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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 3h

Someone I met at a talk a year back is facing felony charges from a protest against Netanyahu. Accused of assaulting a cop, he's facing serious prison time.
No more cops, no more prisons, we have to stop this genocide and we know the ceasefire isn't going to do it.
www.givesendgo.com/ZacharyKam

Veteran Protester Targeted with Federal Felonies

My name is Zachary Kam. I need your help. I'm a former Marine Combat Engineer who served two tours of duty to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. I take the oath ...

www.givesendgo.com

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 2d

🎶And if I only could
I’d make a deal with God
And get them to switch “j” and “g”
Cause then GIF would be JIF
and everyone would be mad
But jiraffe would be said the same…🎶

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 22h

I made a joke about my book turning people trans but the reality is a fair number of people who have read it have come away with a different understanding of their gender. Jokes aside, it is still an egg-cracking Bacchic hypersigil and an offering to many.

www.llewellyn.com/product.php?...

Sacred Gender

A Cosmology of Trans and Nonbinary Spiritual Identities Explore gender from a sacred perspective and learn how to turn dysphoria into euphoria. With suggestions for making devotion more ...

www.llewellyn.com

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 15h

I hope everybody has lots of fun trickle treating and carving jackoff lanterns

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think the starter packs are a very good idea. Like I followed the "independent and worker-owned media" one and now my feed is full of eugenicists.

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 19h

I want us to start mocking and belittling "progressive" journalists who call republicans psychotic and delusional. Education and outreach don't seem to be working and honestly I think we should just try hectoring. Make sure they know what filth they are.

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 19h

We aren't mean enough to people who throw around the words "psychosis" and "delusional" all willy-nilly. We should hurt their feelings I think.

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 19h

I need y'all to stop using mental health terms as political and sociological terms. I really need y'all to stop.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 2d

I refuse to spell the word "passtime" with only one S. I simply refuse.

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the ensouled bodymind. Either your epistemology is untenably sloppy and needs to be completely re-worked, or you're espousing a belief in ghosts; it has to be one of the two.

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 2d

u rly can just put whatever words next to whatever other words

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 2d

Like, my knee-jerk instinct as a nihilist to rudely dismiss anything with the word "soul" in it is just being further validated

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 2d

This is a crime against semantics, honestly

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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social · 9d

I got the email notification about this from Spreadshirt last week and promptly deleted my account. If you have one, you should too.

Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 3d

"So you're saying the reason you can't whistle is because you're transgender and a bottom?"
"Yes, there is precedent in the historical literature"

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 3d

i fucking knew it

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve also been noticing this — it’s not *just* comics, but I am of course more sharply aware of the decline in buzz for comics

When I saw someone posting about Power Fantasy earlier, I was like “Damn, this is how you know the book is a scorcher: someone actually talked about it”

The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking about hope for the medium:

What are y’all reading these days?

Was talking with someone about how nobody seems to really *talk* about comics anymore, which is kinda strangling creator-owned titles, which rely on word of mouth to work. So might as well give this a shot.

The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday I saw kids in a comic store. Kids! In a comic store! Excited about *Superman*! There is hope yet for the medium.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 4d

hey what happens to they 0% loan after three months when they can’t pay it back

what happens to it then

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 4d

Oh shit I knew I forgot something; hey release it again I missed it the first time.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 4d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 4d

I always knew my inability to whistle had to mean something....

ing school, generally all by myself. I spent a large part of my time in the house singing, but have never been able to learn to whistle. Inability to whistle is a general char- acteristic of passive inverts. I learned to sew and
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EXEGESIS FREAK @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 4d

They should try calling up all the generals to call them gay little fat boys who are too pussy to kill civilians again. Maybe it will work the second time.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Industrial Worker @industrialworker.bsky.social · 4d

The Phellow Workers of Philadelphia bring us the latest on a new historical marker dedicated to FW Ben Fletcher!

industrialworker.org/philadelphia...

#UnionStrong #union #workers #IWW #wobblies #labor

Philadelphia IWW Unveils Historical Marker

Philadelphia I.W.W. Unveils Historical Marker and Celebrates Local 8 and Ben Fletcher’s Legacy of Militant, Industrial Organizing On Saturday June 21, 2025 the Philadelphia Historical and Museum Co…

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 4d

One new subscription means there's only eleven more to go until this milestone! Thank you ever so much!

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 8d

Years ago, a subscription drive was what resulted in my epic livetweet of Clavell's "Shogun." Now, I'm doing it again. 100 subs (12 more than what I have now) at buff.ly/R3YnYhq and I will livepost my read of Christopher Nicole's "Lord of the Golden Fan," which was Shogun before Shogun.

Lord of the Golden Fan by Christopher Nicole

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