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Jax Meyer
@jaxmeyer.bsky.social
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Nonbinary AuDHDer who writes books and screenplays that people tend to like. 2021 Nicholl QF. WGF VWP alum. PreWGA. Marine vet.
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daviddaniel.bsky.social
ICYMI: A teenage girl says he sexually assaulted her for five years, beginning when she was SEVEN YEARS OLD.

His sentence, under a plea deal: 180 days in jail, 200 hours of community service, and eight years probation. He does NOT have to register as a sex offender.

(h/t @maryscottoconnor.com)
Former BYU baseball starter sentenced for sexually assaulting young girl for 5 years - East Idaho News
ST. ANTHONY — Just hours after her first day of high school, a 15-year-old girl sat in a Fremont County courtroom and told a full gallery of people, both known to her and not, about her life from the ...
www.eastidahonews.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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sesmyth.bsky.social
Look what’s on pre-order! Two angsty sapphics go on vacation with their mothers. Releases 9/13/2025!

a.co/d/5l5ncaK

#sapphicfiction
July 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
So excited to have started Writing Academy 2! I am a writer who needs community to fully enjoy the writing process. Creativity is collaborative for me. It’s why I miss talking to my screenwriters friends like @anthonypittore.me and @diffwashere.bsky.social. Collaboration is invigorating!
September 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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thelesbianreview.com
Readers expect certain tropes… but should authors always deliver?

K Aten, Cathy Pegau, Edale Lane & Ana K Wrenn discuss breaking molds.

Sept 27 | Online
#QueerReads #Lesfic #BookEvent
Get your tickets thelesbianreview.com/nice-genres-...
@AnaKWrenn1

@CathyPegau

@EdaleLane
@katenauthor
September 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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writingknighting.bsky.social
This is entirely down to the influence of the LGB Alliance. One of their current lobby campaigns is to get government bodies and businesses to exclusively use the acronym LGB.
emiliab.bsky.social EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · Sep 7
The explicit distinction between LGB and Trans is purely designed to exclude, it basically suggests that sexual orientation does not apply to trans people. Notice the complete absence of precise crime statistics
September 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
it's like, when did Star Wars become all political and anti-fascist? 1977
June 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
Part if the reason I don’t use Bluesky is because I forget it exists. The other is because I followed accounts I thought I ‘should’ but that create a negative timeline.

The ‘shoulds’ are so insidious in my life.

Time to clean up Bluesky so I see things that inspire me.
September 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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ashlazer.bsky.social
Lights. Camera. RADNESS—

For your consideration, an elite lineup of sports-centered scripts—from BIOPICS to horror—in a rad new showcase called THE BALLERS LIST. World premieres, Emmy winners & hot new writers.

Like & share to boost human voices. #scriptsky #ballerslist2025

Marquee preview & 🔗👇🏻
May 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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danximenes.bsky.social
This and
A series of tumblrs post by user 'skaldish': "Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances. skaldish Follow I'm pretty quiet about the fact I'm a transman usually, but holy shitl need to tell you about the culture shock I'm going through because it's blindsiding me. There's a huge sense of social isolation that comes with being perceived as male, because now people are subconsciously treating me as a potential predator. All strangers, no matter their gender, keep their guard up around me. It made me realize that there is no inherent camaraderie in male socialization as there is in female socialization-unless, of course, it's in very specific environments. And the fact I don't amnbiently experience this mutual kinship in basic exchanges anymore is an insanely lonely feeling. You know how badly this would have fucked my mind up if I had grown up with this? It is 4:30am and I'm mourning the loss of a privilege I didn't even know I had. skaldish Anyway, I'm going to figure out how to navigate this. Don't know how yet, but I'm gonna." Quote Repost of user 'azaloset' by 'Skaldish': "If you figure it out, can you share your insights? This is a fundamental as to why im in the closet" Answer: "Absolutely, because it's an extremely sticky issue. Frankly, this is something I would've never understood without living the experience. It's now blatantly clear to me that most cis men probably experience chronic emotional malnutrition. They're deprived of social connection just enough for it to seriously fuck with their psyches, but not enough for them to realize that it's happening and what's causing it. It's like they're starving, but don't know this because they've always been served 3 meals...except those meals have never been big enough. This deprivation comes from all sides of aisle, by the way. In the case of women: When I'm out in public and interact with women, all of them come off as incredibly aloof, cold, and mirthless. I have never experienced this before even though I know exactly what this composure is—the armor that keeps away creepy-ass men. As someone who used to wear it myself, I know this armor is 100% impersonal. Nobody likes wearing it, and I can say with absolute certainty that women would dump the armor in favor of unconditional companionship with men if doing this didn't run the risk of actual assault. (Trust me when I say women aren't just being needlessly guarded.) (cont.) Continuation of the post on the previous image: "But I only have a complete understanding of this context because I've experienced female socialization. If I hadn't, I would've thought this coldness was a conspiracy against me devised by roughly half of the human population. Even now, with all that I know about navigating the world as a woman, I'm failing to convince my monkey-brain that this armor isn't social rejection. And as for male socialization? Again, it seems taboo for a man to be platonically intimate with men for reasons I have yet to fully understand, but I think it boils down to a) the fact society teaches boys that it's not okay to be soft with each other, and b) garden-variety homophobia. Our media only shows men being intimate with one another when they're teamed up against a dire situation, and I'd bet real money it's a huge reason why men gravitate toward activities that simulate being teamed up against an opposing force. But men are not machines of war. Yes, testosterone absolutely gives you Dumb Bastard Brain, but that just makes you want to skateboard a wagon down a hill or duct-tape your friend to the wall, not kill someone. The human species looks so much colder standing from this side. I can see how men might convince themselves that their feelings of emotional desperation is personal weakness as opposed to a symptom they're all experiencing from White Imperialism. Because this human connection, this frith, is as essential for our wellbeing as water is. So sick. How sick. I want to destroy this garbage. #this is a certain perspective you gain from having crossed the gender barrier"
May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
According to litigators, on Tuesday, at one detention center in Texas, ICE gathered together 1 Vietnamese, 1 Lao, and 4 other people in detention and ordered them to sign paperwork agreeing to be sent to Libya.

