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Texas bill could charge transgender people with ‘gender identity fraud’, if passed A bill filed in the Texas House of Representatives this week threatens to charge transgender Texans with a crime for identifying with a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth.

"A bill filed in the Texas House of Representatives this week threatens to charge transgender Texans with a crime for identifying with a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth." www.kxan.com/news/texas-p...

The Blue Circle Discord is 2 days old and starting to blossom. Come on along! It's where all the cool kids from #witchsky are hangin' out.
discord.gg/JBFh8uaB

The Wasteful Persecution of the Transgender Community Fear is a versatile tool in the hands of those willing to wield it.

Transgender human beings make us less than one percent of the population.
They comprise perhaps the most vulnerable, most marginalized people group in this nation; the object of the kind of ridicule and violence that ignorance so easily breeds.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-wastef...

In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.

It's a new world

Nice! Alexandrians FTW

Thanks !!
discord.gg/JBFh8uaB

Looks like this thing is getting off the ground. Come join us #witchsky !
discord.gg/JBFh8uaB

Based on this discussion, someone has created a Discord server...
bsky.app/profile/rath...

Thank you! What are you envisioning this as?

Np. It's a nice list -- you should put it in a post

Thanks!

Don't see my name though

We ought to look around then and share/promote if we find a good place, and otherwise, like you say, witchy Bluesky folks could put something together.
I'll do some digging. I'll also look into what can be done with custom Feeds on Bluesky.

Ok, so you're thinking more about streaming. I was thinking more along the lines of a group forum. I mostly avoid Facebook and Facebook Groups, so that's why Discord came to mind. I haven't checked, but there are probably already Discord servers out there along our interests.

Wait, we're part of a conspiracy? If I'm part of THEM, shouldn't I at least be getting some perks? 😉

Yes that's probably where my mind is heading, unless someone has good ideas on how to better use Bluesky, like with Feeds or something.
I don't use Twitch much, but I've started using Discord recently and once I learned to deal with the clunky user interface I really started to like it.

I agree it's user interface is weird. But I stuck with it and adapted and now I love it.

Hello & thanks for checking in!
Well here's my initial thoughts...
I like Bluesky for the simple chronological feed from followers, which is great for news/politics. I like it for finding like-minded folks. But it doesn't feel conducive to conversations.
So maybe custom feeds? Use Discord instead?

I do feel kinda weird talking about it on an open-to-all general-purpose social network. "In my day" (lol) we didn't openly talk about fight-club.

I approve

Hello to all the witchy and spiritual folks I've connected to via follows since joining bluesky!
So how do we take that connectedness and get more real conversations going? Or is this not the right site for that? I'd love to hear your thoughts, or maybe just stop by and say hi... #witchsky

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The fourth Saturday of November marks the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims — in 1921, 1922, and 1923; in 1946 and 1947, and during the darkest years of 1932 and 1933, the famine deliberately orchestrated by the Soviet Union claimed millions of Ukrainian lives.

Project 2025 is trumps agenda and the fact that anyone thought otherwise is insane

😥 No country should go through this. 🇺🇦

Far-Right Trump Adviser Tied to Anti-Semitic Paramilitary Group In 2007, Sebastian Gorka openly supported the efforts of a Hungarian militia later condemned for trying to establish an “essentially racist” political order.

Donald Trump's pick for Senior Director for Counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, is an advocate of antisemitism and Nazism

www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04...

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Truth? Or misinformation for clicks?
The comments are a fascinating non-political case study in online truth. Disheartening to see so many be so totally certain and outspoken without even checking, which you could do by looking up numbers and doing basic math.
Spoiler alert: The image is correct.