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@theopalsiren.bsky.social
They/He Queer Enby Transmasc 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 26 year old. I love art, writing, dnd, and other nerdy shit.
Pronouns are They/He
Pronouns are They/He
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blowing past expectations by miraculously remembering to post here a third time in one week
August 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
blowing past expectations by miraculously remembering to post here a third time in one week
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
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DuckDuckGo, Brave + Vivaldi are good protection…for now. Chrome was also highlighted but we highly advise moving away from Google if you care about privacy or human rights.
ICYMI Meta was caught spying on Android user online behavior and browsing in an entirely new and very creepy way, and then tried to lie about what they were doing, falsely claiming it was a "miscommunication" with Google:
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
arstechnica.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
DuckDuckGo, Brave + Vivaldi are good protection…for now. Chrome was also highlighted but we highly advise moving away from Google if you care about privacy or human rights.
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Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
December 14, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
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The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree.
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
The First Amendment Should Protect Trans People’s Passports — Assigned
Trump’s executive order defining sex made it clear that passport sex markers will now carry an ideological message. The constitution protects Americans from being forced to endorse ideological message...
www.assignedmedia.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree.
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
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Bro they lobotomized your aunt
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
April 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bro they lobotomized your aunt
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Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!
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I’m not in the habit of quoting Ronald Reagan, but that thing he said about ‘outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich’ comes to mind.
The FBI has only ever had Republican directors. Trump illegally forced out the last two FBI directors for not being Republican enough. Today, Senate Republicans let him appoint a new FBI director who posted an AI video of himself chainsawing Democrats’ heads off
Senate confirms Patel to lead FBI www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Dems were no. Joined by two GOP: Senator Lisa Murkowski, a centrist Republican of Alaska, and Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine
Dems were no. Joined by two GOP: Senator Lisa Murkowski, a centrist Republican of Alaska, and Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine
February 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I’m not in the habit of quoting Ronald Reagan, but that thing he said about ‘outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich’ comes to mind.
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October 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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Since more and more instances are popping up of terrible men using autism as a scapegoat for their behavior, I’d like to link an article I made for the Nib in 2018. I hate that its continued to be relevant today thenib.com/james-damore...
Autism Isn’t To Blame For Bad Behavior | The Nib
Autism is a developmental disability, not an attitude or personality.
thenib.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Since more and more instances are popping up of terrible men using autism as a scapegoat for their behavior, I’d like to link an article I made for the Nib in 2018. I hate that its continued to be relevant today thenib.com/james-damore...
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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It's fucking pathetic, sad and enraging to see no one in the government stand up and fight for the trans citizens of America.
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
February 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It's fucking pathetic, sad and enraging to see no one in the government stand up and fight for the trans citizens of America.
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"i'm just a girl" "girl math" "girls don't have to be strong" i almost feel bad that i spent most of the 2010s trashing "girlboss" and "strong female character" because this regressive trend of learned helplessness and traditionalism masquerading as choice is markedly worse
February 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"i'm just a girl" "girl math" "girls don't have to be strong" i almost feel bad that i spent most of the 2010s trashing "girlboss" and "strong female character" because this regressive trend of learned helplessness and traditionalism masquerading as choice is markedly worse
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Three years ago, Judith Butler predicted in a Guardian interview that “gender-critical” feminists would not be part of the fight against fascism. This caused a massive “GC” backlash, prompting The Guardian to censor the interview. And yet here they now are, definitively proving Butler correct.
February 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Three years ago, Judith Butler predicted in a Guardian interview that “gender-critical” feminists would not be part of the fight against fascism. This caused a massive “GC” backlash, prompting The Guardian to censor the interview. And yet here they now are, definitively proving Butler correct.
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“Why aren’t the democrats doing anything?”
It’s almost like they have been fascistic enablers this whole time like leftists have been saying this whole time
It’s almost like they have been fascistic enablers this whole time like leftists have been saying this whole time
February 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
“Why aren’t the democrats doing anything?”
It’s almost like they have been fascistic enablers this whole time like leftists have been saying this whole time
It’s almost like they have been fascistic enablers this whole time like leftists have been saying this whole time
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The CDC is busy purging data en-masse from their website, including crucial trans health research and youth harm demographics.
Don’t let our fiction and theory be next.
Don’t let our fiction and theory be next.
Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The CDC is busy purging data en-masse from their website, including crucial trans health research and youth harm demographics.
Don’t let our fiction and theory be next.
Don’t let our fiction and theory be next.
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This isn’t even a boomer complaint, cuz all the boomer parents I knew were playing Super Nintendo with their kids in the 90s. This is Silent Generation nonsense. This is “I’m scared of technology” dogshit. It’s anti-art. It’s actually the dumbest thing I’ve ever read
January 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This isn’t even a boomer complaint, cuz all the boomer parents I knew were playing Super Nintendo with their kids in the 90s. This is Silent Generation nonsense. This is “I’m scared of technology” dogshit. It’s anti-art. It’s actually the dumbest thing I’ve ever read
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saw a cat with medieval painting of a cat face
January 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
saw a cat with medieval painting of a cat face
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