"he's undermining decades of US soft power with these kinds of displays!" Yeah it fucking rules man, dipshit executioner for a dipshit empire

Masking at ublic transit, hospitals, pharmacies, and the grocery store would be absolutely fantastic for public health tbh. Improved ventilation could mitigate the need for even that much but at this rate, we will never know for sure.

the thing about being staunchly anti gambling is that it will always put you on the right side of history

Instead of doing NaNoWriMo this November, what if you tried not doing it

I was reading old Pitchfork reviews (don't ask) and boy oh boy did they love to accuse Roma artists of appropriating Roma culture for the crime of *checks notes* being from New York

you saying “I mean bro gender neutral” does not make it gender neutral and you can’t wish yourself out of patriarchy by pretending things are neutral that are not.

the personal is political and someone with bad politics will defend abuse, not take accountability for their own fuckups, tone police all of your anger etc pp.

today's grieving included Manichean poetry, excised Gnostic scripture, and some weeping and keening, and I just have to ask; What the fuck IS my religion anyway

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

I've been unemployed for six years, and am completely unemployable now. I've gotten used to going hungry but my cat has (possibly internal) injuries and knowing there's absolutely no way I can afford to get him help is breaking me I have a responsibility and I'm failing him

um, I, uh, um

Why are you all arguing with a cherubic, intransigent dude in chinos named Will about politics. Did you not go to liberal arts school? Did you not get your fill of this behavior in the common room late at night?

maybe accelerationism as a description of our society as opposed to an imperative and strategy is getting a bit vindicated by the fact that our society refuses to engage with any crisis and actually decides to make them worse instead

Jimmy Kimmel has millions The teachers who got fired ? Don’t The Black women who were put on websites for THE FIRST HALF OF THIS ENTIRE YEAR don’t The immigrants scared to go outside because they are kidnapping them out of cars? But yeah!!!! Now it matters?!?

"This is the excuse they'll use to _____!!!" An anchor on the largest news network in the country was calling for mass "involuntary lethal injection" of mentally ill people *this morning* If Kirk getting shot is the reason you're just now taking this seriously, that says a lot about you.

[under hails of gunfire] ok but what if me shooting them makes them shoot back

Managed 'going out' tonight after spending the weekend processing that I have agoraphobia and a really cute gal spent the evening hitting on me and if I wasn't so overwhelmed by everything (and less drunk than her) probably would've come home with me so that felt nice

Gotta love the "LOL just do DIY, it's easy!" "Okay, how do I access that?" "WHAT ARE YOU A COP?" cycle.

This probably won't be the last I say about this, but: If you're counting on your underground resources to sustain the trans community while the government strips away rights, you need to answer the question of how people not currently connected or in-the-know will be able to access them.

the Minneapolis shooter was a cis man who detransitioned before he then became a nazi. he was a rightwing stochastic terrorist & he deserves to be forgotten like every other fascist.

Fascinatingly symmetrical how Euros use indigenous tribes (usually Turtle Island but Aus/others too) as a racism-gotcha/academic curiosity and how USians do the same back with Roma/Sinti, as though there is any meaningful cultural separation between the perpetrators in either case

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

partner's kid asking if Metric was my band while I was singing along one time is probably 60% of what's keeping me alive lol

Hey Firefox users.

Jury nullification is a decision by a jury to return a verdict of not guilty even though the defendant has broken the law, stemming from the belief that the law is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied it, that the punishment is too harsh, or from general frustration with the legal system.

One interesting element of transmisogyny is a lot of people seem convinced that trans women are UNIQUELY incapable of comprehending the experiences of others, but also that this doesn't work in reverse, ANY gender-marginalized person gets to have their guesswork about trans women's experiences heard

"just woke up from the chamber. what's 2025 like?" welcome friend! here is a governor quote dunking the sitting president's military invasion threat by asking "bitch, are you even fucking alive?"

If Trump dies Newsom becomes even more dangerous. Stg he's gonna swing to a Republican ticket and run as ReaganTrump 2000 He's a scientologist in bed with Modhi who just made pals with Bannon, he's kind of a test tube authoritarian option

Another reason virulently anti-gun democrats won’t be as successful as they should otherwise be: ALL anti-gun movements have roots in racism. Yes, all. From Reagan trying to keep guns from Black Panthers, to the way mass shootings only get sympathy when victims are white or shooters are brown.

This is one of the funniest things anyone has ever said to me

as a trans gypsy I'm just relieved that I'm dead in every world this man can imagine

american liberals have finally found an even more insane and ill-conceived way to use our genocide as a cheap political cudgel, here I thought they peaked with the self-exculpatory "europeans talking about romani people" memes

Me too, bun.

posting a butterfly any day I take a picture of a butterfly Grey Hairstreak

I think a lot of these “perfect is the enemy of good so we’re ok with anti-trans candidates” are just privileged white people facing adversity for the first time in their entire lives and are so fucking fragile and terrified they’re willing to do anything and kill anyone to protect themselves.

www.opb.org/article/2025... This woman is a little pile of evil shit who should go inhale coal fumes. Rural Oregon denizens are some of the worst people on the fucking planet

slightly diminish a band: They Probably Aren't Giants

"No, no, you see I HAD to join the massacre engine because I was poor and couldn't go to college or get healthcare! Like the rest of you trann-" "No, no, you HAVE to have solodarity with the trans massacre engine operators! Otherwise they won't have a pension and healthcare! Like the rest of you t"

it's really convenient that regretting what you did while in service automatically erases all material harm you've contributed to

bluesky is such a funny place to try and accuse anyone of transmedicalism, like my sister in estrogen, "endos heads on pikes" polls at like 93% net approval among trans ppl on here

To be frank, "cissexual queers are all privileged non-transitioners who oppress us!" and "transsexual gatekeepers are trumed transcum assimilationists!" are two extremes of people reducing the complex dimensions of trans politics to high school clique shit. Total Tumblr Cultural Victory.

"Mamdani claimed to be Asian and African American..." I mean first off... yes? Second off, omg you ever try to identify your ethnicity in the US when you are not straightforwardly one of four categories AS THE AVERAGE USIAN UNDERSTANDS THEM?

Debates on carcerality aside, it's huge for a state to recognize that opposing youth transition is actually harm, abuse, and merits consequences.

i have nothing to say that hasn’t already been said about egg prime directive shit and why it’s stupid and bad… but i will say it’s very frustrating to me that once again being non-binary is equated with not desiring transition. it’s such an ubiquitous thought that drives me up a wall.

help. my sensitivity reader keeps saying "make the racism worse"

I think we should not start from the position that trans folks — and let’s be honest, given the framing in the original post, primarily trans women — are somehow less capable of good social judgment than people on average, or less likely to know that they need to be trusted to be heard

SPURINNA! The Ides of March have come!

Lilith and the weeping wings- probably my favourite piece of 2025 so far