Nyx Valentine
@nyxvalentine.bsky.social
Devil In The Design elsewheres
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
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I don’t want to be more efficient. I don’t want to get faster.
I want to be deeper, more authentic. I want to be strikingly me. I want people to have shivers when they look at my art. Even if it takes time, I want me to enjoy the process and people to wait eagerly for my art and feel amazing
I want to be deeper, more authentic. I want to be strikingly me. I want people to have shivers when they look at my art. Even if it takes time, I want me to enjoy the process and people to wait eagerly for my art and feel amazing
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I don’t want to be more efficient. I don’t want to get faster.
I want to be deeper, more authentic. I want to be strikingly me. I want people to have shivers when they look at my art. Even if it takes time, I want me to enjoy the process and people to wait eagerly for my art and feel amazing
I want to be deeper, more authentic. I want to be strikingly me. I want people to have shivers when they look at my art. Even if it takes time, I want me to enjoy the process and people to wait eagerly for my art and feel amazing
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give it up for Henry yall
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
give it up for Henry yall
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It's like saying you can buy those curtains and make them into a dress if you want. You bought them, they're your curtains now, you can do WTF you want with them. The curtainmaker gets no say.
But if you bought the curtains from a Nazi curtainmaker, you're still giving a Nazi money to do Nazi shit.
But if you bought the curtains from a Nazi curtainmaker, you're still giving a Nazi money to do Nazi shit.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It's like saying you can buy those curtains and make them into a dress if you want. You bought them, they're your curtains now, you can do WTF you want with them. The curtainmaker gets no say.
But if you bought the curtains from a Nazi curtainmaker, you're still giving a Nazi money to do Nazi shit.
But if you bought the curtains from a Nazi curtainmaker, you're still giving a Nazi money to do Nazi shit.
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"The Death of the Author" isn't about pretending you didn't give them money to be evil anyway, it's rejecting any claim that the "true" meaning of the text is what the author allegedly intended, in part b/c hacks like Rowling lack the skills to stop themselves writing meanings like "slavery is ACE!"
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!
"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 10:53 PM
"The Death of the Author" isn't about pretending you didn't give them money to be evil anyway, it's rejecting any claim that the "true" meaning of the text is what the author allegedly intended, in part b/c hacks like Rowling lack the skills to stop themselves writing meanings like "slavery is ACE!"
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One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
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If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
One of my top five books always. Absolutely read it.
Take some advice from @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social: You should read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Then you should read Children of God.
Mary Doria Russell’s Children of God Is a Perfect Sequel - Reactor
Cadwell Turnbull on the triumph and tragedy of Mary Doria Russell's first contact novel.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One of my top five books always. Absolutely read it.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
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the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
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No shit you work slower when you have to work alongside a colleague who has no object permanence, knowledge model and lacks basic math and logic 🫠
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
No shit you work slower when you have to work alongside a colleague who has no object permanence, knowledge model and lacks basic math and logic 🫠
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October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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In some ways, this is what drove me out of making clothes, period, but absolutely what stopped me from trying to make a living from it.
Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country
October 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
In some ways, this is what drove me out of making clothes, period, but absolutely what stopped me from trying to make a living from it.
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The amount of grief, information overload and unease we are all experiencing in cycle after cycle is affecting us all in different ways.
Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.
We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.
Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.
We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.
This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me
Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time
Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time
October 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The amount of grief, information overload and unease we are all experiencing in cycle after cycle is affecting us all in different ways.
Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.
We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.
Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.
We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.
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all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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OSC tells us how to file a #HatchAct complaint. Nearly all federal sites are in violation. Do not accept this as normal. #FEDSTRONG
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How to File a Hatch Act Complaint
osc.gov
October 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
OSC tells us how to file a #HatchAct complaint. Nearly all federal sites are in violation. Do not accept this as normal. #FEDSTRONG
osc.gov/Services/Pag...
osc.gov/Services/Pag...
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Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar
A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!
Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...
#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia
Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...
#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia
Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills
TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...
transfamilysos.org
September 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar
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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
Today's little joys:
1. Sat in the stairs in the sun with a cat
2. Delicious Herby garlicy bread
3. A new book that I was immediately sucked into
4. Someone's lovely cologne on the breeze
5. Cool enough house to wake up cozy under a blanket this morning
1. Sat in the stairs in the sun with a cat
2. Delicious Herby garlicy bread
3. A new book that I was immediately sucked into
4. Someone's lovely cologne on the breeze
5. Cool enough house to wake up cozy under a blanket this morning
I am going to try to battle the doom with 5 small pleasures just from today:
1. That savory, star-anise-y smell when you walk past a pho place
2. Science cat socks
3. An old friend texting me a poem
4. No late fees at the liberry (oops)
5. A fancy sunset
1. That savory, star-anise-y smell when you walk past a pho place
2. Science cat socks
3. An old friend texting me a poem
4. No late fees at the liberry (oops)
5. A fancy sunset
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Today's little joys:
1. Sat in the stairs in the sun with a cat
2. Delicious Herby garlicy bread
3. A new book that I was immediately sucked into
4. Someone's lovely cologne on the breeze
5. Cool enough house to wake up cozy under a blanket this morning
1. Sat in the stairs in the sun with a cat
2. Delicious Herby garlicy bread
3. A new book that I was immediately sucked into
4. Someone's lovely cologne on the breeze
5. Cool enough house to wake up cozy under a blanket this morning
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The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm
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A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters | CNN
Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand.
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September 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Don't forget the zines!
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September 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Don't forget the zines!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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