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Well written and terrifying, this summarizes what I’ve seen from the Reicht through polished lenses and I’m glad for another good head thinking through the implications of what we’re seeing happen in real time.

⚧️ RADICAL TRANS IDEOLOGY ⚧️

I tallied all the hospitals and health systems that have stopped providing gender-affirming care to young people in the last year (so you don't have to) This includes nine that have stopped providing hormones and puberty blockers since the beginning of the year. www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...

Trump telling a woman to smile more is the most on-brand chauvinist thing he could have done as he tries to dance around his name showing up like 40,000 times in the Epstein files. “Nothing about me”, hah! apnews.com/video/trump-...

Went to the the local bar for billiards and played for a couple hours, a lovely older gentleman asked to play and lent me a spare cue to use. He was very good, but I gave him a run. Won a couple games, including a 6 ball run for the last game. Was a very lovely time; made me miss my old league days.

I’ve lived near a fire station for seven months and today was the first time I heard dogs howling back at the sirens. It makes me smile.

I always thought it was because I was a fat kid that I didn’t fit in with the rest of the boys. Don’t get me wrong, I socialized with boys as it was the required and enforced pairing, but I remember feeling like an undertow was always pulling me away from them—no matter how hard I tried to stay put.

For Liam.

I needed a cry tonight. So, why not read the eulogy I wrote to my mom nearly seven years ago? Seven years… 😭 I miss her greatly and it was so lovely sharing tears with a friend over my words dedicated to her.

Flying over Minnesota, the land that I spent so much of my life on with all the peoples there, and I can’t help but wish I were down on those streets shouting with and for my neighbors instead of sitting 30,000’ above their heads.

Did not know I needed a little @CorrosionOfConformity right now, but it landed so sweetly on my ears.

I host a decent nosh…

Stop equivocating the Good stop with a legal stop. ICE have no legal right to detain a citizen. They do not have the right to remove you from your vehicle without a warrant. They do not have a right to impede your lawful movement. They are not police insofar as their civil remit, so let’s stop…

People who think that there are paid crisis actors protesting are out of their fucking minds. First of all, there are a lot of really terrible actors out there. Second, if an actor really did get a job as a protestor, people would know about it. They’d be hashtagging that shit.

Tell me this is getting buried without telling me it’s getting buried… I’m sure Patel’s FBI will handle this without bias or deference to the politics of his dear leader. apnews.com/live/minneap...

I’m not here happy-crying for my longtime friend being appointed Director to his area school board.

I refuse to engage with the political drama surrounding Maduro’s illegal kidnapping. Yet all the top news are mewling over staged action shots of him being whisked from here to there. The press are such suckers, paparazzi instead of journalists.

4 reports concerning trans women in women’s spaces (sorry, single-sex spaces) out of nearly four hundred groups. Four! Read for details, but holistically trans women aren’t a problem in public restrooms, change rooms, hospital wards, or crisis centers.

If you don’t want to put out the report, fine, come out with a clear strategy; a plan that says you are aware of your failings and are making changes to address them. Doing one without the other suggests a rudderless organization, more willing on keeping dirt off their faces than under their nails.

So much truth about the situation for trans folx in the UK.

BBC “journos” wearing their bias on their sleeves. Firstly, how phobic are you that you must hammer out “biological male that identifies as a woman”? Are you paid by the letter? Secondly, how many changing or rest rooms are “female”? They are women’s rooms, read the damn sign. archive.ph/c4KVx

100% Gender affirming care in the form of hormones a) is natural, our bodies and minds change to align to our match our gender—there’s nothing fake about it and b) we become more biologically similar to the sex aligned w/our gender than the one assigned to us at birth. It just adds to the proof…

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social, FIFA are bullies who will try to stamp their will so they can rake in billions (see beer at matches in Brazil who bans it). I hope you and all of Seattle’s government have the iron will to stand up to any nonsense from Infantino & Trump.

It’s 4pm in Seattle and dark out. My body, “Shouldn’t you be sleeping right now?” 😩 I have so much to do!!!

No one could have seen this coming! www.bbc.com/news/article...

…how Nebulous! ☺️

This is just… 🥹

I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...

Random #D&D thoughts… People often ask players of the game, “what’s your favorite character you’ve played?” or “what’s your favorite class?”. Thinking on this, it’s the one I’m playing “now”. Not now in the literal sense, but the one I’m playing when the question is asked. That doesn’t mean…

i know this whole time of year can be tough for many so i just want you to know that you are loved by so many, and also by me also sorry i’m your sister now, be sure you drink some water and stop slouching so much and i’m gonna steal three bites of your pie and then kiss your cheek, nerd

Strangest Happy Thanksgiving greeting I’ve ever gotten… Sorry stranger, I left it in the Conservatory with Mrs. White.

Those times you rewatch or remember movies from your youth and identified with characters you “weren’t supposed to” and the only thing keeping you from fully identifying with them is that you hated the way the world treated them? The awful social programming of patriarchy…

What is an album you revere for unknown reasons? I love Toadies and Rubberneck will be on that island you go to when you need a place that has only a limited # of things. Stranded I’ll belt out “…and I burn” between fishing with my hands, coconut farming, and replacing my palm frond bedding.

I’d just like to share what my very good friend, who is very much a faith-based man but not religious, made and shared with me…so while bishops ignore the needs of trans people, remember: their position is empty. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...

Oddest illness onset ever. Just the barest of congestion and very swollen lymph nodes on either side of the neck. Does this mean I’ll be really sick tomorrow?

Just sitting here thinking about all the pain we inflict upon ourselves as well as all the hopeful, positive, things we whisper to ourselves when we think no one—not even ourselves—are listening.

@captainarrr.bsky.social I feel this embodies your feels.

I had the whole weekend, mostly, to go grocery shopping. Nah, she says. But now that I am out of milk for coffee…

Quote with a robot not from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, or Transformers…

I have an aggressive case of truth in mouth syndrome, I hear it’s very catching. ADHD for the whinge?

Can confirm.

1) this is amazing news! 2) conspicuous by its absence is California, likely because our governor is too busy shitting on trans ppl while interviewing his far-right podcasting pals

Wasn’t going to drink tonight, trying to keep the calories down, but when you rock a Costco meets Whole Foods quiche…what are you to do?

Some would say, “Ska never left.” However, I would say “why is it not everywhere?” Horns and bass-driven music…?! Why is it cursed as a blip from the 90s? Thanks #KEXP for ripping the Fishbone today.

Who’s your favorite Jedi, wrong answers only? Master Pai Mei.

I really wish Sally Ride was still with us to see this moment.

It’s that kind of afternoon… Genesis & Phil Collins Invisible Touch and No Jacket Required music. …and wearing a Liverpool jersey to a “football” party at the apartment. Time for irony in a Land of Confusion.

Poaching brats with the most apropos fest beer ever. By happenstance did we buy this beer, for when we returned home I realized that both the brewery and I have done chucked a nut. Me? Both. Yesterday.