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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the sailors that were in the ship and which you were probably saving for Ithaca Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so Greek

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 23/07/2026

There IS an overarching cultural pressure indoctrinating children into a specific sexuality, but it's not the queers doing it!

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Perpetual reminder that making fun of "bad" fat people means that "good" fat people are one infraction away from you being an asshole at them about their bodies and it is completely at your whim and mercy. It's not a good look.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 27/05/2026

In the 80s, she wrote a lifestyle column for R-18 trans tabloid The Transvestian. In the 90s, her ground-breaking novellas defined Black trans indie publishing. In the early 00s, she helped organize the TWOC community, inspiring Monica Roberts to write. This is the story of Roberta Angela Dee.

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Roberta Angela Dee, The Black Trans Literary Pioneer You Probably Haven’t Read

For the first time in decades, read over 100 rare writings from Roberta Angela Dee in this comprehensive survey of her life’s work.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The wild thing about the master and commander movie is, like...it's somehow one of the best Star Trek movies because it's actually about exploring and the game of empires at the frontiers - the entire bit about exploring the Galapagos island is what Star Trek SHOULD be!

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

i agree, especially re the publishing and in that there is rampant intentional, self-aware gatekeeping involved in the issue

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 26/07/2025

There's been interesting conversation about my earlier posts on the economics of academic publishing. Here's why I'm not fully sold on arguments that academic texts "need" to cost minimum $30-$40 dollars to break even 🧵

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

as we enter into a new era of internet censorship, it is your solemn duty to break the egg prime directive. do it constantly. tell everyone. tell them again. tell them about estrogen and about T. I made it to my mid-teens before I even knew what transition was. let’s not go back to that.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 21/06/2025

What people call "visibility" is actually closer to "hyperscrutiny". We are SURVEILLED, we are mocked and jeered and caricatured, held up as freaks to point and jeer at in exhibits, always spoken ABOUT but rarely spoken TO, rarely given the chance to speak for ourselves. 'Visibility' is a lie.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Gatekeeping transition care is: -Bad because its stated intent is malicious -Bad because its outcome is harmful -Bad because it's completely ineffective for any of its purported benefits -Bad because it creates the need for trans people to lie to healthcare professionals

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/05/2025

i'm starting to think heterosexuality and patriarchal masculinity are prisons. has anyone noticed this before? i'm thinking it might be coercive and extremely unwell how boys are raised, especially when they're not actually boys. just an idle thought that i am having for the first time.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

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Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope

During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.

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🎃 Vyria Durav, Dread Wyrm Princess of Spookytown 🎃 @vyriadurav.northsky.social · 20/01/2025

Part of "if you're transgender, you have to live" is realizing that you have to do things to survive sometimes. You have to be ready to grasp at resources, opportunities, anything that buys you another day. I ran because that was how I live on. The answer may be different for you. Live.

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

there is a balance to be struck; it is one thing to exist in trans circles, to seek out the company of those who share one's experiences, but another, poisonous, to do so at the exclusion of all else, to reject others with whom one has commonalities and to isolate oneself and one's ideas

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Zero tolerance policy towards people who act unhinged about @benjanun.bsky.social and @enkiducoin.bsky.social, as far as I'm concerned. It's such an incredibly reliable predictor of being a piece of shit across a broad range of situations

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Anyone who says trans women must disclose our trans status in any situation is either dangerously ignorant or actively malicious.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is a fantastic thread and I’d like to note something about it, going back to my earlier thread— Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY. Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

my mind seems to allow for a strange combination of crippling anxiety, which will obsess over often-innocuous things, and the ability to become accustomed to inconveniences, to the point of putting off addressing issues that should probably worry me

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Many have been struggling with hopelessness these last few years—and even more since the election. Too often I’ve asked myself how we should live in a world that can never be repaired. If that’s also you, I hope that you will find this essay on palliative activism helpful.

