Best day on Bluesky ever. Thank you, @rangemedia.co and @merrywanderer.bsky.social !

Another lesson I'm gleaning from all of this. Many folks think we're fine to talk openly in Signal chats. We're not. Coordinate code phrases (in a phones-off in-person meeting) within your groups! Use them religiously.

If you're not following this blow by blow, y'all are missing out! This is choice entertainment. @rangemedia.co could be charging by the skeet.

I don't think I've ever someone fuck themselves as badly as Burlingame is doing right now on the witness stand.

The conventional wisdom is that you don't record video at a protest. The trial of the Spokane 3 is showing me that the opposite is true. There will be ALWAYS be video from bodycams, security cameras, drones, etc. You might as well get it from all angles because the cops are gonna lie.

The defense is killing it!

Mmm hmm.

What exactly is he implying here?? Do I smell a hint of AIDS panic? He's implying that the queer person has HIV??? Cool cool. Mikki spit on the ground, BTW. Straight down.

Fascism: Watching ‘law enforcement’ GIGGLE while waiting to ‘transport’ human beings to a detainment center & right before gassing peaceful protestors. and then watching them defend it in court.

Me on @rangemedia.co 's Bluesky feed: F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5

Truer words have not been spoken.

Maybe today is a good day to avoid Bluesky. All the praise for Barney Frank is going to send me right over the fucking edge.

Should I apply for it? I could make $125/hr poisoning their data. Soooo tempting!

@merrywanderer.bsky.social deserves a medal her coverage of the Spokane 3 trial for @rangemedia.co. Do they give out Pulitzers for live-skeeting?

Today is the sixth anniversary of my coming out publicly as transgender. Somebody get me a cupcake or something. If I can't have rights or safety or a good job, I should at least get to have a baked good as a consolation prize.

We've been noticing an influx in Spokane for about four years now. Our proximity to Idaho and relative affordability make Spokane a prime relocation destination for trans refugees. The more the merrier I say. Seldom am I the only trans person in a given space anymore. It's beautiful.

In just under a month, I will have to commute to Idaho for work every day for two months. I'm getting more anxious as the date approaches. Already, the thought of it makes me want to throw up.

Slightly increase a band. The Jimi Hendrix Mindfuck 101 Gecs Ultratramp Empress

Please read this vitally important thread all the way through. Thank you, Sheryl!

I hope I get banned from bsky. I'll wear it as a badge of honor. Where? I dunno. The camps probably.

It really pisses me off that the trans prise flag used to be a stock emoji that came with my phone, but now I have to do a web search for it. It's just one more fucking thing. An extra little twist of the knife.

It was more than a slip, LGB Nation, it was a betrayal. We don't need another Newsom. Anyone tacking right on gender-affirming care and trans women in sports has either bought into the ADF/Heritage propaganda machine or has decided that 🏳️‍⚧️ ppl are a fair sacrifice for political gain. No. Just no.

I hope this looks as absurd from the outside as it does from the inside.

RFK wants to help people "quit" antidepressants the same way he wants to help folks like me "quit" HRT.

Wow. The anti-trans bias at the Spokesman-Review sports desk sure is a thing. I have been generally pleased with the paper's reporting in the last couple of years, but this just kills it for me. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

The DoJ just reinstated the loophole that allows people to buy guns at gun shows without a background check. I don't think they realize that doing so completely undermines their efforts to ban trans people from buying guns.

The Guardian is manufacturing consent for AI in zine culture, and by extension culture in general. They can fuck all the way off. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I give this assassination attempt a 2/10.

I will never buy a car newer than ~2014 (not that i can atm). My next purchase will probably be a circa 1960s/1970s pickup, and I intend to use it.

The # of people coming down on the side of "theft is bad, no matter what" is shockingly high. Folks clutching their pearls & crying that people stealing food from Whole Foods are violating the social contract: hon, the social contract was destroyed a long time ago, and not by the ones shoplifting.

I'm never going to Spokane Ren Faire or affiliated events. If you want to know why (besides general disinterest), go see their Instagram. The tl;dr is that they want to exploit creatives to document and market their goings on, despite having over $500k in gross revenue from their fall event alone.

Hot take: if you put on an event that brings in 20,000 people at $20 per person per day, you should be paying your artists, photographers, videographers and social media manager. I'm talking about Spokane Renaissance Faire, just so we're clear.

It's super cool to know that some people would straight up abort me if I were their fetus.

I was doing some offline cueing for a show, and I stepped away from my computer while it was in blind mode. The cat walked on my keyboard while I was away. I took undo back to where the commands make sense, but I'm still a little spooked. 😬 Lesson learned, I guess.

TERF Joker — +20 chips for ONLY the queens that were in the deck at the start of the game. Strengthened/ Deathed/Cryptided Queens do not trigger TERF Joker.

Ace Joker — ace high hands get 3X mult when scored. I'm cookin' today.

Pansexual Joker — any face card can be paired with any other face card(s) to score 2/3/4/5 of a kind.

Another one: Polyamorous Joker — pairs don't score, but three of a kind, four of a kind, and five of a kind score 2X mult, 3X mult, and 4X mult respectively.

New Balatro joker idea: Conversion Therapy — scores face card pairs as straights and destroys them.

Add "becoming Miss America" to the pile of shattered dreams. I joke, but not really.

"God loves you, but not enough to save you." -Ethel 4:12

I'm going to keep carving AI and surveillance out of my life until I'm holed up in a shack in the woods with no power or plumbing, and I'm okay with that.

This is just a tiny glimpse of the hyper-productive AI-driven future that awaits us!

I'm not 100% sure yet, but it would appear that LinkedIn has put useful (non-promoted) job listings behind a $70/month paywall. Suddenly my searches ONLY return promoted listings... and a plug for LinkedIn Premium. Are you fucking kidding me?

I wish I didn't have the compulsion to feel cynical about every fucking thing. Someday I'd like to just appreciate something. Artemis II was legitimately cool, but there's a voice in my head screaming at me to hate it because of the propaganda and the defense contractoriness of it all.

I'm gonna start blocking everybody who shares NYT or Atlantic links, I stfg.

Couldn't live as a man. Can't seem to survive as a trans woman. Feeling pretty lost these days.

"This is the most strongly-worded letter yet. If this doesn't defeat fascism, I don't know what will!"

I can't help wondering if Trump timed this so he could get good pics of a nuclear attack from space. Honestly it seems as likely as any other motivation.

Ultimately impeachment and the 25th are both dead ends. We know this. It's hard not to get a little worked up tho. There's really only one way out of this. It starts with "ass" and ends with "ation."