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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

jfc. and here's me too embarrassed to make a gofundme for FFS to ease the crippling disphoria for fear that it'd look extravagant, despite the fact id never be able to afford it otherwise. I might need to rethink that. shame is clearly optional.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

as a trans woman, I am proudly afab-presenting. I think. probably? 🤔

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

banned from the r/unitedkingdom subreddit for suggesting that Wes Streeting should be bullied for the content of his character rather than his sexuality, and by that measure he's not bullied nearly enough. apparently that's hateful. well, maybe it's hateful towards Wesley, but I'm ok with that.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

fuck yeah! I'm looking forward to seeing how the vst stuff develops. would absolutely love a lil vst version of my mig buff pedal at some point.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

1 Nazi Vs 20 Moderates then.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

you know it's your own party that is undertaking the trans segregation that's happening right now in this country, don't you? you are literally complicit in this and announcing something like this days after the "guidance" came into place is tone-deaf at best. sort it out.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

the app is also mainly hrt focussed and has features for people who have periods, but I've been using it to remind myself to take other meds like my Mounjaro shot because given a chance I'd forget that too. basically - if you have meds on a schedule it can remind you when you need it.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

the app is also largely an excuse to play with atipofoundry.com 's beautiful Geomanist font too. there's not enough chunky typography in my day job right now tbh.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

this is largely the fault of the length of the week and estrogen patches getting an irregular 3/4 day split. how can I be expected to remember that? my choices were simple; learn xcode or make everyone globally stick to an 8 day week. I felt like I needed a challenge so went for the harder option.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can't be trusted to reliably remember my meds (thanks, ADHD!) so I made a stupid little app to send me reminders. in case anyone else would find it useful: apps.apple.com/gb/app/simpl...

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SimpleHRT App - App Store

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

everyone else has contributed measured, eloquent responses as well as I could, if not better. so I'll simply say... go fuck yourselves.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

honestly I've always found it a bit clunky and soap-opera-ish. I gave up on it last season so it sounds like I'm not missing much. it's a shame because the premise and early setup had so much potential.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

did a march with some good friends, was briefly interviewed by the amazing and utterly delightful @jessothomson.co.uk AND had a tiny bit of battenburg. I honestly couldn't imagine a better day. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ACAB includes toilet police 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

something to remind me and big chunky tick-offs for being good 😆

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

yours has a much better message than mine 🫣🤣

Mae's stupid Gothy fan. "Dead Inside But Still Horny" in pink text on a background of black skulls.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

in other news, I've been forgetting to take my HRT and other meds so regularly now that I've forced myself to learn a bit more swiftUI and have a reminders app going through review and available soon! I just needed something simple to bully my ADHD-addled brain into gear and I think I've nailled it.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

trans pride in London today so to paraphrase my friend Matt - I hope nothing goes wrong with the internet today, everyone who can fix it will be busy there for a bit 😘

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

awwww. that's nice. maybe with that money he can buy a new family.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

He's just absolutely guaranteeing that I will never vote labour again as long as I live. this government has been utterly spineless; I hope wooing the bigot vote is worth it for them.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I need a get-rich-quick scheme I think. all my current schemes seem to fall in the get-even-more-skint-quite-slowly category.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I genuinely hate that this made me laugh out loud.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

urgh. murder should be legal/encouraged to deal with this sort of thing. sorry you had to deal with that 🖤

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I've had a couple of great experiences like that where past me's (largely forgotten) wildly optimistic shopping choices have actually paid off well.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I genuinely think it makes water that's fizzier for longer than my old sodastream but no idea if that's the bottle being better quality, the fizzing power being... fizzier. or if it's all in my head 😆

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

the one with the arm to pull (might be the only one?) is super satisfying to use if nothing else 😆 much better constructed than the soda stream it replaced so mine was worth the money. I honestly can't remember how often I replace the gas though 🫣

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Seeing Helmet recently and discovering it was Paige Hamilton and a trio of random teenagers he'd hired off the street beforehand was my introduction to this genre.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

the best lineup was the one that was 50% Strapping Young Lad (although my hot take is that the perfect form of Fear Factory might just be City-era Strapping Young Lad doing Fear Factory covers and we can just ditch the Dino vs Burt Bell drama altogether)

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The new Rainbow Map is out. The UK used to be a beacon for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe, topping the list in 2015, but over the last decade we have dropped year on year. We are now barely scraping a score above the continent’s average.

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Rainbow Map

Europe's LGBTI Rights Rankings 2026

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I wonder what the lisencing implications are of modifying Helvetica, if that's what they've done. I also wonder if that'd be a reason to not admit to doing that in a FOI request...

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Christ, you cunts really need to pick a lane here.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The 1990s, I assume? 🤣

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I don't know about you but I'd quite like to see a crime-fighting pope. Hell, I'd pay good money to see a Batpope.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Right. Let's go do a protest, shall we?

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Or maybe I'm faceblind? Or just undercaffinated?

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You all need to look more like a 64px smudge of pixely preview in real life basically. Give me a fighting chance here.

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The problem with being a uh "destinctive looking" 6ft tran with multicoloured hair is that everyone in the office knows who I am and I spend the first 30 seconds of a conversation bewildered and confused trying to work out who this person is based on a tiny Teams version I've seen of them before

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Ah, fuck. Really sorry for your loss 🖤

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Mae Smith @maehemm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If you don't mind venturing as far as Camden my friend Bonnie is excellent - DoomPuppyTattoo on Insta; she works in the studio that's above the Black Heart pub and is amazing (and a genuinely lovely person)

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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