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Diana J. 🍉🧡🌻
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Filipina Canadian 🏳️‍⚧️ / 26 / Gamer Girl / solidarity 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇦🇲 🇹🇼 🇪🇭 🇱🇧 / ACAB / overthrow and unionize the video game industry (she/they) #RejectAutocracy #BlackLivesMatter
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Diana J. 🍉🧡🌻 @redwizard-404.bsky.social · Nov 6
I won’t give up. Not on myself. Not on my loved ones. Not on my belief that every single living being on this planet should have fundamental rights
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randomvariable.co.uk
Having to resign from a BBC science show after 16 years and 33 seasons, for not being a transphobe is where we are as a country.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19h
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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leaftilde.bsky.social
SOMA is one of the best science fiction video game stories I've ever played AND you can turn off monster deaths if it's too scawwy (it was too scawwy for me I'm a big baby I did, in fact, turn off the monster deaths)
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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alhobalghly.bsky.social
Urgent appeal! My heart is breaking. The storm swept away our tent, clothes, and blankets. We are now homeless and without blankets. Please help us with $150 before my kids and I freeze to death. Show your humanity and compassion. Urgently
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December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Hopefully we can all now acknowledge the utter inadequacy of the "internationalism vs isolationism" paradigm, wherein Trump was cast as a man "wary of foreign entanglements". What we're dealing with here is a very American form of blood-and-soil imperialism.

www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
Sovereignty for Me, None for Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
it's why left-YIMBYism is, imo, the correct position from a political economy point of view. the trade offs of rent control vs zoning + development reform really mean that the costs of the former are offset by the latter
dov.bsky.social Marxist-Tolkienist-Zelenskyist 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d
yeah i'm not being funny but most arguments against rent controls, while they may be /economically/ sound, are bad from the perspective of /political/ economy
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d
Um, ok...

This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.

This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.

And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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merovingians.bsky.social
I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
bill-of-lefts.bsky.social No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1d
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
merovingians.bsky.social the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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diplomatofnight.com
Socialists should take the law seriously, grapple with it, think of how to overhaul and reforge it.
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ people uniting with labor unions have defeated rising forms of fascism in Canada. It should be a model for the world.

breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
A Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model ⋆ The Breach
Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, workers, Muslims, and drug users. Saskatchewan shows how a united front could stop them
breachmedia.ca
December 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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ahmed209425.bsky.social
Please help me , I need food
Please help me , I need food

I need 10 people to donate $25 to complete our daily goal.

You are our only hope 🥹🥹💔🙏🙏
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December 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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sollizyy.bsky.social
solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/12/tran... I threw this together as an easier reference for people looking for *something* featuring transmasculinity. I will eventually get back to doing essays for each individual media I mention here, but I felt this may aid people in finding the story they need!
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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kevinbaker.bsky.social
Persistently annoyed by liberal refusal to see the longstanding system of immigration, the one that effectively places undocumented workers outside of the protections of labor law and subjects them to racial terror, as a strategy of labor discipline that affects all workers.
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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cailin.dev
Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
www.out.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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rincewind.run
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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maxp94.bsky.social
The most maddening trend of the last year is that everyone decided to pretend that Trump’s threats and continued belligerence against Canada were third party claims that could be disputed, rather than something that everyone in the country saw and heard multiple times.

Literally this meme.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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bartenderhemry.bsky.social
Always head-spinning how the venezuelan people (or whoever) are innocent victims of a reign of terror at home but if they try to flee and come here they become sinister illegal aliens. In this case the transformation happens within two sentences
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d
Lindsey Graham says the Pope better get on the “right side of history” and support Trump’s push to use military force to overthrow the government of Venezuela
Tweet by Lindsey Graham: Without a credible threat of the use of military force, nothing changes in Venezuela. When it comes to Maduro, the time for talking is closing. The time for action to end this reign of terror in Venezuela is upon us. I would urge the Holy Father to be on the right side of history when it comes to ending Maduro’s reign of terror on the Venezuelan people, the United States and others throughout the region. The use of military force to evict Maduro will only be required if Maduro insists on remaining as the illegitimate leader of a narcoterrorist state. He has stolen elections, collaborates with terrorist groups like Hezbollah, sits atop a notorious drug cartel and has flooded our country with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. As President Trump said, when it comes to Maduro, we can do it the easy way or the hard way. I would urge the Holy Father to spend his time and energy persuading Maduro to take the easy way out -- for all.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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msrachelforlittles.bsky.social
I don’t use this app but I noticed some supportive messages popping up and I really appreciate that 🥹💞
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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assignedmedia.org
We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.

Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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kobcritic.bsky.social
I wrote (a lot) about the recording of Rubber Soul, my favorite album, for its 60th anniversary buttondown.com/kobcritic/ar...
Rubber Soul at 60: The Beatles Against The Wall
It was October 12, 1965, and the Beatles were exhausted. How could they not be? They were nearing the end of the most chaotic year any band has ever...
buttondown.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM