Stephen Ferret
@weaselwords.bsky.social
He/Him
By day, mild-mannered dad, nerd, writer, vet tech.
By night, asleep. (Usually.)
#TransRights
By day, mild-mannered dad, nerd, writer, vet tech.
By night, asleep. (Usually.)
#TransRights
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Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum acceptable policy.
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum acceptable policy.
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Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
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She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
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I'm just sayin', mebbe get tested.
(Art sampled from the "Key & Peele" sketch "Browser History". Edits: Caption.)
(Art sampled from the "Key & Peele" sketch "Browser History". Edits: Caption.)
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm just sayin', mebbe get tested.
(Art sampled from the "Key & Peele" sketch "Browser History". Edits: Caption.)
(Art sampled from the "Key & Peele" sketch "Browser History". Edits: Caption.)
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Every workplace should be unionized
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Every workplace should be unionized
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
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"If you won $100 million, would you still work?"
Absolutely. I would work every day, as I do now, only I would get to exclusively work on my things. I would set up a publishing company and sign all the writer friends I have who are struggling to do the same thing.
Absolutely. I would work every day, as I do now, only I would get to exclusively work on my things. I would set up a publishing company and sign all the writer friends I have who are struggling to do the same thing.
"If you won $100 million, would you still work?"
Hell no, I would not. I would do whatever the fuck I wanted.
Appropos of...
GRRM got what $100 million? 200? from HBO for Game of Thrones etc. Dude won the lottery. Why would he work? Those last two books are not coming. Ever.
Hell no, I would not. I would do whatever the fuck I wanted.
Appropos of...
GRRM got what $100 million? 200? from HBO for Game of Thrones etc. Dude won the lottery. Why would he work? Those last two books are not coming. Ever.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"If you won $100 million, would you still work?"
Absolutely. I would work every day, as I do now, only I would get to exclusively work on my things. I would set up a publishing company and sign all the writer friends I have who are struggling to do the same thing.
Absolutely. I would work every day, as I do now, only I would get to exclusively work on my things. I would set up a publishing company and sign all the writer friends I have who are struggling to do the same thing.
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Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
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11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
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“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it
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👀
The Christians that sing Cohen’s Hallelujah in church without knowing all the lyrics are the same ones that expound at length about the Bible, without really knowing all of it too.
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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the christofascism has been here for a while for us
While Maryland Gov. Moore posted about Trans Day of Rememberance, his state was torturing a trans woman by denying her hormones and housing her with men--according to her lawyer--for 2 months.
All of this for "hate crime" charges from alleged vandalism of a trans symbol near a Catholic school.
All of this for "hate crime" charges from alleged vandalism of a trans symbol near a Catholic school.
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the christofascism has been here for a while for us
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
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Zelda is the name of the girl in the game. The boys name is Zelda's Monster.
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Zelda is the name of the girl in the game. The boys name is Zelda's Monster.
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
I wish I could say I can't believe RFK Jr. slept with this guy, but unfortunately, I can.
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I wish I could say I can't believe RFK Jr. slept with this guy, but unfortunately, I can.
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The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
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we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
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In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
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People still default too often to the fact that Trumps base won’t care about one revelation or another. But as elections keep showing us, the universe of people other than his base is much bigger and we do care. So exposing shit does matter and it’s worth sharing those things so others oppose him.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
People still default too often to the fact that Trumps base won’t care about one revelation or another. But as elections keep showing us, the universe of people other than his base is much bigger and we do care. So exposing shit does matter and it’s worth sharing those things so others oppose him.
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she’s a hero
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
she’s a hero
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Literally none of the economic issues we face are due to undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Literally none of the economic issues we face are due to undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.