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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓

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They/He | 30+ | ADHD | EDS | cPTSD | Endometriosis | this is a personal account. The adult-sona account is not happening. Welcome to the chaos. ~ likes and follows nsfw fyi ~

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Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"She's pretty but I hear she's had work done" Me: *turns around to reveal I've replaced my eyebrows with branches that birds can rest upon*
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Being unique is all well and good until you realize you have such weird esoteric tastes that if you want something to exist you KEEP HAVING TO MAKE IT YOURSELF
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It takes a toll.
4 frame comics. first frame shows espresso in a portafilter. second shows a coconut milk carton and a cup to foam milk with a thermometer. 4rd frame shows a small espresso machine making espresso. 4th frame shows a foamy cappuccino in a promotional Frozen the Musical coffee cup. The text, spread over the four frames, reads :
I wish that I could give cis
people a glimpse of what it
feels like. 
to be villainized and
dehumanized in the media
every day.
to see your existence
being legislated against all
around the planet.
to see friends and
family members vote for
politicians who promise to
make the lives of people
like you worse.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep The 2,000+ anti-trans laws passed recently can cause trans people more psychological distress than personal experiences of discrimination, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research study. news.vcu.edu/article/anti...
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Anti-transgender legislation causes psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws, according to VCU research
Transgender study participants viewed the more than 2,000 laws proposed in the U.S. since 2020 ‘as an existential threat’ to their lives and the lives of other transgender people
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026
I created a live anti trans ad tracker that tracks all anti trans ad spending on meta and Google. It runs and updates nightly. You can see ad campaigns in real time. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com
adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com
2026 anti-trans ad tracker
Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're launching Rate Your Landlord (Rate Your Professor but for Landlords). Not seen: everyone in the room raising their hand to wanting to submit reviews for their landlords.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"These really contentious plans will give free rein to large polluters, put nature and species at risk, limit public participation and keep Canadians in the dark about the impacts to their health and safety. It's a huge abdication of responsibility from the feds."
nationalobserver.com
Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reform UK and Tories silent after research shows their own supporters oppose cuts to disability benefits #DisabilityBenefits @conservatives.bsky.social @natcen.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uk-an...
disabilitynewsservice.com
Reform UK and Tories silent after research shows their own supporters oppose cuts to disability benefits
Political parties that have spent years calling for cuts to spending on disabled people’s benefits have stayed silent in response to new research which shows the public have ignored their rhetoric …
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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 19/08/2026
Canada’s Bill C-34 would implement age verification and create a Digital Safety Commission to set online standards for millions of internet users in #Canada. #OTW Legal explains why this is concerning and how to add your voice. Read more otw-news.org/bdcte7e6
OTW logo with the words 'Spotlight on Legal Issues'
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"British Columbia’s landmark Cambie surgical case concluded that private clinics do not shorten public wait times. They divert limited health-care staff to for-profit facilities and increase wait times for everyone else." #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
thestar.com
Iris Gorfinkel: Same doctor, different price tag: How universal health care is under attack
Alberta’s Bill 11 is a direct assault on the Canada Health Act, but the greater danger is federal complacency. What starts in Alberta doesn’t stay in Alberta.
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Stunning new financial analysis from @desmog.com. During a year when gas prices skyrocketed for regular Canadians, oil executives personally raked in over $1 billion worth of stock holdings increases. "Angry yet?" writes @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/08/27/c...
desmog.com
Canadian Oil Executives’ Stock Holdings Increased by Over $1 Billion Amid War and Wildfires
Executives at Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Suncor, and Imperial Oil saw their personal stock holdings and options skyrocket this year, according to a DeSmog analysis.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So, it's another good day to call on PM @mark-carney.bsky.social to expel the US Ambassador. 259,840 signatures and counting. #cdnpoli #LakeOntario Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
ourcommons.ca
Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
[apparates into your timeline] please note: there are zero (0.0) writing studies researchers involved in this [disappears in a puff of smoke]
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am super not stoked that the day after I talked to the unuon about some job chaos stuff I literally got locked out of all of my work accounts. 🙃
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anyone make a ....uuhh... shareable set to maintain... like that package of CDC datasets from prior to the initial dataset purge?
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Funny how I finally remove all the spam text messages and I realize that I totally know more people that I used to text more often until their messages gut freaken buried under spam. That's annoying.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/08/2026
www.wgbh.org/news/health/...
Hannah Reale
August 13, 2026
A new rule from the Trump administration this week means the federal government will stop covering gender-affirming treatments for transgender children who rely on public health insurance like Medicaid.

But in what appears to be a first-in-the-nation policy, Massachusetts officials with MassHealth say the state will keep covering the costs of treatments like hormone therapy.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized a rule Tuesday blocking the use of Medicaid money for transgender care for anyone younger than 18. The rule is set to take effect this fall.
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Why is it that every time I get a "like" reaction on my a post of mine, I am logged out of bluesky? That seems really odd and hard to like.... blame on something else when I've gone months without being logged out, and then the 2 times it's happened; I've gotten logged out. Wtf?
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WKBN 27 First News @wkbn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What is an open plea, which Luigi Mangione entered in court?
wkbn.com
What is an open plea, which Luigi Mangione entered in court?
By entering the plea, Mangione avoids state charges or sentencing in New York under double jeopardy protections.
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Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"If we want to save our summers...we need to take climate change seriously and phase out fossil fuels." BC is under a state of emergency with over 20,000 wildfire evacuees, and smoke causing serious health impacts. Governments must do better. Watch: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... @cape-acme.bsky.social
Melissa speaking about the health impacts of wildfire smoke and measures needed to reduce them with Deana Sumanac-Johnson live from Yellowknife, NWT on CBC News
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Loovvvee going to my GP to update them on the anaphylaxis chaos to find out that because the ER doc didn't SEE the use of the Epi-pen, as far as they're concerned, I was in the hospital for unknown, and possibly FND. WTF. JFC. Unclear if that's my GP's interpretation or the ER Doc. #NEISVoid
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Rory @rennyrose.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hey ya'll if you have a second, would you mind taking a moment to read n sign this petition regarding another Amazon data center development in Mississippi? www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...
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Sign the Petition
Say No to Amazon’s $3 Billion Data Center in Mississippi Without Community Protections
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Vashwood.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
carlsonlab.bio
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Very proud to be making my @assignedmedia.org debut with this fascinating & farcical exposé! Someone — we don’t yet know who — has been bombarding the US government with blatantly machine-generated comments. All of them ask for one thing: make it harder for trans people to legally buy firearms.
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ʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026
This is not a mistake, they started with Black women, as always, and we told them they would come for you.
This is not a data technicality. It is a warning signal.
Black women have long functioned as an economic bellwether because they sit at the intersection of multiple labor-market pressures: public-sector employment, care work, service-sector exposure, household financial responsibility, and structural inequity in hiring, advancement, and layoffs.

When Black women begin disappearing from the labor force, the economy is not becoming stronger. It is losing capacity.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So many people I encounter, especially in HigherEd, believe the only strategy for this moment is "keep your head down." @debtcollective.bsky.social didn't change priorities in 2024, nor in 2020, nor in 2016. They barreled ahead. There first big win was $800 million. This one is $11 billion.
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey #medsky! Here is the latest compilation of research on COVID-19's impacts on the body! I hope this is helpful to you! www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid...
panaccindex.info
What COVID-19 Does to the Body (11th Edition, August 2026)
Your Regular COVID-19 Research Update (70+ Studies)
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 07/08/2026
Again and again, people have been asking for a national map. So we made one. Other maps exist, yes. But they're either out of date or woefully overinclusive. I don't need to see every hospital's tiny datacentre. stopthedatacentre.ca/map
stopthedatacentre.ca
Datacentre proposals map · Stop the Datacentre
Interactive map of active datacentre proposals and local campaigns across Canada.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
**gestures broadly at province on fire** Anyway, tell me again that mandatory commutes for work that can be done remotely is a normal response to the climate breakdown
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Milk Burger @milkpork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this… but all those art supplies sitting unused in your totes? They’re made to be used. Fuck them up. Get them dirty. Use the markers til the ink is dry. Use all the super glue. Paint til your paint is gone. MAKE. ART. The world needs it now more than ever. #art
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/07/2026
"Helping working people to afford lives of joy” This is absolutely why Mamdani is succeeding in New York and is so beloved.
As Mamdani said on his ninth day in office, his agenda is not simply about curbing the city's most urgent crises, but also includes helping "working people to afford lives of joy." That includes an intentional, visible effort to make many smaller-scale improvements to quality of life in the city. And it also includes efforts by the mayor himself to show up in the places where New Yorkers let loose and celebrate side-by-side with them.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 30/07/2026
Look at how terrible this socialism is: “The windfall of tips comes after a city law cracking down on deceptive tipping practices by app-based delivery companies took effect in January … Since taking office, Mayor Mamdani has directed DCWP to vigorously enforce the laws.”
documentedny.com
NYC Delivery Workers Earned $104M Extra in Tips Under New City Law
According to a new city report, enforcement of New York City’s tip transparency law has led to an average of about $2,287 in additional tips for each of the city’s 70,000 app-based delivery workers.
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Apparently this is just going to turn into a chronic health bitching account. Lol Like, not actually... but who knows.. that sure is the vibe as of late.
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Because of how the last anaphylatic reaction started, now anytime my head feels woozy and I feel like crap, I get really worried that it's the start of anaphylaxis again. Suuuper not a fun time. The stress of not being sure about the safety of returning to work really isn't helping. #NEISvoid
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's very exhausting yo feel like you're finally climbing out of the hole caused by the last medical crisis (anaphylaxis) and starting to do things (like post fic chapters) to then fall into ANOTHER hole of a medical crisis that's worse then the last one! (anaphylaxis, this time needed an epipen)
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
From an art slide for new Aang movie 🤮: ""Also according to chatgpt, "In general it is not common for South East Asian cultures to emphasize or traditionally have a strong association with beards. Traditionally valued a c clean-shaven appearance or minimal facial hair grooming.""
A screenshot of the slide from the presentation, with the text:

Face shape exploration (no hair exploration yet)
(Please consider that if they are East Asian, the shave+braid queue hairstyles which are specifically Mongolian/Chinese may not be a good fit. Also according to ChatGPT, "In general it is not common for South East Asian cultures to emphasize or traditionally have a strong association with beards. Traditionally valued a clean-shaven appearance or minimal facial hair grooming.")

Also shown in the slide are two concepts for a character, plus a picture of Eren Jaegar.
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sometimes people make a thing and I realize I didn't even think the medium could do that. And then I look at it and I'm like, oh yeah, that used to be the way we *insert historical way of some specific clothing detailing*... I love being reminded of the versatility of embroidery. Hell yeah. 💖
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ooohhhhhhh
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And the graph of measles cases in the US (ref Johns Hopkins)
Graph shows massive rise of measles cases in 2025 and 2026
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 24/07/2026
One Brookfield subsidiary in B.C. is applying to export power to another in the United States. If successful, it will be an incentive for private companies to increase private electricity exports independent of Canadian needs. Marjorie Griffin Cohen writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
thetyee.ca
How Powell River Became Ground Zero for Canada’s Electricity Future | The Tyee
Mark Carney’s old company wants an unprecedented right to sell power to the US.
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Taste the galaxy? 🤤
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Helga Vanthournout @wealthofflows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This week: #Calgary city council fights against a more compact, less car-centric city. #Alberta provincial govt works to dismantle the bike lanes it considers woke and harmful to society. And our federal government is hard at work to boost oil and gas sales as the only way to save the country.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I finally posted a chapter. Wheeeeeeeeeee It's only been... 4 months. 😭 Life is really not letting me write and it sucks.
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
it doesn't matter if anyone else finds it hot. it only matters if YOU find it hot. just write it
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Polycules
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Salty Olives 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hot muffins. I have been struggling with some nitty gritty details of this chapter all week and I finalllllly sussed it out. Annnnnd cue 1400 words.. in the span of like... 2 hours Jfc. And that's JUST dialogue. Wheeeeeee
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