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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 05/10/2026

Man I loved that classic sci-fi show Station Anchovy. Anybody else watch this back in the 90's? youtu.be/FaEq_j0_25E

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Station Anchovy Intro Season 1 2026

YouTube video by Nikatine

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 01/10/2026

This month, I'm giving away a FREE T-SHIRT to one lucky Commander in @frontierdev.bsky.social's Elite Dangerous! Join Dept. of Wildlife at www.nikatine.com/discord Deposit credits to Squadron Bank account Get automatically entered! Winners picked on October 30th Good luck Commanders!

For the Month of October, 2026
Each One Million credits deposited to Deptartment of Wildlife squadron bank account will earn One entry.
Each One Million credits withdrawn from DOWL squadron bank account will reduce One entry.
All entries will serve as tickets in a raffle for the new rover-themed t-shirt.
Winner selected on Octobedr 30th.
Good luck, Commanders!

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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wendy Carlos should be on the 20 dollar bill. There should be a 50-foot-tall, solid-gold statue of her in Pawtucket. You should be able to buy all her albums in any format you want and a line of custom branded synths. She should be a household name along with Bob Moog.

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He's literally celebrating being endorsed by members of the genocide party after throwing trans people under the bus, every one of you who harassed and attacked trans people over this need to reconsider your life.

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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is horrifying. Like, the kind of shit that would make me want to leave the country if I had a kid.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran is worth hundreds of millions of dollars btw

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Honestly the discourse really is just a lot of cis people going "won't you trannies just accept you are less than human scum that don't matter and throw yourselves on the pyre for me". You can dress it in fancy words but a ban on trans healthcare will kill trans people & you demand we support it

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

well then i guess they clearly don't need our votes, do they?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 11/09/2026

IN ONE WEEK I'll be hosting giveaways for FREE NIKATINE MERCH! YOU could have a FREE NIKATINE MUG or even a NIKATINE PATCH! You might even get a FREE CRITTER DOODLE, hand crafted LIVE ON STREAM Don't miss out! Be there at 9/18! twitch.tv/nikatine

A black patch with pink text, and in a glorious font reminiscent of Nagel reads a single word: Nikatine

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/09/2026

James Talarico: “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness. Every sport has to be safe and fair.”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This this THIS RIGHT HERE

The worst case scenario isn’t “AI goes rogue and makes disastrous mistakes,” but a bunch of people at at AI startup over-promising what their systems can do, get handed access to critical systems, write sloppy prompts, code, and configurations, trigger a disaster, then trying to dodge responsibility by screaming about the Singularity and AGI, and flooding technically illiterate regulators with a massive tsunami of technobabble.

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 03/09/2026

This purple bitch copyright struck me

A purple cartoon car, full of spite and leaded gasoline

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 02/09/2026

Its OK to judge anyone who *does* watch this nostalgia-slop actually. Nobody in 2026 can play "ohhh I didn't know..." anymore

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 27/08/2026

He's gone to the one place uncorrupted by capitalism. I hope he finds it smashing 😭

See you space cowboy, superimposed with RA2 Tim Curry from the 'space' monologue

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QueenPiB @queenpib.com · 26/08/2026

God, put that gun down. You can't hit the correct 80 year old to save your son's life.

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Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Scheduling conflicts” is a funny way to spell “realized the backlash was bigger than expected but doesn’t have the guts to openly take a stand on the issues so is just quietly hoping we all forget about this by the time Man of Tomorrow comes out.”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Musk took a program that was saving lives and cut it. USAID had bipartisan support because it was fiscally responsible. It was a small amount of money doing global good. Millions of people, many of them children, will be killed as a result of Musk’s decision. Genocidal indeed.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/08/2026

A teenager flying a kite is an act of war now

Israel to Hamas: If kite launches do not stop, IDF will ramp up strikes across Gaza
Security source says IDF "is not underestimating the threat," but will need to "wait and see if this becomes a trend" • Military believes Hamas using Palestinian teenagers to launch kites into Israel

We view every launch as an act of war in every sense and are committed to the absolute defense of Israeli settlements," Katz said in a Sunday statement, after a fifth kite was located in Kibbutz Kfar Aza over the weekend. "A balloon is treated like a kite, and a kite is treated like a drone, with or without explosives."

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Jessie Gender @handle.invalid · 24/08/2026

Another Lanterns episode, another reference to Harry Potter. Warner Bros really is trying to astroturf the franchise, aren't they?

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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

fall in love with air plants

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine. We are far more reliant on infrastructure and the supply chain to survive. Natural disasters can and will kill us first. The power outage in Gary, Indiana is impacting people’s access to medicine and oxygen. Check on the disabled.

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TheWitches (plural system) @handle.invalid · 21/08/2026

nora: be the change you want to see in the world. do the work you want people to do. the revolution will be made (and is being made) not by people who cheer from the sidelines or by who develop a perfect undeestanding of it, but by the people who *take part in it*

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porcelaingiant.bsky.social @porcelaingiant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Omfg my favorite streamer is online :NikaBimBlush EVERYONE GO WATCH @nikatine.com play Zelda Ocarina of Time!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

While everyone is concerned about ICE acquiring “Shock Gloves”, it’s important to note they’re already being used in schools and jails. A man in Kentucky was killed when a guard held the glove on him for over a minute. Even more egregious, shock devices have been used for years on disabled kids:

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ICE's New "Shock Gloves" are Already in American Schools...

In fact, shock devices have been used in schools for disabled children for years. Now they’ve entered the public school system in Nebraska. Why is no one talking about it?

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026

Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and Israel and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026

Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This was document freely available and free to distribute. Lets preserve it the old fashioned way: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb3e6f89f9c71404643bc7b9bb6d74963017dda9&dn=Report_A_growing_threat_the_anti_rights_movement_in_the_UK_July.pdf Pop that into your friendly torrent program, no host to dmca.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My disabilities are invisible. You wouldn’t know I’m “sick” just by looking at me. If I were grabbed and carried in this manner, I would be seriously injured. If I were shocked, I would die. ICE does not need another torture device. They won’t need more weapons. They need to be abolished.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 13/08/2026

Are you a news outlet / journalist looking for quotes regarding Twitch, AI, trans issues or streaming? I'm available! I'm an official Twitch Ambassador, and I'd love to talk to you! email in bio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronic...

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Veronica Carmen Ripley - Wikipedia

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/08/2026

Another show trial in North Texas

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/08/2026

We have never granted a marginalized population "too many rights". Not a thing that has ever happened. You are speaking nonsense.

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QueenPiB @queenpib.com · 12/08/2026

even better: if you opt your account out but you chat in a channel that is opted in, it overrides your setting

What channel content (clips, chat, metadata, etc.) is eligible to be used for generative AI training?
Your stream and the stream's chat, your VODs, your Clips, Highlights, and any text or images on your Channel may be used. If you chat on someone else's stream, their opt-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training.

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 12/08/2026

🚨TWITCH is using your account to train Amazon's AI by default 🚨 TO OPT OUT: Turn it off by going to www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... It's hidden all the way at the bottom.

Training for Generative AI toggle is automatically enabled by default. Go to https://www.twitch.tv/settings/security to toggle it off.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The fact of the "anti-woke" backlash was that there was the barest shift towards more awareness — god forbid, some folks even waking up — about a multitude of horrors. So the gentry, across their usual divides, absolutely lose their shit for years on end. Honestly? Shows what they're afraid of.

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 11/08/2026

For the past few months, my Twitch stream has been suffering dropouts. I've systematically exhausted every possibility on my end. Today I noticed their help doc says 12.5Mbps is the minimum required for dual format streams. Inspector flags this much as an error. Is Twitch dropping out on purpose?

stable @ 12,519 Kbps 45.9 Minutes
configuration check
Incompatible

Audio/Video configuration issues detected. Address the following to optimize your stream's viewing experience:

The average bitrate of the stream is too high. This can cause buffering for low bandwidth viewers. Source could also be removed if bitrate is too high.

Minimum System Recommendations for Dual Format Streaming
Upstream Bandwidth Bitrate: 12.5 Mbps when streaming in 1080p.

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 11/08/2026

good morning to my asshole cat who crawled up UNDER my covers to cuddle, and puked all over my feet in the night. I'll be accepting donations to my 'I can't believe he puked on me AGAIN' fund here: ko-fi.com/nikatine

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Grand that the NC-11 congressional race is turning into a contest over which candidate can be more transphobic. Left: anti-trans comments from Dem nominee Jamie Ager, in a June article in The Assembly. Right: Republican nominee Jennifer Balkcom's role in NC's trans sports ban, also in The Assembly

"Sitting outside the farm store, Ager said he gets 'frustrated with the Democratic Party because they spend too much time focusing on identity politics and not on everyday people.'

Ager says he supports the 2nd Amendment and opposes trans athletes in some sports. 'If you ask me, should men play in women's sports?' he said. 'I have a one word answer: no.'"

"One of the first bills she introduced was the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which says “athletic teams designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex,” as defined by “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” The measure ultimately became law over the objection of former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Three Democrats supported the proposal, including two of Balkcom’s House colleagues in a veto override."

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 10/08/2026

Twitch dropped some new AI slop tool, lets talk what YOU can do about it (THREAD)

chat message reads gonna be staying off twitch till they disable the ai summary thing (streamers cannot turn it off) i equate this function to theft and i do not condone stealing from creators. take care <3

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 08/08/2026

I had my high school homecoming dance in Gilroy. This is devastating. How can the mayor unilaterally choose a data center over the people? Gilroy used to have a garlic festival. I bet they won't be able to grow it at all in 10 years. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

tomshardware.com

Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

Surprise, it's a data center!

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 06/08/2026

Dear @huffpost.com: No, the federal government controlling companies is not communism and Donald Trump is not a communist. He's a fascist. The people of the US have literally no say in anything Trump has acquired. Communism is not when the dictator enriches himself whilst doing ethnic cleansing 🤦

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has over the past year been snapping up America’s means of production — the literal definition of communism — even as he makes a habit of labeling virtually all of his critics and political opponents “communists.”

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/07/2026

I simply don't think weapons manufacturers should be allowed to profit from genocide or war crimes. And I certainly don't think they should be allowed to lobby lawmakers to go to war to find a use for their weapons.

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 28/07/2026

I used to donate blood every month. Then I transitioned, and suddenly my blood wasn't good enough for them. Oh well.

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