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Madisyn Parisi (they/them)

@madisyn-writes.bsky.social
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Freelance journalist who covers tech, media, and power. Dirty optimist. 🖊️ Reporting at The Backbone: the-backbone.beehiiv.com ✍️: Mothership, Rewire News Group, Assigned Media, The Objective, etc. Signal: marsbars.81

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 6h
Anyway, who wants to see pictures of my gay cat
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 7h
AI 🤝 Rape culture All the way down.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h
Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 15h
Saoirse’s clocking a really manipulative detail here that flew right over my head. Geller’s hard at work trying to convince us he’s the rare reformed rapist. Don’t fall for it.
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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Transphobic doctors warning girls against HRT like: “Sure, it’ll turn you into a woman, but then your odds of being attached to the front of a ship for superstitious sailors goes up by 80%.”
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reposting an oldie of mine because god, these men don’t change, and I’m too tired out from all the evil on my feed to write new words right now. In this nonapology, Geller uses at least three of the methods I name in this piece to preserve his reputation:
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The Epstein Files' Blueprint for Laundering the Reputation of Abusers
Have you ever noticed that the world's worst men all sound exactly the same?
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Candidates who don’t care about trans rights won’t support women’s rights, reproductive rights, etc, example 9876894847483
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/10/2026
Real fuckin minefield for sexual assault survivors lately huh.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/10/2026
Was pleasantly reminded of this thread of mine today; might be useful for some of you girls
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am WRITING TODAY. I am HITTING MY WORD COUNT. I am EXPLAINING THE COMPLEX LEGACY OF QUEER MONSTROSITY.
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Third Way is literally trying to turn a big dial that says “Transphobia” and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on The Price is Right 😭
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are barely any women or black people in games media and I can think of a couple reasons why but no one will like it
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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David @dsalmon1449.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And I really need white leftists specifically to understand this
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sad I have to point to this sign for multiple days in a row about a blatant smear planted by rabidly anti-trans figures, pretending like conflict at a random lesbian bar is any sort of wider issue. Have some sense, y'all. At least the bare minimum so fash can't play you like a goddamn fiddle.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026
im very busy
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 27/09/2026
atp you shouldnt be reacting to the first-order content of any publication by any major media outlet. you should be considering second-order effects: why did they publish this. what is this meant to cause or make me feel and who is it benefitting. take nothing in the news at face value
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the storm’s name? macklemore
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really think we’ve got to start calling these “concerns” what they are: being pro-segregation. If you don’t think trans kids should get to play with their peers, you’re pro-segregation for children, and I don’t care about your concerns because that’s fundamentally evil.
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So I'm hearing they...got in the zone? AUTOZONE???!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PRIMETIME, which portrays Chris Hansen as a twisted egomaniac, is really good. It’s also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Hansen, who has long turned child sexual abuse into a spectacle centering himself—at the expense of actual victims. spitfirenews.com/p/chris-hans...
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Chris Hansen was never the hero
On 'Primetime' and the real child abuse investigations that Hansen led astray.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh hey look, exactly on schedule. Anybody feel like apologizing for adding to the pile on of a marginalized person because of an *obviously* bad faith article, as confirmed by the bar, and using it to smear a couple of marginalized groups as a bonus?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pointing and laughing at people who created a community to try and protect the disabled and chronically ill is not allyship actually.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today: WIRED unravels the mystery of why women won’t fuck Evil Gary, a hard worker at the orphan crushing factory. There’s a real story here I’d write: Tech bros don’t care about consent. They feel entitled to your data, your body. And after two decades of abuse, it’s finally catching up to them.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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