Helena Brown

Helena Brown

@hellmark.org

Jack of all trades. Certified geek. She/they. @Hellmark@masto.ai on mastodon @hellmark on the dead bird site

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Even if you have voted recently, CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION! I've had them try to void my registration erroneously.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

My friend Alice is needing to scrape together some money for the dentist after breaking a tooth. I've already chipped in what I can for now, but if anyone else can, that would be great. It works out to about $360 US, which I'm hoping can be achieved.

MAlice@allnice.bsky.social

Não estou muito acostumada com isso, mas estou com um problema no meu dente e preciso de ajuda cobrir o tratamento. O valor seria R$1900. Se puder me ajudar, eu agradeço. buymeacoffee.com/allnice

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every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little

Anyone notice an uptick around here of people who claim they're progressives and "life long democrats", but are pushing right wing talking points?

Today marks my first HRTiversary! Anyone on the fence, do it. Take the pill, do the shot, whatever. You'll feel so much better afterwards.

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In the mood for something truly special? Where to Find Me in the Afterlife is part House of Leaves, part Choose Your Own Adventure, that is as informative as it is entertaining.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social

A dig-site archive. 603 entries. Specimens, fragments, remains. Fossils, jokes, hidden paths, field notes. Start anywhere. jtierney.net

And this is why I never leave the house without a gun. Before I came out, had something similar happen. Was with some friends grabbing some stuff at the store before a party. I needed to stop by the restroom as we were leaving, & someone attacked us with a knife. None of us had even gone in yet.

Mx Maddison Stoff@thedescenters.bsky.social

This woman was beaten by a mob for *standing outside of a woman's bathroom* in Louisiana, not even going in, and they've literally just fabricated several charges against her and her partner anyway to justify abusing them further. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mo... On the up side...

Wikipedia editors are some of the biggest babies. I've been working on a draft article for submission, and it got rejected, the person saying that I used a LLM, because I fucking used an em dash. I guess shit that I wrote 20+ years ago was written with AI because that has em dashes too.

Never mind that WP:DASH says specifically to use an en dash (–) or em dash (—) characters instead of a hyphen (-) when not hyphenating words. I know most people use hyphen since we have that key on the keyboard, but I can easily copy and paste other characters or do keyboard shortcuts.

Plus, if I was using an LLM, why does the edit logs show that I spent over 3 hours making changes to a 500 word article. It makes no sense to have something write for you, and then spend hours adjusting it.

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Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

I'm thinking of making a site similar to Does The Dog Die, but like "Just How Gay is This?" to help keep track of queer representation in media, and filter out queerbaiting. If this got made, would anyone have an interest?

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Hello world! We're here to try and share something that we've been hard at work on. Quite often it can be hard to find quality queer media that suits our different tastes, and avoid problematic things. Too often, we've had friends start a book or movie, only to nope out after seeing a bad trope.

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Unique Vintage, a company that does an annual Pride collection and has always encouraged customers to see them as a queer-friendly vendor, has just announced their Harry Potter collection.

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This should be a thread lol I'll go next I've seen dogs having sex on city street corners in the middle of rush hour traffic (twice) more than Ive seen drugs being actively used on public transit (zero)

Helena Brown@hellmark.org

Except that's not really something that normally happens. I've seen more people masturbating outside of a KMart than doing drugs on public transit.

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While everyone's "all the love to trans folks" posts are nice and it is good to see support We have been getting them for a decade now. If you want to support trans folks, hire us. Support GFMs and asks for mutual aid. Put yourself between trans folks in public if you see harassment.

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School vouchers for private religious schools are unconstitutional in Missouri. That hasn’t stopped the GOP supermajority from transferring $60 million of taxpayer funds to private religious schools just this year alone. The same supermajority defunded public school schools by 190 million.

So, I'm apparently antisemitic for saying... that the actions of a government is separate from their citizens or others of an ethnic group, because people in that gov't can be shitty for reasons separate from ethnicity. Why is it racist to say about one group, but not when about any other group?

Man behaves like an absolute tool while complaining about others behaving "like an absolute tool".

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social

I’m open minded on real names. We should definitely ban “cartoon avatar coupled with cutesy or “funny” name and behaves like an absolute tool” though.

So, apparently this comment got under Parker Molloy's skin and caused them to block me. Talk about being 10 ply. Seriously, why are people defending someone who has controversy after controversy? I mean, fuck, does anyone not remember Fetterman?

Helena Brown@hellmark.org

Why are you defending the guy with an SS tattoo and said he wanted to join the military because "I wanted to have an adventure and kill some people"?

I'm turning off the warning on rude accounts, because I've seen too many with that label lately that got it for BS reasons or *checks notes* defending themselves...

Kicked off Pride by giving myself an injection of the good ol' Estradiol. For anyone with an issue, fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.

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I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Milli Vanilli singer Jodie Rocco told AP that neither she, her sister Linda Rocco nor any of the other group members had been asked to come “My sister and I were shocked to see our name, ‘Milli Vanilli’, as one of the performers,” Jodie Rocco said

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Here's how the Trump administration is chipping away at transgender health care access for adults With more than 30 interviews with trans adults, treatment providers, conservative activists and trans rights activists over the last two months. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.comIt’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthoodConservatives have long argued they want to end transition care for minors, but federal policies have increasingly limited adult access. More restrictions are on the way.