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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching how people talk about Christa Pike, seeing how white womanhood casts innocence over a person, when INNOCENT Black men are executed, and no one connects these things.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bene Gesserit: "Put your righte hande yn the box" Me [figuringe out wher to put my iced coffee]

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is because this is what patriarchal binaryism does, is that it holds two genders in opposite oppositional positioning to each other. If manhood is strength then womanhood is weakness.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If your goal is solely the protection of trans women, not including other trans people, then you can just talk about the issues that trans women face. But what you find instead is a knee jerk reaction to minimize the oppression of transmasculinity.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes a politician just has terrible and/or inconsistent beliefs. The question you should be asking yourself is why you have to come up with complicated and bizarre plots of conspiracy without the politician showing any indication of any of it.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I didn't realize how expensive food had gotten in the US until I went to Europe and kept getting shocked about the prices being lower. Which yes, I know it varies by country.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"When Democrats today triangulate on transgender rights, they are offering us a slower pace of decline. And they are doing so in the face of a conservative movement that has no interest in compromise of any sort."

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Notice that I am highlighting transphobic vs allyship BEHAVIORS. Because individual people and individual organizations can be one, the other, or both.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Someone who is themselves too online, who manipulates intra communal discord like it's his only job, is not the person to listen to about trans people being too online.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am in Europe now, and as I had anticipated, the shape of my life has changed such that I am not just busy with life, but also have the opportunity to relax and spend time on myself. So I am just not going to be posting here much if at all.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the trans moral panic pushed by the NYT and Atlantic is about transphobia, obviously, but it's also about older wealthy readers believing that as adults they have the right to control their children's identities and futures.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

often when a family has resources that means children benefit. but also sometimes very wealthy parents use their vast resources to torment and abuse their kids.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

But, I think it's also important to understand the dual purpose behind creating documents like this. Because, if you focus on just the anti-trans intent and the shoddiness of the work, you might lose track of this: Conservatives don't believe in social science.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The priority of the "trans man in women's bathroom argument" is upholding the patriarchal framing of "women and children" which always is about the good men protecting the precious/vulnerable/owned from the bad "men" (who may not be men at all).

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the biggest issues with how we talk about trans rights is that most of the time we can't conceive of things outside of patriarchal framing.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anytime anyone says, because of the women and children, it's most often not because of the women and children, but they just can't admit the real reason, often not even to themselves.

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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

daily reminder ✨

DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

i guess i dont know a simpler way to explain this than that people who are willing to throw trans people to the wolves to stop fascism arent actually stopping fascism like that IS fascism dipshits

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Getting rid of all my stuff and found a bunch of things I've been dragging around with me all my adult years, old cell phones and computers and papers and whatnot and this old Antiloop CD I had. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5sQ...

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Antiloop - In My Mind [Official Music Video )

YouTube video by AntiloopVEVO

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I just watched Out of Africa, and that was an interesting experience. It is a good example of white washing racism with women's empowerment. Gone with the Wind is another example, albeit lighter on the empowerment aspect.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"cis feminism" is what I use much like "white feminism", in that it seeks the empowerment of womanhood against the patriarchy through exclusivity.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Misogyny is a thing hurled at trans people to erase our existence. It's done broadly speaking, to all trans people, because it is the parlor trick of the patriarchy to warp feminist thinking for its own purposes.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The problem with cis men is that they would rather bash manhood than actually do something to make it better, like say, support transmasculine people, or any kind of marginalized masculinity.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The thing about MAGA, is that these are people who need to destroy community in order to enact their selfish goals, but of course destroying community always leads to self sabotage.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I am wondering how this compares to other countries.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gender is when cis woman. And until we break that hold that cis women have over discussing gender, trans people aren't getting anywhere. (Except when we talk about trans people as if they are cis women)

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Listening to a podcast about JD Vance's book on converting to Catholicism-cis woman feminist says let's talk about gender and I'm like, yes, let's talk about JD Vance's gender because SOMEthing is going on there, but no of course, she wants to talk about a cis woman.

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Of Mice and Microneedles (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

people imagine collapse as being exciting and its mostly paperwork and checkpoints and armed men in your house and going to work but having no water occasionally you get to dig your friends corpse out of a piss covered street cause theres no plumbing and the local insurgents shot him.

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Victor Frankenstein's Psychoanalyst @graay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's probably worth noting that when trans mascs post gender theory that you think is doing some rhetorical gymnastics and you decide you can cut through it with "dictionary definitions", it's because they aren't allowed to touch the load bearing pillar of society "gender is when woman".

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

People will tell you that this means I hate white cis women, which isn't the case. Nor am I in any way discounting misogyny or the oppression of women, the audience I speak to here are people already aligned against the patriarchy and not anyone who has no knowledge or no sympathy of feminism.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The politics of resentment works every group, you are never immune from it because of oppression you face. White cis women, the group who most benefited from DEI are front and center of the attack on trans women in sports.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...

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Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror

What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I listened to this podcast, which is one only listen to occasionally as the mood strikes. I have had Gattaca on my mind lately, and have been thinking I want to see it again. open.spotify.com/episode/5vHU...

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Gattaca (feat. Nicole Hemmer)

Unclear and Present Danger · Episode

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In some ways Blue Sky amped up the horribleness of Twitter. People angrily yelling out things drives engagement, and when it's not coded to show up in your feed, the people who depend on that rage engagement then flood their feed for the same effect.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is a good article that cis people need to read, and then to read one of the many pieces about how the New York Times created this situation.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“'It was soft fascism.' Fascism usually begins with redefining the nation by excluding certain groups which are branded threats to national health and unity. The Trump administration has fixated on two groups most of all—immigrants and trans people—in just this way." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have to stop myself from saying sometimes, "I was a feminist before you were born" in frustration with baby feminists.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The thing about the genAI age is that it's teaching me all that stuff I thought was important like working hard and keeping an eye on details in your work weren't actually that important to these people but rather an avenue to allow managers to yell at me

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We need to stop looking at reactionary centrists as if they "oppsie" forgot. This is a long running campaign to rewrite history.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is a nightmare. Yes ok, there is a method for making it inoperable, but also what I see immediately is an excuse to get people wet and grope them.

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River doesn't know what to say @riverraven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Most people misunderstand transphobia as misogyny.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

in the future the keyboard will be replaced by a big slot machine lever that you pull until the computer does what you want it to. the more of your personal information you give us the better it will be at knowing what you want to happen when you pull the lever.

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