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The most beloved dyke in Baltimore Intermedia artist, irritable trans lady, certified game changer, ordained minister I love the block button https://linktr.ee/RahneAlexander

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · Nov 16

Welcome new followers (and old friends too — mutuals from elsewhere, I’ll add you back as I have time to catch up, I swear!)

I thought it might be worthwhile to do an introductory post, even tho I’ve been here on Bluesky since the Alf days
Here we go:

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 5h

it also seems to suggest that for the right price, they'd flip

Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 5h

me, i like to protest to get my steps in

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 5h

seems to me the reason right wing ding dongs bang on and on about "paid protestors" is bc they can't conceive of taking a political position without a personal financial reward attached

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 6h

plein air
trein air
automobile air

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OsoPeligroso @oso-peligroso.bsky.social · 6h

Actual quote from Johnson:

"I think the most frightening thing I've seen yet are the naked bicyclists."

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I cannot believe we have to take these disingenuous bags of dicks seriously

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us.”

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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RJC @voguingtodanzig.bsky.social · 11h

At Patterson Park in Baltimore today.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12h

I guess adding "How Does It Feel" to the syllabus since D'Angelo's adonis belt is canon queer history. 😮‍💨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V2X...

D'Angelo — Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Simple Music

www.youtube.com

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12h

Miss Major's interview with the Trans Oral History Project was already on my syllabus for today. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

Miss Major – NYC Trans Oral History Project

Archive of interviews with trans-identified people who have called New York City their home.

nyctransoralhistory.org

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to remind everyone every day this week that the Baltimore Running Festival is SATURDAY.

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 16h

today's first song of the day is "see no evil" by television

www.youtube.com/watch?v=puIM...

See No Evil

YouTube video by Television - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 16h

A few weeks back, I told a writing class at Coppin State Univerity that AI can’t be a shortcut past working their thoughts out on the page, and they are much more brilliant than AI will ever be.

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 1d

"She married Danny Hoang, a fellow Vietnamese immigrant she met working at a nail salon...Tran became known in community as a devoted swim team mom and beloved small-business owner. She claimed in court documents that over the last 21 years, she never missed one of her ICE check-ins."

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolonging...

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Matthew S. Bajko @politicalnotes.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 1d

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 3d

Next Sunday, 19 October, 3-6pm

I'm doing a performance, part of BACK EAST at Current Space

I've been planning this one a long time, and I'm only gonna do it once

Decidedly "not safe for work" — no video recording!

DJ Ducky Dynamo will provide music for your pleasure before and after

Celebrate Baltimore Libra Season
10/19 Divine / Rahne / K-Swift
with an unforgettable garden party

BACK EAST
Erin Stellmon & Rahne Alexander
Gallery show on view thru 2 Nov

Gird up your loins; come witness the birth of new material

3-6 pm Sunday 19 October 2025
Current Space / 421 Tyson St.
21+ / Free / Donations welcome / Performance NSFW
Music by Libra Queen Ducky Dynamo
Rahne Alexander performance at about 4:30
NO VIDEO PLEASE

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 1d

i may or may not be doing a performance about this next sunday

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

Death is something odd to think about when you’ve been cast out of the faith of your birth.

If you asked the Mormons, they would say I chose this. That I knew the rules and I chose to leave. But living half a life isn’t a choice, not really.

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 1d

today's first song of the day is "uncle phranc" by team dresch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9lk...

Uncle Phranc - Team Dresch (from 'Captain, My Captain') *Audio* Homocore

YouTube video by GrrlBandGeek

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the book tour for TERRY DACTYL is coming right up, please spread the word!!🎉🎉 Starting at the Seattle Art Museum on 10/25, 3 pm & then In conversation w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social in NYC, Jennifer Natalya Fink in DC, Jeannie Vanasco in Baltimore, & @lenizumas.bsky.social in Portland💎⚡🔥

MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE ON TOUR WITH TERRY DACTYL

10/25 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM BOOKS SOLD BY ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO.

11/19 THE STRAND NEW YORK, NY WITH ALEXANDER CHEE

12/1 POLITICS & PROSE WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH JENNIFER NATALYA FIOK

12/3 GREEDY READS BALTIMORE, MD WITH JEANNIE VANASCO

1/13 POWELL'S BOOKS PORTLAND, OR WITH LENI ZUMAS

MASKS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 2d

today's first song of the day is "time has come today" by the chambers brothers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqw...

The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today (Audio)

YouTube video by ChambersBrothersVEVO

www.youtube.com

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2d

the grim reaper driving a taxi full of meats and cheeses makes it a death cab for charcuterie.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

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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