You expect Episcopalians to care about eutrophication?

sen tina smith on ads attacking peggy flanagan by pro angie craig groups “those big corporate interests - crypto & AIPAC, the big outside money interests - don’t want peggy to win. they don’t want her fighting against them in washington DC. so i say in minnesota, people have more power than money.”

I can afford one trip (not vacation) a year that’s more than a day or two , my dad is 93 and very frail

Praying for a safe flight tomorrow where I won’t be absolutely fucked with at the airport

I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...

I've noticed that my Patreon has been steadily losing memberships over the past year. It's rough out there, but if you like what I do and have a couple bucks a month to spare, it makes a huge difference www.patreon.com/ninocipri/

happy zine-drop Sunday to all who celebrate (it's me, I made a new zine and am finally posting about it). Get a paper copy here: ko-fi.com/s/51fd5e82d4 Or a digital one: ko-fi.com/s/9efbbdc548

I haven’t seen the Odyssey yet but I’m so happy Bill Irwin is getting work on blockbusters with his weird puppetry/clowning shit

(man standing up meme) I thought the halftime show was sweet.

Jennifer Finch from L7 suddenly died. She was only 59. Fuuuuuck

I haven’t done one of these in awhile and Ive moved through the first waves of gender euphoria into something more boring — but yeah you can be a girl if you want to be. You can live long

i don’t know if this is a controversial opinion but listening to it for the thousandth time, Court and Spark >>> Blue And I love Blue But the 4 album stretch from Court and Spark to Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter doesn’t get talked about enough as one of the all time great album runs

Substack is 100% doing another round of big cash payouts for reputation laundering. A fair number of people accepting that money aren't hurting for it so I'm not clear on why they're doing it. BTW, if you're still on Substack, why, but also, here's a resource to get off: leavesubstack.com

all of this is to say that the actual nature of ritualized, quasi-medieval fights online tends to erode the differences between big and small accounts. the smol bean that is nipping at your heels is often not just a random person, but actually an extension of a larger account

Ah, the GFM special

blank fucking verse

wait.

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Can we normalize bathtub gin?

Maine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...

I'm watching Constantine for the first time in more than a decade and (1) it's held up pretty well (2) excellent goth bar as those things go and (3) Tilda Swinton ...dying

I think it’s more simple than that - American science fiction (at least the kind they’re drawing from) IS reactionary futurism!!

Smoke at the Stone Arch Minneapolis, MN 7/15/26

I can smell the smog from inside the house

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

they should bring this out for the third place game

*Matt Berry voice* ...the most devious bastards in Buenos Aires

Emi is about to perform his shit-posting masterpiece

cue the slo-mo and Adam Curtis music

wtffff

Your writing can be weirder aka less able to be indistinguishable from generative AI

Oops! All dives #Argentina #WorldCup

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During an episode of The Next Level, former Republican pollster Sarah Longwell revealed that a focus group she held this week found that swing voters and voters from swing states hadn't heard about the ICE killings in Texas and Maine. www.rawstory.com/gop-pollster...

there are fireflies in my backyard, but not enough

Someone needs to adapt Solider in the Mist into a movie and shut all of these fake neo-Classicists up

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

Staff at the University of Kansas are starting to enforce an anti-transgender bathroom bill. lawrencekstimes.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Your writing can be weirder aka less able to be indistinguishable from generative AI

"no · no story · no landscape · too broke to be here · story said to me · too broke to be here · landscape said to me · then every other story · every other landscape since said same ..." An Irish Novel — Tim MacGabhann minorliteratures.com/2026/07/14/a...

The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative

I was musing to myself that I would never want to visit TERF Island now, but then I realized that my passport is expiring in a couple months anyway, so it's kind of a moot point! Working as planned!

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro... “How do we find flowers in the ballpit of the death cult?” An interactive poem made in Twine in January 2026

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

just throwing around a conceit about love...is love possible pre-transition; if that was 'someone else' (someone with a deadname) that loved someone, then what was it? If you are not your self, then are you even capable of love? (what dies during transition, and what if anything remains)

A Day at Court With Immigrants Fighting Their Cases Alone talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-day-a...

NBC News shared footage of a visibly shaken Sister Letty being released from ICE custody and embraced by Sister Norma Pimentel, a Catholic Charities leader. “She was very distraught and scared, and didn’t understand what was happening,” Sister Pimentel said: youtu.be/a-h-bmkaxfw?...

AltNPS loves cell-site simulators, because to most people, they sound very secretive and spy-like. Talking about these devices helps you sound more like an espionage agent and less like a T-shirt salesman.

Baby. Baby. Baby.