UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

It feels crazy to say thank you to a politician for even acknowledging we exist, let alone expressing concrete goals to help us. But. Thank you Big Z

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Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do. In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap. Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

The world if Chiitan was president:

And then @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @pfrazee.com all owe me a share for my work, since they banned me for NO REASON this morning , which they seemed to agree with, since they reversed the 24-hour ban within 10 minutes

Chiitan has a dream. I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past. I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination. Until then, let's all support each other🤍

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando details his tumultuous connection to Courtney Love following Kurt Cobain's death.

New good music journalism dropped

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app. i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

Let me take a minute to remind folks that Christopher Columbus did NOT discover new lands. These lands were already home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial, they were never wild or in need of taming. We had language, culture and even a spiritual connection to Creator.

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite. Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform. Major conservatives joined in. Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

It's still International Lesbian Day for one hour here, it counts and colloquially so do these two. Prompt #21, "Love of my life" #OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

Go Birds, and fuck the yankees.

File this under that unique brand of cooperation framed as opposition that’s been so in vogue among elected officials this year. broadview-il.gov/media/33thwv...

I wrote a new article about being a lesbian, about gender, and what those can and have meant. It’s free and it would mean a lot of if you read it and gave your thoughts :)

Abandoning your beliefs will not win elections, it'll just continue to transform the Democrats into a pale, hand-wringing shadow of their supposed ideological opponents

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗔𝗥𝗗: What the fuck did you just fucking say / lie about me / us, you little bitch / pussy? I'll have you know I graduated / ascended top / last of my class / family in the Navy Seals / publicist, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda / Enron

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is "do you want to feed my friends into a wood chipper", if your bitch ass can't manage a weak little "no" then get the fuck out of my face!!!!

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

Also, a world with fewer trans people is objectively more hellish. Consider that the basilisk in action!

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

here at the Katie Tightpussy School of Optics we like to stress that Optics Matter. one example of this is that even if link's post is actionable (which is debatable but besides the point), an immediate perma of a vocal critic is a bad look, especially when you're already being accused of racism etc

What if Link weren’t permabanned and Link could be on this website wouldn’t that be good for Link I think it’d be good for Link Link Link Link Link Link Link Link Link Link #FreeLink

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All those statements of user centrality, composable moderation, and safety for marginalized users on this platform, that’s all a bunch of bullshit, right? They could restore Link’s account tomorrow and Jay and company would still be a bunch of transphobic, racist hypocrites.

Link has always been a positive plus for Bluesky. Let's be crystal clear the reason for his ban is goalpost moving because the CEO didn't like being called out for racism and bigotry. That's it. That's literally it.

Really quite bad that it *appears* that @jay.bsky.team wsnted someone banned because she found him annoying and had @support.bsky.team invent a completely Orwellian excuse based on a nonsense reading of his BSky posts This is the kind of behavior we expect from the Twitter leadership ….

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

being trans, being fat, being disabled -- these things will teach you who people are in their heart of hearts, often within seconds of meeting them.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

the point of having a comms team, just so everyone is clear, is not only to write better statements than you (which everyone arrogantly thinks they don't need) but also to give others the power to take your phone away when needed, because this is patently embarrassing at this point.

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

Hey, so it’s the Jewish day of reflection. Whether or not you’re Jewish I would really like to encourage you to reflect rather than post right now

Hey @jay.bsky.team might want to keep this in mind