check out this Ambera Wellman painting I saw a few weeks ago:

I want to see Oratorio For Living Things but I wonder if it’s just reanimating that kind of hypomania-inducing choral work that megachurches rely on

excuse me

I had well over ten years of highly-curated playlists on Spotify, and I thought it would be sooo hard to move. IT WAS EASY. And I got to leave a bitchy note to them on the way out.

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk. My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

RIP Major. I learned so much from you, and will continue to learn from you, long after this.

Centering Sylvia is the move of a real one. I know, no stanning politicians, but this got me choked up. Feels like a birthday gift

that shirt that reads, “I AM A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND BIOLOGY” but on the back it also reads, “BIOLOGY ISN’T LAW, AND LAWS—LIKE GOD—AREN’T REAL”

going to be a sad day when I run out of my Prisme Libre powder that still has talc

cops lying about use of flock cams to track someone down for SMA. Despicable and entirely predictable.

stop gossiping on main; it’s bad form

It's impossible to separate Hegseth's vision of "warrior culture" from his storied history of violence against women in his life, fundamentalist faith in the patriarchy, and his own pathetic insecurities. I have zero faith he won't entangle us in wars to validate his own flailing gender identity

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

the full recording is here:

Remember the international response when there was a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral

I guess it’s not a big shock that a tech product most famous for being inaccurate would go with one of the most unreliable and problematic age verification schemes, but it sure is annoying

NEW in @chron.com: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ books were found sitting in a surplus warehouse at Texas A&M University, and the university won't say why. As first reported by @joyurcaba.bsky.social, the books include a memoir by Matthew Shepard's mother and academic texts. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

imagine if the murder of Sam Nordquist had caused even half of this hubbub

Living with my own cat as an adult helps me understand Donna Haraway’s work so much more

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

wrapped up this joyous day by seeing Ethel Cain at the Kings Theater

You know how software devs use “boilerplate” for reusable starter code? I propose we use “sloper” from now on, partly because it’s more accurate to the metaphor and partly because it dispells the faux-masc vibe of the former.

I need the revival of ART to be a colossal failure

As management cybernetics founder Stafford Beer famously wrote, “the purpose of a system is what it does.” When I look around and see wanton economic and social devastation, fear and suffering a despair and bewilderment, I think of this observation. The purpose of a system is what it does

he’s probably trying to buy more time by luring victims into the lament configuration

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

it’s pronounced “system cuddle”

they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights

throwing a dinner party to celebrate the death of James Dobson 🤪

difficult not to be sort of into ticks passing along alpha-gal syndrome

[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment] Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable. transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...

buying porn at the hacker con

reviewing materials for my presentation at HOPE this weekend, a small part of which I get to share this incredible letter from a retired judge and politician in SF, which he signed off, “Yours Disgustedly, Quentin Kopp”

A story designed to break my heart specifically: "The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would have required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom."

same character, different worlds

Grateful to be getting older and now cultivating the skill to be brave when asking someone to turn the volume down.

the stupid bitch in me recognizes the stupid bitch in you

Found a first edition RE/Search Modern Primitives, a friend carved a sigil into me, and I made friends with a sweet person who I’m sure will be in my life for a long time ✨🖤

when i say abolitionist frameworks must be included in our structuring of tech justice, that anti-carceral modes of thinking need to undergird our strategies for resisting surveillance, this is why

surveillance bad

ICYMI: Did you know that police are starting to feed body-worn camera audio into generative AI to write police reports? We investigated Axon's Draft One and found there's no way of knowing which parts of final reports were written by AI and which parts were written by humans.

This Friday, NYC DJs and nightlife workers will be protesting Boiler Room and its genocide-funding parent company KKR outside its event under the K Bridge in Brooklyn Journalists: please holler if you wanna come thru and i can get you tapped-in :)

fuck 4th of july

9. I hope McBride finds principle. I hope that one day, instead of offering cover for those pleading for permission to let us drown, she stands firm and claims the legacy her position demands. We need someone who doesn’t flinch when the battle for rights turns against us—but rises to meet it.

Fuck the NYT

going on about Bette Midler’s bathhouse performances, repeating, “Your faves could NEVER.”