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I don't vote for "lesser evil" anymore. I say we drag the problem to the front door of every goddamned moderate who thinks 2024 was my fault for actually owning a spine. If you don't demand morality of a candidate, go win without it, or suffer with the rest of us. See what bus tread feels like.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 5h

Go persuade the empty suit whose opinion drifts with the wind. I'm not budging. My life matters. You need me to capitulate because you can't win without me? GO TELL THE CANDIDATE. They seem pretty convinced they don't need me. So leave me the hell alone and take it up with them.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 5h

So to everyone who holds this position: I double down. BET. Whether I'm dealing with Vance's transphobia or Newsom's transphobia, I'm going to be out here fighting for my goddamned life, and I am going to be fucking FIERCE about it. Do you *truly* have the guts to endure another term of this?

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 6h

This is the same mindset as the streamers who attacked trans people for daring to impose on them the request the streamers not literally provide paid marketing for a woman funding a genocide. It's not the reality that they're bad allies harming us. It has to be that we're too uppity and petty.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 6h

Show me a single one of these people who has *ever* swing in the direction of a candidate for taking a Diet Coke position in hopes that they'll pick up more Coke with Real Sugar votes. Because Real Coke voters never, ever, pick Diet Coke instead. And the last decade of polls has demonstrated that.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 6h

If a candidate took a position that alienated an election-losing level of the base, *that's on the goddamned candidate.* They were supposed to know how it polled, they were supposed to know how how many people would not vote over it, they were supposed to *represent* the will of their constituents.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 6h

This sort of milquetoast garbage is *always* a flimsy excuse to punch down. It is thoroughly unconcerned with victory in the election, let alone our safety. It is establishing precedent to blame the marginalized for candidates with terrible positions losing elections for holding terrible positions.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 13h

Fun trivia: the two terms transphobes adopted for trans women (AGP and HSTS) literally just describe the two forms of trans SW media at the time. They don't match people's lived experience, and have no known correlation to any study or research outside of Blanchard, who coined them in the 1980s.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14h

That is so damn cool.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The question at hand is "are rules and law universalist" and the position they are taking is "hell no, they only exist to bludgeon the out-groups with."

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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I stand corrected. I originally responded to the art style by saying "I think I see the thing they were trying to do, but I wish they'd tried it harder." They're actually doing "the thing" all the way. Watching more and knowing the puppet history helps me see it now. Looking forward to release.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Overview Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Neat concept. As a long time Bionic Commando fan, it's always interesting to see a platformer that intentionally substitutes a different verb for the game skill normally occupied by "jump".

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How do you play a platforming game when you can't jump? Ladder Lad #gaming

YouTube video by Alpha Beta Gamer

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fun fact: the weekend I met that girl, my closest friend had been secretly tasked by that girl's brother to ensure I did *not* hook up with her. My friend, crucially, failed to *tell* me this. I absolutely would have listened. It was honestly the best, if not the only feasible, plan to execute.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I flew into Dallas once to vacation for a week with a girl I'd started dating long-distance. Apparently my airport "hello" kiss was "too aggressive" in a way it hadn't been a few months prior, and she decided she was done with me. I sat alone in a guest room for the next six days and flew home.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gumbo has become a mainstay in my house, to the point that my ex hates it now. If a food is a delivery vehicle for hot sauce (or any other vinegar product), I've probably overdone it for meal prep.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Enough of the past. I'm healed and integrated. I put in the work. (My therapist says I should write a book about my trauma recovery.) I remember I was capable of amazing things even when I was broken. I can only imagine what I can do now. One more task - find a new home - and I'll get started.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My divorce is a critical stage in my transition. Not because it's the end of a connection to someone who married the old me. Because I got here by rejecting the premise that my needs came second to the flawed expectations of others. Once I decided that for my gender, the rest followed.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I married someone who was just like my mother. Both saw my accomplishments in life and thought to thenselves, "this belongs to me." Both took my desire to please them as a signal that they were better than me. Both delighted in cruelty when they felt I'd justified it by not being enough for them.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Everything and everyone I lost in transition was because I had built an entire life around contorting my persona into a shape that was easier and more comfortable for the rigid people I'd built that live around. People who gladly kept themselves warm from the act of me immolating myself for them.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Without hyperbole, these last few days have been a bigger deal than coming out. The words that were expected to change my life were "I think I need to live as a woman." But it turns out the ones that truly fixed me were "don't talk to me that way." Choosing THAT for myself changed my life more.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's done. As of October 13th, I'm a free woman. I've never lived as myself, never *been* Leira, a day in my life where I wasn't also living in terror of her. Until the day the papers were signed. Until the chaos and destruction she mistakes for power and control were no longer my job to contain.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I just want to take a moment mid-congratulating you on a design that actually worked in 3D reality AND resolved two competing artistic visions, to say that "Ravedigger" is just a banger, chefs-kiss *perfection* of a Transformers naming.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hot take: for its endless, terrible faults, the relentless AI push might inadvertently correct one previous social media fubar: Pivot-to-video. I don't trust AI summaries, but I do miss the old ability to acquire a piece of information without slogging through an 8 to 22 minute YouTube video.

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Cat Blackard 🌈🌴💗✨ @catblackard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

COVER REVEAL! The Egg Prime Directive is a trans rom-com adventure novel by @mothmother.com. I'm the editor, graphic/logo designer, *and* am one of the leads in the future audio drama-style audiobook. Join the mailing list for release date and updates: eggprimedirective.com

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Spent my childhood preferring She-Ra to He-Man, identifying with Lady Jaye, and watching Jem in secret. Spent my teens mocked for not showering with the boys because I didn't feel safe. Spent my twenties explaining to anyone who'd listen that I noticed I love women the way lesbians do. No signs.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Worse, late or missing assignments were permitted with such lenience that I ended one school year making up six months of homework in a couple hours. Definitely did NOT help me with college study habits. I felt like Wimp Lo from Kung Pow. "We trained them wrong on purpose, as a joke."

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So over time my study habits degraded because I could slam together any assignment or test prep right before the bell and still lead the pack. I wasn't being challenged in a damn farm town that graduated seniors that read at a fourth grade level. They admitted they didn't know what to do with me.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And that was a "me" problem. My mother gleefully describes 5th grade on like I failed her somehow because I did 45 minutes of busy work in 15 minutes and read Readers Digests and the encyclopedia because that's what I had. I was supposed to be building my academic scaffolding around that age.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I spent my 40s unpacking the "you're not good enough" trifecta that was my childhood of abuse for gender, social, and academic nonconformity. The academic abuse was brutal because I was *literally* a 99th percentile when I tried but lived in an environment that didn't encourage or reward it at all.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Did you try" isn't typically asking you to verify your certainty. It's asking if there's a chance the speaker can avoid engaging with the real you by pretending it's not real. It's a request for plausible deniability about misgendering you so they don't have to process anyone's gender at all.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have always peed sitting down unless forced. I've had lovers struggle to identify erogenous zones on me because those bits aren't mentally wired the same as men. My ex crudely said "you're talented, but you f___ like you don't know what to do with your own body." I tried, and I failed *so* hard.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A year into transition, my now-ex actively bitched about how "goddamned girly" I was. I was makeup-free and wearing T-shirts and jeans, sometimes pre-transition ones. But I'd stopped all the conscious mannerisms I'd adopted over forty years because pretending to be masculine had kept me safe.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Did you try..." I tried so hard that the secret to feminizing my mannerisms was to STOP TRYING to be male. I stopped slouching like I didn't want to be perceived. I let myself do the "power walk in heels" stride that came naturally, the one everyone said looked wrong but couldn't explain why.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I had a kid, realized I'd checked the last box on the "Straight Men Do This So I'd Better Do This" checklist, contemplated living the rest of my life as a man, and within sixty seconds my brain crashed with a permanent existential crisis so massive in scale, it took five years to figure out *why*.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For several years, I said that transition "cost me everything." I see it differently now. It was the first time I decided I needed something, & that the beliefs of others didn't make it less of a need. I only lost the people in my life that chose to be incompatible with me putting my needs first.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh, I've wanted one for years - most of ours are ugly - and it's $5 non-personalized. But I don't remember until my plates need renewed, and you can't renew plates and change them at the same time, at least not online, and our DMV is appointment-only now.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I'm going to see if I can get the cool art plate while I renew.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Transferring wealth completely out of the governance in which it is generated is actually a tremendous hassle, compared to the relatively paltry bribes it takes to persuade a few bobbleheads to tell the public that the oligarchs' threat of leaving and taking all the money with them is actually real.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is not like porting Doom 64, which had unique content. SNESdoom is strictly worse than DOSdoom. They portslopped it to the original platform and made it categorically worse than lovingly handcrafted ports that already exist. I was modding in 1994. The *soullessness* of portslop infuriates me.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I got to make a little girl's day today when she saw my name tag. She'd never seen a woman with her own name before.

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RadarExile @radarexile.net · 10/10/2026

I am so stealing this. 💜

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am a six foot tall weighted plushie: a great source of comfort and support, but a surprisingly poor choice of thing to try to push over or kick around.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I chose "silk hiding steel". I am caring, empathic, deeply understanding, and quite open to compromise; but also someone whose limits are best left untested, and who is immediately and firmly going to no-sell any alternate reality you try to pitch. Fear the gentle woman with firm boundaries.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm not saying it shouldn't happen more. But especially on a DLC level, knowing what can go into having dialogue reviewed by multiple companies at once, alongside repeatedly scheduling (possibly popular and thus very densely booked) VAs to keep recording new lines... I get why it doesn't sometimes.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now apply "most of the content they could steal to train on wasn't commercially in-use assets, it was dated examples of individual tutorial elements surrounded by base mediocrity" to coding. You get the same result: "looks like it was made by five low-experience people who didn't collaborate."

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Why do we have an adult child no-contact crisis? Why does this generation not seem to know how to socialize?"

The Venture Brothers sit on their beds that teach them at night in lieu of their father actually bothering to do so himself.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What sucks is that mods are passion projects, and these people are passionless. I know someone who has been supporting a Quake 3 mod in their spare time since 1998. Show me a portslopper who would fully support their work for even a year. They will have moved onto the next source of cheap praise.

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