Apparently the German republicans had a saying that one had to "howl with the wolves" to remain viable. It was a very cutesie way of shutting down debate, Haffner relates. Now of course we know that if it howls like a nazi and runs in the same pack, it's a nazi
this garbage framing really needs to stop. it's not about crime. we know this. asking people how they feel about crime pretends that it is about crime. pretending it's about crime is supporting trump's framing. stop it.
What is it with these bowtie wearing motherfuckers, anyway?
Pretty sure that's the very definition of a used kidney, you sociopath
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
Shooter was a detransitioned anti-trans Nazi whose ideology was in lockstep with 99% of Trumpism. But the fascists won't let the truth get in the way of an extermination plan they were already working on anyway.
I called my local CVS this morning to book my #COVID vaccine and #Flu vaccine shots. I was simply asked if I qualify and answered yes. No further details or prescription was requested. My appointment is made. The shots will be available in the pharmacy September 4th.
Love is not a conservative value, you twats
Why is my ex writing op eds about me
Please I am begging everyone to stop saying that Pritzker hasn't thrown trans people under the bus when he refuses to enforce his state's own anti-discrimination laws to force hospitals in Illinois that have stopped providing gender affirming care to minors to do it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
He's not being deported, as that implies that he's received the tiniest bit of due process. He's being disappeared. Trafficked. Whatever term you prefer, they apply more here.
not for nothing, but a purity test is what ensures you don’t have heavy metals, pathogenic bacteria, and other heavy metals in your water supply
Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.
The man-made famine in Gaza is now officially recognised months after Israel’s deliberate starvation campaign was obvious. The most preventable famine in history, unfolding in plain sight and we won’t forget our government armed, funded and gave it cover.
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
A bunch of media websites sued them and they went down 😭
Another gender neutral bathroom just opened!
Also people need to talk about other shit, like the media they love and the things that bring them joy. This place needs more fun to balance out the grimness.
Yeah, it truly is. I don't miss FB except for back in the pre-enshitification days when it actually showed me my friends' posts and vice versa. Now it's all ads and ragebait. But it is kinda weird that I've managed to find myself in a whole ass relationship and can't really talk about it anywhere.
Still really need a t-shirt that says "I'm sorry for the things I said when I was dysregulated"
This. We had no real options in 2024. Harris would have let Israel continue genocide even if she didn't publicly cheer it on. Why can't we all agree that resigned acceptance of genocide for "strategic" (their opinion, not mine) reasons is still a form of enabling and support?
And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
I have barely been online this week but doing the smallest amount of scrolling through my feed earlier makes it seem like this place became 10 times worse overnight. Is it just me? Tempted to delete this account now.
Ethel Cain implies the existence of Ethel Abel.
the people angry at this seem captured by the delusion that "immortality" would somehow trickle down to the masses. This ignores two key things: 1. Most tech oligarchs see "immortality" as uploading themselves to the cloud 2. They want to make themselves gods and don't desire your company
For the love of god can we stop airing articles about "X tech bro says this is gonna happen in X years clearly just in service of a publicity stunt". No. It's not going to happen. Obviously. Why are we indulging this?
Me too, but I also put a scrobbler app on my phone to track my streaming! So now I can see my listening stats whenever I want
"When hope is depleted, there is always spite." I love this sentiment so much.
The audiobook is now available on Hoopla and thank God because I have asked my local library to buy copies and they refuse. A free Palestine means a free planet.
I'm glad the parts where Sim Kern breaks down in tears while reading Genocide Bad were left in the audiobook. I would not want to hear the story of a newborn who died from fear due to Israeli bombings from the voice of someone who could hold it together while relaying these horrors.
Thinking about this old tweet today for some reason
This whole song reads like a shitpost, so fitting to see it here lol
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
This is a good point for everyone, uhhh, not Black, Brown, and/or from the US. When people in the suburbs especially talk about crime, they are not talking about the wild ass shit going down in the Walmart parking lot at night. They're talking about me fumbling with my keys at my own front door.
300,000 Black women have left the labor market in a three month period this year, and it's estimated that the unemployment rate for Black women is as high as ten percent but none of this is getting much traction. So, I wrote about it on my blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/f...
Why are these weirdos romanticizing and fetishizing one of the most humiliating moments in many young girls' lives? Lmfao what a bunch of delusional wankers transphobes are
ChatGPT is not beholden to HIPAA or any other patient privacy and protection laws. Please for the love of god don't use it for therapy. Even BetterHelp is more ethical than this.
Four Illinois hospitals have stopped providing gender affirming care to trans kids, in violation of Illinois law, because they're complying in advance with the Trump administration. @jbpritzker.bsky.social & @kwameraoul.bsky.social are defending the HOSPITALS. So much for being a sanctuary state.
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
Someone cough up the link to the fundraiser for their legal expenses
This is your reminder that 36% of the entire queer and trans population of the country lives in the South. That's more, by a significant margin, than any other region of the u.s. Worth remembering next time anyone feels the need to abandon or write us off.
People started rehabilitating W all the way back in 2016 and got mad when I reminded them (people my age or older, so they don't have "wasn't born yet" as a fucking excuse for this dumbassery) that W IS HOW WE GOT TRUMP IN THE FIRST PLACE
He literally cheated an election i'm losing my mind. And the patriot act resulted in the largest loss of rights in US history.
it must be hard to run a country when the whole population gets hit with the men in black memory erasing device every 4 years
Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"
Seriously. The bar is in hell. Are you a cis dude who wants pussy? Just be genuine, kind, and caring. That's all it takes.
