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𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖆 𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖑

@godivaghoul.bsky.social

April 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

We had a good run

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 15d

2026 could be great. We simply don't know.

January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM

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TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading

"in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

- Is it SINCERE
- is it CATHARTIC
- was it FUN TO MAKE
- is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly"

December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM

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Steve Herman

@w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

it feels inappropriate to say ‘happy’ trans day of remembrance but i hope it has been a meaningful day and i hope my cis friends are doing right by the trans people in their lives

November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️

@magicariot.com

We live on for those who couldn't

We carry their true names in our hearts, so that they might be remembered

And we hope those still keeping names private, and those young yet to come, will know a better world than that known by the lost, and us

November 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM

Ze

@xzk484.bsky.social

Today, the 20th of November, marks Trans Day of Remembrance.
On this day, we remember the siblings we have lost, especially those taken by violence or who ended their own lives in a desperate bid to escape a world so full of persecution and pain.
May their loss spur us on to make a better future.

November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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Somebody wake up Hicks

@jonmarkhicks.bsky.social

I think about this a lot.

October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM

Ze

@xzk484.bsky.social

Felt like actually posting something for once, so here's a knife I made a few years ago. Blade was from a kit, but I reground and heat treated it. Colour is from tempering and a ceramic coating. Grip is black and white ebony with brass pins.

A small knife with brassy finish and black striped grip. The knife also has a finger ring and a cord loop.

September 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM

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Ryan Estrada

@ryanestrada.com

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open]

@desdarkdesigns.bsky.social

Join the fight against the moral panic
Use these posters however you want, just spread the word, print them, post them go crazy.

More to come
stop-paypros.neocities.org

Version A of the anti puritan protest poster
It shows an evil octopus in the background with the word Puritanism in it's forehead and Censorship on it's tentacles attacking people making a shield wall.

In the front a woman with a lance points at you and bellow the following text reads.

"We need you to fight the puritan moral panic
Join the fight for a free internet!"

Then a link to the Stop paypros website.

Version B of the anti puritan protest poster
It shows an evil octopus in the background with the word Puritanism in it's forehead and Censorship on it's tentacles attacking people making a shield wall.

In the front a woman with a lance points at you and bellow the following text reads.

"We need you to fight the puritan moral panic
Join the fight for a free internet!"

Then a link to the Stop paypros website.

August 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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gay rat monty 🔜 paw con

@gayrat.bsky.social

learn your history, besties

June 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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Alex Kirshner

@alexkirshner.com

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM

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Internet Archive

@archive.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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daffodil 🇵🇸

@daff.space

visibility threatens those who seek to suppress us. those daring to be visible are those who face the brunt of the blowback. it's an open secret trans people are disproportionately affected by violence. Change relies on EVERYONE standing up against this horrible zeitgeist of hatred and violence.

March 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️

@kiraculous.net

quoting with alt text

a sign written in black paint on cardboard reading: the trans agenda is an average life expectancy

March 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM

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Natalie Washington

@transsomething.bsky.social

Important that people recognise this was published nearly a year ago. You're only just noticing it now because the media completely buried it because it's not convenient to their narrative. Tell people about it.