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The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

Are you a trans person of color doing rad art or community organizing work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2026 grant program are open now through October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

We are specifically looking for projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, and/or other marginalized communities, as well as projects that foster exploration and celebration of gender diversity and trans lives.

We accept applications from anywhere in the world. Collectives/groups are welcome to apply.

Grant recipients are chosen by a paid panel of trans judges of color. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2026.

AI-written applications will be deleted.

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.

gofund.me

Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello

Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

The liberal notion of acquiescing to reduced-to-removed rights by fascists so everybody else can I guess defeat fascism with the power of the ballot betrays their perception of us: that our identities and sexes and genders and lives and loves are a choice and that we have been humored long enough

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“When we were being stolen from our parents and experienced genocide in Indian Residential Schools, we wondered, ‘Who are the people that will help us?’ Today, we are those people. Today we offer our help, support, and jurisdiction to override these dehumanizing laws.”

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Got to watch Akira for the first time in theatres! Good movie! I have a read on it, but I think I might be too dumb to have actually gotten it. Most importantly, I'm now haunter by the image of Tetsuo breaking open the pod and cutting to Cerveza Crystal, because I thought the tubes were beer cans.

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 06/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨BLUESKY 38 IS AI SLOP🚨🚨🚨 PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE sorry to ruin everyones fun 💔💔💔

screenshot of bsky3d, with the 'source on tangled' source code link circled

screenshot of the repo, with CLAUDE circled in multiple locations

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Guess I'm outing my name on Bluesky Dot Com. To be fair this is the energy most people address me with.

static.klipy.com

Sophie the Gopher Shouts!

ALT: Sophie the Gopher Shouts!

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Ruby (ft. Jimin) @lapsedbard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

ourcommons.ca

Petition e-7550 - Petitions

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS: RUIN THE FUCK OUT OF THIS ANTI-AI PETITION. this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PETITION and it needs you to verify an email and that's it. do this right now please. thaaaaanks.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 01/09/2026

Seriously, don’t watch the fucking show. Don’t review it or recap it. Don’t give it the fucking time of day. This isn’t like “Aw, okay, well, don’t do it next time!” This is like, “We are no longer friends.”

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I genuinely am begging people not to watch the new HP show. Like, also don't buy any branded stuff - she makes money off all that. But especially don't watch the damn show.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Technically, "Mark Carney" is an oxymoron

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sup. Tried to do the dishes and ended pacing all over my house thinking about my next session of Fabula Ultima for like two hours. I swear I am fucking TRYING to get things done.

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head. #FilmSky

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Miles Morales Spiderman Falling Through City

ALT: Miles Morales Spiderman Falling Through City

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you see this, you're legally obligated to quote with your favourite Star Wars character. Come for me shitheads.

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Rose Tico's Inspiring Quote in Star Wars

ALT: Rose Tico's Inspiring Quote in Star Wars

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

the beautiful game...

a stylized 3d render of two soccer players attempting to head a ball that is, coincidentally, also the pokemon spheal.

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Do you ever wander through life wondering if you're in one of those workplace safety videos. That you're going to leave doing something and then the camera stays on a fatal mistake you've made, and then some guy in a hard hat is going to give you a pun-y eulogy? I left an extension cable plugged in.

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The MTG Arena unionization has caused a problem for me. Do I stay off of Arena because I find Universes Beyond as sets actively repellent? Or do I get back into Arena because now that it's unionized I want the team to succeed? I like Magic, but do I "Put up with Sauron Cancer Jokes" like magic?

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 20/05/2026

her name was eryka caldwell, and she was our sister

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Interesting MTG Art (scary version 💀) @interestingmtg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you enjoy Magic, especially digital Magic, especially Arena, it's imperative that you support Untied Wizards of the Coast Union - CWA. If you haven't signed their petition encouraging WotC to recognize them, I strongly encourage you to do so: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

actionnetwork.org

Tell Wizards of the Coast to Recognize Our Union!

The workers at Magic The Gathering: Arena have voted overwhelmingly to form the union: United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC)! We are asking Wizards and Hasbro management to voluntarily recognize ...

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Feelin' pretty tuckered out gang.

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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Capital punishment is now the penalty for terrorism charges under military law, even without prosecutorial request. Since 1967 Palestinians in the occupied territories have been tried under military law & face a 96% conviction rate. It's death by default for Palestinians. It's just Nazi shit.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 14/03/2026

Hey if any of you want to pay me to write your video game, I love to write video games and am quite good at writing video games. You should pay me to write your video game

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Good luck saving your people!

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 02/03/2026

When people come together to fight injustice, we can make real impacts. Deleting the Starbucks app off your phone & getting 5 friends to do the same until baristas win a fair contract is one way you can directly help move the needle towards a better future for working people! bit.ly/deletetheapp

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I DELETED THE STARBUCKS APP

#DeleteTheApp to show Starbucks that you stand with baristas, not billion-dollar companies.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 03/02/2026

If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

IMAGE: a stylized cell phone with flames coming out of it. TEXT: Delete the Starbucks app off your phone.
Seriously.
Starbucks is the biggest violator of labor law in modern history.
We have the power to tell them union-busting is bad for business.
Don't shop at Starbucks until they do better by their baristas!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 27/02/2026

i’m sorry that our misery at being removed from public existence is harshing your vibe

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Velvet @velvetfalcon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Flight just got delayed. I got a meal voucher. Timmies is the only thing on offer. I am already full of delicious shwarma. What do I do with my 25 dollar Tim Hortons shopping spree?

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StalwartUrsa @stalwartursa.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Trans people should have their choice of free bone-in wings or boneless wings, depending on their tastes & needs.

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pandion @pand1on.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

trans sonic got big on tumblr he can live here too #sonicthehedgehog

Digital drawing of sonic the hedgehog looking to the right with a transgender flag draped over his arms.

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I've been watching what's happening in Minneapolis and I don't know what to say. Two American citizens killed by ICE in three weeks. Countless more who are not citizens. People afraid to leave their homes. For those of us not living in Minnesota, are some things we can actually do:

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Protests mounting against ICE in various parts of D.C. tonight. In the middle of the U Street corridor, occupying the intersection with 14th Street: “Remember Renee Good,” one of the many signs here reads.

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