Shauna
@hellinpastels.bsky.social
A nerd through and through, a Lifelong Cleveland sports fan who just happens to be trans, bi, and poly
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
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November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The Times article they link to suggests that the IOC doctor's review will not be subjected to peer-review nor does it appear to be planned for public release, but an unidentified source says, "It was a very scientific" so... ya know... case closed?
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The Times article they link to suggests that the IOC doctor's review will not be subjected to peer-review nor does it appear to be planned for public release, but an unidentified source says, "It was a very scientific" so... ya know... case closed?
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“This is a response to something entirely unrelated”
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“This is a response to something entirely unrelated”
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November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim
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they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse
Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse
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An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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It's not about Berniebros--its about the false notion that social justice and economic populism are in tension with one another. I want a better choice than picking between liberal feminism and leftist chauvinism
Whatever you think about the Platner tattoo situation- glad we can go back to the toxic Bernie bro narrative as we attempt to build a movement against fascism in this country. Eyes on the prize.
In general there are many Democratic and leftist men who feel they could have 60 Platners elected across the country if they didn't let themselves be emasculated by the woke scolds and feminists they associate with the failures of the Democratic establishment making them hesitant to let Platner go
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It's not about Berniebros--its about the false notion that social justice and economic populism are in tension with one another. I want a better choice than picking between liberal feminism and leftist chauvinism
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.
See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.
See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.
“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”
Same shit different era.
Same shit different era.
October 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.
See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.
See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.
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Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
October 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.
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Ryan Murphy shoving Christine Jorgensen in this fucking thing so she can tell Ed Gein he's autogynephellic, a debunked theory popular in conversion therapy circles, is frankly fucking bizarre and disgusting.
October 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ryan Murphy shoving Christine Jorgensen in this fucking thing so she can tell Ed Gein he's autogynephellic, a debunked theory popular in conversion therapy circles, is frankly fucking bizarre and disgusting.
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they're the ones who suck, why should i be the one to leave?
I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ...
If others want to share, I'm curious:
Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?
Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...
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If others want to share, I'm curious:
Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?
Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...
Reposts welcomed. Sigh.
If i were 22, I'd maybe just bail on america. I'm 38 is the problem and I love my life here. My house, my gardens, my dogs. This is where I built my adult existence ...
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
they're the ones who suck, why should i be the one to leave?
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This is not new to fascist movements that get a taste of power. The politics of violence and grievance cannot actually solve the problems that plague our lives so they go into crisis, cry harder, get more violent, look for scapegoats... and stage a UFC match at the White House I guess.
September 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is not new to fascist movements that get a taste of power. The politics of violence and grievance cannot actually solve the problems that plague our lives so they go into crisis, cry harder, get more violent, look for scapegoats... and stage a UFC match at the White House I guess.
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If you're trans, you're trans. Live your life and get the most out of it. It's going to be hard no matter what. There's no reason to be proactive about limiting yourself or making it harder. Seize your own happiness, tranny! Nobody else is going to seize it for you!
December 11, 2024 at 7:38 AM
If you're trans, you're trans. Live your life and get the most out of it. It's going to be hard no matter what. There's no reason to be proactive about limiting yourself or making it harder. Seize your own happiness, tranny! Nobody else is going to seize it for you!
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My conspiracy theory is that the violent people on the right were hired by ICE this year and that's why their recorded criminal violence has dropped.
This also just seems like a statistical fluke? 2025 isn't even over yet. It's weird to publish an article about a "trend" that applies to 6 months out of the last three decades.
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My conspiracy theory is that the violent people on the right were hired by ICE this year and that's why their recorded criminal violence has dropped.
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This is such horrendous science communication from the Guardian I almost don’t know where to start. The appropriate takeaway from this is that the SRY gene is a poor proxy variable in isolation. It isn’t that there were 50-60 people who were secretly “biologically male”
September 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This is such horrendous science communication from the Guardian I almost don’t know where to start. The appropriate takeaway from this is that the SRY gene is a poor proxy variable in isolation. It isn’t that there were 50-60 people who were secretly “biologically male”
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Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
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As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
September 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
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It really needs to be said how these “concerns” were literally the default compromise position by every major sporting body since 2015 and anyone arguing other is just looking for further restrictions. And politicians playing into that rhetoric are why the current moment is perilous for us.
"Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book"
And, there it is.
ttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966
And, there it is.
ttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966
Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book
The Trump campaign attacked Harris over her positions on transgender rights. She says they were misconstrued.
www.politico.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It really needs to be said how these “concerns” were literally the default compromise position by every major sporting body since 2015 and anyone arguing other is just looking for further restrictions. And politicians playing into that rhetoric are why the current moment is perilous for us.