All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
The reports with respect to the imminent removal to Libya show, inter alia, Philippine, Vietnamese and Laotian class members being set for removal without any reasonable fear screening, let alone a fifteen-day window to file a motion to reopen with the immigration court to contest any negative reasonable fear determination. See Exhibits B, C, D. In one reported case, "[U.S. Immigration and Customs Officers (ICE)] officers at the South Texas Detention Facility gathered 1 Vietnamese detainee, along with 5 others (including 1 from Laos) into a room and told them that they needed to sign a document agreeing to be deported to Libya. When they all refused, they were each put in a separate room and cuffed in (basically, solitary) in order to get them to sign it." Exhibit B.
May 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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barbarawinkes.bsky.social
My favorite kind of sapphic romance is when it's taking place against a backdrop of mystery and suspense, a case to be solved, a villain to hunt. If you're like me...definitely check out the top 100 of LGBTQ mystery & suspense, the Bookfinder on I Heart SapphFic, and (tbc)
May 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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johncusack.bsky.social
Hey Elon mush ⬇️
ledbydonkeys.org Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · May 7
TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
All respiratory viral illnesses drive immunothrombosis and likely increase rates of heart attacks and strokes etc, to varying degrees. bsky.app/profile/tosh...
toshiakima.bsky.social Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Apr 20
The flu vax reduces heart attack rates because all respiratory viruses drive immunothrombosis in the coronary arteries. Don't let anyone tell you that catching colds at work is an acceptable occupational hazard or good for you. That's like saying coal miners' lung is acceptable.
Interferons prime the endothelium for toll-like receptor–mediated thrombin generation
Respiratory infection is associated with microvascular thrombus formation and marked elevation in cytokine levels. The role of cytokines elaborated by the pulmonary epithelium in thrombotic responses ...
www.jthjournal.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
I absolutely adore Becky Chambers' storytelling. I don't know why, because most of the time, almost nothing happens, yet I can't get enough! It's as if the storytelling is so subtle my autistic brain gives up trying to explain and just enjoys these slices of life.

Any similar authors to try?
May 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
Working late with a fast-approaching bedtime so of course I remember social media exists.

Recent audiobooks are all Clare Lydon. Don't Marry Me at Christmas, It Started With a Kiss, and Change of Heart. They were all excellent, quick listens. #sapphiclit #sapphicbooks (Do hashtags work here? lol)
May 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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xkcd.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
The Consolations of Vengeance 101
April 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
#lesficfri I don’t have a snippet to share, just an announcement.

I am officially working on the sequel to Rising From Ash!

Not rushing this because these are characters that people (and I) love. There will be realistic and challenging issues that I need time to get right. But it’s happening!
April 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
Check out "Montreux '77 (Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland / July 15, 1977)" by Count Basie

I missed so much amazing music being born in 78! At least I have access to these recordings.

If I had to choose just one big band to listen to forever it would be Count Basie.
April 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
@heynowdana.com I heard literally the last 2 seconds of Nilufer Yanya this morning and had to look her up. Now I’m listening to Method Actor and digging it.

Have you made lists of artists to check out or do I need to scour the playlist history on the station site?
March 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
@heynowdana.com diva cup!! 💀🤭😂
January 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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ramiismail.com
A reminder as Musk-bots, Trump-bots, and other bots start hitting Bluesky: blocking users removes their replies from your posts entirely.

The correct way of handlin antagonizing parties is to block. Not reply. Not dunk. Not mute. Block. It stops their reach and effectiveness right there.
January 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back.

I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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anyablaney.bsky.social
Someone, please take his typewriter! #scriptsky
November 21, 2024 at 9:45 PM
jaxmeyer.bsky.social
Today is my birthday. So far I’ve dropped the kid off at school, got a crown seated at the dentist, and am now waiting in preop for my wife to complete preop for two cervical disk replacements.
November 15, 2024 at 8:49 PM