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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 9h

lol, I DID offer, and if anyone is going to be “weird” (complimentary) I’m always glad it’s y’all.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 14h

Ooh, I wouldn’t mind going ☺️ at someone today, hehehe.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 14h

They don’t bother me nearly enough to get rid of permanently, and sometimes I’m just fine with them, so a swap situation now and then sounds ideal, honestly. 😂

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, if anyone wants to borrow an enby’s breasts every now and then, you know who to call!

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 14h

Goodness gracious.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 18h

lol, as much as I love plotting a fight scene, I tend to slack on SUPER detailed worldbuilding, which some sci-fi readers complain about.

*insert giant shrug here*

This is why more writers is good, different books are going to hit the sweet spot with different readers, and that’s great, actually!

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 20h

HAHA, guilty!

*clutches the diagrams I draw for every fight scene I’ve put in a book to chest as if they are precious children*

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 20h

It’s fun to run across a note on the Skyline that someone is spouting transphobia and should be blocked, only to discover that they’ve already blocked you.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 20h

A multitude of approaches are necessary in this moment. There’s no “one weird trick” that’s going to succeed in the push against fascism.

Even ones that personally annoy me. 💚 (because they probably annoy the fascists, too.)

Iteration is deeply important to *waves hand at all the things.)

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 20h

“Oh, Jesus sounds really cool, actually!”

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway, if my kids end up converting to Christianity, it is probably my fault. 😂

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 21h

My kids have been raised in very agnostic households, and their impression of Christianity has mostly been developed by Christian classmates telling them that being trans is evil.

Imagine their surprise when I told them the story of Jesus turning over the money-lenders’ tables in the temple.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 1d

#IndigenousPeoplesDay Edition

$340/$1500 $1160 left to go. Mvto!

Mvskoke Semvnole woman who has been housing insecure for a few months. I found an apartment I can take care of monthly if I can get the $1500 deposit. I'd love to end IDP in my own apartment. QR codes below. Mvto!

#settlersaturday

Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 5d

Bread and Jam for Frances #MUTUALAID💸💕

I've been housing insecure for months. I found an apartment but need help for rent/deposit. I can handle monthly if I can get the first $1500 payment. Anything helps. I'll hug you the next time I see you. Pay QR codes below. Mvto!
#settlersaturday #helpsky

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

I shared this video through @redpopnews.bsky.social about the Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration at the Getty because it was beautiful to share our cultures and to be appreciated for who we are as Native people beyond the Hollywood tropes and Stereotypes and not as relics of the past.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 21h

The Elder Child is trying to start up a D&D club at school!

*runs around house gathering all the dice*

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 23h

Explained “internalized” to the Younger Child yesterday because he can’t understand why his teacher who has ADHD is less understanding of his needs than his non-ADHD teachers.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 23h

ah, I thought I suddenly heard a thousand voices cry out, and then be silenced.

I HOPE WHEN THAT BOOK COMES OUT SOMEONE PULLS OUT A MAP THAT SHOWS WHERE APPALACHIA ACTUALLY IS.

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, do you like scary movies?

The next episode of Don't Go Upstairs, the horror podcast where two queer chicks hack their way through classic slasher flicks, goes live on our Patreon Wednesday morning! Join now to listen a week before everyone else!

Don't Go Upstairs Podcast | Patreon

A horror movie podcast

www.patreon.com

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 1d

People organizing in #Chicago to protect children from violent ICE attacks.

"Armed with whistles and know-your-rights pamphlets, community volunteers call themselves “guardian angels.” Together, they secure...elementary, middle and high schools across the city." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

‘Angels’ step in after federal agents use tear gas near Chicago school

Mayor Brandon Johnson said the incident in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood sent students scrambling.

www.yahoo.com

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

“Ready Player One” copies getting bought on a college campus for a sci-fi literature class.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

🎶In the arms of the angel🎶

“For just $5 a day, you can support this adult blonde woman, who just wants to hire a dog sitter so she can get her roots done without worrying about her chair legs getting chewed on”

🎶Far away from here🎶

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh 🧐 I don't know how to take this because why?

After all the work we do as Natives to move away from this outdated, stereotypical imagery steeped in racism and erasure and this is what we get on Indigenous Peoples' Day and its being shared and reshared on such a huge level.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Correct path to take.

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