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Doctor Cucumber

@possumdementhe.bsky.social

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Just a bendy intersex/trans possum attempting to be a hoopy frood. ✡️ e/em/eir Check out pronoun labeler. @pronouns.diy Please stop pretending to know my 'deal', especially the whining about how you think I'm zionist/AFAB without any evidence.

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 16h

I've been discussing this for a while, but I'm in some absurd amount of debt and need help. I've exhausted many of my options to manage this, and I don't expect people to take care of all of my problems, but I'm opening up a GFM. Help a broke trans/intersex person get stable & safe? #transcrowdfund

Donate to Support Alex's Journey to Financial Stability, organized by Alex Smith

I'm Alex, you might know me from a variety of art collaborations, running an … Alex Smith needs your support for Support Alex's Journey to Financial Stability

gofund.me

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 11m

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…She has since been taken to a jail in Washington as her husband and bandmates demand answers about her arrest.”

WTF was she transported to a different state?

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

“you can’t make fun of this” - famously an edict that the military obeys unquestioningly and would never disobey out of earshot of an officer

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 9m

Also even if you do believe there are some decent folk caught up in it, why not deal with the omnicidal frothers?

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 5h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 7h

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 16m

I don't suppose that can help when I've already lost 100 tabs?

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 51m

After an update last night, I didn't get "restore window" as an option on my browser. I lost like 100 tabs...

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 16h

Donate to Support Alex's Journey to Financial Stability, organized by Alex Smith

I'm Alex, you might know me from a variety of art collaborations, running an … Alex Smith needs your support for Support Alex's Journey to Financial Stability

gofund.me

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

line goes up is a religion

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 7h

Atlas needs you to spot him $20 billion just this once.

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah before the pandemic, I used to live on like a thousand a month. Times have changed but I had a better quality of life back then.

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 8h

I am sick of how some people who are objectively supporting exploitation such as CSA will blame everyone but themselves, such as Christian supremacists doing a blood libel against basically everyone else.

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · Aug 5

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

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Corny Horndog @geemo.bsky.social · 9h

3-D printing in a nutshell: You can make 2 really good things per hour or 12 really shitty things in 8 hours

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 13h

When I was in high school, I posted definitions of the word "Fascism" on our community boards. A particular English teacher who was universally-reviled ran around tearing them down and screaming "look at what he's done!" It's funny how just defining terms can be like a kitchen light for the roaches.

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 9h

Good luck getting the camper home. But didn't you already havea house on that land?

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 10h

I'm pretty frustrated at how my family goes "what are you referencing?" when I write something. It's like some people don't trust me to have an original thought just because I don't seem very enthusiastic.

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 10h

Most of the companies that pull this shit aren't even training people in anything transferrable, just "our special sucky process". It's not like they paid for your CompTIA cerfitification. It's explicitly an abuse tactic and the expenses are usually completely fabricated.

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 10h

A "What if" on my budget if I wasn't in debt, taking off a thing in order not counting my currently inactive federal student loans(because I'm taking classes at community college). Not that this is realistic in any short time period, but each one taken out makes the others easier to take care of.

A budget with a line item removed every month, going from $2501 down to $1100

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luci-sunny-eyes.bsky.social @luci-sunny-eyes.bsky.social · 2d

once again, trans people and allies are either a powerful voting block you need to win over, or the votes are not there for the issue to be important enough.

telling trans people and allies that their right to exist is a “purity test” is a pure shitty test

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luci-sunny-eyes.bsky.social @luci-sunny-eyes.bsky.social · 12h

“trans women are bourgeois“

survivorship bias pin by Terra Kestral, shows airplane with bulletholes everywhere except the regions that are fatal. The plane is overlayed on a trans flag colored target with the writing “because the others did not survice” in a Chicago inspired vector font

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 11h

I think it's just key smashing.

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Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of people don't realize just how much money both the US and UK were funneling to Hitler before he took power including people with direct connections to Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes scholars of course have been incredibly influential in the politics that got us back to this point.

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 12h

In other cases there were things like when Chabad had schisms over zionism and the antizionist one always had a lot more trouble including police harassment. Or that professor who would hold land acknowledgements but would call the police on BIPOC professors and students.

Doctor Cucumber @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 12h

I wasn't going to go that far, but they certainly were assholes to my intersex ass despite my attempts to transition. Nothing quite like getting called a brick in front of everyone only for absolutely nobody to say "dick move".

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