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EV Engineer. Programmer. Scicomms. FLGS owner. Lover of games. They/Them πŸ’›πŸ€πŸ’œπŸ–€ www.opalgrovegames.com/

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We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

07.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 6271 πŸ” 1331 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 100

It's how Alan Turing would have wanted it

06.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So the thing about being trans is you go from barely existing to loving life and then everyone who isn’t trans wants us to be quiet and polite at best while we’re exploding with the first real joy we’ve ever experienced

So

Anyone who thinks we need to be civil and quiet can fuck all the way off

05.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 503 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7

They'll add her to the next one by mistake

05.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just FYI, Games Workshop sends FLGS's entire boxes full of just my-first-space-marine or my-first-stormcast-eternal sprues, so if you have a place you're on the fence about it's definitely worth reaching out. They might just have supplies they can make available to you for free

05.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, if you have a local FLGS that's supportive of pride, they could probably get you a ton of space marines for like a learn to paint or interactive event of some kind. But that might be beyond the scope of what you're looking for

05.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do it! There are a decent number of queer folks who are into various war games like 40K but don't always know who we can play with

05.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trans people are under attack.
They are trying to make them going out in public illegal.
They are taking away their licenses.

If you cannot see that the moment you unpeople one demographic, you create a gray area for every other demographic, you're beyond hope.

Trans rights are human rights.

03.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 595 πŸ” 250 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I hold firm to the idea that new people are learning old information for the first time all the time, and it’s normal not to know things. If you’re a journalist (lmao with a Substack, no less) pretending the NYT is fair and balanced about trans people, you’re being malicious. Nobody is that stupid.

02.03.2026 06:26 πŸ‘ 521 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights.

Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers.

Speak up before it's too late

01.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 626 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Turkish and Yemeni are both delicious, as is East African. There's a place near me founded by immigrants from Burundi, and it's one of my favorite places to go eat

01.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

01.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 4416 πŸ” 930 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 6

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

26.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 3781 πŸ” 1532 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 101

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

26.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 9824 πŸ” 3493 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 89
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it just gets more and more bleak doesn’t it?

square up and throw a punch for your trans friends today

26.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Good morning to everyone in the Trans community, and to us only.

I am sending each and every one of us love and hugs today, tomorrow, and everyday after that.

26.02.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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LGS Rules Allow Eating of Opponents' Cards If They Misgender You | Commander's Herald JONESBORO β€” AK While many local game stores claim to be allies to their transgender customers, on a game-to-game level this can prove hard to enforce. It can often result in many trans Magic players f...

β€œI’ve never felt more welcome at my LGS, and I’ve developed quite a taste for confetti foils too! I love my Ygra deck, and this really lets me lean into the theme. I really hate the triple-sleevers though, their cards take forever to tear into, but it really does lock the freshness in!”

20.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

I was legitimately excited for lorwyn coming back, it was the first set I ever drafted.

But just... The fortnite of it all has made me completely apathetic.

20.02.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta
carry out the orders from pedophile island"

18.02.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 2869 πŸ” 1055 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 8

I love Noita, I'm rocking a solid 0.5% (not a typo) win rate

10.02.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

01.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 18338 πŸ” 8109 πŸ’¬ 805 πŸ“Œ 826

I’m not allowed to safely use a public bathroom because a literal island of pedophiles said trans people might be sketchy.

… and somehow that’s barely a sliver of the things that happened thanks to a literal island of pedophiles making stuff up.

01.02.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 3622 πŸ” 978 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 6

the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like

a lot, dawg

01.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 5474 πŸ” 1633 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 75

i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles.

are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?

12.11.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 1341 πŸ” 490 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 15

Damn, I missed it! I didn't realize what day it was, so I'll have to wait a while to see it

26.01.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency

25.01.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 4628 πŸ” 806 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 26

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

20.01.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 8211 πŸ” 1572 πŸ’¬ 109 πŸ“Œ 113