I once wrote a free verse poem from the pov of a plant getting sexual pleasure and orgasming through being handled with care by a gardener and it remains something that occupies my brain for days on end every 3 months or so

I am, have always been, and always will be, the dad who insists on the whole family being at the airport 4 hours early and I will die in that hole

I DROVE ON DA *OAKLAND* HIGHWAY AND ME AND @cara.city BOTH CRIED AFTER

A scene: me at the dive bar Bartender: “You want <x IPA> or <y IPA?” Guy next to me: “GET THE <Y IPA>” Me: “Alright, <y IPA it is>” Guy: “FUCK YEAH! ALCOHOL!”

I am rereading Joy Williams’s The Changeling and Shola Von Reinhold’s Lote, wbu?

One time in college my friend said she accidentally unlocked her third eye and could see auras and said mine was pink and sparkly (I think “fizzy” was the term she used) and it still makes me happy. Like hell yeah, my aura’s made of primo sparkling rose, perfect on a brunch date etc etc

Okay but look at (and listen to) this

Prozac Day 1, I think it’s safe to assume both depression and OCD will have dissipated entirely by end of day

It is genuinely astounding how well employers managed to weaponize Covid to break or severely declaw union bargaining power

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

Update: she cried 💜

Showing @cara.city When Harry Met Sally tn will report back

Last night I learned there’s this mezcal made with snake venom, and apparently the effects are similar to ayahuasca. Got shown a picture of the dead snake that’s all coiled up in the jar with the mezcal and everything

Multiple bars that have posted “hiring” ads around the Bay in recent months have outright said they don’t want seasonal hires or are requiring 3-5 years minimum experience. Breaking into serving or bartending roles is legitimately difficult now

Hi. I’m going to talk about why people don’t come forward about assault based on personal experience from last year. TL;DR I did not go through the legal system but tried to go on record with HR and ended up getting fired as a result

I know the whole “it’s not a sign of good health to be functional in a sick society” thing but I also don’t think it’s good to feel angry and mistrustful all the goddamn time

“Rae how do you know so many cool people?” I’m dating, and am friends with, a couple queer socialites who are known worldwide and that was kinda the extent of the work on my end

Had a dream about a woman who was forced to swallow the sea and then put it back, and her body was horrifically disfigured after and she was traumatized by it. Not a nightmare exactly, just very strange. Not sure whether to take it as an omen

To make this photo even better imagine the Macarena playing at top volume in the background

Now the reading is done, so it's time to announce it everywhere! Coming in October 2027 from @traumbooks.bsky.social: POWERHORSE and Other Stories, a collection of all my stories about weird guys with bad ideas

My fellow they/thems in Christ we gotta gather round and have a long talk about transmisogyny

I don’t think people understand just how expensive things like surgeries, meds, and ongoing care can be. Even if you have rich parents there is a high likelihood, if they develop any injuries or illnesses, that every single dime of that will be spent by the time they’re gone

My little brother is an aeronautical engineer whose autistic special interest is military tech so naturally he and @cara.city now have an Instagram DM conversation going

chag pesach sameach btw!!!! 💜💜💜

So my OCD creates many pathological, intense fears in my brain and one of those terrors is rabies. Between this and the weird pet antivaxx movement I’m going to need to see immunization records before I pet any of your animals, sorry

Been an interesting real time social experiment in answer to the question, can the whole gang remain relatively unsplintered and supportive while all in crisis mode at the same time?

I don’t think the appropriate response to a group of marginalized people criticizing ambiguous wording around legislation that is directly harming them is to screenshot them to your 160k followers and act like you shouldn’t do it anymore cause you got some quote posts. It’s odd to me sorry

Go find any of the hundreds of trans GFM’s/Ko-Fi’s going around this website and toss them a few bucks, that is the only directive. And if you have trans loved ones in your life, buy them lunch/flowers/a small plushie guy

“You couldn’t ban trans-affirming therapy either,” say the very smart Elena Kagan, who knows full well that states are freely banning schools using trans kids’ pronouns as well as gender-affirming care—which is infinitely more expressive.

I make fun of gym bros and then remember that I actually really really like Gym

Reminder that the reason you're seeing so much weird Chappell Roan news is that just a few weeks ago she fired her Epstein-adjacent agent, Casey Wasserman. Wasserman is still the chairman of the 2028 LA olympics, but has started stepping back from his ad agency.

They need complimentary champagne glasses in UC waiting rooms

It’s a bit rough to hear financial influencers talk about maxing out retirement funds and investing when every pocket of stability feels like a race to shore up as much as possible before the next potential catastrophe

True story: I hate 99% of photos other people take of me but @cara.city always has the magic touch

I’m a big fan of gallows humor but yall that only works if *you’re* the one facing the gallows. If you are cis, then you are not

spineless fucks

Alright, welp

Smashing executive dysfunction’s balls by speaking to not one, not two, but *three* doctors’ offices today

One difference from my personal experience is, in the spaces where alcohol is served bartenders are barred from over serving by law and are trained in how to cut people off. No such cutoff exists for gambling. Everyone and everything involved in that is designed to just bleed you dry

Since we’re hitting summer heatwave time in March now, if you are committed to the no deodorant life I suppose I can’t stop you but for the love of god SHOWER. With SOAP. REGULARLY

I was thinking about the possibilities of dating again and the unlikelihood of finding someone I’m very into who also aligns with a service industry schedule and an existing partner, then I remembered time zones and realized: I need to find a long distance international lover

Every single server that has ever met these people dreams about their violent demise

The demographic of customer who tends to vibe with me is like, artsy biker dudes with tats. The type of customer who becomes my mortal nemesis is blonde middle aged cishet women

Wow a lot of yall slip n slide right through the antisemitism tunnel to the pool of Hitler rhetoric huh. Like that took such a minimal amount of effort, you just dove into the deep end

Every California city on this list is basically a company town for billionaire techies, Boca Raton is where those billionaires go to retire and not pay taxes

Write about masochism and blood and fumbling relationships and the first time I ever got needles put in me in Pittsburgh (shoutout to ********) femme-and-fauna-4f92c0.beehiiv.com/p/pain-and-o...

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

30’s don’t look half bad on me

I DROVE ON DA HIGHWAY PLZ CLAP

Getting ready to go to a hot spring when @cara.city goes, “HEY RAE YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING GREAT?”