"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS Send work to [email protected] until February 7 Expected pub: late 2026

There's a new petition to the House of Commons to support gender-affirming healthcare in Canada. If you're in Canada, please sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #Canada #CdnPoli #CanPoli #TransRights #TransHealthcare

Check out this CBC headline. If it were the officers accused of being racist the word ‘racist’ would have quotation marks.

CFP: Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation aims to bring together academics, activists, artists and others committed to liberatory knowledge, action, and community-building. Deadline: 27 February More info: thinkinggenderjustice2026.wordpress.com (no affiliation) 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈🗃️

That being said, a reminder that if you are special needs or have an invisible disability, our airports have great programs. 1. www.billybishopairport.com/flights/acce... 2. www.torontopearson.com/en/accessibi...

An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death. Dating around 400 BC. On display at Antikensammlung München 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Carney would never, in fact, rock the casbah.

If you’re Trans+ and love cyberpunk, I want to hear from you! Share your insights & experiences of anime, The Matrix, video games & more. First survey below with the rest threaded. Experiences of playing Cyberpunk 2077 as Trans+ Gamer 🔗 forms.office.com/r/pfvb2m7Jas (1/2)

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

So much mainstream reporting on Epstein focused on whether individuals have been "accused of wrongdoing" and very little on why all these celebs and politicians didn't have a problem hanging out with a known sexual abuser of children.

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

There are two history projects I may get to do if funding comes through. 🤞🤞🤞

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The ArQuives is happy to announce that it received the Ontario Library Association President’s Award for Exceptional Achievement! We accepted the award on January 29, 2026, at the OLA Super Conference, from Matt Rohweder, the 2025 OLA President. https://ow.ly/kfpN50Y8o2g

Given the WaPo disaster, I’m re-posting my starter pack of indie journalists—it probably needs an update so give me a shout to add folks. #wapo #journalism go.bsky.app/A2UpMn5

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺 This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE. Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

There's a new petition to the House of Commons to support gender-affirming healthcare in Canada. If you're in Canada, please sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #Canada #CdnPoli #CanPoli #TransRights #TransHealthcare

From the great @laminda.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

A combination of capitalism, corporate media failures, and anti-journalism propaganda has convinced a lot of people that journalists exist to turn a profit. They no longer seem to realize that the purpose of journalism is for them, the people.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something

Because I haven't found it anywhere else online, here's Hoban's "The Dragon underneath the Mat." Sometimes I hum a dragon song.

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Disabled people are not “less than”. We can’t “just try harder” to get better. We’re trapped in a eugenicist system that forces us to live in legislated poverty while being judged for existing. It’s a minority group you can join anytime, yet people think it’s a moral failing. It’s not.

Coffee break literature, "Why Zine Under Fascism" by the Minerva Collective. You can get yours here: www.peel.gallery/shop/p/why-z...

If you saw a woman being cornered on the bus, would you step in? If you witnessed transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to help? Let me teach you bystander intervention - for free! Sign up now and get automatic email reminders. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Frame: casting Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy is historically inaccurate Negation: it's fiction and she's gorgeous Kirby: these mfers are just racist

As a historian of those movements, let me just say: SO FUCKING MUCH.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Want a spell I wrote mmmm 5-ish years ago but is still really unpleasantly pertinent? Okay, here's "A Simple Banishing Ritual For The Age Of Shitty People (Usually Men, But Feel Free To Adapt For Other Genders As Necessary)."

I need a replacement for Gmail but I hate all the alternatives I've tried so far. Requirements: ✔️ access through browser ✔️ phone app (Android) ✔️ capable of receiving email from 4 different domains ✔️ tab easily between each domain with one click ❌ ads Willing to pay.

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman

Of *course* he has a Substack.

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

I think a lot of men genuinely don't understand that women HAVE to credential ourselves in these conversations ("I say that as an organizer with over 20 years of experience"). Most especially in discourse about male-coded fields, organizing being one of them. We get dismissed outright if we don't.

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the new Cyberpunk Canon is now live! The crowdfund runs all month. Accessible pricing and a portion of funds go to good causes. Let’s make this happen together! 🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Good morning, Bluesky. Here is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins. Bluesky still deserves better leadership. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ Unban Link.

Won’t matter unless they pay us what they owe us

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction