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The centre of what, a Nazi crime denialism scandal?

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 1h

He didn’t make the alignment chart tbf, he’s reacting to it putting him with JKR, Joe Rogan, and Bari Weiss in the ‘centre’

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12h

Rowling is funding a state crackdown on trans people and she’s in the centre? How genocidal do you need to be to be considered right wing?

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You would think they would learn something eventually :’)

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Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another banger📢 This one has given me a little bit of Schadenfreude, ngl. For white supremacists, white poor people are a failure. In their stupid, melted, rotten minds, people of colour and women are naturally inferior, so poor white men have no excuse. That ad was true to their rotten truth.

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Naska20 @naska17.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Her doctorate makes her the most qualified to dissect fragile fossils like Matt Walsh 🗣️🔥

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Jon "J Onwuka" Wuka @nearzone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mask just fully off from these freaks isn't it. And they are too stupid to not play along. They could just let the Republicans do it so they seem a little more evenhanded for 1 second but no. And if the Republicans didn't feel they needed to soften the message, they wouldn't.

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This month, the republican party released an ad featuring a white male gamer 'welfare queen'. The most unwashed conservatives on the internet are demanding only black women be portrayed in this dehumanising role. Let's talk about this racist myth and the outrage from freaks like Asmongold

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The Conservative Outrage Over White 'Welfare Queen' Ads

YouTube video by Brigitte Empire

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s a good day to read Reform or Revolution

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you! My roots are so grown out but it works with the black and gold 😌

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But at what cost? (The cost is >£50 😭)

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagine a second cosplay that somehow shows even more boob than the last one

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Really want to justify getting an Emma Frost cosplay for Halloween but it’s like minimum 50 quid 🥲

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Should I have sent a picture of food with this? 😅

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s not a failure yet but he already approached me on the street with headphones on, and he was lamenting that he wanted to hang out but I ‘had to go home I guess’ which isn’t like worst thing you could say but I talked to him for like a minute and I wasn’t about to walk off with a stranger 🫠

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He’s already on thin ice, never mind lol

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

35 next week and genuinely looked older when I was 25

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh no he asked me and texted me first, men are just scary haha

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Prog update: Gave a guy my number tonight, I might King Princess myself

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Talis Adler @talistheintrovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW!! ft. an interview with the lovely Tom Mayo from @shootimpro.bsky.social youtu.be/WG-FCq1Fhi4

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what does "there's no platonic explanation for this" even mean???

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did the political quiz and it basically called me the one friend who's too woke

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

first two times I tried it made me wanna kms, now I'm stable, not doing a phd, and on ADHD meds, I took it again and It's like I've levelled up 100x - mood, sleep, feeling more present in my body, sex drive actually exists now, boobs also growing again which I don’t need haha

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if Netanyahu or Trump shuffle off this mortal coil on my birthday I will thank you personally 😘

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s my birthday month ✨weirdly happy to be turning 35 in a week If you wanna send me a lil gift: ko-fi.com/brigitteempire

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been on HRT for a decade but this year is the first time I've been on progesterone for more than a couple weeks, and I've gone from being sceptical of it doing anything for me to being the number one prog evangelist, how did I survive without it? This shit rips

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly I'm still peeling back layers of shame and internalised homophobia I didn't know I had, done a lot more overtly girly things recently I'd always dismissed with 'that's not me' and when I try I realise, wait, I love this, the only barrier was fear and shame, disguised as wariness

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love myself now, the very parts of me that brought me shame and got me beaten up and bullied are the parts of me I love the most - I’m a woman, and that makes me happier than anything I ever experienced as the mask

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is me, the whole me, the realised me, I am a different person, and it’s not a betrayal of my old self or the values I used to hold to accept that

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of my friends from before once told me, while he was lying in my lap drunkenly as we sometimes do, that he thinks of me and deadname as two different people, but both great friends that he loved. At the time I tried to insist that we are the same, but he was right,

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thankfully I realised that long before transition and worked to deconstruct it, but even still, I’m a whole different person now, and after 10 years even the person I was then is unrecognisable

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But that was me, under the mask, when I started masking to hide the side of me that would get me beaten up and ostracised, that mask feels like someone else completely, something constructed to blunt the pain, it simply wasn’t real

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Personally, I don’t see the prior me as a distinct human being, I connect with her dreams and aspirations, I still want to be a novelist, I still yearn to make the world a better place, I love how she used to be so openly compassionate and cry freely

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is reinforced by the world you experience after, especially if you weren’t read up on feminism etc before, the experience of institutional sexism, misogynistic violence, and more is going to change how you view your life before and the people in it, and harden your resolve

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the end then, there is a fundamental disconnect for some of us between the person we were before and the person we are now. We haven’t died and been reborn but we think about ourselves and present to the world in a distinctively different way

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you’re a persona nerd or (more likely) you’ve read Jung, you’ll see the logic there. Our true gender is perceived as a shadow, but when we accept it it becomes our new persona/mask

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think you have to understand how much of many people’s pre-transition self is masking, and a big part of the process of social transition is unmasking, accepting the parts of yourself that you suppressed due to shame, at which point you destroy the mask completely

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

didn't you hear? investing in people's future and the things society needs to function is communism!

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The CEO bowed his head solemnly and spoke: ‘there’s actually no difference between evil and good people. You imbecile, you fucking moron.’

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Republicans have been trying desperately to prevent an ‘educated proletariat’ for decades, they know that educated people reject conservatism, and, especially for those who have real world experience of subjugation, class consciousness is only a book or two away

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