Violacea
@erythrophyte.bsky.social
Tired trans trainwreck and ttrpg enthusiast
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I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
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When disabled activists say that our disability doesn't exist just in our bodyminds but in society's failure to accomodate them, we aren't just describing how we think disability works, we are making a demand for a world that treats people better.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
When disabled activists say that our disability doesn't exist just in our bodyminds but in society's failure to accomodate them, we aren't just describing how we think disability works, we are making a demand for a world that treats people better.
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Swarnim is an Indian trans woman who has recently experienced transphobic workplace harassment and is dealing with health issues plus eviction. She's offering coding classes that she hopes will interest women and especially queer people. Boost if you can. docs.google.com/forms/d/1vR8...
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Hi, I am Swarnim! I am a trans woman and a software engineer living in India. I am very passionate about programming and even more passionate about making tech more accessible to a diverse set of peop...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Swarnim is an Indian trans woman who has recently experienced transphobic workplace harassment and is dealing with health issues plus eviction. She's offering coding classes that she hopes will interest women and especially queer people. Boost if you can. docs.google.com/forms/d/1vR8...
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Gramsci Monsters Quote Day
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Gramsci Monsters Quote Day
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the solution to deep loneliness and depression is, unfortunately, to push through and live your life. the more present you are in the world, the more world you have to be present in. my fears are often in indicator to lean into what im so afraid of otherwise i will isolate myself even further
November 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
the solution to deep loneliness and depression is, unfortunately, to push through and live your life. the more present you are in the world, the more world you have to be present in. my fears are often in indicator to lean into what im so afraid of otherwise i will isolate myself even further
genuinely, the best thing for my body image here has been exposure to a huge variety of people being shamelessly into bodies like mine.
fat thirsting has done more for the improvement of my body image than labeling fat bodies as a "fetish"
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
genuinely, the best thing for my body image here has been exposure to a huge variety of people being shamelessly into bodies like mine.
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Total nuclear disarmament NOW, forcibly reform army and police into a National Civic Works Corps and completely overhaul American infrastructure, all 1 percenters imprisoned for the crime of hoarding and their assets seized, landlords stripped of their property, prison otherwise abolished
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Total nuclear disarmament NOW, forcibly reform army and police into a National Civic Works Corps and completely overhaul American infrastructure, all 1 percenters imprisoned for the crime of hoarding and their assets seized, landlords stripped of their property, prison otherwise abolished
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
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sky is doing very pretty things tonight
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
sky is doing very pretty things tonight
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If you’re too sick to get out of bed carving clay with a little knife is very fulfilling. (5”x7”)
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you’re too sick to get out of bed carving clay with a little knife is very fulfilling. (5”x7”)
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look at this thing. it's bold. it's unsettling. it's not halakhically valid at all. and yet it compels me.
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
look at this thing. it's bold. it's unsettling. it's not halakhically valid at all. and yet it compels me.
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@chthisar.gunmetolymp.us doing surveillance on bad mouses for Mother
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
@chthisar.gunmetolymp.us doing surveillance on bad mouses for Mother
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I think there is an idea on here that Access to Medical Transition is the most radical/root Material Demand, which is why there is a certain anger when that framing gets questioned. But I believe that while obviously access to medical transition is part of the agenda it's far from the most important
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I think there is an idea on here that Access to Medical Transition is the most radical/root Material Demand, which is why there is a certain anger when that framing gets questioned. But I believe that while obviously access to medical transition is part of the agenda it's far from the most important
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here to pay respects on Godzilla day
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
here to pay respects on Godzilla day
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Starting to think that a lot of people’s politics out of the beltway are indiscernible from wish casting fantasy because they live largely insular lives disconnected from reality
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Starting to think that a lot of people’s politics out of the beltway are indiscernible from wish casting fantasy because they live largely insular lives disconnected from reality
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Worth a reminder. Founding elites of the u.s. were utterly rancid, but their major fear was British rule collapsing to popular revolt they couldn't control. The British empire's rulers were not seriously anti-slavery — they'd invade Haiti to reimpose it at gunpoint in the 1790s — or pro-indigenous.
In the 1760s-1770s, the British Empire's hold on its American colonies was rocked by revolts and riots, many against slavery and press gangs, many multiracial and radical.
The gentry "founding fathers" were terrified, so they sought to co-opt "independence" in a way that preserved their power...
The gentry "founding fathers" were terrified, so they sought to co-opt "independence" in a way that preserved their power...
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Worth a reminder. Founding elites of the u.s. were utterly rancid, but their major fear was British rule collapsing to popular revolt they couldn't control. The British empire's rulers were not seriously anti-slavery — they'd invade Haiti to reimpose it at gunpoint in the 1790s — or pro-indigenous.
I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Biggest Arctic Carbon Sink Is Increasingly Unstable
Scientists at the top of the world are racing to uncover how rapidly the Arctic’s permafrost is thawing.
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Appealing to authority as a replacement for critical judgment, epistemological caution, and moral humility is by far the norm in a vast amount of social justice discourse and this shows in how rigid and rote most of that discourse is
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Appealing to authority as a replacement for critical judgment, epistemological caution, and moral humility is by far the norm in a vast amount of social justice discourse and this shows in how rigid and rote most of that discourse is
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People want identity shortcuts for "who is worth listening to" and "which ideas are correct" and I implore you all to abandon that impulse, because that's not the world we live in.
Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.
Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
People want identity shortcuts for "who is worth listening to" and "which ideas are correct" and I implore you all to abandon that impulse, because that's not the world we live in.
Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.
Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.
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What gets me about the AI thing is that if you say anything against it people always jump to "new technology always has its detractors" and completely ignore you going "I have seen the material outputs of this technology and it mostly seems to be pollution and suicides"
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What gets me about the AI thing is that if you say anything against it people always jump to "new technology always has its detractors" and completely ignore you going "I have seen the material outputs of this technology and it mostly seems to be pollution and suicides"
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i hate how people and even literature sometimes reduces the concept of an unreliable narrator to 'the book lying to you', not 'you are viewing the world through the eyes of someone who does not see an absolute truth'
October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
i hate how people and even literature sometimes reduces the concept of an unreliable narrator to 'the book lying to you', not 'you are viewing the world through the eyes of someone who does not see an absolute truth'
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"It’s important to figure out how to weave ourselves into the ecosystems that we are a part of in a way that doesn’t destroy ourselves and in a way that doesn’t destroy the other living things that we are in network with." truthout.org/audio/resist...
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"It’s important to figure out how to weave ourselves into the ecosystems that we are a part of in a way that doesn’t destroy ourselves and in a way that doesn’t destroy the other living things that we are in network with." truthout.org/audio/resist...
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You can have some dignity or you can clutch the last dusty rags of your existence with scabby, trembling fingers and pretend it isn't happening.
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You can have some dignity or you can clutch the last dusty rags of your existence with scabby, trembling fingers and pretend it isn't happening.
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You will die. Everyone you know will die. The capitalist overlords will die. Their bodies will fail, just like ours. It is not a "fixable" phenomenon.
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You will die. Everyone you know will die. The capitalist overlords will die. Their bodies will fail, just like ours. It is not a "fixable" phenomenon.
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Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.