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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️@aaronsofaer.bsky.social |
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SF Bay Area software engineer, keysmashing stereotype, author of Quill & Still, reader, gamer, she/her dad, lefty atheist half-Arab Jew. Gender is complicated, Blåhaj is soft. DM me if you want to connect on Discord. I do not speak for my employer.
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John Bull
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LOOK AT HER. LOOK AT HER BLUESKY! Clearly based on the U Class, but adapted for Baltic ops. That's an icebreaker bow (which makes her lines filth af) and she's rigged for minelaying above and below, hence the sidepods. Her tail is pure U though. I would marry this boat. She is utterly gorgeous.
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badly-drawn bee 🐝
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James Timpson as Prisons Minister, an actual KC as AG. First female chancellor. 1st housing sec who's actually lived in social housing. 1st education sec who was on free school meals. Energy sec who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. I hate him, but this is already better.
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Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️⚧️
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TO THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY, BATMAN
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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ok cause all three of those are gay as fuck but they're gay as in gay gay homosexuelle they are trans and sapphic and queer but they are definitely not M/M (though there's M/M couples in Q&S, because duh.)
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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oh shit did you mean gay like homosexual or gay like specifically M/M?
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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QUILL & STILL BOOK ONE BY AARON "PASTAFARIAN" SOFAER KATALEPSIS BY HUNGRY AKA HY BIOSHIFTER BY NATALIE "THUNDAMOO" MAHER
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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The secret to understanding how to do feminizing HRT is transfemscience.org/articles/tra... and good luck, as far as I'm aware there's basically no studies on how to maximize *or* minimize breast growth during HRT. Though probably if you're losing weight your boobs won't grow as much?
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I would be delighted to see him do 90 minutes with Chotiner but I would rather see Trump do it because it would be the funniest possible thing.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Who knows! The T can fuck off though because of hair loss and body/facial hair and whatnot. It's possible that some sort of "both please" regimen would work best for me but instead I go hard on E monotherapy.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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It's funny because I do genuinely crack jokes about how I'm non-binary and you can tell because I was almost as happy as I was on T as I am on E.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I think the hope is that nobody gives a shit about it; that "Biden old" is already priced in and even if the toxicity continues the combination of gigantic ground game and enormous ad buys will activate the ginormous swing we've seen relative to expectations post-Dobbs.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I know I'm super fuckin' weird because I have had *extremely* minimal effects from even relatively high-dose HRT, but also given how people talk about being on the wrong hormonal balance I suspect if it's *not* for you, you'll super super know!
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Bret Devereaux
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This week on the blog! This year's now customary July 4th-week post is on the philosophy of the American founding, liberalism (in the 'liberty' sense of the word) - what it is, where it comes from and its impressive track record.
acoup.blog/2024/07/05/c...
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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The general vibe on bsky last summer and some specific people that I met during that period are what gave me the courage to start HRT, which is definitely something. Thus far, something I don't regret.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I've connected with some pretty cool people here as one author to another. Professional networking is neat~! Also advice on a bunch of stuff—taking selfies, fashion, cooking, book recommendations, how bows are made, etc. It's not changing the political word but there's more to life than that.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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The web serial author communities feel this way about Royal Road, where we serialize our stuff as half promotion, half Patreon-engine monetization before republishing it on Amazon.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Probably not! But it's kind of hilarious how *standard* that answer is, because this is a question that gets asked repeatedly of every candidate in every primary.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Sweet, I don't have to go get that implant my dentist says I need!
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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A bunch of the ministers who've been picked so far are *VERY* much not the same. Reminds me of Biden's pick of Lina Khan.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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"I've got my eyes on the ball, George. I'm focused on beating Trump, and that's exactly what I'm gonna do." That's the standard answer. Just refuse to engage with it. Same answer that every primary candidate gives for the same question.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Weirdly my Biden-hating (I'm serious, they fucking hate him) parents who were 100% on Team "Kick Him To The Curb For Anyone, Literally Anyone Else" are now ride-or-die for him after ABC. California, and they're both way way more plugged into politics than any normie, but I was astonished by that.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Alright, my old-ass Biden-hating (no seriously, they HATE the guy) parents think he did great in the interview that aired tonight, that's a wrap.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Massive and sweeping, and also the Civil Rights Act was followed up by *additional* massive, sweeping legislation. FHA in particular comes to mind. What's incrementalism if every increment is a huge stride at full power?
