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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

An American kestrel perches on an "IMPORTANT BIRD AREA" sign in the Montrose Beach Dunes.

An American kestrel, a type of falcon, sits on top of a sign that says: "chicago park district IMPORTANT BIRD AREA (IBA)."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

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Walty @waltometry.blacksky.app · 07/02/2026

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Northern lights visible from the Madison WI area.

Northern lights. Mostly pink with some green.

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Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We did trick or treating twice. My kiddo was getting very into it. 😂

An almost 2 year old dressed as yoshi walking in a determined manner down a sidewalk with a trick or treating bucket.

My wife dressed as a purple yoshi and me dressed in a hot sauce packet onsie holding my toddler who is dressed as a green yoshi. Holding a trick or treating black pumpkin bucket.

My kindergarten-age niece dressed as Gabby from
Gabbys Dollhouse and my toddler dressed as Pandy from Gabbys Dollhouse walking down the sidewalk hand in hand away from the camera. My toddler looking up at their cousin they appear to be talking to her. She’s holding two trick or treating buckets.

My kiddo dressed as yoshi with the yoshi head hood hanging on their back and a neighbor friend toddler dressed as princess peach. They’re facing away from the camera standing at a door they’re trick or treating at.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/09/2025

Union membership means higher wages, better benefits and a more secure retirement for America’s workers. If we are going to save the middle class, we have got to expand union organizing in this country.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Worst parenting advice I hear all the time: pick a method and then just stick with it no matter what. I hear it all the time. Why would you keep doing a strategy that’s not working? That’s not the same as holding a boundary.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Make trans people revered as holy again.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Last stop in Chicago was the Shedd Aquarium

Me and my 1 year old looking at penguins

Me, my wife, and our 1 year old in front of a fountain of a fish and a man.

My wife and my 1 year old playing at a water table.

1 year old staring at tropical fish in an aquarium

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Millennium Park with the little guy

Toddler walking in a garden with flowers. Skyscrapers in the background.

Toddler and auntie splashing in the reflecting pool at crown fountain. A 50 foot tall image of a mustachioed man behind them.

Toddler standing against a stone sign. You can see the word “promenade”

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Took the fam to see the straw hats and eat sushi at the All Blue

Me and my 1.5 year old posing with a Luffy statue

Me, my wife, and our 1.5 year old posing with a zoro statue

Me and my 1.5 year old sitting in a restaurant booth. The kid is eating fries and chicken nuggets.

My 1.5 year old sitting on a “dead of alive” wanted poster photo op.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Missing my dad today. He died last year. He was a proud Scotsman and an avid poker player. He loved nothing more than his kids and grandkids. A couple months ago I got this thistle bouquet tattoo in his memory.

Tattoo on the back of my upper arm of a bouquet of thistle tied together with tartan cloth.

Three people smiling outside. My father, my sister, and me.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Me and my 1 year old have been picketing with the striking nurses at Meriter a few times this week. Just driving around in the push car and honking. When nurses strike it’s to improve patient care and benefits the whole community.

Photo of a 1 year old in an SEIU purple shirt holding a sticker that says “I stand with the striking nurses” and riding in a blue push car.

A 1 year old riding in a blue push car on a picket line with striking SEIU Wisconsin nurses.

Flyer with info on meriter’s strike including a QR code to donate.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I imagine putting my child to bed hungry even once would break me. Meanwhile thousands of kids in Gaza are about to die of starvation. I don’t understand how those complicit can sleep at night. Donate and support families in Gaza and orgs working to get them aid.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Straight people use weaponized incompetence to avoid learning basic queer cultural competency all the time. Intelligent and successful professionals will be like “oh I’m just bad at using gender inclusive language”. No. You just don’t care and haven’t tried. Capability isn’t the problem.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We are very into dandelions right now. I feel like the vibes in this pic are incredible.

A 1 year old in a field of dandelions wearing a dinosaur shirt and floral SnapBack holding a dandelion.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A glimpse into the world of a now 16 month old. We are having a good time.

A 1 year old swinging in a bucket swing at a park and smiling with a little blonde mullet.

A 1 year old squatting down at a park to pick a dandelion.

A 1 year old in colorful marshmallow peep pajamas and wearing some kind of jigglypuff hat/scarf combo with a big smile.

A 1 year down standing in a driveway with their blue push car.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/04/2025

From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

Ultimately, Freeman’s column isn’t pitiful because it rubs salt in the wound—it’s pitiful because it lays bare the true aim of the anti-trans movement. This was never about policy or bathrooms or youth sports. It’s about a cohort of people who feel culture shifting beneath their feet, who were raised in a world where casual cruelty toward transgender people was normalized, and who now find themselves resentful that society has moved on. Rather than reflect or grow, they double down, demanding that their revulsion be seen as virtue—that their discomfort be not only accepted but celebrated. Freeman’s yearning for social validation, cloaked in the language of righteous indignation, reveals the movement’s hollow core. The title of her piece says it all: this isn’t about the law, it’s about the isolation that comes from being wrong. And no court decision—no matter how cruel—will win back the friendships lost to hate, or rescue those who chose the wrong side of history from the consequences of that choice.

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Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK
Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards.
Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'.
@fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Please don’t give JK Rowling money and support. She hates trans people so much.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Please go vote for Susan Crawford today if you live in Wisconsin!

Selfie of me, a 30s white man wearing an “I voted” sticker

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Last night my kid sat up in bed, eyes open three times and said “dooooo” loudly. I put a paci in their mouth and pushed them back onto the bed and they immediately fell back asleep. What are 1 year olds? 🤷‍♂️

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Had a blast in the Dells. So fun to be there with my wife, sisters, 5 year old niece, and our 1 year old. Packed a lot of fun into a long weekend. 😊

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Probably just going to keep posting selfies of me and my bestie

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Cutest loan shark I’ve ever had sent to rough me up.

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My favorite advice we heard and used our first year with a kid 1. Don’t make a happy baby happier. If they’re playing independently, let them play. 2. Is it unsafe or just inconvenient? So they’re getting into stuff and you’ll have to reorganize or change their clothes? That’s fine

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Alex Kestrel @bestboykestrel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Cis folks: please set the goal of doing something that benefits trans people this week. Donate to a trans mutual aid fund or the ACLU. Check on your trans friends, buy them a meal, drop off a casserole. Hire a trans person, commission an artist. Get an HRT script and make a stockpile.

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“The Boss Monster” Noah Waterman @bossmonsterkaiju.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🚀 Indie game dev @iznaut.com joins My Guest Tonight to talk about how Gex & a "Little Game Called Mario" shaped her career! Watch now! 🎮🔥 youtu.be/e9o3ghCvcoo

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

When you treat your country like a business and you elect business men to run it, it shouldn’t be surprising that they are treating a change in power as if they have just purchased a business that they will now run, including eliminating the existing workforce & structures to bring in their own.

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 25/01/2025

i get reminded of this once in a few months and die

MANKIND IS DEAD
BLOOD IS FUEL
HELL IS FULL
BABA IS YOU

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