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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
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…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 12/08/2026
Saber Interactive has denied renewed claims that it replaced a former Lead Writer so it could “use ChatGPT” in the development of the recently announced title, Rideshare “Stimulator.” In a statement to PC Gamer, Saber also acknowledged previously undisclosed genAI use elsewhere in the title.
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Saber Interactive Acknowledges Undisclosed GenAI Use In New Game, Denies Replacing Lead Writer With ChatGPT
A former Lead Writer at Saber reiterated previous claims that she had been “replaced” with ChatGPT “midway through development” on the project.
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Mark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
NEW from me: while local and national media focused on Scott Wiener getting kicked out of Dolores Park, they were silent about state forces committing violence against queer and trans people during Pride weekend in San Francisco. 15 people spoke with me about it for this piece.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 20/06/2026
You might want to share this, and maybe save it too. "In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature." www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
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Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom
June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...
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Without History @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone understands that fascists in Northern Ireland have extensive state support and protection right? That they're able to do this shit because they are nurtured and protected and antifascist forces attacked with everything the British state has. We all get that right?
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 02/06/2026
1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Evil Jemma "Buy my books" Topaz @jemma.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Yes, "Lo, Nuns!" has been de-indexed on itchio. Can you believe that my innocent (lesbian, transfem, sexually active) nuns have been banned? Anyway, as usual, the best way to find any of my books is though jemmatopaz.carrd.co
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Jemma's Stuff
A page showing all my links
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Nancy 3/4/26 💅
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
anyway, I read this medium article about how the cards against humanity fuckers forcibly institutionalized the only black guy writing for them because he said "hey, maybe don't use a slur" and i think it should be legal to set those boxed sets on fire in the game store
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 26/02/2026
Not much I can say that would improve anything, but I just want to make it absolutely clear: Trans rights are human rights and should be fought for tooth and nail. Evil governments worldwide are trying to use this vulnerable minority as a wedge issue to exert leverage and make the world worse.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Here's a list of demos I played during Steam Next Fest! I might add to this as I play more. 1. Underkeep Incredibly cool oldschool Dungeon Crawler, real nice pixelart, plays just like those games I remember from back in the day, and gives me huge Knightmare vibes.
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Underkeep Demo on Steam
Explore a dangerous fantasy world in this role-playing dungeon crawler with tactical, turn-based combat. Assemble a party of adventurers, upgrade your gear and descend into the depths of the Underkeep...
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
SO! With Steam #nextfest kicked off I'mma start my thread of demos I played and the thoughts I had about them These are all currently free to try out and I recommend you go do that if anything here sounds interesting! Also! Having more to say doesn't necessarily mean better (or worse!) 1/🧵
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willow @albumminus.band · 14/02/2026
they should just start making the ps2 again. fuck you. like. square enix still sells new copies of their ps2 games. just make everyone make ps2 games again fuck ray tracing fuck real time shadows
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/01/2026
The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I think it's an unqualified good if we all go apeshit over ICE murdering renee nicole good but Black, brown, and Asian people have been getting murdered by ICE for the past year and it's so hard for me not to become the joker thinking about how little impact those deaths had by comparison
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 18/12/2025
the big difference between procgen and "ai" is that procgen is straightforwardly a creative/authoring process like any other, whereas "ai" by its nature precludes both things. but even with procgen you can approach it from a cynical direction and fuck yourself www.joewintergreen.com/an-insult-to...
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/11/2025
I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate. That's why they hate it.
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JuhrJuhr @juhrjuhr.itch.io · 06/11/2025
Deep Space Exploitation is... 🚀OUT NOW!🚀 You can get it on #steam: s.team/a/3656660/ Or @itch.io: juhrjuhr.itch.io/deep-space-e... A little signal boost is greatly appreciated, so please repost, and tell your friends and cat :) #videogames #indiegames #gaming #pixelart #retro #itch
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/09/2025
OK, but you do know you're eulogizing Charlie Kirk, right? aftermath.site/charlie-kirk...
a photo of charlie kirk making a dumb, unflattering facial expression
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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
And who says the internet never has anything good. A bunch of K-Mart cassettes from the late 80s early 90s that were played in the store. Uploaded to the internet archive for your listening pleasure! Who needs Spotify when we have gold like this! archive.org/details/atte...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 10/08/2025
Over the past month, independent content hosting platform Itch.io has been systematically banning queer & NSFW content. We talked to creators about how this impacted them, and how they’re fighting back. Written by @thefreeradical.org and edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social
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‘I feel violated’ - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io bans
The recent Itch bans on queer and NSFW content have damaged careers and put countless people out of work. Though some are now on the verge of homelessness, they’re still organizing and fighting back. TNN delves into what’s at stake on the frontlines of the fight against anti-queer censorship.
