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Cassandra

@cassieclearly.bsky.social

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Transgender nerd of no notable notoriety Prone to long threads Exvangelical, Ex-IBLP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈(She/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · Jul 15

Bsky handle has officially changed.

I loved the pun, but I don't love hearing twitch streamers call me by the first half of it. Too close to my deadname.

I'll keep the profile pic the same for now to minimize confusion.

Have some cute pictures as penance

Much love! 💜

Me, long red hair swept over my left shoulder. I'm wearing a pastel purple sundress and laying in a bright blue / aqua hammock.

Text at the bottom of the screen reads:
"There is no comparison to the joy of being known and loved."

Me, long red hair swept over my left shoulder. I'm wearing glasses, large gunmetal hoops, a leather cord with a sacred tree pendant and a blue crystal, and a rainbow sequined halter top

Me, long red hair swept over my right shoulder. I'm wearing glasses, silver fern earrings, a short silver chain with a tiger's eye pendant, a longer silver chain that falls out of frame, and a black dress with deep green nature patterns.

I'm staring up and to the right, out of frame

A black and white tuxedo cat stares at the camera while standing on a girl in a pastel purple dress who is lying in a bright blue hammock.

Blue sky and clouds are visible behind him

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

The Chinese are windmill dunking on us now lmao

thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 13h

the American century of humiliation is in full swing

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13h

Everything Bernie doesn't understand about race and gender in one doubling-down, holy guac

(as a young man, Bernie published an essay fantasizing about women who dream of SA + abuse while they work for the revolution sooooo)

what if it weren't all about flattened out class interests, my man

joffre.bsky.social @joffre.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie isn't admitting he is wrong *now*.

Tweets from John Bresnahan, @bresreports:
An angry Bernie Sanders won’t drop his support for Graham Platner despite a Nazi tattoo on his chest

2/ Sanders said Platner “as a young man” went thru some really difficult experiences” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

3/ Sanders: “I personally think he is an excellent candidate and will support him, and I look forward to him becoming the next senator from Maine.”

4/ When pressed on Platner’s Nazi tattoo, Sanders lashed out at the “corrupt campaign finance system” adding “We don’t have enough candidates in this country that will take on the powers that be and fight for the working class.”

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 11h

Y'all, sometimes I can serve a damn look, that's all I'm saying

A tall trans woman towers over the camera, staring down at you with a playful smirk on her face. Long red hair cascades down her left side. She is wearing a coral top and a brown knit shrug

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 1d

I've been needing to get my passport and just not doing it because of the bullshit they're doing. I don't know if I should just swallow the pain and get a deadnaming, misgendering passport or if I should still hold off.

I feel like my chances to even get my legal name change are slipping away

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urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 2d

Yes, neighbor who works for ICE, I am cooking your family a meal. I cannot imagine how you could think that this would be suspicious in any way at all.

Please consume it liberally and do not share this particular portion with your family. You're the earner, so you get the big kid plate.

EAT. UP.

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urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 2d

People used to have to put effort into faking vacations and travel for Instagram. Tech clearly wants to deprive us of even that much pleasure.

It's legit just going to end up with an app serving you so many retouched and photoshopped versions of yourself that you just get more depressed, isn't it?

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 4d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

techcrunch.com

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 1d

For a few months, Georgia was restricted to prescription only under 65, but the Georgia health department just reversed course a few weeks ago (AFTER my whole family caught our first case from kiddo's School)

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Oh man this is good analysis.

Everyone is saying protect the dolls and I wonder when we'll say protect the bricks

Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 2d

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Who are the dolls which must be protected?

by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes

Ari Drennan, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

transwrites.world

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 3d

Girl!

I've been part of some good group projects, but they are few and far between, and they're always filled with chances to overload with work somebody else "just knew you could do better"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

www.pbump.net

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 3d

It's all so embarrassing, but I love how the AI either didn't know or they specifically made the prompt to not put the mask over his mouth and nose

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 3d

My entire trip to Seattle was an absolutely amazing time, but it was positively nonstop.

I started my visit by seeing my beloved cousin, who I don't get to see NEARLY enough, and then the Out & Equal conference was absolutely incredible.

I'm so happy to be home now, but what an amazing week 💖

A man with short black hair and a well groomed beard stands next to a tall woman with long red hair swept over her left shoulder.

