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Aris Merquoni

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Politely promoting the practice of pornography. Professional shipper do not attempt at home. She/her, White, cis. Trans rights. Shares Indigenous news/content, Black content, and Trans content, especially art and writing, to spread perspectives and joy.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 23/09/2026
It's official! We're raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation at #AGDQ2027!! Their mission is to empower people to stay ahead of cancer through prevention and early detection and we're excited to be supporting them once again 💚 Don't forget we have a ton of registrations opening tomorrow!
two representative sit behind a green Prevent Cancer Foundation table with branded goodies and informational materials at a GDQ event announcement for AGDQ 2027 submissions and registrations opening on September 23rd 

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Opens at 12 PM ET
Volunteer Applications
Game Submissions 
Vendor Alley Submissions

Opens at 3 PM ETRegistration
Hotel Block
The Yetee Attendee Shirt Pre-orders
ESA tournaments
Cosplay Contest Submissions
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From @allrisenews.com. Whenever anyone asks a Democrat about a twitch streamer, they should counter with this, which is only one among several dangers to children that Elon has introduced to this world.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True in many such spaces See the recent ODYSSEY arguments for a similar context collapse!
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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For my fellow typophiles
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ah shit it's beautiful
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Labor Day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid jobs you've had? I actually haven't had that many. QA (data entry), dance TA, rec center receptionist, Nuclear Reactor associate director, QA (chemical), grad student. You would assume the reactor was the weirdest one but enh...
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“With cigarettes, my wife and I, we made a deal. We only smoke after sex. I've got the same pack now since 1975. What bothers me is my wife. She's up to three packs a day.” The late great RODNEY DANGERFIELD on The Tonight Show.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026
Still cracking up over the idea of a movie asking "What if Scrooge had a point," because A) he didn't and B) it's not as if we haven't already had the entire run of DuckTales to explore this question
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Princess Flannel @flannel.live · 01/09/2026
So those of you who wanted to know why I was so mad a few weeks ago? Here you go. The IFPA has banned a trans women from their tournament for speaking up too loudly and for protesting. Read this entire statement, please.
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Yseult Ceirw 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @yseult.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.tomshardware.com/software/lin... THE CENTURY OF THE LINUX DESKTOP THE OS OF CHOICE FOR ADULTS THAT WANT TECH COMPANIES TO LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE
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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live Neil Diamond Mary-Chapin Carpenter Sarah Brightman Billy Joel Ray Charles The Decemberists Storm Large The Waybacks Great Big Sea Pink Martini I find this list equal parts hilarious and telling. It's not a great sample in some ways.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/08/2026
THIS IS HOW YOU KNOW YOU MADE A GREAT POLL
first two replies:

"Rover always wins"

"Mary always wins"

they are not replies to each other, they came in simultaneously
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/08/2026
Who wins in a fight
Rover, from The PrisonerMary Poppins
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
fwiw, one reason young people are more attracted to egalitarian philosophies is that no young person is actually rich. children don't own any property in their own name. this is not just a tecnicality; it's a material reality that has realy material consequences. 1
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Noah's thread (read all of it, it's good) touches on a thread of mine from 13 months ago. One of the odd things about patriarchies is that they continually repeat intergenerational conflict, and reactionary moral panics are a recurring tactic in these wars. So let's revisit my old thread....
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Dangit tagged the wrong @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social !
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thread. There is no reason to fear trans women participating in sport, even if they are all on the taller/stronger end there is always going to be someone stronger or taller than you in sports. Better to have inclusion!
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Heck yeah, Real Hero Shit delivery day! @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social @kendrawrites.com
A copy of Kendra Wells' "Real Hero Shit" volume 2: Harder Than It Looks. The cover is a red field with four wanted posters for our heroes arranged in an even grid, with the words of the title picked out in spot gloss, one to a character.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express
All the Star Trek characters played by Jeffrey Combs
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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Initial conditions: m1=52.9 m2=46.1 m3=13.5 (solar masses) v1x=4.41 v1y=6.356 v2x=-4.666 v2y=3.806 v3x=2.532 v3y=-2.528 (km/s) x1=8.0 y1=-16.0 x2=26.0 y2=5.0 x3=5.0 y3=30.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor – Rachmaninoff
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Chaos @shed.gay · 22/08/2026
This has been on of those posts which has lived in my head rent free to the point that when I DJ'd last month I made sure to reference it, I'm not sure if anyone at #EMFcamp got the joke or not but it was for me so that's not the point.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 28/08/2026
i consider lying to get this vaccine more morally correct than telling the truth and not getting this vaccine. that is my opinion as a minister. they almost certainly will not ask though
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶
A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/08/2026
Hey, did you know I wrote a book all about grief in contemporary American culture, including an exploration of how we react to very public deaths? Might be a good time to pick up a (print/ebook/audio) copy or get from the library!
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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 27/08/2026
We stand by and reiterate our call to boycott the New York Times. Their role in enabling trans genocide is immense, and we cannot stand by idly. Additionally, we stand with those before us who have called to boycott the Times over their complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Boycott and Divest NYT!
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Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
MY NEW RELEASE IS HERE! My new lesbian romance light novel "Love in Silent Space" is out now! Join Lucille and Tee as they try to navigate the crippling feeling of being alone and trying to connect with the only person who can help you, but communication is nearly impossible
lizstar.itch.io
Love in Silent Space by Lizstar
Two strangers find each other in an empty universe. Can they learn to communicate and understand each other?
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey smiley strange You're looking happily deranged
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Share a TV show you love with a catchy theme song/intro. 📺🎶 My pick: The Adventures of Pete and Pete
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Pete Pete & Pete
Alt: The opening of the credits for the 90s Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete: closeup of an electric guitar strumming, a push mower running over a fall lawn strewn with leaves, and Little Pete leaning out the car window with his tongue out like a dog.
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Share a TV show you love with a catchy theme song/intro. 📺🎶 My pick: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
$2700 AWAY, now!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Last reposts: Honestly the problem of genre goes deep. IMHO a genre is a way of talking about what books are in conversation with each other. That's one reason the linked essay talks about M/M romance and gay romance and queer romance as being overlapping circles.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
there is a terrific essay on m/m romance called “The Shoulder Check Problem” by @nathanburgoine.bsky.social which examines tropes which pull queer readers out of books that weren’t written by or for us, of which a big one is “Happy Ending Requires Queer Protagonist To Reconcile With Bigoted Family”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t... I’m genuinely never not thinking about this, and all the little ways a queer reader can spot when a book isn’t written by us or for us, as well as the frustration when cishet readers object to being “taken out of the fantasy” by reminders of queer reality
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The Shoulder Check Problem
Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.
data4democracy.substack.com
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is something where the initial story--small time queer feminist academic getting ripped off--really turned out to be mostly miscommunication. And a flawed idea of what goes into adaptation.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Use this link to website: johnniejaedesigns.store/product/2951... Johnnie Jae is so talented! Please support her work by purchasing a t-shirt or other item.
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Accessibility is Traditional
Accessibility is tradition. We have always had a responsibility to take care of one another and provide for each other. Accessibility is a basic human right...
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Booberry Cereal @bonklechicken.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My stupid contribution to Petra Parker #spiderman #trans
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It has always been clear that most "gender-critical" proposals only work in the context of a society that has completely purged trans people from public life; the only distinction is between those who understand what they were demanding and those who successfully lied to themselves.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ayyy, it's another example of "petty people who want to be correct more than they want to help"
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'm not going to tag Ursula in this (though she's welcome to reply) because my thread isn't going to be about the Astarion book or if BG3 is a "horny" game or any of that nonsense. Instead, this is about the online demands for the perfect rape victim in fiction. (thread)
Just chiming in on this. Astarion is very much loved by people bc of this trauma and SA survival. Reducing the audience to just horny poeple and its a horny game comes across as a bit disrespectful. Why did you make it smutty during a time when he was gtting SD'd like A LOT?

Ursula: the book also covers large chunks of his youth.

reply: while you ask us to give the book a chance, some current reviews raise concerns about asterion being out of character, esp the choice to give him intimate moments during a period when he's heavily affected by SA. I'd genuinely like to understand why.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2026
if I never run for office nobody will ever find my fanfiction dot net account
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Grimace in sunglasses looking cool as the other side of the pillow is poised at the open door of what looks like a corvette-like kit car. Xe(Grimace is non binary) has a full purple shake that rests on the roof of the sports car. There is a purple gel over the image. A low mist clings to the ground. Is this a dream? Or has this mythical badass been conjured? The song “I need a hero” is most likely blazing on xir am/fm radio.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Queer werewolf comics day! @kelmcdonald.bsky.social
A black bookbag with a lunar art deco motif and "Queer Werewolves is a pretty exclusive club" in teal printThe black bookbag from the previous photo, now with two sketched bookplates and copies of two graphic novels by Kel McDonald on top. Murky Water shows a woman in uniform and tie floating in a deep pool, a shadowed figure leaning over the water above her. Shards of Reflection shows a woman lying doll-like in a heap of blossoms, mouth dripping blood, the entire scene cracked like a bloody mirror.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Same as it ever was
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