Welp. Roommate says she's likely not resigning the lease in August. Boston area people, if you know anyone looking, this is quite a nice setup for very cheap considering the space available + current housing market, plus new insulation should drastically reduce future bills. Signal boosts welcome!

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Oh no I played myself with nostalgia and horniness

There is a problem with the stories we tell & the way we perceive how change happens. The Union of Pinnacle Tenants, the largest tenant-led union in NYC—are the reason Mamdani took action. Organized people power is pivotal. Top down stories of elected heroes (even ones we like) are not sufficient.

The problem with getting too caught up in your wheatgoogling is when you go ‘yes, fine, these are a great bundle of symptoms and a reasonable explanation for their cause, but they don’t actually cause one to be out of phase with the material plane. How do I explain it being responsible for that?’

Devil can’t write for shit, got it.

Is it copyright infringement or just laziness if I use Star Trek technobabble for this Torchwood fic?

Plamp.

NEW ESSAY: Origins of the Anti-Trans “Groomer” Slur. it provides historical context, a timeline of how it spread, & how it shapes anti-trans/LGBTQ legislation. pls share! on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/origins-of-t... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/origins-of...

rip Anthony Stewart Head 😭😭

RIP Tony Head, we will always remember you for your leather pants and your choice taste in outré musicals.

Honestly I think they mean ‘a shit too many lady fans’

All CA voters

Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.

A beautiful bride.

Judge says Kennedy Center board broke law putting Trump’s name on building, blocks closure #Pinks wlwt.com/article/judg...

You know, I don’t think we got enough time (ie more than 5 minutes) to examine the fact that Owen got kicked out of his home when he was 16 before we moved on to him dying and coming back to life (and then dying again).

MIT's social science library is closing, the entire book collection will be no longer available to browse or immediately check out, the space to become additional B-school classrooms? 🤬

Sometimes you have an exacting vision of a character doing something perfectly stupid and perfectly them but they’re so emotionally repressed that even you have no idea why they’re doing it, which makes it a bit tricky to write.

Yet another point in the ‘don’t use ULINE’ column

All the unused Lower Decks episode titles @bradwinters.bsky.social and I argued about can finally be realized.

This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1913. Actors unionized in Actors Equity Association. Let's talk about the rise of actors' unionism!

Saw the Sheep Detectives movie and thought to myself ‘this fuy playing the reporter looks like a knockoff Bradley James. It’s the guy who played the prince in RWaRB. So I was kind of right.

Why do they only make astronaut ice cream sandwiches these days? I don’t want the dry-ass biscuit. Give me the dry-ass ice cream ONLY.

The sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel... Good thread about tipping and racism and just tip service workers already

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

All right here you go.

You can bulk edit all your videos to turn this off btw!

Was thinking about cleaning and automation in sci fi and now I’m thinking about ‘seven of nine encounters dust for the first time.’

Actually, let's not just repost this, let's quote post it so I can say I found this a really good, engaging, read.

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

If anyone can remember this far back, or had exceptional bookmarking skills, I’m looking for a Torchwood fic that I vaguely remember reading back in the day, so probably on LJ. Not on the AO3. It was canon set, but Owen and Ianto were brothers, or half brothers? I think no one else knew.

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Somebody compare this to the tumblr walkback of changes to reblogs and see if they can figure out what ai prompts they’re using.

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

Can we get a Slings & Arrows vid to Paul’s Nashville? I forgot how many Hamlet quotes are in it.

What’s up bitches here’s some sexy flowers

What if I don’t want to.

This piece is SO GOOD. @soila.bsky.social & editor @lincodega.com worked magic to bring this final product together. As I was editing the audio version, I kept finding myself nodding at particularly sharp points, e.g., how only English gets to be the language of "play." Please read and share widely!

My DC people: have you seen this cat wtop.com/local/2026/0...

If you requested a paper check for your IRS refund and got a CP53E notice telling you you need to update your direct deposit info, here's what to know: 1) DO NOT scan a QR code that comes with the notice. Scammers have been replicating them. Go directly to the irs.gov website to update.

I want us all to think about this. Think about who actually benefits from the supposed time savings of forced “A.i.” use and how it degrades our actual experience and growth.

Note from a WIP I am currently noodling with: “For a longer fic this is where we’d need a secondary plot point that would both delay resolution and make having two intangible teammates an advantage. But this is Torchwood.”

Took me over 2 years, but I finally got this gift card spent. Knitting stores are great but they don’t carry the kind of yarn I like to weave with.

you will never find more vigorous advocates for the importance of representing platonic male-female friendships and depicting happy, fulfilled single women than the fandom of a show where a black woman and white man have romantic chemistry

Sitting on the porch eating galette with my fingers like god intended.

Life goals

In other news, I apparently managed to miss wisteria season, but the roses keep being earlier than I expect. They’re the good kind, too, they smell *amazing.*