My neighbor from small-town Alabama when we were both 6 just got in touch with me for the first time in almost 30 years and she's woke and cool and I'm quite delighted

retweet for something ambidextrous to happen to you in a non-fucked-up mid-Atlantic state in 2026

day one in mamdani’s new york

Nice touch - the trans announcer from the subway (“Stand clear of the platform edge”) is doing the announcing

my friend died, I gave up on my professional dreams, and now the year is being capped off with bad news about my cat's health so yeah I'm REALLY ready to see the back of this annus horribilis

on estrogen, my anger would last for days to WEEKS. i simply could not talk myself down from the ledge. i relied on self harm to self regulate. estrogen sent me into a deep depression that i never thought id escape. estrogen made me feel broken. like a failure.

almost walk smack into whoopi goldberg at lincoln center (she was wearing a Thing 1 sweater and nobody in sight was Thing 2)

finding this book weirdly validating/healing like, no it wasn't all just unacknowledged gender dysphoria and it wasn't all in my head, the Y2K era really was an exquisitely awful time to be a girl

didn't see it myself until I was a teenager, but my older brother recounted The Shining to me and my younger brother when we were small enough to lose a lot of sleep over his telling 😅

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 28,1965

Oh you need someone who will listen closely, give you the benefit of the doubt, and form polite and grammatically correctly-shaped answers to your questions by applying scripts and rulesets from other similar scenarios in order to make sense out of something obvious you’ve made incredibly difficult?

I think about this a lot

2025 was ass, losing people you love sucks shit my ambition for 2026 is for my friends to stay alive please

my spouse was walking in our neighborhood near a group of children when a cybertruck went by and all these kids start clowning on it, and this 9yo goes "more like garbage truck amirite"

oh you're a queer couple? who's honoring the pequod leaving nantucket and who's honoring the fellowship leaving rivendell

"As with the walnut, so it was for me: the man I am, contained in the girl I was, like the new tree clasped in the fruit of the old." We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

michael savage "transgender in your soup" walked so that donald trump "transgender for everybody" could run

my go-to anytime there's a conversation about sports happening

...you guys are getting hired for a job??

no idea what this is about but a RESOUNDING YES

what it feels like to be the only one in the all-staff zoom meeting with pronouns turned on

personally believe children (and adults!) should be allowed to reject sex

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

one more class to teach this semester 0 finals to grade 0 grades to submit 0 student evaluations to dread maybe I don't want to return to teaching college classes

Sometimes I pray for you at night Someday maybe you'll see the light Some say in life you're gonna get what you give But some things only God can forgive —Kesha, "Praying"

made Death by Chocolate Peppermint Cookies for my students 🥰

she wishes everyone a freylikhn khanike

I don't like ever handing shit to Jerusalem post but they absolutely cooked here.

V’ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales www.auroralevinsmorales.com/blog/vahavta

Another example of why it's important to advocate from a place of love and solidarity rather than hate and a desire to win The current system is fine with killing people it sees as subhuman It is never radical or revolutionary to only change the definition of who is seen as subhuman

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

my mom shared something she heard the other day (idk the source) emphasizing that, political glosses aside, Hanukkah’s central miracle is about the heroism of believing in the possible over the probable. and it’s hard to see what ahmed al-ahmed did in any other light.

Genuinely horrific to wake up to news of an antisemitic attack in Bondi Beach, but still moving to know that a Muslim man heroically wrestled a gun off of one of the shooters

Israel does a shit job at combating antisemitism in the diaspora for the same reason tobacco-industry funded anti-smoking ads don't work. Antisemitism in the diaspora is the foundation on which Israel is built.

The Birdcage and Evil Dead 2

it's the most wonderful time of the year (the day I have to de-wax the menorahs from last chanukah before this chanukah begins)

songs used to be about taking your sweetie to the ice cream parlor but nowadays they are all about the delicate scrimshaw patterns found on the bones of a beached leviathan

one of my students gave me a box of tea from his hometown in china and it's REALLY good ☕

I mean TIME could have given Person of the Year to “The Humble Capybara”

Living close to God but in a Jonah sort of way — falling asleep when things get difficult

in an age in which Broadway, as Neil Patrick Harris so memorably sang at the 2011 Tony Awards, is not just for gays anymore, Death Becomes Her suggests: well maybe it should be

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

Gd I am your weakest soldier, stop giving me your mediumest battles

Name two unrelated things that your weird brain yokes together! The line "Many martyrs died that you might worship God" in Britten's Saint Nicolas always makes me think of Star Wars line "Many Bothans died to bring us this information," and vice versa

hate Adobe's AI Assistant with a passion and will not be using it on principle, but I admit I'm a little curious about the time-saving summary of Anti-Oedipus it's threatening to provide

I haven't read Dysphoria Mundi but I did just reread judge schreber bits in Anti-Oedipus and go "wow this is transsexuality but also just being alive 2day" so I think I probably have the gist of it

Seeming's 2020 album The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity is, no lie, one of the main things that got me through this harrowing year. Very glad to have a new (and fantastic!) album 🙏