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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 11m

Are sugar cubes still a thing? Do people still use them? Why did we use them? Is it just that they can be proportioned easily?

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 4h

Porn addiction isn’t real
It’s just not
All of the ”science” about it comes from groups with religious ties, anti-sex worker ties, or grifting “therapists”

A compulsive relationship with porn is about the individual, not the porn

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 7h

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on bluesky as if it’s real LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 10h

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on Twitter as if it’s real lord give me strength

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god?? it feels completely unreal to have someone running for office actually stand up for us like this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 1h

In less than 3 weeks, I'll officially be moving to Quebec. And I'm still raising money for moving expenses and tuition. Anything you can spare would really help.

I have a GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

And a book bundle: itch.io/s/159177/the...

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 3d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 8h

Y'all. I just realized.
Silent Hill f is like... a better version of Callisto Protocol?

Beat-em-up combat, trade in high value items for level up points, weird gross fleshy monsters...

Not that Silent Hill f is perfect, but... Its funny how similar they are, at least gameplay-wise in my mind.

Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 11h

It comes naturally to those who view their children as property.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11h

Oh yeah, I have a short story about this very scenario (well, trying to prevent it from happening). The research was both fun and horrifying?? Mostly horrifying actually. Less fun.

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 2d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 12h

Could never pick. It's too hard. Too unclear. Both sides must be the same after all.

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote another body-horror short story. It got mommy issues, dolls, mutilation, isolation and gore. Sounds like fun? Only one way to know for sure~

www.scribblehub.com/read/1895618...

savikawrites.itch.io/patchwork

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote another body-horror short story. It got mommy issues, dolls, mutilation, isolation and gore. Sounds like fun? Only one way to know for sure~

www.scribblehub.com/read/1895618...

savikawrites.itch.io/patchwork

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

30-something? I kinda fell off as the year went on but that's still way more than I honestly expected I'd get through. And there's still 2 months left too!

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Holly Dittus @hdittus13.bsky.social · 1d

woke up as a girl. new page. patreon.
patreon.com/tirkom

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve tried showing both halves of Jared Leto’s face and we’re all out of ideas

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 10

6. In one glaring example, Sylvia Rivera’s section originally stated, “At a young age, Sylvia began fighting for gay and transgender rights.” The revised version read, “gay and rights,” with the word “transgender” removed entirely, rendering the sentence nonsensical:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1d

She broke 10k!

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

I had to re-read this ten times and I'm still not sure what it's about other than wasting money

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh I'm in a bad head space. I only managed to write like... Barely a paragraph. Couldn't even draw. Im tired...

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 2d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 2d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

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