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Panel 1 A white woman with a white tank top and pink hair leans into frame, her elbow over the lower panel border, waving to the reader. LUCY: Hi. I’m Lucy. That’s not my real name, and this isn’t what I look like. But that’s fine, because while this is my story… LUCY: It’s one that thousands of other trans people have lived through, at least a little bit. It’s our story too. Panel 2 A map of the United States. States colored in red are those with anti-trans laws on the books. Those states are: New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. LUCY: I’m here to tell you how nightmarish Project 2025 will be for trans lives. Before we get to the main event, let me set the stage. LUCY: I’ve been out and medically transitioning as a trans woman for several years. It costs me thousands of dollars in medical expenses each year. LUCY: Also had to flee my home state due to bigoted laws, and faced discrimination everywhere from my own family to my job. Panel 3 Lucy holds up up a giant textbook-sized printed copy of Project 2025. Her expression is one of outrage. LUCY: It’s pretty bad. And if Trump gets reelected and Project 2025 is brought into action, it’s only going to get much worse. LUCY: “Transgender,” “Gender Identity” and “Biological Sex” are used over thirty times in this Phone Book of Hate, so I’m going to keep it simple. LUCY: Three policies. Just three. That’s all they need. Panel 4 Lucy sits at a computer, typing away. She looks over her shoulder at the reader. LUCY: Let’s start at the top. Page five. “Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology.” LUCY: Any trans person’s story would be labeled as pornography. Our lives. Our experiences. Every part of us. LUCY: Immediately f…

Panel 1 Lucy sits on a cot in a prison, hugging herself in despair. LUCY: That means that any trans person talking about their transition could be imprisoned. Every statement about our lives, a potential offense. LUCY: Hell, the story you’re reading right now would qualify. Panel 2 Lucy stands behind a counter with a cash register in front of her, ready to scan a bag of chips on the conveyer belt. She looks annoyed and exhausted. LUCY: Next. “Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of […] gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.” Page 584. LUCY: Paired with page 495, “a general statement of policy specifying that it will not enforce any prohibition on […] gender identity discrimination” it paints a picture. LUCY: Discrimination towards trans people at places like their jobs will be fully legal, leaving us open to unmitigated harassment and hate. Panel 3 Lucy is curled up in a ball, looking small, looking like she’s just finished crying her eyes out and is just empty. LUCY: Page 485. “Withdraw all guidance encouraging Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service providers to provide controversial “gender transition” procedures or “gender-affirming care”. LUCY: Page 462. “Fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of crosssex interventions, including “affirmation,” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries.” LUCY: Page…take your pick. There’s a dozen more. Panel 4 Lucy, still running on empty, holds a vial of Estradiol in her fingers and stares at it. It’s nearly empty. LUCY: By cutting federal funding from any medical facility that offers trans healthcare, and standing against it as official policy… LUCY: Hormones and gender care will become almost impossible to find. For those of us who are already on them, it’ll wreak havoc. LUCY: Our mental health. Our bodies. Damage that will ruin lives. And for trans folks who can no longer produce a safe level of hormones… Panel 5 Lucy …

I know we on the project volunteered to keep our identities off the individual stories but it's been a year and also things have only gotten worse so let me tell you

Writing this comic last year and having every single god damn thing come to pass at this point is just

Fuck, man. I'm so tired.

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Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Photo of various character and monster standees for Skies Above and boss monsters on cards!

A photo of my notebook for initiative and the selection of hero standees for the characters being played!

So today I'm mostly resting up from @tabletopscot.bsky.social thanks @ascotwithscotch.bsky.social for running Abbadon for me on Friday! I really appreciate it. I had a decent weekend esepcially for networking and catching up with folks! I also ran a one shot for Skies Above for kids no less!

Thanks for letting me run, it was a ton of fun!

Differences between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Heat exhaustion: Feeling faint or dizzy Excessive sweating Clammy skin Nausea or vomiting Muscle cramps Heatstroke: Feeling confused No sweating Temperature over 40C, hot dry skin Nausea or vomiting May lose consciousness or experience convulsions or seizures

I wanted to make a quick post about the difference between heat exhaustion and heatstroke, as I see the latter misused a lot. It is more than feeling ill!

If someone has heatstroke, call emergency services. If you have heat exhaustion, you need medical attention if symptoms don't improve. (1/3)

Screenshot of the Advocate article headline showing an image of bluesky's logo and JKR, with the title "Outcry grows after multiple trans uers were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire"

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3: "If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3: "The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3: "How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. " Response by drtanner: "Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal. It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

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DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day

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A digital charater token with pink background. The illustration is of the same woman as before but she her hair is shiny and golden, swirling around her like flames. Her eyes are white and glowing and she has a confident smile. Her makeup is glittery and white and she's wearing a yellow sparkly body suit with star motives and sparkly glowing wings on her back and behind her ears.

Aurora ☀️

NPC token commission for @ascotwithscotch.bsky.social ❤️

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A digital character token with pale red background. The illustration is of a human man with an easy smile, his hair is brown and wavy and his clothes are simple. He has a strung bow and arrows on his back.

Syaoran 🏹

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A digital character token with light blue background. The illustration is of a humanoid squirrel with red fur and white whiskers. He's wearing a fusion of japanese clothing with celtic patterns, plus a blue hood peaking out at the back.

Jodun 🥷

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Screen cap showing over $265k raised for Palestinian children’s relief fund

Y’ALL

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Tiff ⚔️

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A screenshot of RedStrawbaby's stream including their strawberry kitten PNGtuber. On the side is a sketch of Laios from Delicious in Dungeon. In the focus is a sketch of a sticker in the shape of a window, in the window are Dame Aylin and Isobell embracing. Their pose is clearly inspired by Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

fake stained glass window stickers time baybee!! moon lesbians LETS GOOOO

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Silens 🦋

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A digital character token with red background. The illustration is of a woman with long black hair and piercing blue eyes, she's wearing corpse makeup and clothing inspired by old Scotish and viking styles and motifs.

Amelisce 🩸

NPC token commission for @ascotwithscotch.bsky.social ✨

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Okay. We're doing this.

Dear @safety.bsky.app,

You seem to have issue with a specific phrase, so let me go one step further: Not only do I wish ill will on JK Rowling, I wish something quite specific. 🧵

Go support another one of my artist friends!

No u!

Go follow my friendo! They make cool art and stationary! And they're a fellow scottish creative!

It's only Eldritch Horror if it comes from the Eldritch region of Massachusetts. Otherwise, it's just sparkling tentacle fetish.

Despite Pride Month being over, we still got room to add a few more creatives onto the list. (49 spots left!) If you're a TTRPG creative yourself in art, writing, assets, podcasting, etc., comment about yourself in this post if you want to be added to the list! 💕🏳️‍🌈
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Not only is @itch.io removing NSFW tagged items from searches a shitty move that burns their reputation to the ground, they did it without telling anyone. So not only are they ruining people's lives with moves in this direction, but they're also cowards.

Go fuck yourselves. You’re capitulating to fascists. You’ve burned your reputation that took years to build in one fucking night. Fuck you.

The UK spends less on welfare than almost any EU country & yet Labour have allowed for the “scroungers” rhetoric to mask their cruelty. Again.

Brits need to learn that they too can have nice things. They just need to stop falling for the most obvious propaganda & stop voting for neoliberals.

Police preparing for Donald Trump to visit Scotland The US President is expected to visit his new golf course in Aberdeenshire when it opens later this month.

We need to send a message. Let’s make this the biggest protest Scotland has ever seen. For the women killed by his abortion ban and for the people in his concentration camp and all living in fear under his fascist regime Police preparing for Donald Trump to visit Scotland www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel is basically that kid you knew in school that would start shit, throw punches first, and then cry to the teachers when someone fought back.

As a pathfinder GM, rituals are very clearly defined. not unlike spells that don't require a spellcaster to use, but require *time* and they can fail dramatically. Anyone with reasonably good proficiency and the ritual in their journal can cast a ritual. but it requires a skill challenge.

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