If the protests of children were heard in kindergarten, if their questions were attended to, it would be enough to explode the entire educational system (Gilles Deleuze)

a quick uplifting trance-y bullshit sketch while unwinding after a retail shift to feel like I have some agency #chiptune

Has anyone thought of asking the "woke" Pope if sentencing millions of trans people to misery and death by unilaterally cutting off their healthcare is in his interest or no

Rowling is a pos, one of the worst, if you find yourself feeling sorry for her, supporting or defending her, admiring her, you may as well admit you dont care about trans people Rowling made her choice, and so have you

it's so cool how every time some centrist opines on JK Rowling they're like "i would simply try to reach common ground with her" like do you think nobody's ever tried that before. do you think none of us ever tried to appease the bigots until you came along with your big smart genius brain?

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

The cis reaction Caitlyn Jenner stuff is like if every time a Kash Patel was in the news, the reaction online was mostly people calling him racial slurs and mocking his name for being Indian. If you want to know if someone is transphobic, watch how they talk about trans people they don't like.

Real talk Linux would fall apart overnight if trans women suddenly disappeared one day

White America's all, how can we be an inclusive tent? How can we make sure everyone feels a part of things. Oh, erm, except marginalized people not them yet. Raging bigots though? They're cool. And they keep going with this theater they call progressivism.

and a big f you to chappelle. please dude, just go away

"By far one of the more imaginative records I've heard in a long time... Definitely put on some headphones and dive into this record when you can because it's quite an experience." www.ragtalent.com/post/an-expe...

The recording session of Murmurs from Limbo in Penn State's Recital Hall.

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

images you can hear

Is the Popa a Catholic? In this Ohio diner, they aren’t so sure.

Now send JD Vance to run the publicity team for the new Harry Potter series.

i'm reading my notes for the first time in a bit and it's really weird to look at Zizek from the standpoint of like 2007-8. Z fares so much worse than Heidegger because Zizek's writings made overtures to being anti-fascist back in the day. Now even Zizek's early stuff reads like hypocritical trash.

White people should make a connection about the fact that the most evil people in the world are huge white supremacists. It means you all have a task wherever you are. Divest from white supremacy & don't participate in it. Do the hard work of changing your personal choices that come from bias.

"look how al franken's resignation hurt us!"—yeah, they...got another liberal senator in there who doesn't grope constituents and (not coincidentally) has been much stronger electorally than Franken ever was.

If you’re still asking why Eric Swalwell got exposed now please read this.

Sigh. I hate sans-serif fonts so much. Like, if we were all typing in comic sans because it was helpful for people with dyslexia, I would be like, "ok, I don't like it, but that's less important than accessibility." But where not. It's just ugly without a cause and a user can't change it.

You can solve Trump in no time flat if you stop acting white. By which I mean thinking you're better than people who aren't & not actually caring about helping them unless you benefit.

The most predictable thing ever happened. Don't say trans people didn't warn y'all. Another proud leopards eating faces party member.

ME: Hey, what condiment is that? FRIEND: Soy sauce. ME: Sauce, ¿qué condimento es eso?

poetry depicting the US right now

A dozen editorial boards and mainstream news networks will beg to differ

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

AOC!

Great point. We get a letter from a loved one and imagine the life of the person who wrote it--what they felt, what is going on in their life-- but then imagine they wrote in a prompt "send Sarah Gen a letter with life updates," printed it & put a stamp on it. It's a wordy notification, not a letter

“Copyright only applies when our AI source code is stolen, it does not apply to artists or writers” - tech fucking assholes

What does playing trumpet in a bucket of water sound like? My piece The Hardscrabble has an answer. :-)

I will say: If I worked at the NYT and still had a functioning brain and conscience, I'd sure be jumping ship. It's essentially no different than FOX News these days.

What does playing trumpet in a bucket of water sound like? My piece The Hardscrabble has an answer. :-)

Eventually, there comes a time in every creative's life where we must either flounder in obscurity forever or submit to the Mortifying Ordeal of Self-Promotion. We simply cannot judge each other for choosing the latter. On an unrelated note, there's room on my commission schedule if anyone's looking

The recording session of Murmurs from Limbo in Penn State's Recital Hall.

My album "Yet" is now out on Neuma Records! 🎀 Bandcamp: sarahgenevieveburghartrice.bandcamp.com/album/yet Liner notes: drive.google.com/file/d/1svho... Neuma Records: neumarecords.org/home/ols/pro... #weirdcore #queermusic #oboe #bassoon #contemporaryclassical #vocalmusic

just for the record "death of the author" means "the author doesnt have total control over the meaning of their own art" not "its okay to give money to hitler if you liked his paintings as a child"

PinkNews platforming Streeting after firing their few remaining journalists so he can lie about his assault on trans rights and gaslight the public about Labour’s war on trans kids and dismantling their healthcare is the end of the site. I’ve been interviewed by them, they’ve used my work. No more.

Who knew men attracted to a "lifestyle" where women have no economic independence and are confined to the home where they are cut off from support networks and sold the myth that their only value is as baby-making machines and sexual objects might exhibit "hostile sexism"! Who could have predicted!

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Crisis pregnancy centers are DANGEROUS.

"By far one of the more imaginative records I've heard in a long time... Definitely put on some headphones and dive into this record when you can because it's quite an experience." www.ragtalent.com/post/an-expe...

a fantastic, succinct thread on the nasty work of laundering fringe, unpopular bigotry til people who value not being like That Bigot Over There could swallow it & the replies are full folks doing “no true scotsman.” but transphobia undeniably flopped without the work of liberal institutions. 💯

Look at this shit. There's a literal wall of bigoted laws dehumanizing us and placing increasingly dangerous penalties for just trying to live. And it is still growing. This is what we have to think about. Every single day. Visibility is great. Support is better. Safety is necessary.

It's trans day of visibility: take a listen to and perhaps buy my weird classical album. I am also visibly pictured in the liner notes, so-- Bandcamp: sarahgenevieveburghartrice.bandcamp.com/album/yet Liner notes: drive.google.com/file/d/1svho...