We're going to have to get comfortable speaking the language of illegitimacy

fat transgender for everybody 2026

@abbystein.bsky.social on my teevee

as I read it, it would effectively ban Google from showing "sexual material harmful to minors" in search. Listings for porn sites, OF creators on X, Amazon results for books like Beloved and Fun Home, trans health services, drag clips, Wikipedia pages on BDSM ... all magically disappeared.

SHUT THE FUCK UP, EUROPEAN

As a Christian, I have DEEP admiration for how people of the Muslim faith worship God. It's so beautiful and reverent. This Qu'ran is incredible and accessibility being its central component is so poetic. #MayorMamdani

FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!

Very much a "let's burn the Library of Alexandria" vibe

Moor door. Toledo, Spain, 2024

explicitly ethnic cleansing

To be clear: There is no modern labor union without the Luddites Learn your labor history, stop repeating foolish propaganda

Sam is someone I always take great inspiration from as both an historian and trans academic, and I was honored to write a review of his new book this year. Please have a look at this piece he wrote for History Workshop on trans history as a tool of political education.

THIS IS YOU THIS IS YOUR NEWSPAPER THIS IS WHAT YOU DID 90000000 TIMES EXCEPT THEY DONT EVEN REWARD YOU. YOU DO THIS FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME.

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

“Just getting a mayor into office, while impressive and very exciting, is not enough.”

mOraL aNd InTeLleCtuaL dIsoRieNtAtiOn

That's fine--give me his job then.

Anyway it is a stupid analogy, used to confuse more than clarify. They are tacitly issuing a recall of the 20th century HE compact because the current political and technical class don’t intend to have a middle class. Without the latter you don’t need the system we built.

2026 is about calling in the old gods and destroying the patriarchy

Anothet great appointment. I was an ed reporter at the Village Voice, and THE great sacred cow of white NYC liberals is maintaining the segregated “gifted & talented” public schools, which Mamdani has promised to dismantled. Samuels has worked towards this already. www.amny.com/education/ka...

It's only appears as strange that Hegseth is aligned with the US's geopolitical antagonist when you forget that he's a neo-Confederate.

‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor of New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

A masterclass in film editing from a not-so-great music video director.

mister egg pondering whether he should risk walking by this classic cat trap

I know citizenship everywhere is a hierarchical spectrum and all guarantees for it are based on often informal political power but uh, the UK is like scary casual talking about denaturalizing people

Two words Tricia Cotham…

The Nokia 5110 (1998)

letting Bari control all comms for CBS is an incredible strategy and we should see how it plays out

If one of your resolutions for 2026 is to stop using corporate music streaming platforms, may I suggest independent community radio station Inhailer.com as an alternative? Starting at 3pm Eastern today we'll have our top 100 of 2025 countdown, a perfect way to get a taste of what we do!

New York Public Library 1917

Thrilled by choice of Kamar Samuels for Schools Chancellor. Got to know him when he was Supt for D13 in BK (before D3 in Manh). An elem-school teacher & middle-school principal in the BX before that. Smart, principled, effective. Knows & loves what schools can do. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

Yeah I may have underestimated this one

Horseshoe theory will literally make you a subject of the British crown.

Husband told me about Gabriel Rockhill’s upcoming book arguing the critical theorists were wrong because they received CIA funding and weren’t Stalinists; we both read through his previous article making the same argument. Embarrassing thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-...

Omg. I've been thinking about it, esp. how Trouillot said it was unthinkable. "In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games", Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution.

Oh hello trans vintage store next to the 100 year old theater

Too many Stefans, not enough Steve Urkels.

We are all schooled by James Hetfield's picking hand.

"targeting minorities is okay as long as it's done through the proper channels" go fuck yourself

Awful, awful news. Her essay was magnificent: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

You know your society is in a bad way when there's no direct American English analogue to the the extremely arch-patriarchal British English neologism 'sex realist(s)'.

Hey it's me, the British New Atheist who doesn't believe in a magic sky daddy because there's no evidence, and does believe that sexes are pre-given categories and that they're immutable because of the telos of the body, which is definitely not a creationist-adjacent belief honest.

Slow and steady steers the stenographer's boat

There’s a new book out about pretendians, 'Who Gets to be an Indian?', and I interviewed author @dinagw.bsky.social. She says while she doesn’t want to be in the business of calling people out, people should expect to have to prove their claims of Native identity. www.hcn.org/articles/we-...

Sorry just remembering this moment when this got presented in parliament as a legitimate death threat

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After battling for a fair contract, USPS workers face the threat of privatization, which they warn will harm all Americans. @melbuer.bsky.social reports for the Working People Podcast