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Marina
@ofseaandstars.co.uk
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Photography with a *hint* of content creation... sometimes...

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Pronouns: (she/her)
#ADHD #trans
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anesidora.bsky.social
happy MIGHTY NEIN day!! ✨

let’s celebrate with a couple photos of my all time favourite character, the amazing Beauregard Lionett 💙

Beau was created by @marisha-ray.bsky.social for @criticalrole.bsky.social

📸 photos by @ofseaandstars.co.uk

#criticalrole #themightynein #criticalrolecosplay
photo of myself dressed as Beau from Critical Role, wearing her level 17 outfit from the Mighty Nein reunion portrait of myself dressed as Beau from Critical Role, wearing her level 17 outfit from the Mighty Nein reunion
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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antlervel.vet
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.

2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
Facebook memory. On this day 3 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 15, 2022 I am happy beyond words to say that Riot has told me the job is mine. 289 comments 2 shares
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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anesidora.bsky.social
“I am your god! Long may I reign!” 🦚💜

this is my favourite cosplay, being molly is the best feeling in the world ✨

Mollymauk from @criticalrole.bsky.social, created by Taliesin Jaffe
📷 photos and editing by @ofseaandstars.co.uk

#criticalrole #criticalrolecosplay #mollymauktealeaf
photo of myself with my back facing the camera and my head turned toward it. i’m dressed as Mollymauk Tealeaf. I have a long pinkish purple wig and black horn, my face is painted purple and my eyes are edited to be red. I’m wearing a long purple jacket with a very detailed back of a mix of embroideries and paint photo of myself from the waist up, dressed as Mollymauk Tealeaf. I have a long pinkish purple wig and black horn, my face is painted purple and my eyes are edited to be red.
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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theabigailthorn.bsky.social
NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.
sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 25d
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.

If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
A GP practice in Brighton and Hove is currently under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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whatthetrans.com
New Opinion Article: Your Party is a waste of time

whatthetrans.com/opinion-your...
Person holding up cardboard sign saying "Boot out transphobia". On the sign is a drawing of a boot.
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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whatthetrans.com
Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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wendles1967.bsky.social
UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜
nionwomen.bsky.social Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · Oct 2
We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going:

notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.
notinourname.org.uk
October 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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gxrts.bsky.social
Miss her always 💜 BUT CAMPAIGN 4 IN 4 DAYS !!!

Photo by @ofseaandstars.co.uk ✨

@criticalrole.bsky.social @laurabaileyvo.bsky.social 💫

#imogentemult #imogentemultcosplay #criticalrole #criticalrolecosplay
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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tacc.org.uk
Any MPs can view this dossier *right now*

Email your MP using our template letter here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please share this post far and wide, and encourage others to do the same.

Thank you for all your help.
Together, let’s get writing! /2
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
ofseaandstars.co.uk
Am I watching The Buccaneers solely for the fact that I saw a lesbian kiss in a clip? Yes.

Am I thoroughly invested even though it's super cheesy? Yes.

But the kissing do be kissing, though, so... worth it?
September 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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inkofviolet.com
Hi there! 👋

I’m an artist who loves fantasy themes & drawing lineart.

I stream too, so you can see my creative process, collect digital Cards of my art when I’m live & even interact with your own personalised character!

(Links in profile)
A few previews of InkOfViolet’s illustrations to demonstrate her work
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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samsighs.bsky.social
If this happens, it will tear apart families, and destroy the UK.

Immigration is fundamental to our existence, our universities, health care system, creative arts & more would be destroyed.

Reform are the biggest danger this country has faced in my lifetime

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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aidenr0.bsky.social
man ive been seeing my Absolute Lesbian everywhere lmao, spread like wildfire
an artwork recreation of the Absolute Cinema meme of the character Asimov, a half-elf with white hair, sitting down with hands up in the air, with the text "Absolute Lesbian" in the bottom
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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devenrue.com
If the only time you care about people being stripped of their rights is when it affects you, you’re part of the problem.
September 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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deepblueink.bsky.social
Check your YouTube for "Restricted Mode" gang! Almost half of my most recent uploads are being blocked by it for seemingly no reason 🙂👍
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ofseaandstars.co.uk
They've finally added saving posts to BlueSky!! FINALLY!
September 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social
Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.
Screenshot of a tumblr post by user khazrablood. It shows another screenshot from twitter/X by @advocate.com, stating; "Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targetted for mild criticisms of anti-trans billionaire." Beneath the quote, a hyperlink pop up of an informative article appears, with two images; the first is Bluesky's logo, and the second is of Joanne Rowling. Under the two portrait images, the header reads; "Bluesky silenced trans voices over J. K Rowling, here's why" The sub-header of the hyperlink further reads; "Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targetted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire." Underneath the screenshot of the Twitter/X post, khazrablood writes; "wannabe twitter already bending the knee to terfs." Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added; If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound; The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time. The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post; This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now. How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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chaosfaun.bsky.social
Just this week use code chaosfaun.etsy.com?coupon=HELLO... for 25% off any orders from my Etsy shop 🥰

Still not shipping to the USA unfortunately 😕
#smallartist #digitalart #criticalrole
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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fransbouma.com
This is just beautiful. A mod for cyberpunk 2077 to honor Cyberpunk 2077 Modder DBRV.

www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk207...
DBRV Memorial - Goodbye to a friend
A memorial to everyone's favourite modding frog. Rest easy Andrii.
www.nexusmods.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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fransbouma.com
Rest in peace, my friend.
#CancerSucks

www.gofundme.com/f/help-andre...
August 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
ofseaandstars.co.uk
Just posted a new update to my Ko-Fi page to talk about some upcoming content ideas I have!

I'm really excited to show off some of this!

Go check it out 👇

ko-fi.com/post/Content...
Content Updates! More photography content!
Marina published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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gxrts.bsky.social
IT IS HE! Aragorn, son of Arathorn, heir to the throne of Gondor, he would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor, AND YOU OWE HIM YOUR ALLEGIANCE ⚔️

Thank you so much to @ofseaandstars.co.uk for the amazing photos and editing! ✨

#lordoftherings #aragorn #cosplay
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
ofseaandstars.co.uk
It has been 0 (ZERO) days since I have been deadnamed at work.

Even better that this time it was my FULL deadname, which I never even used once at work, except for the HR system. I always had a different preferred name 😂
August 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
ofseaandstars.co.uk
Look at these adorable furry friends from London Trans+ Pride this year!

#dogs #cuteanimals #photography #transpride
A photo of a small, brown and black dog at London Trans+ Pride. A photo of a large, brown and black dog at London Trans+ Pride. A photo of a small, brown and black dog at London Trans+ Pride.
August 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
ofseaandstars.co.uk
There is a Game Changer ARG and the only part of a QR code missing is potentially from the snowboarding mini-game. I was able to get this score but no clues still! #dropout
August 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM