This thread hit me hard tonight.😭 This time last year I was teaching a graduate course that focused on mutual aid, politics of care & community resilience. I'll probably spend the rest of my life digesting, metabolizing & growing into the lessons of that experience. Do the work. Live your life now.

Going out to the theater tonight, and so in a rare moment of executive function I actually attempted a grown-up make-up look!

This is why I don't see the point in making serious plans to flee the US. As a disabled transexual woman, married to a woman, with a disabled transgender son there are virtually no legal immigration available to my household. Circumventing immigration law just trades one vulnerability for another.

I just backed @joannamasters.bsky.social's upcoming book "How to be a Dragon" which looks like an absolute delight! Joanna is a good egg (pun intended) and you should check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

I believe you are wrong. This is about èThIcs iN vÌDeoGaMé jÔuRnALîSm.

Fascism is an ecological phenomenon. Big fascists empower smaller ones to set themselves up as the "only reasonable alternative" which is how we get folks like Gavin Newsom who see our current situation as an opportunity to grab more personal power instead of the crisis it actually is.

I wrote this thread directed at cis allies advocating for the importance of them amplifying trans voices, engaging with trans issues, and materially supporting trans people. The majority of folks resharing and responding? Not...um...not cis people. Can't we even get *performative* solidarity?

I was playing with sticks at Barbershop Quartet camp & the mess bell rang, so I threw my stick off into the woods but it rubbed along my hand & impaled the meat of my right thumb with an in-and-out splinter the size of a large toothpick. Counselors snipped the ends off & I absorbed it over 4 months.

I was playing with sticks at Barbershop Quartet camp & the mess bell rang, so I threw my stick off into the woods but it rubbed along my hand & impaled the meat of my right thumb with an in-and-out splinter the size of a large toothpick. Counselors snipped the ends off & I absorbed it over 4 months.

I tend to stay out of online dust-ups. And I am ALWAYS grateful when I see cis folks acknowledging the ways in which trans folks are being targeted in this moment, so thank you for this post! We're all going to need solidarity to survive, and there are concrete things you (yes YOU!) can do. A 🧵

Fuck, where do I start!? Kinda feel uncomfortable admitting that it's Trans metropolitan, by Warren Ellis. Both because Ellis is a cunt, and because Transmet is such a juvenile thing to still love as much as I do. But it was incredibly formative and I hardly ever talk about it anymore.

I couldn't sleep so I sent you a voice message because I knew that if there was a chance of a response from you to look forward to in the morning that I'd finally be able to convince myself to go to bed #sapphic #t4t #poetrysky #adhd #wlw

While discussing this dream with my son and my wife it was determined that: A.) "haunted basement" is apparently a euphemism, and B.) there are few phrases more upsetting than "Would you like a tour of my moistly haunted basement?"

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

AI Feculence AI Sputum AI Regurgitations AI Excrement I dunno...."slop" seems pretty generous.

I dreamed that I had been brought into the "situation room" room last night, which in the dream involved everyone lined up against a bank of computer systems, poking touch screen displays. I was seated next to Donald Trump. He smelled of rot, and his scalp was flaking and peeling.

Y'all...I can't with The Horrors right now.

Okay, I think it's finished! Calling this one "Junk in the Trunk"!

Don Bluth's Lolita

David Mammet's Lost in Translation

Werner Hertzog's FernGulley

Okay, I think it's finished! Calling this one "Junk in the Trunk"!

Hello I'm acute pancreatitis!

Progress on inks!

Happy 2026! I wrote a longish reflection on my own struggles and triumphs in 2025, and some of it might be of interest to some of you! www.patreon.com/posts/147102...

What the fuck!? When did I learn how to draw like this!?

My 2026 resolution is to infiltrate the fashion world and conspire to elevate tentacle suckers to the same place in the print textile pattern hierarchy as leopard print and zebra stripes.

Happy New Year from me and Scoops!

I know why things are the way they are, but a a part of me really wishes the to my queries for The Egg Prime Directive were not all polite and encouraging form responses. Like... I'd rather know that agents are rejecting my book because they hate the premise, or the writing, or queer people...

I dream of a society that is more interested in harm reduction and healing than in "punishment". How many of our resources are so needlessly, wastefully, tied up in trying to place symbolic blame instead of addressing the actual harms perpetrated in any crimes?

Currently happening in my house. Parenting neurodivergent kids is sometimes highly entertaining. (Posted with the consent of all children and parents involved.)

The carceral justice system is an extension of the white supremacist, colonialist, worldview that US democracy is rooted in, poisoning any aspirations we may have towards a society built on equality & liberty. But if that's not enough to sell you on abolitionism, consider this: it doesn't work. A 🧵

I dream of a society that is more interested in harm reduction and healing than in "punishment". How many of our resources are so needlessly, wastefully, tied up in trying to place symbolic blame instead of addressing the actual harms perpetrated in any crimes?

I had an exhibition in 2012 of some steampunk props and costumes I'd created at a conference where Bruce Sterling (my favorite writer at the time) was giving the keynote and overheard him drunkenly grousing to a friend about how much he hated my art right as I was about to introduce myself to him.

This is 100% true: my EXTREMELY supportive and progressive mom had no idea about Gavin Newsome being a transphobic asshole—despite living in California—until I told her last week. She didn't know about the New York Times' history of anti-trans coverage. It's easy to forget what it's like out there!

Can I call in "freezing my tits off" for my physical therapy and endocrinology appointments today? It's so fucking cold and unpleasant out there right now! (-7° F with windchill!)

Most of the inkwells we currently have in stock in our Etsy store are hand built instead of wheel thrown, because that's what we were able to make without driving into the studio. Excited to have another option here now! www.etsy.com/shop/Cauldro...

My wife, @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, gave me a pottery wheel for Christmas...kinda... It's a $6 plastic wheel powered by 2 D cell batteries! 🤣 However, after a little bit of practice I was able to throw one and a half inkwells with it! It's no Brent or Speedball, but for the price I'm astonished!

I had so much fun with the assemblage/collage aspects of the art for Skin Deep! It really feels like I had a breakthrough as an artist while working on this game, stumbling into my own version of an aesthetic that I've admired in the many other artists. tesstanen.itch.io/skin-deep

After almost a week of frumping around the house in old clothes and PJs I decided to put on some makeup so I can feel hot while binging my way through Clair Obscure.

Cishet white men sure do feel entitled to everything, even *marginalization*.

I wrote an extended essay in response to this survey. Strap-in as I get salty about GenAI and LLMs (a thread!) I am a writer and an (ex)professor, and have directly experienced how LLMs are debasing writing as an art form, damaging my student's and colleague's ability to think critically...

It's not overstating things to say that GenAI is an existential threat to human knowledge, communication, & expression in an ecosystem where identifying & finding human-authored writing is rendered virtually impossible by an unchecked inundation of meaningless, unthinking, soulless, misinformation.

Ok...this wasn't directed at me, but 21 years ago I was backstage at The SD Eagle, helping a friend run for a local Leather title (iykyk) & one of the two catty drag queens MCing the show turned to the other & said: "Bitch, your lumpy-ass tits look like they're made of kitty litter & shit!" 😹😱🔥💀

Throwback to that time in 2012 when a research group at Intel hired a team of artists, writers, and designers to develop a gallery show and comic book for my time-traveling steampunk superhero Captain Chronomek, all because I wanted to make a costume around a nixie tube clock kit.

I wrote an extended essay in response to this survey. Strap-in as I get salty about GenAI and LLMs (a thread!) I am a writer and an (ex)professor, and have directly experienced how LLMs are debasing writing as an art form, damaging my student's and colleague's ability to think critically...

today is a good day to share things that trans people have made reply to this with a link to your project and i'll repost it or you could go through anything i've reposted and repost it yourself? give the gift of visibility

I hate how much this timeline makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist just by describing the bare facts of what is happening right now.

Tess is awesome! I can't speak to the game as I've not played it yet, but it looks great. I just got it, and you should get it, too!

I picked this up immediately due to its echo of "With Those We Love Alive" - I'm excited to experience where Tess has taken the mechanic & highly recommend folks also check out WTWLA.