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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir)

@magerightsactivist.bsky.social

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Smug leftie of the anarchist persuasion. One of the last progressive antitheists left on the internet. German. Bigender pansexual menace. Writer of smutty fanfic. Bird keeper. Pop science enthusiast. Weird hermit. Fandom trash forever.

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · Jan 18

Anti-state
Pro-prostate

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 1h

Having a nice femme guy to watch horror movies and adopt birds with would fix me.

Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 1h

I have been so gay for men lately.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6h

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 7h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Shweetie @shweetie.bsky.social · 13h

Me, to myself: Why are you this way?!?

Also me, to myself: I don't know, ok? Probably trauma.

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 12h

Point is, not operating at full capacity even when you technically could isn't a sin.

Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 12h

Not that it's always voluntary. Executive dysfunction is hell.

Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 13h

Really brings out that "laziness" is much less of a vice than we're all led to believe. Conserving your energy is a skill, and an important one at that. For disabled people in particular, it's vital.

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 13h

When you're a fairly low energy/low motivation person prone to flakiness like me, you always expect people who work really hard to resent you or look down on you for it, but I've always found the opposite to be true.
Genuine workaholics admire the ability to stand still and do nothing.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 14h

Some affable space monsters.

Drawing of a quartet of friendly aliens enjoying each other’s company.

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𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚔𝚒 ʚ(*´꒳`*)ɞ° @whimszi.bsky.social · 15h

you deserve to be in environments that bring out the softness in you, not the survival in you

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 15h

I need more brushes.

Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 15h

Goddamn old hyperfixation rearing its expensive head again.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 17h

"Wait, I can explain..."

Wyoming Man Found With 30 Eyeballs In His Anal Cavity

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Ian Hell Damnskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 18h

we're all familiar with MILFs, but rarely do we discuss its inverse, the FILM, or a "fuck I'd like to mother," which is when a woman turns a shitty dude into a project

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 18h

Also, I just want there to be a female equivalent to the "seducing the Mormon missionaries that show up at your door" genre. There's gotta be something that would fit into that niche.

Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 18h

Girls have that, too, and it can get just as confusing when you're of the less than heterosexual persuasion! I mean, there's a reason there is so much yuri art of girls doing each other's make-up. That's a pivotal experience in the life of many a young sapphic.

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 18h

Where is all the stupid trope-y shit MLM get? Like, the "awkward, sexually charged adolescent experiences, but with adults (and this time they actually go somewhere)" type stories. Sports and rough housing and watching porn/jerking off together, and all that male bonding stuff.

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty much all the lesbian porn made by and for queer women is very real, in that sex positive, "woke" way where everyone is on the same page and communicates and knows who they are, and that's lovely, but some heightened stakes can really add to the fantasy sometimes, you know?

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 18h

One underdiscussed downside of most lesbian porn catering to a male audience is that it is tragically devoid of the kinks and fantasies many WLW develop by virtue of growing up queer.

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 19h

It's difficult, but it's possible to marry sweet and comforting elements with genuine suspense and fright.
For example, the first quarter or so of the Exorcist book (not the film) is like that, and I'd also make a case for the Icelandic folk horror film Lamb qualifying as "cozy".

Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 20h

Ah yes, my favorite cozy movie *checks notes* Misery

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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🏴 Sax 🎷👻💜⚒️ eerie edition ΘΔ @saxmith.bsky.social · 1d

I fucking love artists who draw trans porn where it's very clearly just "lookit these trans characters happy in their own bodies having fun getting fucked & whatnot. Good for them, good for them !!!"

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