i’m honestly unsure recommending other books to folks who are still in is time well spent. “let’s talk bigots out of bigotry” doesn’t work; this is similar. these people don’t need book methodone; they need to hear “your choices are bad & i think less of you” from folks who are full humans to them.

Kashana literally just yesterday I was looking at all the photos of ICE hanging out on their phones and lounging around thinking “this is gonna quell fears that these guys are scary and evil and just paint them as bored useless losers in people’s minds and this is a dangerous precedent”

the LotR memes will continue until morale improves ⚔️

today’s been wretched & a guy was shitty at the pharmacy when i picked up meds for me & corinne & the woman ringing me up tried to connect like, “you been married long? you ever get sick of saying ‘my wife?’ i don’t—after 26 years, miss, i still love saying ‘my wife.’ that’s when i started bawling.

Be transparent about your compensation with your peers, because withholding it just lets stuff like this happen

just found out that i was getting paid 57-70% of what the rest of my peers were making. today can stop taunting me any time it wants to.

i know credit scores are literally designed to be unfair but i’m pretty amused in an irritated way to see that i lost 25 points for a card i pay off monthly going from 0% of my total debt to 9% of my total debt because it’s a new card i got to replace a card that got stolen because of a data breach.

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

i don’t *think* it’s just stubborn resistance to change or getting old? i think the mac tahoe instance of itunes and the new netflix scrub bar ux are terrible? and they made me think: when was the last time anyone’s tech update *improved* my experience?

happy wednesday on which the landlord raised the rent 7% because of the “rising cost of utilities and plowing” in a year when we had to call 3 times every time we needed a plow and only got them to show up twice and the basement is still flooded and also it was to my deadname.

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

you gotta separate the art (McRib) from the artist (the body of Ronald McDonald)

I straight up gave a guy a thumbs down this morning on the highway and he looked like he was about to cry. hope your day sucks

Begging cis people not to press the button that makes children kill themselves. “But it’s such a pretty button,” they protest, sweat pouring down their face from the effort of not pushing it. “It looks like so much fun to press.” Dead children, we remind them. “...what kind of children?” they ask.

i read heidegger and carl schmitt in college and that would have been a pretty big problem for me if that book sale money went into their living pockets for a nazi propaganda and legal expense fund

hiya, cis folks! this is a totally achievable request to help a trans woman get out of harm’s way and into a better situation. america’s institutions & electeds are failing us all rn, but you can actually make a tangible difference in the life of someone much of the country has turned its back on.

it’s been kind of a fucking bummer watching people move on from this. mamdani isn’t greg abbott or brad little or the kansas legislature; his whole deal was listening to people and promising to enact equitable & achievable solutions. and when he doesn’t do that, YOU NEED TO CALL IT OUT.

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

okay. work was terrible, but it's done, and i crossed some adult stuff and some local civic stuff off of my list. i will now watch gallipoli on the stationary bike and i am certain that *this time* the vibes will match immaculately.

the intellectual rigor of a man inventing “separate the art from the artist” from first principles to excuse giving cash & attention to a billionaire who proudly uses that cash to fund an ongoing mission to strip human beings of rights & dignity, while lacking the oomph to google guernica (sp?)

the “this is different—you have to understand why *this* specific bitch is an unethical monster who deserves what she got” portion of the internet has never been particularly subtle, but damned if a lot of people don’t stop every time to say, “wait, we gotta hear the swarm out about this one bitch.”

There's a lot going on but a constitutional amendment to reinstate Missouri's abortion ban this fall is polling at 47-40 because Republicans cynically slapped on a gender-affirming care ban. me in @autonomynews.co

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seriously, there is no case for engaging with the argument. it’s a bad faith publication put out by hack bigots that desperately needs engagement to survive. do we need to be live-linking and talking about these fucking dweebs every day? reclaim your humanity. post about literally anything else.

Geordi, Do you know why the holodeck is not able to create a Charizard for me to battle? I wish to fight one directly. Worf

tfw you are very small and have no money

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Not sure why TRANSplants Zine is always ignored by the various taste makers of "trans lit" but we're cooking over here and if you aren't reading us, you're missing out on true culture

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

hiya, cis folks! this is a totally achievable request to help a trans woman get out of harm’s way and into a better situation. america’s institutions & electeds are failing us all rn, but you can actually make a tangible difference in the life of someone much of the country has turned its back on.

fascinating stuff. see, i think it’s ok to be angry at someone doing a good thing for bad reasons. often “reasons” predict future action. remember when UT senator mike lee voted against KOSA? that was good. he did it because it didn’t go far enough that’s bad. then he introduced a worse bill. huh!

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my new pitch is that microsoft teams and outlook should just go on siesta for you, whenever your 5pm is. did you need to talk to someone after that? sorry. did you want to schedule a quick ad hoc for tomorrow morning? too bad. just a real quick question? bad luck. get a fax.

catching up on the day & you’re telling me that a fucking filipina trans woman’s crazy anticipated baller new record got shoved way way down in the music press to cover two cishet white men arguing about whether a FIFTY YEAR OLD SONG is transphobic‽ fuck them both. go listen to underscores.

this should be a situation where i can have someone phone in a script for vicodin tbh

If you get the edge of your sleeve wet when you’re washing dishes you should be able to take the day off work the next day

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

you know that new startup substack you all hate? well, remember: it’s important to engage with it and each of its writers as much as possible, you fucking losers.

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

my goal was to try doing something civic & meaningful today but i’m not even to the crazy part of the workday yet. this is every day now. so i wonder “why do i do this?” then i remember my mom didn’t have health insurance for like 2 years & skipped routine screenings & was dead by the time i was 21.

people think having ICE in airports is ok bc they're not "doing anything" having ICE in airports at all is innately bad! this is a bad line to have crossed, it is BAD they're in there!

i woke up this morning and within 25 minutes was welled up to nearly crying about how i’d miss my wife when she went to work. i was like, “okay, emily—are we perhaps at the trough or crest of a hormonal cycle? get it together, sweetie. the day’s not gonna be that bad.” well reader,

i love the people on here who spend all day responding to people talking about politics just saying “buy a gun!” ok i’ll get right on buying a gun

it is astonishing how often these 7 words should guide people’s behavior and how much of the last decade that could have slowed down or stopped and how few people are capable of following these 7 fucking words of guidance.

a surprising number of cisgender media people on here who are talking about that "millennial feminism" article don't seem to have quite grasped until now that helen lewis is a singleminded transphobic crusader. this is confusing to me. where have you all been?

setting those sunday night alarms and saying “i can do this again. i can do this again. i can do this again.” and then looking back and to see both cats are wide awake, staring right at me, and neither of them seem to believe me.

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

i didn’t get the chance to finish “the plumber” this afternoon and it turns out, yes, i was right to not trust the plumber.