first Lego of 2026 oh dear

for purely bureaucratic reasons i have to take training courses on carcinogens and bloodborne pathogens every year, despite not personally working with them or even around them. anyway ask me about aerosol-generating procedures

Catch my poem "No Kings / No Soldiers" in today's issue of Uncanny Magazine! (And while you're there, check out the rest of the issue!) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/no-k...

I just got super into building little Lego cityscape kits, I’m right back into crocheting little amigurumi animals, and I’ve spent significant chunks of this evening trying to invent the world’s premier Christ-fearing hot dog influencer for an objectively unhinged project I’ve been brainstorming

Roses are red, Sunlight is bright

the only part of changing your name in the UK that will cost you any money is renewing your passport, which costs money anyway. literally just go to freedeedpoll.org and show it to any institutions that need proof of a name change (you may have to be a bit insistent about it)

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

been working on this alligator for @scumbelievable.bsky.social's nephew, and now that he's partially joined together I feel okay showing a progress pic or two

last night i dreamed i was back in oxford watching a protest start to develop from a high place in college. i saw a fire engine barrelling toward the protestors and tried to get down there to warn them. but in the dream the fire engine wasn't heading for the protestors.

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

looking at phone this morning

I work with NIH-funded scientists and will happily confirm that the grantwriting process is, put politely, deranged

We need everyone who can: • Email your MP using our template • Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur • Submit complaints using our guide on BBC articles that use degrading or misleading language about trans people tacc.org.uk/2026/01/02/e... 2/3

back to work only to find that, in my absence, half of one lab has managed to fuck up their timecards and half of another lab has managed to fuck up their ordering. Cool

on the occasion of new year's eve (a holiday I lowkey think should not be on december 31), a recap and a reflection buttondown.com/waverlysm/ar...

I am pleased about mamdani. Sue me

the only way to round out 2025: @catacalypto.bsky.social reading this thread aloud at @cara.city’s birthday party

on the occasion of new year's eve (a holiday I lowkey think should not be on december 31), a recap and a reflection buttondown.com/waverlysm/ar...

you should actually ignore all my movie takes. they are rendered meaningless by the fact that i watched WICKED last night and enjoyed it

I'm truly honored that the Transfeminine Review has awarded Notes from a Regicide "Best Transfeminine Representation by a Non-Transfeminine Author." This whole award page is full of incredible recs, including some work that was not on my radar before -- they do such good work at TR!

the rare waverly movie take: EDDINGTON would have been a fucking phenomenal movie if it had ended 40 minutes earlier and remained focused on its protagonist as its sole villain

2025 recapped

unfortunately I’m a Lego guy now

having been in transit for like all of december i was really too wiped out to properly appreciate christmas with Isaac's family this year. that said: it was really nice to be largely offline and almost entirely focused on a 2.5-year-old hurricane creature for a few days. she doesn't know about News

I’ve invented a great Christmas song called “Feliz Babydad”

happy holidays from my family (me, niece, cartoon snoopy) to yours

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

the baby has gone to bed in distress because she did not want to finish the cookie that she had, but instead wanted to eat "all the rest of them". merry shitscram

2026 is going to be my year

I love Isaac’s family and I love hanging out with the baby (now 2.5!!) but oh my god I’m still too jetlagged for Christmas. my soul is still languishing somewhere over one of the Dakotas. Dakotae? fuck me

San Francisco Bay Area, PLEASE retweet - here's the front desk phone number for KPIX. It's buried deep in the website. 415-362-5550. Press #3 to leave a comment. Call them, say you are boycotting all CBS and Paramount properties until Bari Weiss is replaced

i feel that all the common writing advice truisms (show don't tell, write what you know, etc) are reductive enough to be functionally useless at this point my other take: we dwell too much on general writing advice (often not applicable to individual craft) vs advice on the Industry

my yarn stash

here’s the thing: I haven’t written meaningfully in an embarrassingly long time and I feel deeply, sincerely miserable about it in a way that’s real enough to be very hard to admit to. still would rather shut my fingers in a car door than use AI.

It's your birthday, Duane.

okay now that i'm home i'm here to relate to you some things that happened to us in the UK: - minor taxi rank scuffle in Sheffield, Isaac's first introduction to the dark side of office party season - Isaac ate a mince pie and said "oh no it tastes like too much Christmas" (tbc)

global entry works lmao I just sailed over the US border and they didn’t even look at my green card. adrenaline at approx 1000

3:19am I believe in us. We will be okay. We will see communism in our lifetimes. I love you. 3:44am Burning all my paintings. My art is a waste I am sorry for wasting so much time I will never be good enough 4:31am if kirby swallowed a pirate he would be Scurby

this is my transmasculine son. what, dear friends, is his name?

a problem i'm having is that sheffield/the peak district is lovely enough, and we are well enough looked after by my aunt and uncle, that i could imagine us living here. fortunately i do know that the second we had to actually live here i would close a car boot repeatedly with my head inside

Love Is Not All (Sonnet XXX), Edna St Vincent Millay

hello from England, where I have already been microaggressed for not sounding English anymore

i wish all leftists who leap at the opportunity to abandon the south a very shut up

trying to apply the "girl (gn) what the fuck are you talking about" method in dealing with my sudden-onset pre-travel anxiety and it's working remarkably well, considering the extremely high levels of "what the fuck are you talking about" out there in the world lately

today sucks, oh my god

wrote this a few weeks ago

I used to volunteer with Girlguiding when I lived in the UK. never had anyone – anyone, including kids when they asked about me! – be less than curious about and supportive of my identity. read this while getting off the train at work and genuinely had to take a second to breathe. I'm devastated.

my beloved @isaac-fellman.bsky.social commemorates a rotation around the sun today. for an entire six months, our problematic age gap is a whole extra number more problematic than usual. celebrate with me!

my alma mater doing what it’s always done best: protect its own interests at the expense of the actual people involved in the project