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tempest keep truther @mothy.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway

Ben, 64, Northampton, MA, 2014
I identify as an FTM, non-hormone, non-op, transsexual heterosexual man. That's the whole string of it. I was in the lesbian community when I was younger, but I never
really fit. That was the 1970s and there really wasn't the language then about transmen or FTMs or any of that. I didn't have that accessible to me as an identity. I thought, "I'm the only one on the planet like me," but then in 1985, Lou Sullivan sent his little booklet through the mail to the archives I was working on. It was
"Information for the Female-to-male Crossdresser and
Transsexual," a little booklet that he self-published with a little handwritten note that said, "Maybe some people in your archive would want to read this." Even though
he didn't know me, he didn't know who he was sending this to, I read it. I read it and within two hours I called him and I said, "I gotta meet you, because now there's two of us, you know, on the planet." And I flew to San
Francisco to meet him.

When I got there, I dressed up super masculine. I even
wore temporary facial hair, because I wanted to
demonstrate to him that I was a man. So, he opens the door and he is this little frail ninety-eight pound gay guy with a t-shirt on and I thought, "Well, he's a man and he's kinda like me, but he's kinda not like me." We ended up talking for five hours straight in his kitchen. In the middle of it, he told me he had to get up and take his AZT. I hadn't known that he had HIV/AIDS, but I realized
then that I was making the closest friend of my entire
lite, the most pivotal individual for me, and that I was losing him at the same time. We corresponded until he
died and when he died, I started the East Coast FTM
Group because I had nobody and he had asked me to
head up his group in San Francisco, which I couldn't do.

I always felt some resistance to the fact that I didn't
transition medically, but over time I started to find
transsexuals who had not transitioned medically, or who
had transitioned partially and then stopped, like my
friend Leslie Feinberg. Eventually I found more people with the idea that, "I'm already me, I don't need any medical intervention to become me." It took a ten-year
journey with a gender counselor to give myself permission around this, because it is not popular, even
in our community.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 11h

Draw your ocs with these shirts

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

is it so wrong to yearn

a doodle comic with two panels. in the first, an anthro hare character has the thought bubble "maybe a woman calling me bunny would fix me." in the next panel, they clutch their head and hunch forward in pain. the ghost of a screenshot of discord messages is behind them, which has the first person say "i need a girl to kiss" followed by someone asking "do you think that just because you're a lesbian it makes that sentence any less pathetic"

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it’s not me who is wrong, it’s flip canvas horizontally who is wrong

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smolgrape | kinda hiatus @smolgrape.com · 31/03/2026

you should treat a trans person today

"stop using anti transgender language"

instead of "thank you", say "here is $20"
instead of "hey can you grab the door", say "do you want me to send you money"
instead of "have a good day at work", say "here is $20"
instead of "how was your day", say "have $20"
instead of "good morning", say "let me give you money"

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Batman uses his initiative.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 26/09/2026

Anyone had tolerance issues with Legacy Nacelle? His vehicle doesn't seem to be tabbing in correctly.

Transformers Legacy Nacelle - his alternate mode is not fitting together correctly

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Loppi @loppi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I took this photo of the moon last night and I either accidentally moved before the exposure finished or somebody fired their orbital laser at us

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 25/09/2026

Ugly ass AI posters at Watford Asda

Two posters for Watford Asda, clearly made using AI

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you see an increase in cancer diagnosis you don’t impose a wait limit on time it takes people to get assessed. You employ more cancer specialists. People are going after a disability because it’s an easy target. This is state sanctioned suffering, abuse and neglect.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Gav @gavtrdq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was washing the dishes and this idea popped into my head. Real crisis caught on camera.

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Anna 🏳️‍⚧️ - RaptorBricks @raptorbricks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This recent push to rebrand gambling as "gaming" is repulsive.

Screenshot of a toggle in Discord reading "real money gaming"

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Natalie @nataliethenerd.com · 24/09/2026

Irl version

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V. Martin @vmartinwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

cant believe the fine for trespassing here is the same one for pirating movies

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 23/09/2026

ALERT! BOGLINS IN TKMAXX THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No government will ever care about you except for your ability to do work. Talk to your neighbours, care for each other" Spotted in Somerset, UK

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The Count of S 🇧🇲🖼️✍️ @thecountofs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Halo 7 if they let me call the shots

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*lexie @lleyksie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

leopardus tilcayo !

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 21/09/2026

Since I've had to remind multiple people over the last week: Microsoft is still under active BDS protest. That means Xbox and it's subsidies including Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda Yes that means the new Diablo. Yes that means the new DOOM. Yes that means World of Warcraft Forever

nogamesforgenocide.com

No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%.

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 21/09/2026

Well, it would be rude not to! 👀

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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 21/09/2026

My keyboard threw up this emoji and I think it's the funniest shit

In the style of the 💯 emoji - a zero underlined twice, in red.

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Misfire 🔞 @decepticonlackey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve seen this clip before but I thought it wasn’t real 😭

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Marsu @marsusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally got around drawing this animation idea based on the video of a very hungry rabbit.

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 19/09/2026

Virus Metalgreymon is the best Metalgreymon

A photo of 4 vintage Digimon trading cards, all featuring virus Metalgreymon

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Brent/Barb 🏳️‍⚧️ @vibrent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2029 is the 15th anniversary of Transformers 4: Age of Extinction. You know what that means…

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Happy Batman Day!

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, The Mirage did not take bets on “Who Shot Mr. Burns.” (Vegas casinos typically do not do this on fictional TV shows that have writers.) This is a screenshot from the scripted “Springfield's Most Wanted” TV special that aired before the episode in 1995.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

imagefight, warning, fm towns (1990) www.mobygames.com/game/27229/i...

in red font: warning
in white font:
if you are playing this video game outside of the country of japan, you are involved in a crime.

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mintpalmer™🍉 @mintpalmer.com · 17/09/2026

That's quite a typo, BBC News.

A photo of a TV displaying BBC News. The caption reads "Mayors disability plan criticised - New strategy for dead (sic) and disabled Londoners lacks ambition"

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