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Benlain Dufont
@irenicus.bsky.social
40 followers 39 following 10 posts
Aspiring writer. Cape Cod native. Tourette’s Chanter. All of my Neuros are Divergent. Nerd w/many Special Interests (I will tell you about them and that is a threat). Queer ex-fundie. General Organic Meatbag Doing Their Best. They/Them.
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rudbeckia.bsky.social
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Many queer people were also denied restitution after the war because they were not considered victims of fascism - as only those targeted based on racial, political or religious grounds were considered.
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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husker.bsky.social
finding out that the regular car reviews guy is a gay furry and he only accepted it in his 40s after a life of repression, and that he's finding some form of solace and meaning is making me pretty happy. always loved his videos
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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contrapoints.bsky.social
I’m really bad at responding to texts. Trying to decide if I can handwave this away as “executive dysfunction” or if it’s like a serious personality flaw that needs to be addressed
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Oct 5
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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janus.bsky.social
lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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raykwong.bsky.social
Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone. Civil War has been canceled because the shooter is a straight white Mormon kid from Utah.
September 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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gothblue.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Just because I no longer live in Texas doesn’t mean I can’t remember the importance of today: when Texas Senator Ted Cruz liked incest porn on his official Twitter account
September 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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aranock.bsky.social
A white supremacist shit head died and the whole world rallies to lionize him, my trans siblings get murdered constantly because of his rhetoric, fucking crickets. I'm exceptionally exhausted with existing in a world that would clap at my death and celebrate those who called for it.
aranock.bsky.social Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · Sep 11
I dont have adequate words for my anger today at the hagiography and whitewashing of a neonazi whos fans Ive been personally harassed by. Like Ive gotten got called slurs by a guy in a turning point shirt here in Saskatoon. Your sympathy for the devils pretty vile.
September 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
I’m going to make this a video at some point but I’m saying this here and being done because it’s honestly just angering and scaring and frustrating me.
The reason I’ve been so critical of people praising the likes of Gavin Newsom and saying things like, “you may not like him but we need him in the fight,” or applauding his redistricting of California as a tit-for-tat move against GOP redistricting, is that fundamentally they are ignoring the core problem here: this is just justifying a further slide into an authoritarian state. I want to be clear, because people don’t seem to understand me when I say this—I think Gavin Newsom’s response to the GOP redistricting Texas to disenfranchise Democratic voters and give themselves more representatives, by doing the same in California to disenfranchise GOP voters and give Democrats more representatives, is the correct response within the system. Yes, if Democrats want to win, this is what they have to do. They shouldn’t be playing by rules the GOP clearly ignores. Again, this is the only response that makes sense within the rules of the game. But the problem with everyday Americans’ response—cheering on Newsom and saying we need to get behind him uncritically—shows how much people empathize with power over themselves. At the end of the day, this is the American system further entrenching and normalizing authoritarian power. Even if Democrats were to win using these tactics in 2028—which is preferable to a GOP win, yes—they will not willingly give up this newly normalized power dynamic. More voters will have been disenfranchised. Long term, we’re left with a system even less democratic, with few—if any—levers within it to push back. Worse still, so many are cheering on the idea of having strongman leaders like Newsom. People literally make Trump-like memes of him carrying an American flag. This “we need our own strongman to fight Trump and kick him in the balls” is the same cult of personality that entrenches the Trumpian mindset within establishment Democrats who think they’re being progressive, while actually backing further disenfranchisement of middle- and lower-class Americans—people already struggling under late-stage capitalism. And people like Newsom—or other Democratic leaders establishment liberals rally behind, like Pete Buttigieg—are perfectly willing to throw trans people or the homeless under the bus if it plays well to a mythical centrist base. So while people pat themselves on the back for voting for a gay man or supporting a Democrat like Newsom who “punches Trump where it hurts,” they’re ignoring not only their own further disenfranchisement, but also the additional attacks and harm directed toward even more marginalized groups like trans people and the homeless. I say all of this because one day people will have to reckon with this reality—that the American system will continue to justify making itself more authoritarian under the logic of, “that’s just how we have to fight the fascists.” That’s the only choice it offers us within its limits. But we do have other options. People are just too scared, or too enmeshed in the political system, to recognize them or admit what needs to be done. We need to fundamentally change how we do politics. I’m not saying you need to pick up a gun and start a revolution against the American state. But I am saying you need to stop focusing solely on electoral politics or trying to pass laws within this system to get what you need. Build up your communities. Find ways to provide food, educational resources, childcare, and other essentials locally. Organize for community defense. Join a union or a collective. These are tangible actions, better uses of your time than canvassing for a political campaign, asking people to vote, or arguing with Republicans online. The path we’re on—pouring our energy into stanning Newsom or treating electoral politics as the only way to “win”—is deeply dangerous. It limits our imagination and leads us further into authoritarianism. And eventually, we will have to face that fact—whether it’s in 2028, 2032, or 2036. No matter what, we will have to confront that fundamental problem. The reason I’m so adamant about recognizing it now is that the longer we wait, the more people will be hurt. As a trans person, I’m already on the chopping block—discarded by both sides of the same system of power. I see how people like me face a very real chance of being imprisoned, killed, or worse before society wakes up to this problem. And I’m not the only one. To paraphrase the poem: “They came for the trans people, and I did nothing, for I was not trans.” What scares me most is that when I try to explain all of this, I am the one vilified. Trans people like me are told—not just by Republicans who openly hate us, but by Democrats—that we need to shut up and get behind “our guy” with “our guy” always being politicians who are more willing to publicly sit down with the likes of Charlie Kirk than to platform or even talk to a trans person. That’s how the system fuels resentment and dehumanization of marginalized people like me—because I’m unwilling to comply. I become the problem, the issue, the person to ostracize, the one accused of helping the fascists. At the end of the day, I’m not here to say Gavin Newsom is wrong to redistrict in response to Trump and the GOP. That is how Democrats can and should win power, and within the system, it’s what they should be doing. That’s not my criticism. My point isn’t to Newsom—it’s to you. Because while redistricting may be a short-term solution, it doesn’t solve the deeper problem. It delays it. It accelerates it. And you will eventually have to face it. I would much rather we face it clear-eyed now. Because doing so not only gives me, as a trans person, a greater chance of survival, but it also means that if you recognize the problem now, I’m still here with you—still able to fight alongside you. Because as the poem warns, one day they will come for you. And by then, there may not be anyone left beside you to fight.
August 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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legallylove.bsky.social
Blanket statements about political violence being “bad” come across as completely disingenuous when our country is supporting a genocide and politically violent military actions globally.

