I really loved working with @mattnegrin.bsky.social on this one

Tomorrow RFK Jr and Trump plan to announce their “big news” about autism. Nothing they do is rooted in science, disability awareness or common decency. Remember to protect your digital space. Safeguard your spoons. Check on one another. Lean into the community for support

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score This is my favorite Godzilla movie and if you can't get behind a Kroger's brand Ultraman, a giant cockroach monster and, a space chicken with a buzz-saw tummy, then I don't even know what to tell you except BE BETTER.

American Teenager, Nico Lang Journalist Nico Lang shares the voices of eight trans and gender-nonconforming teens across the U.S.—capturing resilience, joy, and the fight to grow up authentically in a hostile era. queerazon.com/shop/ols/pro... #QueerBooks #TransYouth #NicoLang #QueerFamilies

If I say what I wanna say..... Anyway, there's an important chapter in "They Were Her Property" by Stephanie Jones-Rogers about the comfort white women in particular have violently policing the correctness of Black people existing in public. Either in location or presentation.

qrt with fanart!

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

Let this be a pebble that starts an avalanche.

A wild thing that happened in America-the "Land of the Free"-in 1851, is Dr. Samuel Cartwright invented a condition he called “Drapetomania” to describe the bizarre mania of trafficked Black people actually WANTING to escape their enslavement. 1/

I have drawn the silly guy. His name is Billiam Quink.

New dinosaur day! Meet Zavacephale, the oldest and most-complete pachycephalosaur yet described. And it’s tiny, a beeper that only weighed about 10kg. I’ll tell you all about it at NatGeo.

Firsts are very important, so I think I am going to save my first big swear for the person who comes to drag me off to a camp. Also my first attempt to really super punch someone in the face.

Trans people: We need to be bold and very clever, but there are signs that people recognize, even if largely unconsciously, that our rights are the heart of the larger struggle against a fascist USA. Screenshot from this piece by @saletan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

Max Sarin's art makes me smile every darned time. They are amazing, and they make me want to rethink every single thing about the way I approach drawing.

stumbled across an article showing that this year's freshman class at my alma mater is 5% Black, which hasn't been the case since 1968 it prompted me to take another look at the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, & how it's already working as intended ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Post a mage! 💀

Yeah. I think I am done with being online for a bit. Gonna go bake some cookies and find people to give them to. The world is just so very mean.

A Black student from Grenada, Trey Reed, was found dead hanging from a tree AG Delta State University in Mississippi. Authorities say "no foul play suspected" but that seems highly doubtful. www.wapt.com/article/delt...

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

Please allow me to tell you, they turn out stunning!

It’s long past time that I take responsibility for what I wrote on Israel/Palestine in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR. & with the Gaza genocide, our thinking about what amends & healing may ever involve is even more urgent. Even if there may never be “forgiveness” or “atonement.”

So we've gone from the shooter was trans to the shooter's bullets were trans to the shooter's roommate was trans to the shooter listened to a musical artist that sometimes mentions trans people

We do not talk enough about how much vaccines have transformed Ebola outbreaks. The country stock pile of 2000 vaccines was immediately deployed to respond to the outbreak in the DRC and 45,000 additional doses have been approved for shipment to the DRC. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

I have enough fabric to make just 2 of these fun Spooky Parasaur plushies this year. Needing some extra cash at the moment to get a few last minute things for the upcoming show, so would anyone even be interested in one? They would be 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ + their ride home. Once gone they're gone!

Our extended call for work from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators closes TODAY!! Don't wait! Get those stories in now!

I have no idea what is really going on with Mr. Kirk's killer's roommate's gender identity (and it actually has no bearing on the incident in the slightest), but great gosh almighty, I sure do trust the "journalists" covering the story! Narrator: She did not, in fact, trust any of them.

They're not so much saying the quiet part out loud as blaring it with a bullhorn www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated Films. Ghostbusters The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Big Trouble in Little China These have always been a trilogy.

The WSJ and NYP both subscribe to the The Onion.

I made this comic maybe two months after I had come out, and had decided to transition. I shudder a bit at "preferred gender", but I was definitely just learning, so I hope you will forgive my awkward phrasing. My sisters all have thinning hair, too, so I guess baldness is just my destiny?

Everyone who sees this post, please quote post 5 things that make you happy: - My immediate family - My friends - Dinosaurs - Bugs - TTRPGs

"If your view of America is not shaken right now, then there is a good chance you AREN'T a white, cisgender Christian male. You've probably seen what this country has being doing to the poor, the person of color, and the queer from essentially its founding."

Witnessed a good friend lose one of their primary relationships over this week's events. Gonna repeat what I said to him~ Growth requires loss. Someone respecting your ability to exist is literally the BARE MINIMUM for the privilege of being in relationship with you.

Okay, you know what? I AM going to post about something that makes me happy on this miserable news weekend. Renegade Nell was a not a perfect show by any means, but I found it WILDLY fun and more than mildly queer coded, with an engaging cast and oddly moving story. I loved it SO much!

NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey @moderation.bsky.app REINSTATE @lexialex.bsky.social NOW. Suspending her is unbelievably vile.

Seeing a lot of people saying some pretty harsh things about Utah, and the LDS church over the past few days, and... Yeah. It's a fair cop.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Our systems of power and the weight of institutional authority are grinding trans people into dust. Grinding me into dust. I feel like I live my life under siege and it's utterly exhausting and excruciatingly painful. I just want to live and connect with humans and cultivate joy. Leave us alone!

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

An old friend's mother passed away last week, and her funeral was today. I would have liked to go, but his family isn't such a fan of me since I transitioned. This is just one of the weird little things about being trans that I didn't really foresee. Still, wouldn't go back for the world.

Just going to leave this here, from the Twilight Zone episode "He's Alive," one of my favorites.

So. How do we sue the Wall Street Journal?

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.

My check engine light turned on and I have nothing in my bank account after rent 😵‍💫💀 Please consider commissioning me!! Reblogs SUPER appreciated