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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My version of not engaging is mass blocks and then *maybe* bitching about it on my skyline with everyone who was involved already blocked. I try not to do that latter one, but fuck it, whatever.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Personally I think it's fine to say "I don't have a personal relationship with the guy, why are you even asking me" but apparently not! Nor is "I don't trust the TERFs but if what they reported is true then fuck him"! Gotta have A TAKE and it's gotta be EMPHATIC and IMMEDIATE! Fuck that.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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It's kind of amazing how many people think "I do not have a take on this" is an unacceptable position re: Gaiman. Motherfuckers, it is not incel culture or misogyny that is having me block you; it is the fact that you are *demanding* people perform for you online and that's vile.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Me to my GP about my whatever numbers Fuck you lady, I gave up bread and rice, I'm not giving up cheese
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Y'know there's a lot of politics happening but I mostly don't give a shit because holy shit the audiobook narrator for Q&S is *so good*, and she's so collaborative about it! Gotta get my feedback back to her about the different samples she sent me for a character and holy shit I can't believe this.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Ouch. OUCH.
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willow 🐈⬛
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good news they just announced you no longer have to imagine all the possible ways a social engagement might go before you do it
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I've seen a bunch of people on bsky who think he's incapable and a very small number of those are even able to distinguish that from claiming he has dementia!
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Jake Wertz
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Michigan, I owe you an apology. I was not familiar with your game.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Even in the context of him saying he's the best positioned candidate *to* beat Trump I think it's really just... too honest? Like, the standard answer here is "my eyes are on the ball, George, I don't have time to waste on what-ifs" for a reason.
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Whenever I start wallowing in despair due to current events, I remind myself that I wrote two comics about how cool being trans is, book on queer superheroes, and a character study on the difficulties of moving past trauma, all of which were published by the Superman people. So, it's not all bad.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I feel like the only people who are ever going to ask Biden the questions I want him asked are niche indie policy bloggers. Fuck doing an interview with ABC, I want to see him sit down with Parker Molloy to talk trans rights, Radley Balko to talk criminal justice. *Someone* for crunchy policy shit.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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You know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of the way that the press interviews actresses. All form and no substance. "What was your skin care routine like" who gives a shit, if you're gonna ask something physical at least make it "what stretches do you do to hit those high kicks".
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Some of us would *love* to have an opportunity to ask just *one* goddamn policy question to the President, y'know? I have so many of them! But I guess I'm a policy wonk nerd and George is too important for that bullshit.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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A question at the very end of the ABC interview with Biden that aired tonight. Basically "How will you feel if, with these super high stakes, you lose?" to which he responded more or less "Given that I'm the best positioned person to win, long as I give it my all, so be it" (paraphrasing)
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Celeste Pewter
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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"because I wanted him to step down" is presumably the actual answer, but who gives a shit? it was a dumb question.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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This was probably the most revealing line of the interview in terms of their respective positions.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I dunno, if he thinks he's the best positioned to win, that's basically the only answer other than "I'm gonna win so there's no point worrying about that".
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Sergio 📷🔭🌲
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Finally had a few days with clear skies, so while i'm getting on it again, leave this photo i made of Altaír, the brightest star of Aquila, the eagle constellation. A very young star, "only" 16yl far from us. Wish you an stellar weekend ahead!!✨📸🔭
#astrophotography #photography #nature
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Orcspiration
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DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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There's room for plenty of court case coverage, there's an enormous heat wave and some giant hurricane, plus Sudan stuff and the fallout of the Bolivia coup attempt and of course Ukraine. COVID is old news but it's spiking, Project 2025 is worth some deep dives, UK elections. All boring I guess!
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Yeah, he was present and sharp even if he sounded like shit, and the interviewer mostly sucked but only in the normal expected way. Pure narrative and horse race questions.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Well, I think that was crystal clear: Biden isn't gonna step aside and he thinks it's all press-driven bullshit. It wasn't a softball interview and he handled it basically fine even if he did kinda sound like raspy ass, so whatever. Wake me if something changes before October, I have work to do.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Yep, just finished airing.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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Thanks!
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