Gem🏳️⚧️
@gembloodstone.bsky.social
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Ashkenazi Anti-Zionist
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Still thinking about the the “two” Super Bowl halftime shows. My final takeaway before I shut up about this is that there is so much value in the concept of joy as resistance. Conservatives will never win by being perpetually aggrieved losers. Be happy, love, and have fun where you can. We will win
February 10, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Still thinking about the the “two” Super Bowl halftime shows. My final takeaway before I shut up about this is that there is so much value in the concept of joy as resistance. Conservatives will never win by being perpetually aggrieved losers. Be happy, love, and have fun where you can. We will win
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Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
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DinoCon is more mindful of attendees’ safety than Harvard or MIT or Yale or Stanford (etc.) are of their students’ safety
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
February 10, 2026 at 1:50 AM
DinoCon is more mindful of attendees’ safety than Harvard or MIT or Yale or Stanford (etc.) are of their students’ safety
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
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NEW STUDY!
@juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!
@juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!
Hi all, I'm leading a study! We're looking to understand transfem experiences searching for information related to transitioning online, setting transition-related goals, and making decisions based on the information acquired in these searches.
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
NEW STUDY!
@juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!
@juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!
There's some new GM in ffxiv and now me and all of my friends keep getting suspended for relatively minor offenses. I really don't even want to play anymore : /
February 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM
There's some new GM in ffxiv and now me and all of my friends keep getting suspended for relatively minor offenses. I really don't even want to play anymore : /
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Dude, I'm just setting up a private mumble server on my thinkcentre, fuck this.
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Dude, I'm just setting up a private mumble server on my thinkcentre, fuck this.
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Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.
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The hearth isn't real. The logs are plastic. Someone died for this. They gave her a blanket that made her sick. They put her under something. I can't ask her what to do.
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
The hearth isn't real. The logs are plastic. Someone died for this. They gave her a blanket that made her sick. They put her under something. I can't ask her what to do.
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Free to stay moving. Free to act like we belong there. Free from structure. Free from history. Free from understanding. Free from warmth
February 10, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Free to stay moving. Free to act like we belong there. Free from structure. Free from history. Free from understanding. Free from warmth
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I grew up into someone with agency. I drive from parking lot to parking lot in the dark. I see my friends. We go to parking lots. We drive past data centers and paramilitaries and fence after fence after fence. Free to watch the world blossom with smoke and bear our gray fruit
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 AM
I grew up into someone with agency. I drive from parking lot to parking lot in the dark. I see my friends. We go to parking lots. We drive past data centers and paramilitaries and fence after fence after fence. Free to watch the world blossom with smoke and bear our gray fruit
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I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
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As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify
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this was funnier in my head
November 20, 2024 at 4:23 AM
this was funnier in my head
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Just as a reminder don’t do this for like a dozen reasons but also the fact they had a huge leak of peoples IDs already a few months ago.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Just as a reminder don’t do this for like a dozen reasons but also the fact they had a huge leak of peoples IDs already a few months ago.
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I was thinking how when Scott Adams was about to go and rightwingers were saying “you have no idea what impact it’s going to have when Scott Adams dies, he was loved by millions” and then he just died and nothing happened. These ghouls just disappear when they stop talking
Remember when Charlie Kirk got shot and the right was like "THIS IS CIVIL WAR!" and three weeks later he was completely forgotten about? That's going to be most all the rest of these assholes too
February 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I was thinking how when Scott Adams was about to go and rightwingers were saying “you have no idea what impact it’s going to have when Scott Adams dies, he was loved by millions” and then he just died and nothing happened. These ghouls just disappear when they stop talking
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I get the spirit but I feel like anyone in public school at the time of "Born This Way" knows at least half a dozen guys who literally came out because of Lady Gaga. Living through the period of "Born This Way" (2011) -> Obergefell (2015) was a whirl wind in how public opinion can radically change.
People who think Bad Bunny did a lot for immigrants because of the super bowl are the same people who think Lady Gaga solved homophobia and transphobia because she said "no matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgender life" in her show in 2017
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
I get the spirit but I feel like anyone in public school at the time of "Born This Way" knows at least half a dozen guys who literally came out because of Lady Gaga. Living through the period of "Born This Way" (2011) -> Obergefell (2015) was a whirl wind in how public opinion can radically change.
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The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
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It’s also why their most brazen acts of activism is just empty consumerism.
Buy this, watch that. Anything but actually doing something
Buy this, watch that. Anything but actually doing something
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 AM
It’s also why their most brazen acts of activism is just empty consumerism.
Buy this, watch that. Anything but actually doing something
Buy this, watch that. Anything but actually doing something
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Conservatism is an ideology about forgoing any relationship or belief for a zero-sum transactional view of the world.
They will always say these things, but always expect others to do the doing because they truly cannot imagine sacrificing something for a project beyond their own selfishness.
They will always say these things, but always expect others to do the doing because they truly cannot imagine sacrificing something for a project beyond their own selfishness.
Remember when Charlie Kirk got shot and the right was like "THIS IS CIVIL WAR!" and three weeks later he was completely forgotten about? That's going to be most all the rest of these assholes too
February 10, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Conservatism is an ideology about forgoing any relationship or belief for a zero-sum transactional view of the world.
They will always say these things, but always expect others to do the doing because they truly cannot imagine sacrificing something for a project beyond their own selfishness.
They will always say these things, but always expect others to do the doing because they truly cannot imagine sacrificing something for a project beyond their own selfishness.
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Siri, what happens when you fire all the Black and Brown smart people from newsrooms?
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Siri, what happens when you fire all the Black and Brown smart people from newsrooms?
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I dont think any Dem who votes to give ICE a dollar should ever get a single vote again tbh
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I dont think any Dem who votes to give ICE a dollar should ever get a single vote again tbh
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do conservatives think tv is real?
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 AM
do conservatives think tv is real?
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After 35 years, Disney gay days has been canceled due to lack of support and loss of funding. Incredibly bleak stuff.
www.advocate.com/news/gay-day...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-day...
Gay Days Orlando canceled, citing sponsor losses and mounting pressures on LGBTQ+ gatherings
It was supposed to be the event's 35th anniversary in June.
www.advocate.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:58 AM
After 35 years, Disney gay days has been canceled due to lack of support and loss of funding. Incredibly bleak stuff.
www.advocate.com/news/gay-day...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-day...