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@pyropylon.bsky.social
est. 1998 | they/them | 🇨🇦 flaming traffic cone of the millennium genderqueer butch with the ‘tism or whatever
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Two years ago today, trans woman Eden Knight died at 23 after being trafficked out of the US and forcibly detransitioned in Saudi Arabia by her father Dr. Fahad Ibrahim Alshathri. In her final message, Eden named the individuals responsible for luring and capturing her: trans.cx/in-memory-ed...
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Replying to @dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Here's the full essay: tinyurl.com/5ey9m9xp
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turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."
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Replying to @wikipedia.org
Meet Abigaïl, a volunteer from Benin who has made over 9,000 contributions across Wikimedia projects – including creating 270 new articles on French Wikipedia. She is driven by the role that gender and language diversity play in improving the quality and relevance of articles. (2/4)
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Further thoughts, a major issue with getting your leftism online is a lack of understanding organizing, which means calling in people of ALL political persuasions talk to an organizer IRL, *of course* you need to be kind to liberals, most liberals are working class
These are the people you’re talking about when you blanket condemn all “liberals,” by the way - I bet you money these women almost all proudly identify as liberals and would be *mystified* by the extremely online idea that that’s somehow a bad thing.
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idk i was chatting with cis ppl in my life about a trans kid in the family and his friends and they just couldn’t grasp it even if they were open to it. and to be fair, a lot of the concerns made sense even though they were common TERF/transphobe talking points. Especially with how society functions
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A Jewish billionaire from a big city is not who you expect to be the face of a popular opposition, but he is about to be a star of the opposition because he's saying plain truths about what Trump and his ilk offer America. This playbook isn't hard. More Dems should run it.
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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There is grace and beauty, also, in the world. “I’m in prison for participating in a murder,” he would later say. “And the mother of this man is here, present, on behalf of me, watching me receive my degree.” www.cnn.com/interactive/...
would be nice if 1) the sidewalks and bike lanes get cleared and 2) infrastructure is designed with the fact that it snows in mind (bc there’s always snow getting dumped from the road to the bike lanes, and from the bike lanes to the sidewalks.
5 days post storm, most bike lanes are not rideable, sidewalks on major routes like Harbord still unusable. Embarrassing. Who's up for a little community bike lane clearing Sunday?
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Replying to @mapquest.com
Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do… We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
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Canadian government expected to announce plans for Toronto–Montréal–Québec City high-speed rail tomorrow: www.thestar.com/politics/fed... A very promising project that compares well with high-speed lines in Europe in terms of distance between major cities: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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we should be making American/Canadian society more walkable, it’s messed how car-centric things are, but also why are we arresting parents for giving their kids independence that was normal like 30 years ago, when the same safety issue still existed.
Police are out here charging parents with reckless endangerment for letting their kids walk home along a road with no sidewalk. So even the police know it, even if they would rather foolishly address the symptoms rather than the causes. www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/u...
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I am watching the Ontario Leaders' Debate. CHCH's live stream is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9X...
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a bit of an update on this convo that confirms my suspicions about NCMEC. I don’t think TDTF has bsky but they focus on solving missing persons cases w/ suspected LGBT+ vics. The EOs are gonna screw up progress on a lot of cases, queer or not (1) transdoetaskforce.org/index.php/ar...
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definitely guilty of not doing this pretty often
did you read the whole thread before replying did you read the article before replying did you actually watch the thing about which you're professing to have opinions do you know more than a teaspoon on this topic before speaking being that guy (whatever your gender) is 100% optional, my friends
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