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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@butwait.bsky.social
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Edutummler, Creampuff, Earper. Grateful to all who "learn out loud". Empowering purposeful networks. Pers. account. White settler, cis & queer. Daily haiku over at butwait.blogspot.com.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17h
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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paisley nerdywhispers @nerdywhispers.bsky.social · 2h
Hi yall 💙 I'm trying to pay rent by the end of the day. I have a sale on my page for my CfB game Now Playing Dungeon Tour! Along with one of my One-Page RPGs, The Perfect Spell. If I meet my goal, I'll turn The Perfect Spell into a full Carved from Brindlewood wizard game! itch.io/s/202357/sep...
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September Rent Sale by Nerdywhispers
A bundle by Nerdywhispers, $10.00 for Now Playing Dungeon Tour, The Perfect Spell
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 23h
Did y’all see that @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social’s new book on Lillian Smith dropped today? It’s such a great read. Order one for you & your friends. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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An Inconvenient Woman
A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 3h
a cis male student quietly removes #Cornell from his college list
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 10h
Pre-orders are so important to the life of a book! (Also, now is a great time to commit to building the world we want to live in.)
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 10h
Wil Wheaton; The Stand by Me and Star Trek star gets candid with The Advocate about his gay fans, standing up for trans rights, childhood pain, and finding his people. www.advocate.com/new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Wil Wheaton knows he was your first crush. He has thoughts about the 'hot dads' you became
The Stand by Me and Star Trek star gets candid with The Advocate about his gay fans, standing up for trans rights, childhood pain, and finding his people.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10h
Alright, gonna ask a question aloud into the void here and I already regret doing so but: For women especially, what’s the first age you recall being sexualized, by men? I’m a trans dude but I’ll answer (in brief, writing a longer thing on this): I was about 7 …
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 13h
There are no responsible uses of AI in evaluating research funding applications. Just calling it ‘responsible’ doesn’t make it so. #EthicsWashing #GenAI
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Lily Meade @lilymeade.bsky.social · 20h
Very exciting announcement coming tomorrow morning... people who love writing and free opportunities should definitely keep an eye on my socials (and events page? 👀)!
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 19h
These feel like a daily reminder to leave space for gratitude...
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 19h
Woof.
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the most fundamental things we learn, what opens up a world of understanding and communication, is the alphabet. While we typically learn that "A" is for apple, "Indigenous From A to Z" teaches that "A" is for Always, "B" is for Before 1492, and "C" is for Colonization.
A photo of the just released book, "Indigenous From A to Z" by Traci Sorell and Illustrated by Natasha Donovan, leaning against two plants.
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Uggh. #TransPowerNOW
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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are so many that never made it home from the reeducation camps (federal Indian boarding "schools") but if we're being honest even those that survived had so much stolen from them they didn't make it home whole either.
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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 28/09/2026
now with working link UuU a respectable little shop update of 8 (-1 that sold) lightly cursed walnut boxes A small box for keeping your little treasures safe and under a watchful eye(s). A gentle curse upon those who may sneak a peek inside. www.galdrecraft.com
four walnut slide top boxes with little eye brands on various faces with little glass beads and dice to entice and beguile four walnut slide top boxes with little eye brands on various faces with purple walnut wax stars for visual interest
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gin. @showupforthis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hi friends! My birthday is almost here, and I added a few things to the wishlist for myself. Some of it practical (coffeemaker, socks, rain poncho, etc), some of it totally frivolous (coloring book, hair dye), and none of it is necessary to life so. Just wishes. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Check out my list on Amazon
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 27/09/2026
we have decided that it is june today go be gay we all could use a 24 hour respite from the horrors of the straight world.
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#QueerPowerNow
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dr Emma Strada 1908 1st woman in #Italy to graduate in #engineering (@ Uni of Turin). Committee dithered over ingegnere or ingegneressa. Had electric light installed in home to celebrate. 1st President of Italian Assoc of Engineering & Architects d. #OTD 26 Sep 1970 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_St...
