In the dust of dreams
@dreamingdust.bsky.social
Goth-esque bibliophile, werewolf lesbian, cosmic horror aficionado. Shark mom. Writing about a dark city. She/her
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Intro, I guess?
I'm a trans woman living on the outer fringes of the dying UK. If you follow me you'll get commentary on books and life, reposts of cool things I have found, and the occasional pieces of writing that I'm working on. Also photos of my family of blahaj and maybe a selfie or two
I'm a trans woman living on the outer fringes of the dying UK. If you follow me you'll get commentary on books and life, reposts of cool things I have found, and the occasional pieces of writing that I'm working on. Also photos of my family of blahaj and maybe a selfie or two
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What we want from big tech:
- stable communication, art, and entertainment programs
- reliable electronic appliances we can depend on (inc. computers)
What we got:
-endless surveillance, theft, manipulation, and worst of all, unreliable crap tech designed to break.
They deserve the ire!
- stable communication, art, and entertainment programs
- reliable electronic appliances we can depend on (inc. computers)
What we got:
-endless surveillance, theft, manipulation, and worst of all, unreliable crap tech designed to break.
They deserve the ire!
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a star
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What we want from big tech:
- stable communication, art, and entertainment programs
- reliable electronic appliances we can depend on (inc. computers)
What we got:
-endless surveillance, theft, manipulation, and worst of all, unreliable crap tech designed to break.
They deserve the ire!
- stable communication, art, and entertainment programs
- reliable electronic appliances we can depend on (inc. computers)
What we got:
-endless surveillance, theft, manipulation, and worst of all, unreliable crap tech designed to break.
They deserve the ire!
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A population coverage of over 16 million people in the review - and just two complaints for the entirety of 2024!
One complaint was about the 'guidelines' for transgender access to bathrooms.
The second complaint was based on the 'perceived' gender of a person. Not confirmed as a trans person.
One complaint was about the 'guidelines' for transgender access to bathrooms.
The second complaint was based on the 'perceived' gender of a person. Not confirmed as a trans person.
A great investigative piece by @translucent.org.uk brilliant work.
translucent.org.uk/how-many-com...
translucent.org.uk/how-many-com...
How Many Complaints About Trans Women Using Toilets? - TransLucent
Data from local authorities representing over 16.5 million people reveals that complaints about trans women using toilets are virtually non-existent
translucent.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A population coverage of over 16 million people in the review - and just two complaints for the entirety of 2024!
One complaint was about the 'guidelines' for transgender access to bathrooms.
The second complaint was based on the 'perceived' gender of a person. Not confirmed as a trans person.
One complaint was about the 'guidelines' for transgender access to bathrooms.
The second complaint was based on the 'perceived' gender of a person. Not confirmed as a trans person.
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What in the actual fuck!?!
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What in the actual fuck!?!
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I don't know what we're gonna go about this, it seems inevitable that they'll turn this on LGBT people simply for publicly being LGBT, beginning with trans people
Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens”
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I don't know what we're gonna go about this, it seems inevitable that they'll turn this on LGBT people simply for publicly being LGBT, beginning with trans people
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3 weeks update, so honoured with the progress we've made but still a long way to go. Please share if you can <3
www.gofundme.com/f/help-reyly...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-reyly...
Donate to Help Reylynn escape the UK., organized by Reylynn Ambrose
Hello, my name is Reylynn, or Fanged Cutie on most platforms. I am a disabled trans britis… Reylynn Ambrose needs your support for Help Reylynn escape the UK.
www.gofundme.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
3 weeks update, so honoured with the progress we've made but still a long way to go. Please share if you can <3
www.gofundme.com/f/help-reyly...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-reyly...
Breaking in new boots effing hurts.
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Breaking in new boots effing hurts.
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bri'ish tgirls be like
luv me gf
luv me other gf
luv me other other gf
luv me *other* other gf
luv me boygirl pet dog, who is also me gf
'ate the NHS
simple as
luv me gf
luv me other gf
luv me other other gf
luv me *other* other gf
luv me boygirl pet dog, who is also me gf
'ate the NHS
simple as
November 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
bri'ish tgirls be like
luv me gf
luv me other gf
luv me other other gf
luv me *other* other gf
luv me boygirl pet dog, who is also me gf
'ate the NHS
simple as
luv me gf
luv me other gf
luv me other other gf
luv me *other* other gf
luv me boygirl pet dog, who is also me gf
'ate the NHS
simple as
Through a combination of weight loss and hair dye, I think I have technically ended up a leggy blonde. I just need the heels.
October 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Through a combination of weight loss and hair dye, I think I have technically ended up a leggy blonde. I just need the heels.
Taxi rides to ancient cities are most enjoyable when reminiscing about WoD and CofD games with cool people.
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Taxi rides to ancient cities are most enjoyable when reminiscing about WoD and CofD games with cool people.
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This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in.
This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
🧵
This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
🧵
That said, if you're considering HRT, my advice is simple: DO IT.
HRT is one of the safest medical treatments there is, and you'll likely know if it's working for you pretty quickly. Within a few weeks, my quality of life had improved to the point where my wife noticed and commented on it.
HRT is one of the safest medical treatments there is, and you'll likely know if it's working for you pretty quickly. Within a few weeks, my quality of life had improved to the point where my wife noticed and commented on it.
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in.
This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
🧵
This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
🧵
Post something random or have an awful October
September 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Post something random or have an awful October
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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
🖤🐍
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🖤🐍
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Good grief! Charli Brown is a lot happier after her egg cracked, and disaster lesbians Peppermint Patty and Marcie are of course very supportive! (And their former crush on the ol’ blockhead makes a lot more sense now!) 🪁
September 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Good grief! Charli Brown is a lot happier after her egg cracked, and disaster lesbians Peppermint Patty and Marcie are of course very supportive! (And their former crush on the ol’ blockhead makes a lot more sense now!) 🪁
Names are keys. Keys open doors. Doors let wolves in.
And yet, I am already inside…
And yet, I am already inside…
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Names are keys. Keys open doors. Doors let wolves in.
And yet, I am already inside…
And yet, I am already inside…
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If you have trouble with writer's block, it's because Alyson has taken more than her share of words from the Collective Cosmic Trans Words Psychic Repository, and so you're having to wait for "Weetabix" to respawn before you can finish your "Sensible Breakfast Rangers" story.
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If you have trouble with writer's block, it's because Alyson has taken more than her share of words from the Collective Cosmic Trans Words Psychic Repository, and so you're having to wait for "Weetabix" to respawn before you can finish your "Sensible Breakfast Rangers" story.
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It's been almost a week since the most recent donation to @anariablooms.bsky.social's GFM, please help a trans woman of color out, thank you. She's in circumstances where this is a little pressing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ar...
Donate to Support A Trans Woman's Gender Affirming Surgery, organized by Aria Balraj
Hi! My name is Aria, and I'm trying to raise funds so I can finally fix u… Aria Balraj needs your support for Support A Trans Woman's Gender Affirming Surgery
www.gofundme.com
August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It's been almost a week since the most recent donation to @anariablooms.bsky.social's GFM, please help a trans woman of color out, thank you. She's in circumstances where this is a little pressing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ar...
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At this point I feel giving any ground to payment processors to censor content is dangerous. Very obvious to me that paypros must be treated like water companies, ISPs, electric company: Not a platform, but a utility
If you empower the utility to engage in deplatforming, it inevitably mulches the
If you empower the utility to engage in deplatforming, it inevitably mulches the
absolutely! the reason I started following you again was because you had been showing a lot of growth with this while fighting the war on payment processors.
August 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
At this point I feel giving any ground to payment processors to censor content is dangerous. Very obvious to me that paypros must be treated like water companies, ISPs, electric company: Not a platform, but a utility
If you empower the utility to engage in deplatforming, it inevitably mulches the
If you empower the utility to engage in deplatforming, it inevitably mulches the
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July 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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genuinely not kidding when i say that the trans subreddits are indistinguishable from being CIA psyops.
"hrt is really dangerous and nobody is qualified to tell you that 1mg e and 300mg spiro is medical malpractice so you should only listen to your doctor"
the hitler particles are off the charts.
"hrt is really dangerous and nobody is qualified to tell you that 1mg e and 300mg spiro is medical malpractice so you should only listen to your doctor"
the hitler particles are off the charts.
so they banned discussion of HRT from r/mtf it appears
July 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
genuinely not kidding when i say that the trans subreddits are indistinguishable from being CIA psyops.
"hrt is really dangerous and nobody is qualified to tell you that 1mg e and 300mg spiro is medical malpractice so you should only listen to your doctor"
the hitler particles are off the charts.
"hrt is really dangerous and nobody is qualified to tell you that 1mg e and 300mg spiro is medical malpractice so you should only listen to your doctor"
the hitler particles are off the charts.
In other news, water is wet and the Pope may in fact be Roman Catholic.
And, as always, the reason is transmisogyny. Society furiously hates anyone who shows any sign of choosing femininity over masculinity.
And, as always, the reason is transmisogyny. Society furiously hates anyone who shows any sign of choosing femininity over masculinity.
3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws
August 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In other news, water is wet and the Pope may in fact be Roman Catholic.
And, as always, the reason is transmisogyny. Society furiously hates anyone who shows any sign of choosing femininity over masculinity.
And, as always, the reason is transmisogyny. Society furiously hates anyone who shows any sign of choosing femininity over masculinity.
This is the first of these readthrough posts that has hit me hard. comments about Aaron needing to find a reason to live were a knife.
It is possible to keep existing without a reason - just inertia - but I would not recommend it to anyone. That’s the shape of my life and it is hell.
It is possible to keep existing without a reason - just inertia - but I would not recommend it to anyone. That’s the shape of my life and it is hell.
August 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is the first of these readthrough posts that has hit me hard. comments about Aaron needing to find a reason to live were a knife.
It is possible to keep existing without a reason - just inertia - but I would not recommend it to anyone. That’s the shape of my life and it is hell.
It is possible to keep existing without a reason - just inertia - but I would not recommend it to anyone. That’s the shape of my life and it is hell.
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THE SISTERS OF DORLEY: condition your hair properly
WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN: make delicious smoothies
SHOW GIRL and THE CATCH: put on a pretty skirt and kiss your boss
GLOW, WORM: drink blood and kiss vampires
KIMMY: DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GET IN THE ROBOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN: make delicious smoothies
SHOW GIRL and THE CATCH: put on a pretty skirt and kiss your boss
GLOW, WORM: drink blood and kiss vampires
KIMMY: DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GET IN THE ROBOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
Nothing in @badambulist.bsky.social's previous work prepared me for just how many smoothies WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN would inspire me to make.
Seriously, it's been 5-6 per week, replacing what I normally had for lunch. I'm eating healthier, and our Vitamix has never gotten this much use. 😅
Seriously, it's been 5-6 per week, replacing what I normally had for lunch. I'm eating healthier, and our Vitamix has never gotten this much use. 😅
July 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THE SISTERS OF DORLEY: condition your hair properly
WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN: make delicious smoothies
SHOW GIRL and THE CATCH: put on a pretty skirt and kiss your boss
GLOW, WORM: drink blood and kiss vampires
KIMMY: DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GET IN THE ROBOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN: make delicious smoothies
SHOW GIRL and THE CATCH: put on a pretty skirt and kiss your boss
GLOW, WORM: drink blood and kiss vampires
KIMMY: DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GET IN THE ROBOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
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Every UK petition is like this
July 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Every UK petition is like this