What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

And the New York Times - which has obsessively covered minute aspects of the gender affirming care fight - chose not to cover this, or a major study finding anti trans laws increase calls to suicide hotlines, or many other stories that don't fit their agenda.

In case nobody has posted this btw. Jpg is cruddy but alt text has the text

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

I read so many books as a kid where I didn't understand the references!! When I first read The Black Arrow, I had no what the Wars of the Roses were. When I first read Little Women, I didn't understand the references to Pilgrim's Progess.

..... I'd burn some topless towers for her any day

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

Yes! one of the main characters in my political intrigue fantasy novel has a gift for healing magic.....but she has deeeeply disappointed her healer mother by choosing to pursue a career as a musician instead!

this is a classic breakfast taco that you can get literally anywhere in Austin!! and people eat breakfast tacos at 2pm all the time. everyone involved in this NYT story should be embarrassed, this is just. incredibly silly.

Stoppe callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "shitty plagiarism hellmouths" calmatters.org/environment/...

Community, labor, and religious leaders just held a press conference in front of one of Delta’s corporate offices in Bloomington, MN. We’re asking Delta to: * Sign the Businesses for Democracy Pledge * Use their lobbying muscle for good * Establish a process to fly released detainees home to MN

I'd be on board with, like, an opera adaptation of the story of Turin. Beren & Luthien would be terrific as a ballet. But yeah, the Silmarillion does not want to be a movie, or even a series of movies. Could we please just not.

Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina, Matthias, and Wylan.

this book is incredible!! just finished it yesterday and it's an absolute gift. wonderfully complicated characters, a stunningly weird and lovely setting, and a really thoughtful exploration of different cultures in (often uneasy) conversation. one of the best books of the year, easily

MenGenuises

all of this has happened before all of this will happen again

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

this is stunning!!

I have been sharing the Magic 8 Ball analogy for a while now, but I think this is maybe the first time it's made it to print: >>

#nowquerying A SONG AGAINST RUIN (113k words), adult fantasy. When an ambitious musician and her best friend try to secure fame and status by aligning with rival noble houses in a deadly political conflict, they don't realize that one's success could cost the other's life. #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Lor plans to dazzle society with her virtuosic music skills—and win back Veren, the noblewoman who broke her heart. But Lor doesn't know that Veren is conspiring to rule the city. Or that Lor's best friend is a spy for Veren's enemies. SWORDSPOINT x THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

I was a music performance major, so I played an hour-long organ recital featuring music by Bach, Franck, and Durufle.

My favorite day!! 😍

the only take that matters

A SONG AGAINST RUIN (113k words) is an adult fantasy perfect for fans of Swordspoint, C. L. Polk, and scheming sapphics. #PosterPit #Q #F #A #LGBT

From my queer political fantasy A SONG AGAINST RUIN, for today's #FridayFling word, "whisper". #amquerying

This should be the headline in every newspaper.

Gregory Sievers, American (1951- ), The Theater, oil, 36 x 24 in, private collection

Chicagoooo 🚫👑

Folks are marching at the No Kings event in Austin, Texas. Go Texas!!!

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

A new #AgentsGuide to A SONG AGAINST RUIN, a queer adult fantasy perfect for fans of Swordspoint, C. L. Polk, and scheming sapphics. Querying now! #amquerying #fantasy #LGBT

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

Ah, we've reached the "banning same-sex marriage is not discrimination because everybody has an equal right to marry somebody of another sex" stage of recycling homophobic arguments to hurt trans people with

This is the exact same argument uses against gay marriage. "Gay people still have the equal rights to marry the opposite sex" or however they worded it. Just a pedantic, bigoted word game rather than a substantive argument, but that's all that anti-queer bigotry has ever been or will ever be.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

I recently moved from central Texas to Chicago. I don't think I'll ever stop missing breakfast tacos.

The 2024/2025 SFF books I absolutely loved, in no particular order: The Everlasting (Alix Harrow) Notes From a Regicide (Isaac Fellman) The Raven Scholar (Antonia Hodgson) The Siege of Burning Grass (Premee Mohamed) Asunder (Kerstin Hall) Saint of Bright Doors (Vajra Chandrasekera)

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

I will also shout out TENT and the Texas freedom network. And I will also just suggest filtering bsky.app for state + trans + help, and finding just a trans person who is struggling here and giving them money directly.

If trans people want/need to leave, that is worthy. It’s also worthy to stay and fight, or to need to stay and still need rights. Queer folks in red states need and deserve our support at least as much as the work being done from “safer” states

If you can, donate to queer/trans rights groups in red states!! There are so many queer people in red states who need our supoort, and who can't leave. I left Texas for a blue state last year, but still donate monthly to Equality Texas: they fight tirelessly for queer Texans.