Jeffrey Combs' performance in "Re-Animator" is the sassiest any human being has ever been and lived to tell the tale. The scene where he just keeps theatrically producing pencils and snapping them so his teacher will know he disapproves of the lecture: Perfection

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵

I found a little picket sign with "YES, [CHILD]" written on one side and "I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOU, [CHILD]" on the other, and apparently she puts it in our hands while we're sleeping so that we can give her "permission" for things

There's a new Ed Gein miniseries. Netflix is sending me targeted ads about the "scariest opening scene" ever, which is a man disguising himself as a woman so he can hide in the ladies' bathroom to strangle Sigourney Weaver. The vibe shift is HERE, my friends, and it sucks shit

OK, I actually didn't believe he was dying until just now

A week from now, on Tuesday, October 14, @heatherhogan.bsky.social and I will be talking DILF at the Astoria Bookshop (@astoriabookshop.bsky.social). It's free, you're bored, come and RSVP here: astoriabookshop.com/events/32554...

I also don't understand how Link can get banned for being disruptive but Jesse Singal can't? didn't Singal join and immediately start directing cross-platform harassment towards numeroys trans users? it all looks like incredibly uneven moderation

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

I retweeted this link below, but the distinction between "vertical morality" (good means doing what God wants) versus "horizontal morality" (God wants you to do what is good) is really fascinating and explains a lot of people's willingness to bow to a dictator. www.huffpost.com/entry/vertic...

‘“Vertical morality teaches that authority, power and a moral code of right and wrong, or acceptable and unacceptable, come from ‘above’ ― an external superior who designates rules, systems and tenets that must be obeyed by those beneath,” said Tia Levings[.]’

I was an early adopter on bluesky and have enjoyed my time here and loved what we've tried to make here. But if trans people don't feel safe on bluesky, and bluesky leadership is actively disappearing the accounts of people raising concerns, no one should feel safe.

Okay now we’re really poasting

CHILD: Why are the people [on TV] screaming? ME (trying to disguise the reality of murder): They heard a ghost, and it frightened them. CHILD: How? ME: On a... ghost phone. CHILD: Phones are physical. Usually you just meditate and call out to the spirits of the otherworld.

i think we are living through, in the US at least, a significant gender backlash and part of it is absolutely elite-driven.

I have reached the "complete mental breakdown" stage of book promotion, in case anyone wondered. DILF is one of those books that's just only going to work if the community shows up to read it, so it feels like a verdict on the worth of my work more than most books do.

One thing I was not prepared for when I became a parent was how much of my daily food intake would be scrounging leftovers off my own child's plate, like a raccoon, or an especially large coyote

I am breaking containment to say that transitioning is just about the only interesting move left to Taylor Swift at this point. I've got a grade-schooler, I heard the multiple entire songs about what would happen if you were a man, kid, let's go

Just got a push notification reading "here comes Bari Weiss," like... was that a threat???

BE NOT AFRAID #4 is now in comic shops. It is also, finally, on Comixology, although the other three issues have evidently been condemned by God to spend eternity in the offline Abyss: www.amazon.com/Not-Afraid-J...

Finally hit the all-important trans milestone of "knowing more about my hormones than my actual doctor," who confidently informed me that testosterone does NOT convert to estrogen in the human body

This is egregious. I looked the guy up to see if he’s like… notable or a cultural touchstone or something. Nope. His literal only claim to fame is being married to his very notable wife Sarah (pictured below)

I'm sorry, this is the "and I was like 'why are you so obsessed with me?' She was a LESBIAN" monologue from "Mean Girls," delivered by a 36-year-old woman and in real life

Sure, you may be having a tough night, but at least YOU didn't get Katie Halper recommended to you as a LinkedIn connection

This is getting closer by the day! Come on out.

A: No, but this is ABSOLUTELY the preferred solution for an industry that has always preferred to treat attractive young women as interchangeable commodities rather than people

AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis

Another world is possible. We can make this happen again.

The ideal society existed in 1980s Los Angeles and it was "failed metal band members drenching plastic monsters in lube for low-budget horror movies"

If I may: Ugggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

ICYMI: Revisiting the hits of Transmasculinity Writing for the release of DILF, starting with the one where I realize I might be conceptually impossible for my own readers: jude-doyle.ghost.io/dilf-redux-e...

inspired by absolutely nothing that is currently happening please reply with the two Bluesky posters whose multiday vituperative shitfight would render the site least pleasant

Readers everywhere love the uplifting and wholesome experience of BE NOT AFRAID!!

"The goal was to make it impossible to tell us apart from the cis population. In order to do that, our past selves had to disappear." [...] "When we could not speak, cis people could go on pretending we didn’t exist, or that we couldn’t exist, and that was what most cis people preferred."

"Because I was now a man, I could not speak about what it was like to be a woman. Because I had been a woman, I could never really speak about what it was like to be a man. Do the math: I could not speak. [...] How do you communicate to someone who can’t believe you exist?"

that's me in the waiting room at the clinic that will help my kid receive life-affirming healthcare—which i spent nearly all my money on lawyers this year to ensure she could access—quietly crying while reading this @judedoyle.bsky.social essay. thanks, Jude. jude-doyle.ghost.io/dilf-redux-e...

It's DILF Month over at the newsletter, and in my life, in which I reshare some of the essays I wrote while drafting the book. This is one of the very first, which I wrote upon realizing that I literally might not be conceptually possible for some readers: jude-doyle.ghost.io/dilf-redux-e...

Horrible baby in the profile pic means that another issue of BE NOT AFRAID dropped today, including -- finally!! -- on Comixology. There's going to be a quick break before Issue #5, so catch up now: www.amazon.com/Not-Afraid-J...

He who steals "American Psycho" has gotten exactly what he paid for tbh

This is bi Erasure

This is Erasure.

Yeah. I think everything from YouTube weirdness to MeToo cases often relies on this -- if you have much more money or power than the other person, there are a lot of things you CAN ask for, and probably get. But decency requires knowing the things that you SHOULDN'T ask for.

I'm sure I've been guilty of this myself at times -- it's how a lot of the social-justice Internet functioned for a long time, and maybe it still does -- but it's a relief to have it clearly diagnosed and named.

Today's morning read is issue 3 of Be Not Afraid by @judedoyle.bsky.social Lisandro Estherren, @francescosegala.bsky.social & @simonbowland.bsky.social Another great issue in this series. 3 more issues left and I can't wait to see what happens. I ❤️ comics!!

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

honestly- I've been waiting almost 90 years to find out what happened to Amelia Earhart & what role Obama had in shooting down her plane.

Really excited to know that every time a cis white guy gets it into his head to shoot someone, the cost gets passed directly on to Me, the American Trans Person

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

And they say there is no space for masculine energy in our culture

There's a weird defensiveness On Here about this -- like, "left-wing terrorism isn't happening, but if it WAS, it wouldn't be as bad as the right's, and because they're Bad, OUR terrorists -- who do not exist -- are GOOD," etc. But the framing does miss the wider context of right-wing violence.