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(She/They) Domestic Errorist 𒀭 𒈹 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️👽
Poet, Editor, Author, & Publisher
Best of the Net nominee
Author of the Ishtar Cycle, creator of the Galaxy Black RPG, & the Sub-ether and Maenadum zines.
Mors semper tyrannis
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the Maenad @dreaminggynoid.bsky.social · Sep 18
Out Now
Space Girl’s Guide to the Empress Imperium – a Galaxy Black companion A setting book and players guide for Galaxy Black and the DCC RPG 436 pages
A galaxy of grimly cheeky, spaced-out, super science , sword & sorcery action.
Purchase links on my linkstree linktr.ee/GwenScarlet
#DCC #DCCRPG
Image of a moon in shadow partially eclipsing a bright orange sun on a black background set onto a white cover. The title reads (in white) Galaxy Black (and in green) Space Girl's Guide to the Empress Imperium. Below the image in black letters the publisher identification reads Dreaming Gynoid Studio and Compatible with DCC respectively.
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Today on the Dreaming Gynoid patreon, the full writeup for VALI-SA, the Prismatic Satellite, one of those rarest of things, a patron of benevolence.
Unlock this and a multitude of other treasures at our Patreon!

#GalaxyBlack
#DCCRPG
#DCC
#TabletopRPG
#patreonpost

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Patrons of the Known Galaxies - SYSTEM ALEPH (VALI-SA) | Dreaming Gynoid Studio
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Hands off Our Neighbors

Seen at Capitol Hill light rail station, Seattle Washington
November 4, 2025

#SMASHICE
#Resist
#NoHumanIsIllegal
Blocky pink chalk writing on the concrete near a pair of speed barriers at the entrance to Capitol Hill light rail Station in Seattle, Washington. The writing reads HANDS OFF OUR NEIGHBORS
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
Pondering.
#art
A mechanical being with a glass bubble head full of mushrooms strikes a pondering pose. Watercolor and white gouache on toned paper.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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neptuneplanetapowr.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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erininthemorning.com
It's being reported that New Zealand has banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. I removed New Zealand from my recommendations to families fleeing a while back after the far right saw a surge in power in the country.

Sad day for NZ trans youth.
Cabinet has agreed to introduce new safeguards on the prescribing of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, while ensuring patients with medical needs can continue to access appropriate care, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. "We are putting in place stronger safeguards so families can have confidence that any treatment is clinically sound and in the best interests of the young person or child. "Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues play an important role in treating a range of medical conditions. We are ensuring they remain available for patients who need them for conditions such as early-onset puberty, endometriosis, or prostate cancer, where there is strong clinical evidence of benefit." The Ministry of Health’s evidence brief found that there is a lack of high-quality evidence that demonstrates the benefits or risks of the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues for the treatment of gender dysphoria or incongruence. While this uncertainty persists, the Government is taking a precautionary approach. Following public consultation, Cabinet has agreed to introduce new regulations under the Medicines Act to align New Zealand's approach with the United Kingdom: New patients seeking treatment for gender dysphoria or incongruence can no longer be prescribed gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, pending the completion of the United Kingdom's clinical trial on their use in this context. Ensure existing youth gender services are maintained for young people experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence and bringing these services together through a central, accessible online resource. "These changes will ensure a more consistent and carefully monitored approach. This mirrors steps taken in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, where additional safeguards have recently been implemented to ensure decisions are made in line with the best available evidence," Mr Brown says. The new approach will not impact patients cu…
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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alisoncybe.bsky.social
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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bisonrimant.fr
Monique.
Sculpture of a creature with horns, in a dress. It's hand are joined on its chest, but covered by the cloth. It has two round white eyes. On a workbench. There is a carving knife next to it. Seen by its left Same sculpture seen by front Seen from the right almost 3/4, a bit above Seen by its right
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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mileswgriffis.bsky.social
An honest, heartwarming, and full of laughs tribute to Alice Wong by @thrasherxy.bsky.social.

"giving pleasure, joy, affirmation and care to people you only meet once—or who you might never meet all, such as all the Palestinians Alice cared for these last two years—is the very meaning of love."
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Queer BlueSky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

I came out as queer to my friends slowly but to everyone more generally by the time I was 20.
I transitioned at 33 and went full time two years later.

I'm currently 53 and tightly holding on to my sense of wonder.
jeffreysens.bsky.social Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 2d
Queer BlueSky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

Pre-social media in my late 20s came out as queer to fellow LGBTQIA+. Post-social media, maybe 5-10 years ago. I was old enough to not care or want parents' approval.

I'm mid 50s now.
graysongoal.bsky.social Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social · 2d
Queer BlueSky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

I never officially came out as queer, just talked about being bi on myspace from 16-20 which upset my family 🤣

I'm 37 now.
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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debayoorr.bsky.social
1/ People treat willful ignorance like it's harmless but it's literally how atrocities happen. "I didn't know" becomes "I didn't want to know" becomes "I knew but it wasn't my problem" and suddenly you're on the wrong side of history wondering how you got there
ourcommondefense.bsky.social Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 3d
Willful ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to engage with certain truths
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
After 13 years, this circle closes.
And another begins.
Endlessly for some,
The End for others.

Cast seeds, but harvest.
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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peoplesfabric.com
With Border Patrol’s ramp-down in Chicago, just remember this was already the vibe 2 1/2 months before CBP showed up.
Responding to the moment, Pilsen mural depicts Superman fighting an ICE agent
The comic-style mural on a viaduct at 18th Street and Western Avenue shows Superman punching an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the face. The mural contains the signature of Chicago artis...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Imagine spending your early 20s in ICE detention.

People come here for help and we do this to them.
ccrjustice.org Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 5d
Victory! After nearly three years in ICE detention, Melika Olya, a 23-year-old Iranian woman and asylum seeker was released today.
A photo of Melika Olya. She is wearing a red short sleeve blouse with small white flowers and gray leggings. She has her hair in an half up half down style, her hair is brown and curly.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Today on the Dreaming Gynoid patreon, the full writeup for VALI-SA, the Prismatic Satellite, one of those rarest of things, a patron of benevolence.
Unlock this and a multitude of other treasures at our Patreon!

#GalaxyBlack
#DCCRPG
#DCC
#TabletopRPG
#patreonpost

www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
Patrons of the Known Galaxies - SYSTEM ALEPH (VALI-SA) | Dreaming Gynoid Studio
Get more from Dreaming Gynoid Studio on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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void-d00m.bsky.social
It was a mistake to let the men in suits take over the asylum. It seems like nothing ever good came from putting a man in a suit in charge of anything. The revolution will be brief but sartorial.
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
The way Adobe makes you bat away AI pop-ups like you’re hacking through a jungle with a machete to find the path
stevewestenra.bsky.social Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 8d
No Adobe Acrobat, I do not want your plagiarism machine to distill the main themes of my own dissertation for me. I do want a functional search back. 😡
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 11 Nov 1919 the Centralia incident took place, during which @IWW member and war veteran, Wesley Everest, was lynched. A mob had attacked the union hall, and some were killed in self defence. Everest was murdered, and his killers went unpunished stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8343...
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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osiris-white.bsky.social
Blowing bubbles. Just trying a few inking techniques. Keep trying, keep drawing, take my mind off of things. Some day I will draw for others.

#furry #art #furryart #oc
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
If you are going to call your _living room_ a liminal space, there had best be some extreme Philip K Dick shenanigans or you need to look the word the fuck up.
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
"When the doors blow open, you see a strange red sky above you, the light transducing into the violet or orange as you turn your head. In the distance an immense volcano slowly erupts."

Venture Seed Deathworld!
A funnel for 16-30 Galaxy Black or DCC zeros.
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December 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
HEY! Your Dark Future Sucks! Want a better one?

Space Girl’s Guide to the Empress Imperium
A setting book and players guide for Galaxy Black and the DCC RPG 436 pages of cheeky, spaced-out, super science , sword & sorcery action.
Purchase links linktr.ee/GwenScarlet
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
@drivethrurpg.com
Could you clarify your stance on AI generated content please? I have spent an hour trying to find this information on your website and can't find anything.
Something like this should not be hard to find.
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
As one of those annoying Chaotic Goods, I endorse the hell out of this message.
lyfaulk.bsky.social Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you! Be the beating war criminals to death with a five iron that you want to see in the world.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM