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Yuri Lowenthal @yurilowenthal.bsky.social · 10h

While it may seem unnecessary to many of you, today seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trans Rights Are Human Rights and the trans community will always have my axe.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not willing to pack myself away to be convenient to others any more, and I've had a glimpse of what I want from life which is no more and no less than what others have. My situation is not normal, and I won't be told it is by those that have the very basic thing that I want and need.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

tell me that they have been speaking to an AI chatbot instead of me, stings. I am, apparently no longer even useful shouldering their burdens. I haven't had the time or money to do anything recently, and that's isolating and the few resources I have have to go to essentials and bills.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or even is it that the one time people come to me for me is when the situation is so bad that they feel they have to do something which colours their entire view of me? I'm really hurt by the way I've been treated, I'm hurt by the way I've been neglected, and to be honest having multiple people

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

me in a really simple way. I've told them what I need but I keep being told it's unreasonable, or that I'm not being clear or that I'm putting obstacles in my own way. And then the anxieties sink in; am I just incompatible with others? Is it my lifestyle, my personality, am I boring, etc.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And I know to some degree adult life is filled with this kind of nonsense but it shouldn't be as isolating as this. I've spent the last two weeks planning to end my life, packing down my flat and setting a date. At this moment in time I don't want to do that but I am crying out for someone to help

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

their lives but I also don't want to be. I just need people to interact with me, to remember I exist. To be the friend to me that they claim to be. And in my depression and upset, I got rid of a few people who did show up and I regret it. I wish I could spend more time with them but life is tricky.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what a lot of people who are, at least nominally, friends see of me is my depression but they never get to see the full person. And I do accept my role in that but I do resent being told that I haven't tried. It's a sad situation, and I know that I am not going to be the most important person in

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

handle it at times is not good for me or the people around me. I don't blame any one person for my situation but the only way to address it is to say to each person what the issue is. I guess in an effort to prevent it or even stop it becoming a tragedy of the commons type thing. I am aware that

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I regret distancing myself from a few people, I think in an effort to remove myself from the actual wrong in my life I may have taken some of the good with it too. I don't know if I'll ever get those people back, I don't really know if they'll want to come back. My mental health and the way I

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've done my best to keep this feed as happy-go-lucky as I can to try and provide myself with a place that is not tainted by my mental health but having lost most of the people in my life either by circumstance or distancing myself I have not really been given anywhere else to exist as a person

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Anna Sereno @annasereno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got my camera out today! #selfportrait #fineartnude

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NudeForMe @nudeforme.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭 Just because a woman is scantily dressed or nude is not an invitation for sexual harassment or assault. Instead of telling women to cover up, how about educating men on respect & equality. #women #equality #topfreedom #woman #nudity #nude #naked #nudist #naturism #topless

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Phydeau @phydeau-phy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Model: Cassandra Davis 2011 #art #nude #artnude #photography #model #akt #nu #nature #lake #skyclad

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Soren Bowie @sorenbowie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Most of my jokes are at my own expense which, humiliatingly, is still punching down.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So you can then understand that blurring the line like that on social media feeds into that perception of naturism? It is harder to argue that naturism is non sexual when it is brought up in sexual contexts.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

thing as sexual when for most naturists it isn't and we do not want it to be. I want the ability to relax on a beach as nature intended without people having the connotations of kink in their minds.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I agree with the other commenter. However, I am not saying that you cannot be both a naturist and an exhibitionist. I would however ask you to consider that for those of us that want acceptance of our lifestyle by the general public, blurring the lines like this will have them write off the entire

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I do feel that that bravery should be congratulated at the very least.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very cool. Congratulations on your growing success!

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North Side Pat @northsidepat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did I have a piece of cheesecake for lunch? Yes. Am I following that with a piece of cheesecake for dessert? Also yes. My body is a temple.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Exactly 😡

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Naturlist ✏️🌅 @naturlist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The idea that someone should be able to behave sexually in nudist spaces despite what everyone else thinks is wild to me. Consent issues aside, why even belong to the nudist community then? What do you gain from it when you refuse to respect others in it?

