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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 1h

"because it's likely leftists secretly support trump" This is the most ridiculous claim. How on earth do people believe this shit? Many liberals aren't showing us they're any better than Trump. That's not the same as arguing that he's better.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 1h

*Does* anyone make jokes about Trump and (woman) being lovers tho? No. Only when it's a man. Because the homophobia *is* the joke for these assholes.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 7h

And yes, because liberals like you forget that there are people suffering when shitty Democrats are in charge. When you're not in power, sometimes you remember there are stakes.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 11h

Honestly, *yes,* if the choice is between a Republican and a truly shitty Democrat. Show them, *again,* that they will lose when they go conservative.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 11h

We have, as far as I'm aware, *zero* examples of elected Democrats getting more progressive once they take office. When they campaign conservative, they get worse after they're elected.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 11h

Nope, you better not let Democrats act like Republicans again. The Democrats have been moving to the right since the 80s. Stop them.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 21h

Trans people have *far* fewer rights and less safety than we had ten years ago. This isn't a "progress takes time" situation, it's a fucking emergency.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

The big problem with ICE is that borders aren't real and citizenship is fake, and ICE is an extension of racist authoritarianism. Humans should be able to be where they want to be.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Oh gosh, I was alive in the heady days when John Oliver was just a fresh-faced correspondent on The Daily Show. I feel old.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

The existence of illness is not a matter of (or for) public opinion. Do you know whose opinion is relevant to this subject? It's health professionals with specific expertise.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

What? This is a completely incoherent response.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

I think that the motivated reasoning is solidly on the side that's rushing to endow LLMs with "consciousness."

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

You have to have a physical self that interacts with the world around you in order to have experiences.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Consciousness requires *experiences,* not just inputs. And experiences require embodiment. Sorry, they just do.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

In case anyone wants to @ me with "Well, humans are just really complex aggregators," no. Shut the fuck up. Let's say you grew a human brain in a vat and somehow fed it information. That brain would *also* not be conscious, because it would lack any way of experiencing the world around it.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you are on duty and in uniform, you are not "the public."

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

So-called AI *entirely* lacks the capacity to independently verify any information it receives. It's an input-output system. It's an aggregator. That's fundamentally different from being capable of experiencing or learning. AI is no more conscious than bacteria. Probably less.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Not only can LLM agents NOT distinguish between self and environment, they cannot distinguish between fact and fiction. They do not experience reality. They are designed to imitate consciousness, but you're a fool if you think that makes them conscious.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ten years ago today, I met my (second) spouse for the first time and we took a walk in the woods together. We talked about divorce, and trauma, and reinvention, and lots of more fun things. Ten years, one kid, and two transitions later we're even more happy to have found each other.

Cassidy and her spouse, smiling into the camera.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Mustache is hard to see but I promise it's there.

Cassidy, twelve or thirteen years pre-transition, with a truly bad barely-visible mustache and wearing a flat cap

Cassidy, a year into transition, in a mermaid dress, with purple hair and fierce makeup

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Oh fuck I have literally been both things. I'm like the exact target audience.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yupppp "The kids 20 years ago were right about everything. These kids today? Fuck em."

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

And, importantly, it has to be something that *simply isn't anyone else's business.* Because that's what you're demanding trans people "compromise" on.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, what compromises are *you* personally willing to make? How abouuuuttt... you don't get to decide what to eat anymore? That's just not a right you have. Or, maybe, you don't get to go outdoors? Listen, we have to make compromises. You have to give up something that's VERY important to you.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

People did the *exact same bullshit fear-mongering* against the racial integration of sports. And they were exactly as wrong then as you are now.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hey yourself. It's the SAME PEOPLE who are taking both away. I see you pretending trans people aren't on the same team as poor people. That's some good pro-capitalist propaganda.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Liberal bot accounts are wild, man. "I aggressively don't take sides"

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Counterpoint: my neighbor, who is pretty cool, wears a straw boater and a bow tie. And suspenders.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

She would have won by a lot if she had had good politics. She was one of the worst candidates *ever* and didn't lose by much.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yuppp I felt more tired week 3 than I did when I first came home.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Whoa, I had not seen this. My partner and I used to buy their stuff.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes and no. Weeks 2 and 3 were rough. Steadily better since then. I just hit week 9 and I feel 90% back to baseline. I'm rooting for you!

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why can Democrats never imagine treating human beings with more dignity than the far right does? Why is retribution the go-to? Proving once again that you aren't any less reactionary. The job of progressives and the left is building a better world for EVERYONE.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A certain brand of ahistorical nonsense about the Weimar years that comes up as ways to lecture leftists, so some facts: * SPD never had any intention of a united front with leftists. They violently suppressed leftist organizing (1918-19, Blutmai in 1929) often in collaboration with the far-right.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

I tried so hard to be a dude for so long. But yes, I was bad.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't believe there are people who are truly beyond redemption. I do think that it may be beyond some people's reach, though.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

You're not a "bad person," you're just fucking wrong about the world and that makes you harmful!

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is the whole problem! This is what makes you just as harmful as MAGA voters! There's no such thing as a "bad person." There are people, including you, who have been indoctrinated that in order for you to thrive, someone else MUST be oppressed. This belief in hierarchy is the root of harm.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Like, you're complaining about so many different things in this tirade I literally can't find the thing you say you're complaining about here. And you're being a complete dipshit about all of them.

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Cassidy (radically pro-transgender) @cassidy-v.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't know what quote you're talking about. Link?

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