One thing I'm sure of: there is not one thing going wrong in this country that was caused by trans people. 0 things.
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One thing I'm sure of: there is not one thing going wrong in this country that was caused by trans people. 0 things.
The satisfaction of finding a vinyl copy of a blues compilation I had on cassette in'93 but left at a party is immeasurable.
One thing I'm sure of: there is not one thing going wrong in this country that was caused my trans people. 0 things.
If you're democratic candidate for anything and you're not all-in, and I mean all-the-fuck-in for trans rights, go ahead and take a walk over to the republican party where you belong.
"I'm glad you think there are going to be elections in God in heaven, shut up.
this is so important
i did this when you posted about it in 2023 and it was amazing
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Here's another practice that @annekosseffjones.bsky.social & I made together. It's made to help you process fresh escalations of horror, & also to help you decide whether you want to continue or switch your method of countering them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The United States is a country where comedians must take care not to offend the ruling party if they want to keep their jobs.
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
Jimmy Kimmel got pulled.
Just saw a second of an original Star Trek that identified the place as "Kiev, USSR" and my brain did about 80 somersaults to work that out (even though that's how it was identified when I was growing up) Poor Kyiv. #StillWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini
just had a new follow with 0 information in their bio go through all my back posts and like everything and you know? blocked. like wtf.
thank you! it's so satisfying. @rachelcrowl.net will play Sally in 5 episodes starting 9/23: www.imdb.com/title/tt3128...
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: my homemade red sauce cats happy to sleep on / near me amazing, energetic students my wife's TV show starts airing next week! i have some really good people in my life
A class full of enthusiastic, smart students is everything. God I love #teaching
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
Well that's alright with me / a subset of gen X is sad tonight. RIP Stephen Luscombe. Thanks for the tunes.
My flight guy announcement: "we're flying out of LaGuardia, and we all know LaGuardia can come with surprises, so we need your help taking off on time"
My kingdom for a direct flight.
wow. i'm sorry/thankful. my dad loved the sun & beaches, & my mom was the kind of lady who'd end up in the ER if she spent too much time in the sun. rachel & i had a tank, & we actually sublet to someone who took care of our fish. & they did. for 7 yrs. RIP Nadine, the last of our fishy kids.
Charlie Kirk was pure evil. You reap what you sow. WATCH: #Resist
i really do understand stoners, even if i do not enjoy it myself, but that shit should not smell like "grape". it should smell like weed. be honest.
The 4 of you who liked this are my family now. That is all.
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
If you're going to have a giant fishtank in your restaurant or bar, make sure it's not depressing.
more like rancid mayonnaise
This should be a $$$ class action lawsuit by transgender Americans at large
Not a Democrat Not Trans Not Gay They are eating themselves
well fuck it, i'm going to see Pulp tonight because i can.
Ludlow Haymarket
Article 4 was invoked. Poland is mobilizing. Poland is demanding the rest of Europe mobilizes. This is a very big deal, even if the reaction from Washington is meh! open.substack.com/pub/nadinabb...
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
tomorrow is also 9/11 so it’s probably a great day for everyone to log the fuck off because online is going to be an absolute shitshow
Thank you.
we won't use guns / we won't use bombs / we'll use the one thing we have more of / that's our minds
Thank you for this.
Sadly, the mass shooting at that school today is going to get swallowed up by the death of a man who had no sympathy for them.
Yeah, feeling that hard
I'm gonna go re read their obituary of Roy Cohn and remember when they didn't suck wholesale.
Nope.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
The Deseret News is now reporting that far-right pundit Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck at an event at a college in Utah
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
I already said I’m voting for him
TODAY: @mariabustillos.com reviews Epstein’s horrid little birthday book and how legacy media is handling it. “The result is a document so depraved and so vile as to cause any regular person to want to defect from the human race as a result of reading it” flaminghydra.com/book-review-...
This is the best kind of content. Here are the flowers I let dry on my kitchen windowsill.
hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
Oh #Chicago, how I love you
Because love is what sustains us... Me and @rachelcrowl.net doing what we do. #trans #transcouples #transpartner #love #nyc
it's the time of year when i am wholly convinced that buying a new planner or notebook is going to fix this once and for all. i know it won't, and yet the promise of an empty notebook is endless and excruciating to resist.
You push back and resist. You let them know that if you try it you’re gonna go through some things. Watch them blink.
When I was first working here as a visiting scholar my wife asked me if any of my colleagues were hot and I told her there was just this one guy I wanted to dress like. That was Garth.
Thanks. He was a good guy.
My friend Garth Bond was one of the most joyous, kind people I've ever known. A scholar. Athlete. Fan. Mensch. Father. I will miss him very much. RIP Garth Bond. You were the best of us.
And Joe. And Joey.
Karl Wallinger. Mark E Smith. Jim Collins.
This whole fuck country needs a good domme
I've had a good day overall but Sarah gave me a bumper crop of tomatoes from her garden so my house is gonna smell like a red sauce tomorrow. And on Sunday I fly to NYC to do an interview and hang with my about to be famous wife. Hanging onto the good things.
My quality of life is entirely about how much time I get to spend on my couch with my cats. But also birds and unexpected flowers. And very occasionally based on a conversation with a lovely weird human.
Queer community is invaluable. Thanks to my local and not local peeps for keeping me sane.
Let all the #AI startups go bankrupt.
Is he dead yet?
how dare they imply that Starfleet (ONE WORD NOT TWO) has its headquarters in San Francisco because in the 21st century it was the capital of AI Starfleet has its headquarters in San Francisco because space is gay everybody knows that
The OTC antihistamine azelastine may work against a range of respiratory infections, including Covid, the flu and RSV, according to German researchers.
Just here to remind people that folks who lived through that shit do not need to see the goddamn videos because you're feeling patriotic. Mind yourselves.
I worry about saying this because I really don’t want people to tune out when Jews talk about antisemitism. It’s real, it matters, and it’s the canary in the coal mine. That’s why the right is trying to weaponize it and/or make it meaningless. Don’t stop caring. Just consider the source.
Love you. Bring the humanity.
You were born old. So was I. It's a responsibility tho
Lol you're an old now. Sorry.
I keep thinking about how my mom's eyelids didn't work toward the end of her life because she was down to 10% heart, lungs, and kidney capacity. She could still talk and enjoy my company but her eyelids didn't work. Something America.
i'm re reading Elizabeth Rush's Rising in order to teach it much later this year - November - and i'm thinking a lot about being an old, angry, sad progressive in the classroom these days. how are the youngs approaching climate change, the loss of the sciences? are they more resilient than i feel?
not quite a week
It's 20 years to the weekend Katrina nearly destroyed #NOLA. Irreplaceable people. Irreplaceable culture. Thank you New Orleans for being awesome.
Contract. Ugh, we need editing power.
3 cool things: got my contact for a piece I'm getting published in an anthology, I'm getting flown to NYC to be interviewed for a docu about trans couples, and I saw a pileated woodpecker in my backyard today.
Fuck white supremacy every day forever.
how do you enumerate the pain of helplessness? how can you describe the weight of everything on your chest? the accumulation of injustices. the violence. the genocides and school shootings and the mass extinctions
Abolish ICE. Abolish "A.i." No arms for genocide. Protect trans kids. Shut down the concentration camps. Abolish tariffs. Fire RFK, Jr. Boycott Avelo & Tesla. Delete Twitter. No crypto. Care over punishment. Vote Mamdani. Primary every do-nothing D. Protect vaccines and SSRIs. No fascism. #NoKings
Thank you, friend.
Fuck anyone who thinks trans people are the problem. Decades of straight white men killing people because... Which no one did anything about Fuck transphobia
Lol no I'm just an awkward dork who is photogenic
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
I appreciate you
Yesterday my wife took a beautiful new headshot of me and today I knocked my own glasses off my face while teaching So that's how it's going
there's a really good book called *Between Certain Death and A Possible Future* that's all narratives of this/my generation. (still regret not writing a piece for it)
Also your people now.
well i'm your people now.
i am so looking forward to it.
hey, my wife @rachelcrowl.net is in this! youtu.be/cE9bq37W3Qo?...
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
My “FUCK ICE!” playlist available now on Spotify! A rocking little soundtrack to enjoy while you drive those bastards out of your neighborhood! #DefendLA #Defend (YourCityHere) open.spotify.com/playlist/5M4...
I wish all my people were closer by.
really. the whole thing is worth watching. and it's just so so so so Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eemt...