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is not nudism, it's exhibitionism and it's putting non-consenting people in the way of your kink.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I shave everything below the neck but I fundamentally don't care either way with regards to naturism

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I feel like this viewpoint lacks logical consistency. Take yourself, your head hair and beard are both trimmed despite being a natural part of the human body, your nails are trimmed despite being the same. Not an attack but I do wonder why the discrepancy?

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Caligula, Nero actually did some amount of good for the people of Rome.

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Naturlist ✏️🌅 @naturlist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being sex positive doesn't mean invading other people's spaces with sex. It means being in tune with your own sexuality and allowing it to flourish in spaces with respect to consent. Spamming #nudist, #naturist, #nudism, #naturism, and #fkk with porn is invading someone else's space.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's not a massive thing to ask either. Like there's places where that behaviour is welcomed or even encouraged if that's what you want to do

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't know if you have already but could you write an article about this from the perspective of what women don't see and what they do? It might help to bridge the gap in understanding some. That said, I'm not sure it would be anything other than a distraction from what women experience.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

inviolable. And I think this is good. Admittedly I'd like to not wear clothes as much when we spend time together but safety and respect have to come first. And having her as a friend is more important that being naked.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

reluctant to redraw the line between a nude male and a sexual threat. Which given a lot of women's experience is hardly surprising. I will not force her to see me naked nor will I force her to be naked. As much as I know my behaviour is innocent I have to respect her boundaries, they should remain

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Very good article. It's true as a man I don't see a lot of women's experience but the things I can do are listen, advocate and be prepared to intervene to drive this behaviour out of our spaces. I've been speaking to a friend of mine who has been accepting of my naturism but I think is still

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OurNaturistLife @ournaturistlife.com · 17/08/2026

Corin wrote about how men can help women feel safe in clothes-free spaces. Some of the comments were very supportive while some others... proved her point. Here's my reply. And it's less charitable than hers. ournaturistlife.com/2026/08/17/w...

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What Men Don't See — A Male Naturist's Honest Reply

I knew what potentially would come in comments from her article. The comments. The defensive postures. Let's talk about what men don't see.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

At this point I feel we need another word. I'm sex positive but I do not like the intentional conflation of sex with simple nudity. I do not want to see masturbation, sex, exhibitionism or anything else when I am looking at nudism/naturism related topics. Frankly I am upset by it and its effects

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Haven't really been posting much on here recently. Went to budby at the weekend and the swim at edwinstowe after. It was pleasant. After a conversation about having to get dressed to immediately get undressed again I'm thinking about wearing an extra long t-shirt to get to my car. What's people's

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Taullo 🎶 Nekky nokky nakey 🎶 @taullo.me · 30/07/2026

I think the thing that a lot of people get wrong about #naturism historically is that it's not about "non-sexual nudity". It's about living a clothes-free lifestyle. Naturists basically want the act of being naked to be no different than wearing clothes and promote it as a healthier lifestyle.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

as if that is some defence against making a comment that would make someone uncomfortable. It is a complete failure to take responsibility for their actions which primarily hurt women and is a permission slip to themselves to do it again. I'm just very tired of people recently.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Of course. I've noticed a pattern with a lot of men who lament the lack of women visible within the naturist community, who also by their words and actions provide the reason that many women choose not to be visible. And of course the defence that it was just "tongue in cheek"

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"We need more women in naturism" Jeez, if only they'd stop providing examples of why so few women are open about it online.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think this is one of the things that's surprised me. It's that most people are actually reasonably ok with seeing a naked human body. There's a few who aren't but they are by far a minority.

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The man they call shrug @ibarelyworkhere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I ask because the only source for this image seems to be a sketchy porn website.

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