Lain Kaplan 🏳️🌈💗🏳️⚧️
@lainkaplan.bsky.social
Level 40+ linguist and trans woman. She/her. Interests: Judaism, human rights, LGBTQ joy, MTG, comics, language, fashion, feminism. Obnoxious fitness affictionado. Fash begone.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✡️
Black Trans Lives Matter.
Black Trans Lives Matter.
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Reposting a thread I had on Twitter.
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Dear trans people who found out about Judaism’s positing of eight genders,
If you think Judaism sounds like a thing that might work for you, that’s cool, you are welcome to inquire, but Jews have a VERY DIFFERENT perspective on applicants than Christianity.
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Dear trans people who found out about Judaism’s positing of eight genders,
If you think Judaism sounds like a thing that might work for you, that’s cool, you are welcome to inquire, but Jews have a VERY DIFFERENT perspective on applicants than Christianity.
The patriarchy doesn’t teach men well how to be masculine. What it does do is tell them not to be feminine.
Patriarchy hurts everyone. Especially men. And it despises people who reject it, because it cannot be questioned.
Patriarchy hurts everyone. Especially men. And it despises people who reject it, because it cannot be questioned.
December 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The patriarchy doesn’t teach men well how to be masculine. What it does do is tell them not to be feminine.
Patriarchy hurts everyone. Especially men. And it despises people who reject it, because it cannot be questioned.
Patriarchy hurts everyone. Especially men. And it despises people who reject it, because it cannot be questioned.
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I just started E33 for the first time.
Oh god, this is gonna be a tear wringer. Jennifer English is a voice I already have a strong attachment to, since Shadowheart was my first romance in BG3, but I hadn’t found Karlach yet so I had to jettison that run in act 3 and restart.
Oh god, this is gonna be a tear wringer. Jennifer English is a voice I already have a strong attachment to, since Shadowheart was my first romance in BG3, but I hadn’t found Karlach yet so I had to jettison that run in act 3 and restart.
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I just started E33 for the first time.
Oh god, this is gonna be a tear wringer. Jennifer English is a voice I already have a strong attachment to, since Shadowheart was my first romance in BG3, but I hadn’t found Karlach yet so I had to jettison that run in act 3 and restart.
Oh god, this is gonna be a tear wringer. Jennifer English is a voice I already have a strong attachment to, since Shadowheart was my first romance in BG3, but I hadn’t found Karlach yet so I had to jettison that run in act 3 and restart.
This is bullshit linguistic imperialism at work. This could be the textbook example, but the textbook itself would get censored by the publisher, in a fascist ouroboros.
I noticed a change in the last few weeks in how the NYT describes gender affirming care. They now use the term "gender related care" in their coverage. This term had only been used sparingly (4 times) prior to this year. Now it's becoming ubiquitous in standard coverage.
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is bullshit linguistic imperialism at work. This could be the textbook example, but the textbook itself would get censored by the publisher, in a fascist ouroboros.
Listening to a podcast interviewing Samantha Beart, and let me say, their voice just makes my brain feel all fizzy and agitated. I really hope I can meet them at a con and tell them how much Karlach meant to me. Not the tiefling thing, but the sense of immediacy and living.
youtu.be/XkIefgHPxh8?...
youtu.be/XkIefgHPxh8?...
It's All In My Headset: Diversity, ADHD and Empowering Spaces with Samantha Béart #6
YouTube video by Sheila
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Listening to a podcast interviewing Samantha Beart, and let me say, their voice just makes my brain feel all fizzy and agitated. I really hope I can meet them at a con and tell them how much Karlach meant to me. Not the tiefling thing, but the sense of immediacy and living.
youtu.be/XkIefgHPxh8?...
youtu.be/XkIefgHPxh8?...
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It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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ICE arrests people in their places of work - it was never about them not working
ICE arrests people at their immigration hearings - it was never about "doing it the right way"
Republicans vote for a felon - it was never about following the law
It's always been about racism.
#ProudBlue
ICE arrests people at their immigration hearings - it was never about "doing it the right way"
Republicans vote for a felon - it was never about following the law
It's always been about racism.
#ProudBlue
June 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ICE arrests people in their places of work - it was never about them not working
ICE arrests people at their immigration hearings - it was never about "doing it the right way"
Republicans vote for a felon - it was never about following the law
It's always been about racism.
#ProudBlue
ICE arrests people at their immigration hearings - it was never about "doing it the right way"
Republicans vote for a felon - it was never about following the law
It's always been about racism.
#ProudBlue
This photo dates from the era of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, which sought to demonize Jews as subversive, disloyal elements in American society. Much of the Christmas music of that era was written by Jews to show patriotism and avoid being blacklisted.
Trump wants that again.
Trump wants that again.
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This photo dates from the era of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, which sought to demonize Jews as subversive, disloyal elements in American society. Much of the Christmas music of that era was written by Jews to show patriotism and avoid being blacklisted.
Trump wants that again.
Trump wants that again.
Happy holidays, folks! Here’s a fine video about people who celebrate Christmas. I wouldn’t watch it at work though.
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
Christian Anime Girl ~ Ghost Stories
YouTube video by WarmAnime
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Happy holidays, folks! Here’s a fine video about people who celebrate Christmas. I wouldn’t watch it at work though.
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
For those who celebrate, merry Christmas!
My gift to you is this clip of how I imagine you probably talk every day.
(This probably isn’t work appropriate, even though it’s just dialogue.)
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
My gift to you is this clip of how I imagine you probably talk every day.
(This probably isn’t work appropriate, even though it’s just dialogue.)
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
Christian Anime Girl ~ Ghost Stories
YouTube video by WarmAnime
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For those who celebrate, merry Christmas!
