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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️

@valdraper.bsky.social

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She/Her. Latina Pansexual Goblin Writer. Here to tell my stories and post shit. Black Lives Matter. Free Palestine. Abolish ICE. MDNI. DMs open to mutuals.

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · May 11

Here's a take. When this is over, we need a completely new constitution. Too much of this was caused by the interpretations of the Supreme Court and the judiciary. Conservatives played a very long game to use the judiciary to get here. We need much more stringent bindings on the executive (1/?).

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 3h

AGHHH I FUCKING HATE GENAI!!!

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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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 2h

That should be a fireable offense, holy shit.

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 10h

Please help get Ryah to 50% funded 🙏✨

Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 15d

hi everyone! you know i don't normally ask for money (esp. for myself), but i have a friend in great need here in Vancouver who needs help.

my friend Ryah, who is a trans woman and immigrant from mexico, needs help with medical expenses to get diagnosed so she can get better and support herself.

Donate to Ryah needs your help!, organized by Spooka Lucca

Hello, my name is Lucca, aka SpookaLucca, and I am raising funds for my friend Ryah, who is really … Spooka Lucca needs your support for Ryah needs your help!

www.gofundme.com

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 7h

As someone who hosts movie nights, you'd think so. But it really sucks on nights when nobody shows up. Makes ya feel lonely and sad.

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 15h

@katie.bzky.team hey check this out

screenshot from LORT game showing a powerup item called Pure Creatine Magicalhydrate

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 15h

Lol, amazing. It spreads it's reach.

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 1d

The colonization of the Americas was a genocide that killed 10% of the global population in 100 years

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

Yay!

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I get it. I love learning about animals. Not being able to fully study spiders because of how bad my terror is...it fucks with the brain.

Irrelevant side note, I, uh, have big news that I posted today.

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I find spiders interesting af. I cannot look at one without burying the phone in the wall from how hard I throw it away.

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I have convoluted feelings about this...have i become reply girl?

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

Same! I need the cooler temps too with the way my body heats up like a furnace.

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna make me get back into writing erotica. This sounds like fun.

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I am digging your lit takes. I need more.

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

Also, pretty sure the cure to absurdly high blood pressure is to just go to the endocrinologist every day. Every time I go my blood pressure (usually 170/100) reads in the 130s/80s.

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so happy!

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

Hear ye! Hear ye!

I hath important news!

This bitch has been prescribed estradiol and spironolactone!

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

i am literally never not tapping the "we need to fund public education and open the schools" sign. there is no moment or topic in which the dearth of basic reading comprehension is not a major force preventing any deeper discussion. a lot of people are functionally meat-based LLMs who parrot tokens.

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 2d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I have been prescribed estradiol and spironolactone!!!

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all. This. Is. Happening. I. Can't. Believe. It. Is. Actually. Happening.

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Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 1d

I have made it on time!!! 😤

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 2d

Ladies, gents, enbies, it is time! Headed to the endocrinologist!

Val Draper 🏳️‍⚧️ @valdraper.bsky.social · 2d

Ladies, gents, enbies, it is time! Headed to the endocrinologist!

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 2d

Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms

Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.

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