Not my best work, but felt like this was what's on the menu for Bsky today.

ok who says that last one

for what it’s worth, trans women in a federal case I’m covering have been denied their hormones while being held in men’s facilities under federal charges. I feel like cis people don’t realize that this is happening at all

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

I'm on HRT and living with my family because I'm broke. They don't know I'm trans (and they are NOT okay with this kind of thing), and it will become a problem. Help me pay off my immense debt so I can afford rent and utilities. Venmo: @ZoeBlank Paypal: @ZoeBlank1

Ah yes, noted masculinity experts Matt Taibbi and Oli London.

🔥 ꜱʜᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇꜱ ᴍʏ ꜱᴘᴀʀᴋ 🔥

My brain was initially like "why did that kid's grandpa have the new St. Vincent album?"

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

To be very precise, on top of being a useless conman, he is one of the biggest mass-murders in history, a genocideer on par with any of history's other monsters.

I'm not quite as hot as I used to be, but my sad gay folk music has only gotten sadder and gayer.

Did a cartoon for @josie.zone related to her upcoming @beckbook.com, the book about Beck.

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

"Mom... Dad... I'm white."

“The prison is, of course, retaliating against them for basically assisting a nonprofit legal organization in bringing a giant lawsuit about the abuses of solitary confinement in the Oregon prison system,”

90% of AAA game is either disappointing, too expensive or morally compromised meanwhile there’s like five hundred beautiful indie games out there every day that are like ‘what if we kept making quake but with a half life gravity gun’ or ‘what if there was a new Power Stone but for homosexuals’

Grave Digger Joe say it ain't so!

Allegedly the banned-for-life list from the soon to shutter Parkview Tavern.

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

1) countless trans kids are going to needlessly suffer because of this. 2) 18 year olds are ADULTS – so your conceding (as Trump admin hoped by setting 19 at age) that restricting care for trans adults is fine. 3) this goes against the recommendations of most medical professional organizations...

Ok - starting now. Sarah Owen - says code of practice will be focus. Asks Mary-Ann Stephenson - what are you doing to ensure you're hearing from a range of people?

EHRC: We are changing the law to ban trans people Anyone with a brain: How is that going to work? EHRC: It's worked fine for decades YES YOU STUPID FUCK, IT'S WORKED FINE WITHOUT BANNING TRANS PEOPLE FOR DECADES

Folks, we did it. An old man is literally yelling at a cloud.

Ríhanna is a fierce Indigenous & trans activist who's spent countless hours advocating for others, even as bigots have tried driving her out of her home. queer people come from everywhere and deserve to live wherever they fucking want, including Wyoming. please support her. links in the reply.

This reads like comments I used to get on selfies I'd post to Facebook.

i also have very little to add to this other than if you fell for this extremely artificial panic, fucking shame on you, and it got you absolutely nothing and nowhere and now your life is worse too.

It is the position of the state of Wyoming that Rhianna Kelver, a subhuman, was obligated to submit to being beaten to death for the entertainment of a group of real people

The fight over DOJ's invasive trans care subpoenas is coming to a head. Three court appearances next week could represent the most critical moment in the past year for DOJ's effort to target the provision of medical care for transgender minors. This afternoon, at Law Dork:

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

ok, this place has the juice

Rest In Power

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Me, while enjoying a very, very good slice of sourdough bread made from yeast growing inside the guts of a 5000 year old frozen mummy:

If you look closely you can see my porch garden reflected in my glasses. No person has ever been more 42.

16 years into my transgender phase, and 25 years into my writing sad gay folk music phase.

If transition is 'assimilationist', why do we have to work so hard to access it? If it's treating trans subjects as a "niche for-profit market" why do we need to secure our own supply lines, community resources, or fucking make the stuff ourselves? In defiance of all institutional gatekeeping?

NEW ESSAY: Origins of the Anti-Trans “Groomer” Slur. it provides historical context, a timeline of how it spread, & how it shapes anti-trans/LGBTQ legislation. pls share! on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/origins-of-t... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/origins-of...

The irony is that most of the people celebrating nuclear family month will be people whose kids/grandkids don't talk to them anymore.

I'll be reposting this all month. You should know the Boskovitch fan, and so should all your friends. it's incredible art history as well as Queer history.

This reads like what Stephen Miller will say if Paxton beats Talarico in Texas.

...has me!