Before this year's Transgender Day of Visibility ends, you should take the time to read this Red Flag Alert from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security. It is their third such alert for the US. www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

sHoUlD tHeRe Be pOlItIcS iN SF oh great god. lol mate I write romance novels--little stories about 💕two people falling in love💖--and I can't think of a single book that hasn't required me to engage hard with the politics of *something*. Class, gender, race, law, policing, education, economics.

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

I MADE THIS IN DECEMBER. I'M YELLING. I FUCKING CALLED IT LMAOOOOO

I game mastered a Traitors themed birthday party tonight and it ruled so hard.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

So excited to have Marin and Jesse among a whole awesome crew of trans voices performing our script at the #joywholived festival! Tickets are available for in person AND online streaming with a sliding scale pricing if needed!

It disturbs me deeply that this is somehow one of the greatest sins of the modern age

At last, a fun thread for the legal minds of romance!

It's that time of year again... It wouldn't be Saint Patrick's Day without the Leprechaun Brothers singing Danny Boy 🍀 The Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker from the Wally Boag episode of The Muppet Show in 1981

Spent the past month whipping the capitalism machine, so let's give back a little. We have 53 Pay What You Want titles on @drivethrurpg.com: Every genre, original settings, and inspired mashups. And if you can only afford zero dollars, please: pay zero dollars www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

I think I would come up with a better line than "this war will only hurt you if you consume things," but then I'm not the director of the National Economic Council ...

New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @vox.com gift link: www.vox.com/policy/48276...

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

My favorite thing is whenever it’s a bad news day and people blow up my phone with vague mentions of it but with no info. Vaguetexting? Idk. But it’s great. No notes.

Years ago I did a Classic Doctor Who recap podcast. Because Daleks Master Plan was missing a lot of episodes, I watched all the reconstructions and read the wikis for each episode and our episode was just me telling my cohost what happened in the serial.

This is really important. @nytimes.com is forcing one of my coworkers to choose between his job and taking care of his father. Tell them what you think of that: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

Everybody who claimed it was just about the kids should be whacked in the shins

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

It’s a weird feeling being a fan of both Starfleet Academy and also the Star Wars High Republic books and getting to episode 9.

I did!

Oh no I cuted!

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

It’s so unsettling whenever I see a lady in a picture where I’m like “how did they manage to photograph the cis girl version of me that exists in my head?

In-person and streaming tickets are available at the link below!

Get on www.5calls.org and let your elected officials know to vote against these measures that infringement on your free speech.

"Once upon a time..." - @rileysilverman.bsky.social reads the intro to THE WITCH IS DEAD by @gshowitt.bsky.social Listen to Part 1 of our play-through at www.patreon.com/posts/151648...

This is your friendly enby bookseller to remind you that Florida has legislation like this on the books, and the result is everything from Itty Bitty Kitty Corn to Picture of Dorian Gray getting banned. This will affect everything, even books supposedly "allegorically" queer.

I just want to add here that most of what childhood transitions consist of is social. So the “problem” Ben is trying to state here would be solved by society just chilling the fuck out and letting kids explore their gender identity for a bit to see how they feel.

A step further, if you look around at the world today and think "kids don't get enough messaging that being trans is bad and wrong and something they should hope to avoid," you're a stupid person whose opinion wouldn't be published in a major media outlet if the "problem" you're describing existed.

This looks so fun! and for the rest of us from afar, there’s a streaming option linked down-thread

Something else about Vanderbilt's capitulation: VUMC said it would only offer “nonsurgical gender-affirming care for adults 19 years and older.” But 18-year-olds are adults. Tennessee law bans this care for people *under* 18, so VUMC is once again overcomplying

Also there are streaming tickets available! If you can’t be in LA for the reading you can stream it for two weeks after!! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Hear ye, hear ye! The animated pilot I co-wrote with @rileysilverman.bsky.social, "NPCs," will be making its debut as a live table reading at this year's The Joy Who Lived theater festival on April 12th! Tickets are now available for in-person and to stream! #TheJoyWhoLived

I'm pleased to announce that @doonpook.bsky.social and I will be debuting our brand new pilot script, NPCs, as a table-read at the Joy Who Lived festival on April 12th! The tavern is for tourists, and the "side quests" are their entire lives. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

"The forty people killed on Flight 93 were murdered by terrorists from foreign countries. Alex Pretti and Renee Good were murdered by terrorists acting under the aegis of the president of the United States."

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power. Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that? And then they grew up to be even worse?

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Invalidating driver's licenses and enacting a bounty-style bathroom ban are the latest escalation in politicians' radical anti-trans crusade. Kansas, we'll see you in court.

Beyond just being a book ban it lists gender dysphoria and transgender”ism” as explicitly sexual. It’s clear they want to follow through on Project 2025’s goal of labeling even existing as trans as being a sex crime.

Temporarily back in the GM seat for one of my favorite one sheet RPGs!