still around, and the nifty cowboy sign is still there, although it could use repainting. the Yelp reviews are quite discouraging though: www.yelp.com/biz/cowboy-m...

the sign is still there! will wonders never cease maps.app.goo.gl/RJmdrZgyV4NM...

set a new personal record on whentaken.com today of 989 out of 1000 points! only gave up 11 points in the whole game! as always I play with no internet searching, no references, nothing except what I can see in the whentaken browser window and what I can remember inside my brain

i think the @wsj.com should pay every trans person's rent this month

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

set a new personal record on whentaken.com today of 977 out of 1000 points! as always I play with no internet searching, no references, nothing except what I can see in the whentaken browser window and what I can remember inside my brain

here's something from 1983 youtu.be/I-v846eKcw8

here's something from 1974 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gG0...

3421 SW 29th Street. It's now Tamales El Patio. The building exterior has been renovated a lot, but if you go back to the original Google Street View coverage from 2007 you can see it's the same place underneath: maps.app.goo.gl/s35RKuPRwjgN... ...and I also found a 1950s newspaper ad for the place

Jackson, *Mississippi*, not Michigan. Closed down in 1985 but the building at 113 N. President Street in downtown Jackson is still recognizable today. Here's an article from the Clarion-Ledger of February 3, 1985, about the closure of the shop and some of its history.

set a new personal record on whentaken.com today of 975 out of 1000 points! as always I play with no internet searching, no references, nothing except what I can see in the whentaken browser window and what I can remember inside my brain

not only is it still there, but the sign is still largely intact, albeit without the neon tubes and lightbulbs from what I can see maps.app.goo.gl/rmrfd6YA5GNG...

it's been there since the 1930s and it's still alive and kickin'. how about that. maps.app.goo.gl/9XZJNrHEBAWE...

have you ever wanted to listen to Turkish psychedelic rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QL1...

it's now the Island Club Condominum, on the boardwalk at Montpelier Avenue; the shape is still unmistakable but the teal color has been replaced with a duller beige: maps.app.goo.gl/Hy57cKMA3hfm...

it's still there — maps.app.goo.gl/Q2HpMHpnFKos... — and the neon sign is still intact (sort of)... some rich person needs to swoop in and restore it for me to look at in person someday

part of the Chili Bowl chain that thrived in L.A. in the 1930s and then unraveled in the 1940s. this location was at 12244 W. Pico Blvd and its final incarnation, before it was razed recently, was the Michelin-starred sushi restaurant Shunji Japanese Cuisine. more info: foohowser.com/the-chili-bo...

it's "The Original" but it's also 25% lower in sodium than the original. will wonders never cease

The voices of trans kids are often ignored by those trying to restrict their care. A 2025 study seeks to better understand the impacts of these restrictions. Journal Club brought to you by Veronica Esposito

a post by @deathcarpets.sisc.one just inadvertently reminded me that I am so old that I went to the Ministry/Helmet/Sepultura 1992 tour and I'm not sure I feel about that

transhet women 🤝 femme trans lesbians being told your gender expression is too normative and conformist while actively experiencing violent discrimination because of said gender expression

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

Not long ago, MAGA would have said you're supposed to shoot masked guys in keffiyehs who attack you on the street and try to abduct you. Hell, they even screamed "terrorist scarf" and threatened to boycott when Rachel Ray wore a keffiyeh-inspired wrap in a Dunkin' Donuts ad!

For the ones who did make it, I rarely hear, "I'm glad i waited until my 30s". It's almost consistently, "I wish I had the vocabulary for this when I was 10." These kids have that vocabulary but not the access. That's objectively cruel no matter how you frame it.

The NYT apologized for its coverage of the AIDS epidemic 39 years later. Maybe in half a century they'll apologize to trans people.

Could you imagine the New York Times writing an article saying women were asking for too much with abortion rights and that they went too far? That's effectively what they did here to trans people despite it being the same fight for bodily autonomy.

referring to hard-won trans wisdom, passed in person from those who survived to those who are just beginning to live, as “dogmatism,” like we’re a DNC caucus, is such malpractice. And from a cis writer too

People need to realize that the New York Times is going to pivot to "self-ID" now, essentially to build up the next fight, a total end of all legal recognition for transgender people. A handful of states have already started passing these laws, and it is absolutely what they are going for next.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

forcing kids to develop in a way that they don’t consent to is abject, horrific cruelty that sets them up for a lifetime of problems that takes a ton of fucking money to fix. all to have that called bougie and privileged anyway. what a fucking joke

they don't want to teach children anything about sex or gender because doing so gives them the vocabulary to protest their abuse, and they believe they have sexual rights over children

remember that these people oppose trans healthcare for children because giving children agency over their bodies makes it harder for them to get away with preying on them and they see themselves entitled to sexually abusing children

Did you know the cover model for the story wasn't told they were going to be identified as trans, and that the cover wound up outing them to family members they hadn't been prepared to talk about it to yet? www.them.us/story/trans-... (You might have known that. I only learned it recently)

As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.

seven years on the dot.

Reading the Supreme Court decision, I think back to what I wrote with sociologist Blu Buchanan. Attacks on gender-affirming care are fundamentally rooted in white supremacy. Attacks on trans people are part of a broad-ranging agenda of reconfiguring society to better serve white supremacy.

The federal government imposing a stop work order on Trevor project for the national 988 suicide hotline on the same day that the Supreme Court greenlit a ban on care despite the risk of suicide sends a clear message: The United States government officially wants trans youth to kill themselves.

Side point but saying the subways are scary is rapidly approaching "using the word woke unironically" levels of telling on yourself. Drive your ass back to Maplewood then, nerds

demolished in 2003, but this place certainly had some interesting history buffaloah.com/a/ohio/286/h...

i don't think there can be forgiveness for those that supported this inhuman act

Moms 4 Liberty hates sex ed because sex ed teaches kids autonomy and consent and how to identify and report abuse. Everything M4L does is projection. They are the groomers and predators. Every damn day, arrest and conviction records prove it.

The conspiracy theories, the constant projection — all distractions to navigate the cognitive dissonance of being the party of predators.

chyron: DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS IN LA footage: twerk-off in front of a food truck

Please stop killing us. www.transvitae.com/jax-gratton-...

As a lifelong New Yorker the number of times someone has said to my face that they like Broadway or whatever, but could never live there and don't understand how anyone could. Like I couldn't live in your shit town either lady but I have some tact!

I think about this all the time in regards to the anti-trans movement in particular. It was sparked by…nothing. Trans people existing, getting legal recognition of their gender, accessing healthcare (including as minors), participating in sports, using the bathroom? That was the status quo

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

it's apartments now rather than a motel, and it's still got the neon sign but it looks like the tubes are breaking off of it – here's hoping it gets restored somehow! maps.app.goo.gl/ZNzWX2mbZ3GY...