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Benjamin Callins

@benjamincallins.bsky.social

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25 yrs • Disabled Trans Man | Métis/Cree • he/him • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩼🌿 • Terry in #TheDragonPrince #VoiceActor #Singer || #BLM #StopAsianHate #TransLivesMatter #FreePalestine

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Aug 22

WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AGAIN (GAY VERSION) ft @kosmiyu.bsky.social is now available on YOUR music streaming service! ❤️

Stream anywhere by checking out the hyperfollow page!

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Vocals:
KOSMiYU • Penelope
Ben Callins • Odysseus

Mixing / Mastering:
KOSMiYU

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 10d

I cannot express to you how urgent it is that we all loudly and constantly support queer media right now. It is my number one goal for this year, to support and promote as many queer artists as possible.

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · 23d

Destined to play a sultry milf villainess—constantly being restrained by auditions for men 50x lower than my range 🥲

Cal Joyal @calvinjoyal.bsky.social · 23d

I am genuinely DYING to hear @benjamincallins.bsky.social play a sultry milf-villainess!! We both KNOW he would slay it so hard, he has the range, but folks always assume he’ll only want to read for men cause he’s a trans guy on T 😩😩😩

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 26d

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · 26d

LOVE YOU!! ❤️❤️❤️

Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · 26d

Where’s the rapture? I was excited for land back 😫

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Cal Joyal @calvinjoyal.bsky.social · Sep 18

There's no way... It cant be... I'm... I'm live on twitch??? For the first time in years???

Come hangout!!! I'm gaming w/ @benjamincallins.bsky.social !!!

www.twitch.tv/calvinjoyal

CalvinJoyal - Twitch

Heya! I'm a voice actor who likes to stream laidback games. I try to stream once at least once a week!

www.twitch.tv

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Cal Joyal @calvinjoyal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Goes without saying, but if you haven’t watched Lindsay Ellis’s newest video yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. Very applicable rn regarding how the far-right’s biggest enemy has become empathy. And the consequences that has for EVERYONE.

youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · Sep 11

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Cal Joyal @calvinjoyal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Every single person on this earth who had something to say about how Charlie Kirk’s death is so tragic and sad and terrible but hasn’t said a peep about the 3 kids who were shot in their school on the same day can actually eat shit

Crazy how gun violence is 🤷‍♂️ until it happens to the rich white man

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Sep 11

It’s impossible to know just *how many* people died, or lives were ruined because of the rhetoric he spread.

This was a man who DEDICATED his life to spreading hate, and perpetuating violence. I wonder if his views on guns would be different now if he was still alive…

Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · Sep 10

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Sep 10

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!

1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

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Marcus Rothenberg @marcusrvo.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Political violence has no place in this country."

1. Y'all don't say shit when it's against BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ folks.

2. Literally the entire history of this country is violence.

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Morgan Lea @morglea.bsky.social · Sep 10

I haven't done all of the research on this so please know that this is something you'd need to do, but this was a resource recommended to me:

employerofrecordnetherlands.com/self-employe...

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Cal Joyal @calvinjoyal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gently, right now I want to remind all of my trans friends in the US: if you don’t have an exit plan already in motion, you NEED to start one right now.

My biggest recommendations are that you look into Amsterdam and Canada. Immigration isn’t great here into Canada rn, but if you have experience

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’ve seen them all atp (courtesy of X 🙄), and I concur— the main one is still graphic in the sense that it is a real gunshot, but the others are very, VERY bloody. So everyone should definitely make sure they’re being safe online right now, and doing what’s best for them

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Sep 10

Prioritize your mental health, folks ❤️

If that means being offline today, or turning off autoplay on videos/gifs? Please do that. The video going around is EXTREMELY graphic, so please do what feels right for yourself, and treat yourself well

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Sep 10

And now we get to play the waiting game of "how will they blame trans people?"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 10

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 10

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Sep 2

I want to take a break from social media and interactions with people online—

But if I’m not online, not posting covers, not working on art, not communicating with people? I don’t get the money I need in order to get by.

I feel so exhausted. 2/2

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Sep 2

I don’t talk about having Bipolar disorder a lot, but lately I’ve been having really intense manic lows followed with psychosis.

It’s such a horrible feeling to come back down from an episode and see how I’d spoken to friends, the delusions I had, and messes I made while in that state of mind. 1/2

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Aug 22

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · Jul 20

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

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Benjamin Callins @benjamincallins.bsky.social · Aug 7

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!? is that....a gay cover!? Ft @kosmiyu.bsky.social Now available for PRESAVE!??!?!?!???
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Would You Fall in Love With Me Again (feat. KOSMiYU) [Gay Version] by Benjamin Callins

Stream and Save Would You Fall in Love With Me Again (feat. KOSMiYU) [Gay Version] - Distributed by DistroKid

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