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most people imagine donating once leads to the campaign texts — it’s mostly bought from data brokers, if you don’t opt out with them each campaign just keeps pulling your number that’s why opting out with one never solves the problem bsky.app/profile/jben...

a reminder during election season, one way to minimize the marketing text/calls you are receiving is to opt out from the commercial voter file providers: • privacy.targetsmart.com/US/email/ver... • catalist.us/your-privacy... • l2-data.com/optout1-6674...

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

Phone banking is a great way to get involved! It's less scary than you think. 🥰

Are you looking for a virtual phone banking opportunity for the US election? Advocates for Trans Equality is organizing phone banks to connect with voters in states with anti-trans ballot measures on the ballot, including Amendment 3 here in MO- an abortion ban also targeting care for trans youth

Hey! I made some games, starring a cute chipmunk. They are on sale on @itch.io right now for Halloween! You should check em out itch.io/s/209033/chi...

65. Power to Yield by @bogiperson.bsky.social I get to yell about multiple Bogi books AS A TREAT. The scrutiny of strangers trying to decide what you are and if you belong. Jewish observance & gender. Community organizing & activism. Body modification & pain. AN AUTO-BUY AUTHOR FOR ME.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

in salvador, they just shut down the whole bus network and the guy responsible for it just FLEW TO PARIS in são paulo, the bus network wasn't at 100% capacity (which is required by law in the election day) and we're now trying to arrest the mayor because of this they're trying everything they can

Let's double down. 1 like = 1 TRANS book I LOVE with buy links, so GO BUY SOME OF THESE and/or request your local library buy them.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Internet friends from abroad Meta is known for interfering in many places and we in Brazil are having to fight Mark's Influence Machine that wants us to vote for a candidate that doesn't respect our country's sovereignty (and an alleged criminal) We're doing our best, but pressure Meta as you can

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

For the morning crowd, my #AceWeek plans got a little derailed, so I present... An informal article on the broad state of aspec representation in (English language) literature and how it's been going. Go forth! Discover book shinies! medium.com/@dovelynnwri...

SALE! Buy 3, Get 1 Free on the Pixels and Polygons Quarterly issues! If you haven't tried any of them, this is the best way to get all 4 issues from 2026 at a huge discount!

Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month with Bride of the River God by @killianfantasy.blacksky.app, an all-ages fantasy novella I just hand-delivered to my favorite area high school English teacher.

Oh shit this is the smoking gun proof of what that $2B Jared Kushner got from the Saudis was actually for. …Which, essentially, is what we all thought it was: Reputation laundering, power brokering, & agenda-setting in the Republican party & any future Trump term. This is some damn good journalism

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Hey, folks, a little intro! I'm Cedar McCloud, a trans, queer, and disabled (AuDHD) indie author and artist in Southern California. You might know me for my tarot and oracle decks, or for my books, or both. My current main thing is the Eternal Library Series, about magic queer bookbinders ✨📖 ✨

SFF people: looking for a very specific rec! Sci fi published in the last... let's say 10 yrs... that involves SPACE SALVAGE or SPACE JUNKYARDS I wanna read about space junkyards!

Dudes rock (highly laudatory): www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

We were going to wait to tease the first episode next week, but... Read Receipts: Ladyknights and Sword Lesbians, featuring @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @tashasuri.bsky.social, @clclarkwrites.com, and host @cxorlando.bsky.social October 28, 2026 ⚔️

#ShareGoodNewsToo Massive biodiversity gains in only two years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I needed to keep quiet about this but this is what I was working on earlier this year. My publication “Harming Children: The Effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban” was evidence used for this! I had to submit a lengthy affidavit via NZ local trans group PATHA. Let’s hope we can overturn more now.

I'm delighted to launch the 2026 Trilogies bundle today! Get a whopping 27 books/9 complete trilogies+bonus chapbook! Plus donating to @locusmag.bsky.social! storybundle.com/trilogies It's the deal of the century! Fantasy! Cyberpunk! Space opera! Horror! Tamil pulp fiction! Re-posts appreciated!

In today’s edition of This Week in Anime, @vestenet.bsky.social and I dive into the career of a modern master: Sayo Yamamoto.

My game – Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart – is a short, narrative experience where you attend an a-spec meetup, chat to characters, hear their stories, and play mini-games! The demo is set one night before the events of the full game. Try it out: store.steampowered.com/app/5213300/...

I know that Bioware is the big headline but let's not ignore the folks across EA who were also caught up in this wave

My local art supply store St. Louis Art Supply is making their own fountain pen ink in house now! Quite curious to try it, I like the look of this green particularly

obsessed with the description for the witch in aria of sorrow's bestiary

Maybe my favorite photo from this collection is the booth for Shenmue at Tokyo Game Show Autumn 1999 It's a forklift. It's just a forklift.

In case you were hiding under a rock this morning: if you know what PHP is and you are in charge of a server that uses it, go update it right now! www.php.net/archive/2026...

The arc of BioWare represented, for good and for ill, a period of self-discovery as a creative industry video game development underwent in the 2010s. A lot of people were trying a lot of ambitious things, in both the end products and in what kind of people got to make games. RIP.

NEW: Democracy itself is on the ballot in dozens of states and localities with ballot measures on voting rights, redistricting, electoral reform, campaign finance, the initiative process, and more. We compiled 53 such ballot measures and what they would do: www.the-downballot.com/p/how-voters...

i think the games industry should have studios that exist