Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

Watching baseball

The Rush-Bagot Treaty was supposed to prevent Mariners from being successful on the Great Lakes

Haven't seen Mariners this successful in Canada since the Battle of Louisbourg, folks...

Finally reading @quinnae.com's Log Off and it's as good as I thought it would be. The book underscores a lot of things I have felt and discussed about social media IRL, but with a lot more crispness and insight. Almost cried more than once, too, cause SHEESH. www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/pre-o...

Hey, October lovers of vamps, tragic love stories, transgender drama, and leftist politics! In the second episode of Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll, we learn how monsters celebrate! They dance! Featuring music from @avianinvasion.com ! Enjoy! www.blooddollpod.com/podcast/vtm-...

In other self-promotion news, over the summer I... acted in a radio play!? I was so thrilled to be a part of this lavishly written audio drama; auteur Alicia Goranson has outdone herself with this one. The writing, the special effects... Anyway, I play the leader of the Anarchs, sample here:

Hi, folks. Briefly back from taking my own advice and Logging Off. I spoke to the "How to be a Better Human" podcast about my book, and why posting and politics are seldom a good mix. It was a great, wide-ranging conversation. Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!

"No one should be in any denial about how perilous this moment is. It’s another degree’s tilt towards the abyss. But we are not idle on that knife’s edge; we remain engaged in the fight for democracy and the values that underpin it—free expression highest among them."

Exactly! More people should hire @quinnae.com for her insights into gaming.

You guys overestimate followers and awards. My Patreon makes €140 bucks a month (I had it for 5 years) and my print store makes like €500 a year. That’s not enough to live. Of course there WILL be people who pull it off. There always is. This is the same argument. It’s the 0.00001% who do.

I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases. He makes $19 an hour.

seeing people hit by the layoffs today who have worked in the industry for DECADES. one guy had worked on fucking STAR WARS GAMES FOR THE SNES, another had been at blizzard since starcraft. that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin

Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.

At some point everybody’s gonna realize it’s all Stephen Miller

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

I find the flipping between ‘I a Hardcore Radical, am willing to Do What It Takes, unlike you feckless weaklings’ and this pearl clutching ‘people will be Hurt, How Dare You Say That?!’ shit so contemptible.

Hard to interpret this any other way than “GHF was basically functioning as a honey pot that attracted civilians into range to be more readily shot at.” Which, needless to say, is NOT how legitimate aid organizations (who are massively condemning this) work.

It's because these people want Democrats to lose at all costs and will contort themselves into whatever kind of pretzel is necessary to be anti-whatever the current Democrat thing is.

I don’t blame media for much but the fact that they and politicians have remained there is close to dereliction of duty imo. All we needed was enough people to leave to sink it as a viable info source. The blame is heavily on the influencer set on this one.

X is influential enough it’s hard for many to leave.. fine. The trade off is the fact that it’s normalizing fascism and various other horrible things. Rationalize or say that’s overblown but to me there are red lines. I know too much history and have too many connections to ignore it.

i hope and expect to see more congressional democrats explicitly warning companies of the future consequences of illegal bribes and collusion with trump, which, despite the perpetual whiner complaints, is legitimately a new step in the right direction for democrats

I mean I give Schumer a ton of shit but he kept his whole team including Fetterman onside, he peeled off 3 others, his side worked the system a ton to get a whole lot of garbage taken out of this disaster bill, yes the name change flex is dumb but guy actually put in proper work this time

Sources tell me that Tammy Baldwin and Sarah McBride worked behind the scenes to get this provision out and to keep Dems together if it had come to a vote. bsky.app/profile/oria...

do you want a new political party in this country? go take over one of the existing ones, the end

This sort of error will lead to insurance denials, medical errors and lawsuits. It also puts the burden on patients to check and correct their own records, if they can. Just utter madness

this is so perplexing do they think that we think that Zohran is already mayor?

How was my evening? Well...

Two things can be true at the same time: (1) taxing the rich is not a magic money machine. (2) we absolutely have to tax them hard enough to prevent the consolidation of wealth and power that someone like Elon Musk has. Democracy's very survival depends on it.

correct this is why we should tax billionaires out of existence over a decade or two period and use the funds for short term programs like hiring and retention bonuses to rebuild the federal government and a few rounds of ira loans and then phase in a 2-3% wealth tax to use for longer term funding

It's insane how much more popular NYC's congestion pricing got when it was implemented and people started actually seeing it work

Leftists should probably lay off people who say “vote blue no matter who” at least until the election in which their boy is the blue has concluded.

we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people

100% this I read the article - except for one unnamed lawmaker everyone quoting is saying “elected Dems need to message in a way that brings the general public with us, we need to fight at the state level and we need to get more comfortable with talking about trans issues”

You would think that at some point the people who presumably are paid to inform Americans would see that "Americans don't know about x" as an indictment on their profession. But no, it's awlays Dems Bad.

The thing to understand about NOTUS is that it's Politico But More Online and their track record on reporting on Democratic Party intrigue, especially re: trans issues, is spotty at best. A number of outlets have a vested interest in making you think the Dems are irredeemable.

Today's endorsement by the hundreds of unions and more than a million workers of @nyclabor.bsky.social is a profound honor and a responsibility to deliver for working people. I will strive to live up to it each and every day as your Mayor.

I've been off of Bluesky a lot lately because I've been busy reviewing Last Train Home for The Saturday Paper and enjoying it entirely too much. A combination RTS and resource management sim set on the Trans-Siberian Railroad... it is entirely my shit.

The transgender “issue” is not a distraction for Democrats. It’s an opportunity to speak clearly about human rights and morality, and the path is simple: Follow the facts and the Golden Rule. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/transgende...

remain calm. millennials still in control

Well sheez

joni ernst is deeply unpopular and running in a midterm where the state’s governor had to drop out because she is approximately as well-liked as nuclear waste

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

This chart has been widely shared on here, it’s important to see the correction

It’s over, I’ve depicted you as the sobbing hysterical Jordan Peterson and me as the smug unbothered Piers Morgan.

It is bad substantively and politically for Dem pols to choose this time to unfairly attack the Dem nominee for mayor of NYC. But at a certain point focusing on random backbenchers criticizing Mamdani rather than the many more Democrats raising the alarm about BBB is falling into the media's trap

I am heartbroken by the news from Colorado where Karen Diamond, a victim of the vicious attack earlier this month, has passed away. May Karen’s memory be a blessing and a reminder that we must constantly work to eradicate hatred and violence.

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

The 6 books you should totally read this summer include: —"The AI Con" by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social —"Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social —"Trans Technologies" by @haimson.bsky.social —"Log Off" by @quinnae.com And two more! (Click the link and "dive in!" 🥺)