Sam
samuelbastable.bsky.social
Sam
@samuelbastable.bsky.social
Musician, artist and designer
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TODAY IN MINNESOTA: Hundreds of thousands marched through Minneapolis in -10°F, shutting down the city to demand ICE the fuck out of the Twin Cities. People risked frostbite just to make their point. The entire country should be ashamed if they don’t follow.
January 24, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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I was 36 when I started transitioning. I'm 50 now.

Never too late.
I am 44. I had top surgery a year and a half ago. I'm just starting testosterone.

Never too late.

#trans
January 24, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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oh okay so trump is setting policy now.
January 24, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Transphobes (including “gender-critical feminists”) are fascists.

Not ‘fascist enabling’
Not ‘fascist adjacent’
Not ‘collaborating with fascists’

They are fascism’s core, fascism front and centre.
There's an anti-trans protest in manchester and it has:

* Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests
* "radical feminists"
* A guy with an huge cross
* A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!"
* LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.
January 24, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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The BBC claims to have “research” that supports its decision to use abusive transphobic terms for trans women.

But it will not share that “research”.

At the most basic level research is not research if it is not published.

It is just a lie. The BBC is lying.
January 25, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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1 million people: this thing happened

1 right wing nutter: no it didn't

BBC journalist paid £350k a year: with varying reports, it is impossible to tell what's happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Today’s front page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune should horrify every American.

Children detained. Citizens disappeared for days. ICE pushing warrantless entry. Chemical spray in the streets.

If this front page was from any other country it’d be a global human rights crisis.
January 23, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Nathan is a strong proponent for trans rights, and supports
Mermaids, a charity dedicated to providing support to trans and nonbinary youth in the UK.

You can learn more about them and donate here:
mermaidsuk.org.uk

#CoolPirates #OurFlagMeansDeath #SaveOFMD
Mermaids Website
Helping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families since 1995
mermaidsuk.org.uk
April 1, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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I mean, shiiiiit. I was a trans kid 67 years ago (or so), when first I expressed it in a trans kid sort of way. I have memories, and I ain't dead yet. I know people who think trans people didn't exist before 2010. They often also think the earth is both flat and 6,000 years old.
December 30, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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i love it when ppl say trans kids didn’t exist 5 years ago after having spent years fearmongering about ‘mermaids’ — a charity for trans kids founded 30 years ago.
Just because you didn't know something was happening, doesn't mean it wasn't happening.
Yes. I get so angry when colleagues say “There never used to be trans kids in my classes!” when they should say “The trans kids in my classes used to be closeted and miserable and now are out and empowered!” Such a fundamental failure to understand.
December 30, 2024 at 8:01 PM