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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/06/2026

In Washington State, anti-trans ballot initiatives threaten to reverse civil rights protections that make it an iconic landmark for transgender people. So Congresswoman Jayapal, to a large crowd, helped launch No Hate In WA State to combat it. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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“No Hate in WA State” Launches Campaign to Take Down Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives

One ballot initiative could force tens of thousands of girls to undergo invasive genital exams each year just to play school sports.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Random comment seen on Mastodon: "AI artwork looks the way Christian Rock sounds."

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

People IRL occasionally try to convince me that I clearly get all my appearance from my mother (Lunnen side) and definitely not my father (Psaros side); it's well-intentioned, but a bit bizarre. Anyway

A photo of my father and me around Christmas of 1998; I was not yet 13, he was 40.

My father and me again, about 20 years later.

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

To be honest, I think this makes a lot of sense if you spend much time around the kind of Democratic voters who go on about how the party moving so far left is leaving normal Americans behind, there's no real party for them any more, but they vote Democratic because the GOP is so, so bad.

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Oh, this one does hit. :( One of the most beloved, formative, inspirational works for me as a very young SF/F fan was my school library's copy of "Wizard's Hall."

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 09/06/2026

obsessed with thomas. happy pride 🪿🌈✨

tumblr post with a screenshot of an article titled “Blind Bisexual Goose Named Thomas Who
Spent Six Years in a Love Triangle With Two Swans And Helped Raise 68 Babies Dies at The Ripe Old Age Of 40”

subheading: He's a bit much

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RIP to the legend

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This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!
(link to Thomas’ wikipedia article)

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

• He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.
• Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.
• Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.
• When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.
• Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.
•Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.
• As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.
• His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."
• Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper.
He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.
• Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"the large collapsed chemical tank, almost resembling a crushed soda can, and various pieces of scrap metal scattered throughout the site. A working area appears totally destroyed. The only evidence of what came before is a toolbox in the back and a Donald Trump flag hanging from the rafters."

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This is excellent. I've occasionally tried to discuss the real harm in the excision of Byzantium as part of comforting narratives of "the Dark Ages" even when I might otherwise agree with the ultimate thesis, and its ties to the relegation of "Greeks" to the past tense, but it's difficult—

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Guild Wars @guildwars2.com · 03/06/2026

The winds quicken. Rise. Be ready. www.summergamefest.com

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Vixy @vixyish.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Washington State friends: There’s a bill proposed to outlaw gender affirming care for minors in Washington. It's currently open for public comment. Please go add your voice. app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1038

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Washington State Legislature - Public Bill Comments

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/01/2025

This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin For which the pardoner himself is in.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/01/2025

Twice

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 17/01/2025

Truly one of the most amazing shrugs in literary history #tolkien

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19/01/2025

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Portland Saturday to protest ahead of the incoming presidential administration. “I look out on all of you, and I see an ally in each of you,” said Veronica Leonard, “What we have now is a stronger, more united coalition of communities than ever before.”

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Alice Poon 潘慧嫻 @alicepoonauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just a quick guidance to the differences between #wuxia and #xianxia. - Wuxia stories center around martial heroes with superb combat skills who live by a code of honor, justice & virtue. - #JinYong 's novels are typical of this genre with numerous film / TV / #cdrama adaptations.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/01/2025

NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don't want to stream anything! I don't care how convenient it is—let me give media companies my money in exchange for actually owning a physical version of the movie/TV show/album/whatever. I don't really want to pirate these things; I want to legally purchase PHYSICAL COPIES I OWN. /80s baby

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The problem is we combined Tolkien with King Arthur, losing key parts of each. So you get the orphan farmboy who is the Chosen One/True King and must defeat the Dark Lord, the classic LotR + Sword in the Stone formula --

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/01/2025

Frost: "Never did I think that my first debate of the new congress would be debating a Republican bill that empowers pedophiles and predators. They say it's about protecting women but it's a damn lie." @maxwellfrost.bsky.social

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/01/2025

Rep AOC: "republicans, who have voted consistently against the violence against women's act, who have taken the rights of all women to have control over their own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots, now want to pretend today that they care about women."

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

An excellent article on the Gaiman accusations—some of the information has been available for months (enough for us to know he was a sexual abuser), but this is a) nuanced, insightful reporting and b) has more sources and a LOT more detail (TW for basically everything including child abuse).

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 10/01/2025

Starbucks workers in LA are being forced to work in areas impacted by the recent wildfires - even where the air quality is unsafe. Management told partners that stores must open because “the community depends on us,” ignoring that some workers had to evacuate their own homes.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

we must remember anita bryant as she lived

four grainy, desaturated old video stills, first a conservatively styled woman with red hair smiling at the camera, second a hand reaching into the frame to slam a pie in her face, third a man holding his hands up looking grim, fourth the woman again with her head in her hands, full of pie

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This is absolutely not restricted to Meta; judging by the cavalier and apologise-rather-than-ask-permission attitudes of Big Tech, and yet so many of us in academia are pretending that using ChatGPT or Microsoft's Copilot is fine, as if there are no ethical issues.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What happens when aliens attempt to govern humanity, only to find we're a rather ungovernable species? @jdnicoll.bsky.social on five stories in which our alien overlords get more than they bargained for. reactormag.com/five-stories...

