I’m not a “no difference between the parties” person, but the “vote blue no matter who” folks really need to grapple with this kind of thing before they accuse us of “purity politics."

I feel like there's irony in TERFs constantly mansplaining to trans women what our own experience is.

It's predictable that the "NC Values Coalition" would focus on trans bigotry rather than, I don't know, lying, grift, porn-obsessed nazi gubernatorial candidates , etc. But it's the smarmy faux "this is best for [trans] kids" that just enrages me. At least value honesty enough to own your hatred.

This is such a disingenuous take. If you have an MD, which he does, you are definitionally a doctor. He went the research and public health route rather than the one-on-one patient care route. He also certainly wore a white coat when he was a medical student, *before* he was a doctor. 1/3

Looking forward to a future Miyake event destroying the internet, social media, AI and technology in general and getting back to good books by candlelight.

So, centrists- still think we'll just win in 2026 with some nice moderate don't-rock-the-boat candidates by focusing on the economy so that everything can just go back to normal? Maybe you can talk about trans athletes and your concerns some more and that'll fix what's broken.

I think of AI proponents as those people 100-200 years ago that introduced kudzu to stop erosion, or cane toads to Australia, or native bird-killing snakes to an island to kill the rats they introduced. They are so high on their supply they can’t just not do dumb human stuff.

The dedication to trolling here is incredible. You can play the game at epicfurious.com

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

Does anyone else remember this book? It came out when I was 9, growing up in Louisiana, and I remember it was a sensation in my class, where we'd take turns checking it out of the school library and trying to decipher it, looking at maps of the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquer...

A Democrat who flirts with anti-trans bigotry to try to triangulate some median voter appeal will flirt with any far right policy if they think it will a) get them elected or b) keep them in office.

USA on Jan 7 2021

I have friends named Karen. They've suffered enough. For them and those offended by the label "Karen," I propose an alternative label for (overwhelmingly white) women that gleefully hurt others, especially other women/girls+LGBTQ+Black folks, with their flaunted patriarchal privilege: Ghislanes.

Since the state of my birth, Louisiana, is in the news for being shitty again, I want to add this bit of context. Much of Louisiana hates New Orleans. They hated it 150 years ago, resenting it for being the largest city in LA/its political power, and they hate it for being majority Black and Dem. 1/

I would never claim that country music was a preferred genre of mine, but this is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTZa...

I do think this MAGA/Confederacy retrenchment will crash and burn at some point; I don’t know how, whether violently or non-violently, or when. As trans people, I think it’s important that we relentlessly associate anti-trans bigotry with that brand - i.e. the people who…1/2

An all trans remake of Julius Caesar, but it's just internicine Bluesky drama.

It's not at all equivalent. The "K-word" is about how some women weaponize their patriarchal privilege (usually white as well) and use victimhood as a shield. It's the entire framework in which TERFs et al operate. Do we need a better word? Yes, but what it calls out is accurate.

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

One fun thing in being a trans parent and having done voice training is that if my voice (inadvertently) goes from an ~A3 to an E2, my kiddo knows they've passed the point where momma's annoyance>>dysphoria.

Spent 30 seconds on here today and cannot read another word of Category 5 histrionics by social media users about other social media users.

A new Banksy sculpture appears in central London….people are saying it is depicting "a politician or other official blinded by patriotism and walking directly into danger" 🔥 Banksy confirmed the work is his by posting this video on his IG👇

TERFs : Cis Men :: Republicans : Guns

This is crazy. United State attorneys are now writing motions in Trumpese.

i realized a long time ago that setting this video to the nfl primetime music would be the best thing i ever do on the internet i'm okay with that

One of many reasons not to take the pediatric GAC grifters seriously is that, to my knowledge, none of them believe in full rights and bodily autonomy for transgender adults. They don’t care about ‘vulnerable kids’ put through the «evil transing machine». They want to eradicate trans ppl. 1/

Niche transphobia: the two most common "single family tree" genealogy websites, wikitree and family search, refuse to create fields for gender identity. Their argument for only including sex at birth is that this is most helpful/accurate in tracing biological ancestry...1/2

If any interviewer gets an interview with a "moderate" Dem or centrist, and you have any *genuine* interest in their position on trans rights, I beg you to ask them to state clearly which trans rights policies they *support*, not how they "feel" about sports or kids or whatever. If you get a...1/2

Ever since Kennedy called this "Blueskee," I can't look at the name of this site and hear anything different.

Whether the nominee is L-wing or centrist, they must include the other in their coalition. We’ve never had a left-wing nominee, so there’s no past behavior to go on. But centrists getting the nomination and then working to include the center-right while ghosting the left again will not work. 1/

I’m a firm believer that AI produces slop, but, to be fair, most of our culture produces human slop - from hackneyed/TV movie plots you’ve seen thousands of times, tired franchises pumping out more derivative work, autotuned verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus songs in familiar keys, 1/3

Fuck yeah.

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

I think back sometimes - for a brief time after March of 2020, there was a window of opportunity for lockdown and the covid threat to remind us all of what we have in common, our shared humanity, how so much bullshit we fight about is unimportant in the face of mortality and a shared viral enemy. 1/

Any competent Democrat would never let a Republican or the media get away with framing the GOP as the party of small government, 'the little guy', christian/family values, freedom, or patriotism again.

I've found trying to create local community with trans women very difficult. I went to a local "trans ladies picnic" yesterday and man, it felt like high school trying to join into tight little groups sitting at tables, where the vibe was, if not hostile, very uninviting. 1/

We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.

I just realized today while watching a video on IG that 30-something arborist dudes talking about their favorite trees and why they love them is engaging to me on many levels.

I low-key love imperfect allies. Meaning, the people brimming with good intention who have no idea what language to use and probably don't even have a conceptual framework for trans people. 1/5

Only read this if you have the steel spine to survive the harrowing journey.

I still go on FB intermittently to check on distant connection folks. Between *every* actual post is a bra ad. Who is buying this many bras? Are there women out there with hundreds of bras? It's like they saw me buy 4 or 5 at once when I first transitioned and think I'm gonna sustain that pace.

Watched a lurid doc about a mini cult leader, and it's always striking to me how utterly perverse people are when they get money and power. Like having a Bentley and a yacht and a beautiful spouse isn't enough. They have to torture people and do pedophilia and get more, more, more of everything.

🙄 I guess at least she’d have to actually win a primary this time around.

Wait, I thought Bluesky was dying again this week. I need a Bluesky death tracker app so I can keep tabs on the death/thriving ratio on at least a daily basis.

Frustrating that so many countries have shut down/curtailed their citizenship by decent pathways at this moment in time. My closest foreign-born ancestor is a great-grandmother born in Luxembourg. Back in 2017, this would have been a path to dual-citizenship, but b/c she was a woman, not now.

Agree. The language of evidence-based medicine is weaponized to create 'reports' with pre-determined outcomes. Because they deploy language that *sounds* like the language used in Cochrane Reviews et al, people think it's a serious scientific report rather than a screed against trans people. 1/

A lot of cis women hate being women, and thing trans women are mocking them because they can’t IMAGINE fighting not just to be a woman but a successful determined one And I have no BLESSED IDEA what we need to say to make them stop making it everyone else’s problem

Listening to moral panic from society about trans people always reminds me of listening to Tipper Gore-style panic about ‘satanic' song lyrics in the 1980s, "corrupting the youth."

I semi-seriously return to the notion at times that we should form a Church of the Transgender Transformation so that we can have the same freedom and rights that so-called religious folk do. Since churches seem primarily geared towards self-enrichment, it might help the community financially, too.