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Amykins Plays
@amykinsplays.bsky.social
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I'm Amykins, and I play things!
When I'm not working or playing games, I'm probably spending time with my husband & kitties, appreciating art of all kinds, and silversmithing jewelry.
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avaeerys.bsky.social
New page of Along The River Phoria up!
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3736...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...

#webcomic #webcomics #comics #lgbt #queer #trans #transgender #transcomic #fantasy #tapas #webtoons
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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riotlinguist.bsky.social
“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
picture of anita sarkeesian from her series "feminist frequency," wearing a pale plaid top, hoop earrings, and a ponytail, as she speaks to the camera.
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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socialepi.bsky.social
How did America normalize having AT LEAST 100,000 COVID INFECTIONS PER DAY at any time of the year?

Each infection raises the risk of long covid, chronic disease, and negative economic consequences.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#Covid #LongCovid #EpiSky #PublicHealth
May 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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sprobeforebros.bsky.social
NFTs from a couple of years ago are starting to succumb to link rot.

Someday the final server holding the last NFT image will go under, then truly all my apes will be gone
tweet from user @starplatinumSOL with a pair of pictures, one of a group of NFTS with "image not found", the other being an earlier tweet advertising "CloneX #4594 by @RTFKTstudiosjust sold for 450 ETH ($1.25 MILLION!)" with a picture of a shitty cgi guy with an octopus hat. Tweet reads "Today the community found out the entire Clone X collection has no art All images are blocked by Cloudflare Even holders who spent millions can’t see their NFTs anymore Pure disappointment (9/9)"
April 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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bookmarkobrien.bsky.social
“If you’re buying Rowling’s works, then you’re putting money into the fight against trans people. If you’re sharing things about her fictional worlds, you’re telling your trans friends that they can’t trust you […] and giving her words more weight to speak out on political actions.”
lgbtqnation.com LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · Apr 23
JK Rowling just showed why supporting “Harry Potter” is harmful to trans people - buff.ly/DvpaqKP
April 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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corybooker.com
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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nkjemisin.bsky.social
Whoa. Kirkus thinks The Fifth Season is one of the best books of the 21st Century so far, and TWO of my books are in Stacker's 100 best! www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...
stacker.com/stories/art-...
Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) | Kirkus Reviews
www.kirkusreviews.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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flavorflav.bsky.social
Cory Booker
a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
Alt: a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity

"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.
March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.

Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.

S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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publichealthaction.bsky.social
Julia Doubleday (@juliadoubleday.bsky.social) writes about her struggles with Long COVID with eloquence and clarity: "Fallout: Living with Long COVID": https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/julias-story-fallout-living-with-long-covid/

#covid #longcovid #covidisntover #publichealth #chronicillness
"COVID is a mass disabling event because Long COVID is disabling, and every day COVID spreads freely is another day Long COVID disables people in our communities." - Julia Doubleday Learn about the daily physical issues writer and activist Julia Doubleday struggles with in our new blog post, titled "Fallout: Living with Long COVID"
February 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Birnbaum said Trump’s executive order seeking to restrict care, along with another that describes the idea that someone can be trans as “gender ideology,” denies the realities of the people he treats every day. “If somebody says the sky is green, just because they say it, doesn’t make the sky green,” Birnbaum said. “I’m looking at the medical literature, research that’s been done. I’m looking at real people in front of me. I’m not looking at some right-wing, religious ideologue who is referring to this as ‘gender ideology.’ It’s no ideology. They have the ideology. I’m dealing with science and medicine.”
February 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
I spoke last night about the need for “wedges.” Between Trump and Musk. Between Trump and congressional Republicans.

Yesterday Trump had to walk back from his implication that he might not follow judicial orders b/c prominent Republican Senators were pissed. Every wedge is an opportunity.
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Keep calling your Republican Senators and Reps.

202-224-3121
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 12
I spoke last night about the need for “wedges.” Between Trump and Musk. Between Trump and congressional Republicans.

Yesterday Trump had to walk back from his implication that he might not follow judicial orders b/c prominent Republican Senators were pissed. Every wedge is an opportunity.
ariellaelm.com Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · Feb 12
Grassley Thune and Mike Rounds are also publicly against the administration not respecting judicial orders
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
thehill.com/regulation/c...
February 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
ellenlweintraub.bsky.social Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · Feb 6
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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codenameminali.bsky.social
I've been listening in on the filibuster and Senators Klobuchar and Schatz have read emails from constituents that talk about this. It's working.
evilanne.bsky.social evilanne.bsky.social @evilanne.bsky.social · Feb 5
At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks:

1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1
February 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM