It's late in the day to share, but a Happy Holidays wish from me and Santa's daisy wheel printer. (From Sandra Boynton's book Christmastime (1987))

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

"I code so others can dream." Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer. Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

My metamorphosis into a historian is now complete, because I read this (very good tbc!) @theverge.com package and still thought, "Would it be too much to ask to historicize this moment beyond the mid-2010s? With, y'know, a book (I may have written)?" I have, I fear, become my (academic) parents.

@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.

Based on this news, are there any significant LGBTQ-related blogs that might be a good candidate for preservation? I'm hoping to connect with blog owners to organize preservation for the Queer Digital History Project prior to the September deadline.

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever." Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it. www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...

So, I've begun doing something I thought I'd never do: actively mirror trans websites (instead of just relying on the Internet Archive). First up is a mirror of Monica Roberts' TransGriot. Because Roberts used Blogger, I've always worried about its longevity.

#6 - "1000 RLX Computer" 40 whole megabytes? Nobody could ever use THAT much space!

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

In light of today's 1A news, a repost reminder:

The internet has long been a place for discovery. In “The Two Revolutions,” @adamegriff.bsky.social envisions it as a means of exploring and enriching trans identity. Continuum calls it “an excellent primer for understanding trans life online”. More:

I'm currently adding some videos to the Archival Internet Video Index (apdame.github.io), and this 1987 commercial for a Minitel horoscope is probably my favorite I've run across so far.

A chuckle for today: I found this practically mint-in-box copy of the Perfect Dot-Com Bubble artifact. It's got it all, from literal surfing imagery to You've Got Mail jokes. My favorite part? The fact all the money is in millions, since "$200 million...today's starting dot-com salary!"

"We really do want to stay in touch. We’d love for us to find a way to be part of each other’s lives. We don’t want you to think we’re just abandoning you at the exact moment when allyship would actually count for something tangible in this world."

"Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juvenilia has a new reader. Bad news: It’s a graduate student, and they are going to eviscerate it in chapter 2 of their dissertation."

Parg' "Survivor" is this year's "car commercial" song, imo. #eurovision

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity

Since it's back, time to repost this interview I did with @neverpo.st about KOSA, moral panics, and LGBTQ youth last November. Like I said then, KOSA is little more than a moral panic bill that, like all panic legislation, will do far more long term harm than good.

I had the pleasure of serving on this year's jury and reading all of these wonderful pieces (and so much more that we just couldn't fit in!).

Thought: AI-generated art assets (especially logos) are just the clip art CDs of the 2020s.

See Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers:" "A dialogue is not possible when some people exercise arguments as weapons by treating others as evidence to be rebutted. When you are asked to provide evidence for your existence, or when you are treated as evidence, your existence is negated."

New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I feel like I've come back around to Internet Radio/Radio Streaming in a big way. Lately a mix of C89.5 and DanceGroove (dancegrooveradio.com), depending on my mood. C89.5 is also just a really awesome project: run by Seattle Public Schools, member-funded and staffed in part by SPS students.

Who decides which data disappears – and what does that mean for democracy? NANNA THYLSTRUP (nannathylstrup.bsky.social) and KATIE MCKINNON explore how political changes in digital infrastructures reshape access to knowledge and democracy in the U.S. and beyond. verfassungsblog.de/the-politics...

Every community note about trans people

We’re excited to announce NorthSky Social Cooperative where we are building a new ATproto platform for the benefit of marginalized communities that prioritizes the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. After increasing hostility toward these communities we are taking action to provide a platform built by and for us

brb, updating my away message

the founding principles of social computer networking were radical, queer, anarchist, peer-to-peer and deeply collaborative. and then the entrepreneurial spirit of 1980s america really messed us up there

Doing research for a presentation on the challenge of doxing and flame wars in Usenet archives, and ran across this 1985 NSF-funded report "Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail," which has so many interesting little tidbits.

Can't believe book pub day is here!! *Trans Technologies* is officially published today! Use discount code MITP30 for 30% off today only (unfortunately available only in the US) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...

Assigned was on the ground and in the Discord, reporting on the historic return to the streets of foundational trans rights activist group Transexual Menace, @transexualmenace.bsky.social @valorievandieman.bsky.social has our story, with photos and additional reporting by Simon Feisthauer Fournet.

the whole idea that you need to "have something worth saying" before you put yourself out there or make a little page, is backwards. running a little site, like human expression, is about just being you, being dumb, being creative for no reason! there doesnt have to be a grand purpose. be stupid

Rewatching it now, Born In Flames (1983) is a film worth watching in this moment. https://archive.org/details/born-in-flames-1983

This Berenstain Bears lunchbox from 1993 captures a simpler time, before internet misinformation and social media, when the family computer primarily provided us with incomplete jigsaw puzzles, treble clefs, apples, and live fish

Reading about FYPCore, I feel honor bound to point out that this yet another trend trans folks were ahead of the curve on. *We* were soundtracking before/after transition videos to Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" back in 2012.

I'll be giving a book talk this Thursday at @uoft.bsky.social's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, if you're in the area!

The world is a lot right now, and I feel like what I can do is make people chuckle. So enjoy the amazing shirtless Batman '65 villain outfit and...unique lyrics of this entry for Greece's Eurovision National Final: https://youtu.be/JZoH7v03clM?si=umnnj9f63-3zhNWD

i’m pivoting to scrounging around for PEPFAR data, reports, pdfs, spreadsheets and anything else HIV/AIDS and government related today, please email me (kbrews@umich) if you or colleagues are doing the same & i can get your data to a safe place with the university of michigan

Trans people and our rights are not a “distraction.” We are real people who live and die and deserve care and dignity and access to public spaces.

I feel like this is the energy I want to bring to 2025.

Leslie Feinberg

there’s a bill on the floor rn to outlaw gender affirming care for minors in washington, PLEASE go to this link and select "oppose." takes 30 sec. examples on stuff to say in thread! app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1038

I’ve been involved in launching an international organization called Rainbow Panda, which supports transgender and queer children in Asia. Excited to hold events on art making and storytelling with queer folks and allies across Asia! #transgender www.rainbowpanda.asia/en/home