Coffee Birb
@blahblahbirb.bsky.social
a trans queer disabled neurodivergent nerd who hates oppression, and loves coffee and birds 🏳️🌈♿🐥 (28 • he/him • they/them • white)
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While we’re calling people, it’s time to call your reps to oppose KOSA again!
Find your reps here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Sign a petition here: www.stopkosa.com
Censorship won’t make anyone safer.
Find your reps here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Sign a petition here: www.stopkosa.com
Censorship won’t make anyone safer.
July 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
While we’re calling people, it’s time to call your reps to oppose KOSA again!
Find your reps here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Sign a petition here: www.stopkosa.com
Censorship won’t make anyone safer.
Find your reps here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Sign a petition here: www.stopkosa.com
Censorship won’t make anyone safer.
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Hey for real, South Park contributed more to transphobia being normalized in the pre-Rowling era more than any other media I can think. Garrison alone.
Them doing a Trump video where he has a tiny dick and is sleeping with Satan is not something you gotta applaud them over. They're assholes.
Them doing a Trump video where he has a tiny dick and is sleeping with Satan is not something you gotta applaud them over. They're assholes.
July 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hey for real, South Park contributed more to transphobia being normalized in the pre-Rowling era more than any other media I can think. Garrison alone.
Them doing a Trump video where he has a tiny dick and is sleeping with Satan is not something you gotta applaud them over. They're assholes.
Them doing a Trump video where he has a tiny dick and is sleeping with Satan is not something you gotta applaud them over. They're assholes.
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there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear:
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
Also, Lithgow is trying to muddy the waters by giving interviews where he pretends that the controversy here is that he's American, not that he's signing off on transphobia.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear:
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
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This is very different from "oh, this person may have troubling views", she almost singlehandedly funded the anti-trans movement in the UK, with significant spillover to everywhere else.
To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear:
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
April 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is very different from "oh, this person may have troubling views", she almost singlehandedly funded the anti-trans movement in the UK, with significant spillover to everywhere else.
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I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Evergreen reminder: Executive orders are not laws. Do not act like or presume what's in them can automatically be done, or can be legally done. And always fight Trumpist/Muskist efforts to carry them out, politically and in the courts. And probably without the help of the Senate Dems, bc they suck
March 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Evergreen reminder: Executive orders are not laws. Do not act like or presume what's in them can automatically be done, or can be legally done. And always fight Trumpist/Muskist efforts to carry them out, politically and in the courts. And probably without the help of the Senate Dems, bc they suck
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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
February 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
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The ops are also following any public information about who you don’t like and who doesn’t like you and that’s one reason to be *thoughtful* about what fights you’re having in public and whether they have to be public
February 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The ops are also following any public information about who you don’t like and who doesn’t like you and that’s one reason to be *thoughtful* about what fights you’re having in public and whether they have to be public
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Some of you may be thinking of going and protesting for the first time. It's more important now than ever to stay safe, so here's some practical protest advice:
- cover your face
- don't take your phone
- take water
- wear nondescript clothing
- set a meeting point for if you get separated
- cover your face
- don't take your phone
- take water
- wear nondescript clothing
- set a meeting point for if you get separated
February 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Some of you may be thinking of going and protesting for the first time. It's more important now than ever to stay safe, so here's some practical protest advice:
- cover your face
- don't take your phone
- take water
- wear nondescript clothing
- set a meeting point for if you get separated
- cover your face
- don't take your phone
- take water
- wear nondescript clothing
- set a meeting point for if you get separated
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Just gonna say it. "Able-bodied" is a pretty outdated way to refer to non-Disabled people as a whole.
Yes, your brain is part of your body but that is not the assumption evoked by the term "able-bodied".
"Non-Disabled" is fine. "Abled" is fine, too.
"Able-bodied" raises hackles.
Yes, your brain is part of your body but that is not the assumption evoked by the term "able-bodied".
"Non-Disabled" is fine. "Abled" is fine, too.
"Able-bodied" raises hackles.
January 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Just gonna say it. "Able-bodied" is a pretty outdated way to refer to non-Disabled people as a whole.
Yes, your brain is part of your body but that is not the assumption evoked by the term "able-bodied".
"Non-Disabled" is fine. "Abled" is fine, too.
"Able-bodied" raises hackles.
Yes, your brain is part of your body but that is not the assumption evoked by the term "able-bodied".
"Non-Disabled" is fine. "Abled" is fine, too.
"Able-bodied" raises hackles.
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The only time you should ever open your mouth around a cop:
- Am I being detained or am I free to go?
- I do not consent to any search.
- I invoke the fifth. I want to speak to a lawyer.
That's it.
- Am I being detained or am I free to go?
- I do not consent to any search.
- I invoke the fifth. I want to speak to a lawyer.
That's it.
January 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The only time you should ever open your mouth around a cop:
- Am I being detained or am I free to go?
- I do not consent to any search.
- I invoke the fifth. I want to speak to a lawyer.
