I love R. I’m sorry to all the sasheads and sigmaplot lovers of the world, but R is amazing.

That was amazing. Reminded me of a longer, more creatively toned version of something I did with a grad student group a few times last summer. So much fun and productive. Definitely going to try again next year.

Trying out the 24 hour writing sprint! I love stuff like this. community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/sprint/

The Southern Poverty Law Center says it's the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. www.mississippifreepress.org/southern-pov...

Window buddies

poetry by @mosquitochaser.bsky.social "Lacking friends, I didn’t care, I solaced in the knowing that insects would be everywhere, all while I was growing. My mother then, she called me queer (the strange one, not the dyke)..." existotherwise.com/autobiograph...

IS IT A CONCENTRATION CAMP YET?????

New poem is out! existotherwise.com/autobiograph...

“A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarded compounds in Southeast Asia, a new UN human rights report has found.”

Well fuck

Very excited to say that I now have one poem published and two accepted, pending publication! Two are about invertebrates and one is a more personal poem. Also, apparently April is poetry month so I’m going to try the poem a day challenge and see if I can get something else good out of it.

Happy Passover, Chag Pesach Sameach, and a Zissen un Koshern Pesach!

For Trans Day of Visibility - an interview with the amazing Angelica Ross by the equally amazing @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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On a daily basis @assignedmedia.org tracks trans news coverage in eight major msm outlets, including right leaning WSJ and CBS, to understand the overall media landscape. Using this tracker as a baseline Assigned further analyzes the work produced by influential sites like The Atlantic. 🧵

The anti-trans side has spent years building up propaganda claiming this doesn't happen and I need you all to know they are lying.

This is a whole thing and worth looking at.

Absolutely fucked.

Help us report on ICE detention in Mississippi Mississippi is home to the second largest ICE detention facility in the entire country – the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, which houses more than 2,000 detainees. 

Me: When I was a kid I really wanted to dip my grilled cheese in bbq sauce instead of ketchup and I told my mom that and she said “do it” and I was like “wait, that’s allowed?” @valorievandieman.bsky.social: Your experience with dipping grilled cheese in bbq sauce is my experience with being trans.

Idk why this gives me such glee, but it does. Maybe it helps me remember my kinda scary grandmother.

Highly recommend getting off of X if you're still there. Your brain is getting cooked every second you're exposed to this racist garbage.

I can’t get over the fact that the fleas in Silk Song have wings. Call me a pedant, but in my time as a county entomologist I had people bring me beetles, flies, and true bugs saying “this was on my dog! is it a flea!?” and my go-to answer was “look, this has wings, fleas don’t have wings”.

jfc

This last year we have seen a radical shift in the public anti-trans rhetoric, seeing less attempts to justify attacks on our rights with palatable lenses like protecting children, and more moves like Kansas' attack on all trans people based on nothing but hate. Check out my newest piece in Slate!

Talking to @valorievandieman.bsky.social Me: We need to rsvp soon if we wanna go to the passover community seder, this year. Val: oh! is that the one with the delicious fish ball and the horseradish?!

I think it matters if trans people lose their rights, even if the rest of us get to keep ours. I understand the reason for the “first they came for” arguments, but I think you should care what happens to trans people even if it only happens to trans people.

This is absolutely fucked.

“When you look into my eyes deeply like that, you look like a rat.” @valorievandieman.bsky.social to our dog

This was one of the highlights of 2025, for me. A year that was, overall, not so great. I’m very proud of the work I did here and very thankful to the person who recommended the workshop. youngvoicesofscience.org?p=2189

Park bag puppy, who I’m calling Birdie, wakes me up at 6 every morning so she can pee and then run around the yard picking up progressively bigger sticks and occasionally trying to eat flowers. I’m gonna miss her when she gets adopted.

I guess it’s a good thing I’m working at a rescue right now because I found the tiniest puppy in a bag at the park where I walk my own dog every morning.

That episode will give me nightmares for a month. People need real support.

Just my sweetie doing sweet work in these not-so-sweet times.

It’s my childhood home vs @valorievandieman.bsky.social’s home so obviously we are on opposite sides even though I’ve lived in WA much more recently and my mom lives there. Rivalry is more fun.

Also:

Are you as ready for some football as I am? 🏈

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

My favorite cousin died six years ago, today (24th). He was like a kid and a brother and a best friend all in one and I will forever hate that he’s gone. He taught my clumsy self to ride a ripstik. I hope he’s either sleeping, haunting, or looking down. Or I hope he was okay with the nothing.

The idea that journalism is at odds with minority rights comes from legacy media members who can't accept being called out on their biases. It's an idea that has, to my dismay, been adopted by some members of minority groups themselves - because the only journalism they see is biased against them.

I know the world is falling apart but I wanted to say I just presented my final project for a science communication workshop I’ve been part of for the last few months and it went really well. I got some nice comments and great questions and I’m so glad I did it.

Your now weekly reminder that Stephen Miller did not go to law school and has no idea what he is talking about at all. Also of note: if this DHS is now citing Stephen Miller, well, well, well. I have been circumspect on a Miller impeachment b/c has not gone through Senate confirmation.

The Pitt handles kids really well. I’m including the kid with the list of women in the first season. I know it’s easy to write off a kid with issues and maybe there are times that you need to extra help or need to step back, but kids are kids. They need support. They need love. They just do. Always.

I get it but also wtffffffff is happening? I’m not gonna get used to any of this.

I also send my kid to a school that values social justice and teaches students about current events. Do I deserve to get shot in the face, too? bsky.app/profile/nypo...

Mark Ruffalo donned an anti-ICE pin at the #GoldenGlobes in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer this week in Minneapolis. The black-and-white pin read “BE GOOD." Follow live updates from the show: apnews.com/live/golden-...

The synagogue in Jackson being burned is sort of messing with me.

I was able to interact with her while standing and she took treats out of my hand! Gonna see if I can walk her next time.