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Katharine Ada

@yourpalkat.bsky.social

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · Jul 16

hey my gf and i saw you from across the crab bucket and we really resent your vibe

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🦇 all hallows’ chavah 🎃 @caycef.bsky.social · 13h

let’s see paul allen’s posts

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 14h

as an aside, i love that The Verge is running this series of pieces on "the future of being trans on the internet"

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 19h

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

standing together makes us strong. standing with labor makes us strong. standing with leftists and revolutionaries and the oppressed around the world takes a billion struggling workers and makes them an army which can push the course of history toward peace and justice.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

liberalism has no solutions, only empty rhetoric and a policy of adopting the ways and means of their nominal opponents until they themselves are an ineffective shadow of the monsters currently stripping the american carcass. it will not save you. it will not save us.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

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.

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 19h

the future's going great

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 20h

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 20h

[eleanor rigby]

man goes to doctor
says "i'm depressed", and the doctor says that he should see
pagliacci

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 2d

this one was genuinely very sweet and made me cry in a couple spots (though everything does, of course). very much worth watching if you can track it down

and yes, it did make me miss my old minidisc player (though everything does, of course)

Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 3d

MOVIE #7 (*cough*It'saTVminiseries*cough) This is my favourite discovery of the year - I AM DEAD (2023) is like ENTER THE VOID, but as a ghost comedy made in Japan with an early 2000s sheen. Very funny and deeply moving. You'll want to get a Mini-Disc player.

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 3d

i dunno. maybe

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 3d

Today! Join us at secretcinematheque.com for THE 24-HOUR HORROR MOVIE MIND MELTER starting @ 11:00 AM (ET) to watch a stream of rare, weird and wonderful horror movies. It's a secret line-up, but as the films play, I will reveal the titles and posters below:

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 4d

but i keep doing it

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 4d

that’s some absolute bullshit, i’m sorry

Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 4d

wow i take way too many pictures of myself to be healthy

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 6d

you're gonna do great bestie

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Waxlimbs @waxlimbs.com · 6d

JUST ANNOUNCED: our October 18th fundraiser show at Handlebar 🖤 We’ll be playing a nice long set for you with a few new tunes in the mix, including our newest single Across the Coals. Excited to raise money for a great cause!

Black text on a red background: “A fundraiser for your fav bartenders new v*gina. Waxlimbs, Ghoul Friend, Grrrlcrrsh, & Rata. October 18th, 8pm doors, $15 Cover, Handlebar” (Toronto). In the foreground is a big fluffy black cat with sharp teeth wearing a thick chain collar.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 6d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 6d

i'm good! going to see pixel grip tonight, i'm pretty excited about that

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 6d

hehe gm Heloïse

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 6d

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 6d

oh wow, this is looking gorgeous!

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 8d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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