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Dersen Lowery

@dersen.bsky.social
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Software developer, drummer, spouse. The pfp is of the EVE Online character whose name I'm using as a pseudonym. Cishet, white, male, 56, teaching myself how to be a better person, and a better ally, every day.

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Megan E. Human * free Link @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Since I see a lot of former Platner defenders getting mad at the idea of not voting for anti trans Dems Remember how you ignored all the red flags and minorities saying "hey this guy is bad news" right up until the rape allegation? Yeah the take away from that was LISTEN SOONER FUCKHEADS
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/09/2026
Black folk with PhDs in AI and reducing societal harms of tech: "We should continue to proceed cautiously with AI, to avoid societal harms." VCs: "No! You are the enemy! Not an optimist!"🤬 CEOs of AI companies: "We should start proceeding cautiously with AI, to avoid societal harms." VCs: 😍
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☠️FEARPUNK☠️ (post-comic break 10/12) @gearpunk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heeyyyy so Leigh and co are already in a tight bind and this has only added more stress and they don't deserve this!! Please consider helping!!
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The only thing I want to see on the whole woke 1.0-DEI-TAH-conservatives-are-purged-from-academia blubber Im seeing from punditry in print and online
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
*whispers* BLM was popular
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 13/08/2026
Kudos to the Tribune for actually publishing this, it's wonderful.
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This Administration has long since proved that it doesn't know about logistics and doesn't care. On top of that, they don't care if our own troops suffer for their arrogance. (Something something logistics win wars something something.)
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
Please help Gladys escape Congo with her sweet boy. Sometimes you'll see her share news of how horrific it is there you can't get by focusing on your media here. Her conditions are terrible, & you actually have the opportunity to help a real person in Congo you shouldn't pass up. Boost & give!
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Chris the Legendary (🚨SHARE PINNED THREAD- EMERGENCY) @dinesvisual.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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Wi-Fi Fiasco Transforms Washington Bar Exam Into an Even Bigger Waste of Time Than Usual
Yet another reason to move beyond the legal profession’s annual hazing ritual.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 30/07/2026
Anyway, shoutout @puzzmo.com , an app that also has good word games and whatnot that isn’t referenced by name in legislation pushing trans people out of public life
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In a civilized timeline, we'd be filling out forms to opt in. Sadly...
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
www.ingramcontent.com/page/ai-opt-...
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AI Opt Out
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
On this and all social media platforms,all artists NEED to support NSFW art. If your ace (like me) or don't like porn it doesn't matter. The freedom to draw nudity and sexually explicit work for adults shouldn't be demonized because some people find it offensive or refuse to parent their kids.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025
I don't know how to tell people on Bluesky that yes, you actually *do* need Black people on board for all your political and social aims. You literally can't go around us, cancel us, or ignore us. Every time y'all do, everyone suffers.
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Watching this radical recidivism after serving 25 years in public health is soul-sapping. All that work, all that data, all that work disseminating information, and here we are.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/08/2025
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 11/08/2025
Trans service members in the Air Force are being forced out with no retirement benefits. Utterly disgraceful way to treat people who have served our country for nearly 20 years. This does not make us safer.
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Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members
Longer-serving transgender service members will have the same choice as more junior ones: quit or be forced out.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 11/08/2025
transphobes can get fucked. i know i’m a woman because there is somehow like 40 minutes of shit i need to do before bed.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I just saw a kindergarten mom in tears on TikTok because her child’s classroom wasn’t filled with rugs and lamps and bins full of fun things... It’s important to understand what a state-funded classroom looks like versus a teacher-funded classroom. Your beef is with the state, not the teacher.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Just an fyi we’re really not going to like what comes after “military control of the capital”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/08/2025
Since living here, I’ve lived in Trinidad, Edgewood, and now Congress Heights. People here are generally fine and friendly. They’re being targeted by the world’s most powerful government for being Black.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
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dial ë̈m̈ for mystery 🏳️‍⚧️⚢🐍 @emmeline.northsky.social · 06/08/2025
I love that, in the quilting community, there are whole guides for how to fix it if you accidentally create a swastika. They could have shrugged their shoulders and said “we’re making patterns with rotational symmetry, swastikas happen sometimes”, but they choose the harder but more loving path.
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Sheryl's baby. David's boy. @airmaxnhoodies.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
More now than ever because too many mfers walking around saying "racism doesn't exist anymore"
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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/08/2025
There's a new biographical documentary on Toni Cade Bambara. I want everyone including me to find a way to watch it. I contributed to the only biographical book on her as editor & am in its acknowledgements. Toni Cade Bambara could be my clearest guiding light on the way I want to move as a writer.
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TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing - BlackStar
TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer Toni Cade Bambara, whose …
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The ruling class has to destroy social media and the Internet because these were starting to make up for the educational systems they already destroyed. The more people learn about the world, the less they’ll believe the lies justifying its present organization.
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Barriguinha mole 👍 @vemnibiru.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
quando vcs se sentirem incapazes de passar num concurso, dão uma olhadinha nos comentários dos posts de concursos no linkedin. O povo (designers) não sabem baixar pdf, não sabem dar ctrl F pra procurar o que quer em um edital, não sabe LER um post
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 06/08/2025
Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing. I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
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42 Mice Media @42micemedia.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Every #ttrpg player has a bucket list. Something they've always wanted to do, but never had the chance. So what happens if 5 experienced #dnd players got together JUST to help each other make those wishes come true? WISH FULFILLMENT premieres Aug 11th at 6pm PT on youtube.com/@ThatsHowWeRoll_
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 06/08/2025
"This is illegal now so I guess we can't do it anymore" is fucked up when "it" is lifesaving medical care. "The feds are threatening to make us stop but haven't done anything beyond make threats so I guess we can't do it anymore" is just complying in advance, and that's way, WAY worse.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
ppl complaining that folks don’t work on themselves instead of dating I’m holding your hand right now: You will NEVER be “healed” Life is dynamic. You will always be on a journey. You will not ever reach the plateau “healed” state wherein you are worthy of love. Do it messy. You’re alive.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Perfect.
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
For those keeping track, Marc Elias Derangement Syndrome is now a thing.
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Maeve! @maevequinzley.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Reminder that we haven't actually seen any results yet. Itch reindexing free NSFW content and Valve making a public statement are not results, they're distractions. The *bare minimum results* is a retraction of the restrictions placed on Itch and Steam.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Important first-in-human report today for donor pancreatic islet beta-cell transplant to an individual w/Type 1 diabetes. With genome editing, there was no immune response induced or need for immunosuppression. Major implications for transplantation in general @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression | NEJM
The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of genetically m...
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김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com · 05/08/2025
We use dead things to fuel everything from our body to airplanes, and I like think of it as necromancy, as I do of books whose creators have passed away. Our whole civilization is necromantic in how it powers itself and retains its identity. We don't just owe a lot to the dead; we are the dead.
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Hey, those random tables in the back of the first edition Dungeon Master's Guide have finally gone mainstream.
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Dersen Lowery @dersen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Just in case there was any doubt at all that women can be misogynist. Wow.
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⚙️Shunky⚙️ @shunkpunkart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Also maaaaaybe opening comms early as emergencies because we got fucked over by the council, and owe them a lot more in rent than we thought. Just gotta finalise the prices and get my ass in gear. I hate begging but it's rough rn, just liking and reposting this helps🙏 Thank you💙 ko-fi.com/shunky
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Paul Taske @paultaske.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
If there are more people out there who are interested in pushing back against these unconstitutional proposals, we would *love* to hear from you! Partnering with @rahaeli.bsky.social is a joy! And I’d love to have more people like her in our corner! 🥰
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Repost if you think it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
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