A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

Can confirm: Once saw my girlfriend being allegedly a user, and she hadn’t even heard of it until I saw the notification.

“sorry about the fascism you’re dealing with; here’s a $10 coupon that expires next week.” via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Just about halfway done with this new #embroidery.

I love painting portraits of Victoria #artsky #ocsky #scifi #cyberpunk

“It shouldn’t take 11 months and a FOIA lawsuit to learn that the government killed someone,” said a watchdog.

Stabbed myself under the fingernail but good working on this guy… hopefully turning out worth it!

I appreciate theses bits. ESPECIALLY ACTUAL SALARIED ANIMATORS.

... Not gonna lie: If your experience with other writers is ONLY tearing them down or insisting that they only tear others down (thus justifying you doing it...) You really need to re-evaluate your writing relationships because that sounds seriously unhealthy and honestly -sad-.

Reminder: “The SAVE America Act” is not saving us from anything real — and was born out of the lies of a malignant narcissist who incited an insurrection. 🇺🇸 Thank you for coming to our TED Talk. www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...

Same same and every time I'm like

ProPublica workers have been at the bargaining table for *two years* and are still waiting on management to step up with a fair contract. They're at over 80% on their strike pledge, which is how you know it's serious. Show them some solidarity! Strike fund is here:

I’m gonna have to wait before I can preorder this but as I’m finally finishing Lucky Day (excellent) and I’m a big fan, especially of Tingles horror, I look forward to grabbing a copy!

ALMOST done! Visible repair of a hole that my littlest accidentally cut in her shirt.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

My mother died from cancer in 1992. She was 37. I was 8. These trials offered hope that fewer 8 year old boys would bury their 37 year old mothers due to cancer.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Close the ICE detention centers.

historically, that did in fact happen when the concept of handwashing before delivering babies was developed, and a lot of very offended male doctors killed a lot of women and infants as a result. self-important wealthy men become offended when someone tells them to follow procedure, constantly.

I love the idea of visible mending, especially since there was no way I could patch this and not have it be obvious. So it gets to be one more butterfly on this shirt.

Watching Gaiman try and squirm his way back into public view and somehow turn all his past horrors into PR for the new book he somehow has coming out was probably predictable... but ngl I am deeply enjoying watching him get roasted on some other platforms and hope we can get that energy going here.

Oh these are -fun-. NGL I love both but I'm also perpetually too broke to buy all the cool pins I otherwise would but go check this out.

There's quite a lot going on, so it feels weird to be like HEY HEY LOOK AT ME, but maybe you like books, and like books by me, and want to see the cover to my next one, coming in August:

Ok I guess we can go Live now, whatever that means. This is Lumi, a character I play on @paperdemonarpg.bsky.social He likes geese.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

You know I was fairly confident that I was writing the emotional toll of living through violently unprecedented times pretty well... I really didn't need it confirmed.

🚨Reports incoming that federal agents have shot and killed another person near Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. Multiple shots fired. “It was an execution,” witness tells us.

Ohgod somehow I forgot how much storm fronts like this make my back hurt.

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

UPDATE: Today the resolution honoring Charlie Kirk, which passed the Tennessee house 72-17, passed the Tennessee senate 29-0. (4 Dems abstained, 2 voted yes along with all the Republicans) Read it here: www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bi...

Not about anyone here but: have you ever seen someone who seems to be the equivalent of the “no take, only throw” meme but for attention? I have a few times but it always somehow surprises me because it feels like such an empty way to interact with people.

Science is on the cusp of saving so many lives but the richest country in the history of the world is like “nah…take supplements”

A lot of people are talking about how America is being run by old people out of touch with reality. I did a video about this June 28, 2024 after the first presidential debate. Seems appropriate to repost it right now.

NEW: In his first public testimony, former special counsel Jack Smith warned Trump’s targeted attacks against civil servants in the DOJ pose a grave threat to the rule of law — a standard he affirmed “is not self-executing.”

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

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"Their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness."

The magnitude of the hypocrisy of Britain's trans moral panic has few better examples than the 3-metre tall adverts for testosterone tests featured on the Tube this month. HRT is so safe and life affirming you can start a business *encouraging* people to get it. Cis people, that is.

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is a problem. Internet searches have been a cause for concern (and occasionally help) for a while now. A lot of background knowledge is needed to make sense of the suggestions thrown up by searches, but the AI summaries simply aren’t reliable. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Someone noted there was a chance the discord poll was a phish, or possibly leaked outside its intended sample size. Kinda hoping for number 2 because that could land them a bill of unexpected scale and if they want to start with AI … they deserve it. Use your best guess and be safe.

and 3: They'll be really surprised when people complain about AI still

Sekhmet had her nearly one year "I was the first cat who survived white lung pneumonia from Avian Influenza" vet check, and looks amazing. Xrays GOOD! Vet didn't think she needed more, but it was still $800, so Shop.kikidoodle.com if you'd like to support my most expensive cat💕🐾 #CATS

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

“Defund the police” was a reasonable demand. If we had an opposition party, it wouldn’t have been coined as an “ineffective slogan” but rather how it could be effectively practiced.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.