There's a lot of work to do and there are billions of people who can take on some part of that work.

Writing a book that's 80% complete: wow, everything's really coming together, I'm so excited to share this with my readers! Writing a book that's 95% complete: Time is a prison of eternal echoes that refuse to fade. Words bleed off the page and melt into meaninglessness. I need a latte.

⭐⭐ Isabel Pabán Freed's sophomore novel It's the Characters! is the most challenging novel to come out of the transfeminine publishing sphere in 2025. It's also the most underread. Come for the weird psychadelic vignettes and the dry humor, stay for prose that'll put you through your paces.

like, the conservatives are completely right: education challenges the family. it says "you are not the property of the people who violently manufactured your through biological domination. your teachers can show you that humans can be better than our base instincts," and men HATE that

a lot of the quote posts of this are in the "don't get your hopes up/don't be delusional" genre which, I think, miss the point. the GOP is gonna be losing a lot more sleep at night if it's starting to look like they might have to fight to keep Mississippi. we don't have to win there to fuck 'em up

they don’t want you to know this but the hope down at the park is free. you can just take it home with you. i have so much hope

I promised a second thread on Plastic, Prism, Void & here it is! This time I want to talk about it as writing, not as typesetting. And I want to talk about it as writing about love, specifically about trying to be loved as a trans woman. (remembering to put the pre-order link at the top this time!)

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Absolute peak of web based storytelling, imho. Nobodies done it like Jon did.

I think it’s time for a bluesky break. I’ll be in NY recovering for most of March! DM if you want to visit <3

There's no answer to this but with SRS coming up in 1.5 weeks, I am pondering the over/under odds that I will experience some level of early menopause in my life due to involuntary confinement, access/supply chain issues, or both

it's interesting that one of the most explicitly antifascist pieces of mass media in recent years endorses sabotage of military facilities as one of the only effective means of resistance while also recognizing that such acts equally function as signal flares in a long-term culture war

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

we're going to win, we have love

it bears repeating that CSA is fundamentally about power, it is not some innate perversion but a conscious choice made by real people who willingly let themselves become monsters in pursuit of a fantasy of total domination

This is true on the level of ideology, but the other thing shown clearly in the emails is that powerful abusers IRL have an interest in preserving trans women as an underclass of permanently available sex slaves Hence courting Ting

Apropos of nothing

genuinely a great thread, i think a lot about china's last emperor puyi and his post-revolution life

meaning making is a labor. labor is a meaning making. so-called use-value is at first a meaning. our meaning making has to be compatible with life. what is the meaning of this unforgivable tragedy and crisis? it is holy struggle. either we take back meaning or we fear rape kings and their rape gangs

I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out

it’s weird but finding out that the modern trans panic was fabricated by the machinations of a pedophile cabal has actually improved my mental health substantially. if I keep sitting around being depressed all day I’m letting Jeffrey Epstein win, and I will die before I do that

We need a left whose critique of this tactic leaves room to recognize that it is not without some effect

SURPRISE my book is also partially about addiction oops

dark times ahead. but we are going to win

Persona by Aoife Josie Clements is a great book to read while depressed. You will certainly not regret reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements while depressed

This is the kind of disposition I like.

I think that *cringe* is overused. I particularly think that it is overused by people who have a difficult time feeling and naming their feelings. That's a lot of people.

Instead of waiting, we need to build during peace time so that we can act during war time. A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.

I also think about this essay on MLK and dignity by the philosopher Derrick Darby and in it he talks about the precarity of our status as “dignified beings”—the thin line between showing courage in the face of brutality and allowing yourself to be a brutalized body and an object of abuse

I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different

The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.

must read

would there be any substantive difference between vance and newsom? i guess it's different approaches to economics and foreign policy but in either case comes down to technoauthoritarian ecofascism?

you avoid the trap of "trans women are women because women is a meaningless term" which re-inscribes a centering of cisness by positioning "femaleness (sex)" as "more real" by talking about social structure + embodiment + desire + subjectivity in negotiating womanhood & manhood & heterosexualism

this strikes me as one of the more important (read: possibly even effective) pieces of its kind in recent memory

Andor was a textbook

All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign

not the first time, but maybe the first time i've really been aware of it in my lifetime - it often feels like the uprising in 2020 convinced electeds all across the board that people caring for each other and organizing in care and solidarity is the scariest thing of all

The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime

anyway, I got worked up with them too and admitted to crying a little bit at least once a day at this point, that it’s good, and that you need to get it out because there will be a day where there will be no time to spare tears. We are going to have lists with names.

One of the things that has actually made me more socialist is reading the history of the civil war because you learn, through well documented primary sources, how much radical republicanism and reconstruction was betrayed, before the war even finished, because of liberal capitalist imperialism.

Faggots & Friends

@catfitzpatrick.net Gendertrash From Hell is amazing. Seeing how organizing used to work has given me a lot of hope and ideas, but seeing that many things seem to have not changed sucks. Mostly, “theory mutilates surgery liberates” has started to radically shift my perspective on a lot of things.

flashback to me reading this prophecy from Kali Akuno in early 2022 and being like, ok guess i should get my shit together so i can try to be at least a little bit ready for that

“There's no ‘we’ of the Anthropocene. There's no single climate, there isn't even shared temporality: climate crisis is present for some, future for others, non-event for the wealthiest. We’re not ‘all in this together.’”

enough stories portraying missingno as an eldritch horror. why not eldritch love. #art #pokemon #missingno

It Was A Blacked Out Blur But I’m Pretty Sure It Ruled: America’s self-imposed lost decade 2008-2016