This NYT article about the removal of pride flags at Boston University ends with the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program vowing to replace them every time. “We have a nice stockpile,” she said. (Gift link)

This is such a weird choice, considering that Boston isn’t even a JetBlue hub.

what i should have said is this is exactly what my dear friend @meat-and-breath.bsky.social challenged me, a sad and questioning nonbinary dude some three or four years ago, to do - just try estrogen for a few months and see how i feel. so yeah... can confirm. 💖

First day of spring so I’m saying this now so you’re ready by summer: Show more cleavage. Set them thighs out. Shorter shorts. Higher slits. Backless! Hoochies get in the field!

Yes, my fiancée had a lovely time at the Legacy home opener, though she thinks she might bring knitting or spinning next time. Yes, this is a screen capture of the game broadcast. Welcome to being a Boston icon, @blistenstarling.bsky.social

🎶 You're only a day away 🎶 See you tomorrow: https://bit.ly/4ug1UPx

✌️ more sleeps 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4ug1UPx

If The Moon would just fuck right off, that would be great. Thanks.

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This machine kills fascists.

This. This. This.

Set up a separate account for tarot shit, in the hopes of encouraging me to engage with the cards more.

As of last night, I have written seven poems since December first. A slow roll, sure, but not bad for being decades out of practice and having a day job.

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

I've been kinda numb today, in no small part because of the E-files revelations that this whole trans genocide was so that the friends of some billionaires were chasers. I... I wrote about this for my scholarly book. I put so much effort into showing it. I get how Sexton feels. Fucking fuck.

there's certainly plenty to criticize in the Dems' asks but this is why splitting off the DHS funding from everything else was such a big win - there's going to be far less pressure on Dems to end a DHS-only shutdown than there was when "food stamps run out" was on the table

Not unrelated: Pokémon Sleep can listen for noise (and determine that you're not sleeping, because it's "hearing you make noise"). It saves 9s of the sound so you can listen later. This is how I know that 80% of the noises it heard were the phone's own notifications, & 80% of the rest were the cat.

I have mostly given up trying to explain this to people, so thank you @rahaeli.bsky.social for this thread.

I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark. A long thread 🧵>>

This Pirkei Avot quote helps me feel a little less like I have to solve everything (it’s literally been thousands of years of people feeling overwhelmed!) and it cracked me up when someone stuck it on the pics of the tiny backhoe trying to dig out the EverGiven ship when it got stuck.

rumor has it we are 👀

(for the first time in my life i will be rooting for the pats solely on the grounds that, as a new england fan recently convinced me, it may normalize the timeline if the fucking patriots start winning everything again)

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Papers could be written and likely have about the party that hates women being suspicious of "mom" energy in society. Is everyone warm, are we all fed, is everyone safe? They are literally some of the least suspicious concerns in the world, but the right is terrified by them.

I went something like 30 years without writing poetry, and tonight I read a new poem (and had a poem read _about_ me) at a queer poetry reading at @utubookstore.bsky.social. I’m almost as surprised by all of this as I was when I figured out I’m trans.

to quote someone i hold to be genuinely one of the most caring, compassionate, and intelligent people i know: those who fight clean die in the ambulance

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

People don't really think through how the Nazis actively made it harder for Jews to leave The idea that all Americans are guaranteed any kind of freedom of movement, including boarding a flight, is quite the presumption at this point.

Today I went to repeat a thing I’ve thought was true for decades — I didn’t understand or like teenagers even when I was one. And mid-sentence I realized that wasn’t true. What was true is that I didn’t understand or like _teenage boys_, when I was a teenager. Because I was a girl. And gay.

Remember, fascism is just capitalism in decline. Trump isn't uniquely evil, he's a symptom of billionaire panic. The violence is more naked *because* the ruling class is losing power. And they're losing their power because we're waking up to our own.

Put down your phone. Close your eyes. Imagine stretching out your limbs under water. Imagine sensing the hum of home, food, love, safety Let yourself dance in the water until the music brings her to you. (Whoever or whatever she is.) Then hold her. You are safe. Sleep.

I agree, I want tits that are inconvenient.

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For some context: Jonathan Myrick Daniels was from NH. Episcopal seminarian in the 1960s, he decided to join the Freedom Riders in AL. He was killed by a shopkeeper when he stepped between him and a little Black girl. Shopkeeper was aiming a shotgun at the girl, and shot him instead.

Tired: Living in the End Times Wired: Living in the Mend Times 🔧 🔨 🪛 🪚

Look, I know I’m an absolute beginning knitter, but I hope I never lose the wonder at how perfect an English-style purl feels coming off the hook.

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

And let’s be clear who did this, since so many people think Dems do nothing for the LGBTQ community (and apparently refuse to vote for them or harm reduction) even tho Dems are how we got our rights: “…congressional Democrats worked to remove anti-trans components of the defense spending bill”

Had the pleasure of informing my partner that I studied at the Greater Boston School of Lesbian Arts (GBSLA). So, now I need lore. Help a girl out.

Finally some hope

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

Fuck yes! Also, how have I not thought to do this with how much I’ve been flying recently?

Fuck Seth Moulton. Markey continues to strike me as one of the best old cis white men around.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

They also pay artists more than Spotify. Though as pointed out in replies, Apple dropped ICE tracking apps from their App Store, so I wouldn’t exactly white knight them here. And FYI, TIDAL pays artists even more than Apple does.

The People’s Joker… I genuinely think that might be one of the best movies I have ever watched Just wow

My favorite homophobic complaint in Dark Science was, after years of gay subplots, heroic left wing terrorists and canonically trans characters, when Kim finally confessed to Ling, a guy commented "wow so even *you're* trying to score woke points now"