may we remember speaker hortman every time a kid in Minnesota eats their free lunch. every time a trans person moves to mn for safety. when an undocumented person gets their driver’s license or a returning citizen gets to vote. when we have clean energy and electric school buses and warm homes.

Oscar the Bird King was looking very regal on his throne on Vashon Island this afternoon. www.nwtrolls.org

that's @darthbluesky.bsky.social's ship

Memo to Democrats: You can be cis and straight and the Republicans will still run a homophobic and transphobic campaign against you. Also there will be racism. So just do the right thing. Support the most vulnerable in our society full throatedly and proudly.

As a cis person, I want to add that this is not threatening to me, I am not tempted or confused by others having the option to transition. I know who I am, and so do trans people, and they deserve to live and thrive every moment of their lives and be supported by the rest of us.

I am having a hard day. Therapy helped, but of course I had to talk about why it’s hard. Stupid therapy. #TherapistSky

If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...

I think it's good, actually, to make sure that every vote is verified and counted.

Please take a moment to go and submit your comments on this terrible, terrible rule.

I have a strong stomach for anecdote. But this got me.

This is absolutely bone-chilling.

I'm put in mind of the Douglas Adams quote from HHGTTG: "This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying 'Blood...blood...blood...blood...'"

"I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital" should be a "do not pass Go, do not keep selling your product" moment. There should be no "but" after that sentence. If someone said this to me in a therapy session, I would potentially be required to report it to authorities.

Sometimes we can have nice things.

I am prepping a manuscript for a major academic publisher. I have been told to copy and paste hundreds of individual sentences from my doc to their "template" which has the required formatting. I imagine one might do this with AI, but I'm not, b/c I want to make absolutely sure it's accurate.

This video is going in the dictionary as the first example for the word "hangdog."

Queer-inclusive Gottman Method Couple Therapy Level 3 training online Aug 28-30! A deep dive into working with couples using live role plays with support from an expert therapist. events.humanitix.com/0826gmct3 #TherapistSky

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

I’m not very smart but it just seems like the old song of liberals denying that they have an ideology, asserting that positivism is likewise free from all historical or cultural conditions, while doing dirty work for the fascists.

Queer-inclusive Gottman Method Couple Therapy Level 3 training online Aug 28-30! A deep dive into working with couples using live role plays with support from an expert therapist. events.humanitix.com/0826gmct3 #TherapistSky

I, for one, welcome our new bisexual overlords

KEXP radio is so cool. They just played EPMD and Little Simz and now Digable Planets. It's not even 4am in Seattle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMQH...

There are 6 days to go in this Kickstarter and a $10k gap to close. I am genuinely wondering if we get there. If you have thought about backing this project, now is the time. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Some synchronicity on the timeline this morning

I won a @spjwash.bsky.social award for my story on trans Seattleites grappling with changing federal passport rules. It's nice to get recognized for a piece I'm proud of, especially amid the discouragement of post-layoff job hunting in our decimated industry. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...

The problem with ships in bottles as a mass hobby is that people don't really know how they get into it. I'll see myself out.

Someday we'll have nice things again.

Or your Tuesday!👇🏿

Target needs to go crawl in a hole and pull the hole in after itself.

I love that I am at least the fifth person to suggest Reince Priebus in the "weird little guys of the R party" thread.

People say the absolute dumbest things about this site.

Happy Pride month! Remember, joyous existence is also a form of resistance against fascism

The only message not voting sends to a politician is that your opinion can be safely ignored because you will never hold them accountable. That's it. You can tell yourself not voting is good for your personal brand or your moral well being, but never pretend it makes a difference in the real world.

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

My three biggest clients for the DEI work I was doing pre-COVID: Google University of Florida The ADL I would like to thank Trump and MAGA for absolutely ruining my LinkedIn page, well done everybody

OK I am officially irritated with everyone in the world so it's obviously time to stop working at the laptop and go outside and work on my garden.

Goth garden isn’t looking its best yet - red dianthus & snapdragons haven’t bloomed yet & black callas are just sprouting, but this year’s coleus are “paprika,” red w/a gold sheen that isn’t v. goth but is awfully pretty. Also did a black/brown and silver pot & added red "dragon's breath" celosia. 🌱

They've retaliated against the organizers in Tacoma. www.thestranger.com/news/ice-ret...

I wouldn't normally discuss the Yale "report," except that it claims to speak for all universities. It does so by validating misinformation while ignoring massive censorship + restrictions on academic freedom. Thanks to @aaup.org @biblioracle.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/academic...

So: you get a grant to study the effects of different parenting constellations on children, you don't find "single parents BAD" and "gay parents BAD" as the administration wants, your research gets cancelled and you lose your job.

This is extremely bad.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Neuralink"

Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Update a children's book so modern kids can relate to it: "The Lion, The Witch, and the IKEA BRIMNES"

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

Update a children's book so modern kids can relate to it: "The Lion, The Witch, and the IKEA BRIMNES"

Some of my favorite books as a kid were "Chronicles of Narnia." I had no idea what the Blitz was, did not understand why children would be sent out of the city without their parents, had never seen a wardrobe, and of course it's famously true that STILL no one in the US knows what Turkish Delight is