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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Rambler on the Pixel seems to do better if I swearingly tell it not to editorialize or change my words while I'm dictating.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Seems like Playboy is picking up where Teen Vogue left off www.playboy.com/read/politic...
An excerpt from an article on Playboy:

Though there are legitimate medical applications for testosterone replacement therapy, the timing of this announcement, with open conflict between Iran and the United States resuming just days prior, is extremely unconventional. According to former and current service members, it illustrates Hegseth’s seemingly limited view of the strategic and logistic requirements of the US military’s war fighting capabilities. In other words, he seems to believe that the only requirement for winning a war are huge muscled out guys with guns.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It is true that this is a beautiful pluralistic country with everything good you could ever possibly want in the world and also a corrupt stinking hell hole presided over by demons who want us all dead.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
worst tarp ever
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I was today years old when I learned what this actually means.
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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.
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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
gdi I think I'm in the octopus rights camp now. Thanks @adapalmer.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The AI hackathon week at work has a very strong "train your replacement" feel to it.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
Wendy surrounded by synthesizer keyboards, computers, and audio gear, holding one of her siamese cats with another perched on an equipment rackWendy sitting in front of multiple computers with her keyboards visible to the side, holding one cat while another two cats and a parrot are on top of the monitorsa color image of Wendy sitting side-on to a computer or similar device, with all of her gear along the wall, and a cat and fluffy dog sitting on the carpet next to her looking up at hercloser in of the previous device she was sitting at that seems to have a roll printer built in, she's behind it with her hands on two synthesizer keyboards and one of her cats is  on top of it batting at the fan exhaust in a series of images
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
@mmasnick.bsky.social have you considered starting Teen Techdirt?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/10/2025
it's time to organize, not panic.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
nice to see that the local news is having a perfectly normal day
headline and byline from komonews.com:

'No Kings' protests being funded by foundations run by George Soros: report

by CHARLOTTE HAZARD | The National News Desk
Fri, October 17th 2025 at 1:45 PM
Updated Sat, October 18th 2025 at 7:46 AMWASHINGTON (TNND) — The “No Kings” protests that will be taking place on Saturday are being funded by foundations belonging to billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

One of the groups is the Open Society Foundations, founded by the major Democratic donor.

Through a fund, the foundation issued a $3 trillion grant to the Indivisible Organization that was good for two years "to support the grantee's social welfare activities.”
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Beo Risfang @beomech.mow.haus · 03/07/2025
With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/06/2025
THE TRANS MEDICAID BAN HAS BEEN STRUCK BY THE PARLIAMENTARIAN!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVOCACY AND NEVER STOP FIGHTING!!!! www.madycast.com/p/senate-par...
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Senate Parliamentarian Strikes Trans Medicaid Ban from GOP Megabill
In a major win for trans healthcare rights across the country, the trans Medicaid ban provision has been removed from the GOP’s megabill after advocates pressured Democrats to invoke the Byrd rule.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
emotional support crimes
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Skipping the lidocaine cream for electro today is tempting.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'm doing my part
an envelope containing a request for the poster's data under FOIA, addressed to
US Department of Government Efficiency 
763 Jackson Place NW
Washington DC 20503
with the return address strategically covered up
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
my weird little birb apparently traveled all the way to Tokyo just to watch American cartoons
a screenshot of my birb from the Finch app with Tokyo in the background and the text "35th adventure completed! Squiggles discovered Looney Tunes today"
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Why is Weird Al's Your Horoscope for Today living rent-free in my head and how do I get it out?
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The problem with Twin Peaks is that I know in my bones that a stargate is somehow involved and keep waiting for it to show up.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
You go to the DMV with the face you have, not the face you want.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Putting paperwork with my deadname into a shredder is gender-affirming care.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Decoding what folks mean by "everyone" is an art. It can mean less politically aware people, anyone in some outgroup, the noisiest people in some space, the majority of a group of leaders or any number of other groups depending on the writer's perspective. It's such an unhelpful lossy shortcut.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This doesn't seem promising.
a screenshot of a Seattle times article titled Three Washington Members of Congress Talk Strategy Ahead of Trump Presidency. The browser search is looking for the word "transgender", which does not appear anywhere in the article.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I guess the party's officially over. Now we get to find out how well bluesky's model holds up and where it breaks down. (gift link since my cancelled subscription hasn't ended yet) wapo.st/4fLVAYb
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Analysis | X is Elon’s world. Threads is a mess. Is Bluesky any better?
Is Bluesky any better than X? It certainly seems to be better than Threads.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Canadian Bar Association of BC has such a satisfying abbreviation
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Action is a great antidote for fear.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Every Tuesday is someone's taco Tuesday
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Lesson from Princess Tutu: Even if you have a cool magical girl transformation sequence, sometimes the best way to help someone through a low point is to offer them a helping hand, have a calm compassionate conversation, listen to their needs and trust them to make the right decision for themselves.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming: 1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
time for some self care
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
I finally beat Carrot weather
Carrot weather's secret locations page showing 116/117 found locations and a toast titled No Active Missions and telling me to check back in in 1 hour, meatbag
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jules @jayemgy.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
One of my favourite things. I think about this a lot.
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
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Charis 🏳️‍⚧️ @charisfish.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
I guess that this concept really needs strengthening.
a screenshot from Duolingo that says "Let's strengthen your weakest grammar concept!". The name of the grammar concept is written in Chinese. I am not learning Chinese.
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