Today I start a 4 session pottery class and I’m so excited! Get ready to receive mediocre ceramics from me for Christmas this year, friends!

East Eddie is in Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II?! High five to my 16yo for picking up on that! Also: my kids think Sid Haig looks like my brother #mst3k

Me on Tuesday: I’m taking Friday to make my own art—just wanna make stuff all day! Me on Friday: I decided to take the bookshelf from my studio and move it to my bedroom, then rearrange my entire studio (it’s a tiny bedroom.) Now everything is everywhere! I’ve made no art—just a mess! 🫠

Trans youth deserve to live as their true selves in school, on sports teams, at home, and everywhere else.

Dress for the job you want (Bog Witch) not the job you have (Regular Witch)

While I’m here, all shirts on my Threadless page are only $12 and everything else is on sale too. These are the deals, folks. stuffbymattmcg.threadless.com

Carrick. Maytide Street. Caller says a shirtless man is outside with a sword.

Happy Pie For Breakfast Day to those who celebrate 🥧☕️

Turned this on at the worst/best time…

If you go anywhere today — supermarket, drug store, movie theater — BE NICE TO THE PEOPLE WORKING. They probably want to be there even less than you do, and being a butthole won’t make anybody’s day better. So act like a human and treat humans like humans. Dig?

Who cried before noon today due to dysfunctional family matters? Just me?

Lil Jon on the Toys R Us float feels like a "Hey you're old" attack on me specifically but y'know what it works. #Heistgiving

Lil Jon just performed on the Toys R Us Float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and if you said “wait what year is it” it could be referring to four different parts of that sentence

Thankful I still have a job, for real. I do not take that for granted.

CURSED IMAGE #Heistgiving

If you aren’t following @popheist.com you are missing out—especially today!

My kids are riffing the Macys Day Parade coverage. We’ll get to the Turkey Day Marathon in a bit. Happy Turkey Day, MSTies!

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Hi Bluesky. My wife is in the Macy’s Parade tomorrow. I’m looking for people who might have an office or apartment on the parade route. Somewhere where I could come and take pictures and watch without wading through the people on the street. I know, I am asking for a miracle…

Now in its 15th year, Play it Forward Pittsburgh plans to serve more than 2,000 families this season. The group is asking for donations of toys, puzzles, games, sports equipment, and art supplies for children up to 12 years old.

This brought me to tears. As a mom of a trans kid who was a patient at Children’s I’ve been wondering for months if my kid’s entire medical history was in the hands of the DoJ and what that would ultimately mean for my family.

Friend of mine, a professor, loves @sleepwithcelebs.bsky.social and says she sleeps better to the male guests because as a woman in academia she often has to just tune out what long-winded men have to say. Given the premise of the show, the guys make her kind of drift away and she falls asleep.

We’re staying put for Thanksgiving this year, but I have spent several Thanksgivings with those depicted in these paintings. Atropos? Check. Two Women Eating? Yep. Witches Sabbath? Definitely. The Dog? Of course. Excellent work @ethankaye.bsky.social!

We should be starting a three-week period of SOME Christmas music and only afterwards should we enter the time of ONLY Christmas music.

Looking up a new pie recipe for this year’s Thanksgiving but Willow says no.

If we’re not shopping on Black Friday, what *are* we doing instead? Here are some zero-cost ideas to get you started thinking a bit more creatively about how to spend a day traditionally associated with overconsuming in all ways.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

First time on our bed for new cat Pip! She’s been with us for 3 weeks now. Our black cat Svengoolie wants to hang out with her. Our other cat Willow is totally uninterested in Pip and keeps her distance.

Friendly reminder that the weekend before Thanksgiving is officially the beginning of holiday stress season which means it’s alllll mashed potatoes and anxiety meds from here on out baby so lock in

I once was lost, but now I'm found The music washes over, and you're one with the sound Well, who shall inherit the earth? The meek shall And yo, I think I'm starting to peak now, Al And the man upstairs, well, I hope that he cares If I had a penny for my thoughts, I'd be a millionaire…

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

Michael is really talented but I don’t know, I think he’s getting some bad advice.

A federal judge lifted Pitt’s suspension of a pro-Palestinian student group. The need for court intervention is “not a sign that academic freedom on this topic is safe at Pitt,” says prof Ruth Mostern.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I'm worried this means she has plans the next day

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

BUS RIDES IN CITES SHOULD BE FREE.

How Patton didn’t just punch Bill Maher straight in his face, I’ll never know…

Oof. This week has felt like the longest week. Working this weekend. Solo parenting from now til Tuesday.

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I'm a trans person w/ a trans kid & we lose trans siblings every year to hateful violence. On Trans Day of Remembrance we're called not only to collectively mourn those we've lost, but to renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who are still here. #tdor 🏳️‍⚧️ Art by @thefoxfisher.bsky.social

A world without transgender people has never existed and never will. To all transgender people out there: You are not alone.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS "UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN thank you for your attention to this matter

ICYMI: A national progressive group is preparing to back a primary challenger to Sen. Fetterman www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.