Friendly local queerdo

Friendly local queerdo

@whimsical-nonsense.bsky.social

Story lover. Chosen family is everything. We can get through this together. A better world is possible. Prosecute the Epstein class. Strip pedos of all power.

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3 days ago

Want some warm fuzzy trans news?

Read the feelgood story of how I spent 2025 unexpectedly adopting a trans son and ended up accidentally founding a transmasc social club together 🏳️‍⚧️🥹

So proud of Troy for taking the initiative to grow this into something massively important for our local community

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I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver.

The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time.

He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. “We just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said.

I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me.

Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly.

“There are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. “The only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.”

“Is it too late for me?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

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Roblox is huge and also has fewer concurrents than the top 10 TV shows.

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im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

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This is the whitest, cisest, most abled thing I have ever read lol

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not the onion

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Opinion | Americans aren’t facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath — Guardian US The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy

“...Americans are not living under threat of future democratic breakdown; we are living inside the aftermath of one that has already occurred.

For tens of millions of people, democratic life has been absent for decades as they endure ... near-total exclusion from meaningful formal political power.”

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I would never consider myself a good businessperson but I have managed to grasp the principle of NOT borrowing millions I don’t have so maybe I’m doing better than I think

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Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

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At a time when AI tools make it easier than ever to carry out cyber attacks, the admin has decimated the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency responsible for defending critical infrastructure.

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YEAH GET ‘EM MO

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If I were a billionaire, a frivolous thing I would do as soon as possible is pay Lil Kim to go into the studio and replace every Diddy verse in my music collection.

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3 days ago

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"

they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

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4 days ago

The ICE warehouse in Western Maryland, up close. It’s hard to explain how enormous this place is until you’re standing right in front of it.

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WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table.
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This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.

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Jesus Camp (2006) An unsettling glimpse inside an evangelical summer camp where young children are subjected to extreme and abusive workshops to achieve spirituality.

if you don't understand what's happening with the war & why it seems like it's moving so fast and doing so much destruction.

i implore you to watch this movie. much of it was recorded very close to where i was raised. it's horrifying but you need to know. these people exist & want to sacrifice you.

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6 days ago

I mean beyond all of the loathsome obvious shit about allllll of this, the director of the fucking INSIDE fucking OUT movies saying “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" is a level of self-unawareness I can only marvel at

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MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE

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1 month ago

This is not at all breaking news at all and many have pointed out as such but this is also the key reason why many folks will not partake of your Substacks (because it is hosted at THE Nazi bar)

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President Trump's Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches At least the specter of corruption in previous presidential administrations (Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich or Biden’s pardon of his son) appeared to be an exception to the rule. Today, however, the ev...

That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...

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Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

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TIL: kleptocracy: a society ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources.

I thought Grammarly was just stealing from dead and living professors by offering to have them look over your writing.

Stealing from tech reporters too? Claiming a simulacrum will review your stuff.

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saw someone saying 'remember when the united states had presidents who could string two words together' and... honestly, no, not really?

barack obama is an orator but other than that the 21st century has been a string of mumbling, befuddled, confused guys.

bush, trump, biden, and now trump again.

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Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

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EXCLUSIVE: 'Camp East Montana will remain open': internal messages say Employees at Camp East Montana were told the massive detention center will remain open, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.

Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.

My story:

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And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

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The time to bring back Firefly was 2005-2007, when people were still whining about it and before Joss became irredeemable.

I cannot see a good outcome for it now. Can we please let some stories die with their dignity intact? These people would recuscitate a mummy if it could sign a check.

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I am sorry Marlene Dietrich In A Tuxedo. You've had a good run. For decades you were the ultimate hotness in genderfuck communities around the world, and you will always be loved.

But the time has come for a new icon, and Growling Lavender-Grey Hair With Pride Face has claimed my heart.

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Oh yes okay come with me new people on this horrible journey into Porn Wars Theory

This will be a thread and an extremely bleak one

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The world we live in is a world where wars are not fought for any strategic power competition reasons at all, but one where they are fought specifically to generate imagery of suffering for sadistic perverts to get off to without any more thought put into why than that

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