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she/her. adult. (goes by celaenos on some other places on the internet). linktr.ee/banrions

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think more cis people need to understand it's a battle field out there not a debating class. Their ideals are going to come face to face with the horrible reality of organised hate.
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emily @banrions.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The way that I detest this man is unparalleled
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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 25/08/2026
It was just thinking about how many books she gave away for free, and now how the tech oligarchs are destroying books not just for financial gain, but to ruin the way we interact with words forever.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Patrick Kenedy @radey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Indeed. Well said.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 25/08/2026
Dems should introduce the Dolly Parton Memorial Act, making the right to do drag a federal law
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people are so universally beloved that I think we shouldn’t be told when they die. Let us figure it out eventually but never receive confirmation. We should always be able to idly speculate that somehow there’s a chance they *could* still be alive
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/08/2026
the single most serious sign of a culture's poverty is when it starts demanding the abolition of innocence. children should be allowed to be loud and annoying, teenagers should be allowed to be messy and stupid, early transition should give people room to be cringe rather than serious and jaded
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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found.

Viñeta de Tintin
El capitán Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "¡Menuda semana, ¿eh?".
Tintín, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitán, es miércoles".
A la izquierda, Milú mira muy contento la bebida que está en la mesa.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/07/2026
There are no trans athletes at a serious competitive level anywhere in the US. Bans from sporting bodies apply now to amateur and recreational leagues so trans athletes are banned from those too. So what is there even to supposedly protest? Y'all won and still can't shut up about it.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Predictive data has been a thing for years in specific targeted areas. It's the broadstroke application that's eradicating humans and water that I take offense at.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
@olalonde.bsky.social

AI cures cancer.

Bluesky: actualky the AI didn't really cure cancer. Just predicted the next most likely word in a loop until a solution to cancer was extruded
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The people glomming onto the anti-trans campaigns either already know this—many of them do—or are incredibly gullible and ignorant. We should not let people who are incredibly ignorant and gullible direct our principles.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have no patience for the argument that anti-trans bigots care about protecting women and girls and women’s and girls’ sports. The conservative agenda is to destroy our autonomy and our equal opportunities. This is not a secret. It is the entire point.
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emily @banrions.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The air and sky outside are fucking apocalyptic looking. I am so sick of this shit every summer.
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Bob Wheeler @rmwkenpo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’ve lived in Central NY/Hudson Valley my entire life and until a few years ago we never had these air quality issues due to wildfires in Canada. How we aren’t collaborating with Canada and treating this as a huge warning sign of the climate emergency just blows my mind.
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Author Rachel Spangler @rachelspangler.rachelspangler.com · 30/06/2026
All the children are our children.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/06/2026
It's getting hot out there So put on all your clothes. No seriously. Protect yourself from skin cancer. Take a layered approach to sun protection: 🏖️ shade 👚 clothing 👒hat 🕶️ sunglasses 🧴sunscreen learn more👉 www.cdc.gov/skin-cancer/...
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Sun Safety Facts
Ways to protect your skin from the sun.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans beloveds, take some time off the internet if you need to. Clarence Thomas is a piece of shit sexual harasser with literally no good opinions. You are better than him in every way that counts.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2026
It's going to end up being a surveillance state that requires severe privacy risks for girls to participate in sports going forward including invasive genetic testing and physical examinations.
A pressing question now is how sports officials will determine if competitors are girls and women, as defined by the opinion. While gender verification testing — a long-vilified and intrusive practice — has resumed at the Olympic level, how will grade schools, middle schools and high schools conduct those tests? And will everyone be tested, or just the athletes who draw suspicion?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Conservatives used to remind us every 20 minutes that Reagan never took off his jacket in the Oval Office because he had so much reverence for the White House.
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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I do think the continual desecration of our public monuments and the use of our public spaces for private gain, (not to mention the lingering trauma of the assault on our democracy Jan 6 2021,) is a serious public harm that has to be reckoned with.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
started >>> going
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
a lot of people in my mentions being like "this is just how politics works," i'm not an activist so i don't care but as someone who follows this stuff it is just a real baromoter of how badly people misunderstand what trans healthcare actually entails
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/06/2026
Why is it any of Talarico's business in the first place? The government shouldn't be involved in the healthcare decisions of families.
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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @truthaddictvt@masto.ai @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Already seeing cis "allies" saying "well it doesn't exist, so what harm does it do to say he's against it", like it doesn't show weakness and cede to Republican framing on the issue. Like we didn't see the GOP employ the exact same tactics on abortion, which Dems likewise ran from
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I think it should be between families and their doctors but surgery itself is exceptionally rare: Out of 121,000 US youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria in a five year period, just 0.6% received surgical care (per a Reuters analysis of EHRs). Just 14% received any medical treatment at all.
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Libraries also show that it's possible to organize and credit the production of knowledge without reducing credit to ownership. Cataloging, citation, preservation, and circulation all make research more available as a public resource, not more exclusive as private property.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The data centers that your phone needs to run and the hyperscale facilities they're building to push AI down our throats are not at all comparable things. Spanberger knows this. And instead of standing with the public and fighting back, she's trying to shill for the AI technofash.
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm really struggling to understand how an alleged attempted assassination of Trump at a DC hotel translates into a need for a billion dollars of upgraded security at the White House.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
WIC used to have bipartisan support because even Republicans said "Well of course we want to make sure pregnant women and babies have enough to eat, we're not monsters," but now they say "Screw those freeloading babies, we've got a gold-plated ballroom to build"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/05/2026
incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage
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Hold My PomPoms Bitches @desertlove.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Sharing this information with every single educator I know. We can't just go on about our days blissfully unaware that this is happening. This effects our entire future.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14/05/2026
RFK Jr. did HWAT kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
So there Kennedy was in early May, crisscrossing a strip of northern Ohio that includes one of the few congressional districts that Republicans are confident they can flip in November, rotating through a wardrobe of blue suits and blue jeans.

He inspected the kitchen of a Toledo daycare center, where hundreds of the city’s tiniest residents learn and play through the federally funded Head Start program. Under the careful watch of a surgeon, and with the machine disconnected, Kennedy briefly tested the teaching console of the renowned Cleveland Clinic’s robotic hands with a live patient splayed open for heart surgery in the room. And he munched on pesticide-free squash blossoms from a 400-acre farm.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised? Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/04/2026
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Same vibe. #RFKJr #AOC
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Malachite Tigerbunny @malachitetiger.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
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The Ratchet
In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...
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