Melissa Hex
@melissahex.bsky.social
Change maker, word lover, unapologetic feminist. The revolution must be intersectional. BLM. Trans rights are human rights. Pets, plants, neurodiversity, nonprofits, board games, and rants from a progressive LGBT+ Ohioan. She/her. Opinions = mine.
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the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own
but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just
but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own
but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just
but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
Today is the day! Join me for intrigue and high tech mystery in a fictional future, delivered via Wikipedia-style articles once a week. It is, quite frankly, hauntingly good.
✨ NEUROCRACY ✨
A sci-fi hypertext game
🌐 Fall into a wiki hole from the future
🔎 Solve a murder and other mysteries
👀 Your theories influence what happens [citation needed]
📅 The third — and final — season launches JULY 16!
Check out our new trailer, courtesy of @sammgreer.bsky.social 👇
A sci-fi hypertext game
🌐 Fall into a wiki hole from the future
🔎 Solve a murder and other mysteries
👀 Your theories influence what happens [citation needed]
📅 The third — and final — season launches JULY 16!
Check out our new trailer, courtesy of @sammgreer.bsky.social 👇
Neurocracy 3.0 Release Trailer
YouTube video by Playthroughline
www.youtube.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today is the day! Join me for intrigue and high tech mystery in a fictional future, delivered via Wikipedia-style articles once a week. It is, quite frankly, hauntingly good.
Boy howdy I tell you what, I'm a grown ass woman but when my folks start arguing I'm ten years old again, helpless and terrified, trying to protect my younger siblings while I also try to mediate between my parents to create peace. Oldest daughter, responsible for everyone, checking in. 😓
July 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Boy howdy I tell you what, I'm a grown ass woman but when my folks start arguing I'm ten years old again, helpless and terrified, trying to protect my younger siblings while I also try to mediate between my parents to create peace. Oldest daughter, responsible for everyone, checking in. 😓
Cincinnati - hearing it's unseasonably chilly at Jungle Jim's in Fairfield today. 🧊 Look out for each other.
June 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Cincinnati - hearing it's unseasonably chilly at Jungle Jim's in Fairfield today. 🧊 Look out for each other.
Unseasonably cold conditions reported in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati this afternoon. May need to salt the sidewalks. Watch out for each other out there.
June 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Unseasonably cold conditions reported in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati this afternoon. May need to salt the sidewalks. Watch out for each other out there.
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Please do not send emails to avelo via this contact form.
Voicing your anger at their complicit role in the inhumane deportations might hurt their fee fees.
www.aveloair.com/contact-us
Voicing your anger at their complicit role in the inhumane deportations might hurt their fee fees.
www.aveloair.com/contact-us
May 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Please do not send emails to avelo via this contact form.
Voicing your anger at their complicit role in the inhumane deportations might hurt their fee fees.
www.aveloair.com/contact-us
Voicing your anger at their complicit role in the inhumane deportations might hurt their fee fees.
www.aveloair.com/contact-us
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pride is next week
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
May 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
pride is next week
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
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If you're only following this "debate" through popular media you probably have the impression that studies on youth gender medicine are roughly split between benefits and harms.
Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."
Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."
May 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
If you're only following this "debate" through popular media you probably have the impression that studies on youth gender medicine are roughly split between benefits and harms.
Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."
Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."
No new episode of What A Day this morning, so I finally found myself exploring their nightly newsletter. Well played, @crooked.com, well played. 😉😂
May 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
No new episode of What A Day this morning, so I finally found myself exploring their nightly newsletter. Well played, @crooked.com, well played. 😉😂
Kudos to everyone participating in the various Flying Pig races this weekend! I'm definitely not a running sort of person, but I'm intrigued, perplexed, & impressed by those who are.
Here's the "Dream Big & Fly High Elevator," just completed in ArtWorks' office! Interior mural by Lindsey Whittle
Here's the "Dream Big & Fly High Elevator," just completed in ArtWorks' office! Interior mural by Lindsey Whittle
May 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Kudos to everyone participating in the various Flying Pig races this weekend! I'm definitely not a running sort of person, but I'm intrigued, perplexed, & impressed by those who are.
Here's the "Dream Big & Fly High Elevator," just completed in ArtWorks' office! Interior mural by Lindsey Whittle
Here's the "Dream Big & Fly High Elevator," just completed in ArtWorks' office! Interior mural by Lindsey Whittle
Had to cancel a mural tour for a group of Girl Scouts this morning because of the weather and that's a heckin bummer. We were all set to brave Flying Pig weekend in downtown/OTR together to learn about art and then...*gestures at sky* Ohio spring happened.
May 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Had to cancel a mural tour for a group of Girl Scouts this morning because of the weather and that's a heckin bummer. We were all set to brave Flying Pig weekend in downtown/OTR together to learn about art and then...*gestures at sky* Ohio spring happened.
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This is a five-alarm fire
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This toolkit explains #Ohio's SAVE Act (SB 153 and HB 233) and provides actions you can take to stop it:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
This toolkit explains #Ohio's SAVE Act (SB 153 and HB 233) and provides actions you can take to stop it:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Help Stop Ohio's SAVE Act.docx
Find this resource useful? Support our work! Help Stop Ohio's SAVE Act Updated Friday 4/25/25 at 12:00 pm It’s hard to explain how dangerous Ohio’s SAVE Act is. This bill (SB 153 and its identical t...
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April 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is a five-alarm fire
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
This toolkit explains #Ohio's SAVE Act (SB 153 and HB 233) and provides actions you can take to stop it:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
This toolkit explains #Ohio's SAVE Act (SB 153 and HB 233) and provides actions you can take to stop it:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Gave one of my friends the birthday gift that keeps on giving and tempted him into starting Blue Prince. 😆 Now I have someone other than my partner to talk to about this game. Muah hahahahaha.
April 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Gave one of my friends the birthday gift that keeps on giving and tempted him into starting Blue Prince. 😆 Now I have someone other than my partner to talk to about this game. Muah hahahahaha.
Blue Prince Day 20: accessed the antechamber for the first time
Blue Prince Day 21: figured out how to run instead of just sauntering around my soon-to-be inheritance.
One of these things was infinitely more helpful than the other. 🤣
Blue Prince Day 21: figured out how to run instead of just sauntering around my soon-to-be inheritance.
One of these things was infinitely more helpful than the other. 🤣
April 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Blue Prince Day 20: accessed the antechamber for the first time
Blue Prince Day 21: figured out how to run instead of just sauntering around my soon-to-be inheritance.
One of these things was infinitely more helpful than the other. 🤣
Blue Prince Day 21: figured out how to run instead of just sauntering around my soon-to-be inheritance.
One of these things was infinitely more helpful than the other. 🤣
Standing in solidarity with my trans siblings in the UK today. We see you, we hear you, your rights are human rights. What the government is doing to you is abhorrent. I will never stop fighting for you, and for trans rights everywhere.
April 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Standing in solidarity with my trans siblings in the UK today. We see you, we hear you, your rights are human rights. What the government is doing to you is abhorrent. I will never stop fighting for you, and for trans rights everywhere.
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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK
April 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK
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i think “schlemiel, schlimazel—hassenpfeffer incorporated”
has untapped potential as a rallying cry.
has untapped potential as a rallying cry.
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
i think “schlemiel, schlimazel—hassenpfeffer incorporated”
has untapped potential as a rallying cry.
has untapped potential as a rallying cry.
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John Lithgow: Please Walk Away From Harry Potter
"Stepping away would send a message to trans young people that they matter more than a fantasy franchise. It would align with the values you’ve shared throughout your career, both in interviews and in your performances." ✅
"Stepping away would send a message to trans young people that they matter more than a fantasy franchise. It would align with the values you’ve shared throughout your career, both in interviews and in your performances." ✅
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
John Lithgow: Please Walk Away From Harry Potter
"Stepping away would send a message to trans young people that they matter more than a fantasy franchise. It would align with the values you’ve shared throughout your career, both in interviews and in your performances." ✅
"Stepping away would send a message to trans young people that they matter more than a fantasy franchise. It would align with the values you’ve shared throughout your career, both in interviews and in your performances." ✅
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Wouldn’t it be convenient if we could blame how hard it is to have a family in America on people without them?
Alas, it’s the persistent “I suffered raising kids so you should have to suffer too” attitude in power that has the most dominant and damaging structural influence on how our country runs.
Alas, it’s the persistent “I suffered raising kids so you should have to suffer too” attitude in power that has the most dominant and damaging structural influence on how our country runs.
April 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Wouldn’t it be convenient if we could blame how hard it is to have a family in America on people without them?
Alas, it’s the persistent “I suffered raising kids so you should have to suffer too” attitude in power that has the most dominant and damaging structural influence on how our country runs.
Alas, it’s the persistent “I suffered raising kids so you should have to suffer too” attitude in power that has the most dominant and damaging structural influence on how our country runs.
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📋352,389 voter registrations are considered eligible for removal from Ohio's Voter Registration Database.
🔎 Check to make sure you're not on the removal list by going to
registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov
If you are on the list and an eligible voter, you can quickly re-register.
🔎 Check to make sure you're not on the removal list by going to
registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov
If you are on the list and an eligible voter, you can quickly re-register.
March 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
📋352,389 voter registrations are considered eligible for removal from Ohio's Voter Registration Database.
🔎 Check to make sure you're not on the removal list by going to
registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov
If you are on the list and an eligible voter, you can quickly re-register.
🔎 Check to make sure you're not on the removal list by going to
registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov
If you are on the list and an eligible voter, you can quickly re-register.
It's apprentice interview day for our summer mural programs and I'm staring down 4+ hours of interviewing hopeful teenage artists. Continually reminding myself that they're more scared of me than I am of them and hoping to make their (likely first ever) interviews an overall positive experience.
March 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's apprentice interview day for our summer mural programs and I'm staring down 4+ hours of interviewing hopeful teenage artists. Continually reminding myself that they're more scared of me than I am of them and hoping to make their (likely first ever) interviews an overall positive experience.