This to me feels like being outside weeding your vegetable garden on a nice day & having your neighbor storm outside, yell at you to “wake up to the new reality!” and then kick the switch that automatically fertilizes and waters his plants while he ignores them & brags about his big tomatoes online.

I write travel articles for a Japan-based blog, and do a lot of research about food, parks, temples, etc. in cities where I don't live, meaning I rely on other travel blogs and official websites. Nothing makes me trust the info less than an AI image front and center.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1 Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.

Whatever discomfort people experience being told they are enabling fascism is very small in comparison to the discomfort they are inflicting on everyone else. And my first job after Congress was as a meat cutter at my favorite bbq place. One of the best jobs I ever had.

Hilary Knight Accepts Invitation to Knock Out Rest of Jack Hughes’ Teeth: tinyurl.com/5fue624h

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Part of the reason the whole country hasn't been screaming about trans Kansans who drive being made criminals overnight is because there's so much else that's unconstitutional and horrifying. But part of it is because it's happening to trans people.

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public. It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

Y’all if you’re that invested in slamming 24 beers & 24 tacos over a 10-mile run in 24hrs, you might as well. Late stage capitalism ain’t going away, nobody’s gonna pay you even $500,000 to slam 2 beers & 2 tacos over a 2-mile walk in 2 years. You may as well just do it for the love of the game.

Letter: The growth of women’s sports shows what happens when doors are opened wide — everyone benefits. Inclusion is not charity. It is smart leadership.

BREAKING NEWS: Kansas revokes women's driver's licenses!! Kansas revokes Jewish people's drivers licenses. Nevermind, it's not breaking news because it's actually just trans people, who cares! Major news outlets sure don't!

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Louisiana Republican State Rep. Mike Johnson is using HB 578 to try to replace all instances of the word "gender" in Louisiana code with "sex", declare that "gender" can't substitute for "sex" and that "sex" means what folks saw between your legs when you were born. legiscan.com/LA/text/HB57...

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

Lmao they’d be laying the check on my tombstone.

There’s always a part in any cat rescue where I cry. It took almost a year, but I’m crying happy tears over my March 2025 kitten rescue who, after MONTHS, is finally letting her fosterer pet her, and even sleeps on a cat bed by the desk while the fosterer works. I’m so happy for both of them. 😭

Do you ever get a scam phishing email so bad you're like, "Oh, hon."

My favorite clip in this video is the ICE guys spraying pepper spray and then RUNNING from people throwing snowballs at them.

Direct actions and a diversity of tactics does more to stop fascism than any elected official. Never forget that.

WE'RE SO BACK 😎

Billionaires probably think they’re geniuses because they never have real problems to solve. How do you know you’re a great driver if all the lights are green, all the roads are paved and flat, and nobody else is on the road?

It’s giving “Tyler’s Bullshit” from The Menu. Metaphorically, Jesse has never entered a kitchen a day in his life but apparently he’s somehow qualified to tell chefs how to cook.

Please share and give what you can. Donations are down and need is up. The terror is unabating.

my friend outside NY asked me the other day why she hasn't heard about zohran much since he became mayor and my honest answer was that it's because i think he's just doing his job which is actually inherently pretty boring?

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

On any given day, I have only a vague sense of what’s going on, and I like to think rich techbros and fascist leaders are the same, except that at least I know what a banana costs.

"The situation in Gaza is so horrific. It’s still a genocide ongoing. Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect, Israel killed over 642 people, including 197 children. That’s like killing 10 classrooms of students in a public school in the United States."

I wish I loved anything as much as Gavin Newsom loves talking to Republicans about how Democrats should abandon their own voters.

should I send this to all my cousins that owe me money? Y/n

I can write 80k of gay fanfic but not 3 paragraphs of why I’d be a good fit for an employer. 😅

Always the women athletes doing the right thing, always always.

😐😑 www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...

Reminder that the novavax boosters are still available! Some lots expire end of Feb., some by end of May! Check with your independent pharmacies! Novavax has fairly good immunity, with some efficacy even at 6 months! Also quite low side effects!

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week. apnews.com/article/tran...

The worst thing I learned today is that a prolonged fever over 104°F / 40℃ can denature (unravel or weaken) the proteins in your body. Like an egg in hot-but-not-yet-boiling water. Anyway, it's gonna be hot af this summer so check daily wet-bulb temps and BE SAFE.

Seems to me that lots of us are ashamed all the time. If we’re doing nothing, we’re ashamed we’re not doing anything. If we’re doing care work, we’re ashamed we’re not doing more of it. If we’re patrolling, we’re ashamed we haven’t been arrested or pepper-sprayed yet. So much shame 😞 4/x

The occupation has annihilated all my remaining biases about gender and sexuality. Big cishet men have sobbed in my arms. I’ve seen tiny enbies terrify armed feds into panicked flight. You need training? Ask a trans combat veteran 2/x

Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota: After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x

Love letter to Tokyo

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

My least favorite thing about Japan is how arbitrarily picky administration can be how you fill out documents. I don’t mean like “Of course you should have your full legal name on a visa application.” I mean “We’ll toss your whole job application if you don’t use Century font on this ONE page.”

AI companies themselves have said that being forced to follow the law would make their products untenable on the market. Seeking the complete destruction of a harmful industry involves taking that industry very seriously indeed.

The premise of this article is that taking AI seriously means placing AI companies above the law, reshaping all of our ideas about intellectual property and consumer protections to make room for this very special tech to cause harm. I reject the premise. Hold AI companies accountable to the law.

People doing “AI writing” should probably just take some classes on being editors the old-fashioned way. Every time I read/hear about someone’s “AI writing method” and all the “creative prompting” or “scene revising” they have to do, I’m like, “So just go be a developmental or copy editor??”

Excel is how I keep track of test grading at work. I made a spreadsheet last year with color-coding and formulas to show how many ungraded/graded/returned, counted by class, grade, and overall. It’s kept me sane and way more organized than I would have been.

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I explained why Gavin Newsom's flirtation with anti-trans policy won't win a single conservative or centrist vote for him and also makes him a non-starter for trans lefties. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

A controversial measure to stamp out affirmative action language in Iowa law squeaked past a legislative committee deadline Thursday, while proposals restricting public libraries stalled, Robin Opsahl reports.

All that’s left is for them to arrest trans people for “fraud” or using a bathroom, and they can detransition any of us