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Literal Ham

@literalham.bsky.social
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they/them . disabled, trans, trekkie. i post political takes sometimes but im just some guy from Massachusetts

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I dont know from basketball so it took me a sec to process that Schmitt got every single aspect of this game wrong, except the sport. Atlanta: ❌️ Professional: ❌️ Men's: ❌️ Maryland: ✅️ College: ✅️ Women's: ✅️
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
writing an application essay for grad school is really challenging me to narrativize my life in a way other than "I'm an enormous fuck-up." I've deconstructed how my disability affected me outside of my control, but I've never fully challenged and rewritten the *narrative* to incorporate those facts
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is about the ADHD article but there's also an argument to be made that its upstream of the differences in institutional transphobia in the UK vs the US.
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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 26/09/2026
John Darnielle if he was a vampire: I hope you cut yourself shaving tomorrow, I hope it bleeds all day long! Yes!!! Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises, but ve're pretty sure they're all vrong! I hope it stays dark forever! Ah ah aha!!!!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
4) More than 2 GJers appear to have left -- if that's right, they didn't have ENOUGH grand jurors to present on October 16. emptywheel.net/2026/09/24/s...
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Sheri Mecklenburg's Mic Drop - emptywheel
When Sheri Mecklenburg told Andrew Boutros she wanted to intervene in the Broadview 6 proceedings, which will make it far harder for him to scapegoat her, he threatened to fire her. So she quit. And ...
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Medicine in the pioneer days in America:
An illustration from the American Girl Dolls book "Meet Kirsten". The illustration is of a 19th century mother holding her daughter as they stand watching figures walking away in the distance. Caption: Marta's coffin being carried for burial. 

