In honor of all us who love Bad Art Here's some of my favorite pieces of bad art that I have made...

"Talent" is a lie told to obscure the work it takes to succeed at something and devalue the people doing the work and the work itself

Like “bad” art is so pure actually. In its lack of technical “skill” or expertise or whatever its just a pure expression of the need to create and express its beautiful

Stop being so terrified of making bad art Every single real artist makes bad art Both in the process of learning and bc when you are genuinely being creative sometimes it doesn't come out very good AI is for sucky losers who want to steal other people's brilliance bc they cant shine themselves

NEW STUDY! @juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!

I might be too tired to be in public today I feel like I'm all hot sharp angles and spikes Certainly the normal inhibitions against me telling random strangers to go fuck themselves is gone

Cis people: Would you vote for a politician who would fix maybe 1/3rd of the issues we are currently facing but would also shoot you personally directly in your genitals with a pistol? Genuinely curious if that would be a red line for you.

I hear the code will stop working on Feb 8. 👇

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

This is a great thread and I wanted to highlight this piece bc I feel like a lot of people don't understand what a breach of trust it can be for a player to learn that the DM was lying TTRPGs shine when it is collaborative storytelling which requires informed consent and shared expectations

Saw someone talking about how you can admit people make good art and are shitty people but here's the thing: Very, very often the art they make is not good. It is just lauded. And it is lauded by the same people who are put in positions of authority by the system that the abusers take advantage of.

We are in the part of winter when my wife gets to laugh at the number of times I walk around the house muttering bc my undercut is too long and is touching my ears and making lil duck butts out of my cowlicks but I don't want to cut it bc it's sooooo cold! #butchproblems #mylifeissohard

Had a woman on Instagram tell me that bisexual women are like the mixed kids of the LGBTQ community and that biphobia was just like colorism... ... Yeah of course she was white

Yep

As a cis person who cherishes my trans family a key way to help IME is to talk about trans people with other cis people in regular conversations (without shoehorning it in or going on a rant) We can very effectively put pressure on other cis people to see trans people as utterly chill

Additional word of caution By making homemade treats you may create a situation in which your cats know that today is Treat Day And they may drool and cry at the oven in the vain hope that chicken is ready to be treats This may result in criminal behaviors upon realizing it is not yet treat time

If you have pets I urge you to consider making your own treats My argument: 1) it's easier than you probably think 2) saves a lot of money 3) probably higher quality than most of what you'd find in any pet store even the fancy ones

IMO it is important to understand that Epstein is a product of a society that offers almost no consequences for abusing children, especially girls, without reducing it down to just patriarchy Resist the urge to collapse this into something that feels more manageable Hold space for complexity

I think one of the things that really rubbed me wrong re: this ad was how the “night of brotherhood” framing for the butch side of things kinda immediately excludes any transfem butches. Also the fact that “video games” are apparently masc activities, way to slip a “femmes aren’t gamers” in there 🙃

A local ButchFemme club posted an event that has me real annoyed Bc it's so frustrating when even our own community doesn't seem to get it This event reads like the worst cishet couples bachelor and bachelorette party invites Extremely binary gendered with Femme = girl And Butch = boy Arghhh!

The reason that y'all are so focused on ICE masking is bc the public is starting to hold you all accountable for their actions rather than falling for the same worn out excuse that it's just a few individual bad apples They don't need training They don't need badges They need to go Abolish ICE

psa link to block the ai scraper.

And one reason that federal funding agencies became such a huge target in Project 2025 were the evidence-based efforts that were (slowly) shifting policies so that this public good would actually fund scientific research that included and benefitted all Americans, not just white cis men 🧪

Nearly every morning our cat Jadzia demands cuddles on my lap and for a little while the world is soft and sweet and purrrrfect

You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" the international cabal of pedophiles that controls governments, invented microtransactions, moderates the worst parts of 4chan, and is trying to reduce trans women to a stable of sex slaves. Fuck, I miss when all of that sounded ridiculous.

