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@seamas.bsky.social

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM

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tazer

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jfc the "can't use they/them except to misgender a trans woman" shit hits my blood like an electric kettle

Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Sep 10

My statement on tonight's DFL Feminist Caucus Annual Meeting. This statement is being emailed to the Feminist Caucus Chair, Alicia Gibson, and to the State DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom.

This caucus should be ashamed of itself.

Tonight, I attended my first and last DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. As someone who did not come by my feminism through how I was raised, but rather fought my way through to live as the gender I am and to exist as a non-binary person in this world, I found the experience to be demeaning, demoralizing, and actively anti-feminist. If being a feminist in the DFL means caucusing with this group, count me out.

My pronouns are very simple and yet the caucus chairs and caucus leadership could not get them correct, despite being repeatedly reminded and corrected at every single opportunity. However, they could suddenly use the singular “they” when it came to my fellow caucus member who happened to be a trans woman, despite her repeatedly giving her pronouns as she/her.

This was just the beginning. It was clear from the start that no one leading this meeting understood Robert’s Rules, and very clearly wanted to vote for their friends and be done with it. At the very beginning, an illegal motion was made to just adopt an entire slate of leadership, despite there being challengers to those positions known to the caucus.

For me, however, the most hurtful thing was that despite repeatedly affirming that underrepresented people should run for caucus office, should be prioritized in the process, no trans or non-binary people were represented in any of the caucus leadership, much less respected in the meeting. My pronouns - they/them - were clearly seen as an inconvenience, met with eyerolls and annoyance whenever I corrected people. At one point, one of the newly elected caucus leadership claimed her pronouns are “Black Queen,” a clear mockery of the process of asking for pronouns altogether.

Does this reflect DFL values? To mock a non-binary person whose community is under direct attack from the president himself? To refuse to use a person’s proper pronouns so repeatedly and without care that I had to make a SIGN with them on it for the meeting?

It wasn’t as though my pronouns were a surprise. I sent in my statement of intent to run for Vice Chair the day before the meeting and it was sent out to all members. I identified my pronouns in that statement. And yet, they were ignored.

The DFL Feminist Caucus is anything but. I resign my membership.

September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗

@katymontgomerie.com

Latest Ipsos study finds that the UK is the most transphobic of 26 nations studied when it comes to views on toilets and changing rooms etc

Worse than Hungary and Türkiye

Chart showing what I've just described

Full report here

https://www.ipsos.com/en/ipsos-pride-survey-2025

July 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Good Law Project

@goodlawproject.bsky.social

One month ago, the Supreme Court made a ruling that rolled back trans rights in the UK

It made this decision without listening to a single trans voice

Today, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’re bringing those voices somewhere they can't miss them 🏳️‍⚧️

May 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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Eddie van helsing

@sal.gay

May 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

February 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

[Pushes cowboy hat back, spits tobacco juice, squints into the distance] Well son looks like we got ourselves a conclave

April 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM

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Ari Drennen

@aridrennen.bsky.social

Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

The image shows a person holding up a U.S. passport with significant portions covered by yellow tape. The passport belongs to someone with the last name “Schafer” and the given name “Hunter James.” The document includes a passport photo of a person with long hair and a serious expression. The birthdate is listed as December 31, 1998, and the place of birth as New Jersey, USA. The passport’s gender marker is “M,” and it has an issue date of February 20, 2025, with an expiration date of February 19, 2035. The background features the official U.S. passport design, including an eagle emblem. The person’s face is partially visible behind the document, with only the lower part of their face showing beneath the tape.

February 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

For the past 48 hours, thousands of TikTok users have been posting and sharing videos ostensibly about "cute winter boots." But the phrase is not about footwear. It's algospeak code being used to discuss fighting back against Trump and his draconian immigration policies.

TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained

As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government

www.usermag.co

January 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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McNastyPrime

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“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes-you'll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success-they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

January 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM

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@bumblezee115.bsky.social

gonna start giving my pronouns as 'they/them and im a real dick about it'. like if u she/her me its not gonna be 'haha its okay' im gonna tear your throat out with my teeth

January 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM

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sister creep

@incidentalboogie.bsky.social

The derby community isn’t going to take this lying down, and I’d love to see the courts try to enforce it. To my fellow cis skaters: this is a perfect opportunity to flex our “no, I won’t be complying with that” muscle.

Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · Jan 23

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Absolutely bleak seeing US courts ban women from playing a sport they love and were willing to fight in court for the right to play trans inclusively.