shana tova, friends.

re: that Economist article that's making the rounds 🧵

“i’m sorry, we were looking for ‘what is buggery?’ what is buggery. it’s 2025—they brought that one back. yes. you still have control of the board, though.” “i’ll take ‘pinkos,’ for $200.”

now, to close out our autumn sunday, my brilliant wife & i will sit under open windows & watch the low-stakes baking competition while drinking tea & eating suuuper rustic pumpkin spice chocolate chip cookies, like the sinister agents of “demographic collapse” & extinction-level threats we are.

i’m super easily overwhelmed & probably just not following folks who did it, but big props to everyone who *didn’t* hatewatch the bigot funeral today because you did something better with your life & you can’t control what those frothing assholes do with themselves.

lol there’s a save on this post and i like the idea someone’s keeping it like a receipt to show god.

btw dunno the totals yet but we’re on track to raise thousands of dollars in donations for dc migrant mutual aid and assistance for the unhoused in our occupied city just by making donations possible at the merch table & offering people buy-what-you-want stickers more artists should do this

anyone have leads on resources for trans folks (esp youth, esp mental health/crisis support) specifically in or near Syracuse, NY? asking for my stepmom who is helping a friend mobilize a brigade of support for a struggling grandkid

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

We heard you like irresponsible journalism so we did some journalism from our national platform as irresponsibly as humanly possible about a community going through a major crisis, pls subscribe

what’s gonna be sad to see is the spike of reye syndrome in all the granola eugenics anti-vax moms’ kids after they get hardcore into aspirin as panacea. “it’s naturally occurring! people used to chew willow bark, so i just fill my kids up with aspirin after a chickenpox sleepover! nature’s way!”

officially reversing past indifference to this song because it doesn’t matter that 2025 nin isn’t hitting me lyrically, it matters that it makes me want to put on a vinyl dress & dance until i’m 80% sweat & then get fucked in a public bathroom. which is what the whole project was originally about.

related: as someone who spent 20 years trying to drink herself to death, i’m prolly not gonna love “he’s a drunken loser” jokes & if that’s the *first* place you go with me to criticize white supremacists who think i shouldn’t exist, i’ll wonder what the thing you actually have a problem with is.

i went with stop making sense and i did not know that young david byrne looked like they were still kinda workshopping cillian murphy.

okay, now for my next act: figuring out what to watch on the stationary bike today because, again, i’m pretty sure i’m about to have 4 very different times. on the upside, i *did* have the good sense to straight up say, “hey, emily—let’s agree in advance not to watch ‘paris, texas’ on the bike.”

i’ve officially finished my run of coen brothers films & i’m truly surprised to find out i’m evidently a big fan when i feel like they nail it—which is surprisingly often. but they also made 6 films you would need to pay me to watch again. so, in conclusion: the coens are a nation of contrasts.

enough is a myth is officially out! featuring contributions from @whatfreshhell.bsky.social & @lowercayce.bsky.social, plus artwork by @unknownrelic.com six songs, 56 minutes, no genre constraints inspired by Hellraiser (2022) & incorporating deeply personal elements links below

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Garfield did it

Beautiful weekend here in the PNW where the first crisp cold air and turning leaves of autumn overlap with the last clear skies and long low sunsets of summer.

it’s a fall saturday night and this is an excellent september saturday vibe. one of my favorite records of 2025.

you know, related to this, i swear to god you absolutely do not need to quote dunk every single 48-follower account that says “but trans kids in sports polls badly, so logically…” you don’t need to debate them or take them seriously. you don’t need to shove them in every other trans person’s face.

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It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

We don't talk eough about how car dealers are one of the biggest bastions of conservatism in the United States.

just so y’all know, i would not even recognize your $50k bribe unless it was all in ones and a little wet and smelled like dry curaçao or fernet. i should have to uncrumple some bills and it should take me an hour to face them. you’re gonna need a few cava bags is what i’m saying.

eslam has been here forever, taking care of her family, and trying to find a way to survive. it’s clear america’s not going to help her—maybe bluesky can.

skyline is full of beautiful women posting selfies and just holy wow. 😅 eat a whole guitar case full of colostomy bags, fascists who want us all dead.

But people don't see that. And polling shows that as unpopular as Trump has become, Democrats are still even less popular (even if they lead the generic ballot). That doesn't come from just independents and Republicans. Even Democratic voters hate their party. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

hey, there's a thread linked below about why this shutdown matters for trans people specifically & why senate democrats need to hear that, yes, a shutdown is worth it & people only don't hate you when you actually fight for something. read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social; read the thread. make some calls.

My weekend column: Democrats blocked a Republican spending bill. But they won't necessarily say if they'd be willing to shut down the government in the name of extending health care subsidies or stopping Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

a nice thing about my life is that if i were killed in public i'm fully confident my wife would not film herself by my casket as a teaser to spin up her influencer career & people who actually know me would not immediately brush a question about me aside to discuss their bathroom remodel project.

you literally don't have to take bad faith criticisms from fascists seriously like at all

the snip above is from HHS, but there's actually a lot more. h/t @lizsaila.bsky.social prison bans? yep. carveouts for abusive parents to foster trans kids & force them into conversion camps? yes. bathroom bans. yup! sports bans—despite their failure in congress this year? indeed. it's a lot!🧵

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

Agatha Christie's

it’s very not new & surprise is not a prerequisite to disgust & i welcome folks telling them “eat shit” over the latest thing & love cancelled subscriptions but i *do* think if you cancel you should also bring up the time they yanked a cartoon about anti trans bigotry before trump even took office.

just one coen brothers left on my run through! i sure hope ballad of buster scruggs isn’t weirdly self aware or peppered with musical numbers & full to bursting with theater kid energy and oh, goddamn it. [emily turns up the incline knob on the stationary bike]

i believe that we will win

ok, yeah, the streak ended. hail, caesar was perfectly fine & nothing else until it got to the end & i was like, “we can’t possibly be doing ‘hollywood fixer as christlike judgment-free sin eater,’ can we?” and we can & we did. into the middle tier with all the films i’ll never watch again it goes.

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The reason is anti-semitism and racism

Wrote a little newsletter about the time i told someone i was trans in an Arby’s drive-thru www.anxietyshark.ca/damn-it-john...

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

turns out it's pretty hard to put an hour's worth of charlie kirk together and hold up the "he was not a white christian nationalist, actually" charade

good morning everyone

the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women

lol i went to the old nine inch nails forum i used to frequent until someone slowly drove me to snap over 20 years because i just freaking wanted to know who trent reznor duets with on the new record & so many of them are truly miserable about the new record. never change, folks. never change.