Seeing a propaganda push emphasizing tiny incidents like the one police chief getting someone they knew out of an ICE stop to give the false impression cops are against ICE. This is often burying news like SPD and LAPD announcing they won't enforce bans on ICE going masked. Cops remain pro-ICE.

I don't like Bernie Never really have for a variety of reasons But this is actually worth some applause Defund Abolish Prosecute

I am so damn proud of my wife and her lab The work she's leading at Northeastern is paving the way for a better more equitable future when we look to building technology for people instead of profits that centers marginalized communities I highly recommend marrying someone who you admire greatly 😍

Today is the national shut down day And already its flooded with people screaming about all the reasons they can't personally participate And maybe it's just that Im tired But fuck For once it would be nice to see more people posting what they are doing than excuses for why they can't do anything

time for everyone in the U.S. to call chuck schumer and call him out for being a spineless piece of shit

bringing this back around as infections surge—protecting yourself and others around you is a courageous act, even when it obscures one’s face. the act of obscuring the face is not inherently shameful, but using non-medical face coverings (ie gaiters) to evade consequences for disappearing people is.

With no due respect, I’m not reading your substack screed about how Democrats are enabling fascism. You’re in a Nazi bar, bro.

2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe. 2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty. Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...

The dichotomy of my wife patiently building 300,000 person cities that span vast acres of rolling pixels VS me ditching my cities the second I have even a slightly better idea for how to structure them Traffic dropped to 80% and I have a different idea for how to use trains? TIME TO START AGAIN!

one of the coolest things about masks is that it doesn’t matter what variant or pathogen or allergen etc it just filters you just have to wear it

Debate me bros are ridiculous Buddy boy I know you were your Mama's special lil man but you are nothing to me I genuinely don't care if you learn anything or agree But hey keep begging me to debate you Real Alpha Male behavior And I'm suuure this time it'll work for ya 😘

Today a dude screamed at me from his truck bc I was out walking in a respirator It isn't all that unusual I flipped him off and told him to huff farts But it is a direct consequence of people deciding that voting was the litmus test for their politics and not COVID

IME it also helps to understand the photo tricks and the way posing and framing can change an image A lot can be accomplished with angles, a light filter, and a good pushup bra or shape wear Tbh photo comparison will always be harsher and less accurate than actually looking at each other irl

Oh no a liberal celebrity said something moderate... How surprising! Wow! Look at me this is my surprised face! Quick everyone let's discourse about how moderate and surprising it is! Golly gee I sure did think that THIS celebrity would be different 🙄🫩

Over the last decade mega corps have tried to convince people that comfort and convenience will make our lives easier And for a second there it was convincing for many of us bc it sounds good But that comfort and convenience came with heavy costs Subservience Surveillance Dependency No more

I'm not saying anything my audience doesn't know but let me add to the swell of voices calling for us all to not let this moment slip by and hope for real change disappear Reform is not enough Defund Abolish Prosecute

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Maybe it's just these working class roots but I've yet to meet someone raised extremely wealthy who I actually enjoy spending time around long term Who didn't turn out to be kinda shallow and petty

I don't know if I will ever forgive the progressive people who understand that we shouldn't blindly trust the government, that caring for the collective is our mutual responsibility, that our comfort doesn't outweigh our duty, that society so very often abandons disabled people And yet don't mask

Reminder that quote tweeting someone you disagree with rarely if ever does anything to change their mind or the minds of people who agree with them It does however spread their dumb opinions and make their account much more visible bc you've just told the algorithms that their content is valuable

Makeouts are praxis

Saw someone genuinely angry (Like multiple long threads angry) about @mayor.nyc.gov getting bidets installed in the Mayor house and it was so completely ridiculous I'd like to say for posterity and posteriors I am fully in favor of politicians having a clean ass #cleaninguppolitics #oneassatatime

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.