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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️
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specifically, it's *this* girl's name

⟦ she/her ¦ they/them ⟧ 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️

pro-anarchy & anti-paranoid
creature of a lost millennium
former academic/educator
present unionized bookmerchant & podcast hobo

hey... you should wear an n95
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AIDS activists included many trans women and supporters of trans rights. Many are sadly passing away in recent years, after fighting AIDS for decades.

Even still, one activist in hospice care became animated when pleading for trans people to take to the streets and fight for our healthcare again.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
i could just rewatch The Prisoner
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
vae victis,
or, as properly translated:
sucks to suck
Kim Davis has been fighting to overturn gay marriage for years.

She’s been fighting to be absolved of denying a marriage license to a gay couple

Today she lost her last shot at an appeal.

The Supreme Court denied her request to hear her case and ordered her to pay $360,000!
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
oh shit there's a half-naked girl in my bed...

by which i mean me; i ran out of energy halfway through changing clothes & flopped over on the bed & now i'm trapped here. all the snacks & caffeine are too far away.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Reminder to not fedpost. As always, now is a good day to start using Signal

signal.org
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
signal.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Democratic senators voted to make sure that there was more money for ICE to harass your community
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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I would actually have legitimate hope for the future of the country if this scenario were to play out on C-SPAN *right now*
senators voting "no" is nice and all, but what would be ideal is senators literally throwing hands over this. a block of no voyers should beat the shit out of the yes voters right there on the floor.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
senators voting "no" is nice and all, but what would be ideal is senators literally throwing hands over this. a block of no voyers should beat the shit out of the yes voters right there on the floor.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
again, his office phone had no after-hours voicemail

pathetic worm of a man
Dick Durbin voting for this isn't too shocking, he's a squishy establishment-type who's retiring next year after all.

Good news is that all three major candidates running to replace him (Raja, Stratton, & Robin Kelly) all put out statements opposing it. It's that bad even Raja opposes it!
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i was at least able to leave a message with tammy duckworth's office

dick durbin is a fucking coward
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
three unrelated customers have been asking about The King in Yellow today & it takes all the strength i have not to respond with "have you seen The Yellow Sign?"
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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my transition goal is Girl Who is Also Hellsing Alucard, Somehow
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I’ve said Chuck Schumer is a spineless coward in the pocket of the billionaires at best and a collaborator at worst. That piece of shit is a collaborator.

Primary
Every
Democrat
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
meeting a cis woman as tall as i am completely fries my brain; i am never prepared for this
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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more people need to read Cyclonopedia.
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
few things are more embarrassing than hearing a grown adult talk about what ai superintelligence will definitely do when it is for real invented just a little ways from now

dude... you are regularintelligent *at best*
how the fuck would you know?
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
fleetwood mac: "you can go your own waaaaaay~"

every generation: *goes directly toward rumours*
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
oh. oh no. no no no. nuh-uh. no.
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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This is exacerbated by Bluesky refusing to publish guidelines as to what should be considered “adult.”

We literally just have to infer what’s ok or not. But we do know that topless men is ok, but clothed women are sexual.
automated content moderation is impossible to get right or even do reasonably well.

women *especially* get the worst of this when it comes to automated image analysis because of the ways those systems are implicitly biased to associate female bodies with sex basically any time a curve can be seen.
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
like any woman, i always deeply appreciate kamen rider faiz merch
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM