Timeline Blessings!

That's a wrap on @bostondykemarch.com 2026. See y'all next year on Solidarity Circle!

Just gave the diabetic cat his first home glucose finger prick test, which is tricky because-- and you may not know this-- cats do not have fingers

what if... we just put a pause on fake-salt-of-the-earth white guys named Graham?

Tried to make a RIDE reservation using the new app last night, but it wouldn't let me add money to my account - when I called customer service this morning and asked what I might have done wrong, the guy just was just like, "oh, no, it actually just doesn't work." 🙃🙃🙃

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

I’ve spoken to some of the affected organizers here and they are definitely worried about threats to the folks working with them. I don’t know who made the decision to move, but it would be better if the city doubled down on hosting it

New Merch Alert! We’ve got brand new t-shirts! These will be available at the merch tent in extremely limited quantities, size S through 6X

Okay, so: if we were reviving Roar of the Greasepaint (and god knows someone should!), who would we cast aside from obviously Joshua Henry?

It's Pride Month, so once again here's Sappho's Reply, one of the most powerful queer poems ever. Written by Rita Mae Brown at the height of the post-Stonewall struggles, it's the origin of "an army of lovers shall not fail/cannot lose." Y'all, we are going to win.

ilu leather dachshund from seattle pride 1991

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Was going to post I AM HAVING FEELINGS, WHY AM I HAVING FEELINGS when I remembered our rule

update: I emailed the professor for guidance, and she was basically like "oh, ok, your way works too, ig"-! 11 more days 'til half-graduation... 😅

Extremely weird professorial feedback: I'm being asked not to cite *any* online sources of any variety, which is sort of a problem when I need to cite BRFSS data that are only available (disaggregated by US state and disability type) in the CDC's Disability and Health Data System.

phew

happy pride 🧱 🌈✨

it's 8am on a Monday and the queue for my office's tech support hotline is currently 7 callers deep. wheeeee

no but literally, your tax dollars! at work! (very cool thread)

Galapagos Octopus O what a Joye to us! Galapagos Octopus Do what you do! Raucous and Bumptious, Galapagos Octopus! Azure and Splendorous -- Tinye and blue!

sorry, I didn't actually have a hurricane-and-exploding-asteroid preparedness thread ready to go...

god I wish Ed Markey were not 79 years old but he is absolutely still the superior choice to Seth fucking Moulton

Ben Sisko trying to explain linear time to the wormhole aliens:

I mean, if the terrifying violence isn't actually coming from the TERF... big if true

just when you thought MERL couldn't get any cooler...

Say it with me... The fascists aren't having any fun and the latest concert debacle is downstream of this fact. Their art sucks and this is a major reason they can't stand the Left(s).

Difficult times lead to difficult choices, but take heart! No matter how hard things are, you have made the most important choice already: to live with integrity and honor, to be a true warrior. Let that choice guide the choices that follow, and watch as difficult times retreat from your glory.

MIT boasts a $27b endowment

btw here's what a bluesky search of "psychotic" turns up: here are all the most popular ways people use the term psychotic to describe things as of the last week or so. note that I didn't include repeats, and these are just the ones that happened to fit on my phone screenshot

Now that we've had our first heat wave of the year here in Massachusetts, it's a good time to review the heat safety tips and preparedness resources at www.mass.gov/extreme-heat

HO-LEE SHIT. I knew it was going to be bad, but this is deeply fucking brazen. (Also, I've literally never been summoned for jury duty and this makes me even more annoyed about that fact.)

This weekend, I made a bunch of knitting progress, helped write a speech, learned how to screen-print, successfully made one (1) fire-eating torch, and helped assemble approximately fifty gazillion buttons. God *damn,* making things (especially with friends!)feels good.

Also! We’re still looking for more Dyke Patrol volunteers! We truly believe that we keep us safe, and Dyke Patrol is how we do it. You can sign up here or check the link in our bio for other volunteer opportunities!

Same!!

this, plus diet shit

i am altering my sex. pray i do not alter it further

the Colbert cancellation is a labor issue, to my mind. Colbert’s show employed hundreds of union employees working nightly. Byron Allen’s non-union show costs CBS nothing (literal zero), and costs Allen very little as well since comics provide their own material for a nominal fee and exposure

gonna become a counterpart to those public facing medievalists who weigh in when people throw around "the dark ages" or "feudalism" by popping up whenever someone says a thing is "undergoing a Renaissance" to be like "oh so it's expanding its techniques of social control and imperial extraction?"

Oh my God Karen you can’t just ask Europeans what year their grandfather “fought the communists”

you can absolutely call fetterman an evil piece of shit and a disgrace and a disappointment without resorting to ableism btw

this thread makes me so happy

love the term "extreme language use" in this article 😄

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

A tangent here, but I'm not a huge fan of the growing anti-tax sentiment from Democrats at a time when municipal budgets around the country (including here in Massachusetts) are getting absolutely crushed by the one-two punch of falling federal/state aid and rising healthcare and retirement costs.

I have a genuinely cool opportunity to do something meaningful in addition to my day job, and literally the only thing standing in my way is the requirement that I reformat my CV to fit in a painfully confusing template.

I would like to remember barney frank positively as a trailblazer for gay rights and what I am mostly going to remember him for is his longseated transphobia given the way he spent his final days that's what he appears to have wanted people to remember

anyway for my disabled friends who are struggling with bills and *also* struggling to cook yeah wouldn't it be great if we always had the energy to just bulk prep meals our bodies could digest but in the meantime, fed is best, I'm not judging you for getting food delivered or whatever

Let's remember Barney Frank as he was remembered at the time. Let's put the man and his words and his deeds in context, as Valerie Keefe did in 2011. "it's safe to say that Frank repeatedly scuttled the trans-inclusive ENDA, and supported compromises that would have entirely excluded trans people"

I appreciate Barney Frank’s legacy as an out gay politician when it was very difficult to do that. I just wish he’d have used his empathy to understand that trans people are fighting the same fight, rather than using his last breath to throw them under the bus

btw if you think people shouldn't use the r word, and/or regret doing so as a youth, maybe apply that same logic to using "psychotic" to mean horrible, murderous, terrifying, lacking empathy, dangerous, or stupid 🤝