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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2h

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 4h

I deliberately kept my kids’ faces off socials when they were too wee to give consent. When they were old enough, I asked & they both refused, as was their right.

Social media has been training people for decades to post w/o consent and those people have no clue how “AI” will fuck them up

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

.. I don’t even think it’s worth saying anymore

AI is a lack of consent machine

It’s about class and consent

And here’s where I’m ACID about some of this being gendered

especially around CHILDREN which we claim to care about many of the transgressors will be women for shit like this

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

.. I don’t even think it’s worth saying anymore

AI is a lack of consent machine

It’s about class and consent

And here’s where I’m ACID about some of this being gendered

especially around CHILDREN which we claim to care about many of the transgressors will be women for shit like this

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?

A family member sent me an image of a baby dressed in an elf outfit. My baby. It was adorable—and unnerving.
My cousin took a photo from our group chat and uploaded it to Meta AI. While his heart was in the right place, my mind was spinning. What could Meta do with my son’s face? The privacy policy of Meta Platforms says the company can use these images to “improve AIs and related technology.”
In the age of AI, I can’t control where my—or my son’s—face ends up. Our likenesses are no longer our own.

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

#yegvotes

Thanks to @taprootedmonton.ca's candidates survey, I discovered that the ward candidate I'd planned to vote for did NOT see the climate crisis as an integral lens re policy & decision-making; instead, they said it 'cost too much' 😑

Vote for our collective future, #yeg!
Election = Oct 20

Why experts say Edmonton’s new mayor and council should care about climate change | CBC News

Edmonton’s municipal election is fast approaching. CBC News asked Edmontonians what their top priorities are as they prepare to cast their ballots, and one that came up again and again was mitigating ...

www.cbc.ca

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 4h

Spooky season got me thinking about what haunts us all

The Ghosts That Linger

First things first! Thank you thank you thank you to each and every one of you who replied to last month’s Musings with a heartfelt note of support. I sent...

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 9h

I've heard that starting 10/14/25, if you have an X gender marker on your passport, you can't fly out of or into the US. I'm still trying to find confirmation of this but the ACLU is working on this discrimination against non-binary, trans, and intersex people. buff.ly/VWAQSYd

Transgender People Ask Supreme Court to Reject Trump Administration Effort to Enforce Discriminatory Passport Policy | American Civil Liberties Union

BOSTON – Attorneys representing transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans asked the Supreme Court today to reject a request from the Trump...

www.aclu.org

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 5h

I’m half-hoping he looks slightly feral..? 😁

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 17h

Ah the memories! Mine HATED picture days. They hated being told to smile by utter strangers and I mean, I get it! They just stared blankly lol
Signed, a parent with no school photos of her children

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 17h

Oooh this sounds GOOD

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 17h

Silvia doesn’t make judgements here re reskinned HP fanfic but I will: it’s no coincidence during the current rise of fascism that white-centric publishers & studios are happy to continue boosting & rehashing a poisonous white transphobe’s IP rather than back/nurture better art by BIPOC artists

Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 19h

Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia breaks down the slump in book sales, what this means for marginalized writers, & what we as readers can do: www.patreon.com/posts/boycot...

Boycott? Not likely | Silvia Moreno-Garcia

www.patreon.com

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 1d

Weirdly wholesome. Here for it lol

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 1d

I saw her thread hours ago. Nothing but a whole lotta words to say NotAllYoungRepublicans L.O.L. Sad for her, hilarious for us

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 1d

Got surprised this morning, waking up to below-zero temps.
In other news, I am now committing to external Halloween decorations with dead and dying plants!

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 1d

Miss Major, the LGBTQ+ rights activist who has been on the front lines since Stonewall, passed away yesterday. The impact of her resistance will not be forgotten. Read more in her memoir, "Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary," which won a Lammy in 2024.

Graphic acknowledging the death of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, LGBTQ+ rights activist, on October 13, 2025.

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 1d

This sounds delightful!

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

Write whatever moves / inspires / intrigues / challenges you. Write with your whole heart.

The story that comes out of that might spark joy or help another feel seen or it might even save a life, just like so many books saved mine over and over, as a bullied kid.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

#yegvotes

Thanks to @taprootedmonton.ca's candidates survey, I discovered that the ward candidate I'd planned to vote for did NOT see the climate crisis as an integral lens re policy & decision-making; instead, they said it 'cost too much' 😑

Vote for our collective future, #yeg!
Election = Oct 20

Why experts say Edmonton’s new mayor and council should care about climate change | CBC News

Edmonton’s municipal election is fast approaching. CBC News asked Edmontonians what their top priorities are as they prepare to cast their ballots, and one that came up again and again was mitigating ...

www.cbc.ca

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Evan Minsker + see-saw.fun @see-saw.fun · 2d

Honestly a pretty formative Pitchfork staff memory for me was when D'Angelo returned and started playing shows. I probably watched him cover "Space Oddity" 50 times when it happened. Black Messiah is a masterpiece. His cover of "Sometimes It Snows in April" still makes me cry. We didn't deserve him.

D'angelo - Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) - Paris 29.01.12

YouTube video by Cream Fresh

www.youtube.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

We remember trailblazing transgender activist Miss Major, who has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major began organizing before 1969’s Stonewall riots, and her love for her community has turned her into a mother figure to thousands of queer and trans people around the world.

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

truthout.org

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

gene kelly is antifa

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

The huge emphasis on the twist in thrillers is ultimately detrimental, having trained readers to grade every thriller on shock value first and foremost

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

The Biographical Fallacy is real. It may not apply universally but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 2d

*process
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