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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · May 16

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · Apr 18

My painting COASTAL POPPIES

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Apr 10

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/last-r...

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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Apr 10

Victim complex

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Guy Warley @warls.bsky.social · Apr 10

#PortfolioDay Sci-fi, ruins, and odd plants

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wint @dril.bsky.social · Apr 8

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

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Manfred 🥨 @breznsoiza.bsky.social · Mar 18

Das rechte Gesindel hat die Abstimmung gekapert, bitte helft mit und stimmt da mit ab 🌈 #NoAfd #toleranz #aschaffenburg

Stimmen Sie ab: Zeichen für Toleranz - Fußgängerüberweg in Aschaffenburg in Regenbogenfarben? | Foto: Abbildung: Amt für Stadtplanung, Klimamanagement

Die Stadt Aschaffenburg wird einen Fußgängerüberweg in Regenbogenfarben bekommen. Wo, ist noch unklar. Dieses Zeichen für Vielfalt und Toleranz hatte sich das Jugendparlament gewünscht, die Stadt hatte dem Wunsch entsprochen. Finden Sie diese Entscheidung richtig? Stimmen Sie ab:

www.main-echo.de

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Mar 16

I've decided I'll just be trying to post some of the things I've been drawing, maybe this way I'll actually finish a few of my forever wips! here's a bunny #illustration #procreate

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Feb 16

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Feb 16

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Feb 16

I switched the operating language of my switch to french so that I could practice a little when playing animal crossing but now this has me googling things like "allons à l'inauguration ça fait quoi" .... let me just say I still do not. know qu'est-ce que ça fait. I simply do not push this button

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · Feb 3

Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

Snake protecting a blue, white and pink flower from a shoe trying to crush it, with the text PROTECT TRANS KIDS

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Jan 13

also the other lil guys living on my island keep complimenting me for all the effort I am putting into getting some guy to come to the island. who is a singer? again, I am just trying to chop some wood. I just discovered the wet suit functionality. please do not bother me little sirs

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Jan 13

mayhaps as applicable to real life as the turnips trading fiasco

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Jan 13

apparently your island gets a rating and mine has a rating of 1 (one) star
out of five
sir I am just trying to sell some things make some bells furnish my apartment

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Jan 13

I thought this was the kind of game you cant really fail at, BUT! I think I am, at the very least, doing a bad job

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Jan 13

I got animal crossing (new horizons) first two years ago or so when I got out of hospital and figured a chill game would be nice about now but then I didnt really get into it
BUT NOW I've picked it up again and play it on my commute and this time I got hooked

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 3

omg lol I just... realized. idk I mean I knew but.. I didnt KNOW

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 3

all so that my best of silm elves rants from 2012 will see another decade on the net lol

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm trying to migrate my tweets from twitter but there's 17000 tweets in total and it's importing over 7000 and it's taking forever omg what have I done

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Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 4

idk why I start feeling the urge to post here more now that the place is on fire lol. sexy sexy self combustion

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 4

not to be that guy but I cannot read this but without picturing ulmo jumping into a convertible like an 80s teen movie valleygirl getting picked up from school

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 4

also, unrelated but last night I dreamt I was fostering a very large elderly black dog and then I woke up today missing her 😞

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 4

Ok I caved and watched the first 3 eps and I have. So. Many thoughts

Minor Melkorism @dwimmerlaiks.bsky.social · Dec 4

ok listen I don't go here but it is genuinely so hilarious to me personally that they deadwifed celeborn. no layers, just enjoying the bit. rip teleporno 🥲