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Rowan Cardosa

@rowanberry333.bsky.social
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They/Them. Writer living in TX. Speculative fiction, gaming, and other odds and ends. linktr.ee/rcardosa

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Knaveofclubs @knaveofclubs.bsky.social · 13h
Gonna say to remember to support FA right now as one of the last bastions for a true art gallery website unadulterated by AI, tech billionaires, social media algorithms, and enshittification. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...
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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal
⭐Gofund Me ⭐. Moved to the top at user request.. . . Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorsh ...
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The Jyggalag of Jugs 🔜 Furpoc @grapeyafterdark.bsky.social · 12h
I've been using FurAffinity for 20 YEARS, and it is still the best, most consistent gallery site on the Internet today. Shell out if you want to keep adult art spaces safe!
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Lockely @lockelyfox.skyway.cafe · 15h
"they consider plus size characters, two characters hugging, and 'barbie doll nudity' to be adult content" Advertisers are actually deranged.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 16h
FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17h
Voter registration closes on Monday in Georgia, Texas, Florida and other states. Take five seconds to double check that you're registered, then make sure those who follow you are too! SWers have an unbelievably large online audience. This is how you turn it into real political power.
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Hot2Vote — Check Your Voter Status
Use your power. Register to vote, verify your status, and join the Hot2Vote Artist Ambassador Program.
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Alioth Fox (@ Carolina FurFare) @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 17h
Buy an FA+ subscription. Buy FA merch. Throw shinies at Fender. Consider buying ad space on FA yourself. There are a lot of ways you can support them. However you might feel about FA, I don't think I can overstate how much of a tragedy it would be to lose it
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Alioth Fox (@ Carolina FurFare) @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 17h
TLDR: Fur Affinity's advertising partners are demanding that they ban adult content. Sciggles and FA want to firmly tell them to go fuck themselves. If they're going to be able to afford to do that, they need the community's help. Pitch in. Keep furry weird. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...
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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal
Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorship of the internet and third parties forcing sites to ...
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026
Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026
The ACLU is suing a a Minnesota school district that has banned every sticker in an attempt to rid its campuses of rainbow ones. The school district is Detroit Lakes School District, and locals are up in arms at the sticker ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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ACLU Sues Minnesota School District That Banned All Stickers To Get Rid Of Rainbow Ones
“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”
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Matt Pearson @mattpearson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's actually the revenge of that MS Office paperclip thing that used to popup and say 'I see you are writing a letter, I can help you'. The paperclip got mad we laughed at it and dismissed it, so it mutated and is now going to come back and kill us all.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.
Screenshot of an X post by Graham Linehan (@Glinner) commenting, "It looks like these two are heroes who may have saved some kids".
Linehan quotes a post by Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) that reads: "Damn. According to a witness of the shooting homicide of the trans New York Times executive in Dublin, Calif., the elderly Chinese grandparents calmly walked away after the exec was dropped to the ground".
Below the text are two police mugshot photos side by side: on the left is an elderly Asian woman with short, wavy gray hair wearing a white shirt, and on the right is an elderly Asian man with short dark hair, slight facial stubble, and a white shirt.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 30/09/2026
Even were Blackburn's gambit to be successful, Senate KOSA would face heavy opposition in the House, which has acknowledged many of the free speech concerns. Unfortunately it's nigh impossible to fix a bill when its primary purpose is censorship: platformpolemics.aricohn.com/p/the-kids-a...
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The KIDS Act Is Just as Unconstitutional as KOSA ... Just in Different Words
You've still skinned a cat no matter which way you go about it
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J.C. Parker @jcparker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Huzzah! Unanimous consent KOSA vote fails!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/09/2026
No KOSA today folks.
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Sarah N. @vermillionworks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup, KOSA was blocked. 😆 At least for the time being. thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Paul blocks push to unanimously pass Kids Online Safety Act
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked an effort from Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday to pass by unanimous consent the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a long-s…
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 30/09/2026
After Senator Blumenthal sought unanimous consent for KOSA, engaging in brutally transparent hand-waving of free speech issues, Senator Rand Paul stands up to object, and unanimous consent fails.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Marsha Blackburn pushing for a unanimous consent vote on KOSA this afternoon (via @benbrodydc.bsky.social). Blumenthal (who also supports the bills) says their could be objections to derail it.
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Ben Brody (@BenBrodyDC) on X
New: Sen. Blackburn is aiming to make a a unanimous consent request to pass the Kids Online Safety Act around 5p. Sen. Blumenthal, KOSA’s Democratic lead, said he did think an objection that’d stop it...
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 30/09/2026
Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti—yes, that one—sent sweeping legal demands to an abortion fund and the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliate. He’s seeking internal communications, website and social media copy, donor records, patient records, information about healthcare providers, and more
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Tennessee AG Investigating Clinics and Abortion Funds, Racist Hyde Amendment Turns 50: September 29 News Roundup
Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026
The entire edifice of "sex-based rights" is an absurd moral and legal fiction wearing feminism's stolen clothes--and it seems this group of people promoting "Christian Rights" are trying a similar trick. The UK has fertilised itself for this perfidy with its own bullshit. Democracy is at risk.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026
The reason this is so dangerous is that "sex-based rights" smuggles a perverse idea into the heart of the law: the idea that you should get special rights because of your immutable biology. This is the *opposite* of what civil rights law is meant to achieve.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026
Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.
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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
I'm really tired of this assholes ability to shape the language and terms everyone uses for things. The tech companies being groveling cowards will adopt this going forward and force everyone to use it.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"My concern about the bans is that people will go underground. When they go underground online, bad things happen — really terrible things happen."
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Tech is entering its prohibition era. We've been here before.
Governments are seeking to set restrictions on popular tech. Though well-intentioned, the bans are easier said than done.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/09/2026
How does one ban an asexual “practice”, other than to punish people who are not married and those who don’t have babies?
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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity
To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'
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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026
if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I don’t want the government spying on me” is the type of straightforward position to take, regardless of ideology.
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Veronika Simms @veronikasimms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's important to remember this is part of a larger strategy to restrict all girls by discouraging competition sports and encouraging activities like cheerleading and other activities that encourage a more biblical gender role
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
The entire motto of this administration towards LGBTQ youth is "fuck them kids." thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is.
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Rowan Cardosa @rowanberry333.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In case anyone needs this advice: nursing homes are expensive. Half of all states don't have any sort of filial laws, and letting your parents rot is free
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
Mother nature doesn't like Ed Sheeran either. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/e...
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Ed Sheeran's Gillette Stadium tour stops cancelled due to nor'easter
Ed Sheeran was scheduled to play two shows at Gillette Stadium following a tumultuous stretch for the Loop Tour.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mother Nature Krafts A Happy Ending
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
The Tennessee AG is launching a massive investigation into an abortion fund. The investigation follows the same playbook used on gender affirming care providers by utilizing baseless unfair and deceptive trade practices claims. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tennessee AG Launches Investigation into State's Abortion Fund
Abortion Care Tennessee's attorney says the investigation is retaliation for a free speech case the state lost.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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Élodie Marissa: ExDeath, Vampiric Overlord @elodieexdeath.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
What a surprise, the homophobe is also a transphobe.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The whole party needs to be remade to ensure supremacists like this never get power. It’s a big project, and that ship has sailed in this election. Have to vote for the bigot to prevent worse. But it’s very doable long term. Corporate out, bigots out.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/09/2026
New Meta ad buy by Mary Peltola says that she "doesn't want kids getting gender surgeries or men in girls' bathrooms." This comes the same day a NYT report stated that she regularly used the word "faggot" around staff.
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danger meowthmallow 🐱 @icetyph.pmd.social · 01/09/2026
what a fuckin meower dude what a fuckin weasely little meower dude what a fuckin. weasely. little. meower. dude. holy shit dude holy fucking shit dude literally meowing
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Florida's educational commissioner singled out Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" demanding its removal from school libraries, even if no complaint is filed: “The time is over for how we are addressing the smut, the porn, the inappropriateness that is still infiltrating our libraries in our schools."
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Florida schools must do more to purge ‘inappropriate’ books, commissioner says
The big story: Saying Florida parents continue to find too much age-inappropriate material in their children’s schools, state education commissioner Henry Mack instructed districts to do a better job ...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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Ghoulumunkus @gulumunkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
discord casually admitting they know that nobody wanted the age verification implemented and trying to be funny about it is seriously something that the pr team should reflect on and really study when they lose a lot of nitro subs in this next week
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 24/09/2026
Honestly, the real headline here is that Equality PAC endorsed Henry Cuellar. Aside from having a VERY consistent anti-trans voting record, Cuellar was literally pardoned by Trump in December after being bribed by Azerbaijan to ignore the genocide of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians in September 2023.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
The Congressional Equality Caucus has released the following statement in response to our story indicating they will not back candidates who "scapegoat transgender people." Kaptur does not appear as of this morning on their endorsed list. Several who took the same vote as her still do, sadly.
“Equality PAC is proud to support LGBTQ candidates and allies to build Pro-Equality Majorities capable of passing critical legislation like the Equality Act. We will always work with Members of Congress and candidates to educate them on issues affecting the LGBTQ community and deepen their understanding of the challenges our community faces.

The Members and allies we support come from communities across the country, and we recognize that serving in Congress, particularly in a Republican-controlled Congress, can require Members to take difficult votes.

We recognize that no Member will agree with us on every vote, and that is part of the legislative process. We must not lose the art of persuasion, and it is imperative that we continue to welcome “imperfect allies” to facilitate meaningful and lasting change for the LGBTQ community.

But there is a clear line: we will not accept candidates or Members using Republican rhetoric that actively harms members of our community—particularly transgender Americans, who have been the target of sustained attacks from the Trump Administration. Campaigns can be won without scapegoating transgender people. Equality PAC will not support any candidate who chooses to campaign by targeting or demonizing members of the transgender community.

Americans deserve candidates who are focused on the issues that matter most to working families: lowering costs, protecting access to health care, and holding the Trump Administration accountable for its corrupt actions.

Our goal is to build a Congress that fights for the rights of every member of the LGBTQ community and delivers results on the issues that matter most to families across America.

Regarding our support for Frontline Members of Congress: the graphic featured in our newsletter was created by the DCCC and was intended to highlight the full slate of Frontline Democrats heading into the midterms. Its inclusion does not indicate that Equality PAC is supporting every candidate featured in…
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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to make it clear that anti-trans Democrats in 10 years will have as much electability as homophobic candidates have today. This is just another bad faith attempt to malign a minority group for political clout by the conservative movement. Dems who fall for it can kiss their careers bye bye!
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Katherine Thibodeaux @thibodek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Transphobia is an existential threat for transgender people, but also terrible for cisgender people! There's no magic combination of policing people based on birth certificates, genitals, and/or secondary sex characteristics that is good for living in a free society.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.
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Elliot Forhan (he/him) @forhanforohio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kaptur, Acton and Brown should check out how taking a centrist approach on trans issues worked out for Keir Starmer. @erininthemorning.com www.erininthemorning.com/p/starmers-r...
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Starmer's Resignation And Labour's Collapse Shows Why Democrats Must Avoid Abandoning Trans People
Throwing trans people under the bus will not help the party.
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