SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE, I HATH WITNESSED A DOUBLE MURDER

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

My strategy for Spotify for the past decade has been to use it while also buying digital albums of the musicians I like ... now I have a decade worth of playlists on Spotify and dozens of digital albums scattered in a variety of devices/formats, and it's sheer chaos.

big fan of whichever city hall staff came up with using .cityof. for handles

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

I always get confused by this, but then I remember that my introduction to politics was reading Doonesbury and Giles when I was 9. Which, uh, put a definite kibosh on the "things were better in the '80s" nostalgia.

many such cases

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

Side note: check out @kidscanpress.bsky.social recent publications -- they are publishing wonderful children's books that are very much needed today.

Praise for STRANGE CREATURES, written by Cristina Sitja Rubio and Cristóbal León, illustrated by Cristina Sitja Rubio. This entertaining contemporary fable offers a stark and timely message about conservation. bit.ly/4pFcMnM

On Remembrance Day, we're reading BUNNY THE BRAVE WAR HORSE, written by Elizabeth MacLeod and illustrated by Marie Lafrance. In BUNNY THE BRAVE WAR HORSE, award-winning nonfiction author Elizabeth MacLeod brings a slice of World War I history to life in this poignant picture book.

Praise for FEELING YOUR FEELINGS, written by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and illustrated by Phil Nicholls. A one-of-a-kind tour through the body that looks at how, why and where humans experience emotions, from award-winning science writer Tanya Lloyd Kyi. bit.ly/4nkVOcC

“A hopeful tale and highly readable resource on gender transitions, empathy, and the power of communication.” —Montreal Review of Books Praise for CALL ME GRAY, written by Andrew Larsen and Bells Larsen, illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine.

My personal low-stakes conspiracy theory is that this is all to discredit a piece of music that a) whips ass and b) is the work of an openly gay man who did an awful lot of charity work

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

the amount of advertising the new Harry Potter audiobook has is a hate crime.

Whammageddon is absolutely straight-coded.

Completely this; the further in time we move be from George, the more obviously, almost effortlessly, brilliant his work becomes.

Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten

Sick and solo parenting is the worst. I have just moved from bed to couch and back all day while kids play next to me.

98 per cent of the product is consumed in Canada and people will say we have no culture

masc lesbians

The Doctor is right and correct

Might be thinking about this more than usual because of a project that will probably be announced next year, but I am ALSO thinking about the rapid invisibilization of survivors of both these things, and the fact that history has largely forgotten about encephalitis lethargica.

Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten

cn: health, repro health In very exciting personal news, I finally managed to get a hysto scheduled. I am annoyed that it took multiple doctors, several years and failed attempts at three different types of birth control to make it happen, but I am excited it's finally happening.

The similarities between Canadian anglo cities is really something. The founding fathers and mothers were prudes, and it's baked into the DNA

I refuse to shop anywhere in this country while they’re having “Black Friday” deals because absolutely the fuck not; we do not HAVE Thanksgiving, black friday is therefore unnatural and an abomination before the Lord and I will shop on Boxing Day like our ancestors intended

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: Moose Trumpeter swans Puffins Beavers Porcupines

It's just a normal Friday here, we're all at school/work. Why the random sales??

fuck you pebble

If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again. It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years. And it costs lives.

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

if you or someone you know is spending the holidays alone, or just feels alone this time of year, I wrote a book called How To Be Alone that talks about spending holidays alone, grieving "not being like everyone else," and how to survive this time of year🖤May it find you just in time.🦋

I am annoyed that the discourse of the week means that "I am not American" has been stuck in my head for days now. I don't even like this song.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️

Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

This thread is 🔥.

Okay why did we get stuck as kids doing turkey-themed crafts instead of Northwest Passage themed crafts

This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids. www.transanta.com/about

The world is ready for the return of Forever Knight

I think about this post daily

wait what ... I had always kind of assumed that it was vaguely racist in origin, and glad to learn it's not?