Kirsten is the pioneer-era American Girl. Marta was another little girl she befriended while emigrating to America. Marta dies of cholera in the first Kirsten book.
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Eric @brutallyzen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Realistically the only reason that a Boston media outlet would cover a story anywhere west of 128, much less as far afield as Greenfield, is as “look at these freaks” clickbait. Otherwise, that part of the state simply doesn’t exist.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*turns a chair around and sits down backwards on it like a youth pastor* You know who else was a "senior administration official"?
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But the real "senior administration official" was the friends we made along the way 💖 🌈
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
thank you for my life. data personalization on, then close and reopen the app worked. i was age-gated on mobile but still an adult on desktop which was weird.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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George Bush Classroom Visit
Alt: George Bush in a classroom, an aide whispers to him "A second plane has hit the towers"
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Law-enforcement agencies from around the country queried #Flock data from the #Holyoke PD for immigration-related purposes more than 1,500 times, and the police chief said he didn't even know they were sharing the data. Astounding incompetence that should get him fired immediately. #Massachusetts
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'I was surprised': Holyoke police chief didn't know ICE-related queries were tapping city's plate reader data
From January through August of this year, more than 1,500 searches of Holyoke’s data from outside police departments, ranging from Texas to Indiana, had justification that included the word “immigrati...
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you that Hegseth is running the military like a megachurch youth pastor, which as a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you is a bad idea.
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's not unique for this or anything but one of the things I appreciate about Star Trek is how it's always insisted an autistic person could be the hero of the story.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/09/2026
Never forget that for many of these tech billionaire creeps, "disrupt" has always just meant "break the fucking law."
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One thing I did come away with is that while doubtless considerably more aware of Canadian wrath than Americans seem to be, I definitely underestimated it myself. If asked to describe in one word the vibe off Carney's choice of words, I think I'd have to go with: Ukrainian. Canada *means* it.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
was this a "shots fired" at Talarico for his recent Statements, I wonder. Not in a political way. In a shame way. In a "What the fuck is wrong with you?" way.
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For over a year, an unknown entity has been hijacking Bluesky accounts and incorporating them into a spam network that follows real users while serving up a mix of political posts, news links, and plagiarized photos. In recent months, some of the spam accounts' posts have started to go viral.
collage of the profiles of 24 Bluesky spam accounts that engage in bulk follow activity
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is the thing. between Dobbs and anti-trans laws we are in an era, for the first time since post-Reconstruction, where marginalized people are *losing* rights on a massive scale. This is a five-alarm fire, not just for trans people specifically, but for US democracy. This is 1930s Berlin shit.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
people, by and large, do not make judgements about a person based on a principled evaluation of their actions, they make judgements about actions based on what they *already think* of the person. A person's status to them, in-group or out-group, shapes whether they read the exact same statement.
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Boo-tato Gun Kelly @mkay.wtf · 13/09/2026
The Dr Manhattan meme only it’s
Will Stancil harassing trans women
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Hands @anem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Centrists really be like "we must defeat the fascists, but first we must defeat this other group which is both weak and strong." Never important enough for them to listen but somehow powerful enough to blame for their failures.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people
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theotheories.bsky.social @theotheories.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A pattern here is anti trans changes made under a labour government are assumed to be "reasonable and moderate" by people who would oppose them if a right wing government was doing them. This is worse for trans people because cis people just don't believe us when we talk about what is happening.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this is what is happening: you watch your friend push his gf to ground and walk away. she starts screaming at him. you walk up to her, on the ground, and ask what the fuck her problem is. you say "stop screaming like a lunatic. this is why he hits you." thats how fucking evil yall sound
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
they are DARVO-ing *on behalf* of Dem politicians. its more reason why Ds scapegoating trans people is dangerous. abuse survivors will tell you how fast their whole communities turn on them. its way more comfortable to think a victim is a sociopath than to accept the implications of believing them
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
when someone on "their team" turns on trans people, and we shout in pain, its very uncomfortable for them. they dont want to feel like "their team" is bad actually. they convince themselves that the shouting in pain is actually proof that we want Rs to win, so "their team" was right to turn on us
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i'm working on my application essay for a Masters in Social Work program and I fucking hate knowing that whoever reads me essay *will* have to consider, for every essay they read, whether an LLM generated it. I did not need another layer of self-consciousness about writing!! thanks tho!!!
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12/09/2026
I want to hear from Adam now but I also want to hear from Adam in ten years, in twenty, in fifty. We know so little about how fostered and adopted children feel as they age, grow up, have their own children. A whole system predicated on what’s best for the child, as if children are static creatures.
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Mr. Spooky, If You're Nasty @mrskippy69.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026
Boots Riley furiously taking notes
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freaky ghost bed @zephyrmoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I love boosters (2026)
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ive been deep on lawsky but is there social worksky?
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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don't know how I can gently break this to people but when you embrace transphobia you literally embrace Jeffrey Epstein's greater societal project.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We need to prosecute all of these corrupt, destructive administration officials, right up to the president himself. It’s the only way. Then we need to set about dismantling everything the right has built since the 1970s. Wipe away every bit of power the fascists have.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AWARD EMERITUS FOR STATLER AS JACOB MARLEY
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“But ‘she’ is an actor because ‘she’ is a single creation who can appear in different roles in different projects!” You are describing Gonzo as Charles Dickens.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
what do you mean [alt text] "Light Yagami singing on the TV"
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Jennifer Lawrence: What Do You Mean?
Alt: Jennifer Lawrence barely holding back tears: What Do You Mean?
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
need someone to set this to some parody lyrics and an uptempo klezmer beat, or possibly ska. either way we can rest assured he would have hated it 🤗
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
its a tough competition, but this clip may be the most "Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't understand how anything works" that anything has ever been
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School
What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
Much of the talk was about how constitutional meaning has always been contested, and as I was digging up examples, I was delighted to come across a resolution adopted by Maine's state legislature, going off after Dred Scott enjoy! blackfreedom.proquest.com/wp-content/u...
Screenshotted text from the resolution, reading:

Resolved, That the extra-judicial opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dred Scott is not binding in law or conscience upon the government or citizens of the United States, and
that it is of an import so alarming and dangerous, as to demand the
instant and emphatic reprobation of the country.

Resolved, That the Supreme Court of the United States should, by peaceful and constitutional measures, be so reconstituted as to relieve it from the domination of a sectional faction, and make it a tribunal whose decisions shall be in harmony with the Constitution of the
United States and the spirit of our institutions, and at whose hands all classes of persons in the United States, without regard to race or locality, shall receive even and exact justice.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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