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.em

@lithops.bsky.social

democrats were too worried that people might like them after tuesday

November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

shoutout to cabbage. top tier green

November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

i made it like a day before posting about it lmao

.em @lithops.bsky.social · 4d

local "friend" of mine who i made music with, made a film with, went to protests with, and had deep personal conversations with on each other's bedroom floors came out as a terf today. sad.

i'm taking my "maxd-out-looks" drugs (as she called them) and enjoying life instead of posting anything else.

November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.

This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

A scanned Supreme Court of the United States order, dated November 6, 2025, in the case Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al., No. 25A319. The document discusses an Executive Branch policy requiring passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The highlighted passage reads: “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases.” The Court grants the government’s application for a stay at this preliminary stage, reasoning that the government is likely to succeed on the merits and that the policy does not violate equal protection principles.

November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

local "friend" of mine who i made music with, made a film with, went to protests with, and had deep personal conversations with on each other's bedroom floors came out as a terf today. sad.

i'm taking my "maxd-out-looks" drugs (as she called them) and enjoying life instead of posting anything else.

November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

Okay, now we push him to the left.

November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

voting Zohran Mamdani for Iowa City City Council District B

November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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👁️🍄🪸

@bloomfilters.bsky.social

jays lost. Yuri does not exist.

November 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

i love doing literally the same thing again and again forever iot's so cool

Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10d

"sophisticated financial engineering" oh that's not good

October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

last time i did this i said 2 and apparently my guess was high...

tutti @tuttigachimuchi.bsky.social · 18d

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October 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM

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rob

@ok-but-still.bsky.social

wow, which common vaccine was it?

October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

Fenway Health just sent this message to all of their patients. They are lying to their patients telling them that cessation of gender affirming care to trans youth was due to a change in federal regulations. This is a lie. No such change was made to regulations. This was Fenway complying in advance.

A letter from Jordina Shanks, CEO of Fenway Health, addressed to the Fenway Health community. It announces that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, Fenway Health will no longer provide medical gender-affirming care (hormones and puberty blockers) for patients under 19. The letter explains that this change follows a revised U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Grants Policy, which allows termination of grants that “no longer effectuate program goals or agency priorities.” Continuing the service would jeopardize Fenway’s status as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The message emphasizes that this decision was made with great difficulty and does not reflect a change in Fenway’s values or commitment to the transgender and gender-diverse community. It details how staff have worked to support affected patients and families and reaffirms Fenway’s ongoing advocacy and inclusive mission. Highlighted portions stress the HHS policy change, the risk to FQHC status, and Fenway’s continued belief in and support for gender-affirming care.

October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

recession indicator?

Semafor @semafor.com · 22d

Napoleon’s jewels stolen from Louvre

The robbery occurred over four minutes in broad daylight while the museum was open to the public.

www.semafor.com

October 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

@scumbelievable.bsky.social

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

October 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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Riley

@raaleh.bsky.social

seeing the phrase “since 2009” crop up a lot these days

October 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

show happening saturday in the only city in the entire world

October 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

never voting for this fucking rat. ever.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · Oct 7

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

October 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine

@leftistlawyer.com

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a
practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual
attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the
statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though
most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay
ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question:
Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political
capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers?
Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that
the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than
their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to
create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus
broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot
directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’
expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is
immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians
as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay
rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape
LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important,
the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT
rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between
conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those
targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to
acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live
in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a
limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the
identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception
of se…

October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Mike Sowden

@mikeachim.bsky.social

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold

@lytagold.bsky.social

this is a relatively new and bizarre argument in the history of book bans btw—conservatives have rarely if ever operated from the position that libraries are “government speech” (?) they’ve almost always argued on the grounds of obscenity and the public good

October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 30

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

September 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM

.em

@lithops.bsky.social

trans friends in academia:

how do you even apply for jobs? I get so anxious looking at some of these places, and I feel like it's impossible to balance safety and access to healthcare and community with the availability and expectations of jobs.

i'd appreciate any insight anyone has on this.

September 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club

@post-doc-club.bsky.social

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...