

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selfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I just sent this post by @stacybias.bsky.social to my therapist in preparation for therapy tonight in case anyone else needs it #AuDHD

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Check in on your queer friends with ADHD/AuDHD right now cuz their Justice Sensitivity combined with their Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria means that they are both acutely aware of how f*cked up things are *and* also feel personally responsible for fixing it *while* dealing with the helplessness inherent in the reality that individual action is not gonna do it this time. This means that their brains/bodies are going into overdrive and also that they are feeling guilty for any kind of self-care or joy in their lives because their brain weasels are telling them that resting or being happy while others cannot/are not is selfish. It's an exhausting state and we're not OK.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 01/02/2025

That "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 01/02/2025

"The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." — John Gilmore, 1993

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 31/01/2025

I'm operating on the assumption that the Internet Archive itself won't be available in the long term. It's too much a single point of failure — and thus an obvious target — for so much of our history. If there's anything there you consider precious or irreplaceable, download your own copy now.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

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Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you don't have many transgender people in your life, you might be aware generally of the anti-trans bigotry coming from the Trump administration, but not aware of the extreme details and the immediate danger. Good sources to follow include @erininthemorning.com and @assignedmedia.org. (1/3)

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Emily K @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

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💀👻🎃🦇MOSS 666🦇🎃👻💀 @studio8502.ca · 23/01/2025

When they make you a criminal just for existing as yourself, then the entirety of the law no longer has any claim on your obedience. You are then bound only by your own conscience.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 21/01/2025

I noticed. It was stunning how fast the state department was turning those passport applications around.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 21/01/2025

I've been feeling this a lot lately as someone who helped build an early dialup ISP in the 90s. It seemed like connection across divides was going to lead to so much good change. The global village and all that. But now look at us. This was my "farewell" video on TikTok to that same effect.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 08/01/2025

Bluesky doesn't support audio files, and video files are limited to 60 seconds. Guess I'll just keep posting my music over on Mastodon. I love making music but rarely find time to turn little sketches into something finished. Here's last night's bit of synthiness anyway: tech.lgbt/@autumn/1137...

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 26/12/2024

Thank so much, Terry. Hope you've been having a magical holiday time. ❄️

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 26/12/2024

Oh, bummer. I have fun memories of playing in the Huskies pep band at the GLI at the Joe. Please tell me MTU is at least still part of the tournament?

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 22/12/2024

It's been a rough stretch and I'm trying not to be too hard on myself for struggling to keep up with everything. But the youngest kiddo and I just made the most charlie-browniest yule log out of extra campfire wood and a bunch of birthday candles... and that feels like so much more than enough. 🕯️

Yule log with the first of twelve candles lit for winter solstice.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 17/12/2024

Listening to a friendly debate between the armchair quarterbacks at the bar: "I've been watching football longer than you've been alive."

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 08/12/2024

It very much was a "you had to be there at the right time" thing, for sure. There were some odd allocations from those days... didn't Mercedes Benz get an /8 as well?

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 07/12/2024

I'm at an event on a university campus today and was surprised to see that my laptop got an honest-to-goodness public IPv4 address on the guest wifi (from a /14 block, no less). Haven't seen that in a while!

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 06/12/2024

I'm so excited for you! Welcome to Michigan.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 04/12/2024

Today seemed like an appropriate day to renew my ACLU membership and send in a donation. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 03/12/2024

The Detroit Public Library is such an amazingly beautiful and reverent place. "Knowledge is Power", indeed. Michigan folks — if you already have a library card in your home city, show it at the DPL circulation desk and they'll give you a Detroit library card for free.

Woodward Avenue entrance of the Detroit Library main branch. Beautiful old architecture with the words "Knowledge is Power" carved above the door.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 01/12/2024

It may not be the worst horror contained within, but I do shudder at the idea of parents electing school principals.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 27/11/2024

This has been a really difficult month for a number of reasons, and I'm finding that at least right now I'm having a hard time focusing while working alone at home. So today I rode my bike to the library and am working from one of the study rooms. Libraries coming in clutch once again... 💚

A Thinkpad laptop and external monitor on a desk in a library study room with shelves of books visible through the glass wall.

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Maryann Batlle @maryannbatlle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The Pink Haven Coalition is dedicated to helping permanently or temporarily relocate trans folks so they can access gender-affirming care or other support. www.uuworld.org/articles/rel... For how to donate, check www.pinkhaven.org.

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Pink Haven Coalition Helps Transgender People Relocate and Access Gender-Affirming Care

Progressive faith groups are partnering with frontline organizers to offer gender-expansive people resources that can help with making a move, either permanent or temporary.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 24/11/2024

I put a hold on this one yesterday when I found it while looking for one of your other suggestions. There are 23 people ahead of me in line for it, but it will show up someday. :)

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 24/11/2024

Hey, I'm all three of those things! 👋

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 23/11/2024

Thank you so much! Checking my library catalogs now.

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Autumn @aquatic.org · 23/11/2024

I would love to find a book that spells out a clear vision of what "what we were working towards" really means and imagines what our country could look like if those ideals were fully realized. Do any of you book lovers out there have a recommendation?

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