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Queervidual
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#GoblinLoreCrew. CW: #UnfilteredGrief is very unfiltered. Magic : The Gathering enthousiast and allround leftie. #NeuroDivergent #NoPasaran #HandsOffTransRights, also #DutchPolitics. PFP by @MagaliVilleneuve.bsky.social for MTG
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Queervidual @queervidual.bsky.social · Oct 20
Oh dear. A good pin. I’m bad at introductions. I’m Dutch, not the Pennsylvania kind. Leftist, widower at 42 due to a fatal case of depression and grief. A queer individual yet ticking a bunch of descriptive boxes. Neurodivergent with a load of lived trauma. Bad at hashtagging posts. Might dump.
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I simply cannot with this.
The r-word is a demoralizing slur that should NEVER be used as an insult. Trump did it yesterday and plenty of otherwise tolerant blue accounts jumped on board using it to describe Trump instead.
Take the pledge below to stop using the r-word. It is wholly unacceptable.
Spread the Word
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November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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mattnh.bsky.social
Het is niet alleen @nrc.nl dat nu helaas maar terecht door het stof moet.
Diverse media hebben moeite om keurig verslag te doen van feiten en context te geven. Wat gebeurt daar toch dat clicks en ophef belangrijker zijn dan gedegen journalistiek onderzoek?
julia010nl.bsky.social Julia @julia010nl.bsky.social · 1d
De redactie van @nrc.nl heeft gebrek aan journalistieke integriteit. De hoofdredacteur is daar verantwoordelijk voor. Zo stupide dat je je laat bedotten door een journalist op z’n retour die banden heeft met de VVD!
NRC moet afscheid nemen van Veldhuis en Logtenberg in de ban doen. Als signaal.
November 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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russellfernley.bsky.social
How Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s budget
Car lease scheme for people with mobility problems portrayed as ‘free’ but is funded by benefits and their own contributions
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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peterkwint.bsky.social
Dus de Telegraaf en NRC hebben zich voor het karretje laten spannen van een VVD-donateur en een - overduidelijk nogal brallerige - zelfbenoemde VVD-adviseur. Staat ze fraai.

www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/han...
Hans Wijers’ val als informateur ettert nog altijd door: wat gebeurde er precies?
Het informateurschap van Hans Wijers duurde minder dan een etmaal. Toch dreunt zijn val na in de politieke, journalistieke en zakelijke wereld. Ongeschonden is niemand. ‘Ik ben helaas suspect number o...
www.volkskrant.nl
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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eldris.thellian.com
My first ever sale starts tomorrow!! I’m hoping to earn $20 from it (well, 10 sales which is a little under)

itch.io/s/168025/bla...
A Black Friday sale graphic for a book. 50% off. Old price $3.99. New price $1.99. Exclusive Itch.io Black Friday sale 28th nov to 3rd dec. Reborn in Ash by Gabrielle Steele. “A tale beautifully told.” “The magic system was incredible” “A fast-paced epic fantasy” “Immersive, emotional, and truly enchanting.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
queervidual.bsky.social
Women want one thing*, and it’s disgusting.

*Just to survive after losing their family in a plaguecausing ashcloud, but the men of the world have different ideas.

thellian.com/reborn-in-ash/

@eldris.thellian.com
eldris.thellian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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wilcoveldhorst.bsky.social
Die 1e zin is al lulkoek van de bovenste plank. Het Duitse Rheinland en Limburg hebben dezelfde cultuur en taal. Het carnaval is hetzelfde en verschilt van dat van het Brabantse, dat meer op het Vlaamse lijkt. Keulen ligt op 60 km van Heerlen. Limburg kwam per ongeluk bij Nederland.
peterdebode.bsky.social Peter de Bode @peterdebode.bsky.social · 3d
Hoe antikoloniaal denken zichzelf in de nativistische staart bijt, ik vind dat altijd heel komisch. Het eerste is trouwens al meteen totale onzin. Zo maakt antikoloniale kritiek zichzelf totaal ongeloofwaardig.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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virginiagewin.bsky.social
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
queervidual.bsky.social
“The top 100 of live action flicks middle aged white men in America deem comedic” would be a better title.
BOOO
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
queervidual.bsky.social
True or not doesn’t really matter, though I feel that the resistance against it would have come from reactionaries rather than the climate movement.
It’s a straw man since the mitigation mentioned does not even start to compare with geoengineering in scope and risk.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d
I was not active in the climate movement in the 2000s......is this true? Which climate activists?

archive.ph/IYgEB
There’s an analogue for the moment we’re in now. Back in the early 2000s, many climate activists vocally opposed funding adaptation infrastructure—sea walls, raised streets, and other measures meant to mitigate the impacts of a changing climate. They argued that these undertakings would prove ineffective and, worse, would remove the will to decrease emissions. More than two decades later, emissions are still rising, and the cost of adapting to climate change has mounted by the billions each year. Now virtually no serious people involved in climate policy still oppose adaptation funding. It’s easy to imagine a similar scenario playing out with geoengineering, which essentially amounts to a particularly potent and large-scale tool for adaptation. The arguments that scientists still make against geoengineering follow much the same logic as those against sea walls: In the Frontiers paper, the authors wrote that geoengineering technologies offered “false hope,” and risked sapping the will to address greenhouse gas pollution. They’re right that would-be geoengineers cannot guarantee that their ideas will work or that the intended benefits will outweigh the negative side effects. The barriers to exploring the possibilities of these technologies are rising, arguably more on the right than the left. But short of just going for it, the only way to find out how helpful or dangerous geoengineering might be is to let people ask.
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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jbenmenachem.com
we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?

MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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tonaarts.bsky.social
"In totaal bleek dus driekwart van alle gecontroleerde percelen onterecht door boeren te zijn geclaimd"

Overheden: Mooi. Maar gaan we niet mee door.

Kosten verhalen op de frauderende veroorzakers??
Nee, want euhh .. Nee.

www.ftm.nl/artikelen/op...
Jagen op frauderende boeren werkt – toch stopte de opsporing van grondfraude
In een proefproject bleken boeren in drie van de vier onderzochte gevallen subsidiefraude te plegen met ‘landjepik’. Maar het project stierf een stille dood omdat het opsporen van dit gesjoemel te vee...
www.ftm.nl
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
queervidual.bsky.social
The fact companies can just assert a right to the information because their business model is selling it and call it “legitimate interest” gutted it and showed Europe doesn’t have a spine when it comes to lobbyists. Now they’d cave to unreliable technocrats again?
superglaze.bsky.social David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 10d
Europe's gutting of its privacy rules would be yet another self-defeating capitulation to Trump. Instead, Europe should be ensuring that it can break free of American Big Tech. youtu.be/T4rC8x7WBf0
Digital Surrender: Why gutting Europe's GDPR is capitulating to Trump
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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drjohamsterdam.bsky.social
Volgens Wierd Duk is De Raad van State is geen neutrale arbiter meer. Het is volgens hem een ideologisch bolwerk..
De Raad van State werd in 1940 door de bezetter afgeschaft.
Nazi Rijkscommissaris Arthur Seyss-Inquart gaf als motief dat de bestuurlijke slagkracht door de RvS werd gehinderd.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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laurenshippen.com
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*

people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*

STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO

www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
Audio Remains The Primary Mode Of Podcast Consumption, Despite Growing Video Use; 92% Say They “Listen” To Podcasts, According To Cumulus Media And Signal Hill Insights’ Podcast Download – Fall 2025 Report
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
queervidual.bsky.social
This but “Drivin’ Home”, the Whammy and whatever Mariah’s Christmas thingy is called.
thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 11d
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?

And rightfully so.

So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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golgariguy.bsky.social
This is insane. Also, it's absurd that WotC doesn't somehow officially recognize Scryfall and keeps pretending people actually use gatherer (lol). Honestly they should just give the Scryfall devs money.
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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alizaadi.bsky.social
You guessed it:

The BBC totally ignoring the young Trans+ voices who will be harmed by the government’s conversion-therapy-abuse 'pathway', yet finding space for the opinions of an anti-Trans+ ideologue who lost their case against Trans+ healthcare and a bunch of conversion-therapy practitioners
davidandress.bsky.social Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 8d
This report does not quote any trans children, or parents of trans children, or any trans people at all.

It does quote Keira Bell saying it’s “disgusting”, though.

New puberty blockers trial to begin after UK ban www.bbc.com/news/article...
New puberty blockers clinical trial to begin after UK ban
Those taking part in the study will be children under 16 who are going through puberty.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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deechtebrechtje.bsky.social
Iedereen weet dus nu dat Sijthoff gelekt heeft en daarna gelogen.

En ook dat de ombudsman van de NRC enkel de redactie uit de wind heeft gehouden, maar de belangrijkste vragen, namelijk over waarom de krant zich liet gebruiken voor een politieke agenda, niet heeft beantwoord
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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ronensteinke.bsky.social
Mit Nazis reden. (Heute vor 80 Jahren war Prozessbeginn.)
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
I am well versed in American racism and I can tell you that Greene, Mace, and Boebert have neither tired of white supremacy nor the patriarchy and are simply bitter that they are no longer young enough, white enough, attractive enough or useful enough to reap the rewards of Bondi, Noem, and Kirk.
mosheroperandi.bsky.social Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 12d
I'd be really curious if someone better versed in feminist theory wrote about what's happening on the right. Because between Greene, Mace, and Bobert, we've got this bloc forming of women who seem tired of serving a patriarchy of sex criminals. And their rhetoric is starting to lean that direction.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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janleune.bsky.social
Het wordt hoog tijd dat kranten en andere media gaan vermelden welke nevenfuncties hun medewerkers hebben (gehad) bij politieke partijen en andere belangengroeperingen.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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gertjanwrink.bsky.social
Je hebt het verprutst Karremans. Puur uit campagne-overwegingen wilde jij en @vvdonline.bsky.social spierballen tonen. En zie nu hoe de #VVD totaal niet de complexiteit van de lange Chinese armen inziet. Sowieso hadden jullie moeten vragen aan de AIVD: HÓÉ grijpen we in? www.nu.nl/economie/637...
Karremans schort ingreep bij chipfabrikant Nexperia op na ruzie met China
Demissionair minister Vincent Karremans (Economische Zaken) heeft de ingreep bij chipproducent Nexperia opgeschort, meldt de bewindsman woensdag op X.
www.nu.nl
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
*sips blood of enemies* *sets cup down* *smiles*
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM