tekla 💜✨

tekla 💜✨

@tekla.bsky.social

writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.

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Eric Bauza, the current voice of Bugs Bunny and so many others, has unexpectedly passed away. I am gutted. A modern voice acting genius, Eric was the true successor to Mel Blanc while simultaneously always showing his respect and gratitude to Mel and all the others he followed.

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In 2005, Time Magazine did a cover story on “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” It’s the same handwringing we see now from “concerned” adults on behalf of young people. “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger.” time.com/archive/6596...

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

the town i grew up in had like 3 restaurants. we had so few options to eat. it is a major suburb of DC. now there is SO much food there!!!!

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

having major jaw surgery on Monday and my surgeons have not yet sent over the plan and I’m like…please tell me how many millimeters you will be moving my face bones around

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been referring to this not-so-jokingly as my facial nonbinarization surgery. bc about 80% of the reasons are functional and pain-related, but that 20% is just gonna help my face look more like, well, me.

current face situation, feat. some angles i have historically avoided sharing bsky.app/profile/tekl...

tekla 💜✨@tekla.bsky.social

kinda yeah! I have a wild crossbite and my upper jaw is way too small/narrow and too far back. I have a slight underbite too. So they have to bring the upper forward and expand it with a bit of rotation, then reduce the lower just slightly and rotate it significantly back into place.

having major jaw surgery on Monday and my surgeons have not yet sent over the plan and I’m like…please tell me how many millimeters you will be moving my face bones around

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it’s also being widened, and my lower jaw is also being adjusted to the tune of several millimeters. there’s a lot of moving parts to it. plus then my face will be part titanium 🤖

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Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

having major jaw surgery on Monday and my surgeons have not yet sent over the plan and I’m like…please tell me how many millimeters you will be moving my face bones around

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It's kind of sad that literally no one loves him. Like if your father or grandfather or uncle or friend was doing this you would intervene. But nobody does.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

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THIS IS AN ALERT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE… category five lock in making landfall by 2100 PDT… residents should prepare for surges of ten to twelve fuck it we balls per hour… if you have not constructed meaning for your existence, take necessary preparations immediately…

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please don't miss this interview, you need to experience the whole ride up to this amazing exchange

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

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...

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I really appreciate that people understand this about the work we do at @boltsmag.org. Doing a state-by-state guide on who counts the ballot, spending time understanding Delaware or South Dakota alongside Arizona or Georgia, might not be a straight ticket to CNN virality—but it matters!

coalminephoenix.bsky.social@coalminephoenix.bsky.social

Support these journalists. This is detail work, not glamorous gossip and it is crucial for our democracy to function that we can all trust it even when we disagree or didn’t vote for the same policies, and that starts with understanding and knowing how it works.

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JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: ssome of you may remember my famousss manifesssto where i declared mysself againsst transs exisstance Rowling: i've written a ssequel Rowling: it'ss exactly like my firsst manifessto but longer

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US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

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The obsession with keeping Black kids out of quality schools is really something else.

Mike Sacks@mikesacks.bsky.social

SCOTUS making its first move to go after race-neutral high school admissions standards:

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This moist weirdo babyman has spent billions of dollars optimizing every facet of his physical and virtual life with the goal of living forever, presumably so he can someday surround himself with people who don’t think he’s a sad wet dork

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

The dude just keeps getting more normal

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Unruly and unkempt gangs of youth radicals are ambushing and harassing young women in parking garages to force them into publicly accepting their militant extremist politics, we can no longer afford to be permissive to such people and we need law and order to firmly discipline them

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that numerous “debate me bro” & man-on-the-street orgs have spawned out of Phoenix recently clearly trying to mimic the TPUSA content blueprint & it’s just the most bottom of the barrel pro-rape rhetoric & straight up harassment like this from Liberty Under Fire USA:

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Replying to @chel-c-cam.bsky.social

especially pertinent with women-coded industries, perhaps. like influencing and romance writing. when the career starts out, it’s not threatening to these men. then they’re sulky and mad when the girly stuff opens up huge opportunities and pays the bills!

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ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

Incentivizing Trump voters to call in their suspicions about about black and brown people? What's the worst that could happen?

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Replying to @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social

I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms. Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.

“And now, she, the liberator, the destined conqueror of God, calls out to you, “Yield up your scepters ere they be torn from you; give back the stolen earth, the mine, the sea!”

“Give back the source of life, give back the light! For a black, bitter hour is waiting you, an awful gulf unfathomed in its depth, if now you do not pause and render justice.”

“The time came when “France got drunk with blood, to vomit crime,” when England “lost the brightest jewel in her coronal,” when the South waded in blood and tears and knelt her pride before a conqueror.”

“This deep, bell-pealing voice that echoes through the corridors of thought till almost Death’s chill sleepers might arise again, is the voice which called for centuries to the Empire, “Cease your oppressions or the people rise”;

and to the Kingdom, “Curse not the new world with your tyrannies, it will rebel”; and to the Master, “Put not the lash upon your bonded slave, for the time will come when every stroke will rise like a warrior armed, to burn and waste and kill.”

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Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

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Replying to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*