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Claire
@actuallyitsclaire.bsky.social
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She/Her + Bi + 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Here for Art Music and other Trans people
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madycast.com
the "vegan leather is worse for the environment than real leather" myth, which was completely the opposite of reality, has always felt suspicious af to me. Something being plastic doesn't mean it's worse than the alternatives for the environment, and there are non plastic alternatives.
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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ironriverotter.bsky.social
Happy Resistance Day.

We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.

Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.

It's a good day to be Indigenous

so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
coolzonemedia.bsky.social Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.

@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle. @margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-two-nonhelema-the-six-foot-six-warrior-woman-of-the-shawnee-who-fought-the-empire-309320529
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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lamhfada.bsky.social
Just getting around to watching this and Rebecca has the receipts from 15 years ago of all the men who stood by Lawrence Krauss and Epstein.

I imagine her creating this video had at least some of the feeling of this Brooklyn 99 meme....

Well worth a watch.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
In my experience, trans romance fiction tends to have a degree of intentionality and awareness about how sexuality and desire shapes gender. (That doesn't always make it better, to be clear.)

Cis romance, meanwhile, is usually about the dissonance that arises from desiring that which reviles you.
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Politician who fanned anti-LGBT sentiment stunned to find rising levels of anti-LGBT sentiment
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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transgenderreport.com
Uncommon Knowledge: Trans Book Bans Often Backfire—On Their Creators

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Uncommon Knowledge: Trans book bans often backfire—on their creators
Conservatives should beware the law of unintended consequences.
www.newsweek.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
the only one they've stuck to is 'force conversion practices on to trans children based off the back of some christian psuedoscience'.

aka 'we will implement the cass review'.
cascoclauda.bsky.social Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 21h
they're legitimately running out of manifesto "pledges" to break now
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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transgenderreport.com
Reporters document rising state-level bills restricting transgender individuals' ability to use chosen names and requiring parental notification for name changes.

evrimagaci.org/gpt/t...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Transgender Rights Face New Hurdles Amid National Debate - Grand Pinnacle Tribune
Across the United States, the debate over transgender rights has intensified, reaching into the most personal of territories: the right to one’s own name, family,…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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doggirldotfaggot.bsky.social
a beautiful indigenous woman saying fuck Christopher Columbus while flipping him off
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents’ house and called her father.
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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benrosen.bsky.social
editor: you said you wanted to pitch a fun new comic strip character? charles schultz: his name is charlie brown and he is a child with generalized anxiety order. hes depressed as shit and he sucks at sports editor: schultz: also he is bald
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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mackayim.bsky.social
Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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acvalens.com
Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
Ana Valens @acvalens.com Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season Nov 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM Everybody can reply v 1.8K reposts 29 quotes 2.8K likes 56 saves Ana V v @acvalensVT X.com Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season 12:05 PM • 11/24/25 • 1.3K Views 1 1z12 35 3
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.

even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.

they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
As someone who thinks the word penis is very funny I would love if that became a plugin some day
foone.bsky.social Foone @foone.bsky.social · 2d
what's the reason for the season? I'm not sure, but I do know that SANTA CLAUS IS MADE OF FRACTAL PENISES
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Ahh yes, a totally real trend for which we totally have evidence
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
‘Grandparenting on Eggshells’ Many parents are teaching their children that they don’t owe their relatives hugs—which means new rules for everyone. Last year, the Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax addressed a grandma who was hurt when her 7-year-old granddaughter began rebuffing her hugs. (Hax had little sympathy, telling the writer that forcing hugs should be “unthinkable.”) On Reddit, parents vent about grandparents who insist on physical affection even when kids say no. The parents I spoke with told me about grandparents saying things like “I’m gonna steal a hug” and “Where’s my huggy-huggy?” while their grandchildren recoiled from their open arms. Becky Kennedy, the psychologist and parenting influencer best known as “Dr. Becky,” told me that she comes across this issue “all the time.” Grandparents might interpret the rules as “rejecting or rude,” she said, but parents are merely trying to teach kids that “connection and love do not require you to ignore your own needs.” And that generational divide isn’t always easy to overcome.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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trahias.bsky.social
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876–1950)
"Sailing Boats, Morning", 1926.
Woodblock Print, 55 × 39 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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mrtylercrook.bsky.social
This headline is going around and the thing that is really bothering me is that buying a single item and then using it and NOT collecting more items is literally the opposite of hoarding.
CNBC headline: How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy - Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and ...
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
One of the biggest shocks of my adult life was realizing there's a hidden division in society between people who think certain acts - cruelty, torture, murder - are inherently wrong, versus the majority of people who think there are no wrong actions, just incorrect targets.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
joelsiegel.bsky.social Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 3d
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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benjaminkabak.com
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
ndhapple.bsky.social Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 2d
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Evergreen
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM