I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.

BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it

Going to a little park on the water I haven't been to in months, looking for ducks and, if I'm lucky, finches.

I'm really really looking forward to spotting my first rough-legged hawk of the season. I adore those birds!

just straight up just saying the "see? men simply need patriarchy. we have to bring back literal father-rule, literal father-entitlement. to save men" quiet part out loud now huh

This is the last photo of that sweet couple of Hooded Mergansers I took on that cloudy day. 🪶

guy whose job is ”AI writer at the Economist”: ”You‘re actually stupid for complaining about how you‘re always exhausted and never get to see your family or friends because of work. Society would literally collapse if you got to sleep in.”

Like don't get me wrong, scheduling mifepristone is Extremely Bad But it's not like mifepristone is a Bad Political Decision while scheduling marijuana or testosterone were Objective Scientific Decisions, please be serious people

The schedule was always a list of drugs lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons

In *normal times* the prosecution of Des for possession of zines would be The Issue of the entire North American radical milieu for a year, similar to Stop Cop City. There would be benefits and actions in every town, pushing back on this existential threat. archive.is/202511231336...

Oat nog has been acquired!!

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I am also trying to be okay with lowering my standards, writing things that are fine without any need for them to be great. It's HARD, but I'm trying to enjoy writing for the sake of it, because that's the only way I can get over the difficulties I've been having with it, I think.

I'm really trying to be okay with writing things without any great purpose, things that aren't "about" something specific. Giving myself permission to write about just wandering around the woods when I want to.

The scammers are back with a new account @/blacktranstx.bsky.social Report and block

Youth transitioners being treated as de facto criminals and deviants

As we see here, Catholic prosecutor Jeffrey P. Bowman, Catholic judge Philip T. Cronan ensured that someone they see as untermensch was held for months. Had the judge not recused, she would have been held indefinitely Over a trans symbol. As a trans person, Catholics are an active danger to you

I'm really trying to be okay with writing things without any great purpose, things that aren't "about" something specific. Giving myself permission to write about just wandering around the woods when I want to.

11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side. The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.

Tried not to sink into depression today but kind of sunk into depression oops

“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it

Pleaseplease surely someone has a few hundred dollars

Still at $795, any help is so appreciated!

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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.

I have very strong views on this and it’s because I understand and support ppl who want to give birth in the comfort of their own homes, and I support ppl who want to give birth pain free, and I support ppl who want to survive giving birth because I am a historian and I know how lucky that is.

People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex. These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.

Please hear me when I say that 1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements 2) they pre-date the age of social media 3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence

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If your takeaway from the Mamdani Trump meeting is this is the path forward I would ask you, what happens to all the fascism

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Parents don't like to listen to adult trans people. Even the supportive ones often see us as the bad outcome they're helping their kids avoid. I honestly have no idea how to reach them to stop their kids getting tortured by these monsters.

The extent to which we can reach parents and stop them from cooperating with this is gonna be crucial. Any trans kid engaging with the NHS *at all* will be harmed more than they would be by simply leaving their dysphoria untreated (and way way more than DIY on the quiet).

For all I've been whining on the internet about writing and editing these last few days, while I'm being kept very sedentary by pain writing is feeling really good. Creating is rewarding, and soothes the restless frustration in being limited in what I can do.

Especially bad menstrual cramps, unsurprisingly after having an ovarian cyst act up right before my period. Hate how that goes, hate how easy it is to get complacent when an irregular chronic illness hasn't been causing many problems for a little while, and then feel outraged when it returns. 😭

WEIRD DUCK NEWS: It finally happened. After months of posting, tracking from Canada to Montana, to Northern California to a 2 miles up the street, getting up at 4:30am to get to the wetlands, and waiting, today at 8:29am, we got an in focus bufflehead in flight. Let's. Fucking. Go. 🪶

The way supposed allies react with shock when I tell them blockers suck give teenagers hormones and don't require parental consent 👍

They have to come for children because children are usually less willing to accept "thats just the way it is" as an explanation for why they cant do things. Adults all carry the trauma of having that "WHY?" beaten out of them, and so are often willing participants in passing that violence along

Attacking trans children is about attacking all children in the same way attacking trans autonomy is about attacking all bodily autonomy. Our actions are particularly powerful, autonomous and brave, and that means even well meaning ppl find us ideologically disturbing

The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!" You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences

There is a weird disconnect in people's brain when they call Trump a fascist like Hitler in one moment and then praise a person who shook his hand and laughed with him in the next.

Only other thing i’ll say is that they’re obviously conducting the trial to see how well blockers stop kids being trans instead of actually help them, that is the metric they’re doing it by like all trans state healthcare always has

This is being required of trans teens in the UK in order to start puberty blockers. There is a limited time period in which PBs are even useful. Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.

It's sunny?? I'd almost forgotten what the sun looked like. 🥲

The left internet’s response to today’s circus is nauseating!!! So many people thrilled that the guy they acknowledge as a murderous fascist—with thousands of people debilitated, disappeared, or dead by his policies—deigned to smile on a newly elected Dem politician with star power.

Personally I think if your favorite DSA member shakes hands with a fascist he shouldn’t be your favorite DSA member anymore. But I don’t have a favorite DSA member so maybe I don’t know how it works.

Incoming! A Purple Sandpiper doing an impression of a helicopter? For #PhotoFailFriday #WorstBirdPic #birds 🌿

Did a first pass over the first draft of an essay, rearranged the sections, started fixing things up. Tweaked my bio on Forest Words. Read over another almost-finished essay so it'll be fresh in my mind as I think about what else I want to add... Feeling pretty accomplished, all things considered.