Astrid
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Astrid
@astrid.ad
Trans woman in tech. Trekkie. Leftist.

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🏳️‍⚧️ she/her
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HRT is a lifesaving treatment the same way insulin and cancer medications are, and any/all trans people should be deeply suspicious of anyone trying to argue otherwise.
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Got a free dress while waiting to get my pictures taken ^^
December 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
With my girlfriend working at an agency that coordinates with a lot of other federal agencies, the attacks on the sciences has been so depressing to watch unfold in real time.
NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yeah, that tracks.
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I love Ken Jennings so much. My favorite jeopardy host of all time.
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
July 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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many of us former NYT employees have spoken publicly for years about the working environment there. the latest incident is by no means an aberration! it's frustrating, disappointing, and an opportunity to redirect your subscription money to other news outlets
July 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends
May 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn
Final passage by one vote, though likely the present and 2 NV were all available to them if they had been needed. It's with the Senate now
May 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.

Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.

I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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February 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.

If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is so terrifying. I've been in a sort of shock since I first read through it.
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Good morning. Let me check if I’ve got this right.
- Juni created a bot that shows what Aaron (head of trust and safety) likes
- His likes are public information
- Aaron likes a porn post
- Trust and safety ban the bot and creator in 16 minutes
- Creator appeals and ban is upheld
December 20, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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The leaked prerender scene featuring a trans story line that Disney/Pixar removed from their new show Win or Lose.

(sped up a bit to meet the upload limit)
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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I love art
December 4, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Protect trans kids.
December 4, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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This is hard to listen to. It's pretty clear that the conservative majority has already decided that trans people aren't worthy of legal protections and this is all a formality.
December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Stel ♥️

I'm newer here, but her posts have been immensely helpful to me.

When I finally moved to bluesky it felt like a breath of fresh air in comparison to the hellsite. It's really disheartening to see this platform subject to the same forms of abuse.
December 1, 2024 at 11:12 PM