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one cannot draw a symbolic boundary between the human being and animal

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ICE officers reportedly shot and wounded a man today in Austin. Details still coming in. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...

statesman.comICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials sayAn ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
Congressman Greg Casar@repcasar.bsky.social

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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ICYMI. I will add more excerpts to this thread tomorrow, but you can read the whole thing right now! IMHO it makes several points that I haven't heard anyone else saying

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

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So, for the non video game nerds: the top 3 hardest things to do in video games is 1. animate changing clothing 2. handing one item to another char 3. Lying under covers in bed. So from a technical perspective, this weird ass Strip Mahjong game is like writing Beethoven's 9th, but for gooning.

tctc@toastcrust.bsky.social

famitsu posted a video of what the stripping looks like in the new strip mahjong game and oh my god they're actually doing the fucking undressing without cuts

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Warner Bros is reaching new levels of desperation to hype up the new wizard boy show. They’re actively seeking out trans influencers to do promo and there is no hell hot enough for these traitors.

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I can't think of anything that better demonstrates the NYT's institutional, ideological transphobia that even when they publish a "sympathetic" piece about the trans community, it makes sure to call every trans woman mentioned a manly male pervert who will never pass

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

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7 year old giggling: when goku, gets super hungry, he eats like 30 meals in a row Me sounding exactly like Jesse Gemstone: I know how much goku eats

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Today I voted against contracting with the drone company Skydio and I was proud the City Council voted down working with a company that contracts with ICE. Metro Surge was a test of our constitutional rights. Opening up the door to further erosions of our civil liberties would be a massive mistake.

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angie craig voted against the amendment to cut military aid to israel today. unconscionable to vote to continue funding this disappointing to see other minnesota dems betty mccollum and kelly morrison just mark themselves as present ilhan omar voted for it

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1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

Tammy Duckworth@duckworth.senate.gov

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

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Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/

shmuplations.comShigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.comIn July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

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BARRET: our cause is lost. shinra will bring the world to ruin. we fought for nothing TIFA: the one man i care about is lying about everything and also tried to kill me AERITH: i'm dead. mayyybe??? CLOUD: i love murder and potentially not existing RED XIII: been getting into queen's blood lately

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if this is your take after cops beat up a bunch of queer people at trans march, go fuck yourself, you bootlicking freak. you're no comrade of mine.

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Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon

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RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

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Some really big news out of Minnesota today! Story time. On a cold night in February, ICE agents chased a Alfredo, a DoorDash driver, through Minneapolis streets. Panicked, he called his partner and his best friend Julio: both urged him to come home. He almost made it. /1

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goddamn, dude.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social

seeing ppl discussing "male socialization" in regard to trans ppl. not sure what instigated it, but here's my best online essay on it (with a bit of “Trans Masc vs Trans Fem” discourse as a treat): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-so...