You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

A new, proposed ATF rule aims to make it far more difficult for trans people to legally purchase firearms. @queerarmorer.bsky.social breaks down what it is, why armed defense is such a key part of queer and trans survival and what you can do in response to this attack on trans rights:

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If you're mad at this (and you should be): Tomorrow at 1pm 120 Schermerhorn in BK Rally to demand accountability from the absolute ghouls in our courts.

remember aleanna. say her name. do not forget her.

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This is an entire group of internally displaced trans refugees larger than the population of New Orleans Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

I am loving reading @weareravenous.com, which has hit the ground running really beautifully!!!

I’m glad she is doing well after all that bullshit

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...

i got kicked out of the Future Crimes Unit after i dropped my ice cream cone into the precog tank and it killed the weird little guy in it

Accepting pitches for new hobbies I should take up while recovering from top surgery (since I’ll have to take a break from pottery). Have plenty of stuff to consume but haven’t decided yet what I want to create

A walk in the park in the morning?? Seeing all the people and the flowers and the birds?????????

Hi, hello, but folks thought it would be exactly this bad and worse. Because many of us are women we mostly were tarred with labels of doomerism and hysteria. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Warning: Do not run AI Agents on any device used to access Signal or other content that you want to keep safe + unsurveilled. We made this graphic to be posted in your Signal groups to explain what the threat is. Share it widely if you can. More at AISnitches.org

At long last! we'll be celebrating Picnic's second issue at Singers in Brooklyn on May 7 at 7pm. Come for readings from the new issue and friends of the rag, leave with a copy of the hottest trans literature magazine in New York city 🧺📚🏖️

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

dreamt I had a pet bird and it only ate papaya. every day I would take it to the market and we would pick out a new papaya together

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

More than 20 years ago. Same as it ever was.

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

keeping the safety of the Artemis II crew in my well wishes

On top of the broader strategic issues Imani raises here, portraying this as the law being struck down risks giving false impressions to victims of conversion practices that they have no recourse and to perpetrators that they have impunity.

The world is on fire but there are still redbud trees.

Additionally, a piece we keep coming back to is @mady.cat's powerful reminder of trans survival in the face of genocide. Worth a read, especially lately.

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Happy Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack! Fill this out and post/send it anywhere you like (if you're trans), and don't forget to buy a snack for someone else if you can (that's for everyone). Sending love today and every day — we WILL win and we WILL have treats along the way. xoxoxo.

The AMA said surgeries should “generally be deferred to adulthood.” (The generally established guidance) The NYT characterized this as the AMA having “backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments.” What the NYT wrote is different than what AMA said. Full stop. 1/2

It's really wild that guys like Edsall will argue that it's imperative that Democrats support enacting *new laws* to create new restrictions and regulate something that can, should, and has been handled on a local/organizational level up until this point.

I’m at ICE HQ

PICNIC MAG IS BACK! Just in time for things to heat up, we have a steamy, sensual new collection of fiction, essays, and poetry from your favorite NYC transexual literary magazine and culture rag

The latest 5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social on Dames & Moore v Regan is truly helpful for understanding the ways in which we (Americans) have been fucking with Iran for decades. Strongly recommend giving it a listen

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Horrific shit. I wish these teen girls the best.

Noah Williamson and James Stuart talk about how 183 Days came to be, starting with their relationship, their love for a novella, their playtesting process and their first visit to Denmark. www.3w6-podcast.com/podcast/2026...

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The world is completely fucked right now, but here is one person we can help. If you're able to, let's get this young gentleman through university.

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim