the way that we showed up to respond to ICE and other feds one year ago today when they were at lake & bloomington was a precursor to what we did during operation metro surge feds had guns, covered their faces and were aggressive. the people of minneapolis were undaunted and protected each other

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

The Lavender Scare was a bunch of 50s State Department guys with alcoholism so severe they legally weren't allowed to own a home with a fireplace going "the problem with homosexuals is they're susceptible to blackmail"

muting now. have fun debating how kink isnt for you personally in a post that isnt about you at all and sucking all the oxygen out of the room while actively helping fascism trying to sanitize us out of society ☺️😊😊

anyways fuck cops and corps trying to control pride fuck terfs for trying to exclude trans ppl from pride and fuck puritans trying to erase kink from pride see yall at the marches 😊✨️🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

We only know about Cercle Hermaphroditos because of the 1918 memoirs of Jennie June (who we might recognize as a trans woman though that language didn't really exist at the time; she referred to herself as an androgyne). You can read it for free here t.co/rdCJABVmSB

My main account (@cartamonir.com) has been suspended on the grounds that a post about my new website constitutes a serious violation of bluesky's policies around sexual/nonconsensual/violent content. This is overt censorship.

anecdotally, not a single rank-and-file liberal I know has any appetite for the anti-trans campaign (especially those with kids), and any overture to protect trans kids is always met with wild enthusiasm. Massive disconnect with our officials and media try

#OtD 30 May 1937 the Memorial Day massacre occurred when Chicago police opened fire on a peaceful march of striking steel workers and their families. The police murdered 10, shot, beat and hospitalised many others. No police were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

A thing about Chicago is that it has an obscenely, impossibly bloody history. Every six months or so during the early-to-mid 20th century something happened that you can’t quite believe, and it’s usually the cops’ fault.

beavers ftw

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

I think another thing that annoys me about the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia thing is that the drag queen is just a straight up liar. He's now started saying he chose the drag name because of the Patagonia region, but has said in the past that he named himself after the brand. He's a liar.

Hi @robin4mpls.bsky.social! Does Minneapolis still have a contract with Flock? Can we please cancel it (or at least not renew it) if we do?

A trans man was just killed in Kentucky. A trans woman was killed in Seattle, Texas , and Chicago. This is all in the last week and doesn’t even include everyone trans who was killed. It keeps happening. It keeps happening more.

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look at that subtle off white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it… oh my god. it even has a watermark.

Just 15 years ago Aaron Swartz died as a result of MIT's overzealous regard for the sanctity of their libraries. He'd be turning 40 this year.

In the 80s, she wrote a lifestyle column for R-18 trans tabloid The Transvestian. In the 90s, her ground-breaking novellas defined Black trans indie publishing. In the early 00s, she helped organize the TWOC community, inspiring Monica Roberts to write. This is the story of Roberta Angela Dee.

one week ago today, brian o’hara was in front of the minneapolis city council, unable to explain to aisha chughtai why the police department was $20 million over budget this year as she went through line item by line item. and now he’s resigned as the police chief

Eternally relevant:

Whenever my SO tries to take a nap

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Watching interviews with victims of the global sumud flotilla kidnapping operation by Israel is fucking horrific and even more disturbing that the vast majority of what I'm seeing is in the Irish and Australian media rather than the British media.

zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

Harlan Ellison loved Invader Zim and would regularly impersonate GIR, there's a non-zero chance he'd have been all in on TADC.

HEARTWARMING: Local Hostile Architecture Installation Uses Low-Water Native Plants

"this piece of media has gross stuff in it" man damn that sucks, did you talk to your mom about how the parental controls aren't working

George Floyd should be alive. It is a moral failing of Minneapolis that Jacob Frey is still mayor and that MPD is funded at higher levels than ever before & STILL overspending. None of that failure is of South Minneapolis. It is the white liberals and the overseer class that still hold power.

It is wild the number of supposedly “liberal” states that are being directly hit by trans healthcare bans because of this too. I know multiple people in fucking BOSTON and MASSACHUSETTS whom can’t get their meds. Check with your friends. And remember the Catholic Church is entirely worth resisting.

Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

i will take any opportunity to post this image

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please understand that getting covid every year because you don’t want to mask anymore is melting your brain

After his partner died of AIDS-related complications, David Bohnett used the insurance payout to launch GeoCities - this became one of the internet’s earliest queer communities

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Prosecutorial misconduct is nearly the norm, it almost always goes undetected and un-investigated because most defendants lack the money to expose it. I believe the presumption of regularity has never been warranted, and I think they're all a bit crooked, and that's what makes the system "work".