Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

For anyone not paying attention, these are the GOP-controlled states that are gerrymandering the 2026 election because Trump told them to: Texas, Missouri, North Carolina. Today add Indiana to the list.

If you can donate food, here's a handy list of items! 🧵 (1/4) (graphic came from FB)

Melissa Hortman, murdered by right winger PA governor's residence, arson NC judge who's anti-MAGA, cops claim it's not arson, but... And now this. Sure seems to be a lot of fires happening at people who aren't "in line" with racism and fascism.

Roguelike Celebration slides continuing to hit

Not seeing much on my timeline about it anymore, so here's a reminder: payment processors are still trying to censor NSFW content of all kinds, and are in fact getting more aggressive about it; I'm seeing stories of folks losing access every day Call them & tell them THIS IS BULLSHIT

My latest is up over on @dailydead.bsky.social! Just in time for Halloween, I discuss some of my favorite appearances of candy in horror! #GastroHorror #HorrorSky

you're being very aggressive and unkind to genAI right now and not really giving it a chance, and i just want to say good job that's the way to do it

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

This year's Roguelike Celebration steam sale is up! Check out some awesome games, and don't forget to buy tickets for the conference *this weekend*! (also @shing.bsky.social's art is so good, I'm so glad we got them to do this year's art!!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

Human and civil rights for trans people like me are not a negotiable sacrifice. There is no difference for me between Gavin Newsom and the people currently in office. They both want me exterminated. Stop telling me I have to fight to put someone in office who wants me dead you fucking assholes.

This is the thing that I think is even more damning than the Nazi tattoo Because if I had just learned I had been carrying that around on my body for all these years and somehow not known it in all that time, I genuinely am not sure I would be emotionally functional I certainly wouldn’t be OKAY

They didn't even bother taking the windows out. All of that stuff, all of it, is protected under law as museum objects under NPS authority but a notorious grifter like Trump couldn't even figure out a way to sell authentic windows from the White House?

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

I’m presently tapped out of gimmicks to promote COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, so please reskeet, buy it, request it at your local library, and leave a positive review! If you’ve done these things, you have my thanks and love. Pretty please 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 It’s a good book.

I feel like a disabled autistic 15 year old child going missing and ending up with ICE/HHS should be far bigger news. Especially considering he’s been located yet NOT returned to his mother. This is kidnapping. Yet the combination of racism & ableism means it gets ignored.

Define your musical taste in eight artists: Against Me! Frank Turner Mike Doughty Mel Stone The Pillows The Tallest Man on Earth Pat the Bunny Skinny Lister

The Christian Right’s assault on bodily autonomy has not suddenly arrived with anti-abortion campaigners or MAGA talking points. It has been quietly embedded in Britain’s political and media discourse for years, imported through the so-called “gender debate.” 👉 bylinetimes.com/2021/10/25/t...

(1) How is giving $40 billion to Argentina without congressional approval during a government shutdown legal (not that that matters anymore)? (2) How much of the $40 billion goes back to the Trump Family? (3) Trump has handed Argentina more money than the entire USAID budget.

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Can’t help but remember when this picture was enough to spark months of scandal

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory... juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

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““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

If you’re talking about, much less promoting, books by Mormon authors like Stephenie Meyer and Brandon Sanderson to please acknowledge that these authors are contributing financially to a church spearheading an attacks on trans people. #Romancelandia #Booksky

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

cis people, you have to show up. right now. we do not have the numbers, but you do. we are talking about suicide. that's what this headline is. taking away HRT will increase trans suicides. i and so many others are dead without it. don't let us die without trying to keep us alive. call, please.

“My family and I immigrated to this country from Bosnia after we escaped the genocide. We were chasing the “American dream,” which, for me, had included my gender transition at 24 years old. I never believed that in 2025 being trans would constitute a death penalty.”

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

the state of texas pulled a 13-year-old trans boy out of class and subjected him to the same questioning that kids get when they're molested because his parents accepted him. it's what's happening, and it shouldn't be considered activism to say it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Nearly six dozen Chicago musical acts have signed onto this boycott campaign / open letter urging other local musicians to pull their music from Spotify. More on this in my @chicagoreader.com story chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment — and trans people need YOU. Here's why: In the wake of last week’s shooting in Utah, we’ve seen Americans of all backgrounds condemn the growing tide of political violence in this nation.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Disgusting hypocrisy from the AZ Republican party. Shocking, but not surprising.

WSJ still has this up HOURS after it was debunked and all they did was amend the headline to say "some sources urge caution" No, you listened to Steven Crowder as your source, and investigators on the ground said you're wrong. That's not honest you genocidal fucks

Reading all these takes about how Bluesky people are judgy hall monitors

1/9 Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah. Whatever the facts, right-wing media will exploit it. They have a playbook for moments like this. Here’s what they’ll do next and the countermeasures we must take to stop manipulation in its tracks. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

To be clear, this is also political violence.

Please stop telling trans people we're overreacting

No other marginalized person, let alone a child, would be expected to defend their existence nor would attempts to segregate them be portrayed by the news as "criticism". www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

The rich keep getting richer while the minimum wage stays stuck. Thanks to inflation, that $7.25 from 2012 in the US barely buys a bag of chips today. #Trumpflation

The city is not using salt trucks to thwart ICE, despite viral posts claiming otherwise. blockclubchi.co/3I1y4eg

EVERYONE IN CHICAGOLAND: Save this number in your phone. If you see an ICE raid: 1. Ask the the person their name 2. Ask who to call to let them know they’ve been taken by ICE 3. Tell them to not say anything 4. Call this number to report the arrest If possible video it

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya. For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks! Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF... Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.