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Sue's life and art! Personal thoughts. Adult NSFW content. Against fascism. Enby - Agender. They/them.

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I'm Not Sue @imnotsue.bsky.social · 11d

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

-- Omar El Akkad

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

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Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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I'm Not Sue @imnotsue.bsky.social · 2h

Good people don't act like that. Good people apologize when they mess up, and stop doing evil things. Conservatives are not doing that, so listen to them. Take them at their word and believe them seriously when they say they'd like to hurt people. Right now, conservatives VERY much want to do evil.

I'm Not Sue @imnotsue.bsky.social · 2h

Do not accept conservatives excusing the young republicans leaked chats or any other behavior as 'a college chat group' or 'just a joke' or 'wuh-wuh-wuhatabout democrats being mean?' or even 'theyre not serious'.

Who 'merely jokes' about perpetuating horrific evil when they're suspected of evil?

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been shooting unarmed protestors in the head with pepper balls but sure, cold naked people on bikes are the most threatening thing.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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🎃SCARY PENDRAKE🐍 @peripendrake.art · 1d

A fine feathered fellow for @glaregryphon.bsky.social ! 🐓

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Zephyzu @zpehz.bsky.social · 1d

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Daarclaw 𓅡 @daarclaw.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🪶✨
Here are the fluffy birds I drew :>

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 1d

Fall [part 1/3]

A cartoon crow is looking up as orange, red and yellow fall leaves dance in tje wind around him.

The crow is walking on the crunchy leaves, saying "what a perfect day!"

The crow is marveling at how lovely all the leaves are, new seeing a stone in his path.

The crow trips on the stone right on his face.

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wɛst.nɛz @westnezz.bsky.social · 24d

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✦ @wuol.bsky.social · 11d

<3screams

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Requinoesis✨ @requinoesis.bsky.social · 1d

Hi hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨✨

I'm Requinoesis, someone who loves the ocean! I'm dedicated to creating a new insight into the imagery of sharks under pastel colors! 🌊🦈✨

You can see more of my art stuff here, if you want: linktr.ee/requinoesis

Roberto, the great hammerhead shark, explores the ruins of an ancient museum destroyed by Typhon's storm. He holds a flashlight and carries a mysterious human spirit in his backpack, who accompanies him in silence.

The place, shrouded by the phenomenon called “cursed salt mist”, is covered in a permanent fog. Salt crystals sprout everywhere and a supernatural presence seem to lurk among the rubble.

The spirit that accompanies Roberto is liquid and translucent. Sometimes little tropical fish of extinct species float around him, as if attracted by his presence.

The museum's architecture is full of organic curves and ornate tiles. Decorated columns show a crab with a human face holding the moon between its pincers, an ancient symbol of a historical figure revered by the sharkfolk.

A cozy little shark bistro nestled among lots of plants.

A little harbor village of Gourdlets among a cozy grove of trees, carrying out various cooperative activities related to fishing and recreation, there are little colorful fish and a shark swimming peacefully in the sea.

An allegory of the "Jaws" movie poster that caused damage and negative stereotypes to the image of sharks that persist to this day (I'm glad it's slowly changing, but it's still too slow to be considered forgivable). Now with a reversal of roles, with the human victim replaced by a simple wild shark and the terrible stereotyped shark replaced by a monstrous human skull seeming to want to devour the shark (this is the reality, we kill thousands of sharks every year, many of them killed for irrational reasons, who is the real cruel killer?)

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not kidding when I say that cancelling my Spotify subscription has not affected my life in any way, other than that I spend the money on Bandcamp instead and the artists get paid infinitely more.

Easiest subscription I've ever dropped. You really don't need it like you perhaps think you do

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Zuccnini 🎃🦖 @zuccnini.bsky.social · 1d

Assorted sketches
I dont mention oc lore, but wormbo and goobi are aliens disguised as bugs. Wormbo is pretending to be a Velvet worm and Goobi is pretending to be a Emperor caterpillar.
The tiny dinos are named jammy the clay dinosaur and are clay dinos that wear hats. Theyre magical

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PureKoor ➡ AFC @purekoor.art · 1d

This is every conservative "furry" private-ish telegram group chat lol

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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I'm Not Sue @imnotsue.bsky.social · 1d

Go check out @onioncakes.bsky.social, especially if you love dinosaurs! I bought some fantastic pins and plushies from their booth at BLFC years ago and have had wonderful service when buying from them online too! Super worth your time to browse if you're going to BLFC. 💖

OnionCakes @onioncakes.bsky.social · 1d

Come find me at BLFC this week! Booth 303 <3 I got your dino needs

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Landeg @landeg.bsky.social · 4d

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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I'm Not Sue @imnotsue.bsky.social · 1d

Oh what a lovely shape and shades!!

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Sooty @sootyexists.bsky.social · 1d

My oc, Indigo

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 2d

Unlike Senators and other legislators (who can blame the other chamber, the executive, the wrath of Khan, what-have-you), you really can judge a governor-with-ambitions by his vetoes. It would be law if he didn't personally block it.

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Irish 🏳️‍🌈 @castironirish.bsky.social · 2d

Just more reasons that I am never voting for Newsom. Pay attention Libs, Newsom is unelectable, and you need to come to terms with it NOW.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 2d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

Love that we all wrote about this ad.

Go read Parker’s newsletter on it as well.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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Oasus Plainsview 🔜 MFF @itsoasus.com · 2d

Now that its officially Monday on the East Coast, I can post this:

A native american woman holding up a middle finger with the caption "Fuck Christopher Columbus"

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