There are many great books in 2025 but especially do not forget SOUR CHERRY, NOTES FROM A REGICIDE, MAD SISTERS OF ESI and WORKS OF VERMIN!

I so completely understand the anxiety we are all feeling right now, and I don’t judge anyone for seeing scary headlines and getting scared. but since we can’t stop outlets like this one from reporting irresponsibly, we owe it to ourselves to be cautious about what we read

I GET KNOCKED DOWN I DONT GET UP AGAIN I REALLY LIKE IT ON THE GROUND I STAY KNOCKED DOWN I DONT GET UP AGAIN ITS REALLY COMFY ON THE GROUND

I read Amy Tan’s THE JOY LUCK CLUB on a train while mulling over potential names and I liked the way “Waverly” felt on me. fun fact I currently live quite near the street the Waverly character is named for

hey I did my little gender talk and it went well and I feel good about having helped people understand something that can feel pretty daunting to engage with from the outside. action alleviates anxiety, can you believe it

i am at the point in my Immigration Journey tm tm tm where i need to remove the conditions on my green card. this means paying $700 for the privilege of having my application completely ignored until I apply for citizenship in another year's time

RESCHEDULED! We're celebrating Notes from a Regicide's new paperback at Capital Books in Sacramento on March 21 (Saturday). Book comes with the ticket. Can't wait for this -- book events are how my performance bug comes out, and it's been way too long.

read this last night, rapt and horrified. (also I really enjoyed O'Hagan's novel CALEDONIAN ROAD last year, I recommend it if you want more on the theme of "England is rotting from the inside out")

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

I think about how Kaleb Horton died niche and underemployed and my thoughts very quickly turn redacted

cancelled documentarian ten years later

trying to conserve a crumb of dollar by bringing coffee into work in a flask rather than stopping at the coffee place en route to my desk. but i had become very tight with the barista at the coffee place and now i feel guilty for not supporting her. why is life like this

on this subject i can confirm that, with isaac back home, i woke up promptly at 8am (the artist formerly known as 7am) and immediately hopped up to have breakfast. marriage is good for mainly this reason

Reading the news today

genuinely can't believe i used to live alone and, like, keep my life even halfway on rails. this week without isaac has felt so shapeless and weird and i am so glad he's coming back tomorrow

it's so cool that i'm finalising my twenty-minute guide to transness and there are so many fun new legal horrors i now get to include. great stuff. wonder what fresh nightmares will befall my people before 1pm on tuesday

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hey guys i'm starting to think it wasn't a great idea to elect the failson heir to a jeans empire as mayor of an actual city?

my new friends

you know I had to do it (@tlpavlich.gay in particular)

I keep seeing so many people on social media obsessed with having a take, in times of crisis. Hell, I've done it too. But remember: You DON'T have to have one. It's ok to say I have no idea. Also, see image:

Hey, "House, Body, Bird" by @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social is out! This is a wild little roller coaster ride of a book that you can buy and read NOW (and you should!)

i have set up a great way of living where i will hear only second-hand of things like "the bad atlantic article" without ever coming across them directly. what's it about? why's it bad? let's just ride out the context clues and let it go

i keep being forced to confront my own name on terrifying adult paperwork and i keep not enjoying it one bit. i forgot that apples were possible, guys. you can't let me become a homeowner

unfortunately, as a brit who voluntarily came to america: i get it

I’m so bad at living that I forget that I like apples. do you know about these bad boys. just a crisp little juice orb you can consume

yesterday i walked up over a big awful hill to get groceries. my reward for doing this was the absolutely insane view from the top of the hill, out across the city to the hills beyond. i'm trying to lean into friction lately.

i'm not re-sharing the garbage re: how ~opinion pieces do not reflect the views of the newspaper~ but i WILL say it is deeply reflective of the mindset that people trained for positions of authority learn early on. it's the debate club thing. ideas don't have consequences; it's all just an exercise.

i have not known what to say all day. i still don't. but today my cat remembered our friend (an expert petter of cats) when she came over for dinner and rolled around all over her feet in happiness. tomorrow i will walk up the hill, for my agonies. and on monday i will find something to do about it.

Wise words

The reason The Terror is such a remarkable piece of not just television but also of both storytelling and art is because it was sensitively yet radically adapted by David Kajganich, who treated it (and still treats it) as a real labour of love.

my inbox lately is like “help us fight this wildly unconstitutional new law! here’s some horrifying new tech shit! btw would you like to buy a cool new shirt about it”

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Something very cool just happened on the Scepter’d Isle

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

my commitment to not dooming out on the timeline is being profoundly fucking tested this week. i believe in us (even/especially when that belief is hard to hold onto in the face of overwhelm). i wish deeply that the circumstances did not require this of me.

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

i don't know shit when it comes to capital-F Fashion but this really, sincerely rules

i don't mean to alarm you but i've been working on something, for a thing

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

“I need everyone to read” no. “if you aren’t watching” I will perish first. “why don’t you care about” because I am an awful contrarian who hates joy. any further questions?

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

can confirm that in my time away from work, my brain has indeed gotten slack and loose like a bowel

horrifying dream about a brain implant company staging a coup. distinctly remember one dream character saying to another “your brain will get slack and loose like a bowel”. my subconscious everybody

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

it’s so weird to think that there was a whole little slice of my life where I lived in Canada, and that was just what was going on for a while. different city different friends. different incipient political horrors. a bizarre season of the waverly show to be sure