Miss me with your platitudes.
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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unburntwitch.com
It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed
September 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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medusaswink.bsky.social
Every single elected official decrying Kirk’s shooting.

Not one of them addressing the school kids shot today in Colorado.

That says more than i ever could.
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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aceingenue.bsky.social
I can feel glum that folks are resorting to killing people, but I could turn my heart thrice over and not find a corner of it that mourns for a man who wouldn’t hesitate to gleefully sick his dogs on me.
aranock.bsky.social Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · Sep 10
I get feeling bad that we are in a place where political violence is the norm but its telling that a lot of people who brushed off the assassinations of democratic politicians, the genocide in gaza, congo and elsewhere, & actively participate in shitting on trans people are saying this needs empathy
September 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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lindsayellis.bsky.social
video's only been up two hours and we've already raised $10,000 for PCRF, go team!!
August 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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lindsayellis.bsky.social
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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August 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
We have arrived in the uk for a holiday
The kids are currently arguing about how many books they get to buy
K1: they have a six floor bookstore, k2! A huge Waterstones
Me: it's just five
K1: I'm sad
August 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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rascallygrandpa.bsky.social
Hey I am happy you’re here

Remember to drink water and take your meds.

Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing your best.
August 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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cait.bsky.social
it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit
leftiestats.bsky.social Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · Aug 7
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".

In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.

(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
I have no desire to dig into this woman's privacy, but I have to highlight that the only evidence cited for the M&S employee being trans at all is her height.

This nonsense is being peddled over less than nothing. An tall employee who doesn't do bra fitting asked a customer if she needed help.
Earlier this week, The Telegraph reported that the iconic high street brand – best-known for its products such as Percy Pig and Colin the Caterpillar – had apologised to the mother who shopped in one its stores hoping to get a bra fitting for her 14-year-old daughter. In the complaint by the anonymous customer, the mother said whilst the staff member was “polite” the interaction was “completely inappropriate” and left her daughter feeling “freaked out”. Alongside issuing an apology, M&S confirmed the staff member was one who worked across the clothing section and is not an employee who carries out bra fittings, meaning they simply would have just been doing their job asking if customers perusing the clothes need any help. In the complainant itself, the customer said the employee who spoke with them was a “transgender ‘woman’, ie, a biological male” and stated this was “obviously the case” because the person was “at least 6ft 2in tall”. “My daughter recoiled, so I politely declined the offer and we left immediately. She was visibly upset and said she felt ‘freaked out’.” After the mother lodged a complaint, an M&S customer service assistant wrote in an email response: “We deeply regret the distress your daughter felt during her visit to our store. We understand how important this milestone is for her, and we are truly sorry that it did not go as you had hoped.”
August 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM