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@leilashafiqmog.bsky.social

Was @ShafiqMog on the bird site (before it went bad).

Trans, Queer, Bi, Mixed Arab-Scot, Autistic, Fibre crafter, some time dancer and gym bunny. Feline Supremacist. Edinburgher.
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Any of my mutuals are welcome to DM or skeet at me if you need to talk about this.
I am begging my fellow Trans people to read this and observe your own emotional responses. If you are not BIPoC and maybe even if you are, I recommend considering your understanding of White Fragility and how that interacts with the (ongoing) trauma we are experiencing.
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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.
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I am begging my fellow Trans people to read this and observe your own emotional responses. If you are not BIPoC and maybe even if you are, I recommend considering your understanding of White Fragility and how that interacts with the (ongoing) trauma we are experiencing.
Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...
Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon
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Fiasco is a lovely cat, I recommend them to your attention and/or feed.
Anyway Fiasco am not usually in dis bed BUT it turn out it is a VERY FUNY place to hide when Big Friend not know Fiasco is in there And trying to put away laundry Then Fiasco can DO AN ANKLE TOUCH and then YELLING it is gret :D
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Anyway Fiasco am not usually in dis bed BUT it turn out it is a VERY FUNY place to hide when Big Friend not know Fiasco is in there And trying to put away laundry Then Fiasco can DO AN ANKLE TOUCH and then YELLING it is gret :D
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Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?
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BlueSky can come up with all kinds of tools, and it should. But we can’t “technologize” our way out of white supremacy. If BlueSky wants to thrive, white liberals and progressives are going to have to interrogate and annihilate their relationship to white supremacy.
yet evidently these people experience bsky as a place where they are “swarmed by aggressive trolls” - and that sucks. we need user tools to shut that down - thanks @safety.bsky.app @pfrazee.com for prioritizing this
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I love how reminiscent these pieces are of a Venetian plaster style, yet with clearly modern subjects. I always appreciate those kinds of juxtapositions.
Rob (my dad) on the computer with a pink tree
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anyway please chuck me a tenner if you have it to spare or just a share would be helpful x ko-fi.com/geddstation
Support Geddstation on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/geddstationko-fi.com pls help me
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Another Black woman’s mentions are now full of white women accusing her of being anti-trans because apparently there is a contingent of white people on here who will not rest easy until every Black person on this site has passed a purity test administered by anonymous posters.
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this has not been met unfortunately & i'm facing eviction right now, so i'm uncertain about where i'll go my landlord is still harassing me for the money, so i'm assuming i can still remedy the breach if i pay the full $1620 asap. if you can spare anything, i'd be so grateful 🙏🏽
thank you- i received enough to get the medication & food 🙏🏽 still urgent: • utilities: $379 (received a disconnection notice that said i'd be disconnected on 6/24, but i called & got them to give me till monday) •rent!!! my landlord said they will serve me a notice on monday if i don't pay
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imagine telling someone in the 1990s that in 2024, the new york times and washington post would be illegitimate punchlines, with circulation reduced 70%; while leading sources of reporting would be people magazine, vanity fair, rolling stone, and teen vogue. they would put you in a home
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“Hey, the 90s called-” oh my god where have they been? What happened? Are they safe? Did you get a location- do they need us to come and get them
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“No one ran Jamelle Bouie off this site with purity test harassments. He’s just on vacation.” Meanwhile on Threads
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Here's someone who was *actually* a victim of political violence.
Journalist Linda Tirado was shot in the eye with a "nonlethal" bullet during the George Floyd protests in 2020. She lost the eye and suffered TBI and is now dying of her injuries. Hospice care is expensive. Please contribute if you can:
Story Thirty-Ninelindatirado.substack.com This time, it’s for Linda.
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so this looks to me like the worst fucking person on this website has set up a custom feed to pull in any mention of Palestine while also encouraging people to report any mutual aid posts that show up, i hate it here
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i’m sure i wasn’t the only person to realize this about anne rice, stephanie meyer, and el james when fifty shades of grey came out but good luck finding a funnier or more on point description of it lmao
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I know a lot of white Americans keep calling Twitter the Nazi bar and lament people still on the app, but Twitter has been integral to the current Kenyan protests. the individualist approach of leaving and judging everyone who remains doesn't do anything.
Check this from Rolling Stone. At this point, I enjoy rap as an art form a lot, but am not heavily invested in pop culture, but I'm handing Kendrick the victory on this. He dethroned the abuser Drake successfully, & his music is inspiring Kenyan popular resistance. @wagatwe.com
How Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Helped Young Kenyans Lead a Successful Protest in Their Countrywww.rollingstone.com Young Kenyans protested a proposed tax hike in their country by using a hashtag and a rap song that sampled Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us.'
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A few things that are offensive that you may not know about. "Eat the food because children are starving in Africa." "We need ebook piracy because most people in sub-Saharan Africa don't have access to books." Please, just stop. And by 'please' I mean fuck you.
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the right time for Bluesky to enable video is never. just let us have the one thing that's never loud. just words and pictures. see how nice? words and pictures. think about it devs
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Tour de France and Olympic athletes are wearing masks because they understand that catching COVID could undo years of hard work and sacrifices.
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When I got jumped in March 2016 at a Trump rally by Neo Nazis and Trump cheered it on from the stage the Democratic mayor issued a statement about violence on both sides and the ACLU supported Trump’s right to yell at people to attack me. Stop looking to institutions to protect you from fascists.
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By the way, this is kinda related: whenever you hear transphobes go on like trans people are all middle class, and that working class northerners wouldn’t understand, care about our rights, or be openly hostile to our existence, remember I came out into this in the 90s with a very supportive family
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Journalist Linda Tirado was shot in the eye with a "nonlethal" bullet during the George Floyd protests in 2020. She lost the eye and suffered TBI and is now dying of her injuries. Hospice care is expensive. Please contribute if you can:
Story Thirty-Ninelindatirado.substack.com This time, it’s for Linda.