Merri
merri-cae.bsky.social
Merri
@merri-cae.bsky.social
Sometimes socially oblivious, or too direct. Over-explainer, but I'll still leave details out. Trying to lead with empathy and understanding above all else. Struggles with applications of Poe's Law.
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Supergirl is trending? Well, I’m not too good to jump on a trend. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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one of the weirdest experiences is going 30 years thinking you're an unremarkable straight boy and suddenly becoming the most fetishized class of person in 2025,,
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"Sutter’s latest decision means three of the five largest hospitals in the Bay Area have stopped or sharply restricted gender-affirming care for minors"
NorCal’s largest hospital to end gender-affirming care for kids
Sutter is the latest clinic to bow to federal pressure and stop treatment, leaving Bay Area families in medical limbo.
sfstandard.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Lol.

Literal proof that the dude in charge of trust and safety can't take any feedback.

This is hysterical.

Objectively, my post is not rude.

🤡
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.

Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.

that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Did you call Mastercard and Visa? Did you remind them you won’t stand for censorship?
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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hey the handbasket is 90 paid subscribers away from a huge goal—think we could get there today??

thehandbasket.co/upgrade

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.

Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Digging into the data of what's taking place with Black women unemployment and this graph is pretty damning.

You can see the EXACT month Black women's unemployment begins to splinter and that what hit us FIRST is now coming for all other women. This is #TheDoubleTax.

#blacksky #news #econsky
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear

"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!

Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This year, I wrote a song for Transgender Day of Remembrance. I hope you enjoy it. #TDoR

jesskali.bandcamp.com/track/self-h...
Self-Harm, by Jess Kali
track by Jess Kali
jesskali.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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i’m not going to tell you that you have to live. i want you to live. i want you to flourish. but what i want for you is unimportant. you have to want those things for yourself. and to get there, you have to learn to love yourself
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Anyone who is still saying "The way things are going the midterms won't even happen" right after we just had a blue wave and it's quite clear the regime is failing can welcome themselves to my block list. Please, enough of the defeatism. We have enough on our plate without your hypotheticals.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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This Trans Day of Remembrance, my heart hurts thinking of all the people we couldn't carry through to the other side of this moment in history.

Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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the cruel, unsettling, harmful US/UK similarities show up in so many places.

grateful for the release of the trans news initiative this week to help make sense of journalism's role in how we got here transnewsinitiative.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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can all make it through this together. Don't let them isolate you and pick you off one by one, rage against the dying of the light and start a fucking bonfire to keep that shit going, stay with us and we'll watch the sun rise together over the world we built

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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This Trans Day of Remembrance taking a short break from mourning the dead to think about how much of a miracle it is that I survived all of this shit and how us supporting each other and fundamentally changing the social relations of our society are the only ways we

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Trans Day of Remembrance is today.

The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.

#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025

tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports - TDoR 2025
1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM