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25 years old | she/her | 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ I study social theory at the graduate level and draw little cartoon guys at the hobby level. https://strawberrysaladart.neocities.org/

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · Jun 30

Infighting 1: Breakfast (1/3)

There were many typos in the original post that bothered me. I also added alt text. I promise I won't be updating my comics with patch notes from hereon out.

#trans #webcomic #digitalart #krita #OC #originalcharacter #

Title: INFIGHTING: Breakfast
Lauren, a 5'10" Trans woman wearing cargo pants and a casual shirt with two pockets, is standing in an abstract background with two red stars behind her.
She holds a large frying pan towards the viewer with an intense expression. The pan has a vegan breakfast with diced tomatoes, assorted peppers, avocadoes, homemade wedgies, and tofu crumble styled to imitate eggs.

Aphrodite, a 6'3" blue-haired trans woman wearing cat ear headphones, sits at her computer desk. There's an ikea shark plushie on her bed, and her desk has a Kirby amiibo, a pink Monster Energy Drink, and a stack of books propping up her computer monitor. The books include a Steven Universe comic, "Who's Afraid of Gender" by Judith Butler and an Azumanga Daioh collection.

She's startled by two knocks on her door.

"Aphrodite, I've made breakfast. Come out and have some if you'd like."

Aphrodite exits her room to see Lauren with a plate of her vegan breakfast at the dinner table. She's looking down at the plate with a potato wedge already on her fork.

Aphrodite is almost entirely in frame. She wears a cropped purple t-shirt with Kuromi on it, and a dark grey pleated miniskirt.

The entire kitchen is depicted in a pink gradient except for the food, table and characters. a shag carpet divides the room into the living room and kitchen.

The two of them sit at the dining room table. the viewer is now behind Laruen, so the background shows the living room, which has a flatscreen TV and a couch with a lesbian pride flag.

Aphrodite took her monster energy drink to the table, clashing with Lauren's water. Her heavy makeup can be seen, which includes blush, mascara, and purple metallic eyeshadow

Aphrodite: "thanks"

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h

The Vice-President is defending Nazis. I don't give a shit.

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 4h

With legs like that... I must 🫡

a man wearing headphones and a blue shirt is sitting in a chair with his mouth open .

Alt: Markiplier "WAS THAT THE BITE OF '87?"

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 23h

Yessss

A "YOU WIN!" screen from Balatro. My best hand earned 120,960 chips at once.

A talking joker card to the left of the overview says
"You dealt with that pretty well!"

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

I hate being right.

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my. I'm sure this is just what my generation needs to cure the "loneliness epidemic".
This strikes me as very desperate. I hope this means this technology is on its way out

StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 1d

These are lovely go get one

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 1d

Fork found in kitchen

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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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 2d

If you're suggesting that Hasan is a mouthpiece for the Russian government then they've done a very poor job at making me sympathize with that regime

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 4d

Wow balatro is very fun

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 5d

Jokes aside Hasan is a very effective communicator. He carefully condenses a lot of very complicated ideas and events in a way that's digestible to a young audience that's still building their critical thought.

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 5d

The homeroom teacher from Jimmy Neutron

"Sheen this is the 7th week in a row you've shown Ultra Lord in class"

StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 7d

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Where are those insufferable nerds who quote 1984 all the time? The government is telling you Israel is respecting the terms of a fucking ceasefire as they blow up more civilians.

To clarify I'm being rhetorical. I know they don't give a shit about injustice

"At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and 49 injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. One body has also been retrieved from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, it says.

US President Donald Trump announces the breakthrough in a post on social media, saying Israel and Hamas have agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal."

StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 7d

How the fuck can anyone call this anything other than a genocide

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 7d

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

What kind of chickenshit governor refuses to sign a bill providing funding to suicide prevention hotlines for LGBTQ youth after Trump revoked funding?

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 8d

Gavin, you scum

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 8d

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

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 8d

this is a very well-reported piece and if you didn't read it last year please read it this year

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.

Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

www.motherjones.com

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Keith Stack @keithstack.com · 8d

I don't know if Nintendo really has the story-telling chops to pull off what they're attempting. It all comes off as a weird knock-off "Disney magic".

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 9d

Of course when it comes to the opposite scenario I can get added to lists calling me a luddite for being critical of AI.

I'm not trying to harrass anyone I just want their garbage off our feed

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

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."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12d

20 years

Left: What appears to be a fairly Chad-ish dude with mid-2000s fuckboy brown hair with blonde highlights looking off to the side and doing a smug little smirk to mask debilitating insecurities

Right: the same person 20 years later but she's got neck/shoulder length hair and is a lady who will actually look at the camera these days. she has different debilitating insecurities now. She's still smirking but that's because she's had Bell's Palsy twice and can't pop a symmetrical smile anymore

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 13d

The Trump administration cares about fire safety?

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StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 15d

I'm very relieved to hear this. I'm very thankful for any Americans who called their representatives to hold them accountable

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15d

Shutdown is on. Only 3 Democrats voted for the clean CR, which means we are now officially heading for a government shutdown.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 15d

55-45, Senate GOP short-term funding bill FAILS.

52 Republicans + Fetterman (D-Pa.), Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and King (I-Maine) vote YES.

44 Democrats + Paul (R-Ky.) vote NO.

It needed 60 votes to pass.

Shutdown hits at midnight.

StrawberrySalad @strawberrysaladart.bsky.social · 19d

Even when used as directed it's a 500lbs projectile being thrown into the sidewalk