Priscilla Spencer
@priscellie.bsky.social
Photographer, Fantasy Cartographer, and Globetrotter. Art Coordinator at Dragonsteel, opinions are my own. She/her.
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Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
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Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.
September 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
A lot of political influencers within the Atlantic/NYT orbit are very, very eager to sell us on the lie that we can get out of fascism by sacrificing trans people.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
August 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
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Moves by the Trump administration to pare back Medicaid, rescind medical debt rules and loosen vaccine requirements threaten to increase medical bills for millions of Americans.
Trump voters wanted lower medical bills. But for millions, bills are about to go up
Moves by the Trump administration to pare back Medicaid, rescind medical debt rules and loosen vaccine requirements threaten to increase medical bills for millions of Americans.
n.pr
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Moves by the Trump administration to pare back Medicaid, rescind medical debt rules and loosen vaccine requirements threaten to increase medical bills for millions of Americans.
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I just hope that eventually, somebody gets prosecuted for this shit.
July 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I just hope that eventually, somebody gets prosecuted for this shit.
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This is some insane Soviet bullshit. The idea that any American news organization would agree to something like this is unconscionable. I don't know how any self-respecting journalist could work for an outlet that's doing this.
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is some insane Soviet bullshit. The idea that any American news organization would agree to something like this is unconscionable. I don't know how any self-respecting journalist could work for an outlet that's doing this.
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Painting for @brotherwisegames.bsky.social is amazing!
July 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Painting for @brotherwisegames.bsky.social is amazing!
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A reminder that last year immigrants killed 29 people and white US Citizen men killed 8842 people.
Meaning, the harm caused by some immigrants in a full year (29), white US citizen men killed almost daily (24 people), every single day of the year.
#WhereWereTheyRadicalized?
Meaning, the harm caused by some immigrants in a full year (29), white US citizen men killed almost daily (24 people), every single day of the year.
#WhereWereTheyRadicalized?
A 58-year-old man in Virginia may spend the rest of his life behind bars for following and shooting two Latino men because he was "pissed" about "illegal immigration," and immigrants receiving welfare.
So much hate. Where does it come from?
lawandcrime.com/crime/man-ob...
So much hate. Where does it come from?
lawandcrime.com/crime/man-ob...
Man 'obsessed' with cable news shot 2 Latino men he thought were illegal immigrants
Douglas Wayne Cornett is facing life in prison for following and shooting two men he believed were illegal immigrants in Virginia last year.
lawandcrime.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A reminder that last year immigrants killed 29 people and white US Citizen men killed 8842 people.
Meaning, the harm caused by some immigrants in a full year (29), white US citizen men killed almost daily (24 people), every single day of the year.
#WhereWereTheyRadicalized?
Meaning, the harm caused by some immigrants in a full year (29), white US citizen men killed almost daily (24 people), every single day of the year.
#WhereWereTheyRadicalized?
Which is your favorite of these three images I captured of the sun rising over Monument Valley in a haze of wildfire smoke?
June 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Which is your favorite of these three images I captured of the sun rising over Monument Valley in a haze of wildfire smoke?
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I hope many are noticing the similarities with the early period of Aryanization in Germany, when Jewish businesses and property began to be confiscated.
June 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I hope many are noticing the similarities with the early period of Aryanization in Germany, when Jewish businesses and property began to be confiscated.
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Reagan-era judge *finally* calls out the wildly obvious racism in the DOGE cuts to the NIH
New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
*More of this, please*"
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
*More of this, please*"
Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.
www.publicnotice.co
June 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reagan-era judge *finally* calls out the wildly obvious racism in the DOGE cuts to the NIH
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Sioux Falls Pride happened today and there are some thing to love about my hometown.
June 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Sioux Falls Pride happened today and there are some thing to love about my hometown.
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I love… Mel and Vik, they should have been friends.
#jayvik technically #meljayvik if you’re a believer
#arcane #animatic #b99
#jayvik technically #meljayvik if you’re a believer
#arcane #animatic #b99
June 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I love… Mel and Vik, they should have been friends.
#jayvik technically #meljayvik if you’re a believer
#arcane #animatic #b99
#jayvik technically #meljayvik if you’re a believer
#arcane #animatic #b99
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I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.
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Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
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Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her
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European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936
June 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936
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Remembering trans man Albert Cashier for Pride, Union soldier during the civil war, was captured, marched a thousand miles without them figuring out his assigned sex at birth, escaped, and went right back to fighting them.
Lived the rest of his life as a man.
We have always been here.
Lived the rest of his life as a man.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Remembering trans man Albert Cashier for Pride, Union soldier during the civil war, was captured, marched a thousand miles without them figuring out his assigned sex at birth, escaped, and went right back to fighting them.
Lived the rest of his life as a man.
We have always been here.
Lived the rest of his life as a man.
We have always been here.
Headcanon: Jayce uses Spanish terms of endearment. Viktor uses endearing Czech nonsense.
Jayce: My heart, my beloved, my sun and moon and sky
Viktor: My handsome line of baby ducks, my soothing video of objects slotting perfectly into other objects, my large boulder the size of a small boulder
Jayce: My heart, my beloved, my sun and moon and sky
Viktor: My handsome line of baby ducks, my soothing video of objects slotting perfectly into other objects, my large boulder the size of a small boulder
May 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Headcanon: Jayce uses Spanish terms of endearment. Viktor uses endearing Czech nonsense.
Jayce: My heart, my beloved, my sun and moon and sky
Viktor: My handsome line of baby ducks, my soothing video of objects slotting perfectly into other objects, my large boulder the size of a small boulder
Jayce: My heart, my beloved, my sun and moon and sky
Viktor: My handsome line of baby ducks, my soothing video of objects slotting perfectly into other objects, my large boulder the size of a small boulder
I’m saying nothing.
May 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m saying nothing.
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Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights
!["About the fund. The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women's sex-based rights [...]. It provides women with the means and confidence to bring to justice cases that make legal precedents, force policy change, and make positive contributions to women's lives in the future."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjkl4nmqbvelhqr3jzm2bm63/bafkreigkfhjbyner5wkm2x4by7xh6utgzhcirktzrci524sifypbpeimjm@jpeg)
May 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights