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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kestrel Girl, Mouse Boy

Pencil color texture of a kestrel girl and a mouse boy Playing

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Panna from Jesters @enderhowls.bsky.social · Sep 3

yknow how it is

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Aug 25

SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.

We must fight age verification with all we have | Taylor Lorenz

Get more from Taylor Lorenz on Patreon

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Prince and His Secretary

A jade and teal colored drawing. Two southeast asian guys in a canopied bed. Sunlight filters through plants, tapestries, gongs and garlands .

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Jul 21

Tree Shyness

Two tboy dryads. One modelled after a fire tree, one after a Chinese willow, displaying "crown shyness.", a phenomenon where tree crowns do not overlap. They are surrounded by a frame of smiling orange flowers.

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Betty Jiang @bettyjiang.bsky.social · Jul 17

Satyr's Song

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · Jul 2

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time

This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you just look at social media instead of news sources, you might believe the “big beautiful bill” has passed already.

It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Jun 19

"Native people deserve better...We deserve to grow old. We deserve to see our own weathered faces onscreen, laughing, stumbling, loving...Our ancestors endured genocide... The violence against us then was openly state‑sanctioned; now it hides behind rage masked as neighborly conflict..."

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride.

I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

We All Need to Be Talking About the Murder of Jonathan Joss This Pride and Beyond

The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.

www.harpersbazaar.com

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Jun 19

A Safe Place In The World

An Illustration of "The Fool" from Robin Hobb's "Realm of the elderlings". He sits in his room as it was described in the farseer trilogy- fishbowls and paint pots and terrariums and plants and bird carvings..

The Fool, Fitz, and Night-Eyes, lying in a wildflower field

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Jun 3

we are much alike

A seahorse merboy conversing with a flirty centaur along a lotus pond. They are framed by horse mermaid swimming along poppy motifs

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · May 31

The Quiet Song

A snail with lily of the valley antenna quietly moving along the night on a dandelion and clover strewn garden. The piece is textured with crayons. The border is decorated with morning glory.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · May 9

They will keep trying to pass this bill and we have to keep killing it.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · May 8

Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography.

The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.

dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...