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Maddy Love
@transatheistpod.bsky.social
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Trans woman, happily married, mother, grandmother, microbiologist, Podcaster, and trying to be a better person
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philplait.bsky.social
Just a reminder that there's good in the world, and good people: this year's Project for Awesome raised more than 3.7 million bucks. My sincere thanks to everyone who donated, and to Hank and John and everyone at #P4A for doing this.

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Project For Awesome 2025
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February 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Today's accidental coffee art is the #millenniumfalcon
#coffee
#starwars
February 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
At my local derby bout and saw the name of the junior derby group...and instantly thought of you @ursagets.excessively.gay

Hoping you're having a great day
February 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Homemade mac n cheese, with some freshly made roast beef, BBQ sauce and crispy onions

Basically my fave dish from Noodles n company made at home
February 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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atheistelena.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Someone fell asleep
February 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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joyannreid.bsky.social
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
What a nice beautiful & comfortable blanket! @minnesatan.bsky.social have the best merch #satan #Minnesota
February 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
I'm in #Minnesota, sitting in my car with the window down and sunroof open eating lunch in January.

This should not be normal.
January 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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galactic-amb.bsky.social
Super happy to and proud to learn about how to build a more inclusive supporters group. Thank you to the AccessiLoons For putting this on #SoccerForEveryBody

#ISConIce
A powerpoint title slide titled AccessiLoons Levi Dokken, he/him Mandy Temple, she/her Matt Axelson, he/they #SoccerForEveryBody: A Conversation on Accessibility and Inclusion. On the right side are a series of black grey, red, and teal triangles, with the accessiloons logo on a winged person in a wheelchair. In front of this screen are from left to right, is Levi (a white man in a wheelchair wearing a NM United soccer jersey), Matt (a white man with a NM United hat and a black T-shirt) and Mandy (a white woman with dark blonde hair, wearing a graphic t-ahirt). In front of them a woman wirh greying hair and a grey t-shirt.
January 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Need #help finding local orgs i can support and work with to make a difference.

I don't just wanna bitch, I wanna work towards a better tomorrow & against the shit happening today
January 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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theskepticsguide.bsky.social
Steve’s CSICon talk is out! He talks about when and why skeptics disagree and how we should handle disagreements within the skeptical community.

youtu.be/D3z5kIANta0?...
When Skeptics Disagree | Steve Novella
YouTube video by Center for Inquiry
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January 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
New episode of #ThePitt tonight :)
January 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
The lamination and deliciousness of kouign aman made by my local cottage bakery Albright's Delights

These are close to the most delicious things I have ever put in my mouth

#Kouign #bakery
January 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
There is a part of me relieved the bigots are trying to ban gay marriage in Idaho, and putting their racism on their sleeve. It's the part that holds out hope this country is better than this, and maybe this will be enough for voters to see just how bad things are/can get..& hope we can do better
January 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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nickfish.me
I also wrote about this more than a year and a half ago in our members magazine.
To be clear, our opposition to these bills and to the cultural rhetoric that is justifying them isn’t rooted in a reflexive opposition to the positions of our traditional opponents. It’s not the case that because they’re for it, we must be against it. Rather, these attacks on the humanity and dignity of our fellow Americans are deeply rooted in religious disapproval. During debate over a Florida bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors and prohibit all trans people from using bathrooms that align with their gender, Rep. Webster Barnaby said, “This is the planet Earth, where God created men male and women female! … The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come and parade before us.” An Ohio state representative, Gary Click, denied that his bill banning similar treatment was religiously motivated. But in a sermon he delivered four years ago, Click claimed that homosexuality and the idea that someone could be trans are the work of Satan, being used to undermine the family. But lastly, and perhaps most importantly, our advocacy around these issues and our willingness to speak out is because of our commitment to each other as a community. Atheists, including our members and supporters, are far more likely than the average American to be supportive of, and indeed members of, the LGBTQ community. That isn’t to say that the support is universal. There are unquestionably atheists who want to believe that the advocates of these laws are merely concerned that young people are making potentially life-altering decisions about their medical care too quickly or too easily, and that there is some wide-ranging campaign by “political correctness” stifling important debates. But that presumption of good faith is not warranted when the legislative “fix” they propose is criminalization—not just of incredibly rare medical interventions but also social transition, books involving LGBTQ characters, drag shows, and bathroom usage—and when the rhetorical justification includes comparisons to Nazi medical experimentation and pedophilic “grooming.” Pretending that their purported concerns are merely policy disagreements is to miss the forest for the trees and borders on willful blindness. That’s not a discussion, and it isn’t a good-faith policy debate. Rather, it’s the same dehumanizing and religiously motivated pushback directed at a tiny and vulnerable minority that we’ve seen for years anytime LGBTQ people gain more mainstream acceptance. It’s the same frantic calls to “protect the children!” from imagined threats that have been used for decades to justify overly broad and far-reaching legislative solutions to problems that don’t actually exist. And it should give us all pause when people who we thought shared our values instead embrace—or, at the very least, excuse—the cruelty of extreme Christian nationalists who make no secret of their motivations and justifications for their actions.
January 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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nickfish.me
"Why should atheists care about protecting the rights of trans people??" they ask.

Gee, such a mystery.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jan 11
Nebraska Republicans announce a new anti-trans bathroom ban and in the press conference, confirm this is explicitly religiously motivated.

"The idea of separation of church and legislature is one of the things that really pisses me off."
January 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Don't fuck with #Tairn

#FourthWing #Empyrean

Haven't read just pure entertainment fiction in a bit. Loving this series.
January 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Lab life....I have signed nearly every single one of these pages from 2022...being a lab supervisor is like practicing for closing on a house. I get to shred these all today now that the 2 year record retention window for 2022 is closed.
stack of lab documents 8 inches high
January 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
I'm assuming the #Greenland thing Trump is doing is a bid to give us more control and access to fossil fuels in the arctic and access to new shipping lanes that will be open year round as the climate warms.
January 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
Looking forward to attending the American Atheist conference for the first time :)
nickfish.me Nick Fish @nickfish.me · Jan 7
Hey Minnesota! You're doing a pretty great job when it comes to protecting your citizens from White Christian Nationalism and upholding church-state separation. So great, in fact, we're going to have a conference in Minneapolis in April! Check it out at convention.atheists.org
Minnesota earns high marks for separation of church and state • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota earns high marks for policies and constitutional protections for the separation of church and state, according to the latest annual rankings from American Atheists, a nonprofit advocacy grou...
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January 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
transatheistpod.bsky.social
10 days of work down, another 8 to go till my next day off. Fuck capitalism.
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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skepchick.org
RFK, Jr. has been talking about putting an end to the US standard of adding fluoride to drinking water, because he thinks it's dangerous. But it's not! Let's talk about why ppl don't realize fluoridation is safe and helpful 🧪 skepchick.org/2024/12/why-...
Why RFK Wants to Ban Fluoride
Transcript: Hey so I can’t believe I forgot to mention this but last month I was in an antique store and I found this monkey’s paw and while I was holding it I said out loud for no reason “Man I wi…
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December 2, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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atheistelena.bsky.social
Biden pardoning his son is something I might have given a shit about in the universe where we didn’t elect a felon rapist.
December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM