blogged out my HRT rant from yesterday: open.substack.com/pub/yeahrigh...

I’ve been sick for most of the winter break which sucks, but on the flip side I’ve gotten to play a lot of balatro

I did a test to see if I could remember all the Roman numerals, but I forgot 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500. IM LIVID!

if you’re looking to not feel like shit after a few holiday days of maybe lowkey feeling like shit you should tap in here and read all 4 of jadzia’s lord of the rings threads because they are also some of my favorite threads of the year.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

ICE has always and will always needed to be abolished

this is a script for how to try T without interfacing with the trans healthcare system if you're thinking of transitioning in that direction. it's not enough to drive a TON of change but it'll let you know if it's a road you want to take

I have no idea if anyone will find this useful, but there’s software used by a plurality of state legislatures to stream and archive their hearings. There’s no function to save those videos in many cases which makes them inaccessible to some, If you need it because you’re doing policy or whatever:

“If diversification efforts generated a huge change, then the backlash to it might be acceptable, something worth risking ... Instead, what appears to have happened is a lot of empty talk, no real significant change, and backlash that is causing real harm. This is the worst of all possible worlds.”

like you cannot say this is for *sure* the reason but

ouça "sem deuses, sem prefeitos"

it’s Christmas morning and I am, indeed, listening to @nogodsnomayors.com

The organized astroturfing and financing of these extreme ideologies is one of the key stories of our time

great news everyone. the mattie lubchansky review of books on their year end best-of list named simplicity their best book of the year in the “released by mattie lubchansky” category. what a huge honor,

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

they’re just so fucking evil. Truly want to drive us out of existence

Gregk went onto @nogodsnomayors.com to teach the Municipal Junta about Paulo Maluf, a Brazilian mayor with connections to the 20-year Military Dictatorship, its repressive DOI-Codi, possibly the CIA, and some of the most expensive highways & tunnels ever built. Exclusive to NGNM Patreon supporters.

These poor fucking kids. We’ve utterly failed them

🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts. In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction. (To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)

the party of pestilence forever

Much like “pretending” to be trans for some imagined advantage, the hoops you would have to jump through to game the accommodations process are so ludicrously high that this is not a particular concern of anyone who has tried to get accommodations.

had a dream that the queer barbershop I go to opened a restaurant and the seating was all poorly assembled bunk beds

It’s never occurred to me to wonder what Edward Gorey animating the Ministry of Silly Walks would look like & now I don’t have to

Human Footprint is such a great show

Good morning! Meg and I just added community copies to all of our games on Itch. I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight. lumpley.itch.io

I've been saying for over a decade that @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social's work with Apocalypse World is arguably in the top four most influential works influencing what tabletop roleplaying games look like today. May this be the first of MANY honors given to AW in the mainstream!

thinking of her today

Diabolical Behavioral Therapy

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Mamdani wooing Trump effectively delayed a National Guard deployment in NYC — that is my read and likely a key reason (among many) Mamdani deployed the charm offensive

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

i’m sorry but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net and the resemblance is uncanny www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...

all the scam texts offering a job interview are so fucking depressing 😩

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine: hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...

Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.

Until next year, it remains the case that

Let’s gooooooooo

not even mayor yet and he’s already potentially getting big wins like this. there was a whole class of centrist writers who, after zohran won, immediately said he would not be able to get anything done, and particularly pointed to raising taxes as one very out of reach for him

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

As always

Is this anything

It’s tougher than most because for normies it is centuries removed from its etymological roots, while on the other hand, Those People are very aware of its origins and chuckle behind their hands at the fact that they can use it with relative impunity even in the politest of company.

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Truly an all time bad product decision, it’s staggering

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender.