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challahchic.bsky.social
Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th
@challahchic.bsky.social
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Poet. Butch. Boy dyke. Librarian. Chronically stressed. On at least three tiers of gender at all times.
(they/them, ey/em, ze/hir, etc)

Welcome to the cat colony.
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challahchic.bsky.social
realizing i have opinions on xenofeminism:
XKCD "experts in anything" meme. Text in brackets are impact font text replacing the original. Stick Figure w a Ponytail: [FEMINISM] IS SECOND NATURE TO US [QUEER THEORISTS], SO IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE TENETS OF [LIBERAL FEMINISM] AND ONE OR TWO [INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS]. Bald Stick Figure: AND [RADICAL FEMINISM], OF COURSE. Stick Figure w a Ponytail: OF COURSE. Bottom Caption: EVEN WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR IT, EXPERTS IN ANYTHING WILDLY OVERESTIMATE THE AVERAGE PERSON'S FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR FIELD.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
gender abolitionism is ‘shorthand for the ambition to construct a society where traits currently assembled under the rubric of gender no longer furnish a grid for the asymmetric operation of power’
(Xenofeminism, Helen Hester quoting Laboria Cuboniks)
November 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
challahchic.bsky.social
if you think rumi's cis, ur wrong
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
challahchic.bsky.social
"a rascal of trans guys" will be my collective noun from now on
the main source for terms of venery is the Book of St. Albans, which also includes some for people, such as: impatience of wives multiplying of husbands superfluity of nuns abominable sight of monks lying of pardoners misbelieving of painters drunkship of cobblers rascal of boys disworship of Scots
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
challahchic.bsky.social
i Know better than to quote dunk i do
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
challahchic.bsky.social
explained this wank to my aunty who immediately decided "USian" is her preferred terminology

I do come by my attitudes honestly lol
challahchic.bsky.social Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.bsky.social · 4d
from a USAmerican/USian: there is zero problem with identifying US citizens as people in the specific country of the "United States"

Canada is in America, Mexico is in America, there's a whole fucking southern continent of America with hundreds of millions of ppl. Call ppl from the US "USians" idc
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
<gay evil laughter>
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
auntie says she's not ready for company but i can come over and read in a corner

nice to know i'm predictable
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
I am, as always, recommending “Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness” by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
tutusntinyhats.bsky.social Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 9d
It also fucking sucks that so many people on the Left(s) refuse to understand anti-fatness as a system of oppression, and fat liberation as a legitimate anti-oppression movement.

It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
transgender
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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adambonin.bsky.social
Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
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November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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auroragirl.bsky.social
yet again i find myself contemplating the deep truths of the universe
A comic by Colleen Clark, in three panels 1: a woman sitting crosslegged has a hand to her chest as she says “wow. this is a boob” 2: the woman looks down and says “this is *my* boob” 3: with starry eyes and a beatific smile she says “✨i can touch this boob whenever i want!✨”
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
ahead of the curve on this round of linguistic wank
Clearsky screencap showing the "lists on" for the challahchic Bluesky account. They are on 80 lists, and the top one shows that on 9/28/2025 they were placed on "Americanophobia: Users that misname Americans ("USian, USAmerican") and/or spread bigotry & violent rhetoric against American people, whether by racial takes or nationality, or reposts those that do the above."
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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sollizyy.bsky.social
solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/11/we-a... LET'S GO LESBIANS! ...This one is about lesbians.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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reforest-kelley.bsky.social
Just realized I hadn't posted pictures of the actual sticker
A vinyl sticker with an illustration of three people in inflatable frog suits carrying a red banner with yellow text that reads, "'If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... the frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials.' Exodus 8:2,4"
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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andrewfleer.com
"The Gorillaz are vtubers"
Reddit thread: - Virtual musician? Like, she's not real, just AI or something? - she's a vtuber and a musician. "Virtual musician" was a relaly weird way to phrase that but her persona is tied to a virtual avatar, visually. - Oh, like Gorillaz? - Huh. Actually yeah. Like Gorillaz - "Huh". My old ass was immediately offended, followed up with no way to actually dispute that assertion - Lmao I had the same reaction as napoleon, but its just because I've never once made the connection that the Gorillaz basically were vtuber musicians to some extent - "The Gorillaz are vtubers" is now my new "A hot dog is a sandwich.". I can't refute it. I just hate it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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sollizyy.bsky.social
Tell me about your favourite books that feature an interesting relationship between a transfem and transmasc character (doesn't have to be romance), I'm curious!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
challahchic.bsky.social
from a USAmerican/USian: there is zero problem with identifying US citizens as people in the specific country of the "United States"

Canada is in America, Mexico is in America, there's a whole fucking southern continent of America with hundreds of millions of ppl. Call ppl from the US "USians" idc
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
sorry my slang makes you cringe i don't care
a photo of a happy goat with the text "I am cringe/but I am free"
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
- Femmedom Gangbang Erotica by @le-transexual.bsky.social
- Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf by Cassandra Whitaker
- Scream / Queen by CD Eskilson
- Local Woman by jzl jmz
rozmilner.bsky.social Roz Milner @rozmilner.bsky.social · 5d
Which ones? The only ones I’ve had on my radar at Kay Gabriel’s and Gwen Aube’s
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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duckvalentine.bsky.social
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.

www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
challahchic.bsky.social
everyone pls send a prayer that they person just offered a job at the jcl turns it down so that i can be offered it
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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chababe.bsky.social
And for he who has a cousin of similar age, it is to his merit to walk at least 200 cubits while sharing smokable herbs
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM