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@hemipepsis.bsky.social

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transmasc AuDHD animal • 30s • entomologist • dog nerd • horror fan • werewolf storyteller🌖🦴 •💚💍 @cyborking.bsky.social‬ UK 🇬🇧/ FL 🐊

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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 13d

Hey guys, my fiancé is really struggling to bind with his chronic illnesses but living in Florida means he cannot stop doing so without putting his safety at risk. Please consider just donating $5 so we can get him this surgery he so desperately needs. gofund.me/44bd3f02

Donate to Help Florida Trans Man Get Top Surgery!, organized by Jojo Lund

Hi, my name is Jojo, I'm a gay nonbinary trans man living in the state of Florida wh… Jojo Lund needs your support for Help Florida Trans Man Get Top Surgery!

gofund.me

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 11h

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 29m

Check this out, from @nancreighton.bsky.social

Pink poster with light yellow text "I have long believed we should be way more vocal about how police and ice constantly murder dogs! Photo of a row of dogs sitting on sidewalk along bottom. Faine Greenwood, poster by nancycreighton.com, photo by Hannah Lim

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 45m

A woman says "hi, I'm here for the Magic: The Gathering tournament." A man at the registration booth says "of course. and ma'am I hope it's not too presumptious of me to say that your transition is going incredible." The woman says 'uh... I'm cis actually." Another man comes up and says "hi... wow ma'am your transition..." The first man interrupts him shouting "Tony! No!"

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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 1h

sometimes i forget i'm disabled, then my brain just decides to take a break from verbal processing and everyone gets mad at me (:

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 11h

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 4h

While I'm here, shout out to all the rancid sun-dried shitpickles who think disabled & chronically ill people are somehow weak or lazy:

You wankspangled podcaster broflakes wouldn't last 5 fucken minutes with what we handle all day every day.

You could learn a thing or 2 from us.

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Brianna Nicole Pail 🎃 @pailbn.bsky.social · Sep 14

“I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.”

New poster available to download for FREE on my Ko-Fi!

ko-fi.com/s/befb8aa75f

#art #digitalart #poster #watershipdown

Poster of a hare with a fun bottle with text “
ALL THE WORLD

WILL BE YOUR
ENEMY
AND

WHENEVER THEY

CATCH YOU THEY
WILL KILL YOU
BUL FIRST THEY MUST CATCH YOU”

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Sabling @sabling.bsky.social · Jun 24

Pokemon Market

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 21h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 1d

it is disorienting when you lose someone who you navigate your life to, like a star blinking out of the night sky.
a life lived in fearlessness, she carved out space for so many of us.
an amazing woman.
check out this doc by some of my pals.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

vimeo.com

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 21h

Amigara fault monster visits FAITH vertical mouth demon in Connecticut and they get new haven apizza

cartoony mspaint drawing of two similar looking horror monsters, one on the left from the FAITH series of video games by Airdoft, one on the right from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito. Both monsters are grey with long, vertically oriented mouths. They are smiling and sitting at a restaurant table eating entire pizzas

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Pita @pita-m.bsky.social · 1d

A few last minute edits, and my little 32x32px Doom sprite collection is complete. ✌️

(mostly) 32x32px fan sprites of the classic Doom monsters. The Cyberdemon is 40x40px; the Spider Mastermind is 64x40px.

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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 23h

i'm tasty and plentiful and only emerge in october?

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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 23h

honey fungust

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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 23h

*falls over cartoonishly and lands on it ass-first*

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🌺libra🌺 scromboisoning @cyborking.bsky.social · 23h

my friend found monarchs outside at our work 🥺

a photo of a monarch caterpillar curled up in a person's hand. it is a fat grub with black, yellow and white stripes, black antennae, and cute little legs

a photo of another monarch caterpjllar among foliage.

a photo of a monarch chrysalis, with a person's hand behind it to increase contrast. the chrysalis is a pale green color.

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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 1d

hello new followers please donate and boost to my partner's gofundme 💚

Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 13d

Donate to Help Florida Trans Man Get Top Surgery!, organized by Jojo Lund

Hi, my name is Jojo, I'm a gay nonbinary trans man living in the state of Florida wh… Jojo Lund needs your support for Help Florida Trans Man Get Top Surgery!

gofund.me

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🐴 Jam 🎃 comms open! ⭐ @wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 1d

if i can get these costs covered i can start moving in tomorrow!!!

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to share our latest paper: We investigated landscape-scale predictors of #insect pest damage to #sugarbeet showing that the species’ ecology is determining their responses making unified approaches difficult #agroecology #pestcontrol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Jun 21

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Final two hours, please share! For the rest of October, we’re doing ambitious daily drives to support what are STILL survival needs for six families.

They need to rebuild—but also eat in this ongoing famine. Plus tents, winter clothes, and newborn supplies !

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Entomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social · 1d

Wasps have done a lot for us actually

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 1d

Bearded Weevil (Rhinostomus barbirostris), Veracruz, Mexico

#inverts #insects #beetles

A big weevil with proportionally long and spiny front legs and a large snout nearly covered in orange fur, like a mustache and beard.

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