thinking about the ratlimit post where she says it's privileged to be a good person because it means you were fortunate and well-bred and so it's actually woke to be a piece of shit, that was a QED right there lol

as a rule, progress only happens when you admit you're annoying sometimes

philosophers always have a vulgarized reading that ends up becoming more popular than what you get if you read the text. this is partly due to the inevitable entropy of ideas, but i think also to the fact that philosophers are rarely clear and concise writers

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

i love watching a tennis player in their late 30s go toe-to-toe with a player in their early/mid 20s. this is the energy i'm bringing to nyc

so sorry to my haters for doing the cutest thing ever

wow fascinating thread

the only two things i say when i watch aryna sabalenka play tennis are "she's so hot" and "she's so evil"

ngl sometimes this whole transition thing feels a bit too literal

have you prayed for a boymoder today?

do you think imogen binnie gets sick of people telling her there are no cacti in northern nevada

Marxoid trying to connect with kids: "The Amazing Digital Circus??? How about the Amazing Value Surplus?? 😏"

some women are misunderstood as "attention seeking" when actually they have a deep fear that if they aren't sharing their experiences at all times they will cease to exist

i lvoe how every time discourse blows up, Julia Serano calmly pops in and says "I actually wrote a 3000 word essay about this 10 years ago that definitively answers the question with multiple citations"

The Summer I Turned Petty

writing an email to jules gill-peterson to ask if my aversion to ffs and bottom surgery is libbed out

can you imagine being a young lesbian in the 70s and seeing the runaways on TV i mean wouldn't yo u just have shat a brick

there are 90 second songs by the Minutemen that are more valuable than everything some people have ever posted about politics

I love it when ppl say bluesky is this like awful place where you get screamed at all day. that doesn’t happen to me i just hang out you must be really annoying if that happens to you

it was weird when people used to joke abt NPCs because i was literally an NPC for a living. i was a gallery guard at art museums. people would come up and ask one of four questions and i would have an informative and slightly snarky answer to each. other than that i just walked slowly back & fourth

this is so reddit, but I immediately started standing up straighter the first time I wore women's clothes. it was then that I realized my prior posture was basically an attempt to roll myself up like a scroll I didn't want anyone to ever read

it's urban summer. we're calling out the indie rock's alt country turn as an concession to the present reactionary cultural hegemony and shoegaze revival as the fetishization of apathy, we're going back to no wave & early sonic youth type shit, or if you prefer, hard bop jazz

we need to talk about compulsory homosexuality among self-described trans lesbians--haha jk no we don't, have a great day everyone

me after another day of smirking sex nerdery and inscrutable anime and gaming references from you people

we've been enjoying window's bay quite a bit. a gothic comedy where america is represented as a haunted new england island whose mayor is hopelessly desperate to reverse the curse. but it cannot be reversed because america is rooted in evil :/

i love how we're finally trying social democracy after absolutely everything else has been tried and failed, including a tinpot dictatorship

do you think the fbi would contact me if i announced i was starting a twinkhon liberation front

i got mine ;)

starmer..? i hardly know 'er

sorry i'm still just cracking up at the idea of "the bourgeois practices of reading, writing, and introspection" lollll

marxism is kind of like christianity to me in that most of its adherents propagate a crude, bastardized version of it, making its more thoughtful, nuanced expressions mostly irrelevant. yes i'm thinking of kadji amin here

Hrt GOT me like this XD

achievement unlocked: ears pierced

actually it's hag summer. we're greygardensmaxxing

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IS ESCAPISM

trans woman litmus test in which the subject just watches clips of michaela's monologues about transness in Castration Movie and marks statements as A (completely wrong) or B (lowkey true but still incredibly mean)

hey/hmm pronouns

the spot of thinned hair on the crown of my head that was frozen in place by HRT is sacred, actually. civilizations hold rituals there on the solstice

the way i'm attracted to men has a really different character from the way i'm attracted to women, and until pretty recently i had very little capacity to comprehend the former as attraction and not just like, overwhelming confusion & anxiety..

sing to me muse of the girl who got boyremoved

snorting that shit generated from a password manager

people waxing nostalgic about malls should come to arden fair in sacramento. the place was bumping, no empty stores, felt like 2002 in there

feelin california somber……

sisterhood is powerful

Here's a quick Substack thing from me, just to keep the momentum going.

learner tien, dude..