#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11: I am fortunate to have a lot of supportive people in my life, but thank fuck for @mrmaresca.com in particular.

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

People really, really refuse to understand that half of all children died in their pre-industrial utopia. They just, helplessly, died. Modern medicine, sanitation and regulation have saved literally billions from that fate.

In recent weeks, three exciting news stories have highlighted the ongoing wildlife #conservation successes occurring across the nation. buff.ly/DsR3hLd

I am seeing Cars movie discourse, and I only have one thought about the Cars movie universe the Cars have a Pope, which means they have Christianity, which means they had a Cars Christ How do you Crucify a Car?

On a rewatch, parts of Firefly are just...unbearably nonsensical. Clearly no one was allowed to point out plot holes. Why would Mal go with Zoe to steal drugs and leave Jayne alone with a vulnerable Simon & River? Was it a test? During a profitable & risky job??

I saw a rainbow on my run this morning, before the sun had even risen. Gonna take that as the sky celebrating Pride with us 🌈

trump: calls all somalis garbage fifa: uh you didn’t let in our somali referee?

Pride reminder that this amazing list of queer speculative fiction exists kilagreene.bearblog.dev/masterlist/

Timeline Cleanse Brewster, Cape Cod Sun setting behind cloud cover

The hole Vagina Museum team wishes you a very Flappy Pride Month! The Vagina Museum has been loudly, proudly and unequivocally queer since our inception. We hope you have the queerest, loudest and proudest month possible.

RIP Anthony Head GNU

"50 Things You Can Do For Trans Rights 10 Ways To Learn More About Trans Rights"

sidebar to this: ANY Catholic can do baptisms. lay people are allowed to do them as long as we can say we thought the baptised was at risk of death somehow. which is a remarkably low bar in modern life, with cars wizzing around etc. And once it's done, you're a full Catholic, in the church's eyes

Terry Pratchett’s 2027 Discworld calendar has been announced and will be available in a few short weeks! Discworld illustrator Paul Kidby returns to give your eyeballs a visual feast! terrypratchett.com/discworld/20...

There are loads of women with squeaky-clean backgrounds who didn't have time for these antics because they were working three jobs to pay for law school. Women rise through credentials and working through organizations, which makes us boring to the people who fall for a charismatic backstory.

But, to return to your point, gender definitely affects the relationship a person has to capital. And the way we ignore women in politics, or treat them as somehow less competent is maddening as hell.

Reposting for pride month.

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Please tell the young people in your life that Victor Wembanyama loves to read. Please tell the young people in your life that Victor Wembanyama loves to read books. Read like Wemby. Books save lives.

Ugh. This offends me as both a creative worker and an educator.

I was delighted to be asked to executive produce this year's batch of podcast documentaries for Trans+ History Week. We have some incredible stories from a cohort of brilliant storytellers, and I'm excited for you to hear them all

Carl is wrathful that being on a laxative means i am keeping him in the bathroom while we establish the dosage. The entire rest of the apartment is carpeted, and i cannot handle cat diharea there.

Vet tech: the doctor has prescribed 2ccs of this every 12 hours. Me: have you met Carl? He is not going to let me squirt a liquid down his throat every 12 hours Vet tech: you can wrap him up like a burrito. My cat gets spicy to sometimes. Want to practice? Me: yeah

we were talking about this this AM and my husband was like, so, you want to give 'the people' 50% of all of our collective stolen IP? are you also going to give us 50% of what plumbers earn next year? no? then this is just nationalizing theft

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Our new manager starts today, so of course Carl needs to go back to the vet because he is constipated. I love making first impressions

Opuntia polyacantha, our Plains Pricklypear, blooming in Canyons of the Ancients today #nativeplants 🌿

New York has officially passed a new tax on second homes in NYC. Rich people who own second homes in the city will have to pay higher taxes on these properties, if that second home is worth $1 million or more.

@uruchanofficial.bsky.social I just finished reading vol. 4! It's so intense! 💖 Do you think vol 5 will be available for pre-order soon?

John with blades ⚔️

That's not fair to trailer parks. At least poor folks can live there.

Mythcreants is a great resource. I love their podcasts. mythcreants.com/blog/five-wa...

@adamconover.net MCPL Workers United won our union! cwa-union.org/news/release...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

cwa-union.org/news/release... We won our vote!

I popped into Mahogany Books in Baltimore and signed the only remaining copy of The Canopy Keepers. If you're in the area, snag it before it's gone. 🙂

We all (hopefully) have a special memory of visiting a library that excited us about books and reading, or an archive that inspired an interest in history that never faded. These moments often shape us, from personal interests to full-on careers. buff.ly/1UUmpiJ #Libraries #Memories #History

Can you imagine how much more dangerous this will make life for women and girls? When AI is "training" men to get what they want to hear like this? (And they can't take a no for an answer already.)

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Based Tom Steyer

"Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave 'infidels.'" /1

Australian children’s book author Scott Stuart has launched a campaign inviting people to send supportive letters of love and solidarity to the transgender community to help “drown out” rising transphobia. qnews.com.au/you-are... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

i don't want to be based and correct for the next century of AI. i want the AI bubble to pop so i can buy computer parts this year!!!

Australians citing the Cass Review

I also added a new batch of worry stones

the fact that israel is straight up raping and torturing flotilla activists from all over the world and it’s not an international crisis it’s not putting a stop to anything, what is going ON