EMDR, letting my inner child drive most of my decisions in the last few years, getting comfortable with being alone, my cat, some of my relatives, music, and my friends
I forgot to update that I did kiss someone on the mouth 30 minutes later (don't worry, it was planned lol)
People don't talk enough about the greatness that is R.E.M.'s "Texarkana." It's like they put on cowboy boots only to scoot into their best impersonation of The Chills. The highlight of Out of Time and possibly the best song they ever wrote.
If they ask you if you are planning on wearing your mask forever, tell them you know that you will not last forever, but you’re willing to do what you can to take care of others for as long as you are still here. * The 281st week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/p...
Ok why does the Wikipedia page for the Noid read like Werner Herzog wrote it
OMG bsky.app/profile/nytp...
I could get a job but never keep it. They usually started cutting my hours after probation, sometimes they’d just fire me. I got a BA in philosophy but can’t understand sentences if they have numbers in & read at an excruciatingly slow rate. I’m a YouTuber but freeze if anyone sees me perform irl
Exactly. This was the goal even before October 7, and the entire Israeli government leadership was open about it. He was fine with innocent people being bombed and the supply blockades keeping out aid for years, he doesn't get to pretend like he's acting from a position of moral authority.
Imagine if cancer were infectious. Imagine if heart attacks were contagious. Imagine if HIV were airborne. Imagine if a cold gave five-year-olds dementia. That is what covid is. Mask up.
Did Chicago get rid of the trash cans in the Loop? There used to be one on every corner, can't find one to save my life rn
Making me realize that I need to kiss more people on the mouth
Not me crying on the Pink Line rn
The passive voice is a scourge on society
What a punchable face
This is clearly the new talking point, I saw a guest on MSNBC advancing it yesterday. Like when the anti-vax weirdos kept insisting that people with pre-existing conditions were dying *with* Covid, not *of* Covid.
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
New Snail Mail material is very lesbian heartland rock and I'm into it
Verdict on the Salt Shed so far: glad I saw PJ Harvey in Philadelphia and not here, that's for sure. Not a bad venue for a less intimate gig like this one, but I would've been so disappointed if I'd managed to get a ticket to that show. The Met was a much better venue for her.
That tracks, honestly. All the decent Christian rock figures deconstructed
After what that one dude was arrested for recently...they don't deserve to count
I'm also not sure a more perfect shirt exists for this lineup of bands
Christian rock definitely doesn't count!
Salt Shed. I've never been and it's a pain in the ass to get to, but Snail Mail is opening and that sealed the deal for me
Do I wanna see Dinosaur Jr tonight? Yes. Do I know that the temp is gonna drop like 20 degrees by the time the show ends? Yes. Am I still struggling with the thought of going outside within the next 30 minutes while it's still 90°? Yes.
It's foolish to use this shooting to attack Mamdani. The reality is that cops are DOGSHIT at stopping active deadly threats in a rapid manner. Americans are nearly always on their own in times of danger. Whether it comes in the form of a flood or Uvalde.
Everyone I know who works in harm reduction is pretty much constantly enraged about how the term is badly mis-used to justify the unjustifiable. This analogy's brutal but it makes the point and it's stuck with me.
Suddenly the confirmation bias of being annoyed by this dweeb since he ran for president is running HOT
I emailed her like a year ago about this and her response was one of the most rabid, genocide apologist messages I've ever seen from a Democrat. She's only talking about it now because the tide of public opinion is too high to ignore, but she's going to pretend that she supported Gaza the whole time
I misread this as "casket closed." Oh subconscious, stop giving me hope.
Plus the abuse of asylum seekers when Democrats were actively denying it. The Biden administration should be viewed with tremendous shame by anyone who cares about human rights.
This somehow reflects the awkwardness I feel over dating someone new during all of this horrific nonsense. Joy and grief and beauty and despair can exist in the same brain, on the same timeline. To seek positivity and hope in dark times is what makes us human.
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
This isn't a new thing. Phil Ochs wrote Love Me, I'm a Liberal (a scathing satire of liberalism from a leftist perspective) in 1965.
I've seen two new derogatory terms emerge this week. "Clankers" for robots and "sloppers" for people who use AI to do everything.
Y'all need to be calling your reps about this NOW!!!
Dammit I typed gut, not get. Sentence still works but is less effective
Of course they're trying to get FLSA now youtu.be/9MRz_9LfDkk?...
Whenever I teach students about the Ugly Laws, I always see jaws drop open. Here is Chicago's 1881 ordinance, for example:
Congratulations on getting the coveted Wu-Tang endorsement! Hell yeah!
Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.
Me: The Democrats have nothing but contempt for their voter base. Their voter base: Oh, so you must have voted for Trump! Me: No, I don't vote for fascists. The Democrats:
People saying "DHS is now run by fascists" are killing me because DHS was a fascist project from its inception
It was like a feminism 101 fever dream. There's nothing wrong with that, and there's still a need for that kind of entry-level feminist media. Not everything needs to be Jeanne Dielman (and I love Jeanne Dielman but it's like doctoral studies level feminism)
Mercury is fully in retrograde right now, ain't it? JFC
Sometimes it's okay to not kill your darlings
this week's post is something I wrote in 2019 but has been offline for awhile, How To Live Like the World Is Ending. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
Oh shit is that why I keep wondering if a certain person is still alive
The cucumber to pickle transition is a form of twink death
An incomparable legend.
