fuck the people that try to make you scared

A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

On behalf of the people of Boston, and in solidarity with communities targeted by the Trump administration for our refusal to bow down to unlawful threats, we affirm our support for each other and for our democracy. Boston will never back down from being a beacon of freedom and a home for everyone.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

The whole thing is violent as hell, but what stands out most: inherent in this is the idea that cisgender people have total veto power over trans people in any area — regardless of asab, gender or expression. Simply existing while trans gives others the right to demand a trans person be barred.

my worst music take is that viva la vida is a top 10 album

shocking news: that thing i've been pitching to orgs for years and recently been yelling about all the time because nobody's doing it? we're doing it ourselves. hard to believe, i know.

The thing is that I, a person in the world, "present as settled matter" my right to dignity and basic respect despite it being "a hotly contested view" and I refuse to do otherwise

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

someone told me “you’re doing enough” for my community and I really needed to hear it today

Happy Pride, Boston. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I was proud to stand with our queer, trans, and nonbinary families, friends, and neighbors this morning at this year's Pride for the People parade.

fuck the people that try to make you scared

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Student newspapers are really meeting the moment, at this moment. Admiration to 'kids these days' telling the fraught story of univ life on their campus news sites. Including this delicious column from @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social , on a way out of Harvard-Trump impasse. By Yona Sperling-Milner

I really don't have any words about this story. It's just so deeply upsetting. Fuck the women who decided to police the bathroom and fuck the guard for doing this.

got a really nice numbered edition of the new car seat headrest album

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

the world sucks sometimes but free broken av equipment will always make it better

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

@jael.bsky.social doesn’t have open dm’s but told me to message her so anyways here’s a picture of me and my bestie eating chicken and riding the bus home from the @ekkoastral.bsky.social show

my new humblebrag is that in the last 6 months I've turned down both being in the macy's thanksgiving day parade and throwing the opening pitch at a red sox game

Our NEH grant was terminated this week. The reason? The letter reads, "NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda." www.olin.edu/articles/new... 🧵 (1/5)

Did a panel/round table with the local pbs affiliate and youtube is censoring its reach because… trans people. The censorship of trans voices right now is very real. youtu.be/793T5RT9yqU

The shape of transmisogyny, a case study: We start at an article about women in sex work that looks at both cis and trans women and how they differ. Cool, right? Right? phys.org/news/2025-04...

The amazing @juliaserano.bsky.social has a great post on trans visibility that everyone should read, but I have a few thoughts of my own I would like to add to it: juliaserano.medium.com/rethinking-l... 1/6

had fun at the @wgbh.org shoot today! great group of people, very happy to be on a panel with them 🏳️‍⚧️

I feel like this an appropriate time to say "come and take it"? Just another way they're inventing ways to fuck with me specifically.

I’m like 99% sure that mice don’t even have genders.

Every day I am so thankful for the people in my life who allow me the dignity to have the conversations around the effects I feel being a woman in stem as opposed to ones about whether or not I am a woman in stem.

It's all a fucking game to these people.

I started a blog about the field of computing, my career at NVIDIA and beyond, being trans, activism, and more! My first post is a background of where I am in my life right now and why I feel the need to change. weeb.site/2025/02/26/w...

CS ed people will never stop fighting #SIGCSE

my identity, my life, my passions, and my purpose have all been constructed from the many disparate pieces that were broken apart, intentionally or otherwise, and reassembled into a mosaic that is greater than the sum of its parts with the help of everyone I have ever loved. being trans is a gift

do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”

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NEW: In California, data center builders are erecting DIESEL generators to backstop AI computing. Using a shortcut in regulations, the approved data centers will emit the same GHG as 284,390 cars, including diesel and grid-based electricity emissions. capitalandmain.com/as-californi...

since it’s the bad news day: found out my alma mater rescinded my lecturing position this spring. was promised it was purely an issue of funding, but finding it hard to not take personally.

find more ways to celebrate queer joy. also here’s a picture of the moon and mars from tonight.

Can think of no greater example for how corporations use and abuse identity politics because wtf do you mean this planet destroying monstrosity of code and profit is a "Black queer momma of 2"

“Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?” he said. NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW. “Which bit?” THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOU BEING BORN AND YOU DYING. NO, THIS… MR. TULIP, THIS IS YOUR WHOLE LIFE AS IT PASSED BEFORE OTHER PEOPLE’S EYES… Terry Pratchett, The Truth

i feel weird that in $current_year we’re still celebrating movies who’s defining inflection point is “this person is secretly intersex/trans”.

Really loved this talk. The abstract is: the longest running computer humanity has ever made faulted... oh and also it's 15 billion miles away and nobody alive knows how it works www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9...

In a letter to the Boston Globe, Carol Rose of the ACLU of Massachusetts writes that fears about trans youth in sports are wrong. Few compete, but many face bullying, violence, and suicidal thoughts. Supporting trans rights saves lives and strengthens society.

we can do this, but only together.

I started carrying around lactaid chewables the way some trans girls keep tampons in their purse. don't personally need them, but someday soon I'll get that ally of the day award.