Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Undecided whether this is a birding high or low but I was looking out of the window earlier telling a bird it was beautiful and how much I loved it and @joehills.net came up the stairs and said ‘Talking to your Junco’s?’ 😍😂

Someone from Cork telling you they’ve had a busy day

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Wait, so Nashville cancels our tornado siren tests on Saturdays where the weather is already looking bad, but not on days when the US invades a South American country?

Can’t share it cos of operational security, but I was just filming a phalanx of Black Vultures over my house and then the monthly Tornado Siren test went off. It feels very ominous especially with today’s news 💀😂

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Happy New Year to everyone but the MT, PST and Hawaii folks (yet). I spent the first moments tooting my recorder to Auld Lang Syne and smooching my husband.

Found a fun easy stretch that helps my dislocated or subluxated hips go back into place, which worked perfectly just now but the other one popped out just minutes later. Sigh.

It was 23°c yesterday…

Just reminded that this exists. One of the best CHEAP sparkling wines I’ve ever drunk. Highly recommend for NYE if you can get it.

There is more of gravy than the grave on my dining table.

I haven’t seen this for at least a decade. I just full body cringed so hard I think I broke a toe.

Merry Thursday however you deem to celebrate it. 💜

The local Starlings here in Nashville have been around some Common Loons, every now and then they make a noise like a typical Hollywood haunted swamp.

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

It’s the last day of a big freeze in Nashville and my favourite thing is seeing all the crazy dangerous icicles dangling from the highway cuts. So pretty. Very spiky.

The problem with the BBC being the nation’s finest engine for soft power, is that people have realised that they can easily exert hard, nasty, cruel power on it, and bend it out of shape. Empathy, curiosity and compassion shouldn’t be problematic qualities that need silencing. Seems they are now.

Pokey but delicious.

Made gluten free lasagne soup for a party and now I’m one of those people who talk about crock-pot recipes at parties.

Matt is one of my favourite people and one of the best in the business. Go see him if you enjoy laughing. If you don’t then probably don’t he won’t like that

Finally saw this online with my husband, which wasn’t at all weird as it was about my dead ex boyfriend. It was beautiful, funny, and very poignant. Paul’s last text to me while I was stuck 4200 miles away was to avenge his death, and I’ll do it, probably by giving a denier a bad dose of the Rona.

now he's making a list, and she's calling a cab now he's checking it twice, and she's taking a drag

Me about 5 mins into ‘wake up dead man’: ‘IS THAT EPPING?’ 😂

Pronouncing the “bygones” in “let bygones be bygones” like cajones

We hit 20K!!! that's 20k raised for The Living School of the Amazon! Keep playing and donating over on live.lovetropics.org #lt25

Thank you to @Joehills.net & @badgerspanner.bsky.social for kicking off the second half of Love Tropic's first day, and pushing us past an outstanding $7,500 so far! (AMAZING ❤️) It's now time for @odomame.bsky.social to take center stage and keep the donation train going! --> lovetropics.org! <--

Thank you to @mysticat.live for such an exciting string of mini-games for our third segment of the day, and helping to raise $6,577.36 so far for the Pachamama Alliance! ❤️ 🌴 Now it's time to pass it onto the building master @fwhip.bsky.social, so come join us for some more shenanigans! #lt25

I've avoided endorsing political candidates who don't reach out to me personally and ask for an endorsement in the past, but as a Nashville resident for over two decades, I'm shocked at the international attention TN-07 candidate @aftynbehn.bsky.social's complaints about our city have received.

See this pretty spawn design I made & many more builds we've been working on over the past few weeks, during this weekend's event! 🤩

Doing a VERY basic Disney's Phantom Manor inspired build and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming together so far. (I've gone wildly different with the block palette but I love it so much)

They’re baaaack! Minecraft’s favorite couple are joining us once again for another pun-filled year in the tropics! See you soon, @joehills.net and @badgerspanner.bsky.social ❤️ 🌴 #lt25

ONE WEEK TO GO!! Love Tropics 2025 goes LIVE at 1pm EST/ 6pm UTC on November 21! See you there! 🌴 ❤️ #lt25 lovetropics.org

This is FUCKING INSANE

Happy ‘Checking your winter shoes and slippers for Brown Recluses’ day to all those who celebrate.

Cw medical/injury. I lived bitch!

Can't sleep because the world seems rough? Enjoy my most saccharine video of HermitCraft season 10 as my spectacular spouse @badgerspanner.bsky.social joins me to celebrate our 1-year wedding anniversary! youtu.be/xW__p23u1UY

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be unclosed .mp3 decoders.

This Saturday, my spectacular spouse @badgerspanner.bsky.social and I will be celebrating our first wedding anniversary at 8:30pm CDT at twitch.tv/joehills Let's reminisce about the last year and look forward to many more!

An Englanad is a red cross painted on one bollock.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Dun a fing.

And done!

Please bake ok, please bake ok… #polymerclay #minaturefood

At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.