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Andra DeLora May

@wordsandmusic.bsky.social
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middle-aged musician, technologist, poet, and teacher, who finally acknowledged who and what she is at the wrong time & in the wrong place

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026
Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 10/09/2026
@wordsandmusic.bsky.social reminded me that the Iain Banks/Shirley Jackson combo is one I find particularly potent: www.typebarmagazine.com/ritual-respo...
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Ritual & Responsibility: Subversion in The Wasp Factory and We Have Always Lived in the Castle
There is nothing so commanding, right, or natural in the powers that be that a child cannot toss them aside.
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En Lilitu-Sin @enlilitusin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Two cartoon people talking
"What is the one thing that stands between you and all your dreams"
"Capitalism"
"Yourself, the answer is obviously you"
"No. I'm pretty sure it's capitalism"
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the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 01/09/2026
The Truth About the Satanic Panic from Cassie Workman
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Trump regime's HHS and Office of Population Affairs have released another anti-trans report claiming that trans people are violent, authoritarian, anti-democratic, and extremist. This is a massive escalation in state propaganda and nothing but a pretense for horrors to come.
New Research on Gender Ideology and Left-Wing Authoritarianism
Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services examining the psychology behind strong support for radical gender ideology and left-wing authoritarianism.
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oh, is it a metaphor for the postwar refugee crisis - poor stone head, uprooted and ferried hither and yon by motorcar - and no one will give it shelter or sanctuary ...
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Guilford. It came from Guilford. Near London. #Horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Uh-oh, spirits of stone heads hate both jazz and skiffle! So it is written. #Horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Gawd, how many mums will have to die before someone does something about that head? #Horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
ancient stone heads *love* string glissandi! #Horrorwatch
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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good night, Bluesky! Niagara Falls lot up in pink in honor of Dolly Parton 📸 Niagara Falls State Park
Niagara falls in pink light
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a nation where 66% want universal healthcare, "appealing to the center" means appealing to those people. In a nation where 50% want to abolish ICE, "appealing to the center" means appealing to those people. In a nation where 63% support the right to choose,"appealing to the center" means them.
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This appears to be real. I have no words. www.notus.org/immigration/...
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Are you signed up yet to get notified when our newest pin campaign launches? It's free and super easy! Don't miss out on earlybird rewards and the full project reveal! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...
In progress watercolor paintings of stylized birds, surrounded by art supplies and a drawing board
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
two pictures, one over the other: top pic is Barney the Dinosaur, completely harmless-looking, shrugging his shoulders - it's captioned "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING REPUBLICANS"; bottom pic is the ferocious T-Rex from Jurassic Park - this one is captioned "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING PROGRESSIVES"
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Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mohammad Paktiawal died in ICE custody. He fought with our troops. He was not here illegally or a criminal. He worked & had a family. There was no reason for his detention. This ongoing inhumanity is a national shame. Powerful @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-is-sho...
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ICE Is Shooting People Again
Routinizing Trumpian cruelty.
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/how-... Please do share the living crap out of this.
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How misinformation and intimidation took down HRT café
HRT Café shared gender-affirming care info until Do No Harm shut it down; FDA records show no investigation took place
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The new Smokey the Bear campaign is disappointing.
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's a valid question isn't it?
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Emoria - Aftertaste is a Horror Novel @emoria.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trannies Raging Against Normative Society
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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ok, folks, as someone with decades of living as working class, queer and gender non conforming that predates transition i want to point something out: Declaring your legal rights loudly will likely get you arrested If you get asked to leave somewhere for using the toilet just leave. 1.
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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 03/08/2026
the must-have accessory for fall
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
when you ride with transphobia, you ride with epstein!

support trans rights today!
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I am so tired of hearing the people who run this country spout lies so stupid a four year old would be embarrassed to speak them, and then hearing them become talking points on the "news," and then part of common conversation. Can these motherfuckers at least have the decency to lie competently?
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 30/07/2026
read pghrt.diy if you haven't since this one is lowkey exploding
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A Practical Guide To Feminizing HRT
The futile attempt at answering every possible question for someone looking to trans their sex.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables
collage of: a tattoo flash sheet by Des Revol; black face masks; patches reading "fuck 12", "FTP", "ACAB"; a gun; Narcan spraya pile of zines taken during an FBI raid. on the bottom left is a zine made of a 2019 film review about Midsommar and Hereditary by Sophie LewisFBI exhibit file from the Prairieland case of plant propagatoin zines and seeds for garden vegetables
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Me comparing this list to my medicine cabinet with increasing horror
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 19/07/2026
Someone made a meme.
Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben is on my shoulder. There is a pixelated city in flames behind us and he is wearing the "deal with it" sunglasses.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It was never not our turn.
4 frame comic. An older man says to Stephie, in a yellow shirt : yeah, it's worrying what they're doing to trans people. It's like what they were doing to gay people in the eighties. Seems like it's your turn! Stephie replies, over the following three panel: w... we have been here the whole time, Harold. Do you think that the eighties' queerphobes saw trans people and were like ''nah, these people are fine''? do you think nazis who were ordered to round up queer men saw trans women and thought ''not them, trans women are women uwu''? people only think that transphobia is a new thing because it was so prevalent that they couldn't see our humanity. but it was never not our turn, Harold.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Trans people aren't under attack in America, you're overreacting and hysterical"
Trans people in America:
- Have been designated by the Trump regime as "terrorists" and targeted for "elimination".
- Can't have federal jobs.
- Can't be in the armed forces or intelligence services. 
- Are de facto banned from attending Harvard, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Wagner, UVA, Northwestern University, and more.
- Are no longer federally protected from harassment & discrimination in the workplace.
- Are banned from the US Olympics. 
- Are banned from international track & field, darts, chess, and many state or local sports.
- Are banned from using the correct bathrooms in all federal buildings, facilities and parks nationwide.
- Watch as hospitals and providers willingly ban trans youth and even adult healthcare nationwide.
- Have been erased from historical markers, websites, histories, studies, and documents.
- Foreign trans athletes are banned from working in the US.
- Had their licenses revoked and seized. 
- Are now experimented upon and tortured in prisons.
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Moth flaps like pelican! #horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Somebody give that poor girl some nectar before sending her home!!! #horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"In a way it does look quieter." Synaesthesia much? #horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Listen! The bells! They sound like the girls' voices to me!" yeah I took summa that shit once too, it was intense. #horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"silence!" (fusillade) #horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That was an oddly peanut shaped cocoon. Are you going to be farmer when you retire? #horrorwatch
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Has anyone heard any AI generated music worth a listen? I try to keep an open mind ... but what I have heard so far, oy gevalt ...
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As I was reading about GPT-5.6 coming up with a proof for the "cycle double cover conjecture" (which I do not understand; will have to consult a mathematician) I came up with a new game: like "kiss, kill, marry" only for AI news: "hype, hope, or fear." Anyone wanna play?
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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#TransRightsAreHumanRights We cannot let that be rolled back, not in any country.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Here's the list of anti rights groups in the UK as documented by Amnesty International.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Here is a statement from Champagne, aka Benjamin Song, the most maligned of the Priarieland protestors. Champagne was just sentenced to 100 years for shooting and injuring a police officer who had just drawn a weapon on an unarmed, fleeing protestor. prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-wr...
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Statement by Benjamin "Champagne" Song - Support the Prairieland Defendants
I don’t Hate. I don’t Hate anyone. I don’t Hate cops. I don’t Hate Trump. I don’t Hate nazis. My beliefs are composed thus:
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is important — “Kind of a miracle solution: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-conditioning. City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units.” One of the world’s largest district cooling networks.
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‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con
City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units
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Andra DeLora May @wordsandmusic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
oops, wrong link for ordering from Word Horde! This is the one: wordhorde.com/product/ss-b...
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Smoke Season Bundle
PREORDER NOW – SHIPS IN JUNE! Note: Orders will ship together once all items are available. The Smoke Season trade paperback comes with a bookplate signed by author Carrie-Edmund Laben and a …
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