Literal months spent with good hair days with, blissfully, nobody looking at me but the second I have to go out for work stuff where real human eyes will look upon this wretched thing it all goes to shit.

PROPHET, Macdonald & Blaché (2023)

Black trans people are black, so it IS happening to black people right now and will only get worse.

If you look at these men and think "that's what a genius looks like, I gotta give this guy all the money that has ever existed in the hopes that they build Roko's Basilisk and it rewards me for my unwavering faith in The Basilisk" then I'm sorry but you have the brain of a baby penguin

Escape From New York (1981) Director John Carpenter

People can debate AI all they like, but surely we can all agree that anyone who owns or uses a pair of the pervert glasses that secretly record people should be ostracised immediately and totally from our society? I'm sorry but your pervert glasses prove you're a pervert! Get out of town!

I LOVED this book by @sinblache.bsky.social & @hjm.bsky.social. Completely blew me away! A wild, conceptual, queer sci-fi about an unlikely duo, a rowdy British-Indian with uncanny abilities and a quiet spy assassin, who are sent to investigate a series of bizarre events. Utterly brilliant 📚💙

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

the long 2003, they're calling it

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The universal writer experience is catching a single grammatical error after something's already been sent off, and seriously considering walking into traffic about it.

A new phrase I got to hear tonight. "If you don't want people to ask you to make tea, learn to make really fucking terrible tea". This wisdom was swiftly followed by the following statement: "You got really good at making the tea nobody else wants to make."

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Welp. Seems like it's a good day to highlight trans books. I'll do this off and on all day, no idea how long the thread will eventually be. And if you need any trans book recommendations, post in here and I'll point you toward people who might know if I don't since I mostly do romantasy.

all time photo editor performance

BAFTA didn't even SPEAK to them after it happened???

This story is bonkers, from the *immediate* consideration of the swearer’s feelings above all to the fact that they didn’t edit it out but did edit out a “free Palestine” prior to broadcast. The layers

sorry i can't go to that thing tonight. yeah im gonna be busy taking poison damage and cycling through the same three grunting sound effects. yeah.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I'm so glad I got to be in Dublin the day it falls into the sea and floats away.

I recommend that everyone apply if they're eligible. There is literally no sense in any of us suffering and struggling. I hope this kickstarts other places doing the same, and that it becomes bigger and better.

I don’t keep up with explosive technology, so learning about these new bombs is giving me the same feeling as learning about Hiroshima as a child. Deep, deep sadness that we are capable of such things. Both kinds of weapons killing so utterly that there’s nothing left to grieve.

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

can’t not hear and see:

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

It’s Black History Month! MAKE SOME MFN NOISE! 🗣️

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 1554 Second Age Subject: Re: Master Ring (Forged in secret)??? lmfao u totally shoulkd

Anthropic being honest about the damage they’re doing is probably the result of them reading my popular science book which they stole.

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

It's all not surprising and that's because, at this point, we've been telling you for DECADES where all of this shit was pouring out of like puss from a boil.

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I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.

Greg Bovino seen leaving Minnesota after his demotion (photo: AP)

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Hey can we also pause and unpack what “quotas” means

Every time I lift my head above water with this mother of all flare-ups, the damn thing grows three more arms and drags me under.

I second everything John said here. I already knew Greg Ketter from DreamHaven Books was a good person so this really isn’t surprising, but at 70 he shouldn’t have to be walking through tear gas on a Minneapolis street to try to protect his neighbors. Abolish Ice.

The bravery of everyday people willing to be witnesses against the United States government.

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

this is a scrappy, furious game i made about sending as many fuck yous as you can to ICE. that's it. that's the game. unaminh.itch.io/fu-ice #abolishice #gamedev

Solidarity with the striking workers in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE!

Absolute badassery coming from Minnesota on the regular, but especially today.