my baby niece had her first day of preschool today, in the benighted war zone of portland oregon. a small platoon of babies marched bravely off to battle (the yard) clad in uniform (rain coats). hair-raising scenes

a) this is a really good, insightful piece, and i continue to recommend Law Dork as a means to stay on top of US legal developments b) "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty" goes so, so hard. I have been thinking about it since yesterday

Customer: (not on record) DMV: ? Verdict: ACCEPTED

we’re watching old project runway seasons in the evenings to shut our brains down lately, and I just cracked up Isaac by showing him this in silence

noooo don’t shut down the government your so sexy aha

there is nothing so good or so important in this world as coming home to a little cat who peeps at you happily and rubs her whole face against your leg

if i put "loam enthusiast" in my bio do you think people would make the correct assumption that i crave a wormlike return to the cool embrace of the soil, or do you think they would just figure i like to garden

man. imagine.

post a you from a different era

TL;DR, the current CR doesn't have any risks to gender-affirming care. But the upcoming spending fight will and it's important to differentiate between the two, especially when it's information for a vulnerable population. Our job should be to seek truth and report it and minimize harm.

a good and helpful thread. this is not permission to stop calling your democrat-aligned reps.

I've been to Walmart exactly one time. it was my first time in America, in Buffalo, NY. I fell in love with America literally at first sight, when we hit the highway for the first time and I realised that, okay, this place was Large. I was beyond susceptible. still fucking hated Walmart

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

please god call your representatives

it was really moving actually to be at Folsom today and see people being joyfully, publicly freaky and queer. took me a second to mentally recalibrate to the space but I’m glad I gave it time.

This is the most British thing ever

we had a nice time and I bought a harness

wearing my slutty CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE muscle tank to folsom to broadcast my love of both queerness and citations

Beleaguered babes in YOUR AREA need to lie down immediately

I want to go to Folsom tomorrow because who knows where we’ll be or what we’ll be doing next year but I also, critically, want to lie in a dark and solitary room for the next 5 days minimum. how do I square this circle guys I need help

well, at least it's saturday. which means cats. here's roxy helping me to construct furniture (emphasis on "fur") earlier in the week

my baby niece is in Portland, OR. feel the need to underscore how absurdly chill the city is. it feels like a series of patchworked little towns. not that this vibe is necessary to render the use of military force against a place unconscionable — but you see that this is unhinged flailing, right?

For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰🐇: Love the facial expression on this blue bunny, it just keeps getting funnier the longer you stare back at it😂 China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1654-1722), porcelain w/ blue glaze, Newfields collection: collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/23070/

Czesław Miłosz

hades original flavour has SUCH good gameplay that i basically burned a hole in my switch playing it during the late pandemic, but i did very much find myself skipping irritably through the gods' dialogue for these exact reasons (also why i have not yet pounced on the sequel)

were you NOT assigned full books to read in high school english?? we did literally nothing but read full books lmao

i wonder how isaac chotiner feels about becoming a meme

if there's one thing about my homeland, it's this: we Will give your big fancy important project a spiteful little nickname

Pretty sure the probability of this being universally known as a "Shit Card" is 100%.

isaac is in the shower singing the mountain goats. "i come from chino," he says, "so all your threats are empty." but he does not come from chino. make it make sense, america

in a bid to have a reason to keep my shit together through the next several months I have booked to come to this. Halifax my love I am returning in this lifetime

had a nice chat with a remarkably normal Guy Sitting Outside Trader Joe’s this evening. simply a regular man with a nice dog, furious about the government and bemused but chill with trans people. thank you Nelson (and Kiwi the dog) you improved my day a whole lot

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

jimberly kimberly. send tweet

gave roxy a little brush and she started licking my knee while i did it. mutual cleaning. i love my creature

this is cringe; nevertheless, I love your work @fungocrat.bsky.social thank you for reading my poem

if you want to tell me you have called an elected representative to advocate for us, or you have yelled at a care provider for wavering in its commitment to us, that’s a thing I personally welcome much more than a link to a questionably reported piece about the danger we face

small poem. i've been playing a lot of "name the 500 biggest urban areas in the US" type games lately to keep my mind busy when i'm fretful

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

small poem. i've been playing a lot of "name the 500 biggest urban areas in the US" type games lately to keep my mind busy when i'm fretful

writing a poem but it's just the word "forage" underlined three times

dudes rock

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

me every first episode of a taskmaster series: oh i probably wont even like these random comedians ive ever heard of me at the finale: i would die for each of these heroes

I like America. this is an affliction I experience. Americans? broadly nice people. the scenery? stunning. California? I am genuinely a bit patriotic about California, which is embarrassing

Your Members of Congress need to hear from you. Urge Senate Democrats to keep holding their ground. If you’re represented by Sen. Fetterman or Rep. Golden (or Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, who was recorded as not voting), be sure to let them know how you feel about their support for the GOP’s proposals.

Roxy, Roxinald, Roxito, Little Roxy, Miss Baby, Miss Ma’am, Wormy, Wormo, Peepo, God Damn It Roxy

hey, there's a thread linked below about why this shutdown matters for trans people specifically & why senate democrats need to hear that, yes, a shutdown is worth it & people only don't hate you when you actually fight for something. read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social; read the thread. make some calls.

last night we went to a genuinely phenomenal drag show (sasha colby at the palace of fine arts) and today we went to the railway museum for muni heritage weekend and I just. have to believe these little joys still matter, gang. I have to.

quote with the energy you bring to bsky