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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm about to spend two three days backpacking in the woods and the thing I'm most excited about is that when I'm out there I have nothing: no cell service whatsoever, my tech becomes so wonderfully dumb 😍

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The funnest thing about the dipshit class desperately wanting AI to be conscious and to deserve respect is that they don't even think human women are conscious and deserve respect

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The millions of survivors who were raped at universities over the decades should launch a campaign to "report" their rapes to their university. Let each institution see how many thousands of rapes went un-reported. Let each be forced to publicly acknowledge that their fraternities are rape dens!

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Dan Hedges ❌👑 @danielahedges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I appreciate all of @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's essays, but this one is my favorite. Even if you're optimistic about the blue wave this year, you're pessimistic that it will do anything good when it arrives. Here's why... AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't know how to swallow any more rage. There's thing I can't stop thinking, and it's this: instead of telling women "you should have known better than to go to the university-supported rape-den," maybe we should get rid of the university-supported rape dens?

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I need this right now, and maybe you do too ❤️

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Huh, nobody did any of these think-pieces about family estrangements when it was parents kicking their queer kids out of the house 😐

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Evan's mini-thread sums it up perfectly: Even so-called "allies" were like "well that one adjunct shouldn't have had trans content in their literature course" without realizing what a short walk it is from firing the trans professor to a complete erasure of gender studies & women's studies.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This entire thread about LLMs is excellent, but THIS!!! Yes exactly this:

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey @amyactonoh.bsky.social I'm begging you to notice that politicians who spew vile transphobia to appease the right STILL get accused of supporting trans people, so you have nothing to lose by doing the right thing 😐

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't think I've ever shared any of my spindle #spinning on Bluesky before, so here's my latest hand-spun skein. It's @threewatersfarm.bsky.social Rambouillet, so soft & fun to spin! This is the first half of the braid, about 60 grams. Chain-plied, 258 yards. Photos are yarn, process and fiber 💜

A multicolored skein of yarn and some pink impatiens

multicolored fiber being spun on a spindle!

the beautiful Ramboullet wool from Three Waters Farm!

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I react viscerally to AI slop -- I find its creepy sheen so repulsive I can't stand to look at it. This is what's behind the "ick" reaction though, and I think about it all the time: it's not just the "art" or "writing" that makes me sick, it's the [lack of] values behind it.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The dangerous anti-trans rhetoric keeps escalating, and if you don't understand that they're trying to criminalize the very existence of trans people in America, I don't know what to tell you 😐

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hoo boy it's only the end of week one of the semester but academia is such a dumpster fire, I already need this little friend and maybe you need encouragement too 🧡 #academicsky

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Y'all" isn't a "performative" "folksy" "accent," you absolute dipshit 🙄

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/08/2026

Nearly everything the public believes about trans people is false and that is fundamentally a failure of media.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The NYT and WaPo columnists are too busy wringing their hands about men and boys in the midst of a "loneliness epidemic" to notice that girls are being sexually harassed in every public space thanks to the pervert glasses that the "lonely" boys are wearing 🙄

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm old enough to remember that Amazon started out as a bookstore that sold real books. Now they're destroying old books by the millions to feed their fascist plagiarism machine. Fuck AI and fuck Amazon 😐 #FuckAI

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 12/08/2026

the year is 2027. you wake up, sun looks weird again. in an encrypted messenger you discuss which liquids are best at shorting out the secret police's electric gloves. two rogue AIs are doing battle in your wi-fi enabled AC unit. treasury is doing something with the yen for the fourth time

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is such a good 🧵 about reading in the age of AI

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Do cis people have even the slightest idea how it feels for trans people to hear that large groups of Americans are now being tested to see if one of us is hidden among them

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is an excellent guide for performing an exorcism to get the planet-destroying plagiarism machine out of your tech & devices. I'm so glad it exists!

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Seriously, I'm SO tired of this from "allies" 🙄

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Solidarity and direct action is the only thing that's going to fix this mess.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I notice that whenever someone says they're being "objective," what they're really doing is reifying a white, christian, cis, heteronormative, neoliberal, patriarchal worldview 🤐

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“Trans people should flee red states,” has more or less been the liberal response to the years long legal oppression and elimination of rights for trans folks. Okay, cool, so you’re funding relocation programs? You’ll provide transitional housing? You’ll pay our rent? Give us jobs? Yeah, right.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I don't care if you're sick of the Platner discourse 🙄 Because, like, as a survivor of rape I'm super sick of having to block people with traumatizing victim-blaming rape-apologist takes! 🤐 But anyway if you supported Platner in any way at any point, you should read this and reflect:

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.”

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sadly I relate so entirely & enragingly to this entire 🧵:

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So many examples of Democratic candidates embracing transphobia and losing -- or supporting trans people and winning! -- but yet the f*cking party can't seem to figure it out? 🙄 As an Ohio voter, this is beyond disappointing.

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Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so f*cking exhausted, but yeah, this:

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