Roxy has been looking after me very diligently

today I am sore and tired, mostly. I’ve been getting glimpses of the news between naps. my heart is broken and, simultaneously, I am so moved by everyone who is out in the streets tonight.

surgery is over and I’m home safely!! all went well by all accounts

ICYMI: I can finally announce TRANSLUNAR, my November 2027 historical novel. Doris is a closeted trans woman who's built a high-powered career as a test pilot and astronaut. Why? Because she's ambitious and obsessed with aviation! And *incidentally* to make coming out unimaginable. It's not working.

go ahead I suppose

called Pelosi, accidentally said she won’t get the vote of anyone in my household if she votes yes on DHS funding, remembered she’s retiring, went dead silent, hung up. and yet I Still feel better for having done it

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem As ever.

IN BETTER NEWS NEW ISAAC BOOK

yes, it's weird to see people from the country that voted for brexit but loudly protesting that brexit wasn't their fault then turn around and blame all americans for trump, that's for sure

there are so many levels on which i'm worn out by "we hate all of you and you are obliged to be okay with it" but here's one: until i moved to the US from the UK I literally didn't – couldn't – grasp the scale of the US, the granularity of its politics, or the entrenchment of the status quo here.

a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would today, they stopped it

instead of real actual cortisol I’m now cooking my brain in the false second-hand cortisol of lies, as generated by every season of the traitors. someone put cirie fields in high office I’m not even joking

This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.

i am getting surgery on friday and that's wretched. like on one level, am i looking forward to a period of enforced respite during which i'm too tired and pain-medicated to think about anything much? sure. but on every other level i would deeply rather not.

Life imitates art

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

this is just someone trying and failing to remember the lyrics to a song from Hamilton

i'm literally not talking about this on the internet but i do need you all to know that the real estate guy we just talked to had fully googled me. 'i see you went to cambridge,' he said cheerfully before telling me everything i could ever wish to know about knob and tube wiring

All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

This is the spirit of democracy

cannot survive without things in my life that have nothing to do with the horrors. must remember this. (staggeringly difficult to remember this.)

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

if I see you dooming on the timeline you have to donate to the Minneapolis strike fund

this morning i saw the most beautiful pink-and-blue sunrise over the SF bay on my way to work – the farallones and angel island drenched in perfect light. the worse things get the more my stance on leaving settles at "no, YOU move"

my desk area is looking very good lately I think

happy friday everyone observe the void

I would actually die for Roxy. she has a good soul

new mitski album save me. save me new mitski album

my little alligator son has emerged fully formed into the world, soon to make his way to @scumbelievable.bsky.social

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

got a gift card from work as a belated holiday bonus thing so obviously I did this

From @sigridellis.bsky.social who I would trust like no other to hold my back in a bar fight---If you want to help people on the ground in Minn, this is where you can send $$$. They manage anti-ICE training and resources, and are feeding vulnerable families. immigrantdefensenetwork.org/donate/

anyway i am about to try really hard to be Off Line today on account of SCOTUS. my comrades in gender please do what you must to take care of yourselves (ideally it should not be on the internet)

i explained the Luddites to my personal trainer yesterday. did my utmost to emphasise how completely fucking hardcore they were, naturally

i got to read the aforementioned haunted house novella this weekend and it slaps beyond measure. like WAY more meat than you would expect in a book about a dollhouse museum

my home river is the River Avon, with an honourable mention for the Oxford Canal. my rivers of adulthood have included the Cam and the Cherwell in the UK, and the Sackville and Shubenacadie Rivers in Canada

BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul sue Noem and others over DHS immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, seeking TRO to block the surge and stop unlawful actions detailed in the complaint.

a) this is great advice; b) i want to throw this newsletter physically at everyone who has suggested, enthusiastically, that i monetise crocheting little guys

spent this morning fighting two printers simultaneously and reassuring a colleague that no, an email that has already been answered by its intended recipient is not something she needs to worry about actually, and now i am a husk. simply done for the day. someone come and wheel me home

first ten people to show me a donation receipt to Second Harvest, I'll make you a pet menu similar to the below. just tell me: - your pet's name - what your pet eats - a few facts about what your pet likes to do, what crimes they commit, etc I'll do more if there is interest! please share!

so Isaac has a bit where he makes his hand into a python called Pytron while we watch TV, and has Pytron offer occasional remarks or comments on what we are watching. anyway we are watching an old season of drag race and Pytron is, hysterically, a die hard Valentina stan now

Become uncontainable

first ten people to show me a donation receipt to Second Harvest, I'll make you a pet menu similar to the below. just tell me: - your pet's name - what your pet eats - a few facts about what your pet likes to do, what crimes they commit, etc I'll do more if there is interest! please share!

we got roxy a heated cat bed and before i could even test to make sure it was at a comfortable temperature, she hopped in, palpated it gently, and flopped happily onto it. she has never cared about any other cat bed. she just did a little dreamy twitch in her sleep

"without witness, without reward" is a really good principle to follow. whether it's action, kindness, providing aid, or charity, you can do a lot of good in this world without seeking the validation that comes from the number on your post going up.

oh my god it would be a direct throwback to 2017. nightmare scenario. for the good of the people I must never succeed