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Hilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 6h
It's hard to read and hear reviews of Brad Pitt's new movie that don't mention that he attacked his wife and children and does not appear to have done any accounting or repairing
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 9h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 19h
When I dunk on academics, folks have to know that I've been enmeshed in and working peripheral to academia for many, many years. This informed dunking and dunking that comes from a deeply love for the best parts of academia.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 21h
Academics will endlessly lament over things I would find it a blessing to have as problems.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 21h
Anybody want to subsidize my tuition so I can get proper BS in Neuroscience and live the beautiful life?
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By constantly making time in my day to grieve a life not lived.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
between three and five cups of coffee
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grief-maxxing by constantly trying to put myself into spaces with people who get to do the very things I wish I could be doing in my career, so that I may continue to internally self-flagellate for my pubescent self's cowardice.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Years of SSRIs couldn't do what a few compliments from Demetre Daskalakis could.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026
Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:
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OrcGirlBoss @orc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Making out with a faerie call that Tír na SnÓg
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Semmeweis and Kelsey would kick the piss out of both Battacharya and Christine in a public health cage match.
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CK 🔞 maker ✴️ faerie king 👑 queer e-god(dess) @cosplaykinky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"porn is easy to film" no it's NOT LMAO
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fundamentally blew my mind to learn some folks ask other people to nominate them for awards. How do you get that kind of confidence in yourself, and is there a place I can acquire it?
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Half the union was let go at work this week. Another two transfemmes outside the union were let go, while another was also pushed out. I am very much "open for work" at this point.
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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our hearts are heavy that we are losing nearly half our Union today. Both our predecessor orgs have a history of union busting and today’s layoffs are a blatant attempt to weaken our power. But rest assured that those of us who remain are as fired up as ever to seek justice for our Union siblings.
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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⚠️ A4TE @transequality.bsky.social is laying off our comrades TODAY ⚠️ In the final days of our layoff negotiation period, management has led with cruelty and threats.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tattoo List - Phineas Gage diagram - Cajal's pyramidal cells - The Basal nuclei - Nullius in Verba - Graphite Tipped Boron Rods - Labeled diagram of an action potential - Hemifields Diagram
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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Edit of the Snatcher intro text. Green text against a background now reads "This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who reject GenAI and commission extremely niche pornography from real artists every day of their lives.
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Harper Jean Tobin @harperjean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As before, A4TE’s leaders started down this road with a real commitment to fighting for our communities - but without, I fear, learning enough from past mistakes. Most of us in these movements have had to eat crow about some things in the past dozen years. I’m afraid there’s a lot more to go round.
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Harper Jean Tobin @harperjean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having led the policy shop at NCTE for 11 years and left after its crackup in 2019, it’s heartbreaking to see its successor @transequality.bsky.social making such similar mistakes. A4TE is not meeting the challenge of this moment; it can and should do better.
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Support U4TL and Job Security at A4TE
The Issue On Monday, July 20th, 2026, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) sent an email to the Union for Trans Liberation (U4TL)—A4TE’s staff union—giving notice of the organization’s “economic retren...
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this is the story. Markey won BECAUSE of his pro trans values, not in spite of them.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you're citing Rawls and Aristotle in contemporary bioethics work but reject the notion that you need to understand the science at work in the technology or drugs you're evaluating, I really question how much "bio" you've got in your ethics these days.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you're drinking your hot coffee while it's still hot, you're living with privilege I'll never grasp.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At all times, you're closer to being reviewer 2 than you are to being EIC.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not very woke 3.0 of me but [REDACTED].
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Born to research frontopolar-striatal pathways, cursed to read litigation about Stark Law.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 30/08/2026
I don't think it's fair to post the home address of the Flock CEO online. instead we should have a website that tracks the exact position of his car at all times.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am not in the mood to defend a child killer, but folks have got to stop glorifying psychiatrists. Psychiatry is one of the most toxic, ableist, carcercally-minded, and problematic specialties in medicine I've seen. I have met precious few who defy the stereotype.
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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I don't want a "magic link," I want to enter the username and password that YOUR SITE made me come up with!
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We have to prepare for the possibility that Nancy Mace is a closeted dyke chaser whose scorn of trans women is entirely due to being rejected by a baddie. Listen, this is not likely. But there is a non-zero chance and I'm worried the internet has ill-prepared for the memes if this is uncovered.
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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Before Pride Month ends, here's some of the outstanding work JHPPL has published on LGBTQ health! First, Kevin Nguyen, Leesh Menard, @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social & Gilbert Gonzales's assessment of the evolution of LGBTQ+ data collection and health policy research read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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LGBTQ+ Health, Policy, and Politics: Advances, Challenges, and Potential Opportunities
Abstract. The landscape of politics and policies that impact the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) people in the United States has evolved su...
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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They're building directed acyclic graphs of your polycule
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Disparaging everyone who criticizes the fact that academia is being driven by decontextualized numbers, just like late capitalism so loves doing with everything, is not a vibe.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hate to see other people (Hayden) living my dreams (shuffling off this shit coil).
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The real cruel angel's thesis is growing up wanting to be cool and hot like Motoko, but ending up a neurotic anti-social like Lain.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes YouTubers
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
How do adults make friendships?
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This week really kicked my ass.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love a peer reviewer who is very clearly mad that you don't cite their friends. No notes, babes.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Having AI do your analysis for your is such a clown shoes move.
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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Some of you need need to hear this.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
woke 3 should be about texting back
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.
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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
reposting w/ alt text & anger since obvs they can't express it. read this. it's enraging for some of the most effective trans advocates in the country to be dealing w/ movement mismanagement rather than the work they want - and we need them - to do. SIGN THE PETITION 🏳️‍⚧️ forms.gle/2jVpUTaFu7ZV...
UNION FOR

TRANS LIBERATION

Layoff Negotiation Updates:

A4TE management continues to violate our contract and delay our negotiations, and we're not going to let them get away with it

Slide 1Today we filed a grievance against management for their refusal to implement our new salary scales and issue back pay.

Our CBA requires management to implement the new salary scales and issue back pay in the next pay period after ratification. Management has ignored this deadline and our emails about implementation, so we filed a grievance.

Slide 2The Union's LNC (Layoff Negotiation Committee) was set to meet with management and their representatives yesterday to discuss next steps in the economic retrenchment process and the Union's proposal for economic alternatives to layoffs.

Management canceled this session hours before and has not responded to our Request for Information.

We've requested a one week extension on the layoff implementation deadline to account for this delay. We expect management to show up in good faith in the future and come to the table prepared to negotiate.

Slide 3UNION FOR

TRANS LIBERATIO

Ways to Support Our Union:

Continue to sign and share the Union's petition! (link in bio)

Comment and tag A4TE's socials demanding they pay Union raises required by our contract and respond to our proposals

Email A4TE@transequality.org to let A4TE know how you feel about the contract violations and impending layoffs

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Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
going to!?
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cynthia loves u @lesbiats.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
here everyone take my favorite response gif. go have fun. flashbang your friends.
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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 09/08/2026
you tiny thing in the face of the fabulous new, your only thought is to kill it? for fear of great change? you can’t hold the tide with a broom
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Nora 🐝 @elanorjb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The actual goal of trans elimination laws is to eliminate trans people.
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