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For Pride 2025, worker-owner @tinavasquez.bsky.social  visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over:

Founder and worker-owner @katelynburns.com  explored why so many trans people are into urban planning:

The Flytrap's back catalog is chockablock with Pride-tastic content! A taste:

"The drone war is obviously very much in Ukraine's favor. This is a moment of change. There has been more or less stagnation for a few years, and now it's changing. So if he's getting real information, good information, I think Putin must be very frightened."

🧵War correspondent James Verini has covered several conflicts over the decades. What he sees in Ukraine is clear: Ukraine is winning the war, and Putin has no good options in a disaster of his own making.

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Thank you so much! It was a truly good time at the conference back in October!

So great to see Chrissy Stroop honored wth the Free thought Heroine Award by @ffrf.org in the April Paper! @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social I’ve been following her since late 2017 & her hashtag #TheocracyAlert helped me start to understand the Religious Right. CONGRATS CHRISSY!

This article is excellent overall, not just for the details of Pressler’s predations and the SBC’s enablement of pedophiles, but the discussion of Pressler’s background. These people are literally the ruling class and they changed the course of US history to bring us to this breaking point.

That said, Russell Moore isn’t the hero he’s made out to be in the article. bsky.app/profile/theb...

This week, @katelynburns.com  reflects on her love for map painting games. "One of the tropes about Paradox games is that if you play it for more than a thousand hours, you’re either a trans woman or a fascist."

I have 4 older siblings, 10 nieces and nephews, and 5 or 6 grandnieces & grandnephews. When we went to my dad's memorial and Steve saw all of the generations assembled, he said, "Your family sure had a narrative they expected you to follow, didn't they?" I figured so much out in that moment.

"Without these community-centered sharing spaces and rigorous reading of key feminist texts, all we seem to get is beaten over the head with the capitalistic idea that feminism is an individual pursuit of women's success." www.theflytrapmedia.com/taking-femin...

This piece is SO GOOD. The simultaneous resurgence of choice feminism, people refusing to do the reading, and attacks on feminism is simply too much.

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ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social wrote about why feminism feels like an optical illusion, and why we need to reclaim it ASAP: www.theflytrapmedia.com/taking-femin...

Kinda gives the game away, honestly

This skeet deserves a million likes. 👀

Yup. This is the best take.

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social this made me think of you! www.psypost.org/former-chris...

This is bad, incredibly bad. Wiping out the National Science Foundation board kills …. Everything at NSF, flatlines NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), our Antarctica program, our geophysics programs, just… everything, the entire foundation of science in the United States.

This is one of the articles I'm proudest of, and it's way outside my usual beat. That's what @theflytrapmedia.com means to me: The freedom to explore and unleash my thoughts on everything from academia and Christianity to supernatural horror and tits. Please subscribe to help keep us alive!

Have you ever wondered if things would be different right now if the media had actually tried to reckon with evangelical support for Trump? @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social has: 

I love that you wrote this!! (- Nicole)

Christians who advocate horrific bigotry and commit appalling crimes are still Christians. To pretend otherwise is to fail to address the systemic problem. Per @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social, @swordsjew.bsky.social, and many others who have long been warning about Christian white supremacists.

Have you every wondered what the heck happened to #FreeTheNipple? That's the question that inspired @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social to write a deep dive on nipple equality: 

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@freeblackgirl.bsky.social asks: what if P. Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?

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Have you every wondered what the heck happened to #FreeTheNipple? That's the question that inspired @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social to write a deep dive on nipple equality: 

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And last but definitely NOT least, @katelynburns.com wrote about seeing herself in Heated Rivalry, a tender piece on queerness and sports. 

Another essential read, @andreagrimes.com on why modern fascism thrives on your loneliness, and how we can run towards each other as an antidote: 

@tinavasquez.bsky.social recently wrote this piece about the paradox of thrifting, and how finding high-quality items at the thrift store triggered her imposter syndrome:

We often say fuck the algorithm, but @sesmith.lol went long on how sex workers actually deal with income-stopping algorithms every single day: "This is not algorithmic softening. It is algorithmic violence."  

Have you ever wondered if things would be different right now if the media had actually tried to reckon with evangelical support for Trump? @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social has: 

This week, @freeblackgirl.bsky.social wrote about a growing trend of pop culture about collectivism as a solution to the horrors. A hopeful piece for a terrible time in history: 

A few weeks ago, @nicolefroio.bsky.social wrote about children's rights, and how many, many societal issues could be fixed if we actually, truly considered children to be people: 

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Poetry of the Small and Strange returns this week, as I reflect on how one of my favorite board games (Arcs: the Blighted Reach) has helped me grow as a person and cope better with things I can't control. poetry-of-the-small-and-strange.ghost.io/confronting-...

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We are still a couple of months away from the World Cup of Fascism, but @katelynburns.com has promised us a piece about that. And it will be edited by @nicolefroio.bsky.social , our resident Brazilian and FIFA hater, so you KNOW it's going to be good.