They are both beaming brightly enough to rival the sun.

The man is wearing an olive drab hoodie, and the woman is wearing a leather jacket over a black lacy top and a coral camisole

A tall woman, long red hair swept over her left shoulder, stands smiling in front of the Seattle Convention Center. She is wearing glasses, gold hoop earrings, a gold pendant with a shattered glass inlay, a brown knit shrug, a black lacy top, a coral camisole, and a lanyard from which a name badge hangs reading "Cassandra"

A tall woman, long red hair swept over her left shoulder, stands smiling inside a room lit with an array of colorful lights. She is wearing glasses, TARDIS earrings, a tiger's eye pendant with a shattered glass inlay, a brown knit shrug, and a denim dress

A woman with long red hair swept over her left shoulder leans over to kiss a serene-looking woman with brown hair in a bun on the cheek

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 9d

I'm away on my first business trip in a 9 years and my first business conference ever.

Once I'm out of tubes, a proper selfie will be forthcoming

A trans girl with long red hair over her left shoulder and a big smile in her eyes sits in an aircraft seat wearing glasses, a pastel kf94 mask, and a flirty black lace top

A trans girl with long red hair over her left shoulder and a big smile in her eyes sits in a railcat seat wearing glasses, a pastel kf94 mask, a hooded leather jacket, and a flirty black lace top

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 10d

Pride is for celebration, and today was no different.

Not a lot of pictures to post because my company logo is visible in most of them, and I value my privacy.

Cassie, long red hair falling over her left shoulder. She is wearing glasses, star hoop earrings, a silver and turquoise necklace, and a heather green top with a rainbow loudly declaring "Proudly United"

Her face is painted with a trans flag on her right cheek, and starts in trans flag colors dot the right side of her face

She stands beneath a brightly colored umbrella

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11d

This has officially become my most read self-produced piece this year. Thank you all.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 11d

That would be amazing!

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 11d

This is leadership I want to see 💖

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 12d

Been practicing my posing with a lot of help from one of my dearest friends

Cassie, a tall trans woman, long red hair swept over her left shoulder. She is wearing glasses, glass drop earrings with Sakura blossoms inside, a tiger's eye pendant, a coral blouse, a blue floral skirt, a silver-studded corset belt, and black ankle boots.

Her left hand rests on her hip while her left leg struts forward and across her right

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🖤👻 Ashley Mayhem 👻🖤 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 13d

Also, not for nothing: she’s not designed for activists. Atsu is literally designed with Erika Ishii’s face and voice. They’re fucking mad that she’s a queer person acting and not catering to their own personal boring sexual fantasy.

Mom @milph.mom · 13d

I had to check the original source on twitter to make sure it wasn’t a homie being sarcastic and unfortunately the OP is a 100% Trump-lovin’ anti-DEI gooner.

I’m a fucking sex worker and these guys think about jerking off more than me.

Ricardo Regis @ricardonauts.bsky.social · 13d

pensando muito nisso aqui

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 13d

A friend at work said I gave music teacher vibes.
My kiddo said it's giving Miss Frizzle

And I'll take it. I looked damn cute today 🥰

A tall woman stands with long red hair swept over her left shoulder. She is wearing a midi-length dress with dancers covering it, a silver and tiger's eye belt, and point-toe heels

A woman stares slyly at the camera with long red hair swept over her left shoulder. She is wearing glasses, gold and tigers eye earrings, a gold pendant with a disc of shattered glass, and a midi-length dress with dancers covering it

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13d

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 13d

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 13d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 15d

Have you ever seen Thirst?

I've got a bad handle on what's scary and what isn't, but that one has lived in my head as one of the best vampire films of all time ever since I saw it

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 15d

Talked to my sister (chosen) tonight about the things we both were going through when we first met. So many tears. I love her so much, and I can't wait until we can both be in the same physical space again 💖

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 16d

and a bald man with a rainbow patterned paisley print shirt and black slacks

Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 16d

Ack, I forgot alt text!

Three people stand with arms around each other in front of an Atlanta Pride photo backdrop.

From left to right, a tall trans woman with long red hair wearing a dress with Pride flag prints, a shorter cis woman with dirty blond hair wearing a dark green floral print dress...