That's it.
- Am I being detained or am I free to go?
- I do not consent to any search.
- I invoke the fifth. I want to speak to a lawyer.
That's it.
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Don't announce your intent to disobey to them, AND ALSO DO NOT ANNOUNCE IT ON YOUR SOCIALS OR GROUP CHATS.
Edgelords, I'm looking at you
Edgelords, I'm looking at you
Your right to remain silent is absolute. That includes when police are at your door.
Also; if you're planning to refuse to obey the police's commands? Don't announce your intent to disobey.
It's MUCH easier for your lawyers if the cops don't have you on bodycam admitting you heard & understood.
Also; if you're planning to refuse to obey the police's commands? Don't announce your intent to disobey.
It's MUCH easier for your lawyers if the cops don't have you on bodycam admitting you heard & understood.
January 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Don't announce your intent to disobey to them, AND ALSO DO NOT ANNOUNCE IT ON YOUR SOCIALS OR GROUP CHATS.
Edgelords, I'm looking at you
Edgelords, I'm looking at you
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Gonna be pedantic for a second on this (for a reason, I promise): civil disobedience has a very specific definition.
Civil disobedience is INTENTIONALLY breaking a law because you believe that *the law you are breaking* is unjust.
Civil disobedience is INTENTIONALLY breaking a law because you believe that *the law you are breaking* is unjust.
January 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Gonna be pedantic for a second on this (for a reason, I promise): civil disobedience has a very specific definition.
Civil disobedience is INTENTIONALLY breaking a law because you believe that *the law you are breaking* is unjust.
Civil disobedience is INTENTIONALLY breaking a law because you believe that *the law you are breaking* is unjust.
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This distinction matters because in true cases of civil disobedience, you are breaking the law to publicly call attention to that law's injustice.
That's the one time it's probably actually strategic to say explicitly that your intention is to break the law.
That's the one time it's probably actually strategic to say explicitly that your intention is to break the law.
January 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This distinction matters because in true cases of civil disobedience, you are breaking the law to publicly call attention to that law's injustice.
That's the one time it's probably actually strategic to say explicitly that your intention is to break the law.
That's the one time it's probably actually strategic to say explicitly that your intention is to break the law.
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People are so sensitive. They think that every time they see a Nazi saluting it must be a Nazi salute.
January 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
People are so sensitive. They think that every time they see a Nazi saluting it must be a Nazi salute.
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You don't know anyone but natural born American citizens, full stop. And if you're white and border patrol or ICE starts asking questions, you ask to see their warrant. Don't you do nazi shit.
Multiple UFW union offices received this in the mail this week. Thanks for reaching out!
January 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
You don't know anyone but natural born American citizens, full stop. And if you're white and border patrol or ICE starts asking questions, you ask to see their warrant. Don't you do nazi shit.
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Pretty horrific that not only has TikTok explicitly endorsed Trump - yes, in no small part due to Democrats' feckless dithering - but also that millions of young people will no doubt begin the Trump Regime with ebullient goodwill toward him.
January 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Pretty horrific that not only has TikTok explicitly endorsed Trump - yes, in no small part due to Democrats' feckless dithering - but also that millions of young people will no doubt begin the Trump Regime with ebullient goodwill toward him.
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December 31, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Hey. Hey. Did you know that you can sign up to sponsor a refugee and can receive 60% of the money required to be able to do that? Groups of people are also allowed to sign up! welcome.us
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For folks who can’t find him by searching because of all the mute and blocklists here’s a direct link
bsky.app/profile/jess...
bsky.app/profile/jess...
Oh my god good job everyone LMAO
I’m really glad to see that despite all the changes that have happened here since early November this can still be a safe place for Trans folks.
I’m really glad to see that despite all the changes that have happened here since early November this can still be a safe place for Trans folks.
December 7, 2024 at 12:06 AM
For folks who can’t find him by searching because of all the mute and blocklists here’s a direct link
bsky.app/profile/jess...
bsky.app/profile/jess...
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The thing you have to understand about the banality of evil is that it was mundane.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
The thing you have to understand about the banality of evil is that it was mundane.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
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The banality of evil was choosing not to pump the brakes on the thing because it was easier to meet your deadline and go about every day life than to slow the machine down
December 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM
The banality of evil was choosing not to pump the brakes on the thing because it was easier to meet your deadline and go about every day life than to slow the machine down
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It is a slap in the face to every poor kid, every kid of color, every queer kid, and every kid who doesn't fit any of those definitions but shows up every single day to support those who do.
It is a slap in the face to librarians and educators whose careers and lives have been shattered over this.
It is a slap in the face to librarians and educators whose careers and lives have been shattered over this.
December 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
It is a slap in the face to every poor kid, every kid of color, every queer kid, and every kid who doesn't fit any of those definitions but shows up every single day to support those who do.
It is a slap in the face to librarians and educators whose careers and lives have been shattered over this.
It is a slap in the face to librarians and educators whose careers and lives have been shattered over this.