Clare Naïlo🏳️⚧️she/they
@lucidvirtuality.bsky.social
Polyamorous AuDHD enby trans girl. Interested in virtual reality, lucid dreaming, climate change, altered states, weirdness, whither humanity, SF, impermanence, corvids, etc. “Someone who has all the seeming of a ghost forever dreaming.”
A trans gal in OK that I know from the Magica Riot fandom is looking to move to PDX to be safe and get to live her life, so I'm sharing her crowdfund to do so. If you can help Ev out, donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...
Donate to Support My Move to Safer Living in Portland, organized by Ev Smith
Hello, I am trying to raise money for a move from Oklahoma to Portland Oregon s… Ev Smith needs your support for Support My Move to Safer Living in Portland
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My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Heat pumps are winning Americans over. In the first quarter they outsold fossil-fuel furnaces by 32%, the fourth year running that manufacturers have shipped more heat pumps than furnaces. Nearly half of new US homes built in 2024 came with one. Grist buff.ly/I8XwuLA #ShareGoodNewsToo
The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.
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JUST ANOTHER SUMMER IS OUT TODAY!! put a little love and laughter in your life, if you like 🩷
Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · 2d agoTOMORROW in bookstores, Wednesday in comic shops: JUST ANOTHER SUMMER, a queer trans YA romcom about connection, compassion, and... cows? It'll make you laugh, it might make you cry, it'll def make you fall in love with this group of teens trying to find their way and figure out who they are 💕
"Much of science as we conceptualize it now was built on top of the framings of Verne’s era. Revisiting the exuberance, obliviousness, chauvinism, and optimism of Verne’s science-related worldview offers a useful reminder of where some of our own narratives come from." @mitpress.bsky.social
Jules Verne’s Empty Dream of Spaceflight
In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as destiny — but no one quite asks why.
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Once you break out of the gender binary you get to deeply explore what gender identity and expression mean to YOU—a potentially never-ending journey; and you tend to start questioning everything you’ve been told about how you should live your life, and considering alternatives. Fun 😁
Clare Naïlo🏳️⚧️she/they@lucidvirtuality.bsky.social · 3d agoI love being trans! It’s a beautiful and fascinating way of being human. Transitioning is fun and fulfilling. So many possibilities. Getting to know other trans and nonbinary people is wonderful. T4T relationships are amazing. 11/10, highly recommended 😁🏳️⚧️
Vancouver is an amazing city. I was lucky to live there for 15 years. Good times 😸 Also: I highly recommend visiting in the summer unless you love rain (a lot)
Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · 3d agoI love Vancouver & I love Vancouver’s public transit & I love that the skytrain is full of happy queers heading to Pride
I love being trans! It’s a beautiful and fascinating way of being human. Transitioning is fun and fulfilling. So many possibilities. Getting to know other trans and nonbinary people is wonderful. T4T relationships are amazing. 11/10, highly recommended 😁🏳️⚧️
Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · 6d agoEspecially now, it’s not trivial to post about trans joy. It’s necessary. Every trans person who shares their joy sends a message of hope to others who may be struggling. And everyone who uplifts those posts helps spread that light, hope and visibility even further.
I’m a hot enby trans grrl, and I endorse this message 😁🏳️⚧️
Kara Buchanan 🏳️⚧️@magicariot.com · 4d ago*tapping the sign*
Raindance Immersive curates the absolute best of virtual culture in VRChat. I’ve been a judge every year since 2020, and participated in this documentary coming out on August 9th. Excited to see this recap by @madamekana.bsky.social, the most prolific documentary maker in VRChat doing amazing work.
Madame Kana@madamekana.bsky.social · 5d ago🔴 UPCOMING VIDEO After two months of non stop-hard work I'm thrilled to finally announce: VR PIONEERS🌑 Journey into new artistic horizons. A one hour documentary. 📅 VRChat Premiere on August 9th 📅
The politics of dreaming: “We must leave behind the individual pieces of the mosaic and concentrate on the meaning to be found in the emerging picture. We must perceive situations in a total experience in order to make sense of our lives.” ~ Vine Deloria Jr., The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
Collective Dreaming | An archive of collected dreams
An archive of collected dreams about shared realities and about dreaming as a community process
collectivedreaming.org
The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
The US just approved its 1st new sunscreen ingredient since 1999. Europe has used it since 1999. Bemotrizinol blocks both UVA & UVB rays, breaks down more slowly than existing chemical sunscreens, & is absorbed less into the bloodstream than those same sunscreens. buff.ly/xxBcsP9 #ShareGoodNewsToo
4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new sunscreen ingredient in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. It's been used for decades in Europe and Asia.
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Unique Vintage just decided potential bigot dollars are more important than my human rights welcome to being trans in 2026 please let them know this is unacceptable to you, ESPECIALLY if you’re cis: service@uniquevintage.com
Unique Vintage, a company that does an annual Pride collection and has always encouraged customers to see them as a queer-friendly vendor, has just announced their Harry Potter collection.
The largest digital camera ever built has started filming a ten-year movie of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3,200-megapixel camera is now photographing the entire southern sky every few nights, producing roughly ten terabytes of data per night. buff.ly/MtqzYCy #ShareGoodNewsToo
Data | Rubin Observatory
Rubin Observatory will generate more data in ten years than everything humans have ever written. Learn how scientists will manage the deluge of data.
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“our bosses fear and loathe us so much they have forgotten how selling things works.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
The Aranet4 was a great addition to our SDCC experience. Very simple to use and force refresh. It showed us that the press rooms were well ventilated and the floor was not, as expected. Other panel rooms varied, and some areas that felt open and safe were actually not. Anyway, highly recommended.
On a recent road trip I got correctly gendered by wait staff in Portland and Eugene, last time that happened in Sacramento was <checks notes> never. Felt good to be seen 😸🏳️⚧️
