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Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 21h

this is the best thing I have ever seen lmao

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 21h

In case you missed it: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸

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Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 21h

*will be a third round

Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 21h

Update 2: there will not be a third round despite what the recruiter told me. I'm still feeling great about this and I'm sure I'll nail the next interview as well

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Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 21h

"the tiger becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered" I say to myself as I clean my house

post from Confessed

God, I can't tell you how much the "there not enough enrichment in my enclosure" joke has helped my mental health. Because, for some reason I can't comprehend, pretending that I'm a zoo keeper caring for an animal (which is also me) just makes everything easier to comprehend. Like "your head gets screwy when your apartment is messy" just doesn't carry as much resonance as "the tiger becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered" because then I'll be like, no shit? the tiger? I've gotta keep things nice and clean for the tiger

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

a ttrpg but it’s all tables. The cover is a table you roll on to determine which art is on the cover. There’s a table to determine who was its lead designer. there’s a table for who becomes the GM and instead of rolling dice it’s decided by how many snacks are present

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Have to say I thought we’d do more with Steamboat Willie being in the public domain. I thought our entire society would be reorganized around being able to do whatever we wanted to the vile boat mouse

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 1d

"passion to hooved creatures" Instant follow

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☙ Gaallo @gaallo.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
My name is Anna, I'm a freelance artist with a passion to hooved creatures ❤‍🔥

Draenei lady, decorated with floral ornaments

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

truthout.org

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

"Hello, music industry? It's comics. We need to talk."

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 1d

This is inherently unserious and completely shameless

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 1d

Just a little, haha

Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 1d

Update: it went extremely well! This was the final round too. They're wanting to move fast (internal promotion). I should have more information in a few days. This would be huge for me.

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Siren - Gothic cryptid of the PNW 🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @gothicsiren.bsky.social · 1d

Second round job interview for a big opportunity in T minus 1 hour

Wish me luck! 🖤

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.