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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️

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trans writer, scientist, activist, data nerd signal: madye2.39 / madycast.com@gmail.com subscribe to @transnews.network she/her/south asian/plural catgirl meow btw

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 8m
oh I see yeah I appreciate the thought but I don't mind it either way, I'm used to it at this point
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rita @ritatreats.bsky.social · 12m
the needle news and their hit pieces on erin reed are now being shared by jesse singal, whos tying it to "misinformation on youth gender medicine" connect the dots
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 10m
no worries at all I don't care about likes
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 14m
can't say the same about this outlet which is basically just dirtbag tabloid journalism and clickbait without regards to the community at all
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 15m
I famously don't particularly like Erin Reed but the amount of hatred and tear downs she's been getting since she started suggesting people not vote for anti-trans Democrats is absolutely ridiculous and uncalled for. If nothing else, I can believe that Erin does genuinely care about trans people.
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LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD @yiff.com · 1h
I believe my previous criticism of your outlet /yourselves remains salient this is embarrassing at this point. i have no further choice but to start suggesting you wind this down and attempt to aid our community in a manner more aligned with your skills suggesting will become increasingly intense.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 19m
bsky.app/profile/mady...
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 20m
yup shared on twitter as well, and ofc guest appearance by Ben Ryan
Jesse Singal

@jessesingal.com

I have always thought Erin Reed was arguably the largest source of left- wing misinformation on youth gender medicine, but I definitely didn't see this coming.

theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...

Reporting For Years

Erin Reed Has Been

Hiding Al- Generated Text in Her Reporting For

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1 hr

Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter.bsky.social

I did.

Matt

@matthewblott.com

Laziness?
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 20m
yup shared on twitter as well, and ofc guest appearance by Ben Ryan
Jesse Singal

@jessesingal.com

I have always thought Erin Reed was arguably the largest source of left- wing misinformation on youth gender medicine, but I definitely didn't see this coming.

theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...

Reporting For Years

Erin Reed Has Been

Hiding Al- Generated Text in Her Reporting For

15

1 hr

Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter.bsky.social

I did.

Matt

@matthewblott.com

Laziness?
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 22m
if your articles are being shared positively by Jesse Singal, you're probably not actually doing the work in support of trans people as much as you think you are! (this is about the new The Needle hit piece about Erin Reed)
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 1h
eg there's a billion small things about writing styles of AI, like paragraph length, word choice, etc, so inevitably if you look hard enough it's not surprising that some of those indicators would match up with a human writer. but it's all unverifiable and unprovable without concrete evidence
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 1h
it could be true but the level of evidence you need to really make a credible accusation like this is basically a watermark or an admission of guilt. anything otherwise is irresponsible since there's no actual reliable indicator of AI vs human writing, and all of the evidence could be cherry-picked
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 1h
honestly I would be careful even boosting the article because odds are high it's pretty much just libel and retracting this kind of misinformation is hard once it's out there. plenty of legit stuff to criticize Erin for but this reads like a poorly justified hit piece with flimsy evidence at best
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 1h
what would "socialism with transgender characteristics" look like to you? (working on writing something..)
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 21h
One more to the list of creepy transphobic scientists who wanted to be funded by Epstein
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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE SHOULD IMPROVE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT.

Yet you are trans. Curious.

Enjoy the camps
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey, remember how us radical trans extremists were warning that you have to go on the attack against transphobic Dems immediately because otherwise other politicians will take the lack of consequences as permission and the bigotry will spread? Yeah...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U.S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 29/09/2026
waow
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 29/09/2026
I'm guessing there won't be months of bullshit congressional hearings and bipartisan condemnation of how Cornell enabled rapists though
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
Constantly frustrated that the project to change the meaning of the words 'socialist', 'communist' and 'anarchist' by capitalists to render them toothless has largely been successful.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 29/09/2026
the power of a well-connected nepo baby lol
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
stop fucking quoting whoever the fuck this is that showed up from nowhere a year ago christopher street is not a "transgender advocacy group" it's some weird new dem electoral money vacuum grift nobody knows these people. they do not represent us on anything what the fuck please stop
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Tyler Hack, executive director of the Christopher Street Project, a transgender advocacy group, said Spanberger showed the way because she took on the issue head- on "but also didn't throw anyone under the bus." The Human Rights Campaign cited Spanberger's response in its guidance for 2026 candidates, which in part urges them to

"address concerns directly."
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The same people who will label all LGBTQ people as "groomers" will go to bat for gang rapists.
A tweet that reads "Let's see if anvone has the "balls" to name this Jane Doe so we can all evaluate her veracity, and that of her lawvyers. since her lawsuit didn't hesitate to name & shame 7 of her peers as gang-rapists. And neither dic this melodramatic editorial in the Cornell student newspaper"
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 28/09/2026
Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads. Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/28/i...
thebuckeyeflame.com
Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads
Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Upside down society
@SMohyeddin
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.@Cornell arrested 22 students for protesting a genocide but seven students who drugged and raped a woman for seven hours were made to write essays about it.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 28/09/2026
I-bonds on Treasury direct are 4.26% though there's a loss of some months of interest on withdrawal
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 28/09/2026
kinda classist lowk
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 28/09/2026
your brain on zero Marxist analysis
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 28/09/2026
Good. DSA should learn to not endorse candidates before they even come to us saying that they are running. It’s foolish to waste all our discussion and planning on someone we don’t even know will run. Not even including all the other reasons I dislike the idea and the problems I have w her
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 27/09/2026
yeah the US so badly wants a two tiered slave labor system like the Gulf states but has to do it through undocumented labor to get around constitutional concerns around apartheid society , and then blames the undocumented workers for the labor system the US created
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026
I find it infuriating that nations who for decades have profited off the exploitation of immigrant labour, who have indeed engineered the conditions for that exploitation through making the countries of origin nigh unliveable, now dare to turn around and call migrants a drain. Absolutely maddening.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 27/09/2026
yea (for Iran)
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
some liberals and “leftists” seem to love getting played by fascists like a fiddle
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
across north america if you include University of Toronto
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
giving me a trillion dollars is the most effective altruist thing to do because there's a 0.0001% chance I might use the money to create a machine that creates quadrillions of conscious beings that experience constant euphoria and joy for trillions of years
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
bentham was the original redditor. he believed he was being silenced by a conspiracy of aristocrats against the common good of the people when the panopticon wasn't implemented by the monarchs during his lifetime
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
you should do this for free anyway
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
you'll have to ask my agent for more information on that :)
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
bentham was the original redditor. he believed he was being silenced by a conspiracy of aristocrats against the common good of the people when the panopticon wasn't implemented by the monarchs during his lifetime
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
wow haha morality is just a math equation there could be no negative side effects of this belief whatsoever
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
it's funny how utilitarianism is still conceived by anyone as a serious ideology when it's been used to justify multiple historical fascist movements and the guy who created the ideology literally invented the term panopticon as a design for a prison and advocating that it should be implemented
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
yes utilitarianism is a stupid ideology
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/09/2026
Indeed at the very least avoiding anything tied to defense contracting and finance
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