Emma Strada in later life - serious fashion icon vibes  #WomenInSTEM #HistSTM #HistSTEM
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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MAKING BUTCHES HAS NOW RELEASED. DOWNLOAD YOUR PREORDERS, OR BUY A COPY ON ITCH! ALSO AVAILABLE ON MANY OTHER EBOOK DISTRIBUTORS! READ ABOUT THE LESBIAN FLESH, TODAY! saffron-drake.itch.io/making-butch... books2read.com/u/4E5kyE
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Making Butches by Saffron Drake
Seven short stories of gender-nonconforming gender transformation
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Feels worth repeating: bsky.app/profile/anna...
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can we help the amazing team at @Scarleteen blow past their fundraising goal? #ProtectTransKids
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Hall Of Mirrors Artworks @homartworks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I legit feel like I'm drowning. My whole week has been trying to exist as a human being while dealing with a massive chronic pain flare and yoyoing in and out of overdraft. 100 would get me the first real peace I have had this week. Even 25 to start would at least hold me a few hours. Please.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
morning mist a spider repairs the missing sky #HaikuSaturday #Haiga #Haiku #EastCoastKin #Poetry
A patterned orb-weaver spider suspended in its web among sunlit green leaves.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's Friday and pay day for some. Will you consider supporting REBUILD to continue its life-saving work? www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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John Hollingsworth @fiatjusticia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Updated CDC guidelines just came out. 👀 EVERYONE 18+can get the COVID booster and your insurance has to pay for it. More info about kids in the video below, which is excellent. #covid #covidcautious #yallmaskingDC
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TRUMP SAYS HE'S TRANSFERRING 10 BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO HIS BOARD OF PEACE 🙄 WHERE IS THE 13 BILLION DOLLARS HE TOOK FROM VENEZUELA 🤔 THIS AIN'T A PRESIDENCY, IT'S AN OUT OF CONTROL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION 🙄
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 26/09/2026
Disability is the one marginalized identity that anyone at any point can join. Many people, at some point in their lives, will be disabled if they live long enough. Why not look out for our future selves by making things more accessible now? buff.ly/qJLtRwq
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‘Everyone deserves to have a good quality of life’ - High Country News
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
$430 left to crowdfund. thank you. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree GF M elsewhere
the view outside my car window where i park and sleep.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
We only have 29 more subscriptions to go to hit our goal and the sale ends at midnight tonight!
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can feel it... the cold is coming. Please help our friend. Every contribution and share helps.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
will spiders be attracted to the heat of data centers? (HT @xodanix3.bsky.social)
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rish @rishkebab.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026
Acorn is now open for sign-ups for everybody. Bring your community, or use Acorn to create one.
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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just finished this #Curiosity rover wheel necklace! If you look closely, you can see the secret Morse code 😎 #Mars I only have one available. It's available here: sciencesocks.co/coll... 🔭🐡🧪🎨
Close-up of Curiosity rover wheel-inspired pendant necklace in sterling silver. You can see the chevron ridges and the Morse code encoded on the wheel.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
since tomorrow is #BiVisibility day, did you know I wrote THE MOST BISEXUAL NOVEL EVER™? it's called 99 Erics! it won Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, IPPY silver medalist in LGBT+ Fiction, & one of Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of 2021... juliaserano.com/99erics.html
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99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel by Julia Serano
99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel is the silly, surreal, sex-positive debut novel by Julia Serano
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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 22/09/2026
it's 9k now. Wonder if we can get it to 10k?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber Garcés Pérez is shown wounded and surrounded by law enforcement after being shot by ICE. While ICE pulled the trigger, cooperating police agencies, medical staff who allegedly released him with a bullet near his spine, and other complicit institutions share responsibility.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When writing alt text, be specific but also succinct. Stick to as few words as you can. Is the clothing relevant? Is the color of the plate important? What about the weather in the background? Decide whether this info adds or distracts from the context of the image.
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#INDIGENOUS
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 22/09/2026
Our first official edition was on Election Day (we don't want to talk about it): This absolute beaut from @katelynburns.com about how the election cycle is TOO DAMN LONG!
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The U.S. Election Cycle Is Too Damn Long
American elections are increasingly leading us to feel depressed, anxious, and stressed. One potential solution: Putting an end to constant electioneering.
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Rook @boxen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am enjoying this podcast and you almost certainly will too
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Kayla Shaggy @kaylawayla20.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sorry I thought I put the amount. I'm -38, and would like to get $50 just to help the bank account stay in the positives. Thank you
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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who will fight to PROTECT our trans kids?
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Lily Meade @lilymeade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two days!
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