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Lady Aranea
@ladyaranea.bsky.social
I'm a spider-girl VTuber/Vsona, and social justice advocate! I stream video games, sing, and infodump about politics, emotional health, and other stuff I'm interested in. Check me out at https://linktr.ee/l4dyaranea!

#MonsterGirl #Twitch #ENVtuber #Vsona
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Who's got 8 limbs and a day job? Me. Gonna be working retail as of tomorrow. Streams delayed until I figure out what my new schedule is. Love you and miss you, hatchlings. Sleep tight.
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"Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses...

which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false"
Folf on X: "Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses... which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false" / X
Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses... which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false
x.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
If you support Labour, you support Nazis.
New School Guidance announces:

Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.

Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The UK is putting trans kids through conversion therapy.
So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision.

Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.
In Chapter 12, Cass considers social transition.

As per §12.2, this might include haircuts, clothing, name change, and pronoun usage.
February 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
This explicit transphobia is spelled out in excruciating detail. Direct from Cass again.
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
This type of study is basically a lie.
This is the type of study where the issues are so much more serious than just "the data has some problems with reliability" like. The data is very likely non-representative in its entirety!
"This study found that blocking internet access on phones led to better mental health for youth!"

Look inside

75% dropoff rate

hey so is there possibly a survivorship bias in that some youth don't have a viable replacement for the social outlets on their phones
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Misogyny is at the heart of it all. These are the people you idiots are listening to about trans women in sports. They hate you. They want you put in breeding camps. Stop working for them.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.
Reminder that they're still trying to repeal section 230 (thereby making platform holders like bsky legally responsible for content posted by their users etc etc)

There is still a need for you to blow up your rep's phones on this if you enjoy being able to do things like "post" or "have an porn"
Complete Nonsense
YouTube video by penguinz0
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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An Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) card game created by an Indigenous designer right here in #Winnipeg.

Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.
Ataage Agindaasonan - An Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin card game
A fun way to learn a language with access to audio translations and pronunciation breakdowns. Immerse yourself with the game phrases!
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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The SAVE Act has passed the House, making it harder for 69 million American women to vote.

This isn’t about voter fraud or undocumented immigrants.

This is about suppressing the female vote.

They want to repeal the 19th and this is a step in that direction.
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Emily agrees with Epstein and his associates regarding trans rights.
February 12, 2026 at 5:45 AM
The "trans demand" is to remove sexual harassment from athletics by abandoning strict bioessentialist limiters on who is allowed to compete. There's no way to keep us out without creating a witch-hunt atmosphere that requires submission to on-demand sexual harassment to enforce.
February 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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im reading the transcript and im already annoyed. the one activist, gestetner, insists that taking children with special needs out of their comfort zone is torture when that is kind of the gold standard for inclusive education....?
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
"Dividing the party is just what the fascists want" is correct. The problem is that the division starts when you bigoted centrists turn on the marginalized folks around you. Vote with us or vote without us; your choice, fascist.
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
All of them. Every cop. The police are an occupying force and we're their targets.
"Jim Boyling, who infiltrated environmental and animal rights activist groups for five years, said senior managers turned a blind eye to undercover officers having deceitful sexual relationships with women, often lasting years."
February 11, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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"Jim Boyling, who infiltrated environmental and animal rights activist groups for five years, said senior managers turned a blind eye to undercover officers having deceitful sexual relationships with women, often lasting years."
February 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
It's probably easy to make sure you only run into ICE when you want to if you're in constant contact with them because you feel more connection with them than with their targets. 🤔
Okay I swear this is my last Stancil post for a bit, but do you see the level of privilege that Will has? He’s less afraid of roving gestapo agents murdering civilians and kidnapping children with impunity but terrified some random person on the right OR left will murder him. This is insane.
February 11, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I'm too lesbian for this. What do you mean the strap is that thing attached to their arms?! Ugh.
Cosmic Killer v Toxic Spider
February 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Only 9 more days until Bloodstained Porcelain comes out! We are in the single digit numbers now, and we are so, so close. I hope you are as excited as I am for the release of my Doll transformation story. If that catches your interest, preorder at chimeratallulah.itch.io/bloodstained...
Bloodstained Porcelain by ChimeraLucy
chimeratallulah.itch.io
February 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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my unemployment hasn't been approved yet, so i need help with rent and groceries, if you can help, i'd really appreciate it.
Donate to Please help with rent and bills, organized by Mara Magnus
Hello, My name is Mara. I just lost my job and the car I was driving. I do have anothe… Mara Magnus needs your support for Please help with rent and bills
www.gofundme.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Hey all, I'm crunching the numbers and it looks like I might need just a bit more help for the extra costs with my bottom surgery (the surgery is now entirely paid for, it's the lodging during recovery and such)
ko-fi.com/vyriadurav/g...
I've got until April to raise a bit extra, anything helps
Support Vyria
Support Vyria
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February 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM