It's been a great week to be a barbershopper! 😊💈🎵

someone in my neighborhood buy nothing group is giving away a set of home-taped videocassettes of The Sopranos season 4 🫡 I love my country of New Jersey

Cashier at the sandwich place: "I need a name for your order" Me: "max" Her: "did you say SNACKS?"

what I came to St Louis for: barbershop harmony international convention what I have done in St Louis: helped rescue an injured pigeon

I used an LLM for the first time tonight (for a school assignment) and, all else aside, the obsequious tone made my skin crawl. If this is what you want interactions to feel like, there is something profoundly wrong with you. Who knew so many people wanted a slave?

Being Prime Minister of the UK has a higher regret rate than being Trans

14 years ago today I watched the Simpsons S10E13 "Homer to the Max" with @jthills.bsky.social and was inspired to take the name Max 😁

you: happy Bloomsday me, an intellectual: Ulysseasons' greetings

"there's something lovely and defiant about pointlessness. Pointlessness is poetry, it's queerness, a commitment of everything we are to a pursuit whose only end is its own perfect execution." —Theodore McCombs, "Uranians"

Tomorrow is Lou Sullivan's birthday and we all need some inspiration in this time of anti-trans insanity. This quote never fails to inspire me. Here he is at 13, writing in his diary. (Sullivan grew up to be a gay trans man & a pioneer of FTM community organizing, dying died of AIDS in 1991.

Sefaria has fallen :(

spouse put on the end of the knicks game last night but I was finishing on the calculation of volume ii so missed them actually winning bc I was too busy yelling "SHE ENDS BOOK 2 LIKE THAT???"

Any of the four times (1989, 1996, 1999, 2019) this show has been cancelled were too soon.

They force-feminized all the World Cup players and now it’s called the Girled Cup. They did this due to woke and gender. The sport is called footovary now too sorry. Girled Cup

got ma scottish snacks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If you believe Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria is real, that only shows that you lack object permanence and/or the capacity to believe that children have their own minds and experiences independent from what they show or communicate to you.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

me getting the hell out of midtown manhattan this afternoon before you-know-who arrives

They're saying it's National Buy a Trans Person a Donut Day, AND it's my wedding anniversary?? 🍩💍what a good day to be me

HUGE fan of Lingua Ignota's demonic, despairing cover of "Jolene" youtu.be/PSRe1F0G60w?...

Being trans is a prayer for something better. Transness is belief in a better world.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

said hello to a cute dog and its human said hello back and I fear my instinctive response of "I wasn't talking to you," while unspoken, was nonetheless clear on my face

a disaster for di yidn: texts aren't loading on sefaria

me: makes a big song and dance about quitting academia me 3 weeks later: hmmmm somehow I have committed myself to writing 3 academic articles this summer

You know I was mostly wondering about lactose intolerance, but thanks Google for letting me know my biggest risk. I’ll keep an eye out for symptoms.

Happy Pride! A few facts: 1) on average, trans men and non-binary people make 70% of what the average cis person does, and trans women make 60% 2) the trans unemployment rate is 2-3x that of cis people, with higher rates of underemployment & disability give money to trans people today!

it's a small thing but 20 years on I am still salty about my high school french teacher refusing to explain the passé simple to me because "you don't need to know that for the exam"

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Addressing this phenomenon seriously, fashy homoeroticism isn't usually gay. More often it's a kind of gender narcissism that is the logical conclusion of patriarchal ideology. It's analogous to "white pride." Healthy gay love isn't based in contempt for women and a need for patriarchal privilege.

E.T. the Extra Transexual

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

youtu.be/_OO2PuGz-H8?... could never tire of it!

like everyone who was a 9yo girl in 1998 😅

effects of 1 year of minoxidil it's not dramatic and magical, but it's helping

people call me a monster for listening to podcasts at 3x speed but in your heart you KNOW an hour-long podcast episode should only take 20 minutes to listen to

when I advise people to do sex transmutation, I mean something a little different

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live peter gabriel rush tegan & sara clipping the fall 100 gecs slowdive youssou n'dour litvrgy king crimson

finally googled "starter cap" to find out what exactly eminem autographed for stan's little brother turns out, my decades-long assumption that a starter cap was something like a snapple cap? VERY incorrect

Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

can u BELIEVE a transmasc author would write a transmasc character having this terrible thought???? a traitor to us all

Trespass Nursery Cryme Foxtrot Genesis Live Selling England by the Pound The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

had to call my doctor's office earlier and I still have their hold music stuck in my head

Reflections on the 5th anniversary of graduating from my doctoral program

thinking of becoming frum solely so I can constantly cover up my bald spot with a yarmulke

my brother's a music teacher and the kids are out of pocket 😂