My gift to you is this clip of how I imagine you probably talk every day.
(This probably isn’t work appropriate, even though it’s just dialogue.)
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
My gift to you is this clip of how I imagine you probably talk every day.
(This probably isn’t work appropriate, even though it’s just dialogue.)
youtu.be/5yg8o4cWojc?...
GUESS WHAT, bitches. I survived Whamageddon. While working retail!
That’s gotta be nightmare mode.
That’s gotta be nightmare mode.
December 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
GUESS WHAT, bitches. I survived Whamageddon. While working retail!
That’s gotta be nightmare mode.
That’s gotta be nightmare mode.
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Not on Twitter any more, but let me be very clear. If you ever edit any of my art with AI I will not just haunt you. I will appear as a phantom behind who anyone who mentions you and gently hum the baby shark song until that’s all anyone can think of when they think of you
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Not on Twitter any more, but let me be very clear. If you ever edit any of my art with AI I will not just haunt you. I will appear as a phantom behind who anyone who mentions you and gently hum the baby shark song until that’s all anyone can think of when they think of you
Me working retail for the last month, to the in-store music repeatedly:
Bitch, all my apparel is gay, did you not notice?
Bitch, all my apparel is gay, did you not notice?
an elderly woman with glasses says oh please in front of a tv land logo
ALT: an elderly woman with glasses says oh please in front of a tv land logo
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Me working retail for the last month, to the in-store music repeatedly:
Bitch, all my apparel is gay, did you not notice?
Bitch, all my apparel is gay, did you not notice?
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this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
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Ent-wives have Pixar Mom asses
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ent-wives have Pixar Mom asses
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Gut nittel nacht yiddin! Stay inside! Lock your doors! Don't let that scary undead guy in!
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Gut nittel nacht yiddin! Stay inside! Lock your doors! Don't let that scary undead guy in!
Top 5 songs from film/movies/games this year (I haven’t seen the second Wicked yet, don’t at me:)
5. Your Idol, KPDH
4. Golden, KPDH
3. This is What It Sounds Like, KPDH
2. Clean it Up, Hazbin Hotel
1. Hoes Depressed, Dispatch
YES, I am a goofy girl.
5. Your Idol, KPDH
4. Golden, KPDH
3. This is What It Sounds Like, KPDH
2. Clean it Up, Hazbin Hotel
1. Hoes Depressed, Dispatch
YES, I am a goofy girl.
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Top 5 songs from film/movies/games this year (I haven’t seen the second Wicked yet, don’t at me:)
5. Your Idol, KPDH
4. Golden, KPDH
3. This is What It Sounds Like, KPDH
2. Clean it Up, Hazbin Hotel
1. Hoes Depressed, Dispatch
YES, I am a goofy girl.
5. Your Idol, KPDH
4. Golden, KPDH
3. This is What It Sounds Like, KPDH
2. Clean it Up, Hazbin Hotel
1. Hoes Depressed, Dispatch
YES, I am a goofy girl.
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Hey, @atherton.bsky.social plenty of valid ways to slam Stephen Miller could we please NOT do "this guy doesn't even get the meaning of Christmas" given that Miller is Jewish?
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Hey, @atherton.bsky.social plenty of valid ways to slam Stephen Miller could we please NOT do "this guy doesn't even get the meaning of Christmas" given that Miller is Jewish?
Nicki Minaj: *disapproves of trans people getting gender affirming care*
Also Nicki Minaj: *spends more money than most people make in a year on gender affirming care for herself*
I don’t begrudge her getting GAC. It’s her being a jackass to people she doesn’t like for getting it.
Also Nicki Minaj: *spends more money than most people make in a year on gender affirming care for herself*
I don’t begrudge her getting GAC. It’s her being a jackass to people she doesn’t like for getting it.
December 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Nicki Minaj: *disapproves of trans people getting gender affirming care*
Also Nicki Minaj: *spends more money than most people make in a year on gender affirming care for herself*
I don’t begrudge her getting GAC. It’s her being a jackass to people she doesn’t like for getting it.
Also Nicki Minaj: *spends more money than most people make in a year on gender affirming care for herself*
I don’t begrudge her getting GAC. It’s her being a jackass to people she doesn’t like for getting it.
… this is news? Fascists always make these kinds of garbage narratives up to drum up hatred of the other.
The Anglosphere hasn’t returned to the term Christendom, but I would expect to hear it a lot more, soon.
The Anglosphere hasn’t returned to the term Christendom, but I would expect to hear it a lot more, soon.
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left. politi.co/4pS4JDx
How the far right stole Christmas
Seasonal traditions and good cheer are being repurposed to serve political ends.
www.politico.eu
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
… this is news? Fascists always make these kinds of garbage narratives up to drum up hatred of the other.
The Anglosphere hasn’t returned to the term Christendom, but I would expect to hear it a lot more, soon.
The Anglosphere hasn’t returned to the term Christendom, but I would expect to hear it a lot more, soon.
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This is absolutely unacceptable. Jews need to resist having our pain turned into an engine of hatred and bigotry against Muslims. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Retribution fears as Australian Muslims see surge in Islamophobic hate since Bondi terror attack
Security stepped up at mosques amid spate of targeted abuse as leaders mourn Bondi victims and say community will not ‘claim victimhood’
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This is absolutely unacceptable. Jews need to resist having our pain turned into an engine of hatred and bigotry against Muslims. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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This is it this is the one
December 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is it this is the one
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Why does “the parable is not explained.” go so hard though
Your Word Is Fire edited by Arthur Green
Your Word Is Fire edited by Arthur Green
December 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Why does “the parable is not explained.” go so hard though
Your Word Is Fire edited by Arthur Green
Your Word Is Fire edited by Arthur Green