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A trans lesbian geek trying to survive the next year. 🌉 bridged from mstdn.social/@Moriel on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sex Work and Double Standards Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry
Transcript of cartoon

Panel 1
In the foreground, a young woman with her head shaved on the sides and sunglasses is walking three dogs. In the background, standing on a grassy hillside, two women, one in a polo shirt, the other in a plaid shirt, are talking.
POLO: No one could want to be a dog-walker. It shouldn’t be legal.
PLAID: Some people like it.

Panel 2
In a hotel hallway, in the foreground, a maid pushes a cleaning cart. In the background, the same two women are talking.
POLO: Many maids are exploited or even trafficked. We should outlaw being a maid!
PLAID: Wouldn’t that make things worse for maids?

Panel 3
A hilly park again. In the foreground, a man with a knit cap and one of those orange “I work for the city” vests is picking up trash off the ground with a trash-picking stick. In the background, the same two women talk; Polo looks disgusted, and Plaid is facepalming.
POLO: Picking up trash for a living is gross. It shouldn’t be allowed.
PLAID: You’re being ridiculous.

Panel 4
In the final panel, we see only Polo and Plaid, talking to each other. Polo has a forefinger pointing up, making a point, and Plaid responds fervently, leaning forward and smacking her fist into the palm of her other hand.
POLO: And for the exact same reasons, we should outlaw prostitution!
PLAID: YES!
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
It's been that way here for ... well since the nation's founding, really, but it's gotten so much worse over the past 30 years.
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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
California Governor Gavin Newsom announces the state will move forward with partisan plan to redraw congressional map to counter Texas redistricting. @AssociatedPress reports: flip.it/bAWQ.n #News #USA #Politics #USNews #California #Texas
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California is moving forward with a partisan redistricting effort to counter Texas' move
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a special election on Nov. 4 to introduce new U.S. House maps. The goal is to win more Democratic seats.
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
I don't normally watch of post videos but this short take on how different countries teach history is just brilliant! youtube.com/shorts/A9ejBOhq-I8 #history #funny
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
Small update. I use VLC on Android as my music player. If you disable the play history in VLC and clear all items from the playlist, then the earbuds can't figure out what music to play and they will do nothing when touched.
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
3/3 On Reddit people have been complaining about this problem for four years already and Bose has done nothing to address it. The only work around is apparently to put electrical tape over the touch controls to stop them from detecting any touch. This, of course, means you cannot use the other […]
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
2/3 The problem is that they have touch controls on each earbud and they are automatically configured to play/pause music when touched. You cannot turn this feature off which means any stray touch can turn music on or off. Furthermore, you hair touching them can trigger the event.
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
1/3 So a few days ago I decided to get the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra earbuds because I already had the Bose headphones and liked the noise cancelation in them. I got the new earbuds today and had a chance to try them out. I do not recommend them, and I may even send them back. Not sure yet […]
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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Exclusive: Christian Nationalist Rally by Anti-LGBTQ Group Will Take Place at Cal Anderson Park Barring a last-minute change of heart, the city plans to permit the Memorial Day event this week based on legal advice from City Attorney Ann Davison. publicola.com/2025/08/13/c...
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Christian Nationalist Rally by Anti-LGBTQ Group Will Take Place at Cal Anderson Park - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Organizers of a far-right August 30 rally and concert called “Revive In 25” will receive approval…
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
Another successful outing using Ativan, and this time some new noise canceling earbuds. No sound sensory overload. No anxiety about talking to people. No running away after getting overwhelmed. i think this is really going to work! i'm actually able to talk to people!
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
He was the Rebellion's best agent against the Galactic Empire, but Mon Mothma sent him on a mission where he'd have to take companions. He had a choice of two people, but couldn't decide whether to take one of them or both of them. And/Or
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/08/2025
Nothing beats your home national park with friends. Glaicer National Park, and we caught bighorn sheep hopping off their rock.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/08/2025
The Perseids were so beautiful last night. Had clear night skies in Glacier, and even though we had a bright moon, it wasn't enough to drown them out. We saw dozens of fireballs and beautiful, long, streaking meteors.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/08/2025
2. Erin In The Morning is an award-winning LGBTQ+ journalism outlet covering trans and queer news everyday. You can subscribe to support our journalism at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.
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News and discussion on trans legislation and life. Click to read Erin In The Morning, by Erin Reed, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/08/2025
1. You should know about the Compton Cafeteria riots... predating Stonewall, transgender people in San Francisco fought back against police brutality and anti-drag laws in the 60s. A little history from S. Baum here. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-trans-...
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The Trans Uprising That History (Almost) Forgot
Years before the Stonewall rebellion, this lesser-known San Francisco riot ignited a tradition of queer resistance.
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025
Oooh! Movie idea! The Muppet Over Innsmouth The Muppets do Lovecraft! #muppets #lovecraft #cthulhu
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Martijn Frazer @tijn.dosgame.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025
I don't want my computer to act like a human. There are humans already and they're much better at it. The whole appeal of a computer is that it's not like a human at all.
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Canayjun @canayjun.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
This lovely lady, my Mom, is 98 years old today! #happybirthday
A smiling elderly woman stands in the middle of a sunflower garden. The flowers are twice her height.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
I'm willing to bet $100 that every single GOP is a pedo.
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
Did you know that all 4-star female officers have been purged from the US military? I didn't until I read this article. journa.host/@atrupar/11501576954810…
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar@journa.host)
New in PN: Trump isn't the solution to the "crisis of manhood," he's the problem "The more obvious the alteration in a woman’s appearance — even to the point of being grotesque — the more she has shown her commitment to serve him. No one needs to tell Kristi Noem to get back in her place, because she’s already there." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-misogyny-kristi-noem-manhood-crisis
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
[US Pol: I'm scared for you. Be clear headed.] Your moderate wealth will not protect you. Your college education and expertise will not protect you. Your whiteness will not protect you. Your valid US passport will not protect you. Go back and read about Kent State and the Freedom Riders again […]
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025
An image showing a rainbow and a heart in the trans flag colors, along with 4 upraised fists.  The text says

Why would trans women fight so hard to be seen as women, in a world that treats women so poorly, unless they simply are women?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
Keep 'em coming Via Gabriel Malor: 2d Cir. holds that the federal prohibition on firearm possession by individuals convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors does not violate the Second Amendment […]
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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
I have to get this off my chest. I am *so* angry at the idea that cis white queers might need a threat to Obergefell to wake them up when they are already arresting brown people without due process and putting them in concentration camps. I understand it's human nature to avoid a problem until […]
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/08/2025
Labour is functionally the Democratic party of the UK. When you seen an American trans person getting mad at Democrats over trans issues, this is what we are trying to prevent. Labour officials consulted for American Democrats last election.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/08/2025
2. The Texas state senate passed a much-maligned anti-trans bathroom ban on August 6, but it still faces major hurdles before it could become law. SB7, deceptively named the “Texas Women’s Privacy Act,” seeks to pry its way into the bathrooms of kids and adults alike, if the GOP gets their way.
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Texas senate OKs latest bill restricting use of government and school bathrooms by transgender people
Texas Senate Bill 7 would require people to use restrooms that match their birth gender and fine institutions up to $25,000 for repeated violations.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/08/2025
1. Texas Republicans are attempting to use the devastating floods to push... a trans bathroom ban. That's right, the emergency session which has been billed as primarily for flood relief is being used to sneak in anti-trans legislation. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism
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Texas GOP Uses Emergency Flood Relief to Push Trans Bathroom Ban
After deadly flooding in Texas, Republicans used an emergency legislative session called to tackle the state’s most pressing issue: where trans people pee.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/08/2025
11 Aug 25 -- Mass. Dem. Maura Healey, US's 1st lesbian governor, signs bill strengthening shields for abortion and trans care incl. keeping patient files confidential & blocking courts consideration of cases which criminalize pediatric affirming care. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Massachusetts lesbian Gov. Maura Healey signs abortion and gender-affirming care shield law
Shield Act 2.0 further strengthens protections for patients and providers of reproductive healthcare.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/08/2025
1. Unlike other prestigious universities, UCLA appears to be rejecting Trump's demands to throw transgender people under the bus and enact draconian anti-trans policies. The government is holding their funding hostage and threatening them with massive fines. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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UCLA Rejects Trump Demands To Capitulate To Anti-Trans Policies—For Now
The university has refused to bow to the President’s sweeping list of anti-transgender demands—bucking a growing trend of large universities that have caved to similar pressure.
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
This mother's story about coming to under her young trans daughter is so moving that I encourage everyone to read it. The world would be such a better place if everyone could understand trans joy the way this woman has come to understnad her daughter's joy […]
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
Two blog posts in the same day. Shocking! moriels-musings.com/2025/08/11/anti…
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
Reposting this image with alt text.
Being LIberal

If baking a cake for a gay wedding is endorsing homosexuality, then voting for a pedophile is endorsing pedophilia.

Copyright Audrey Loves Paris
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Moriel :transgender_flag: @moriel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
New blog post is up. Another memory from the year my real gender tried to break out the first time. moriels-musings.com/2025/08/11/firs… #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqia2s
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
[SubToot about the idea to brick or trick LLM’s by sabotaging and mangling alt text.] So why am I not at all surprised that non-disabled people would use AI as an excuse not to describe anything via alt text and or purposefully mangle alt text to break an LLM? It honestly really shows how just […]
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Testing Fat Patients' Patience Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry #FatAcceptance
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels.

PANEL 1
The panel shows a doctor, with thick-framed glasses, neat shoulder-length white hair, and holding a clipboard, in an examining room talking to a patient. The patient is wearing striped pants and a square-collar short sleeved blouse, and has her dark hair in a bun. The patient is sitting on one of those patient examination tables they have in doctors’ offices.

The patient is using her right hand to hold out her left arm, which is not connected to her body, to show it to the doctor.

Important: The doctor is thin, the patient is fat.

The doctor is calm; the patient is also calm, but also concerned.

DOCTOR: Hi, I’m doctor Douglas. What seems to be the problem?
PATIENT: I woke up this morning and my arm had fallen off.

PANEL 2
The doctor, still speaking calmly, is looking down at the patient’s body. The patient, still holding her detached left arm in her right hand, looks a bit annoyed.

DOCTOR: Hmmmm…. First thing, let’s get you on a diet.
PATIENT: A diet? To reconnect my arm?

PANEL 3
A shot from behind the doctor, looking over the doctor’s shoulder at the patient. The patient is now quite angry, raising her voice.

DOCTOR: Your weight is the real issue here… How many times a day do you eat fast food?
PATIENT: I’M HERE ABOUT MY ARM!

PANEL 4
The doctor, now alone, sits at a desk in an office (desk lamp, degree on wall, books on a shelf). The doctor is typing on a laptop, and looks peeved. Above her, we see words in the air showing what she’s typing.

DOCTOR (writing on laptop): “Patient was uncooperative…”
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Three Victorian gentlemen are making notes in large ledgers.

First man: Quick question. Is it "for fucks sake" or "for fuck sake"? It's for a work email, so it has to sound professional.

Second man: Neither: It's "for fuck's sake"; the sake is on behalf of the fuck, so you need a possessive.

Third man: It should have an apostrophe to show possessive. The REAL question is whether it should be "for fuck's sake" or "for fucks' sake". Is it for the sake of ALL the fucks or just this fuck in particular?
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
Saw someone complain about children having to see a drug user on Caltrain, and that they asked Caltrain staff to enforce a fare check so as to kick them out. Later in the thread he says the person probably needed medical attention. Bunch of good parents said they would be appalled for their […]
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Mina @mina.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
Yesterday¹, I was looking for a specific meme, and thanks to your help, I found it! @LazyCat had it, in German. I made an English version of it. Should anybody know the author's identity, I'd love to credit them. ¹original toot: berlin.social/@mina/115000490151609…
Ein Meme in 2 Teilen:

Oben: Rechte

Ein Venn-Diagramm aus 2 Kreisen mit winziger Schnittmenge, die mit "gemeinsamer Hass gegen irgendwas oder irgendwen" beschriftet ist.

Darunter der Text "Mein Freund, lass uns unsere Feinde vernichten uns alle die anders sind, deportieren und zur Machtergreifung die Demokratie zerstören!"

Unten: Linke

Ein Venn-Diagramm aus 2 Kreisen, die sich praktisch komplett überlappen. Das winzige Komplement außerhalb der Schnittmenge ist mit "Ein falsches Wort" beschriftet.

Darunter der Text "Tut mir sehr leid, aber so kann ich dein anliegen einfach nicht unterstützen."A two part meme:

Above: People on the Right

A Venn diagram with two circles hardly intersecting at all. The minuscle intersection is labelled "Mutual aid against something or someone".

Then the text "My friend let us destroy our enemies, deport all those, who are different and destroy democracy for our power grab!"

Below: People on the Left

A Venn diagram with two circles almost totally overlapping. The minuscle complement is labelled "A wrong word".

Then the text "I am very sorry, but under these circumstances, I'm unable to support your issue."
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Tom Stoneham @tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." (Nemik's Manifesto) That is where we are. A government confident in its legitimacy could have completely […]
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