Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

We didn’t make long at the protest today but it was beautiful to see everyone out using their voice

Never change, Portland

Umm can y’all help me with something goofy? I’m trying to win some sweet sweet merch from iconic regional porta potty company Honey Bucket by getting 1000 likes on this post. I’m almost there www.instagram.com/p/DKZ4ASwRX41/

Now unveiling my new personality feature as a bolo tie wearer. Bolo tie, work shirt, and jeans (which I appliquéd a bunch of circles on) all from local vintage shops. Polka dot over shirt made by my sister from some beautiful quilting cotton our aunt bought in Japan

The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

Real big eye roll at the fact that Women Who Code is not only neglecting to comp tickets for their speakers at their upcoming conference, but requiring them to pay for VIP passes. Women’s tech conferences, why must y’all be like this??

This amendment would not cut any police positions, there would be no layoffs. Again, they have 91 fully funded vacant positions they failed to fill. They are the wealthiest bureau in the entire city. It parallels how our federal government spends money on war and not housing, food, or roads.

Elena Kagan once refused to accept a gift basket of bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters.

This paramecium pocket may be the best thing I’ve ever made. Other than, like, my child

The CFP for Cascadia closes in just a few days! Great conference, highly recommend 🤸🏼‍♀️

For May Day, I wrote about “Made in USA” and a goofy little shirt I made with 25 labels attached to the outside of the neckline

Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

That good good feeling when long ago you saved a piece of cardboard that’s just the right size for the protest sign you need to make

Genuinely delighted that my child is entering the elaborate set-up phase of play. I love happening upon freaky little scenes like this

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

At a work offsite this week and giving a big presentation today, so going full gold suit. That Woman in Tech urge to go way hard with my outfit when the uniform is jeans and a hoodie (tho for real a lot of my current coworkers have great style)

Pants fitting tip: 1. Sew a pair of pants that fit literally any kind of way 2. Say “this is the intended fit, I love them”

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait. Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.

me letting my dog out 12 times a day because her new immunosuppressant meds make her need to pee constantly

Yellow I saw yesterday

The barista I just ordered a coffee from is wearing a “SURFBORTING IS NOT A CRIME” tee shirt. Hero.

Funny* how the tent always seems to be big enough for waffling centrists, scandalized Bush republicans, and tech executives who will swing whichever way the money blows, but not big enough for trans people, activists opposing genocide, and people doing real anti-poverty work *not at all funny

Coping with a truly wretched week in the world and on the home front by dressing up like a songbird. I recently received this wonderful home-sewn cardinal cowl in a Lucky Sweater trade. Someone please invite me to a party where I can show off this fit

Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks

I’m at the veterinary ER this morning for the third time this week (long horrible story), but I would like to report that this time there is an albino peacock in the waiting room. Her name is Mary Kate.

The Right to Repair movement has reached all 50 US states. Six states have already passed laws requiring companies to sell repair parts, share manuals, and remove software locks that restrict repairs, and 20 more are actively considering bills. buff.ly/BIzrTtt #ShareGoodNewsToo

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

There's a lot going on, but we should not let this slip under the radar—Google and OpenAI are cynically seizing on the Trump admin's hawkish, US-first AI policy instincts to make a play at gutting artists' copyright protections once and for all. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai-and...

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

“The reward of production is plenty, not private fortune. We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the # of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools & the # of people who can & do read worthwhile books.” - W.E.B. Du Bois 1953

“‘The Trump administration has removed safety, fairness, misinformation, and responsibility as things it values for AI, which I think speaks for itself,’ says one researcher at an organization working with the AI Safety Institute, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.”

Portrait of the artist with cat anus

Circles & mustards today

Delighted to share this interview with a local fashion hero! Click through to see Claire’s amazing sex educator Ms. Frizzle costume, among other things

one of the reasons it's unhelpful to call this stuff "hallucinations". it's more apt to liken it to the way policing (the institution) makes up evidence to support prefabricated narratives, and get either convictions on bullshit evidence or coerce people to give up and plea out.

Still need to do the waistband but feeling increasingly confident these pants are gonna be amazing

💪🏽💪🏽 #writingcommunity #booksky #authors #copyright

Saturday morning pocket flap stitches

Obsessed with this Richard Scarry illustration from a 1962 manners book

Finally cleaned the mirror, and dang those stickers were pretty hard to remove. This patchwork snap vest is probably my favorite make from last year.

Wednesday blues + outtake where I tried to take a jumping mirror selfie

Y’all!! I finished my first zipper fly. A sewing skill I’ve avoided mastering because I found it so intimidating, but the Daughter Judy Adams Pant instructions really came through

Grumpy day fit with pants pants and mirror stickers

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

Monday coworking fit. Everything secondhand, with the vest & pants from recent Lucky Sweater trades

False spring fancy fit. Dress I made a few years ago with secondhand gold shirt and boots