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Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans - Reactor

Maybe conquering Earth was a bad idea?

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Monday's Manul @manulmonday.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Put your best foot forward in this new year, it's the first Manul Monday of 2025!

A manul standing in the snow stretching out its front leg while caught mid-yawn. Its wide eyes looking at the camera along with its open mouth give an anthropomorphic expression of shock.

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Happy Birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien. Thank you for bring such inspiration to readers and creatives around the world! "J.R.R. Tolkien" 42" x 33"- 106cm x 83cm oil on panel, 2012 private collection

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 01/01/2025

Every year on 1 January, Public Domain Day celebrates the artistic works that enter the public domain, becoming free for everyone to use, share, and adapt. Wikimedia volunteers are at the forefront of sharing these works while navigating copyright restrictions. ➡️ w.wiki/CbAe

"La danse (second version)", painting by Henri Matisse. Text says: It's Public Domain Day! Every year on 1 January, the Wikimedia community celebrates the day on which artistic works become free to use once their copyright protection ends.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/12/2024

Earthrise. Taken #OTD 56 years ago. In terms of seeing that we're all on this one single planet, it's one of the most important photos ever taken.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 10/12/2024

(Incidentally, I just turned in a novel outline yesterday, so word to the wise -- in general as you start selling things on proposal rather than on spec, you will NEED to give people outlines. So I suggest learning how to produce one on demand even if you don't usually use them in your process.)

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I didn't remotely achieve my goal of revising every day for the #NovWritingChallenge because I was derailed by a whole ton of things in November, mainly teaching Shakespeare, the US elections, and asthma problems that struck after I got COVID and never returned to my previous baseline. THAT SAID-

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm both intrigued and nervous about the talk of Bluesky adopting a paid model of sorts. The only one I've ever found worthwhile is Dreamwidth's, both out of goodwill for the site/management, and because I don't have to pay for basic functionality, but do get features I actually value and like.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 21/11/2024

I have simply not known what to write about for a while now. So I wrote about some things we can do to keep supporting art—specifically books and authors, since that's my beat.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/11/2024

Just found out about Paul Susi's work getting people ID's so they can get benefits or apply for jobs, or whatever else they might need government ID for; filling in a niche that shouldn't need to be filled, but for this fucking system. Trying to find out if there's anything like this around here…

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PDX ID Assistance

This is a mutual-aid project. I assist individuals seeking to replace lost ID documents–including Driver’s Licenses, ID Cards, and Birth Certificates. The intention of this project is t…

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

People of Bluesky! Quote a favorite film using gifs only.

A gif of Vader in "The Empire Strikes Back" promoting Piett to admiral by choking the unsatisfactory Admiral Ozzel to death through a webcam while Piett tries not to look.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/11/2024

9. Senator Wyden (D-Oregon): "After the 2004 election a lot of pundits said it was time for Democrats to stop standing up for gay people. They were wrong, and history showed we could stand up for what’s right and still win elections."

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? For me, it's the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series. I feel sure I'll be rescued in the end, and with a certain amount of homoerotic flourish tbh.

A publicity photograph of the main characters of Star Trek: The Original Series in seasons 2 and 3, posing around the captain's chair on the Enterprise. From left to right: Scotty, Chekov, McCoy, Chapel, Kirk (in the chair), Uhura, Spock, and Sulu.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

King: hey guys sorry i'm late King: i just could not get up this morning King: feels like I've been sleeping for days King: what did i miss? King: how did the election go? Lovecraft: not too bad King: King: oh no King: oh no oh no oh no

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Isabel Psaros Lunnen @psaroslunnen.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

The moment I saw the picture, I somehow felt this HAD to be in the PNW, even before seeing it's in Oregon. I know "80% bleak mundanity, but with a certain eldritch je ne sais quoi" is not a concept limited by political boundaries (or time or space, I suspect!), but it feels like our kind of evil.

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Jeff LaSala @jlasala.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Silmarillion miniatures from a Dragon magazine ad in 1991. WAY before I was familiar with these characters. I don't know what I like more, the fact that they made two Túrins (why not one for each name?) or the fact that they also made Gwindor (poor Gwindor) and Beleg (poor Beleg).

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

sorry I mistyped this nightmare path: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Holy shit this is so absolutely fucking perfect

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birdrightsactivist @probirdrights.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

can’t wait 4 “”rogue whitehouse staff””” to start skeetin “we’re weally sowwy about deporting all the gays :( :( :( “

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