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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 11h
I love how these moral panics about family estrangement always bring up children refusing to talk to their parents, never the long history of parents disowning children. It's fine if dad wants to kick out his gay kid, not if his gay kid doesn't want to talk to his homophobic dad.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That was definitely the case for me, in the US. I pushed *really* hard to get surgery taken care of after the 2024 election. Made it through the entire process by a couple of weeks after the inauguration. I felt 0 certainty that it would remain covered by insurance or even legal.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Also be sure to check out their fairy blogsisters, @fuggirls.bsky.social who I've been reading even slightly longer.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Been reading these guys since 2008, and if you have *any* interest in fashion or pop culture, they are 100% worth your time to check out. Smart, humorous commentary that isn't afraid to be critical but doesn't lapse into maliciousness.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/07/2026
“Obama was opposed to gay marriage, give it time, don’t seek perfection on trans issues from Dems.” Yeah, but gay marriage was a new right LGBT people were seeking. Sports, bathrooms, and IDs are something trans people have had for decades. Going BACKWARDS Is the opposite of the Obama comparison.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fertility is a means of control, though, and thus fascists very much do care. It controls men through obligation to nuclear family, and men can more easily dominate women when pregnancy and children are part of the equation. It's why oral contraceptives were such a huge part of women's liberation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/06/2026
What people need to understand is that this is solely in response to an executive order. No law or regulation has changed. If Trump writes another executive order targeting adults tomorrow, trans people cannot trust that our state and local governments will fight for us when they won't for youth.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
People who suddenly feel like their transphobic “jokes” and “fairness in sports” takes are a bad look while the government forcibly detransitions people don’t get to say “oh that’s not what I meant!” You did mean it! People told you what it meant and you did it anyways!
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is so beautifully written. Shared with my trans friends in solidarity and with others as a picture of our lives right now.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/03/2026
I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...
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Exit Condition
On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There is this pervasive belief that the most horrible, violent proposals from the right are just rhetoric and they’ll back off if they get the power to enact them. That’s why abortion is still legal in all states and we’re not rounding up immigrants for torture and rendition.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Oooh, both? I agree with previous reply that the elements pop on the dark background, but I really love the colors you used on the light background.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🏳‍⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely. These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity? 🦗 Silence. #TransPride #MediaBias Read why it matters ⬇️
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100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.
The UK’s biggest news outlets ignored a record-breaking march for trans equality, despite publishing dozens of trans stories each week.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Alan Cumming came on to Jimmy Kimmel Live to guest host, wear a gorgeous suit, and deliver a killer monologue in support of trans rights (click for more) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/07/the-...
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THE TRAITORS Star Alan Cumming Steps in as Guest Host on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! - Tom + Lorenzo
Traitors host and all around professionally delightful man Alan Cumming stepped in as guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live and used his time to say this:
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The idea that someone who's an expert in a field must be biased because they agree with the predominant, evidence-backed view of a subject is insane. "That farmer thinks plants need water to grow, but of course he'd say that! We should find some doctors to get an opposing viewpoint for fairness!"
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The best recent litmus test on whether a media figure is anti-trans or not is how they describe Trump's anti-trans HHS report. What's even more telling is how many of these same people condemn every other HHS move on things like vaccines, AIDS research, and replacing scientists with ideologues.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
A bar graph. On the left side is a bar showing that Republicans are cutting $930 billion from Medicaid. On the right side is a bar showing that Republicans are giving $910 billion in tax breaks to corporations under their budget bill, paid for by gutting Medicaid.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
From what I've pieced together, this appears to be a VUMC Medicine Grand Rounds presentation from 2019. Pretty sure the number on the blackboard is an attendance code. I'm at a dead end actually finding the video, though.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
But we are not far removed from thinking women needed to be protected from themselves on most of these issues, from thinking that men knew better because women were less-than. Consider that, when you debate trans people's rights to exist in society.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Most people I know think women should have a right to financial independence, to make their own healthcare decisions, to divorce their spouse without the humiliating and highly difficult process of proving abuse or infidelity, to vote without providing a paper trail proving their name change.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Are you actually listening to trans people? Or are you deciding what you think is best for them because you view their opinions as less objective? Are you weighing cis people's discomfort as more important than trans people's?
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The headlines in the image are from the AP morning newsletter, in case anyone wants to look up the articles.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Their version of nature is a golf course, and when they turn everything else into a wasteland, I hope they choke to death trying to eat grass.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
They are so stunningly ignorant to the interconnectedness of human existence with the natural world that any attempt to mitigate humanity's impact on the earth is branded as "extreme" environmentalism.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Trump administration is doing so much damage that will be so difficult-- if not impossible--to undo, even if the next administration immediately takes action to counteract these destructive policies, and even if subsequent administrations uphold those remedies.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Courtesy of Reddit
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Boards of Canada, "Dayvan Cowboy" If you're finding the start too slow and thinking you won't finish the song, there's a shift at about 2:40 that you should skip to. youtu.be/A2zKARkpDW4?...
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Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
YouTube video by Warp Records
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Media With Sonic Racing Music @modernsonicmusc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Slowdive, "Rutti". They have more popular songs, but I like sharing this one specifically because it feels slept on to me.
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Slowdive - Rutti (Official Audio)
YouTube video by SlowdiveVEVO
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Carbonara pasta from Naples in Knoxville, TN. It's been almost 20 years since it was a regular in my rotation, and the restaurant closed several years ago now. I've eaten so many good meals in restaurants since then, and I still miss that exact carbonara sometimes.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Sonic Youth, "Shadow of a Doubt" youtu.be/nWpbFoEUV24
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Sonic Youth - Shadow of A Doubt
YouTube video by Sonic Youth
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Tinlicker, Helsloot. "Because You Move Me" youtu.be/s3O8-vodvKI
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Tinlicker & Helsloot - Because You Move Me (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Armada Music TV
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Handwritten sign on a blue and pink outdoor wall. The sign says, "There is no trans debate. There are trans people and there are fascists who wish to dominate and eliminate trans people."
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I do not include in the latter group those who condition their treatment of another person on whether that person professes faith in Christianity or accepts the beliefs of that religion.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I know Christians whose faith guides them and gives them strength to make the world a better place for everyone, to help those who need it most, to treat others with kindness, and to steward the earth as the irreplaceable gift it is. They are a tiny minority of the Christians I've met in my life.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The fact that not small numbers of Christians are cheering as humanitarian aid and social safety nets are yanked out from under vulnerable, struggling people demonstrates exactly why any individual Christian is untrustworthy to me until proven otherwise.
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Art School Girlfriend - Is It Light Where You Are? youtu.be/r9LRcAfLX64
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Art School Girlfriend - Is It Light Where You Are (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by ArtSchoolGVEVO
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It's astonishing how quickly institutions have been bowing to unconstitutional demands. Really glad to see Harvard showing some spine on this. apnews.com/article/harv...
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Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism
Harvard University says it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism.
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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
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