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Published: September 23, 2025 15:15
So did you hear about the Michigan Republican trying to ban all porn and all trans people from the web?
Well... turns out the reality is more complicated.
This week on my newsletter IOSPHERE, I dig into the bizarre 'Anticorruption of Public Morals Act'…
https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3lzc37uwcm226
Published: September 20, 2025 19:07
NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on.
I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands.
It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point.
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https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3lzabmmlzc22o
Published: September 20, 2025 01:56
Right, that's fucking it for this week. I'm clocking off and drinking some fucking whiskey. Take care of yourselves 🖤
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Published: September 19, 2025 12:01
girls I am now at the level of midlife tranny spoonie angst that when I type “wahg w” into youtube it immediately and correctly autosuggests “what was I made for billie eilish”
so uhhh pray for me ig
https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3lz6ofw4mfs2r
Published: September 19, 2025 10:40
NEW: The ultraconservative think tank behind Project 2025 is pushing Trump's FBI to treat 'violent transgender extremism' as a new domestic terror threat.
Their definition is incredibly wide, and suggests that "cisgender" and "deadnaming" are extremist…
https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3lz5ujixqdk2l
Published: September 19, 2025 02:56
evergreen skeet:
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Published: September 19, 2025 02:07
Back in maybe 2020 a local high school kid interviewed me for their project and asked me if I thought social media was net good or net bad.
"The internet is a net good, for sure," I said. "But social media? That's a different thing, and I lean marginally…
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Published: September 19, 2025 01:09
Whooof.
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Published: September 18, 2025 00:06
housemates are watching The Pacific and discussing segregation in the US army and I am begging someone, anyone, to make a goddamn movie or series about the 761st tank battalion
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Published: September 17, 2025 19:43
As a break from the Interesting Times, here's an extremely silly story:
The reanimated corpse of noughties music-sharing titan LimeWire (now puppeted by NFT-mongers) has bought the branding rights to Fyre Festival.
Why? Sorry, I don't understand the…
https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3lyzcvose522j
Published: September 17, 2025 07:30
“[Businesses] expressed concern that the proposals would… force staff ‘into the unacceptable role of gender police’.”
Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash
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https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3lyzbs7bnps2h
Published: September 17, 2025 07:11
yeah see this is one of the most annoying parts of transition. it’s like that bit when you come out of a deep depressive episode and suddenly realise with horror that now you have to actually shower and care for yourself and cook meals and shit
except…