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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 13h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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More Carta @morecarta.bsky.social · 14h

I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

PLEASE SHARE GRAPHICS WIDELY

🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂

URGENT NEED! HELP KEEP FAMILY TOGETHER, DONATE NOW!

We are raising funds for a pillar of our community: a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. While their lawyers are confident they can win this discriminatory case, funds are needed by February 2026. We believe they should no longer have to face this on their own, which is why we are asking for your support.

Goal: $50,000

https://www.gofundme.com/help-keep-family-together-urgent

Venmo: carta-monir
Cashapp: $cartamonir

Send donations with a red heart emoji to ensure funds are redirected to this SWER

We are raising funds for a beloved community member; a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. For their safety and privacy they must remain anonymous, but this is a pillar of our community, loved and verified by those of us running this fundraiser.

Our friend is facing a trial in February regarding the custody of their young children. The case against them is based on the fact that their primary form of income is sex work. Notably, the judge of the initial custody arrangement ruled that their job was not reason enough to restrict their parenting time years ago. Because of this precedent, their lawyer feels very confident they will win their upcoming case.

To defend their rights to parent their own children, our friend needs to raise $75,000 by February 2026. This staggering amount of money is required by the court to cover the costs associated with a two day trial (lawyers fees, expert witnesses, the court reporter, depositions, creation of trial binders, the list goes on). If they cannot secure these funds by the February deadline, they will be forced to settle, resulting in severely reduced interaction with their children. We obviously do not want this to happen.

Our friend has provided for themself and their children for years, fighting their custody battle in private while continuing to be an incredible parent, friend, and educator. They can no longer face this by themselves, which is why we are asking for your support.

In our current political climate, we know that our friend's situation is especially precarious. This is a crucial moment to show solidarity with a community member who needs it more than ever.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 8h

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 13h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Winter 🤍❄️ @hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social · 10h

meant entirely positively like they’ve really dialled in such an incredible amount of raw power into their songs and christ Will Ramos’s voice is just completely unmatched

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Winter 🤍❄️ @hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social · 10h

finally got round to listening to Lorna Shore’s new album (was saving it for girlfriend listening) and holy fuck i didn’t know a breakdown could be so heavy it could make me feel physically nauseous

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · Apr 26

Related to this, every "gender critical" fundraiser ever is either "these people have rights, I'd like them not to have rights" or "these people agree people have rights so I'm suing"

The average LGBT+ fundraiser is "I'd like healthcare and to eat tomorrow please"

Which one is the "luxury belief"?

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · Apr 26

Erm, BBC, if all she did was "express critical opinions" why don't you report them? Is it because these were the opinions?

A football fan banned by her club from its grounds has raised more than £15,000 to take legal action.

Newcastle United (NUFC) supporter Linzi Smith was investigated by the Premier League after the club received a complaint about comments she made on social media.

Her lawyer claims the club's actions were a "huge overreach" in to matters unrelated to football.

Both NUFC and the Premier League declined to comment.

The 34-year-old's posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) expressed critical opinions about transgender people.

ALL I SAID WAS SEX IS REAL.

The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion

A @NUFC supporter, Linzi Smith, has been BANNED from attending games until 2026 for expressing her 'gender critical' belief that sex is binary and immutable. How many other fans are being monitored by the #StadiumStasi? We need your support to find out!

OH, AND THAT TRANS PEOPLE ARE PEDOPHILES.

"They haven't got a problem with the LGB. Just the TQ nonces targeting children."

"It's the fetish perverts and the nonces trying to push this onto children."

"I refuse to share a bathroom with a man who is getting off on being in heels."

"What makes you feel real women have to give up our spaces to perverts and predators? All my trans friends are sick and tired of this grooming noncey nonsense."

"They shouldn't be competing with biologically born women. They should start their own separate sports events, like the Paralympics for disabled and amputees."

Linzi Smith

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Big Mark & Co @bigmark.co.nz · 1d

I'm just thinking about how Mamdani talks (and defends) trans people for two minutes more than the democrats did at the last convention. And the video is only two minutes and five seconds long.

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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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 1d

its ravenlith!!

bunlith, a bunny rabbit fursona in a mech pilot outfit standing on a catwalk with blue stripes overlooking a bipedal robot known as an armored core

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 1d

People will try to excuse/defend the chuds by saying they've just watched too much porn but I'm a dyke who watches porn all the time and don't have this problem. Chuds do this because forcing every woman into their ideal sex doll aesthetic is the power fantasy.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Winter 🤍❄️ @hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social · 1d

took @girl.pet to Whitby while she was visiting 🤍✨(have i mentioned how much i love her lately cos it’s a lot)

selfie of two tgirls with facial piercings in black coats and black beanies and heavy black eyeliner against a coastal town backdrop with a grey sky

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Sama'a has a chance to move her children back into a real home after long, difficult weeks of living in a tent. Please give what you can to help.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Mae @spiderpolice.bsky.social · 10d

yuritober day 2, already getting used to this style

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Winter 🤍❄️ @hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social · 1d

always happy to advocate for more people playing their instruments ^ ^

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wish @wishyouluck.bsky.social · 1d

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Winter 🤍❄️ @hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social · 1d

need to get back on prog my tits were so juicy back when i was huh

Winter 🤍❄️ @hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social · Nov 13

ok everyone was very nice about my guitar video so bsky gets one thirst trap for good behaviour

blue-haired tgirl posing nude on a couch with her breasts covered by her arm and the neck of a guitar

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 8d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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🌹🔞🥀 @marrowsoup.bsky.social · Jun 28

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🌙sepulturegirl🌙 @sepulturegirl.bsky.social · Aug 17

chun li saves the day!!!

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Booleanean @booleanean.bsky.social · 17d

I see this a lot in online discourse about adult material or material dealing with dark topics. "But you wouldn't want a kid to read that, would you?" "What if a teenager sees the porn you drew?" "You want to help keep kids safe online, right?"

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding in 1/??

🪱🃏 𝕱𝖆𝖌𝖌ø𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓🦷🪳 @babettecirque.bsky.social · 19d

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this

#bskycensorship

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Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, nobody else confused about how the NHS can't give people a goddamn psychiatrist/psychologist but can somehow provide the resources to foist another bloody minded beurocrat at you? All these things inevitably cost more than just giving people what is needed.

Cos! but scarier @algernonentity.bsky.social · 2d

if governments really cared about the mental health of their citizens they'd adequately fund the people who can do something about it. instead, they're putting job coaches in gp surgeries and mental health places. because they don't you healthy, they want you productive for a bit until you burn out.

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