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Heather Maxwell 🔆
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Sometimes I get paid to draw. Sometimes I don't, but I draw anyways. If you don't know why you're following me, read my comic in my pinned bloot (I think the posts here should be called bloots). 🏳️‍⚧️
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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · Nov 27
Hey, I made a comic!
I’d like as many people as possible to read it, so I put it up here for free -
hamf.ist
If you like it, please share it but stay spoiler-conscious!
If you don’t like it, I guess you can just keep that to yourself.
Boy Jones*
hamf.ist
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literaticat.bsky.social
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
If you voted in Seattle, check to make sure your vote was counted! If not, you may have a chance to cure your ballot:

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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heroinitiative.bsky.social
Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
Donate to Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, organized by Dave Kellogg
Mike W. Barr has been a writer of comics, science fiction novels and mystery novels… Dave Kellogg needs your support for Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care
www.gofundme.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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archai.bsky.social
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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courtneymilan.com
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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rosalarian.bsky.social
An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
Transgender Dystopia Blues
One especially dystopian week in the life of a trans person in 2025 USA. Things are getting worse.
www.rosalarian.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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longfusilli.bsky.social
hiiiii here’s a comic i made about having a job and being overwhelmed (1/7)
comic cover!!! featuring the main character, Dina, looking nervous and sweaty. She’s a young woman in an ill-fitting work shirt and pencil skirt with her dark hair tied up in a bun and bangs pinned with a dog-shaped clip. Some sort of ominous shadow looms over her. Text reads: FELT BAD, MET GOD by molly kate young (aka longfusilli) (aka ME!!!!)
September 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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sbqsolidarity.bsky.social
A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia
Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills
TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...
transfamilysos.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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riengray.bsky.social
I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally.

Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 23
1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people.

His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Digs In On Anti-Trans Provisions In Shutdown Fight Message
The provisions are becoming a key sticking point in the ongoing fight to keep the government open.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
a *lot* of anti trans shit coming from the house toward the FY26 bill & i can’t tell you how much it matters for a lot of people to tell dem senators—amidst the week’s jenga tower of moral panics—not to compromise & that trans people are worth fighting for.

info & script in the QT ⬇️⬇️

please call!
Trans healthcare bans are a part of HB 3944, HB 4016, HB 3838, HB 4213, HB 4779, HB 5342, HB 5304, HB 5116, and SB 2296. Provisions that end the legal recognition of trans people are part of HB 3838, HB 4552, and HB 5342. Sec 594 of HB 5342 is a prison ban that sees that no federal funding can be used to place an incarcerated person in a prison inconsistent with their "biological sex There are SOCIAL transition bans as part of HB 5342 and HB 5304. A provision to ensure trans and queer foster kids can be taken in by homes where they'll be forced to endure conversion therapy and abuse is part of HB 5304. Bathroom bans are a part of HB 3838 and HB 5342. Despite House and Senate Democrats uniting as a bloc against transgender sports bans in January and February of this year (with the exception of the 4 notable and vocal House-D bigots), sports bans are a part of HB 3838, HB 5304, HB 5342, and SB 2296, Sections that even allow same-sex marriage discrimination appear in HB 4016, HB 4121, HB 4213, HB 4249, HB 4552, HB 4553, HB 5342, HB 4754, and HB 5304. Are you getting the picture?
September 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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matthew.flux.community
Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...
web.archive.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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luriedanielfavors.bsky.social
Yesterday, Adam from South Dakota called my SiriusXM show to say Charlie Kirk was unalived b/c people on the left use words like racism or facism to describe folks like Charlie.

That call did not end the way he thought it would.

#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4
#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale:

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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON

Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
convolutedname.bsky.social Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · Sep 4
Apparently he's really saying "liberals need to befriend conservatives for the greater good" which is so pundit brained I can't even
September 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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harlotprincess.bsky.social
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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brynvivix.gay
this paragraph here is the perfect summary of why we don't see safety in this smarmy jagoff…just a different, more insidious kind of danger
a screenshot of the linked article. it reads as follows, with the text in brackets highlighted in yellow for emphasis: “Some may argue, as they often do when transgender people raise concerns about Gavin Newsom, that the alternative would be worse. And in many respects, Trump or whatever Trump-like candidate emerges in 2028 would be worse than Newsom on a host of issues. But even here, for transgender people, the calculation is not so straightforward. Right now, the community has one thing going for it: one major political party still passes protective legislation and has not joined the litany of anti-trans policies escalating in red states. [If that fragile dichotomy collapses—if Democrats too decide that transgender people can be sacrificed for political gain—the result will not be a lesser evil.] It will be a political consensus that our rights are gone, and that outcome could be even worse.
September 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
hamfist.bsky.social
I just found out August is Transgender History Month here in California.

As a late transitioner, finding out on the 2nd last day of the month is so thematically perfect that I'm not even disappointed that I didn't learn that earlier.

Anyways, Happy Transgender History Month for the next 27 hours!
August 31, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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corifromphilly.bsky.social
Please change immigration appointments from in person to online!
Hotline to change in person immigration appointments to online 888-462-5211
August 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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threnody.bsky.social
hi, cis folks!

this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.

hi, cis americans!

this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
goatsarah.org Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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secretaboutbox.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom is a transphobe "show me the evidence" thread, for all those Vote Blue No Matter Who posters in your replies.

this isn't the guy. push back on everyone who is trying to convince you the primary has been decided years in advance with a guy that loses in the general.
secretaboutbox.bsky.social secretaboutbox.bsky.social @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · Jul 15
let's talk about why.

newsom vetoed AB 2442, which would have made it easier for care providers to become licensed if they offer gender-affirming care.

www.eqca.org/vetoes-gende...
August 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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madycast.com
Here's the contact info of UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk once again. It's important that extreme pressure is applied BEFORE any deal, because it will be too late once it is signed.

bsky.app/profile/mady...
August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
hamfist.bsky.social
"…these clinics and hospitals care for 6.1 million people annually - all would no longer have access to gender-affirming healthcare through UCLA."

I'm 1 of those 6.1 million people. This is bigger than UCLA, it's part of a plan to force all trans people out of public life.
madycast.com mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · Aug 15
‼️Trump's demands of UCLA are far worse than you think.

His demands could result in thousands of trans people outside UCLA losing care, risking lives.

From Poppy Press on Instagram, an independent student-run outlet by UCLA students, reposted with permission
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www.instagram.com/p/DNTwD5IvAAy/
Trump's demands O UCLA are far worse than you think. A His administration is demanding, among other thingS, ,more than $1 billion from UCLA, a catastrophic end to gender-affirming care at UCLA hospitals, banning of transgender women in women's dorms and women's sports, and an end to all race- and ethnicity-based scholarships. poppypress_. Following ... In an unreleased proposed settlement reviewed by CNN, the Trump administration demanded UCLA pay LS billion to the federal government, and pay p another $172 million to those claiming to be impacted by violations of the employment discrimination section of the Civil Rights Act. This is the largest demand for money_from any. <university, with Brown and Columbia Universities paying $50 million and $221 million respectively. These are also the first major federal demands of a public university. While UCLA is undoubtedly going to attempt to negotiate this amount down, it's a dangerous signal that the Trump administration expects a massive payout and will continue to gut higher education. poppypress_. Following While the numbers themselves are shocking, CNN also reported different elements of the proposed settlement that sound alarms. Some demands that Trump has given to these other universities are presented tenfold in the UCLA proposal, and the effects would be catastrophic. If agreed to, this proposal has terms that would < dleny_the UCLA hospital and medical school from providing_gender-affirming_care. Brown University gave into a demand that it end gender- affirming care to minors; this is a severe escalation, especially considering UCLA's role in providing care to the transgender community across the state and UCLA hospital's leading expertise in gender- affirming surgery. This provision would make it extremely difficult for the transgender population on campus to get the medical care they need. Q poppypress_. Following While the numbers themselves are shocking, CNN also reported different elements of the proposed settlement that sound alarms. Some demands that Trump has given to these other universities are presented tenfold in the UCLA proposal, and the effects would be catastrophic. If agreed to, this proposal has terms that would < dleny_the UCLA hospital and medical school from providing_gender-affirming_care. Brown University gave into a demand that it end gender- affirming care to minors; this is a severe escalation, especially considering UCLA's role in providing care to the transgender community across the state and UCLA hospital's leading expertise in gender- affirming surgery. This provision would make it extremely difficult for the transgender population on campus to get the medical care they need. Q
August 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM