BexM
@bexm.bsky.social
Confused, earnest, tired, trans. They/she. ייִדיש לערנער
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BexM
@bexm.bsky.social
· Mar 20
11 years! Feels like to mark the occasion I should add one more item to the thread and it’s going to be:
Prayer for Transformation by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
“Cursed be the one who announced to my father:
‘It’s a boy!…’”
opensiddur.org/prayers/civi...
Prayer for Transformation by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
“Cursed be the one who announced to my father:
‘It’s a boy!…’”
opensiddur.org/prayers/civi...
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fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
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Holiday sale at The Precious Babushka! All items 25-50% off. Buy now for delivery in time for the holidays!
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Holiday sale at The Precious Babushka! All items 25-50% off. Buy now for delivery in time for the holidays!
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IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
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Built my current PC Jan 2024, memory went from $104 to out of stock at $435
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Built my current PC Jan 2024, memory went from $104 to out of stock at $435
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Mayor Olivia Chow is introducing fare capping for TTC riders in her upcoming budget. Instead of having to decide whether it makes sense to buy a monthly pass in advance, rides will automatically be free after 47 trips starting next Sept.
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Mayor Olivia Chow is introducing fare capping for TTC riders in her upcoming budget. Instead of having to decide whether it makes sense to buy a monthly pass in advance, rides will automatically be free after 47 trips starting next Sept.
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"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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On Dec. 8, 1941, the RCMP impounded 1,200 fishing boats owned by Japanese-Canadians.
Within a few months, Japanese-Canadians were sent to internment camps. More than 21,000 people were uprooted.
This is the story of Canada's Japanese Internment.
📸 LAC C-057250
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Within a few months, Japanese-Canadians were sent to internment camps. More than 21,000 people were uprooted.
This is the story of Canada's Japanese Internment.
📸 LAC C-057250
🧵 1/12
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On Dec. 8, 1941, the RCMP impounded 1,200 fishing boats owned by Japanese-Canadians.
Within a few months, Japanese-Canadians were sent to internment camps. More than 21,000 people were uprooted.
This is the story of Canada's Japanese Internment.
📸 LAC C-057250
🧵 1/12
Within a few months, Japanese-Canadians were sent to internment camps. More than 21,000 people were uprooted.
This is the story of Canada's Japanese Internment.
📸 LAC C-057250
🧵 1/12
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My hot comic take is all wfh comic shit should be paid a salary, every other week, like everyone else at the publishing company. I’m tired of hearing about our colleagues crowdfunding funerals and healthcare.
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My hot comic take is all wfh comic shit should be paid a salary, every other week, like everyone else at the publishing company. I’m tired of hearing about our colleagues crowdfunding funerals and healthcare.
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a very upsetting story about forced conversion therapy in GA prisons for a provably necessary medical treatment that became so bad that they had to resume treatment in accordance with medical guidelines, endocrinology, etc.
unfortunately, this reminds me of experimentation in WWII.
unfortunately, this reminds me of experimentation in WWII.
In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
a very upsetting story about forced conversion therapy in GA prisons for a provably necessary medical treatment that became so bad that they had to resume treatment in accordance with medical guidelines, endocrinology, etc.
unfortunately, this reminds me of experimentation in WWII.
unfortunately, this reminds me of experimentation in WWII.
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Okay, this is a fascinating case of social media priming.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Okay, this is a fascinating case of social media priming.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
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I wanted to tell a joke about Rachel, but someone said I had to tell one about Leah first
I had a joke about Jacob/Yisrael, but I really wrestled with posting it
I have a joke about Narcissus, but I’d be seriously dating myself
December 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I wanted to tell a joke about Rachel, but someone said I had to tell one about Leah first
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I had a joke about Naomi and Ruth, but I'm not sure you'll follow me
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I had a joke about Naomi and Ruth, but I'm not sure you'll follow me
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I had a joke about Jacob/Yisrael, but I really wrestled with posting it
I have a joke about Narcissus, but I’d be seriously dating myself
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I had a joke about Jacob/Yisrael, but I really wrestled with posting it
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another seasonal favorite. Happy upcoming Hanukkah to all who celebrate!
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
another seasonal favorite. Happy upcoming Hanukkah to all who celebrate!
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capybara pattern
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
capybara pattern
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This week I share an anniversary with thousands of strangers. My mom died of Covid five yrs ago today; hers was one of 9,744 such deaths that week. That we know of.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
When Our Grief Turns to Despair - Dame Magazine
It’s been a year since I wrote about my bottomless, fathomless, American grief, about my inability to give it shape even as I tried to shape it with words. We’d lost about 220,000 Americans to COVID-1...
www.damemagazine.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This week I share an anniversary with thousands of strangers. My mom died of Covid five yrs ago today; hers was one of 9,744 such deaths that week. That we know of.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
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It is December which means that it is once again time to share that the Yiddish word for marshmallow is “shney-kishele,” literally LITTLE SNOW PILLOW
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It is December which means that it is once again time to share that the Yiddish word for marshmallow is “shney-kishele,” literally LITTLE SNOW PILLOW
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Wow it’s almost like the pseudoscience founded by a quack in the 19h century (who claimed that a ghost taught him how to manipulate bones) might have a lot in common with the brainworms-and-raw milk crowd.
How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Wow it’s almost like the pseudoscience founded by a quack in the 19h century (who claimed that a ghost taught him how to manipulate bones) might have a lot in common with the brainworms-and-raw milk crowd.
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It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
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Facing an unsteady economic climate and years of ever-changing shopping trends, owners of a local mall have chosen to rebrand the facility as a "real-life Metroidvania."
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Facing an unsteady economic climate and years of ever-changing shopping trends, owners of a local mall have chosen to rebrand the facility as a "real-life Metroidvania."
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
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Chi-Young Lee, 29, swore to her friends that she was going to stop caring what other people thought of her, speak up for herself unapologetically and “decentre men”, whatever that means.
“In my villain era” says autistic woman who cries at first sign of conflict
An autistic woman who claims she has entered her badass, no-nonsense "villain era" actually bursts into tears at the first indication someone is less than pleased with her, according to sources.…
thedailytism.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chi-Young Lee, 29, swore to her friends that she was going to stop caring what other people thought of her, speak up for herself unapologetically and “decentre men”, whatever that means.