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Palliative activism, or Fighting for justice without hope

The spirit within me wearies. I see each day pass another by, forever in want of change. I see the skies fall by a few inches each day. The…

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

i wish (as i have said before and shall again) that this language had distinct terms for events that happened in the past and accounts/reconstructions/interpretations/scholarship ABOUT those events, derived from memory and other records, rather than calling both 'history' despite their differences

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

there is a pop song from a few years ago that still gets routinely played on the radio here, that uses a term for the Roma people that is to my knowledge improper, and it gives me a slight start every time that i hear it (like i did while out this afternoon)

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

precisely my current, mid-graduate-degree crisis

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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I’m always ambivalent about this, because on the one hand, I just wanna be left the fuck alone to live my stupid little tranny life, but on the other hand, fuck God fuck Western Civilization, and being an apocalyptic demi-goddess rewriting creation through the force of my will is extremely based

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/01/2025

People fundamentally just do not understand how conservatives view the world, which is why so much liberal discourse involves "dunking" on them for "hypocrisy" that is perfectly in keeping with their views. Conservatives value hierarchy above all, even if it hurts them personally.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

encourage LESBIANISM Ref 13_48_F910 Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa

badge, black text on red background: "encourage LESBIANISM".

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

what are the odds that there is someone in the world with the name Ella Salmon? (and are they a poultry farmer)

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

ah, library desk graffiti: where one can find scrawled quotes from Emily Dickinson, Frank Herbert, and the Psalms alongside some paraphrased, uncited Aristotle and multiple pleas for relief

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

teenage-me, faced with the early stages of this ('boyishness') fled (and was pushed) as far as she could, something both of which i am glad and which had its own associated costs, mainly years of near-total isolation

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

it is always an exciting surprise to find bruises on oneself: 'huh. i wonder what exactly i did to myself and when?'

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

it's like a seminar: that's what this place feels like, people exchanging ideas and opinions and the pressure to contribute something, but to contribute something *worthwhile* (because everyone is watching and judging) and i think that i find it about as uncomfortable as i have most seminars

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 08/01/2025

Are they/them pronouns gender-neutral? Should we use them as default? Should we just assume based on gender presentation? I wrote an essay with my thoughts about this recurring discourse, using the lens of the 'conflicting access need' from disability spaces. open.substack.com/pub/jessotho...

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They/Them Pronouns & Conflicting Access Needs

Why they/them doesn't include everyone

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

it can be neutral until such a time as one knows better, at which point it becomes deliberate misgendering

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

it seems that at the start of every new semester i get sucked unadvisedly deep into a new work of fiction this time it is Dorley, after i got the hard copy on new year's eve (which i finished within 36 hours) and since then have been unable to read anything else during what time i have for fiction

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 06/01/2025

There’s gonna be a lot of dark news coming out over the next few weeks - now is a better time than ever to support trans authors 💖❤️ take care of yourselves, you don’t owe it to the bastards to drive yourself mad with stress 🫂

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

and so Trudeau II has finally accepted the inevitable, taken a walk in the snow, and resigned – what is it with mondays in this country recently?

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 05/01/2025

Lazy people do not deserve to go hungry.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/01/2025

There's this thing that people do where they implicitly third-sex us even when it doesn't make sense, and insist that treating us like any other woman is actually the real exclusionist transmisogyny. Somehow.

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

yes! that last is why i have enjoyed, on the balance, starting to exist here more actively

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Is it any wonder we want to redefine this, even make it a game, a form of self-expression? It’s all a way to say “what if I could just be what I am?” What if we could just be free and loved and powerful and alive?

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

have kept thinking on this – and I believe that it a useful frame that I had been missing in looking at the treatment of English urban poor immigrants to Canada, who were at times treated in ways verging on racist

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I think that a large part of what fascinates me about Canadian history is the many, overlapping layers of colonialism, of groups colonising, colonised, and both

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 04/01/2025

People of the hegemonic majority have no ability to distinguish between "marginalized demographics have been denied epistemic authority to speak on their experiences" and "I should find a dumbass with specific identities to cosign all my shitty opinions".

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 03/01/2025

I'm doing some smarmy well ackshualy bitch shit here but the robots in the play that coined the word, RUR (1920), are dehumanised disposable workers grown using an entirely biological process, considered less than human, who ultimately prove that those who consider them that are wrong

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

More people should read Cicero's Letters. There has never been a better way to see the utter thickness of rich men who have fallen upwards all their lives by virtue of birth. All while Cicero - the master of compromise- is trying to point out that there is no compromising with chaos and malice.

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gabby @lachanoptera.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

important in any field: people with terrible ideas will also have good ones, have done good work, and to salvage the useful parts is the best way to make better work oneself

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad? a guy wanted to get richer What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

There is a hole in the world, a void, an emptiness, shaped like the art you haven't made yet.

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