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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"There's no faction in US politics for whom praising Dems is socially advantageous" so like, this is just blatantly untrue. Suckups to the Democrats are literally some of the biggest posters on this site, and they're wildly rewarded for dogshit takes as long as they're pro-Democrat.
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mary🐇 @mary.my.id · 23/07/2025
will this get me in trouble gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…
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Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.
Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. - bluesky-osa.md
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digital rose @xri.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
how to avoid uk age verification on bsky the easy way: -have the ublock origin extension and click on it then the settings icon -go to my filters -tick enable custom filters and allow custom filters requiring trust -paste the txt in the post ive quoted to the big text field and apply changes
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵
Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025
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isaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Wrote an incredibly long and personal essay about what it really means to be a trans man in a — er, I don’t know, a transmisandrist world? A world that actually loves trans men and valorizes us constantly? Whatever people are arguing about nowadays? open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...
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Trans Male Privilege
Yes, we need to talk about the boys again. Desperately.
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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
People have suggested existing music here, but I don't think it quite gets it. What's needed is something with simple enough words, tune, and rhythm that you can start singing it in a bar and five hundred others join them *with tears in their eyes*. For that, we should draw from folk traditions.
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
One of my favorite things about Bluesky (or at least my little corner of it) is that people are always sharing resources for taking action. So here's a pinned thread collecting those resources, some made by me and some made by others.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 21/02/2025
Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace crimethinc.com/becomeananar... Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own initiative, on a decentralized basis—in other words, to become anarchists. 🏴
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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, Democrats remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither cou...
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The trans unemployment rate is 1936 great depression levels and that was before Trump took power Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Study of trans athletes concludes blanket sports bans are a mistake. The lead researcher of a landmark IOC-funded study looking at strength, power & aerobic capacity of trans athletes says “sports federations should consider its findings carefully.” www.outsports.com/2024/4/12/24...
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Trans athlete study concludes blanket bans in sports are a mistake
The lead researcher of a landmark IOC-funded study looking at strength, power and aerobic capacity of trans athletes tells Outsports that sports federations should consider its findings carefully.
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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 29/11/2024
🚨🚨🚨SUPER BLACK FRIDAY SALE🚨🚨🚨 Nightmare Kart is FREE to download!!! 100% OFF!! real! and trueb!! Get it now!! ➡️ Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2930160/... ➡️ Itchio! b0tster.itch.io/nmkart
nightmare kart announcement poster with big red text saying 'BLACK FRIDAY SALE 100% OFF TOTALLY FREE
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon? Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist? Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property? Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?
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Donate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/09/2024
After months of research and painstakingly connecting the threads of transmisogyny theory, queer activism, and field-wide epistemic injustice, I would like to present "The Third Sex": my treatise on a third-world transfeminism. Read: tinyurl.com/59kzm98k
A desi woman at a protest, framed by rainbow flags and wearing a red saree, holds up a sign that says "Hijras Are Women".

It is the cover image for Talia Bhatt's essay "The Third Sex", subtitled: "'The Gender Binary' is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy."
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Outrage as Manchester cops 'herd Gypsy and Traveller kids like cattle' out of city centre GMP are under fire for their overtly violent and prejudice policing against kids from GRT communities, after footage emerged online. Welcome to racist Britain (again). www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Outrage as Manchester cops 'herd Gypsy and Traveller kids like cattle' out of city centre
GMP are under fire for racist policing against kids from GRT communities after footage emerged online. Welcome to racist Britain (again).
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/11/2024
Apologies for the screenshot from the other place, but I want to be clear: I will not work with or support reporting from @novaramedia.com in any way going forward while this guy has a significant role with them, and I recommend noone else bothers either.
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The reason the “fairness in sports thing" is a successful tactical wedge is because it's where terfs have a point.
Terfs also have a bunch of fringe and unpleasant ideas which should see them isolated, but they get a free pass because anyone sympathetic to trans rights but who thinks there could be some conflict between trans rights and womens rights in certain domains is labelled a revolting terf and never wants to speak on the isSue again.
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
My strong advice to all cis people is to consider everything you've learned about trans people over the past ten years to likely need revision. Not only is trans theory rapidly evolving, most previously accepted stuff is influenced by transmisogynistic academic work only recently being challenged.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
transmisogyny is so deeply rooted in patriarchy that the word "bad" itself is derived from a transphobic slur
screen cap of the google result for the etymology of the word "bad" labeling the origin as "baeddel" meaning 'hermaphrodite, womanish man'
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 13/11/2024
THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊
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The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
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