I want to note that one major vibe difference is that you now have to be at least turning 18 y/o this season to compete in senior skating competitions. it is now insane to me that there are sports that do not have this rule. and why? Bc a child had used PEDs, and couldn't be punished as an adult.

Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

The wrongful death suits should destroy the company.

I asked my 101yo client who I watched the men’s long program with last week if she’d seen Alysa’s skate and she said, is that the beautiful skunk girl? And I was like, … yes. Sure. I can see that.

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

This story was fun to write bc it’s mostly older trans guys being like “we used to bind uphill both ways in the snow” But in all seriousness, binding used to be the wild west. Duct tape, electrical tape, ACE bandages. Now we have good products. But the FDA is cracking down on those. Read more:

good bracket progress today though! can do both insides & sortof right outside though i keep swinging the edge the wrong way on the exit for RO. the real risk of brackets is that i might forget how to do a three-turn. "no you always turn this way, it's normal" #FigureSkating

need to figure out how to do the heel kick without really putting weight on the heel but my bad hip is making it iffy

once again, it was a terrible mistake to look at the rampant sexualization of female characters and conclude that the answer was that nobody should get sexy armor and boob physics. the answer is that EVERYONE should get sexy armor and boob physics

here is my #Pokemon peripheral singing the Pikachu birthday song!

No one out here drinks Dunks because it tastes good, doyyy. We drink it bc it’s just kinda everywhere, like despair

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

My cover for "Skate Ali", a new series coming this summer from the ever-excellent Sam Humphries, @kellysue.bsky.social and Natasha Bustos! aiptcomics.com/2026/02/20/d...

You are strong. You are beautiful. You are absolutely insane.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

I've never seen even one of these conspiracy types mention Cordero, who, if you think about it, should be recognized as one of the first people to blow the whistle on Epstein, and also acts as a sobering example of demonstrable ways in which societal elites abuse power to silence enemies.

Victims of abuse by powerful men are often ridiculed and silenced by the apparatuses of power that these men hold. Ava Cordero was a trans woman and one of Jeffery Epstein's first accusers. She was forcibly outed and ridiculed by the press, who went so far as to publish private social media posts.

Reminded me of this evergreen post 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

here is my #Pokemon peripheral singing the Pikachu birthday song!

it's literally my birthday lmfao

there has simply never been a bigger difference in vibes than the backstage images of the 2022 figure skating gold medalist after realizing she had won, vs. the post-skate images of the 2026 figure skating gold medalist after realizing she had won

Sir we all agree you can violate civil rights and start wars but we will not stand for you messing with the most important and sacred idea that protects every American citizen: the money

People really need to check the opinion for statements like "we are not saying anything about other statutory tariff authorities" before writing that the Court delivered a blow to the administration; if you don't, you are just doing PR for the Court.

instagram didn't like my drifloon joke

OOP Supreme Court rules that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does NOT authorize Donald Trump to impose tariffs It's a Roberts opinion with a very messy array of people joining this part but not that part Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Alito dissent www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

1. Pointing out that the Iranian regime's actions are horrific does not in any way subtract from the horror of the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza, or from other atrocities. There are, unfortunately, plenty here who seem to believe we should be partisan in our denunciations. They are wrong. 🧵

this came up as a small talk question at a contemporary skate event i was at last year and I said Sing It Back by Moloko. That sparseness, that mood.

this is wild. a pop up pro-Palestinian super PAC that has only existed for a couple months is going punch for punch with AIPAC

Locked in

Sci-fi setting: "this alien race are all men" Me: "then why bother gendering them at all? Why enforce a human concept of sex on what's meant to be a totally alien species that evolved totally independently of us?" Sci-fi setting: "this alien race are all women" Me: "hell yeah dude"

Celebrating the Olympic podium with 20% off all my Alysa and Kaori prints and originals!

‘People were mean to me so I decided they didn’t deserve rights or even life’ — they weren’t mean enough

​New research from @cathywu.bsky.social et al. confirms something I've long suspected: Navigation apps could save their users a lot of time — and tilt travel decisions toward transit and biking — if they showed users how long it takes to find parking.

In accounting, offshoring is a much bigger deal than AI, and there is still a labour shortage in the industry. There's too much work and the offshorers need to hire skilled Americans to supervise & do client-facing stuff.

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

Random question. Why didn’t the UK authorities act on the formal US request in 2020 to interview Andrew?

I'm not a historian. But I can think of no precedent in modern Britain for what is being done to trans people. The media, public institutions, Government and (too often) the judiciary are combining to attack or exclude a marginalized group and its allies - with really no significant demurral.

her joy is contagious. the joy of creative freedom always is.

I love this photo a ton but I’m also obsessed with this one.

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

WAIT HOLD UP ALYSA LIU WAS ONE OF THE IN-TRAIN ANNOUNCERS FOR THE MUNI METRO L TARAVAL RELAUNCH WTFFFF

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

The anchors in the NBC Olympics studio explaining they have to delay the slalom. Carmen Sandiago stole the freaking mountain. "Very little retail value" and "because she can" are phrases that are repeated. Footage of an athlete standing by a big hole, hands on hips. Frustration written on their face

Men could only dream

There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it

Kaori's retirement has felt like the end of an era all season. If that's the case I hope that Alysa's gold heralds a new era of figure skating. Not better but different - an era for Donovan Carrillo, Tara Prasad, Jacob Sanchez, Erica Machida and other young skaters like them #MilanoCortina2026

Amber skated absolutely beautifully today. But as an American, I'm most proud of her bravery off the ice. It means so much to me as a queer woman to see her up there representing us.

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

Nature has finally healed from 2022’s toxicity. Sportsmanship, kindness, and good vibes were the real winners today and my heart is so happy #MilanoCortina2026