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Marnanel Thurman

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I make stuff. Also at https://queer.party/@marnanel .

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jan 20

Who wants to see some medieval animals?

I'm doing some transcription of the encyclopedia of Bartolomeus Anglicus. Book 18 is about animals. This manuscript (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Ms. 1029) has all the animals drawn in the margin.

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · 17d

"Closedown" episode 2 of 6. In tonight's episode: Squidgeberg discovers quicksand, we learn what ORACLE really stands for, Michaela's a long way from "Scorchio!", the ident's gone all knockoff Lambie-Nairn, and Steve's just taking the mickey.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_k...
#comedy #shorts

Closedown, episode 2 of 6

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · 24d

here is a simple placard for No Kings protests. use and share freely. take care out there.

svg source: marnanel.org/stuff/no-kin...

#NoKings

four empty playing card kings, and the words "NO KINGS"

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Aug 31

in which @marnanel.org discovers a meme template

it us

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1909 drawing of guy with glasses and moustache looking "what on earth" at you, while holding a blank and extremely exploitable newspaper in front of him

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Sep 2

Is he not dead yet?

Death drums his fingers on the desk, looking at an hourglass

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Aug 25

The people need IKEA-level instructions for Reconstruction 2.0 and I am not even kidding.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 25

In general “bimodal but not binary” is something that seems to break brains a lot. Like a specific type of personality really dislikes the idea that something is neither a neat continuous distribution nor a on/off. It’s a type of complexity that just drives some people nuts, not just on gender stuff

Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · Aug 25

Biological sex is a spectrum too, not just gender. That’s not postmodern nonsense, it’s reality as revealed by science. Sex is a cluster of phenotypical characteristics that tend to, but do not always, correlate. The spectrum follows a bimodal distribution, but that’s not the same thing as a binary!

Stephanie @smfox.bsky.social · Aug 13

Abolish Gender is so 2012, get in losers, in 2025 we are abolishing sex

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Aug 25

Brimstoner, millstoner,
James Dobson Junior
Whipped many millions through
Works that he penned;
Each one repaid by some
Disciplinarian
Demon who sees to his
Ultimate end

#jamesDobson #doubleDactyl

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Aug 12

CW sex

Today's delightful discovery:

The French name for sex while spooning is "the 99 position".

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_%28p...

#wikipedia

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99 (position sexuelle)

La position 99 ou position en cuillères est
une position sexuelle où l'un des deux
partenaires est derrière l'autre, son abdomen contre le dos de l'autre. Cette position peut donner lieu à une pénétration vaginale ou anale avec le pénis, les doigts ou un objet (un godemichet par exemple).

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · Feb 4

🧵 It’s 🏳️‍🌈LGBT+ History month in the UK 🏳️‍🌈. So let me take you back to a time when life for gay people in this country was very different indeed.

A headline from the Sun newspaper reading "Screaming Gays Bring Commons To Halt!"

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jul 28

Yes, happy to talk if @sitrws.bsky.social is the sort of thing they're looking for.

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jul 18

Neeee-Owwww: Doppler effect

Neee-Owww-Owwwww: Trippler effect

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · Jun 27

Gamō Ujisato levels a charge of treason. A golden cross comes before a silver-tongued excuse about wagtails. And Date Masamune again manages to charm, bewilder, and lobby his way out of disaster. #DragonAscendant Ep. 15, "A Wagtail's Audacity" buff.ly/zmwwees #podcasts #JapaneseHistory

Friday Night History Season 4, "Dragon Ascendant," Episode 14: A Wagtail's Audacity

keywords: Date Masamune, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, kyoto, samurai, katana, sengoku, tohoku, fukushima, japan, travel

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · Jun 21

Anyone want a pretty fundraising Pride print?

Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · Jun 16

Sending these worldwide, with no extra postage charge, and a clonking donation to LGBTQ+ charities: they’re fab, only 30 like this will ever exist, get yours for Pride now! (£20+)

"Beauty Begins" letterpress quote Pride Month **FUNDRAISER** - Kate W. - Lore & Ordure's Ko-fi Shop

This a limited edition, signed and numbered, hand-printed, creative typography letterpress art print in ombre ink colours inspired by the transgender ...

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 22

Back in the day, if you insulted a knight you'd go to jail.

And if you insulted a nobleman, you'd just diss a peer.

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 22

Rowling is advocating taking photos of strangers in toilets and disseminating them.

Yet she actually sued someone twenty years ago for taking a photo of her kid.

globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/murray...

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 22

Rowling really should have known this already given she actually sued someone twenty years ago for taking a photo of her kid.

globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/murray...

Murray v. Big Pictures Limited - Global Freedom of Expression

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-...

globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 22

I don't think she's talking about the actual police: just policing the toilets like a vigilante might

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 22

I can see one or two advantages to this idea, as well as several colossal reasons we should drop the idea right now

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · Jun 21

The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?

Thoughts, #medsky?

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Loose Leaf Queer @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social · Jun 21

This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago.

But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 21

"Let some droppings fall on me"

Hymn texts which might have been better phrased.

Shape note score: "Let some droppings fall on me / Even me, even me / Let some droppings fall on me / Let thy mercy fall on me / Even me, even me / Let some droppings fall on me. While thou'rt calling, call on me. / Even me, even me. / Let some droppings fall on me / Speak the word of power to me / Even me, even me / Let some droppings fall on me." - and a photo of a statue with a seagull crapping on its head

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · Jun 21

“I asked chatgpt” Oh yeah well I married Isis on the fifth day of may but I could not hold on to her very long so I cut off my hair and road straightaway to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

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Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org · Jun 19

I BS

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · Jun 17

There is not a single reason or excuse to use Generative AI, not in its present form or even if ever. There is NONE. NONE. Its simply laziness and wanting the convenience of having a facsimile, a McDonald's cheeseburger of art slop in your lap.

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