Hi! I created a queer Portland rock band magical girl novel series with a trans protagonist and multiple other trans characters and folks sure seem to like it. 😊 it’s at magicariot.com
Started out with art, then ran an anime convention, and somehow ended up studying astro/biophysics. 🤷♀️ Was moonglaive on Twitter. 💛🖤🤍💜 ~ 🖤🩶🤍💜
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Hi! I created a queer Portland rock band magical girl novel series with a trans protagonist and multiple other trans characters and folks sure seem to like it. 😊 it’s at magicariot.com
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on a new immigrant detention facility. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
9 years ago today in Morton County, North Dakota: Security contractors sicced dogs on Native people protecting their unceded treaty territory from Energy Transfer, the oil giant building the Dakota Access Pipeline. Ancient burial sites were later identified in this area. #NoDAPL #StandingRock
I really wish I'd bookmarked that post talking about how the wealthy use bizarre fashion statments as an identifier/status symbol rather than a beauty ideal. Compared King Louis (15 I think)'s anal fistula surgery and the response from the aristocrats to bandaged ears and "Mar-a-Lago face."
This is adultification, and it’s a hop, skip, and jump away from the sexualization of children.
In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
When we pretend that stillbirth (and pregnancy loss) is nonexistent, the natural urge after is to blame. This is a very sad story of an intended parent blaming the surrogate -- even though IVF doubles if not triples the risk of stillbirth.
Some people do well with higher word count goals. I tend to find them discouraging rather than motivating... But! I do like setting myself extremely low word count goals because often the hardest part is getting started.
Holy hell, more like this:
"They came within 20 kilometers of basically strip-mining the largest deep-sea coral reef on the planet 50 years before we even knew it existed."
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Little doomscolling break #goodgreennews Palm cockatoos make musical instruments out of sticks and use them for drumming 🎼 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
Nelvana has shut down, it seems. A real loss for future generations of kids who love awesome cartoons. piratesandprincesses.net/rip-nelvana-...
Someone asked me why sharks stick their dorsal fins out of the water. The answer is simple. Sharks’ dorsal fins stick out of the water sometimes because their fins are on top of and therefore higher than the rest of their body, and sometimes their body is near the surface of the water.
That's So Reno! Clarissa Explains It All (Via 45 Minute Cut Scene) The Sweet Life With Zack & Cloudy Charlie's S.O.L.D.I.E.R.s Shadow: The Bounty Hunter Absolutely Fabula Nova Chrysalis Advent Children In The Hall Live From Treno, It's City of Night LIVE!!!
Lisowicia: a giant dicynodont from my homeland #paleoart #synapsids #lisowicia
Hell with it, thread of Nelvana cartoon intros and some of the shows I grew up with, given the recent news of the studio's impending shutdown.
BLUE SKY DOES NOT PUNISH YOU FOR ADDING LINKS OR TAGS PLEASE ARTISTS, PUT YOUR SHOP LINK IN THE POST, YOU ARE FREE HERE!!! NO MORE "🔗 in b1o YOU DOnT HAVE TO CENSOR YOUR WORDS HERE!!!!
Wait til he finds all the things kids are exposed to, from birth, that trains our immune systems to recognize threats that AREN'T vaccines! It's way, way, way more than 72/77 (it's actually only maybe 36 over 17 years) per day!
Ken Paxton is now "recommending" that Texas school children recite the Lord's Prayer at school.
If Bluesky is so awful and an unworthy competitor to Twitter then I have such good news: there is a whole other platform they can use that exactly conforms to their apparent expectations They can use it and then stop talking. No need to talk about Bluesky if it's irrelevant, right?
This is the racist lies clip to which the above post is referring:
Because being in a mountain bunker makes it harder for him to launder money through government projects during whatever Hegseth and the Dept. of War will be doing to Venezuela, etc. 🤔😒
All of them.
Here’s a Navy P-8 Poseidon turning its transponder on midair as it heads away from Venezuela back to San Juan at about 520 UTC (1:20 a.m. ET).
Irony here is that literally nobody actually in fucking public health said that, it was just clout-seeking morons on twitter who went crazy about it
"Rapist felon forces university to shutter women's center."
Still think the "well, the colonists woulda just killed you, so it's okay to take away all your rights permanently" argument is not a good evolution of Bruen.
1. Denver Public Schools is doing what some prestigious universities and hospitals refuse to do: Standing up for trans students and refusing to capitulate to Trump's anti-trans demands. "We will fight," says the superintendent, despite funding threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
"Productivity" because they absolutely prioritized number of lines of code over working lines of code, thus enshrining enshittification into USian culture.
"I worked for Google." Remember when all those tech companies reorganized themselves into cults for the sake of productivity and at the expense of employee health?
Scrolling quickly, I stopped and went, "that looks like ME/CFS!" This is amazing, and thank you for sharing!
#SciArtSeptember Day 2: canopy • The brain-like snarl representing my fatigue in neuraesthenia (2017) resembles the canopy of a tree. #embroidery
For the last couple of years much of the media has had the most incredible unwillingness to learn literally anything about JD Vance. Never seen anything like it. Active resistance to learning anything about his ideas.
Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
NONE of these plans are any more extreme than what Trump is currently doing with the help of the Supreme Court. If Trump can shut down the Department of Education and CFPB, President AOC can shut down ICE. If Trump can kill green energy projects, President Newsom can kill the fossil fuel industry.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
ALSO SPEAKING OF NEWS There's dozens of articles about a little boy, 11, murdered in Texas. Jist is, the little boy was playing ding dong ditch (which may be annoying but it's a little kid thing, I did it as a kid) and someone came out, and as the little boy was running off, shot him in the back
😞 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Were they willing to volunteer as that minority group, or was it perfectly fine as long as it was someone else?
IN SUMMARY
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
I'm going on two weeks post Pfizer vax with joint inflammation and migraines. It's still not as bad as my "mild" case of COVID (before vaccines were available).
Nobel prize beggar and all round fat fuck masquerading as a Peacemaker - is deploying troops to Venezuela. Currently, seven warships carrying 2,200 marines and one submarine are heading to the country's shores. 1/4
The dissonance with the heavy reliance on using a judicial system is what snapped me out of that whole thing. How can courts settle whether someone has been wronged if responsibility lies with individuals who only "feel" they've been wronged in the first place ...w/"minimal rules and regs"? 🤔
The only difference btwn GOP and Libertarians is that one group wants to use government labs and prisons for unethical research and murder, and the other wants to privatize it all. They switch political jargon because they're actually the same, just started w/different bad faith deflecting tactics.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Reuters, do you mean "flirty" or "non-consensually pornographic"?
Yup.
Shout out to Nature for publishing a negative result For decades paleontologists interpreted sand-size scraps of mineralized phosphate fossils in Cambrian strata as *vertebrate* tissue These authors went to great lengths to prove these fragments are arthropod cuticle www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
i was today years old when i learned that Toronto once fired its entire police force after a series of literal clown riots
AI isn't being used for its intended purposes (research, medicine, etc.) and is instead having extra parts cobbled into it (rendering it otherwise useless) in order to profit off the backs of everyone else.
An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
At least one firefighter arrested in Washington while battling a blaze on the Olympic Peninsula is a resident of Oregon. His attorneys said they have not been able to contact him after officers arrested him and another man at a wildfire work site on Wednesday.
there is a coherent program. it is not whim. three I's at least: Isolation. Impoverishment. Illness. that's economic sabotage, state dismantling, ally betrayal, trolling comms, education demolition, cultural vandalism, AI grift, health wrecking, commissioned terror, community deportation.
Anything to avoid acknowledging that whole problem of white, Christian nationalist culture...
When we mentioned the anti-trans stuff bleeds into so many other areas of society, this is what we're talking about. They're using a shooter to shoehorn an attempt to target SSRIs. They don't believe in medicine itself.
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
He’s really out to destroy any locus of control outside his own personal diktat news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Spotted on the @apnews.com Instagram account: apnews.com/article/isra...
Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...
JD Vance went the WRONG WAY down a one way street to avoid protesters in Wisconsin. Disgraceful.
Get in, loser, we're laughing at the NYPD!
I think this August 20th posting by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social for Law Dork is well worth the read if you have time. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
I’m sad about fascism. I’m also spiteful. They want us too sick to fight back? Fuck that. I’m going to distribute n95s with mask blocs to keep my community healthy as possible. They want to crush workers rights? Fuck that. Gonna teach folks how to unionize. How can you spite the bastards today?
Things that happen on the internet are so bizarre. Interactions are like AU parasocial relationships: they know you're real but would rather project onto an a fictional version. Events exist in a quantum state of hyperreal, real, surreal, unreal, and not real in a way that couldn't happen IRL. 😶
ICEBlock is incredibly false privacy claims for marketing. They falsely claim it provides complete anonymity when it doesn't. They're ignoring both data kept by Apple and data available to the server but not stored. They're also spreading misinformation about Android: www.iceblock.app/android
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
And this: www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Fascism by definition requires a working set of false assumption which both the government and most of the people propagating them know to be untrue. Here are the biggest lies Trump/MAGA are now runing the country under and the purpose served by each one.
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
He said a lot of words that have no meaning. Shocking....
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Wow the CDC director is now saying she was not officially fired and is refusing to resign.
pretty soon they're gonna have to rename the CDC to just CD
If USA authorities issue a legal request to Microsoft for data of a citizen hosted in another country, Microsoft would comply regardless of local law. USA CLOUD Act applies in NZ too. NZ Govt is a Microsoft shop so all data held by govt could be got. #NZpol www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
we are going to win www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...
it's wild that The Fifth Element made one of the most accurate predictions of all 1990s sci-fi, anticipating the rise of the streamers and influencers as major celebrities.
I asked why the Liberals were making an 81% cut to the WAGE Ministry, and this is the answer I got. After women supported him most, during his campaign. This is what they are going with. All other Ministries are getting a 15% cut.
every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.
some unlawful assembly required 