Talia
@adrestalia.bsky.social
Affordable housing professional, historian, nerd, spooky lady, and game designer.
Follow for news on my next project @oneiroscope.bsky.social
Follow for news on my next project @oneiroscope.bsky.social
A friend of mine has started releasing chapters of a novel they've been working on. If you enjoy fantasy, I strongly encourage you to check it out.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1377...
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1377...
The Tome of Inquiry
An isekai high fantasy story with multiple PoV characters.
Ben, an indecisive college freshman, gets pulled into another world. While there he must figure out how to communicate with the anthropomorp...
www.royalroad.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A friend of mine has started releasing chapters of a novel they've been working on. If you enjoy fantasy, I strongly encourage you to check it out.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1377...
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1377...
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I am livid--but entirely unsurprised--at the senate dems doing this. Directly undercutting the health and financial security for millions of people for the promise of a vote someone within a year.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I am livid--but entirely unsurprised--at the senate dems doing this. Directly undercutting the health and financial security for millions of people for the promise of a vote someone within a year.
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sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients
link: mysnapmap.com
link: mysnapmap.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients
link: mysnapmap.com
link: mysnapmap.com
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
Will is a very good writer, with great personal knowledge and interesting perspective. If you need a writer, please take a look.
I got let go from TheGamer today. Glad I'm speedrunning being downsized now. Maybe with the next one they'll get it down to a week.
Anyways, available for work. Yadda yadda.
Anyways, available for work. Yadda yadda.
August 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Will is a very good writer, with great personal knowledge and interesting perspective. If you need a writer, please take a look.
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We'll be handing out free Narcan, test strips, CPR face shields, and other harm reduction materials at the Central Square Branch of the Cambridge Public Library on July 25 from 1 – 3 p.m. Everyone can help save a life from opioid overdose!
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July 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We'll be handing out free Narcan, test strips, CPR face shields, and other harm reduction materials at the Central Square Branch of the Cambridge Public Library on July 25 from 1 – 3 p.m. Everyone can help save a life from opioid overdose!
buff.ly/iRGQxvo
@cambridgeday.com @universalhub.com
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@cambridgeday.com @universalhub.com
Truer words
now more than ever i think you gotta create gay freak shit or grow the fuck up and be more ok with other ppl's gay freak shit
July 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Truer words
Lots more of this. These numbers should be all over the headlines.
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Lots more of this. These numbers should be all over the headlines.
I like body horror, and know capitalism is horrible, but even I did think America was literally exporting billions of dollars worth of blood.
July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I like body horror, and know capitalism is horrible, but even I did think America was literally exporting billions of dollars worth of blood.
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hi, cis folks!
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
June 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
hi, cis folks!
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
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Evergreen. Juneteenth was slavers getting caught trying to hold on just a little bit longer.
Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas."
Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.
Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas."
Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could...
hachyderm.io
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Evergreen. Juneteenth was slavers getting caught trying to hold on just a little bit longer.
The framing used by the Times is absurd. The Times itself has been an active vehicle for platforming anti-trans voices for *years*.
The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us.
They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.
They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.
June 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The framing used by the Times is absurd. The Times itself has been an active vehicle for platforming anti-trans voices for *years*.
Today proper, peer-reviewed studies were published showing that there's no negative consequence on long-term sexual health on using puberty blockers in trans youth, and that removing access to puberty blockers harms trans youth.
No surprises on either count.
No surprises on either count.
TW: harm to children.
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...
www.tandfonline.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today proper, peer-reviewed studies were published showing that there's no negative consequence on long-term sexual health on using puberty blockers in trans youth, and that removing access to puberty blockers harms trans youth.
No surprises on either count.
No surprises on either count.
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Oh look. Another "Gender Critical" myth about trans healthcare, for which they have no evidence at all, disproven via study. When we all knew it was false all along anyway
June 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Oh look. Another "Gender Critical" myth about trans healthcare, for which they have no evidence at all, disproven via study. When we all knew it was false all along anyway
Keep being weird.
I've gone from finding queer people who want to drive the disrespectable and the weird out of our communities infuriating to faintly pathetic tbh.
You don't want autistic transbians/transmasc drag queens/trainspotting furries to exist? Well they do. Find a way to live with it. Or don't, I guess.
You don't want autistic transbians/transmasc drag queens/trainspotting furries to exist? Well they do. Find a way to live with it. Or don't, I guess.
June 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Keep being weird.
Way to turn up, Boston
www.wcvb.com/article/more...
www.wcvb.com/article/more...
More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
www.wcvb.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Way to turn up, Boston
www.wcvb.com/article/more...
www.wcvb.com/article/more...
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Boston would like to remind you that the first Pride was a protest.
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Boston would like to remind you that the first Pride was a protest.
Happy Pride. It has to be all of us fighting together, or we're all going to suffer.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397629...
www.kqed.org/arts/1397629...
In the ’70s, Gay Rights Activists Abandoned Their Trans Siblings
Eager for mainstream acceptance, LGB people pushed out those who fought for civil rights alongside them.
www.kqed.org
June 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Happy Pride. It has to be all of us fighting together, or we're all going to suffer.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397629...
www.kqed.org/arts/1397629...
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I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography.
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
EXCLUSIVE: New GOP Bill Seeks To Take Sledgehammer To Online Porn Industry
Congressional Republicans will introduce legislation Thursday that would severely crack down on internet pornography and upend the online porn industry.
dailycaller.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
As a lapse Catholic and a catty bitch, I appreciate today's events on multiple levels.
Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
As a lapse Catholic and a catty bitch, I appreciate today's events on multiple levels.
The first books the Nazis burned were from the Institute of Sexology; at a stroke this destroyed the largest collection of records and medical research related to transgender and queer people in the world.
A world without LGBTQIA+ people has never existed, and never will.
A world without LGBTQIA+ people has never existed, and never will.
May 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The first books the Nazis burned were from the Institute of Sexology; at a stroke this destroyed the largest collection of records and medical research related to transgender and queer people in the world.
A world without LGBTQIA+ people has never existed, and never will.
A world without LGBTQIA+ people has never existed, and never will.
I got married at the Liberty; bar none, the happiest day of my life. I was thinking of going back there for our anniversary this year. Seeing that the hotel is defending this just makes me feel sick.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender
A couple said a security guard at the Liberty Hotel in Boston challenged their use of a bathroom and kicked them out.
www.cbsnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I got married at the Liberty; bar none, the happiest day of my life. I was thinking of going back there for our anniversary this year. Seeing that the hotel is defending this just makes me feel sick.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
The ideological hit piece that is the anti-trans HHS report is, unsurprisingly, tortured nonsense.
Read someone who actually put together a thoughtful consideration of gender- affirming care.
Read someone who actually put together a thoughtful consideration of gender- affirming care.
I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
juliaserano.medium.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The ideological hit piece that is the anti-trans HHS report is, unsurprisingly, tortured nonsense.
Read someone who actually put together a thoughtful consideration of gender- affirming care.
Read someone who actually put together a thoughtful consideration of gender- affirming care.