We need to build a post-American internet of free/open, auditable, transparent, enshittification-resistant platforms and firmware for every purpose and device currently in service: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3... 35/

Huge thanks to the folks who have helped me out already. Still struggling to stay housed. I papered the town with CVs today. I am out of food money. Everything helps!

The Lee Bontecou retrospective I saw at the MCA in Chicago in 2003 is always on my mind in one way or another

Still a ways to go! Selling some stuff and applying to more jobs, but still short of what i need for rent and meds. Every bit helps!

Still a ways to go! Selling some stuff and applying to more jobs, but still short of what i need for rent and meds. Every bit helps!

"Extreme heat waves" y'all that's just summer now because governments didn't listen to scientists' warnings the last 150+ years- yes, scientists have been warning about global warming since the mid 1800s. Drastic actions could halt it here and reverse it eventually. Get onto yr representatives

On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names. "I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." —Dashiell Hammett

oh look. yet another study that the entire policy platform of @darrenpjones.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is pure science denialism. transgender women are physiologically distinct from cisgender men. we are not cross dressers.

example of how i already know andy burnham and his bestie @lucympowell.bsky.social are doomed to fail as hard as starmer. they're making the same mistakes as starmer: implementing policies that are designed to keep our reactionary press happy but that have no grounding in evidence-based reality.

The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space.

I recently saw a post saying, "Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars, everything is now 200 dollars." And for that reason I don't think I'll ever shame anyone asking for financial help for any reason because shit's been so fucked lately.

This gets to the root of my problem with "the problem is that it will affect cis women." The point is standing with trans women & girls RIGHT NOW is the action required to oppose this stuff. If you can't do that, responding down the line is pointless. Solidarity with trans women IS the resistance.

BREAKING: Pride Month Extended Indefinitely

women kissing each other reblog if you agree

We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.

Big thanks to folks that helped me pay off June, but my July rent payment is coming up and my side hustles are not bearing fruit yet. Everything helps!

Depression is not good. I can't recommend it. Zero stars. Wish I could get my emergency spiraling out meds here.

If I get 125 more dollars, I can pay off June and just worry about July's rent. Everything helps!

"The London ambulance service said it had recorded the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in a single day in its history, driven by the extreme heat." So... can we, I don't know, start doing something about global warming now? Like, as a society? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

No, there is no "nuance" about the Prairieland defendants. Anything less than total condemnation of these prosecutions and sentences is capitulation to fascism. The leopards will eat your face too

Please support the Prairieland defendants. Write to them. Donate to their commissary funds. Don’t let them be forgotten

Big thanks to those who have helped so far! Still quite a way to go to make rent, and every bit helps-

If you want to protect this particular doll, help me stay housed! gofund.me/d4edf202d

If you want to protect this particular doll, help me stay housed! gofund.me/d4edf202d

I'm a disabled queer trans woman trying to start a career in a new country. I have many irons in fires to start getting income from event organizing, music, and sound art, but i need a few months

I need help with rent. I've been trying to find a job for 8 months to no avail. If anyone knows of paying work I can do from Cork, and/or housesitting I can do in Cork or Dublin, let me know. If you'd like to help directly: paypal.me/josietron revolut.me/josielindsey venmo.com/u/Josietron

Some of the best poems ever are by people with autism

I need help with rent. I've been trying to find a job for 8 months to no avail. If anyone knows of paying work I can do from Cork, and/or housesitting I can do in Cork or Dublin, let me know. If you'd like to help directly: paypal.me/josietron revolut.me/josielindsey venmo.com/u/Josietron

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

The epic conclusion:

This is a friendly reminder that you are a person, not a Brand. You can repost your own art, say the same things that you've said before, talk about whatever is on your mind. You're a human being, not a marketing strategy. I've never once seen an artist repost their work and gone 'FUCK how DARE tHEY

I'm disabled with lupus. I have brain fog. I have to avoid sunlight. I feel horrible all the time. That's in addition to a host of other medical problems. I don't need AI to DJ, produce music, record voice overs, write, draw, or tell me what to think. Fuck this tired-ass argument.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs." "Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"

Dang, this line from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is such a tidy framing to describe the “Just let the South rot they’re already lost to us lol” crowd. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/overriding...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

there's something so gutting about how she got the world we all wanted so bad, the one we're fighting to create for the younger generation - an early transition supported by a loving family and circle of friends - and then got cut down anyway

I’ll give my pitch to what I assume my circle is into: if you like the dungeon and wilderness procedures of B/X and would like those simplified, expanded on, and tied to more involved character customization and abstract combat, Break does that.

What if there were hot swappable body parts so we could take turns being the tall one? *sigh...* Hot, swappable body parts

Billionaires did this.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

it is both true that the past was far crueler than we can imagine and also true that we can and should demand a better future, and there's no conflict between these things

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.