Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them. We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.

Sigh... CMD's full episode video was demonetized this morning... youtu.be/ALbBUTHrAQE?...

Give me more SF where humans adopt aliens' pop culture and art the way Klingons adopted Shakespeare and Salarians adopted Gilbert and Sullivan. Don't make humanity the peak of art and music

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

Holiday party at work this evening. Did she come to play, or did she come to slay? 💖 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Doctor and therapist telehealth appointments yesterday. I'm officially switching to injections for estrogen, and I talked to my therapist about inner child work after my dearest friend talked me through some initial first steps that devastated me. I think I'm gonna be doing this for a while

With all the Nuzzi stuff happening, I went back to our @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social episode about her from last year when the RFK Jr stuff first broke and pulled the best section for a shorter video. youtu.be/R8JKPwmpfYE

I think it MIGHT have been obvious who my favorite character was when we went to see Wicked: For Good

Get the merch hereeeee And fuck Target

The @gleamapp.bsky.social is set up and opens up on Saturday! Bookmark this link and enter for a chance at the bundle in the quoted post gleam.io/IV71c/logig-...

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. ... I mean... It's certainly feeling like that's where the country is headed 😮‍💨

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

I prefer telling this story in a video rather than typing it out but here's some holiday advice for trans & queer folx in video form. (No, it won't work for everyone. Only use it if you feel safe doing so. Yes, I'm still proud of my daughter for doing this. She was 17 at the time.)

Hey gang, guess what my next Liberal Currents essay is going to tackle? Yes, the supposed genius and success of the "they/them" ad has been wildly overstated in one of the most degrading exercises in elite confirmation bias I've seen in a while. And it was worse than I thought. Stay tuned!

When I say without any fudged dice rolls, I mean it. I was fully ready to tip the odds in the kiddos' favor if I needed to, and Rose and Raven were also standing by with some pretty powerful spells prepared, just in case, but they managed without help 😊

This weekend, we transformed part of our home into The Raven and Rose Inn for our kiddo's 13th birthday party, held under the watchful eye of our very own alehouse drake, Amber Bawk. Neighborhood friends came for a short(ish) session, requested by the kiddo xymself. I was NERVOUS 1/🧵

I do think that the ecological damage argument against genAI is not sufficient on it's own, especially when we just let pass all sorts of other egregious problems, like the carbon footprint of vacation cruise liners. You also have to pair it with "it doesn't work and only loses money."

I can't imagine why a company that has gone all in on investing in AI would say 1/3 of their work is done by the hallucinating wrongness machine. It certainly couldn't be a total lie.

I was already all in by the 3rd sentence, but check the thread for a link to the original short film. This is an film project deserving of a little support! 💖🪩

And then all the poor souls will be swept up for tax evasion after this train wreck goes terribly wrong? I mean???

one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.

What the actual fuck, Apple

The wannabe megachurch I attended ran the best food bank in the county... Until the pastor's wife decided they were giving out too much food and eventually shut it down entirely to open a for-profit thrift store, instead

I grew up in white evangelical fundamentalist churches. I wish I could say I was surprised.

I reference this all the time and I'm glad that its full power went away when Jobs passed because otherwise tech would be unstoppable. (Not that they haven't tried to keep it up.) But with politics, it's a non-starter. Sycophants around him is one thing, but the American people aren't buying it.

So I usually only feel comfortable posting pictures where my look is on point, but I have to roast myself a bit. Got a new hair styling tool, had no idea how to use it, and managed to knit my hair into the oval brush attachment. It took about 10 minutes to work it free, but I fixed it 😅

While waiting for my flight to Seattle last month, I met some delightful older liberals, and we talked about how things got to where they stand right now. They told me I should write a book about growing up a deeply closeted trans girl in Christian Nationalism. I've got about 50 pages so far.

Modern Republicans: No chicken in your pot, no car in your backyard, and a grand ballroom up your ass

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

That was fast! Transphobia DID NOT play in Virginia

I feel like Sci Show has gone click-bait. First a "We don't understand why knitting works" video that people who knit immediately and resoundingly criticized, now a "We've lost control of AI, it's too powerful" video that just seems like pointless fear mongering

A wonderful thing about @maigheach.bsky.social's writing is that their books are "one more chapter" reads. Just stood in the kitchen grabbing one more chapter while waiting for my kiddo to brush xyr teeth, and if xe hadn't just finished, I would have read another. Absolute delight 💖

"Seat belts, everyone!" I don't know how many people actually recognized my Miss Frizzle without being told, but it was a fun look and a great way to compliment my wife's fabulous demon librarian. She was wearing a pin that says "Read Banned Books," but her hand is covering it here

So happy my copy of All the Stars in the Daylight Sky came, even if it's going to be a few hours before trick or treating lets me start reading. If y'all are sleeping on @maigheach.bsky.social, you're missing out on a phenomenal author!

I visited two of my favorite professors for the first time in 20 years today. It's not often that I get to introduce myself to people who were once authority figures in my life, so to be welcomed with so much joy was an incredibly healing experience 🥹🫶🏼

Good morning! We are only 392 total subscribers away from hitting out subscription drive goal. It's so close to being over! What would this mean for the 8 of us who make The Flytrap? Right now we can afford to give ourselves a small holiday bonus. But hitting the goal would mean a monthly stipend!

She's giving autumn on this chilly October day 🍂

This is why I loathe American doomers who tell their fellow American trans people to just flee to another country. The fight is global, and you're best positioned to win that fight in your own home.

Pre-ordered my copy because I know it's going to be amazing 😍

The Chinese are windmill dunking on us now lmao

Everything Bernie doesn't understand about race and gender in one doubling-down, holy guac (as a young man, Bernie published an essay fantasizing about women who dream of SA + abuse while they work for the revolution sooooo) what if it weren't all about flattened out class interests, my man

Y'all, sometimes I can serve a damn look, that's all I'm saying

Yes, neighbor who works for ICE, I am cooking your family a meal. I cannot imagine how you could think that this would be suspicious in any way at all. Please consume it liberally and do not share this particular portion with your family. You're the earner, so you get the big kid plate. EAT. UP.

People used to have to put effort into faking vacations and travel for Instagram. Tech clearly wants to deprive us of even that much pleasure. It's legit just going to end up with an app serving you so many retouched and photoshopped versions of yourself that you just get more depressed, isn't it?

Oh man this is good analysis. Everyone is saying protect the dolls and I wonder when we'll say protect the bricks

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

My entire trip to Seattle was an absolutely amazing time, but it was positively nonstop. I started my visit by seeing my beloved cousin, who I don't get to see NEARLY enough, and then the Out & Equal conference was absolutely incredible. I'm so happy to be home now, but what an amazing week 💖

I'm away on my first business trip in a 9 years and my first business conference ever. Once I'm out of tubes, a proper selfie will be forthcoming

Pride is for celebration, and today was no different. Not a lot of pictures to post because my company logo is visible in most of them, and I value my privacy.