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spooky mulder @tafkas98.bsky.social · Oct 20

this site seems like a good place to post art, so here's some pencil drawings I did recently. just some studies of lesbian hands

a pencil drawing of a left hand with the index and middle finger extended and the other fingers closed. the nails are short. there is a ring on the thumb and the vague suggestion of a tattoo partway up the arm

a pencil drawing of a hand, with the index and middle finger extended but curled upward. the other fingers are closed. the nails are short. there is a ring on the thumb and midway down the ring finger

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Alyssa (She/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @alyssasmw.bsky.social · Dec 1

They both hit pretty fast tbf, but it still took my brain for a ride 😅

Pictured is a meme from the scene in Lord of the Rings where Merry and Pippin are talking to Aragorn.

One of the two (Merry and Pippin) says: "What about coming out?"

Aragorn responds: "We already did" with a trans pride flag.

Then the other of the two says: "We have once, yes"

Then continues: "What about second coming out? With a picture of a lesbian pride flag.

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Cate (Your Ghost Wife) @kallaipdx.com · 10h

WA state already passed an HRT stockpile bill and there is no evidence that healthcare costs have risen significantly because of it.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 13h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 13h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 21h

So, Łink is still banned? All the accounts we see catch bans and come back, and all the ones that mysteriously never get banned, but the one that stays banned is Łink?

Free Łink.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 8h

the cool thing about generative ai being forced into everything is that it may finally get me to break my internet addiction

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 11h

"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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esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 8h

SIGNALIS screenshot - FLKR replika unit against a red background. her black hair is flowing, her eyes are open and she is looking down. you can see one of the diamonds on her forehead, and the leaf crown on one side. the letters FALKE are superimposed over her face, font narrow and tall, taking up the center third of the screen.

SIGNALIS screenshot - ariane against a red background. her hair is grey and her skin is pale, covered in bandages. her eyes are deep red, like the background. they are open and looking down. the FLKR in the previous image and ariane in this one have an extremely similar styling and detail, to the point where superimposing them onto each other gives extremely similar vibes.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 13h

the art you make is always already made for yourself and for others at the same time, insofar as the changing self is nothing more than a perpetual dialogue with changing others. thus, your art works within its social context but is autonomous through your creative process. do what you see fit

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 8h

"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥
Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)

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MISS MAJOR SPEAKS

Motherfucker, you brought me here to show the public you care about the gurls and you don't--there's no honesty or transparency in that. And how about let sex workers be sex workers, because whoever's dick they have in their mouth is bound to be a whole lot cleaner than a hidden agenda of some obnoxious gay guy or lesbian who woke up in 2019 and saw a billboard for Pose and thought of calling up their minions: "Maybe we should put a Black person on a float during the Pride parade."

It was really cute when they put Laverne Cox on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, but I can't help but think, what has that done for the average gurl on the street? Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually more to our detriment. The images that the cis people have of the community, they're images that aren't real to the gurls who are barely making a living. It's not real life. It's not keeping us alive. It hasn't slowed the murders, or the abuses.

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🍂 beagle 🥧 @beagle.bsky.social · 8h

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian | Award Winning Stop Motion Short Film

YouTube video by AJ and Carmela

www.youtube.com

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Rika Klassen @rikaklassen.bsky.social · 7h

Glad you are safe

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8h

Fluoride: to make sure your teeth stay strong enough to chew up fascists

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8h

Chikungunya is difficult to test for & has no treatment. It has exploded globally in the past 20 yrs bc of climate change, w/ outbreaks in areas it wasn’t previously found. First detected in the W Hemisphere in 2015, local transmission now occurs in the US. This administration suspended the vaccine…

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 8h

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection in 40 municipalities with high infection rates.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Brazil opens world’s largest mosquito biofactory to fight disease - UPI.com

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil.

www.upi.com

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Lainwithtea @lainwithtea.has.fish · 20h

Watching Arthur Episodes with my daughter and I think its really cool that some of these re-uploads have an interpreter for ASL on screen to help kids with hearing problems enjoy it too

Its kinda depressing that this isnt a more widespread practice in childrens programming tbh

a pbs kids screenshot showing the ASL interpreter on screen for an episode of Arthur

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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 12h

And I got to say "LING BING zoom room" today ahhh haha

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 9h

The old Gender is dying, the new Gender struggles to be born, now is the time of... dysphoria???

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 18h

that's my story and I'm sticking to it

a wall someone wrote "silly girls live forever"

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 18h

I love how any time someone posts about a difficulty in their life a bunch of people show up to offer unsolicited, obvious and/or completely wrong advice.

Honestly, I don't think people understand how condescending that feels. You can just commiserate with people!!

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Claire, BOO Haver @progesteronipizza.bsky.social · 20h

ego death? no thanks im on ego ascension, im actually divinity given form corrupted and reshaped into the most incredible visage of beauty you've ever seen

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godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 17h

torturing kids into compliance is a mainstay of american social work. the Troubled Teen Industry, and the way “ODD” is a poor brown kid disease are contiguous with the use of ABA to break and chain kids who already have deficits expressing their needs. bleak shit.

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Ammy of MARA ❣️🌌🌹🔮 @buppy.kindboys.online · 18h

🔮 today is Indigenous Peoples Day so please say nice things to me and all my cousins and keep us in ur thoughts and maybe even do a little something for us today ✨

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Whip-Smart McCoy @whip-smart-mccoy.bsky.social · 21h

memes I make during random convos

A screenshot of Joseph Joestar from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency with text above that reads "I ain't arguing with a man with a nice waist. Whatever you say, princess."

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 16h

There was a Pemmican War before the Mounties existed (and before Canada invaded what's now called Manitoba).

⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry, rubaboo, food of “CANADIAN MOUNTIES”???? The Metis Nation will not stand for this sir

YouTube still of a white guy in a kitchen with the title “Rubaboo—Pemmican Stew of the Canadian Mounties”

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 19h

I made this vapor-version of the public tag six years ago to the month and I'm always glad to see it in the wild.

Andy Ngo is a threat to all our communities

"The Deserter" @toxicaudri.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder.
Andy Ngo is a fascist.

Remember: Andy Ngo is a threat to our community & provides KILL LISTS for ATOMWAFFEN

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