Gin Valentine
@chekhovsgundam.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ Aspiring kitchen witch, true trans soul redhead, permanent teacher's pet
She/her. Australian, but a woman once insisted I had an English accent for some reason.
She/her. Australian, but a woman once insisted I had an English accent for some reason.
I hope that, some day, I can experience an intimacy that is free from coercion. I'm still waiting for that.
I know trans women are women because if you talk to most of us about our sexual history you'll hear about times we were coerced into sex we didn't want.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I hope that, some day, I can experience an intimacy that is free from coercion. I'm still waiting for that.
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Fascinating watching Cloudflare go down this morning, taking half of the internet with it. People have no idea how fragile and vulnerable the world's IT nervous system really is.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fascinating watching Cloudflare go down this morning, taking half of the internet with it. People have no idea how fragile and vulnerable the world's IT nervous system really is.
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that’s an unfortunate Google snippet
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
that’s an unfortunate Google snippet
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
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I know trans women are women because if you talk to most of us about our sexual history you'll hear about times we were coerced into sex we didn't want.
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I know trans women are women because if you talk to most of us about our sexual history you'll hear about times we were coerced into sex we didn't want.
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
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Revealing stuff about how Musk has boosted the accounts of far-right UK politicians and candidates while (mostly) vanishing left-wing UK voices. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Revealing stuff about how Musk has boosted the accounts of far-right UK politicians and candidates while (mostly) vanishing left-wing UK voices. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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i get it girl... we all feel this way for a couple months right at the beginning,
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
i get it girl... we all feel this way for a couple months right at the beginning,
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Lord help me if this bubble ends up killing Oracle it might have all been for something
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Lord help me if this bubble ends up killing Oracle it might have all been for something
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CPTSD stands for Cutie Pie/Too Silly Disorder
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
CPTSD stands for Cutie Pie/Too Silly Disorder
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Cost-saving? COST-SAVING?? The "cost" is that we pay those people to do the science that gives us wifi, cancer treatments, vaccines, and drought resistant crops! You don't get those outcomes WITHOUT paying people for them! It's not "cost-saving", it's "ADVANCEMENT & BREAKTHROUGH REDUCING", you FUCKS
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Cost-saving? COST-SAVING?? The "cost" is that we pay those people to do the science that gives us wifi, cancer treatments, vaccines, and drought resistant crops! You don't get those outcomes WITHOUT paying people for them! It's not "cost-saving", it's "ADVANCEMENT & BREAKTHROUGH REDUCING", you FUCKS
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Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women
Women in prison are being used as weapons in a broader campaign of transphobia. It is grotesque political theatre.
womensagenda.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
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You know how I say major corporations are built on an ideology of control as being more important than profit? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT to help him find a way out of paying Subnautica 2 devs their bonuses because he wanted to avoid the 'professional embarrassment' of being seen as a 'pushover'
A pre-trial brief filed by former Unknown Worlds bosses says Krafton CEO Changham Kim was worried about losing his job for overpaying for the studio.
www.pcgamer.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
You know how I say major corporations are built on an ideology of control as being more important than profit? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
I've fought to keep going through so much in the last 18 months or so. All I want is to be with my kid – I don't ask for a lot, and in fact I have sacrificed practically everything in service of that humble goal.
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I've fought to keep going through so much in the last 18 months or so. All I want is to be with my kid – I don't ask for a lot, and in fact I have sacrificed practically everything in service of that humble goal.
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my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
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you just know all these dipshits wrote the absolute corniest sexts
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
you just know all these dipshits wrote the absolute corniest sexts
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I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
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one day i’d love for you to realize. ❤️
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
one day i’d love for you to realize. ❤️
Take my mind off things, pls tag yourself
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Take my mind off things, pls tag yourself
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maybe sit this one out, bud
Ryan Lizza appears to be accusing Olivia Nuzzi of an affair with Mark Sanford when she was covering HIM in 2020? 🤦🏼♂️https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
maybe sit this one out, bud
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As part of this class action I have skin in this game, and let me tell you: I hope epoch-definingly terrible things happen to the people in this industry
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 3:09 AM
As part of this class action I have skin in this game, and let me tell you: I hope epoch-definingly terrible things happen to the people in this industry
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the headline should be that he plans to CONTINUE TEACHING ffs
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links
Former treasury secretary steps away to ‘rebuild trust’ after severe backlash but will continue teaching Harvard classes
The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed email exchanges between Summers and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who called himself Summers’ “wing man”.
Politico reported on Monday that Summers, a former treasury secretary, expressed deep regret for past messages with Epstein. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
the headline should be that he plans to CONTINUE TEACHING ffs
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Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere
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bluesky is like if a flash mob of 38 year olds came to post on 2009 twitter
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
bluesky is like if a flash mob of 38 year olds came to post on 2009 twitter