Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Reading a lot lately even though I don’t post about it. So here are off the cuff random thoughts about stuff I am reading… I guess? 🧵

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

Me as a slush reader: "Dang, I don't need every short story you ever wrote in here, just give me your best couple right now..." Me as a submitter: "Annnd why not, let's throw one more in even though its rougher, that will get us to just meet the maximum number [of words/pages/subs]. Nice."

Hey. Here is something nice. Mini story about how I now look forward to a steady stream of zines coming in the mail! It is a rare source of sustained and intermittent joy that I can expect for months! 🧵

Has your library banned any displays, events, education, talks, or anything else related to Banned Books Week this year? I want to know about it . . . and emphasize you're not alone. Please take and share this short, anonymous survey. tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

Confirmed. I think about it constantly. I also consider: if I stay beyond that point, what good can I still do? To be clear, I think it is entirely possible we pull back from the brink. It just feels increasingly unlikely. Like watching a car crash in slow motion, whispering we can still turn…

Months late, but this is just to say that @torreypeters.bsky.social "Stag Dance" is a damn masterpiece. (I meant the titular novel, but hey, interpret it as the whole book if you like. It's still true.) I read it with the same joy I ate the plums from the icebox. Or whatever.

The stopgap measure being voted on today to try to avoid govt shutdown includes a provision that could strip ALL federal funding from any institution/facility providing access to any form of gender-affirming care, for anyone of any age. Call. We will grow old together.

Don’t automatically assume that your elected officials will do the right thing because we know that half of them won’t and may try to capitulate under pressure. Call your elected officials and be a constant, unceasing pain in their ass. You elected them to work for you not the other way around.

Call your senators and your house rep. Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go. Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

My dog headbutted me in the face so hard it cut me and swelled up. Now I have a dramatic multicolored eyelid/face. This happened 26 hours before I fly across the country to lead a series of workshops for my day job. Honestly, feels pretty chill for 2025.

My god, a workout I might actually enjoy.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Not that anyone needs me to spell this out (again) but hell, just in case you do, here is explicit evidence that the goal is to isolate, silence, and eradicate trans folks. As folks in the replies below note: trans rights are also YOUR rights. If some lose, we all lose.

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

1. UCLA is in negotiations with Trump. Now we know the demands. Trump wants a statement that UCLA does not recognize trans student identities, a ban on youth care at UCLA clinics, bathroom bans, and more. Students are fighting back. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Having an anxiety attack about work just doesn’t hit the same when you are fully remote.

Oh look, that thing that we knew was coming has come closer.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

what if everyone just let trans people live our lives in peace i bet it would be good

they’re saying i did something good. all of my self worth is exogenous so i can’t outright agree, but it would surely be rude of me to argue. so, i guess all i can do is give you the link. ⬇️ prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

The news was terrible today. So here is a reminder — You matter. Your life, your voice, your stories. To poorly paraphrase Audre Lorde: to win, the resisters need only survive. We deserve more, we deserve to thrive. But remember: every day you live is another day fascists lose.

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision. It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all. Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

If this sort of language is included in the senate version of this, Democrats have an obligation to filibuster it. This provision would be absolutely massive and hurt trans people of all ages.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

you can't cede one centimeter of ground to these "we just need to figure out what causes autism" freaks. it's always, 100% of the time, eugenicist.

“The business commitments include things like cash prizes for students and teachers who use AI in educational ways, and cheap or free access to the companies' AI tools, trainings and certifications.”

DOJ is openly stating that "trannies shouldn't have guns." The Trump administration is moving to strip trans people of their 2nd amendment rights. Nothing good ever comes out of an authoritarian regime stripping a minority group of owning guns.

Yes.

This is totally normal and not alarming. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Shamelessly screaming into the void: hey, check out this thing I made. I made a manifesto by blacking out/censoring segments of one of the current admin’s first anti-trans executive orders back from Inauguration Day. Check it out in the link below!

Have you ever wanted to read a manifesto using blackout methods on an anti-trans executive order? Well, today I have the link for you friend! This piece went live on the citizen trans* website/archive today: www.citizentrans.com/defending-ge...

Yeah this fucking sucks. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"I was young, and I was a liar, and I have never been as invincible as I was when both of those things were true." ICYMI, my newsletter this week about when McNuggets were cheap, an eating competition, and the beauty of failure.

It’s a surprise trans pizza! If you are not cisgender and want pizza, reply here with a song that makes you feel good, or just the word PIZZA. I’ll pick 5 winners completely at random and send them $50 each for pizza via PayPal or Venmo. Let’s hear some bops!

It is stunning how much of my feed is still people arguing whether it’s okay to sacrifice the rights of trans folks for political expedience.

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel comes out swinging against University of Michigan for stopping care for trans youth.