Today my Senegal parrot turned 21 years old. Happy birthday, Larmy!

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

"While many games have lagged when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation, The Sims quietly, and then loudly and proudly, cemented itself as one of, if not the most, queer inclusive franchises in the history of gaming." simscommunity.info/2025/06/20/l...

Electronic Arts owns The Sims, a game that gave me great joy for 25 years because I was able to create something like my own queer life in the game. My first household in the original game was Liz and Meadow Sapphist.<g> I guess The Sims Gallery will soon be featuring Tradwife of the Week.

4 innocent children lost their lives on this day 62 years ago when a bomb exploded outside of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham. Today, we honor the lives of Denise, Carole, Addie Mae & Cynthia. We must resolve to honor their memory by fighting hate & striving for justice.

I just learned it was Yamiche. They let him talk to her that way again.

My *favorite* picture of Yibo.

Frankly, I have seen enough. Secretary Kennedy should be fired immediately. He's destroying the agency responsible for keeping diseases (like measles and Ebola) under control. This is deadly serious.

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Akihiro Miwa is a beloved Japanese actor, chanteuse, and hibakusha. "When the U.S. atomic bomb exploded near his home in 1945, Miwa was only ten years old."

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Andry & the 252 other men sent, without due process, to a torture prison in El Salvador feels like the epitome—the soul, moral center, & quintessence—of this administration. I will never forget it or him. Also, if you don’t know the definition of grace, now you do. www.reuters.com/business/med...

"LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely as non-LGBTQ+ adults to use Medicaid as their main insurance, according to the Williams Institute, and are more likely to experience food insecurity and rely on SNAP benefits."

Andry José Hernandez Romero, I hope you have space to heal & I hope you find your way home. We did not forget you & we will not forget you.

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

Someone told me all Dems need to do is sweep house and senate in midterm to repeal it all. And god help me, sometimes I feel like I have lost the entirety of my mind. This is why I stare at the chickens. To right the crooked room.

Be sure to sit down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social’s latest piece in the NYT magazine. It’s a sobering reality that we should be shouting from the rooftops. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

“A WIRED investigation into 911 calls from 10 of the nation's largest immigration detention centers found that serious medical incidents are rising at many of the sites.” Critical work from @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social at a truly appalling situation www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

Kate Bornstein's "Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws" is free for download right now.

"Attorneys in Hernandez’s case and others stress that the dismissals do not signify the end of the road for the Venezuelans deported to CECOT. Many plan to appeal them to the Board of Immigration Appeals."

I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story. A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours. We are in this together and there's only one way out.

From the article: A representative for Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) wrote, "The Senator is not taking a meeting with this group and was never scheduled to.” (Ossoff isn't meeting with them either.)

Ghoulish. She won't even agree to help a worried mother know whether her son is even alive. Andry has been imprisoned without trial for 60 days, held incommunicado by the Salvadoran government as part of a deal where we handed Bukele a metaphorical briefcase of cash to detain hundreds of people!

This is fascinating research! My Senegal parrot enjoyed watching the video in the link. (He loves to watch recorded videos of himself and of other parrots.)

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WISHING ALL OUR TRANS SIBLINGS A HAPPY HEALTHY AND SAFE TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY

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LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people right now.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Appalling, soulless erasure that will not stand. Still up, for now, on the site are pictures of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who would have words (or more) with whomever at the NPS did this today.

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

Such an amazing woman. Beautiful music. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

About 3 inches of snow in my part of southwest Georgia. I like the way the half-opened camellia carefully cups the snow. (Not the best image quality, but I didn't want to risk my actual camera in case I fell.)

Tallahassee police arrest man for throwing a snowball at an officer. Police launch pepper spray balls to break up a large snowball fight. This is out of control, and I don't mean the students. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Light dusting of snow on bamboo, south Georgia.

The difficult part is how disability and chronic illness are used as justification for Ai. The community wants and needs it for medical applications, accessibility and early detection. We don’t want generative Ai. Disabled people need imagination to survive, why would we need it to create?

As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵

Jesse Singal is evading blocks which is against your terms of service, and using screenshots of an account that has him blocked to harass one of your trans users on X. You are currently not enforcing your terms of service. ‪Shameful and cowardly response. Truly.

OMG everyone, especially Hannibal fans -- Bryan Fuller is on BlueSky!!! And he's a great follow! @bryanfuller.bsky.social

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Goddammit.

Is there such a thing as reposting too much Yibo? No, I don't think so.

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Beautiful