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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins

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Katherine Ryan Ayres. Composer, producer, engraver, coma-maker. Occasional blogger. Producer back catalog as "Kevin".

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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always wanted to live abroad - accidentally added an extra space, now I get to do both
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No matter how many times I practice the pronunciation, if I ever have to say "It wasn't very warm" to a Japanese person I am going to eat shit
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing.
Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore.
Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sayonara Lara is kind of a perfect example of the cishet habit of using queerness as the object of some fucking metaphor instead of, you know, an actual human experience with its own emotional weight
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
this is literally how all these spineless Dem backtracking statements sound to me
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
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Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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Cirice Gray @In Her Image out now! @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026
New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel
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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women
This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Threaded response because while I don't disagree wholesale, the way this is worded bothers me. 🧵
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Eskart(Commissions open!!!) @eskart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
there's clearly no point in scolding most people for their indifference to anti-trans bigotry. the refusal to leave Harry Potter behind, the hemming and hawing about the NYT's puzzles. people won't even put down their toys for us. I cannot express the white-hot frustration boiling in my stomach.
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Prismatic (Lately)" Maybe not proper slushwave but I wanted to give it a certain flavor! Thanks again Kagi, these samples are really fun~
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
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What if a dyke was a deer was a coyote @adoenamedbeeb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
being opposed to kink is inherently tied to assimilationism and always has been
it is vitally important that you be a pervert. i am not kidding

you need to be horny. don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise they are your enemy ki​ll them
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Perfect illustration of the AI deskilling project trap. If you want to pretend these things are a tool (they're not) then you're completely beholden to having your tools changed or taken away by a black box system that changes on a whim. You're now completely reliant on the thing they took away.
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Jason @envinyon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Goddamn
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Been tinkering, shaking the production rust off. Thanks Kagi for making fun samples~
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
nyara S @nyaraVT :20h The lives of trans people are more important than the discomfort of bigots.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 12/07/2026
and it's great and you should keep tricking the masses like this if you want to because they will never sympathize with trans women so you might as well just do what you want
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Karina S. @chirunax.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I also genuinely think that being able to separate "I don't like it" and "it's bad" - or at least understand that the distinction exists - is an important skill not even for an artist, but for any person.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
While I still technically have a US passport, the government's hatred of trans people has forced my immigrant wife and I to live in a place I do not have residency (yet) and as a result has effectively left me stateless for who knows how long. I love and miss my home, but I don't love my country.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Using genAI alienates you from everyone else. It doesn't democratize art, it atomizes it. No genAI user is gonna get an outpouring of sincere support from others because even they themselves don't give a fuck about what they're making.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/06/2026
I'm Trans gender ally🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 LOVE YOU🤍
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Growing up, social media was a big part of self-discovery for me and lots of other LGBTQ teens. That's exactly why conservatives want to ban these platforms for kids. They would prefer to keep them isolated and in the dark while surveilling us all via digital IDs. spitfirenews.com/p/social-med...
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The plot to push LGBTQ kids off the internet
Your existence violates community guidelines. Happy Pride!
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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@wariocolosseum •9h
the whitest westerner u know just fell to their knees in their moms basement
Pubity 1 @pubity. 15h
Japan is set to roll out nationwide
LGBTQIA+ education programs in schools, universities, and workplaces.
The goal is for more people in Japan to...
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mousegAAAHH!rd @mousegard.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
there was a scientific study recently that showed using ai for even as little as 15 minutes reduces your persistence, making you more likely to give up on a task if you can't use ai for it, less likely to acquire new skills, and less able to work independently: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SOMEBODY finally says it, holy shit I miss these things so much 😭😭😭
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Tiberia 🏳️‍⚧️ @tiberia1313.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Reminder to all "normal" and "vanilla" people - Its the freaks that keep you from getting labeled degenerates. If we disappear, you'll be next and whatever you do will be the new weird and extreme.
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
my main thought on Pride month, as someone who should basically be neither seen nor heard from on it, is that I have seen many times firsthand the raw deal that trans people get in media and publishing, and it needs to be everyone's job to fix that. It's real, material, and unacceptable
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
When I came out to my family and friends as trans, I got asked about whether I was gonna chop my dick and balls off so many times. But somehow, now that I've done it, suddenly *I'm* the weird overshareing pervert for saying "chopped off my dick and balls lmao"
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
thedreydossier.substack.com
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Mocca🔞 @whatsmocca.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I think we could do with a little less "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm traumatized in these ways." and a lot more "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm allowed to make any art. And also, it's none of your fucking business whether or not I am traumatized."
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt
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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Cis people trying to shit on trans people for anything to do with sex is wild because we're literally like that because we have a healthier mindset around it compared to you. Usually by trying to make whatever sick burn you try to make about it you'll ultimately end up proving it to everybody too.
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 26/03/2026
You need to remember the damage of bans like this isn't just the overt bigotry of the act itself, but a sustained effort to create a tapestry of lies/laws/myths all working together to paint the image that a trans person excelling or even just existing healthily in society is somehow unnatural.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
*in a waiting room, just signed consent forms for bottom surgery* "Alrighty then, let's actually read what I just agreed to. Can't be that bad, it's not like they're gonna sterilize me or someth- ............ oh no..." I'm glad the staff have a sense of humor.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The J-pop oshi housemaid anime from this season literally pulled a Vitas "Seventh Element" reference and I'm losing my fucking mind over it, insane music pull
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KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - DM Me Pumpkins @katherashell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Reposting this blog link because I was defeated by illusory markdown formatting last time: readtheshell.substack.com/p/2026-01-01...
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I'm Leaving
Actually doing what your extended family always joke about at Thanksgiving, but dumber
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