Thommy
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People on bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy if you want me to be able to follow you back.
Ⓐ🏴 software engineer and occasional street food vendor. Sincereposter in […]
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Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as there support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as there support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.
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The battle to whiten our #media is growing. First Condé Nast folds Teen Vogue, a progressive, youth-led publication, into Vogue firing all of the diverse and queer staff.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5598290/teen-vogue-layoffs
Now questioning is banned. Conde Nast fires 4 for […]
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5598290/teen-vogue-layoffs
Now questioning is banned. Conde Nast fires 4 for […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The battle to whiten our #media is growing. First Condé Nast folds Teen Vogue, a progressive, youth-led publication, into Vogue firing all of the diverse and queer staff.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5598290/teen-vogue-layoffs
Now questioning is banned. Conde Nast fires 4 for […]
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5598290/teen-vogue-layoffs
Now questioning is banned. Conde Nast fires 4 for […]
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It is quite bittersweet to contemplate donating to this American Friends campaign to help farmers in Gaza to distribute vegetable packets to families. My last similar donation was for a horticultural project which was destroyed by the IDF, and the last Palestinian farmer I read about engaging in […]
Original post on mastdn.social
mastdn.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It is quite bittersweet to contemplate donating to this American Friends campaign to help farmers in Gaza to distribute vegetable packets to families. My last similar donation was for a horticultural project which was destroyed by the IDF, and the last Palestinian farmer I read about engaging in […]
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Rest in power, Alice Wong.
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Rest in power, Alice Wong.
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
The bar exam is obvious rent-seeking by lawyers, meant to artificially limit their number so that they can charge exorbitant fees for their services, ensuring a multi-tiered justice system in which the poor are fucked.
But it's at least entertaining watching it humble a) the husband of a […]
But it's at least entertaining watching it humble a) the husband of a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The bar exam is obvious rent-seeking by lawyers, meant to artificially limit their number so that they can charge exorbitant fees for their services, ensuring a multi-tiered justice system in which the poor are fucked.
But it's at least entertaining watching it humble a) the husband of a […]
But it's at least entertaining watching it humble a) the husband of a […]
I'm of two minds about the Epstein stuff:
1) This kind of blatant collusion between predators, implicating wide swaths of people isn't exclusive to elites but is found all over the place, even in scenes that really *should* know better
and
2) Pedocon theory is real. Just look at how MAGA gets […]
1) This kind of blatant collusion between predators, implicating wide swaths of people isn't exclusive to elites but is found all over the place, even in scenes that really *should* know better
and
2) Pedocon theory is real. Just look at how MAGA gets […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm of two minds about the Epstein stuff:
1) This kind of blatant collusion between predators, implicating wide swaths of people isn't exclusive to elites but is found all over the place, even in scenes that really *should* know better
and
2) Pedocon theory is real. Just look at how MAGA gets […]
1) This kind of blatant collusion between predators, implicating wide swaths of people isn't exclusive to elites but is found all over the place, even in scenes that really *should* know better
and
2) Pedocon theory is real. Just look at how MAGA gets […]
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115546394116790758
South Park is prone to extreme hyperbole yet this is just straight up accurate. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with my wrist.
South Park is prone to extreme hyperbole yet this is just straight up accurate. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with my wrist.
If you don’t know what that is, you’re lucky!
All you need to know is this South Park video is very real
https://youtu.be/VAfy26xs6e0
All you need to know is this South Park video is very real
https://youtu.be/VAfy26xs6e0
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115546394116790758
South Park is prone to extreme hyperbole yet this is just straight up accurate. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with my wrist.
South Park is prone to extreme hyperbole yet this is just straight up accurate. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with my wrist.
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sorry y'all. this shit isn't a hypothetical to me. I was alienated from the Oklahoma City punk scene in 2012 for speaking out against a rapist and the band who harbored him. I have seen the exact dynamics on display in the Epstein emails play out in a regular degular punk scene for years.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
sorry y'all. this shit isn't a hypothetical to me. I was alienated from the Oklahoma City punk scene in 2012 for speaking out against a rapist and the band who harbored him. I have seen the exact dynamics on display in the Epstein emails play out in a regular degular punk scene for years.
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a 17 year-old homeless teenager prostituted herself for orthodontic care and the pedophile Matt Gaetz was one of her rapists; because, let’s be clear: this is how #pedophiles #ephebophiles use poverty ―to #rape..
it’s coercion ―as in, there is no #consent―, when a teenager resorts to […]
it’s coercion ―as in, there is no #consent―, when a teenager resorts to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
a 17 year-old homeless teenager prostituted herself for orthodontic care and the pedophile Matt Gaetz was one of her rapists; because, let’s be clear: this is how #pedophiles #ephebophiles use poverty ―to #rape..
it’s coercion ―as in, there is no #consent―, when a teenager resorts to […]
it’s coercion ―as in, there is no #consent―, when a teenager resorts to […]
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how much info on the Trump/Epstein connection did the NYT have? why didn't they make that a major pre election story? what was the decision making process like there?
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
how much info on the Trump/Epstein connection did the NYT have? why didn't they make that a major pre election story? what was the decision making process like there?
Ugh so apparently the transvestigation mania that has gripped society has made its way to the playground. Happened to my younger kid and he is not pleased!
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ugh so apparently the transvestigation mania that has gripped society has made its way to the playground. Happened to my younger kid and he is not pleased!
