For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷 Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive. Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma. 1/

With the upcoming itch creator day, I've been collecting sales/bundles with trans books and/or by trans creators that will happen on the 28th so you can get nice books cheaper and the authors get more of your cash. If you have any more recs, please feel free to let me know! #samreads

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Giving away this little claw I made as a proof of concept for another project. Small, sharp, feels good to hold. To win: b following me, like, comment, rp, and tag someone you think would also like to win. Winner pays s&h, void where prohibited, no metal animals were harmed in the making of this art

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

kris.and.dave (IG) delivered the tastiest #CupOfJoe to the hobgoblin who would be Speaker. BTW: Release the Epstein files and swear in Adelita Grijalva!

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

🚨 🚨 🚨 Reminder: EVERY Republican candidate on a ballot in America today supports the man who incited his followers to assault police officers on January 6. And then pardoned EVERY felon convicted of assaulting those officers. bsky.app/profile/mind...

*squeeeeee* As the voice of Christine Easterlin this thrills me. :-)

OMG- I almost forgot!! Today (11/3) and today only! I am honored to return as the voice of #ChristineEasterlin on #MercuryABroadcastOfHope - available where ever you get your podcasts. @mercury870.bsky.social #RadioPlay #ZombieApocalypse #VoiceActor #ZombiesButHopeful

reminder... activistchecklist.org/links/

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

It is a delightfully gray, overcast day in LA. We don't get you often and I want to appreciate it. But, they shift in barometric pressures triggered a migraine and I can't appreciate anything. 😞

"Trump, a convicted criminal who pardoned 400 violent felons who assaulted police officers in his name, on Monday announced he's deploying National Guard troops and seizing control of the capital city’s police force" b/c of the city's *lowest crime rate in decades* www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"Anthropic warned that a single lawsuit ... over their AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement." Has the financial ruin argument ever worked for an individual? And... Do they promise?

If only someone could have seen this coming! @wolvendamien.bsky.social

Thanks to suggestions from @stevestred.bsky.social I have my latest library pick ups.

As an avid reader and someone who works with kids this is fascinating & heartbreaking. An astoundingly backwards methodology in which shortcuts are taught first instead of solid foundations (which allows for shortcuts after a skill is mastered).

🧵Today is Friday, July 4. Good morning ❤️ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all [people] are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,

Fix Your Hearts Or Die.

Here is a list of GOP House members (h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) who should be targeted with calls about the MAGA Murder Budget ASAP. Script included. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

Opinion time: I was in a very minor car accident yesterday (other driver at fault). Everyone is perfectly fine. We all pleasantly exchanged information and drove away. I filed a police report online just to cover my ass. Damage to my car purely cosmetic, IMO not worth fixing. 🧵/ 1

If you use Telegram now’s probably a good time to stop. Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app. xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

Every single trans person who called TERFs nazis, who said their "gender critical" movement was a white supremacist one, who warned that transphobia was just the tip of their fascist iceberg, we all told you exactly who they were from the beginning, and we were ignored.

Me: A cat sitter working via an app exclusively for cat sitting. My appointment calendar: This sitter requires 48 hours notice and is fully booked on these three days. Random client: Sit for me with less than 24 hours notice, on the three days you're fully booked, and care for my 6-month-old puppy.

It's a FREE reading and talkback THIS SATURDAY at 12:00 at Theatre Of Note. There will be drinks and post show conversation. It's all the best things on a Saturday afternoon in the heart of Hollywood. Link for reservations: theatreofnote.ludus.com/select.php

LOS ANGELES tonight there’s art&community for the taking (and it’s only about an hour) I’m excited about the thing I have created for this evening at BITS (and art salon of newly birth pieces, seven minutes and under) tix: theatreofnote.ludus.com Audience can dress up if you want- not mandatory

I'm too far away so I can't go to this. But if you are in the general DC area then you should. $60 for a two-day pass is amazing.

25 hours and 5(?) minutes. Makes points. Makes history. And still has the awareness and honor to thank the Pages and Doorkeepers. @booker.senate.gov is brilliance, bravery, and class. Thank you, Senator.

I have work to do that I can't do because I'm stuck on other people's schedules. I have work to do that I can't do because my brain is stuck on the work that I can't do while I'm stuck on other people's schedules. Yay, autism. *sigh*

Haha...so funny

My "I'm going to take a quick minute to tweak my old office administration resume and send it out to a couple of city office of film jobs before I go to work" rapidly became /1

They kept switching the meaning of your values until you had none They made you hate everything you stood for until all you had left Was hate. #ThePoet

Gift links for anyone who wants to read the articles: August 4--who are the broligarchs and what danger do they pose to democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... November 24--here's the political vision the broligarchs are going to impose on America. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I highly encourage people to take part in medical studies as often as you can. You contribute to science, get a little bit of money,usually free lab work, sometimes free x-rays, and occasionally you get swag like cozy throws for dreary days.

Bad fibro-fatigue day. I was meant to go to a script reading tonight. Instead I am on the couch with my hot flashes, and body pains, and throbbing ache at the base of my skull, and my skin hurts, and I can't even focus on my book or a TV show to try to relax and all I want to do is cry. 🧵/1

Anora,y'all. Not that the awards are everything. But they aren't nothing. And it's good to see and indie get the statues.

I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.