I am wrapping gifts while my 12yo is watching Welcome to Derry. Perfect pairing for this year's holiday vibe. 🎄🤡

Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte The verye next daye ther came a wolf Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost - And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars. Seek now myne hearte, Return it within a yeare and a daye: Thys ys thy queste Fayle not

As we rejoice in community this Christmas Eve, I encourage our neighbors to read this powerful piece by local reporter and author, Phil Eil. In Providence, we don’t scapegoat our communities. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The HHS moves to ban gender affirming care for minors in the most soulless way possible. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you this week's TWIBS.

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

transphobia as a political project is about preserving authoritarian sexual control of children

I also was searching literature and couldn't find a single example of a minor getting phalloplasty Did, however, find that 97% of breast reductions performed on minors were on cisgender males (of course...) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

NEW: The Trump administration announced a harmful new proposal that would block access to essential gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth across the country. If this discriminatory regulation moves forward, we will see this administration in court.

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

Maybe the main thing that gets me; trans people are such a tiny minority that if the 1st through say, 15th things you think/say/(God forbid post) about them aren’t variations on “How can I help them out?” you are genuinely going out of your way to be weird and mean.

This is my neighborhood. We are devastated and heartbroken, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.

sucks to suck

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

what in the Joan Didion cosplay

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

[Exit Clown.]

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Happy Florence + The Machine Friday to all those who celebrate

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Spread the word — and find your local food bank here. ❤️🍽️❤️ www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

My 2 cents: It's 90,000 square feet because that's how big they want the bunker underneath to be. It's gonna be like Barbra Streisand's basement mall down there.

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

Four days of laryngitis has taught me that I can manage most of my home life by just snapping my fingers and pointing

The photo: The comments you will laugh at:

Updating my LEGO White House