@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul ErinReed Two trans women who used a restroom in Bossier Parish LA's Cypress Black Bayou Park attacked by an angry group. One was taken to hospital and the other taken by police to a men’s jail. LA does not have a bathroom ban but the Parish voted to pass its own.

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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Alberta senator Kristopher Wells launches the largest LGBTQ2S+ picture-book collection in the world as a way to support queer and trans youth globally.

Canadian senator debuts largest queer picture-book collection in the world | Xtra Magazine

Alberta senator Kristopher Wells partnered with IBBY Canada to launch a publicly available collection of more than 300 LGBTQ2S+ picture books

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#wtaf

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 24h ago

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

Transmutilization sex dolls for everybody

#jfc #wtaf

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.

Looks fun!

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4h ago

hey!!! my baby* brother is publishing his first game on steam!! my kids have done extensive beta testing and love it a lot! add it to ur wishlist perhaps?? *fully grown adult store.steampowered.com/app/4866350/...

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Donate to Help Trans Couple Recover from Hate Crime, organized by S B

Raising funds to help AU and her partner pay their medical and legal bills, recover from… S B needs your support for Help Trans Couple Recover from Hate Crime

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On my way to the Reubens! I left a signed copy of book 23 in the Little Free Library in SeaTac Terminal A.

@aclu.org and @ij.org - right up your alley

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 4h ago

If you're trans and you have the means and opportunity to safely leave the US, you probably should. The best time to get out is likely yesterday.

Consider training, and then arming yourself.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Whoa! Neato! (I have not tried this)

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 5h ago

Scrivenix—a Flatpak application that downloads and installs the Windows version of Scrivener plus WINE on Intel Linux. Has a GUI installer that includes License activation (you need a license key for the Windows version to do this). https://github.com/adgalloway/Scrivenix

am I going to have to revise my Intro to Astronomy syllabus? I'm going to have to revise my syllabus.

CONTEXT RELAPSE@letmesearch.bsky.social · 9h ago

When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.

That juice ain’t worth the squeeze.

www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eres... tl;dr: the utility of sex, homo-sex, bestiality, and masturbation also tl;dr: As long as no one gets hurt, who cares? (my summary, with apologies to those with a sensitive nature)

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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Say what you will about method acting, but Gangs of New York wouldn't have been nearly as good if Daniel Day-Lewis hadn't stayed in character the whole time by murdering an Irish Catholic every day on set.

FWIW, I've had an NG tube *voluntarily* inserted while full conscious. It took several tries and I was being cooperative. I would say in all honesty that it's the single most unpleasant physical thing I've ever experienced. It is torture, pure and simple. I am so ashamed of my country.

Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now@knownforms.bsky.social · 6h ago

ABOLISH ICE/DHS

Just imagine, if I live in a city of 150k and 6 police officers have already been caught misusing Flock... How many other towns there are and how many tens of thousands of police might have already misused Flock across the U.S. Most of them have just not been caught.

"Among Whaley's concerns: affordable and high quality health care for everyone, medical debt relief, lower utility bills." www.freep.com/story/news/p...

Downriver candidate could become Michigan's first transgender state rep

Joanna Whaley, a hospital chaplain from Lincoln Park could be on her way to becoming the first transgender state rep in Michigan's history.

freep.com

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d ago

A routine medical flight, on a clear night, ended with a plane crash that killed all four people onboard. Investigators say it's the first known US civilian plane crash tied to electronic warfare. This won't be the last story of its kind. A must-read from @jeffwise.bsky.social for @wired.com

Ok so I'm starting a podcast and I'm fully aware of the redundancy but still

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Will boy athletes too undergo genetic screening, an estrogen-levels test or get their reproductive anatomy examined before they can play?

Daily bunny no.3401 is ready to harvest

August 4, 2026

August 4, 2026

On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/a... 2/

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