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Melissa Lima

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Trans girl 22 yo From Portugal 🇵🇹

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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's probably going to be a bit before I can draw again, so I drew this. I do not like it, but I wanted to jump on the Petra Parker bandwagon before I was totally and horrifically behind the times. Which I kinda am already. I know. I wish I were better at this, too.
So tired. 

This is really terrible, but it is Petra Parker, the trans Spider-Woman. She is a white lady with shoulder-length brown hair. It is mussy.

She is hopefully looking exhausted, sitting on the ledge of a building, wearing her Spider suit, except for the the mask, which is held loosely in her left hand. She has one leg bent up, and her right arm rests on it, her hand pressing lightly against her face, which has seen better days.

Her shoulder of her suit is torn, and her arm has scratches and a bruise. Jeff the landshark is splooding next to her, looking a little battered as well.

Jeff is here as a sort of Blåhaj proxy.

I dunno.

Did I mention I was tired?

On the wall next to Petra is a Papaya King cup and a hot dog on a paper plate.

Um.

Below our friends the wall bears a small but of graffiti, which reads "Trans Folks Have Always Existed!" and a dumb looking trans pride heart.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“ @kpc.bsky.social writes with a scientist’s sharpness and observational power about what it means to be a queer, non-binary immigrant and find belonging and build a career between the edges of rigid societal expectations.” — @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social
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Immigrant Strong: June 2026 Issue
On World Cup fever, remembering an Iranian writer, and American subjectivity
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Mys.TraceyTonight @traceytonight.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My friend Rhys is suffering from a severe infectious disease that may cause heart damage unless treated. The goal is at $500 of $4,100 currently, and it would mean everything to me if you could donate & share this around, to keep him safe. www.gofundme.com/f/help-rhys-...
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Donate to Help Rhys Get Life-Saving Dental Treatment, organized by Anne Arredondo
WHO I AM Hello, my name is Anne and I’m trying to save my friend, … Anne Arredondo needs your support for Help Rhys Get Life-Saving Dental Treatment
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 21/07/2026
🌞 For a limited time only (21-24 July), you can pre-order Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life with 25% OFF at Waterstones (online only)! www.waterstones.com/book/darwin-... #books #booksky #science #histsci #queerhistory @yalebooks.bsky.social 🌈📚🦋🗃️
Promotional banner advertising 25% off RRP Books Coming Soon at Waterstones. It has a yellow background, the jacket design of my book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, a blue circle with the text 'Pre-order now with code: SUMMER26, additional text '21-24 July - Online Only', and some additional graphic design featuring coloured books arranged in circles.
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Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Clara E. Mattei vai estar hoje em Lisboa na Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2026, organizada pelo Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, sob o tema “Teorias Críticas do Fascismo”.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.
jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

rowling says: 
Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 30/06/2026
The New York Times came after Mehdi. He came back with receipts. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains why he believes the New York Times is tougher on progressives than on Republicans—and responds after the paper called him out. Read more: zeteo.com/p/mehdi-vs-t...
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
While everyone's "all the love to trans folks" posts are nice and it is good to see support We have been getting them for a decade now. If you want to support trans folks, hire us. Support GFMs and asks for mutual aid. Put yourself between trans folks in public if you see harassment.
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Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Marc Bloch é o primeiro historiador a entrar no Panteão francês, honra reservada a figuras da política, da cultura e das ciências. 👉Recorda este artigo de Lucas Brandão: comunidadeculturaearte.com/a-historiogr...
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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It’s the first day of summer! ☀️ What’s more summery than a celebration of the season with fireworks? 🎆 Enjoy this Utagawa Toyokuni print of fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge, dating to c. 1820! Held by Harvard Art Museum: harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...
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Tiff 🏳️‍⚧️ & Eve Comics @tiffandevecomics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New zines are in!
Box of bw zines labelled Sapphic Panic with a picture of Tiff and Veronica
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 16/06/2026
It’s okay if you can’t blend in with everyone. Because your own unique path is the most beautiful one🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Cherish the parts of you that are different from others. Let’s treasure those differences and keep moving forward. Your world is shining with beautiful, vibrant colors🌈
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
greatest marriage in literature
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Scratched my dog on the neck, and said "wizza wuzza wolfa woo".
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rui tavares @ruitavares.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ainda no finzinho do Dia de Camões: amanhã sai o meu podcast, precisamente sobre a criação deste feriado, como ele faz jus (ou não) a um poeta da mudança, e o que Camões nos pode ensinar para o tempo presente. Espero que gostem!
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Tempo ao Tempo — um podcast de Rui Tavares
Histórias da História, de passado, presente e futuro. Expresso.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"For far too long... mainstream media in the UK has failed the public. It has downplayed the rise of the far right at home while helping manufacture consent for genocide abroad." I make the case for why we need Zeteo UK, which launched today and which needs your support, as subscribers:
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💥 Zeteo UK Is HERE!
Read Mehdi’s announcement, explaining why we're launching a UK-focused Zeteo offshoot, who we’re bringing with us, and how we plan to fix a broken British media.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan! Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night www.cambridge.org/core/books/j... #envhum #envhist #histstm #AsianStudies
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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In Chinese #folklore, Mi Loong (迷龍) is no noble dragon, but the gambling god of the underworld. He commands countless ghostly bettors and is said to mark certain people before birth, binding them to a life of compulsive gambling. Even death brings no escape. 1/3 #gamblingDeity
李某,官縉雲令,以賭博被參,然性好之,不能一日離。病危時,猶拍肘牀上作呼盧聲。其妻泣諫曰:「氣喘勞神,何苦如是?」李曰:「賭非一人所能,我有朋類數人,在牀前同擲骰盆,汝等特未之見耳。」已而氣絕。 忽又蘇醒,伸手向家人雲:「速燒紙錁,替還賭錢。」妻問:「與何人決勝?」曰:「陰司賭神號稱迷龍,其門下有賭鬼數千,皆受驅使。探人將托生時,便請迷龍作一花押,納入天靈蓋中。此人一落母胎,性便好賭,雖嚴父賢妻,萬不能救。《漢書.公卿表》以博掩失侯者十余人。可見此神從古有之。或且一心貪賭,有美食而讓他人食,有美妻而讓他人眠,皆迷龍作祟也。但陰間賭法與世間不同,其法:聚十余鬼,同擲十三顆骰子;每子下盆,有五彩金色光者,便是全勝,群鬼以所蓄紙錁全行獻上。迷龍高坐抽頭,以致大富。群鬼賭敗窮極,便到陽間作瘟疫,詐人酒食。汝等此時燒紙錢一萬,可以放我生還。」家人信之,如其言,燒與之,而李竟瞑目長逝。 或曰:「渠又哄得賭本,可以放心大擲,故不返也。」~《子不語》
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The far right presents itself as pro-worker and pro-“common man” (yes, man) in its propaganda but its “welfare” policies are always just clientelistic crumbs as massive wealth goes to its own cronies and the rich who jump the bandwagon.
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Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax
New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity
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sanrio daily @sanrio-daily.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
sanrio x chiikawa 💫
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Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh @asianstudiesed.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Visit the Japan Forum Blog — short reads on Japan, drawn from the latest research: www.bajs.org.uk/japan-forum-...
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Blog - bajs
Short, accessible pieces on Japan drawn from the latest academic research. Free to read on the BAJS website.
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thrilled to have been awarded a Vandervort prize for my recent article "The Invention of the Kamikaze: Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military" by the Society for Military History, as one of the two best articles last year in the Journal of Military History!
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Wyll #1 Fan In The World 🍕 @kittyunlimited.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Asexual flag colour picked from Rin Penrose 2 so you can be rest assured that he is still ace colour themed #RinPenrose #inkpaintrose
A picture of the asexual flag with the colours of the stripes being colour picked from the second model of Rin PenroseThe same picture but with a png of Rin Penrose on top
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 17/05/2026
Everyone deserves to be seen. Everyone deserves to be safe. 🌈  On IDAHOT, we stand with LGBTIQ+ people across Europe, and against hate, discrimination and violence. We protect what matters – freedoms and rights.
Illustration showing a large crowd of diverse people drawn in grayscale, with a triangular spotlight highlighting a smaller group in full colour. A rainbow heart with the intersex-inclusive Progress Pride flag appears on the left side, while an EU flag is placed in the top-right corner. The highlighted group includes people of different genders, ethnicities, hairstyles, ages, and expressions, symbolising LGBTQIA+ inclusion, visibility, and diversity in Europe.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"if you think AOC... is somehow less progressive, less moral, less worthy of your support than MTG; if you as a leftist think she is better than AOC in any way, then I think you need help." My deep dive on AOC vs MTG, especially their records on Gaza & Israel. I bring receipts:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene? Time For a DEBUNKING
YouTube video by Zeteo
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I wonder what the international headlines are going to be after Reform's victory in the local elections.... "Hard Right Unstoppable" "The Rise of the Far Right" "Fascism Sweeps the Globe" ... Hungary is so last month!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Should Pay Attention to Keir Starmer’s Fall
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/09/2025
Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I'm thrilled to announce "Global Samurai I" - a special issue of Japan Review, featuring 11 open-access articles and with a wonderful cover by Tetsuya Noguchi. This research feeds into and builds upon the "Samurai" exhibition now on at the British Museum 1/12 nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/search?searc...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/04/2026
What was taxation like in the ancient world? #TaxDay In the Assyrian Empire, the imperial core extracted resources in the forms of taxation and tribute from the settlements it took over, meaning wealth disparity increased as the empire expanded. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Map of northern Mesopotamia, with arrows pointing from regions of the Assyrian Empire expected to pay tribute and regions expected to provide ‘gifts’ to the imperial core.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal. Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November. It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/04/2026
Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"We have not abandoned each other, because we love each other." In 1943, a young French woman spoke these words to a Nazi interrogator. I Will Not Abandon You by @schuneke.bsky.social recovers the hidden history of queer women in Nazi Germany. Discover more: bit.ly/4bW6Z70 @ankahajkova.bsky.social
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The author, anti-fascist partisan, and Nazi death camp survivor Primo Levi died on this day in 1987.
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vargas @volksvargas.pt · 11/04/2026
Parabéns a todos os que sonharam com este país
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Discover the first complete translation of the Dialogues of Confucius into English, with a detailed introduction discussing Confucian philosophy, the history of the text, & the debates around its authenticity. Out now (5 May UK pub). Take a look inside: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Dialogues of Confucius: The Complete Text by Confucius
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Dire read…
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‘Assault on justice’: how far-right attacks are threatening rule of law in Europe
Judicial independence is under threat as populist politicians target judges and authoritarian governments attempt constitutional reforms
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Former owner and president of Olympique Lyonnais loses mayoral election in Lyon!
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Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A iniciativa está aberta à subscrição pública e pretende mostrar aos deputados que existe uma parte significativa da sociedade civil que não aceita qualquer passo atrás em matéria de direitos humanos. Sabe mais: comunidadeculturaearte.com/portugal-pri...
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Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Ao longo da sua vida, Habermas ligou a filosofia e a política, o pensamento e a ação. A sua autoridade moral valeu-lhe inúmeras distinções em todo o mundo. Sabe mais: comunidadeculturaearte.com/morreu-o-fil...
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī "Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me A new moon will appear, my sun will shine." A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and back with some partial view of the sides. At the bottom is an eBL watermark showing that the tablet is about 5 inches wide. (eBL stands for electronic Babylonian Library)
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Whatever the sector - businesses, courts, lawyers, media, military, parties, universities - the pattern is the same: - the elites mainly collaborate - the masses mainly stay passive - and some everyday heroes resist
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women. And I am thinking about their mothers.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Good to see the Harper crowd going crazy over this. The Atlantic and NYT are blowing up over this, right…. right?
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Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own
The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.
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