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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if you've ever had to organize IRL or just like ... operate in a subcultural scene having basic litmus tests like "no nazis tattoos" is good actually because the costs of getting rid of certain people is so much harder than just barring them from entry upfront
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you've ever had to organize IRL or just like ... operate in a subcultural scene having basic litmus tests like "no nazis tattoos" is good actually because the costs of getting rid of certain people is so much harder than just barring them from entry upfront
I suppose most wealthy philanthropists aren’t running child sex trafficking rings but I’d rather run things in a way such that you neither need nor even welcome philanthropy. The state is also a corrupting influence; see all the extortion of schools by the Trump admin and other regimes.
Science […]
Science […]
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mastodon.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I suppose most wealthy philanthropists aren’t running child sex trafficking rings but I’d rather run things in a way such that you neither need nor even welcome philanthropy. The state is also a corrupting influence; see all the extortion of schools by the Trump admin and other regimes.
Science […]
Science […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114977121852110889
wanna remind people that Jeffrey Epstein’s main function was of using #rape as the social glue of Reaganism’s #globalization. so it’s really not a coincidence its full realization happened thanks to Bill Clinton.
what the #EpsteinFiles […]
wanna remind people that Jeffrey Epstein’s main function was of using #rape as the social glue of Reaganism’s #globalization. so it’s really not a coincidence its full realization happened thanks to Bill Clinton.
what the #EpsteinFiles […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114977121852110889
wanna remind people that Jeffrey Epstein’s main function was of using #rape as the social glue of Reaganism’s #globalization. so it’s really not a coincidence its full realization happened thanks to Bill Clinton.
what the #EpsteinFiles […]
wanna remind people that Jeffrey Epstein’s main function was of using #rape as the social glue of Reaganism’s #globalization. so it’s really not a coincidence its full realization happened thanks to Bill Clinton.
what the #EpsteinFiles […]
Ask not why ~some~ gay fiction (yuri, yaoi, and so on) have a masc x fem dynamic that you read as pseudoheteronormative. Ask why masc4masc and fem4fem straight couples - which also totally exist! - aren’t often represented in romances.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ask not why ~some~ gay fiction (yuri, yaoi, and so on) have a masc x fem dynamic that you read as pseudoheteronormative. Ask why masc4masc and fem4fem straight couples - which also totally exist! - aren’t often represented in romances.
Listening to Bergtatt while the sky is black with storm clouds… definitely recommend. There is a seasonality to music I enjoy just like food and Fall and Winter are great times for creepy shit that sounds cold, if that makes any sense.
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Listening to Bergtatt while the sky is black with storm clouds… definitely recommend. There is a seasonality to music I enjoy just like food and Fall and Winter are great times for creepy shit that sounds cold, if that makes any sense.
One of the first of Epstein's victims to come forward was a trans woman and they made it about her transness instead of the heinous crime itself (htt @imgwendy@threads.net).
![One of Epstein's underage victims was a trans woman, but nobody paid attention because she was trans and Latina. The New York Post and The Times of Israel even ran hit pieces on Ava Cordero like these.
Epstein's lawyers had her 2007 suit dismissed for exceeding the statute of limitations. The lawyer also claimed Epstein wasn't gay and thus Ava must have been lying. I often think about how Epstein could have been stopped sooner if society listened to POC, trans people, or girls.
[Photo of newspaper articles with headlines "Gender-Bend Shocker" and "S(he) has a history"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkqnuooc7wpi6vimkkvgdosx/bafkreiciylsfimfnn3x3lwu7izqjornekqwwtjdds74yz2uia6y5n6ecge@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
One of the first of Epstein's victims to come forward was a trans woman and they made it about her transness instead of the heinous crime itself (htt @imgwendy@threads.net).
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I don't just want Trump held accountable.
Hold accountable every single person, including every single elected and appointed official, who tried to cover this up, and lied in public before Congress and in the Courts.
Countless people have died, been killed, or had their lives destroyed by this […]
Hold accountable every single person, including every single elected and appointed official, who tried to cover this up, and lied in public before Congress and in the Courts.
Countless people have died, been killed, or had their lives destroyed by this […]
Original post on urbanists.social
urbanists.social
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I don't just want Trump held accountable.
Hold accountable every single person, including every single elected and appointed official, who tried to cover this up, and lied in public before Congress and in the Courts.
Countless people have died, been killed, or had their lives destroyed by this […]
Hold accountable every single person, including every single elected and appointed official, who tried to cover this up, and lied in public before Congress and in the Courts.
Countless people have died, been killed, or had their lives destroyed by this […]
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Ronan Piontek interviewed both Jordan (formerly from A Better Way 2A) and I about our perspectives on self defense and carving out space away from mainstream gun culture, especially for minorities and others who have conventionally felt left out. Give it a read!
“You are welcome here” - The Advent of Marginalized Gun Culture in the U.S. — The Madison Journal of Literary Criticism
One day in the fall of 2024, I was forced to reckon with how I, and many of my peers, understand gun ownership in the United States. In a class discussion about police shootings, the professor challen...
mjlc.squarespace.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ronan Piontek interviewed both Jordan (formerly from A Better Way 2A) and I about our perspectives on self defense and carving out space away from mainstream gun culture, especially for minorities and others who have conventionally felt left out. Give it a read!
"Okay students, which number is greater, 1 or -2? Write what you think on your board."
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Okay students, which number is greater, 1 or -2? Write what you think on your board."
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
*cracks whip*
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
*cracks whip*
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115533541290508750
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115533541290508750
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
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I'm teaching Sonic Pi in a music tech class, and because we were using the TB-303 synth in class, I felt compelled to modify what we did to make the Charli XCX “365” bassline:
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I'm teaching Sonic Pi in a music tech class, and because we were using the TB-303 synth in class, I felt compelled to modify what we did to make the Charli XCX “365” bassline:
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
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[trans healthcare advice (US-specific)]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
Original post on enby.life
enby.life
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
[trans healthcare advice (US-specific)]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]