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Merri

@merri-cae.bsky.social
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Sometimes socially oblivious, or too direct. Over-explainer, but I'll still leave details out. Trying to lead with empathy and understanding above all else. Struggles with applications of Poe's Law.

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liv's evil second cousin twice removed, liv @livfreeorcry.gay · 03/10/2026
do you ever think about how bsky's approach to moderation directly contributed to multiple rapes, and the head of trust and safety never addressed it
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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 22h
One thing that's been bothering me in the last couple days is I have never seen this level of "we should forgive and forget" "rehabilitation" for any woman doing anything perceived as or actually wrong no matter how small compared to literally having sexually assaulted someone.
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🏳️‍⚧️ ⛧ Nɯvꝡɩɛl ⛧ 🏳️‍⚧️ @nuvy-iel.northsky.social · 21h
🦇 Rape culture must be destroyed before rapists can be reformed. The end.
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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 03/10/2026
Everything is misogyny
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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bad week on here for people who don't like rape.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I believe in restorative justice. I want that for Jacob and perhaps he was on that path (though fuck his uni for giving him the meagerest of punishments, but that’s the system working as intended). But he is owed nothing & he owes his/other victims ALL his consideration, which he did not give.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Restorative justice” does not mean he is then owed an audience, or the audience he had prior to us learning about this. And this says nothing of my empathy for his victim who perhaps had to deal with the yearslong public praise for her rapist and now all this shit.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The “restorative justice” convos around Geller l miss the point. Maybe he is/was on that path. But he is owed nothing from us and I have more empathy for victims who found comfort in his work (like myself, I own his fucking book) and now feel betrayed at having emotionally invested in an abuser.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/10/2026
It's true that the "justice" system frequently sides with rapists, lets them off the hook and re-traumatizes victims. And it's true that trusting a punitive carceral system is folly anyway. Effectively, we live in a world where socially and legally, there are no consequences for committing rape.
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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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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 02/10/2026
I want a world where women can exist without constantly worrying about the violence their peers can inflict on them. It hurts every time this happens
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026
You can't be branding large numbers of accounts as "rude" and defaulting to hiding their posts, suspending people aggressively on tenuous interpretations of posts, and then with the other side of your mouth "well if you're so bothered about transphobia you're welcome to Do Your Own Moderation"
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gonna be honest, between Jacob Gellar and Cornell (I went to Ithaca College) it’s been a real shit week. Having just written extensively about rape and assault for a recent video, all this has honestly just hit me awfully. I hate living in a culture where rape is so common, so excused and enabled.
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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look what I found.
Two-panel meme of a TV ad for a flex tape product.

Panel 1: A man, labeled "Bluesky Safety and Moderation", stands next to a giant, transparent tank of water. The tank is labeled "frequent posts hoping that trans people will die". It has a hole in it that water is pouring out of, and the man is winding his arm back to slap the tank.

Panel 2: SLAP! Closeup of his hand slapping tape over the hole. The hand and tape are labeled "mute the reports from trans people as abusive".
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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 02/10/2026
A reminder that queer spaces and progressive spaces are full of people who want to forgive the people they like more than they care about their victims. A reminder that the lexicon of progressivism is easily co-opted. A reminder that no one and nowhere is safe.
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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 02/10/2026
Today, as everyday, was a reminder that it was always the smart decision to not confront my rapist or expose them and that the best I can hope for is that I have enough time left in my life to heal to the point of at least only thinking about what happened once a month at most. So thanks for that
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026
"Institutes of higher education harbour known rape dens where men foster a culture of apathy and contempt towards women and are enabled to commit sexual assault" is perhaps something we should consider more objectionable than we currently do.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not gonna quote post that estrangement article doing the rounds cos I ain't giving them the metrics but part of being in queer community is knowing a lot of people who are estranged from family. None of them broke contact for trivial reasons.
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 24/09/2026
thinking maybe the concept of police arent a remotely good or productive idea and basically just exist for the comfort of the gentry, and that violence is probably better addressed by alleviating poverty, improving mental health & rehab facilities, & focusing on the systemic causes hot take i know
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
halo and doom should be public domain. the first person shooter belongs to the people
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Jess Kali 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🏴608! Don't vote for anti-trans dems! www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They openly call us slurs. They openly call us slurs. THEY OPENLY CALL US SLURS. and the dems do nothing about it.
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Merri @merri-cae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Post your fave Power Rangers/Super Sentai Team. Wrong answers only!
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Dschinghis Khan Dance Performance
Alt: Dschinghis Khan Dance Performance: Moskau, Disco 1979. The video is a looping animation of a German pop group in brightly colored suits shuffling their feet side to side with their arms dramatically crossed across their chest. Frontman Louis Potgeiter is the only one who wears a hat, but the band consists of four men and two women, and despite doing their best, Louis is the only one actually convincingly performing dance moves. The joke is that they're all in brightly colored, shiny, generally monochrome outfits, but it's before Sentai even really existed. They're a proto-Sentai group, if you will.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 20/09/2026
SHONEN WITH GIRLS
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Grymoria ($173/$300) | Mental Health Hiatus @grymoria.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
Whether they've changed or not, whether they've stopped doing it, how long ago it was, or how many times they apologize, if someone did something fucked up, the victims don't have to forgive them. Even if they do forgive them, they're not required to reconnect with them. That's 2 different things.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Decapitated Princess Jackie @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Community - Meow Meow Beenz
YouTube video by jacobvandy
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I’m Rooting for Everybody Black @ehs06702.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
Remember, even when Black people save lives, the system will look for ways to punish them. The Second Amendment doesn't exist for us.
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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A donkey, who in US symbolism typically represents a democrat or the democratic party, is standing in a doorway shaking a first at a woman wearing the colors of the trans pride flag and a black eye. She is slightly hunched and caring a bag. The donkey is shouting, in comic sans "Bitch you better not leave! What are you going to live in the streets and vote for nobody? You'll regret this! I'LL SEE YOU IN THE CAMPS BITCH!"

There's a hand written caption along the bottom reading "Vote Blue No Matter How Many Times He Hits You"

Alt text is making me crazy today, why can't we just attach it to a file? I'm spend more time describing this one frame over and over than I spent drawing it. Also the entry field keeps slipping behind my screen keyboard. 

Anyway the art is sloppy and rushed and I wished I'd included the phrase "I'm the best you'll ever have" into the donkey's rant.
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mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷 @maiar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
please help me by buying my jewellery? it would mean the world to wake up to a sale or something. even some engagement would mean so much <3 tytysm
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 02/09/2026
Transphobia is a quick and easy tell for if someone is a cruel and selfish person underneath. Abusing trans people is very low-hanging fruit for any and all bullies and narcissists to grab, and risks no real punishment whatsoever, so it’s not an attitude kept hidden.
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Sebastian Gat - Looking for work! @sabtherobot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Happy ✨#PortfolioDay 📷Im Sebastian! Im a 3D character artist with 9+ years of experience who loves making all sorts of people and creatures! I was impacted by the the industries layoffs (twice!) and am looking for my next gig~ Let me make some people and critters for you!🫵
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 25/08/2026
The purpose of trans healthcare professionals is to discourage, stymie and prevent as many trans people from accessing that healthcare as possible.
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Merri @merri-cae.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"That's strange, I've seen posts like that all over this site that weren't moderated to such an extreme degree." "Oh, she's trans, you say? Well, if she got caught posting while trans, that's on her." - half this site tomorrow.
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Merri @merri-cae.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is like when some ignorant reporter chimes in on some famous racist who says "I wish no harm to black people". And the reporter always leads with "So inclusive! Diversity Win!" And the full quote ends with "... I just want them to be sent back where they came from." Their view didn't change.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
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Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
the genuine evil that permeates the UK press makes the mere amoral greed of the US press look positively wonderful by comparison
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cya❤️‍🩹cagliostro's wife @cagayc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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TeoPyon @teopyon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
some sketches... #zelink #zelda #リンゼル #totk
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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“How are the people who kill us walking around out there not constantly bedeviled. I am routinely bedeviled and I haven't even done anything evil. I can barely kill a spider without having an existential crisis over it. I am sometimes overcome by weltschmerz whenever I throw out an old toothbrush.“
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The spider women live longer than the spider men obviously. Pretty much across the board. I don’t know why that also tends to be true in most species including ours. Probably because God wants them to have a little respite at the end there to be left alone. To not have someone in their house.
My ailments
I spent like five or ten minutes trying to coax a little spider out of the bathtub so I could get in to soak in peace. On account of my ailments. I always hate the dawning recognition that I’m inside of a metaphor but even more so when I can tell it’s a pedestrian one. This spider's life or death wasn't even creatively inspiring. I already did a whole spider routine last time. 


How are the people who kill us walking around out there not constantly bedeviled. I am routinely bedeviled and I haven’t even done anything evil. I can barely kill a spider without having an existential crisis over it. I am sometimes overcome by weltschmerz whenever I throw out an old toothbrush. You’ve served me well old friend but now it is your time to go to the trash dump. We have the watch. That type of thing. And yet these people whose job it is to represent our interests seem to float freely through the world unbothered and unmolested by either conscience or grief. What has it got to be like to be able to live like that?


I saved it anyway. The spider. Insisted it unto the emancipation of the open screen window like Simba’s annunciation whereafter it presumably went on to live a long and fulfilling life as a spider however long that is on average. Eating as many bugs as it liked. 


Ok well I looked it up and it’s between thirty years on the upper end if you're a tarantula and a few months on the low end if you’re a common household spider which this guy surely was. I guess there is a species called a trapdoor spider than can live up to forty or thereabouts. The oldest one they ever knew of was forty three. That spider was losing its spider hair and had joint pain. So many more joints than us too. 


The spider women live longer than the spider men obviously. Pretty much across the board. I don’t know why that also tends to be true in most species including ours. Probably because God wants them to have a little respite at the end there to be left alone. To not have someo…
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
evergreen
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
[ Pondering.... ]
Illo of a young lady sitting down, hand on hr face with a thinking expression. She has cyan-ish curcly hair that ends in twinkles. She is wearing a big dark brown bow and poofy dark brown dress with light starry patterns on them. Drawn by gdbee / Aug 2026 / paint tool sai2
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 14/08/2026
the thing i want cis people to realize is that trans people just want to live our fucking lives. we're given no opportunities, constantly pushed out of every scene that isn't explicitly trans, and treated like the scum of the earth. if you walked a mile in our shoes, youd react the same as we do.
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
if you say "I am a butterfly in Satan's rose garden" right as you hit publish the video will go viral
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/08/2026
Hey @bsky.support @support.bsky.team your AI is falsifying election results again
Trending box with first line as "Farage wins Clacton seat" for an election that's happening today
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/08/2026
Not a single progressive movement has ever "gone too far".
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
it's slavery, and it's unconstitutional ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
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