Little lost demon, lurking in shadows
@jdstarflower.bsky.social
Xennial sapphic trans femme/them trying to find community in the digital wasteland.
Pinned
As someone once pointed out, if non-citizens aren’t afforded due process, _nobody_ gets due process.
All they’ll need to do is claim you aren’t a valid citizen and suddenly you have no due process to argue against that claim.
And they can do it to _anyone_ for any reason.
All they’ll need to do is claim you aren’t a valid citizen and suddenly you have no due process to argue against that claim.
And they can do it to _anyone_ for any reason.
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
I’m going to say this again. Our judicial system relies on the idea that EVERYONE is entitled to due process.
It doesn’t work if we ignore that.
It doesn’t work if we ignore that.
Once again the current regime is showing with actions that they idolize Reagan.
But even Reagan, by the end of his tenure (and the death of Rock Hudson), had changed his tune.
This is 1985 levels of ignorance and malice. The world knows better, Trump doesn’t.
But even Reagan, by the end of his tenure (and the death of Rock Hudson), had changed his tune.
This is 1985 levels of ignorance and malice. The world knows better, Trump doesn’t.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Once again the current regime is showing with actions that they idolize Reagan.
But even Reagan, by the end of his tenure (and the death of Rock Hudson), had changed his tune.
This is 1985 levels of ignorance and malice. The world knows better, Trump doesn’t.
But even Reagan, by the end of his tenure (and the death of Rock Hudson), had changed his tune.
This is 1985 levels of ignorance and malice. The world knows better, Trump doesn’t.
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this is what it's like, yeah.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
this is what it's like, yeah.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune
Feeling like we could really use a Butlerian Jihad right about now.
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune
Feeling like we could really use a Butlerian Jihad right about now.
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune
Feeling like we could really use a Butlerian Jihad right about now.
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune
Feeling like we could really use a Butlerian Jihad right about now.
The pushback is slow, but the system is trying to correct. The question becomes, has too much damage already been done?
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
www.lawdork.com/p/ju...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.lawdork.com/p/ju...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
www.lawdork.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The pushback is slow, but the system is trying to correct. The question becomes, has too much damage already been done?
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A reminder: unsolicited advice is criticism, always.
And taking someone else's work and feeding it to an LLM without their permission is theft--and the exact reason that creatives *loathe* LLMs in the first place.
And taking someone else's work and feeding it to an LLM without their permission is theft--and the exact reason that creatives *loathe* LLMs in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A reminder: unsolicited advice is criticism, always.
And taking someone else's work and feeding it to an LLM without their permission is theft--and the exact reason that creatives *loathe* LLMs in the first place.
And taking someone else's work and feeding it to an LLM without their permission is theft--and the exact reason that creatives *loathe* LLMs in the first place.
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Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
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This really shows how popular he is in this state right now. 🤦♀️
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This really shows how popular he is in this state right now. 🤦♀️
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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Please don't let this past year of pain and survival in the face of hatred make you bitter and hopeless. You deserve comfort, healing, justice, and happiness. Like all sadness, let that open your heart instead of closing it.
Humans are troop animals. Our greatest strength is always together.
Humans are troop animals. Our greatest strength is always together.
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Please don't let this past year of pain and survival in the face of hatred make you bitter and hopeless. You deserve comfort, healing, justice, and happiness. Like all sadness, let that open your heart instead of closing it.
Humans are troop animals. Our greatest strength is always together.
Humans are troop animals. Our greatest strength is always together.
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For Transgender Day of Remembrance this year, please remember why we grieve. Our sadness is one of the most important biological adaptations that humans have evolved.
Because it drives us to seek each other out.
We mourn so we can come together and become strong again in community.
Because it drives us to seek each other out.
We mourn so we can come together and become strong again in community.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
For Transgender Day of Remembrance this year, please remember why we grieve. Our sadness is one of the most important biological adaptations that humans have evolved.
Because it drives us to seek each other out.
We mourn so we can come together and become strong again in community.
Because it drives us to seek each other out.
We mourn so we can come together and become strong again in community.
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🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
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Impeach Trump?
No.
