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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 2h

The crusaders.

'We make LESS but things cost MORE!' says Girl. 'RETVRN!' cries a crusading Cat. 'To when we made less and things cost the same! Weather is spiraling out of control - with 2 degrees of warming baked in.' 'RETVRN!' cries Cat. 'To weather spiraling out of control with 1.5 degrees of warming baked in' says Girl. 'People aren't going to the emergency room because they're afraid of immigration-' 'RETVRN!' '-they should be NOT GOING because they CAN'T AFFORD IT! Leopards are eating my face=' 'RETVRN!' '- to when leopards were eating YOUR face!' 'RETVRN to 2015!' cries Cat. 'Sound the battle horn!' yells Girl. Cat plays a long golden horn, which blasts out the sound 'GOOD ENOUGH.' 'Now we just wait for an army to assemble,' says Cat. They wait.

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 27/09/2026

Porn is so cool! Shoutout to pornstars!

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 26/09/2026

i bring a sort of "iced coffee" to the interview that managers don't really like

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet.

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 24/09/2026

A mainstream publication making queer and disabled people the butt of the joke isn’t just poor taste—it’s harmful journalism. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

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The lesbian bar discourse should have never left the group chat | Xtra Magazine

A mainstream publication making queer and disabled people the butt of the joke isn’t just poor taste—it’s harmful journalism

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026

Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

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Trainwreck

Old habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard.

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 25/09/2026

someone told me impatiently today that COVID is not a concern for anyone who isn't immunocompromised so regular reminder that uhhhhhhhhhhhh it very much is

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 25/09/2026

alright i've opened a bottle of chardonnay AND the latest draft of my next @theflytrapmedia.com piece about weird right-wing fashion trends we need a few dozen more subs tonight to meet our annual sub drive goal the deals are HOT

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Last chance! Our 40% annual membership sale ends TONIGHT!

The Flytrap's 40% off sale for new members ends tonight!

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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 23/09/2026

lmao great job everyone, they’re absolutely going to do more stories farming drama in the queer community now. amazing stuff everyone. if only people had an ounce of self-control to see when an article was purposefully spotlighting an issue that could’ve stayed off the page

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Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe's managing editor said it was "by far our best performing story of the year," and appears to be "on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records."
The Boston Globe • @BostonGlobe • 1d
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. trib.al/FyZjBWs
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Feel like the dems could be doing something more useful in congress than making jokes about lesbians right now

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Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show · 23/09/2026

Public radio runs because of you, and we're asking for your help to keep bringing you the news coverage that matters to Central Illinois! Help @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social during our fall fund drive:

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Mari- homeless. Still Indigenous. @wordglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing's happened with my goal for a few days. That means back into the van for the hot days and cold nights, without a bathroom, or a refrigerator. There's also nothing for groceries, and since the SSA denied my recent application I need help reapplying and appealing, and I'm alone with that. 1/3

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 23/09/2026

Its actually really bad that a U.S. senator is linking being trans to being a furry and that if you are a furry having a professional job you are endangering Americans.

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 23/09/2026

I am a two-time Eisner nominated comics writer (ETERNITY GIRL, KIM & KIM) looking for a transfem comic artist professional interested in developing a new book with me to take out to publishers.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Transgender voters in Kansas! I want to talk about your plan to vote this November — are you not voting, out of ID/safety concerns? Voting by mail? Getting registered to vote? Doing in-person advance voting? Text me on Signal @orionr.80 or DM me! I'm a trans reporter working at The 19th News.

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 23/09/2026

"Disability activists warned for years that this would be the outcome of allowing COVID-19 to spread unmitigated. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 23/09/2026

The Telegraph recently published an article about "sickfluencers" titled “How having a disability became cool." We've republished a piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet pushing back against the article, which she calls "absurd on its face." thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

A young woman stands by a staircase with a backdrop of tree canopy. She wears a white, high quality mask and has long dark hair. She wears a teal sweatshirt and black pants. The text reads, “The Gauntlet x The Sick Times. COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women “Sickfluencers” are symptoms of a mass disabling event. By Julia Doubleday.”

“The country is sicker than it’s ever been before” — now why would that be? Six years after COVID-19 hit, four years after the virus has been allowed to run totally rampant without mitigation, the country is sicker than it’s ever been before, but we can’t come up with any reason why that would be other than “women be faking?”

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 23/09/2026

thinking a lot about @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social's Adversary this week. If you haven't read it please do. One of the only books I've read that digs to the emotional core of ongoing COVID trauma

A page from ADVERSARY by Blue Delliquanti. Anton, on the verge of angry tears, tells Curtis "don't -- fucking touch me." The shadow of his head touches the shadow of Curtis's chest. In a large panel following, Curtis looks out on a lake, alone.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/09/2026

everyone complaining about paywalls, one of the most easily manipulated barriers to knowledge ever created, desperately needs to consider taking some personal responsibility for their poor media habits

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i fuck with this guy heavy

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote this yesterday shortly before Bsky declared that these "camps" comments don't count as "threats". I cannot tell you how common they are these days, especially if you're a trans person writing about this particular issue

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 16/09/2026

relevant to this, I have resurrected my porn alter ego @transamus.bsky.social for my fellow depravity enjoyers 😌 can I get a *sensual moan*

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wait fr??

Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin's administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities.
But Spanberger said over the weekend the rule is now dead.
Governor Abigail Spanberger told a crowd at Virginia Pridefest Saturday she was moved by the story of a transgender child and the issues their families face.
"And I tell you I burst into tears because of the fact that I want to make members of the
LGBTQ+ community know that you have a governor that values your community," Spanberger said from the Pridefest stage.

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Phobia @phobia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LEGALLY DISTINCT ROAR

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/09/2026

The former Special Assistant to President Joe Biden decided to throw a temper tantrum on Twitter, but I do think it is actually really good to have Biden alumna say this out loud.

Michael LaRosa @MichaelLaRosaDC
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Here's what I think @mehdirhasan doesn't understand: In the United States, polls don't make policy. Policymakers do. Screaming, shouting, and protesting are cute, and exercising all of your freedoms of speech in defense of the Palestinians is admirable.
But Mehdi is just a spectator. He's a professional spectator, jawboner, and bloviator, so he has no idea how government, diplomacy, negotiation, or strategic alliances actually work. No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy. Mehdi can hate U.S. policy toward Israel all he wants, whether it's being carried out by a Democratic or Republican president. But public opinion polls don't dictate American foreign policy. Never have. Never will.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 13/09/2026

Seeing some liberal revisionism that Obama c. 2008 was obviously lying about not supporting gay marriage in order to be more electable I guess that means he was also lying for the entire decade before he ran for president time.com/3816952/obam...

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See Obama's 20-Year Evolution on LGBT Rights

Here are the biggest decisions he's faced in his political career.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

REBUILD is doing much needed work. I hope that some of you might donate to keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

Informational flyer for Darkness RISING REBUILD, detailing therapy services for justice-involved people of color, program benefits, contact info, and impact stats, with green and yellow accents and a woman giving a thumbs up.

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

We have an example of this right here in NC, where Dem Rep. Don Davis spouted anti-trans bs on sports, supposedly just to win a conservative district. In office he...got even worse, backing MTG's bill criminalizing trans youth healthcare and lock up anyone who provides it.

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

Bigotry among politicians *always* escalates if it's not stopped. They're elites steeped in a highly bigoted culture already. Giving them more power doesn't make them better. Transphobic rhetoric to supposedly win one election cycle inevitably becomes supporting transphobic laws to win the next...

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

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Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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colin feral @sal.gay · 10/09/2026

it's a relevant time to revisit some of @samanthawrites.net's 2024 stories about the spinelessness of election szn dems: "Democratic candidates are dodging the question at the heart of right-wing anti-trans discourse: Will you protect trans rights or not?"

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The GOP Is Doubling Down on Anti-Trans Ads. Democrats’ Rebuttals Are Abysmal

Democratic candidates are dodging the question at the heart of right-wing anti-trans discourse: Will you protect trans rights or not?

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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colin feral @sal.gay · 10/09/2026

since it is world suicide prevention day I want to tell journalists who may not know this that there are guidelines for ethical reporting on suicide and you should really familiarize yourself with them before you do any ANY reporting on individual suicides I am literally begging u

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laika @punishedreplicant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

[insane] girl who doesn't say a word for 17 years finally speaking and it's to talk about her vore fetish is the most transgender Samus has been since the devs called her a newhalf in the 90s

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samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net · 09/09/2026

gfdi now I have to try again and actually beat metroid dread ig

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