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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 5h

tbh the comforting thing about seeing Gen Z folks earnestly getting into stuff like Björk or Aphex Twin is that when i was younger i felt cagey and self-conscious about appearing to like anything *too* much or liking it the "wrong" way because some of fears some older person might cut my tastes down

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 9h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 6h

That is a weird reason to drop a show lol

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 6h

Not to mention the fact that the game, in the same scene where it kills Aya Brea, retcons her to be hetero and have very bad taste in men by having her get married to Kyle, a generic protagonist guy type side character from PE2, and then die at the wedding for no reason.

Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 6h

The Third Birthday. I still hate Nomura for it. "Let's make a more adult Parasite Eve by killing off Aya Brea and replacing her with a 13 year old whose clothes constantly get ripped off, and retcon the whole returning cast as a bunch of creepy misogynists, and make it a boring cover shooter."

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 9h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 6h

The anime is at least certainly much better than the manga. Edgy as it is, it still cuts out like the bottom 90% of the garbage the original author wrote, including a whole character from the main cast who had nothing to her except "plays piano" and "pisses herself constantly" despite her prominence

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kyu @kyu.channel · 1d

#silenthill

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11h

Anyone saying the word tankie online in 2025 will be forced to relocate to a place currently collapsing due to climate change. Thank you for your attention to this matter

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 13h

‘we successfully chased ppl back in to the closet. huzzah!’ — @mattyglesias.bsky.social

if you’re looking for the ppl responsible for contemporary fascism you should start with ‘liberal’ political advisors like matt. without them it wouldn’t have happened.

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

people are acting like this is a study talking about all trans people but it’s just about nonbinary people which makes sense that this is lower, 9 out of 10 nonbinary people i’ve ever met have now transitioned lol

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 12h

girl, dig up! or are you too busy mocking women without the same access to the care you’ve had?

fucking loser shit actually

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 13h

Tankies are always telling me how much they hate me and now they’re mad that I listened lol

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 21h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 18h

queen of olympus

Fanart of Hera from Hades 2, wearing lingerie and some sort of loose robe showing her shoulder
She has somewhat shorter hair than original design, with peacock tattoo on the left arm and lotus flowers tattoo on left thigh
Lots of gold jewelry, including a big choker necklace

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 12h

This is election interference btw, because we are having elections.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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spooky sara 🎃 @sarasoci.al · 12h

ari drennen is like caitlyn jenner for trans people

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 15h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 15h

This is what staying on Twitter does to you. The constant hard-right Nazi background radiation *does* start cooking your brain over time.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 20h

The context on which this was said does not make it better unfortunately

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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I believe that the far left is preying on the desperation of trans people in the search of cannon fodder for their revolutionary fantasies and it is hurting people. We cannot afford to eschew electoralism, nor can we take peace for granted.
Small Deborah @seldomseenstan • 7h
What is with your constant punching left recently? "The left" and especially trans leftists have literally zero power. Do you not think that this energy is best used elsewhere?
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.
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Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 21h

Posting this short article until morale improves.

WILL GERMAN REUNIFICATION HURT TRANSSEXUAL RIGHTS?
Now that East and West Germany are being united into one country, the laws concerning transsexuals and sex change operations are being re-evaluated. East Germany scores higher on transsexual rights than West Germany, but East Germany's more humane laws may not prevail in the new reunited country. As it stands now in East Germany, men and women 18 years and older have been able to receive govern-ment-sponsored sex reassignment surgery, get married and adopt children. According to Professor Goerlich of East Germany, who spoke at a meeting on the subject in Hamburg, in two cases a transsexual mother gained custody of her adopted children after a divorce. Goerlich plans to fight to retain these more liberal laws in the future Germany.

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Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 21h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Erato @eratoheti.bsky.social · 17h

Marx: "society...makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."

Ari: No. Thats bourgeoise.

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Erato @eratoheti.bsky.social · 17h

The idea that any amount of choice and liberty at all is bourgeoise decadence is literally how a liberal would write a communist villain in their fictional stories and ari is actually over here doing it.

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 14h

"there is no designer vagina under communism" they have GRS in Cuba, a whole government agency for gay and trans rights even. But of course, "communism" for people like this never really exists, it's entirely a signifier of a vague hypothetical that can be anything that suits their argument.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 21h

Transsexualism is bourgeois, which is why most of the Western girls I know are crowdfunding their healthcare costs to get it overseas

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 21h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 15h

like there is absolutely no way to not understand this as collective punishment, right? there's no fig leaf of it being about Hamas

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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galette official* @galetteweb.bsky.social · 1d

It all begins tomorrow at 9:00 AM (JST)! ✨
Galette Special English Edition Vol.4 launches on Kickstarter for 15 days only.
Thank you for over 280 followers—let’s make the first day an amazing start! 💪
🔔 Don’t forget to set your reminder! 🌸

galette official* @galetteweb.bsky.social · 8d

Galette Special English Edition Vol.4 launches Oct 15, 2025 (9 AM JST)! 🌸 15-day campaign — don’t miss it! 💖
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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 22h

I love the style of the lead characters in Stupid Woman 26:00 (a manga about two Japanese women in their thirties running away to Vietnam together after murdering an abusive husband)

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 22h

I've never been hit by a car so I don't know why we have all these concerns about "pedestrian fatalities", sounds like someone is just trying to smear drivers!!1

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