I got to represent my company (unnamed for privacy) at the Atlanta Pride VIP & Sponsors reception last night, and two precious members of my chosen family made sure I was among friends the entire night 🩷🩵🤍🩵🩷

Good for @connoreatspants.bsky.social for asking. You can hear his voice shake a little.

For the trans girlies who aren't really feeling pickles but still want that salt kick, chili crisp is incredible. Also kalamata olives, but chili crisp is next level

it was a good second week of my new newsletter. here's what i did there this week. on monday, i wrote about why conservatives have already overrun the possible compromise positions on trans rights. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

Reading this as a tired trans girl had me VERY confused for a few seconds 😅

One of my best friends has been working with me on how I pose for pictures, and I feel like it's paying off 🥰

It's completely wild to me that my personal life is going better than ever while the county is going up in flames. Not that I'm not in constant stress about whether I'm going to have healthcare, rights, or basic freedom, but the disconnect is surreal.

I love spooky season 🥰 My wife made this cute lil' swinging ghost today

ok here are my recommendations of some gay romance novels. most of them have explicit sex scenes. all of them are well written, solid and interesting. diamonds in a sea of zircon

We should convince them the rapture did in fact happen on tuesday and they were too sinful to go. As a bit.

me, trying to understand naked venality: its like if everything at the bookstore is free if youre fast enough

TAX THEM ALL TAKE ALL OF THEIR MONEY 2% isn’t enough, you crybabies

51, and 4 just the year I was born. She's not going anywhere

You mean to tell me one of my sweet friends is a published author, and in a queer horror anthology, no less? That makes me so happy!! ☺️ Congratulations, @elementalamber.bsky.social! I can't wait for my copy 💖

The cruelty is so exhausting sometimes

It has been a hectic month, and I'm so sorry if I made anyone worry with my silence. Have some cute pictures as penance 💖

It’s… all right. Sure. My only issue is that this response wasn’t exactly prompted. He had it in his brain on deck as a go-to anecdote for the podcast. “Teach me how to learn,” coming WAY after he had plenty of time to ask literally any gay friend what he should have said or done is… a lot.

Spent two days at DragonCon. My kiddo was hoping to meet @samanthabeart.bsky.social, but we didn't make it to the walk of fame until their line had already been capped for the night. We still had an incredible, overwhelming, and utterly exhausting time, though, and there's always next time!

one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology

Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich

An unfriendly reminder before a weekend of conventions & the Labor Day holiday - keep comments on people’s bodies to yourself. Be it weight gain or weight loss; no need to make that your response to seeing someone who’s changed since you last saw them.

O hay, coming to Dragoncon? Come see me doing ALL THE THINGS: app.core-apps.com/dragoncon25/...

Recommended @scalzi.com's Starter Villain to a work friend and just got this comment back. It makes me happy when I recommend a book that is 100% someone's jam ☺️

Everyone clapping like seals about Newsom should instead be looking at Pritzker.

I'm working on a 10,000 word piece (that will hopefully be whittled down) on the Creeper Alert that is James Dobson talking about dads and their daughters. If you want a sneak peek you can listen to our newest patreon-only episode!

someone left a random comment on the podcast's last youtube video and it caused the algorithm to start going again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fW6...

A Tandy 286 (although they stuck me on a ColecoVision for most of my "learning how to use a computer" phase)

Stephen Miller jealous of this character's drip.

*taps the sign*

Thank you, Boston Children's. It's the right thing to do, but that is becoming terrifyingly rare

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Relatedly, a Japanese friend once told me (circa 2007) that Americans always chose Spirited Away as the greatest Ghibli movie, but Japanese folks resoundingly preferred Mononoke.

This is so fucking scummy 🤬

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

I was the family nurse until my symptoms crashed. I came up for my lunch break feeling completely exhausted. They were starting to feel slightly better, and they told me to just rest, and I broke down crying because they needed to eat lunch. I was still crying when I laid down

Ok, y'all, it's entirely possible I've missed it somewhere, but why the hell have I never heard about "massive emotional disregulation" as a symptom of covid/its current variant? The day our symptoms crashed, each one of us turned into complete emotional wrecks. 1/

I don't trust despotic states not to pretend this gives them more authority than they have, but this is very good information to have. Know your rights

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵

He suggested 25 was too young to transition. Just 3 years ago that position would have put him amongst the far right in the Republican party.

Plague nurse chic this week (although I'm pretty sure I'm about to go from nurse to convalescent with the way my throat is starting to feel 😷), plus my gorgeous new signature. Signature was created by @probably-emma.com, and I'm utterly obsessed with it!

I am allegedly Covid-free (or just too early to tell, which I think is rather more likely given how much air my wife and I share). So here's me masking in my home to try to keep it that way, and me serving sultry seduction last week.

If a school official paddles my kid, i will whoop their ass

Welp ... All plans for the near term are cancelled. Kiddo has been home sick from school since Wednesday. Urgent care ran all the tests and said "it's just rhinovirus. Go to school on Monday." Kiddo still felt crummy today. At home Covid test had a faint line Second test did, too 😷

love this so much via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from Charlie Angus originally

I put in a formal complaint about this and they did a classic NHS move: boilerplate reply with a “fact sheet” about what they’re doing I replied like, “I already know the facts. I’m not requesting info, I’m saying what you’re doing is immoral.” And they ignored it lol

I'm a calligrapher (an artform which, incidentally, genAI is incapable of emulating to even a basic degree). When I started, it was because my handwriting was crap and I had uni exams coming up. I was decidedly not "naturally gifted". The difference between then and now is a decade+ of practice.

"Why doesn't AI?" is such a wrong question. It keeps on lampshading the farce of intelligence when the answer is literally "this is a bad search engine that uses more energy and data than every non-LLM search engine combined" Once you admit that, the rest makes sense

The next generation is truly prepared for the challenges that lie ahead.

I am so sick of AI enthusiasts saying "but what about how it assists in detecting cancer? Are you against that?" The reality: