Making a sticker based on something @adriandaub.bsky.social said about Thomas Mann's L'Haine, that liberals in 30's Germany failed because they did not understand hatred, and responded to an existential threat with facts and argument.

Basically the inside of my brain

Fun to think that in fact we are currently living in the "before times"

One of the worst things about being an old anarchist is seeing successive generations of kids come up with the great idea to strap homemade feathered wings to their backs and jump off a building. And you can't talk them out of it because it's different this time and they're so sincere.

It's not a question of can, it's a question of must. Some people will have an easier time, but history is full of people fleeing genocide on handmade boats or in the back of cement mixers. The sooner you start planning the less traumatic the trip will be. There is no stay and fight, I'm sorry.

I imagine a "jingle horse" is as nightmarish as the song that spawned it.

I've left the land of wifi saturation and can only look at this app once a day or so... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?!??? I have no idea what's going on

Seems like the message here is "You too can receive a special commendation from the Reich if you find a trans person to drive from society"

North Carolina and Illinois are states and were not able to stop "such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol [their] city"

“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick

Okay for real goodbye space hotel!

Hello weirder space hotel 🤬

Bye bye weird space hotel

cis professors: what's so scary about this is that any one of us could be next! christian fundamentalists: we will target and drive every tranny from academia. universities: will win ban every tranny to make you happy cis professor: yes. any one of us. there is simply no way of ever knowing.

We all understand that no right winger actually cares if Haitians fix Haiti right? That the whole "stay and fight to improve your home country" is just code for "your reasons for violating my sense of living in an all-white country are unimportant to me"

The drug in question is alfatradiol, widely used in Germany as an anti-hair-loss topical solution. It extends lifespan by 20% in non-gonadectomized male mice because it's a 5-Alpha-reductase inhibitor. Basically an anti-androgen. Lot of unproven woo woo shit but it's an anti-androgen.

"All of this feels tremendously demoralizing... The position of fiction is plummeting irretrievably while other forms of storytelling are damaging or misusing the tools of narrative." Sorry, it's hard to separate concern about literacy from classic Baffler snobbery here.

While I recommend reading the entire thread, this entry stood out to me because I keep running into the same lacuna in supposedly functional adults. Professionals, with retirement plans. I suspect it has to do with a terminally eroded attention span but I'm guessing.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Student loans. I mean that's what everyone says, right?

Immigrants, and by extension the immigration system that brought them here, are at the core of American and Canadian culture and enterprise and unless you agree with me on this I don't care what you think about who anyone should vote for.

Fox announcing all documents signed by Biden are "null and void" if signed with an autopen, only examples offered are pardons.

I wish people would stop demanding I put emotional energy into getting outraged about the regime's logical inconsistencies. No, even if collective punishment against Afghans made sense expelling Haitians and Somalis shouldn't be connected. Are you surprised their actions don't follow rationality?

I've been in this country longer than Stephen Miller, so I guess he needs to assimilate to my culture.

Last time there was a backlash against Afghan interps coming to the US, it was vets who stood up for them publicly, saying these guys- and they were almost all guys- had served with them and kept their squads safe outside the wire. It may be too much to hope that they'll speak up again.

Would it be dangerous to mention I'm an immigrant and not a net asset to the United States?

happy thanksgiving from therizinosaurus, the forbidden turkey 🦃 therizinosaurus was a pot-bellied, 5-tonne herbivore from late cretaceous mongolia, best-known for the scythe-like claws on its hands (art by @kaek.bsky.social)

One of the National Guard shot in DC has died. Pledging a crackdown.

I think a lot of things would be better for trans women if it was just generally understood that it's fine to think we're sexy. bsky.app/profile/lady...

At least one of the victims was born after the invasion of Afghanistan. Don't know why that's poignant

Everyone asking if this will be the pretense for martial law should explain how that would be different

Newsreader keeps saying "delve"

The shooter was an in-country interp for the CIA

Blaming Elise Slotkin and BLM

Happy Thanksgiving, but there is not one entree I would choose to eat and things are rough with my bio family. I would love to see "Chinese and a movie" extended to other holidays please, including this one.

I wonder how all the journalists are feeling who, back in January, saw the executive orders against trans people and immigrants, and wrote terrified essays about how journalists were always next. Still looks like trans people and immigrants, huh. Maybe we weren't just a "distraction"?

Somalis catching strays

If you need more to be angry about, there's always the lack of inpatient psych beds in rural states. And the shitty care they give trans women. And I just learned, the shitty policy barriers they have that make it nearly impossible for trans women to be placed.

It sucks. It doesn't, on a brief skim, mandate IDs, mention trans people, or ban DIY It does create an oversight council that could implement any of those.

If they’re estranged, did the Trump Administration do Leavitt’s brother a favor and get rid of her? An appalling suggestion, but these people are appalling.

It's exhausting how people attribute the success of athletes to literally anything but luck and lifelong training, especially non-white athletes. "...genetic condition where..." Shut the fuck up!

@thalantos.bsky.social saw this. Three paragraphs in, its citing Gandhi, then Richard Gere, but still an article on Buddhist-excused nationalisms. Weird take on Sri Lanka too. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

In practice, I bet, to qualify for any grant you will have to show that your hypothesis/project will incorporate AI "insights" and an entire corps of grad students and non-profit workers will spring up to ensure this has as little effect as possible on the actual work. Next gen SEO basically.

If you're bored, you can always turn on the auto-generated subtitles on a video of people speaking Nuxalk

Also, the guy he's agreeing with was Rishi Sunak's chief of staff

So bad at making friends, you have to start them from scratch?

I'm reading @chuckwendig.bsky.social 's _The Staircase in the Woods_ and it's very good, but it's the kind of good you can't read more than a chapter of without a break. And they are very short chapters.

Every trans suicide is social murder.

Le "gène d'intelligence" c'est simple: assez de nourriture, des adultes proches qui sont stables et heureux, des écoles fonctionnelles et de l'argent et un réseaux des autres ressources pour se permettre de prendre des risques avec la curiosité.

Reminding everyone, in July I sent all my trans zines, dating back to the early 90s, to an archive in Canada.