Please stop. It's never over. The history of queer liberation has always been one of steps forward & back. In my current home state, OR, job discrimination bans went back and forth for over a decade. Big pushes to ban gay marriage came before our watershed moments. It's only over if we give up.

To the constituents of Seattle, we hear you loud and clear. You’ve been asking us to use every tool in our toolbox to get ICE out of Seattle. Yesterday's action is a step forward in that effort. We will not facilitate this cruel, inhumane, and lawless agenda.

Ding dong! "Landshark..."

It is inconceivable to MAGA ideologues that anyone outside the circles of an “anti-American” conspiracy could truly believe in egalitarian democracy and be willing to defend a vision of multiracial pluralism. They are convinced it is all a lie propagated by “globalist elites.”

This is the question that defines the political conflict of our time: Can society function as an egalitarian democracy under conditions of multiracial, multi-religious, multicultural pluralism? The fundamental claim of ethno-nationalist movements across the world is that it cannot.

Preserving preventive services is now law! The Governor just signed House Bill 2242 to ensure continued access to no-cost preventive services (like well-child visits and vaccinations) for Washingtonians who choose to use them. #waLeg Read more here: www.insurance.wa.gov/about-us/new...

Have you given to KEXP yet? They literally play every single genre. There are absolutely no lists. No algorithms. They trust their DJs. If you are tired of corporate media and robots programming the same ten songs. Support public radio! KEXP.org

A simple survey rates the meaningfulness of the 200 most common American jobs. Inspired by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ @notalawyer.bsky.social's discussion. Results and voting available at the link.

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

The world we live in is a world where wars are not fought for any strategic power competition reasons at all, but one where they are fought specifically to generate imagery of suffering for sadistic perverts to get off to without any more thought put into why than that

Is it just me or is this a weird way to say "lots and lots of people would die horrible deaths"?

Finally had time in the garden today for post-winter cleanup. A lot of mud, good fat worms, and my 🤬 nemesis, Spanish bluebells. My legs and my digging arm gave out after four hours but we'll have lots of tulips soon.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

@lewispants.bsky.social: "I think it’s really easy to get caught up in the very intellectual academic kind of, what do you think? What do I think? What do we each think? As the main thing that matters when that’s not really how the bigger picture movement gets built." truthout.org/audio/the-sc...

These people (not algorithms), make my life better. Support Public Media!

I gotta stop leaving my curtains open

I am astonished to report that calling State X and State B, asking to speak to a supervisor, and leaving scrupulously polite voice mails has suddenly resulted in State B agreeing to pull verification from X's website and now I have no missing licensure documents! ("We can't, it's a rule" my 🫏)

OK Lo-fi sludge bin, I have GOT to get some more words written on this book even if I did accidentally fire the cleaning staff for my brain yesterday (forgot to take my meds) and have been desperately waiting for the shelf-stable brain chemicals to kick in. It's just you and me now, sludge bin.

SOME OF US live very far from the nearest Arby's and this is an act of war.

Forgetting to take my meds a couple of times a year is by far the most damaging thing I can do to myself in terms of next-day effects. My harm-reduction skills are pretty good when it comes to avoiding hangovers, but forgetting to check my daily pill box = ruination.

Just a reminder to men writing about anything that they should read lots of women just a reminder to white people writing about anything that they should read lots of Black and Brown people just a reminder to cis people writing about anything that they should read lots of trans people just a r

Friends, I'm running to represent North and Northeast Seattle in the State House! We can build an affordable future together. Launch vid below! (Please bookmark, share, & comment) www.tiktok.com/@voterondavi... Let's get to work!

well thank goodness we still have Xitter if we want to "get outside our bubble," how else would I know these people exist

I have marinated goat cheese, I have multigrain crackers, and I have a barrel-aged gin martini. In theory this should fix me. [looks around] Narrator: it did not fix her

You can now fulfill your longings for a lo-fi sludge bin and I for one am grateful for this beautiful future we have all created together here on Bluesky

I swear to god, any health professional does this to me, they are going to draw back a stump. I literally frog-marched a guy out of a club once with his arm twisted up behind his back for patting my rear end, I have no filter here.

Gogo is doing the thing right now where he marches into my office bugling his most elaborate "hello" cries, and I turn around but he's just greeting Koala, his favorite member of the household (pictured here: Gogo fanboying over being allowed to lay on K's butt and a corner of the heating pad)

the atlantic hasn't platformed a trans writer in 8 years, meanwhile they've ran countless trans panic stories by cis people in that time. that's everything you need to know about their agenda.

I'm staying fat out of sheer spite at this point

LLMs are also easily fooled into the assuming the state-of-the-lit summarized early on represents the article's conclusions, whereas the author is in fact setting up pins in order to knock them down later. If you use LLM summaries to access an area you don't know, you sabotage your own learning.

If only I hadn't scrapped the hardware I used to run my WWIV dial-up board back in the day... (I think I donated it to a local middle school or something....)

And today State X says "information from State B must come directly from them." State B says it's sent the information. State X says it has not been received. Now I am truly in Purgatory, waiting for a judgment that will never be passed and never acted upon. (Everyone will keep my money though.)

Queer-inclusive Gottman Method Couple Therapy Level 1 & 2 trainings online June 3-7! Get the skills you need to help your couples thrive and make couple therapy less overwhelming, more satisfying for you as the therapist. events.humanitix.com/0625gmct2 #TherapistSky

Governor Hair Gel shouldn't be held up as anyone's example of masculinity, toxic, traditional, enlightened, or otherwise. Remember: everyone in SF HATES HIM. The more you know him, the more you hate him.

Queer-inclusive Gottman Method Couple Therapy Level 1 & 2 trainings online June 3-7! Get the skills you need to help your couples thrive and make couple therapy less overwhelming, more satisfying for you as the therapist. events.humanitix.com/0625gmct2 #TherapistSky

I should have tagged #TherapistSky here (follow and post to the feed, won't you MH folks?)

BTW if you want to know why you can't find a therapist, here's a tiny window into one private practitioner's efforts to expand services across state lines.... /1

Well I forgot to put any salt in the focaccia dough, and I just realized that I baked it for 20 minutes at 340 degrees rather than at 430 degrees, so I think it's safe to say that teaching for 5 straight days and being on day 8 of working without a break is not doing me any favors.

"It’s the bare-knuckle whiskey-drinker in Hemingway that renders any of it remotely plausible. The bard of masculinity generates the most prosaic sandwich imaginable; it’s that risibility that gives the hypothesis its endurance." There is no excuse for not gorging yourself on this beautiful essay.

Important 🧵for folks who feel inclined to scorn enlistment. In my late 30s, with a PhD but without a job, I visited family @ Ft. Hood and was encouraged to consider the value of enlisting rather than running out of money and having to move home. I thought about it. (Got a job just in time.)

I'm not telling people to SYMPATHIZE with troops doing the bidding of fascists, or morally absolve them. But I am suggesting that at this stage it is deeply UNWISE to discard the lessons of Vietnam protest and publicly aim ire at lowest level troops.

City Supervisor Harvey Milk has been extremely helpful at supervising my webinars this week.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Every corner of the deportation machine I take a peek at, I find layers and layers of rich people getting richer

Stellar ally work here.

If you can, donate to queer/trans rights groups in red states!! There are so many queer people in red states who need our supoort, and who can't leave. I left Texas for a blue state last year, but still donate monthly to Equality Texas: they fight tirelessly for queer Texans.

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1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.