Things may not be as they seem in Dark Science #183 - "Dust"... dresdencodak.com/2026/05/18/d...

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. -Emily Dickinson www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/...

seeing ppl discussing "male socialization" in regard to trans ppl. not sure what instigated it, but here's my best online essay on it (with a bit of “Trans Masc vs Trans Fem” discourse as a treat): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-so...

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

would anyone be interested in either something written or podcast about the great transgender migration that's going on right now that no one is really talking about. i feel like no one outside of the trans community knows about this at all

1/x I'm enough of a middle-class fuckwit to be uncomfortable with some forms of sex-related expression I've encountered on here, but I'm also insightful enough to know that sex-related moderation is going to fall disproportionately on trans ppl, bc our entire lives have been sexualized by cis ppl.

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

DC Minis #24 - Pool Break dresdencodak.com/2026/05/11/d...

"oh, you're a plant girl? what kind" the giving tree

Flexed my bicep at someone mid-conversation last night which briefly flustered them into speechlessness. So I've got that going for me

The world is becoming harsher for transgender people right now. Darkness stretches before and behind them, and the pain is growing. Their wish remains simple — to love who they love and live true to themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This is why we must join hands and change the world with compassion.

What's pretty neat about being gay and a cartoonist is I can draw girls kissing basically whenever I want and no one can stop me, not even my mom!

YOU KNOW THE RULE

My fourth full length album “If I Let It Quiet” will be out on @audioantihero.bandcamp.com and Lavender Vinyl on July 24th 🥲 Preorders available now on my Bandcamp.

Actually you know what, let me just

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

One "fun" aspect of transitioning in your 30s is being suddenly compelled to do all the things you would have done in your youth had you not been disgusted with yourself. Now I am the old bitch in the punk scene hoping that people do not clock my geriatric nature. Oh God, I've become Alan Vega.

lately been dialing in a type of style that's like "what if I got instantly gender-swapped the moment I realized I was trans in 2008"

Sometimes Zucchini will be curled up all cozy hugging my leg with her little paws...and she will wake up and perform a biiiiig luxurious stretch...and the only problem I have in this situation is that her *claws* are plunged deep into the *flesh* of my *thigh* aaauuugh ow ow ow babygirl stoppp

I really love how cardinals make all those laser noises. Pew pew pew pew pew

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Sam Fielden gave the speech that was used to justify the police crackdown at the first May Day rally in 1886. He was a weaver and a stone-cutter, who'd started working at 8 years old in England. He'd been a Methodist preacher, who moved to the US south to preach in support of Black rights.

Oscar Neebe was the only haymarket defendant who wasn't sentenced to death for the crime of working for an anarchist newspaper. He was also one of the only American-born defendants. He said to the court that he wished to be hanged alongside his comrades.

Adolph Fischer was hanged for the crime of editing an anarchist newspaper. He told the court: "I was tried here in this room for murder, and I was convicted of Anarchy. I protest against being sentenced to death, because I have not been found guilty of murder.

Louis Lingg was the youngest haymarket defendant. He had a watertight alibi: he couldn't have thrown the bomb, because he'd been at home with his friends making bombs. He spoke to the court with nothing but contempt. He told them:

Emma Goldman addressing a rally at Union Square, New York, 1916. Read our essay on her unique brand of anarchism: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives #MayDay

George Engel was the oldest of the Haymarket defendants, but one of the most radical. He wasn't on speaking terms with some of the moderate anarchists with whom he would soon share a gallows. He was a German immigrant toymaker, gentle and honest.

August Spies was one of the "moderate" anarchists, the editor of a newspaper whose title translated simply to Worker's Paper. He worked 12-16 hours a day on that newspaper, fighting for the eight hour day for everyone else. He kept a circle bomb on his desk in the office.

One of my mentors was Lawrence Guyot, a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, who pushed hard to pass the Voting Rights Act (fair to say LBJ signed it to shut them up). He once told me it was the most beautiful thing America had ever done. My heart breaks for how far we've fallen.

ooouuuuughgghhhhh yessssssssss

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Dark Science #182 - The Edge of the World dresdencodak.com/2026/04/27/d...

also, if you see a queer/trans person traveling alone, you probably actually *are* in the presence of a hardened operator who has genuinely useful security and travel advice

I have to conclude that my trainer respects me because she keeps trying to kill me

“You never know what someone else is going through” isn’t even true anymore: we can all reasonably assume that every one of us is going through a lot of shit right now. There’s no excuse for unkindness!

oingo boingo comes to us from the latin oingus boingus

gonna reskeet this every time my trainer tries to kill me

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr I interview historian/sage Susan Stryker for Assigned Media after publication of the third edition of her landmark book, "Transgender History: A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow" www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

It must be a week of run n' gun because I am already racking up the mysterious bleeding and bruises

When leaves are new, never more green, they’re so, so soft.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

It’s a question that's gone unanswered for thousands of years: "When can I get acrylic representations of my favorite cybernetic lesbians?" and "Can I make them kiss?". The answers are NOW and YES!!! 😍 topatoco.com/collections/... 🏳️‍🌈 @dresdencodak.com

Rachel’s!!!

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gonna reskeet this every time my trainer tries to kill me

They Might Be Giants - Bangs (Mink Car, 2001)

Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.

I have to conclude that my trainer respects me because she keeps trying to kill me