ARREST Trump and drag that orange bastard away in chains. Lock him up and throw away the damn key.
No.
ARREST Trump and drag that orange bastard away in chains. Lock him up and throw away the damn key.
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Impeach Trump?
No.
ARREST Trump and drag that orange bastard away in chains. Lock him up and throw away the damn key.
No.
ARREST Trump and drag that orange bastard away in chains. Lock him up and throw away the damn key.
They’re waffling about whether or not we can safely leave the country (or return if we’re already away).
And, even if every valid doc has our correct gender, they’re denying passport applications unless we can prove our birth gender. Some folks can’t do that.
And yet, not discrimination?
And, even if every valid doc has our correct gender, they’re denying passport applications unless we can prove our birth gender. Some folks can’t do that.
And yet, not discrimination?
Update: The State Department has once again changed the language back to saying transgender people's passports will be valid "until they are invalidated pursuant to federal regulations."
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
They’re waffling about whether or not we can safely leave the country (or return if we’re already away).
And, even if every valid doc has our correct gender, they’re denying passport applications unless we can prove our birth gender. Some folks can’t do that.
And yet, not discrimination?
And, even if every valid doc has our correct gender, they’re denying passport applications unless we can prove our birth gender. Some folks can’t do that.
And yet, not discrimination?
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“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!"
'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social.
In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."
― Ursula K. Le Guin
'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social.
In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."
― Ursula K. Le Guin
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!"
'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social.
In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."
― Ursula K. Le Guin
'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social.
In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."
― Ursula K. Le Guin
A legend, an inspiration, and an icon.
This one hurts.
This one hurts.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
A legend, an inspiration, and an icon.
This one hurts.
This one hurts.
I don’t usually share TT links, but this one expresses a point that I feel is very important in a way that resonates with me.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
Trans women experience transmisogynistic violence pre-transition and i’m tired of pretending otherwise #lgbt #trans #wlw #lgbtq #feminism
TikTok video by lily of the valley ⚢
www.tiktok.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I don’t usually share TT links, but this one expresses a point that I feel is very important in a way that resonates with me.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
This is what allies do. Now what we need are accomplices.
60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community
“Not in our Name” is the title of a collective of cisgender women who have written an open letter calling out the media and politicians for promoting anti-trans rhetoric.
www.thepinknews.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is what allies do. Now what we need are accomplices.
My parents brought me up on documentaries about the civil rights and women’s rights movements. I watched nightly news about the gay rights movement. It is now time to be part of and see the same activism for trans rights.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My parents brought me up on documentaries about the civil rights and women’s rights movements. I watched nightly news about the gay rights movement. It is now time to be part of and see the same activism for trans rights.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
This is the cruel update that I’ve been expecting to drop since the SCOTUS decision. This will effectively limit the ability for trans individuals to travel internationally. It could well keep many people from being able to flee the country if they had previously been able.
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is the cruel update that I’ve been expecting to drop since the SCOTUS decision. This will effectively limit the ability for trans individuals to travel internationally. It could well keep many people from being able to flee the country if they had previously been able.
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I got a COVID booster because I continue to see “healthy” people lose their health to COVID and don’t want to risk it happening to me
About 1 in 4 American adults got a covid vaccine shot during the 2024-25 virus season, a fraction health care experts warn could be smaller this year as millions wrestle with conflicting advice from the government and trusted medical orgs about the value of a shot. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I got a COVID booster because I continue to see “healthy” people lose their health to COVID and don’t want to risk it happening to me
This whole thread is a blazing condemnation of patriarchy.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
This also tracks with my experience of street harassment and physical abuse.
An adult man -- a complete stranger -- photographed me playing on the swing set in the playground after school when I was younger than 10.
When I tried to run away, he started following me until I screamed for a teacher.
An adult man -- a complete stranger -- photographed me playing on the swing set in the playground after school when I was younger than 10.
When I tried to run away, he started following me until I screamed for a teacher.
I was talking with a friend my age not long ago about how she received the largest amount of male interest from older men when she was ~8 years old to around 19 or so.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This whole thread is a blazing condemnation of patriarchy.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.