anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

My brain is putting lyrics to "In der Halle des Bergkönigs" and playing them on repeat and they're "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho" 🎶Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, Jericho Joshua fought the battle and the walls came tumblin' Down.🎶

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

hey, i’m in this. it’s free to read in its entirety here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...

I mean, really. If we're stuck in dystopic 2025. Also, I know there's cyberpunk written fiction w/ trans protagonists and magical girl team written fiction w/ trans protagonists, there _must_ be some cyberpunk women's battle-suit team, w at least one trans protagonist? (doubtless yes on AO3)

Oh yeah? But what if it _was_ the Mudd Club? just not CBGBs... youtu.be/rmGcgtcIftA?...

So... I'm really really really tired of playing the "So is _this_ event the trans Reichstag Fire?" game. Also, I feel like I need to vent less fully & less broadly than I might because it could feedback cycle folks stress levels up and up, more than the raw facts anyone reading me already knows.

🎶Words like violence Break the silence...🎶 Words have power. They both express and shape how we think about people. Express and shape how we treat other people. Words are magic, Poetic incantation, A siren song enchanting, A gramarye putting structure to perception. Words create and destroy.

Much as I showed appreciation for Hackers (1995) earlier today, my favorite hacking movie is Sneakers. The line "...a discovery of Gaussian proportions!" (not Redford's line) drew huge laughs at the sneak-preview showing I saw @ MIT's LSC in the heady days of my misspent youth.

Acid Burn/Kate Libby was definitely among my top set of "Do I want to date her or do I want to be her?" classic trans fem egg dilemmas of my mid 20s.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

HACK. THE. PLANET.

Over and over again over breakfast it's Cox on the morning news saying "boyfriend... who's transitioning from male to female" and I want to scream at the unchallenged misgendering.

I’m just a gen X white lady from the southeastern US, so take my opinion fwiw. But: Unlearning racism is a life-long process. Just bc I am on the left doesn’t mean I don’t have to work on my biases. Just bc I’ve learned doesn’t mean I don’t have learning to do. This goes for all white people.

Make a b̶a̶n̶d̶ song singular: Land of one dance.

DC comics planting their flag on the moral high ground on the side of a white nationalist, transphobe while dutifully carrying on his rotten work in the firing of Gretchen Felker-Martin. The characters of the DC universe would find this despicable.

So 3 days ago I was chatting w/ another trans woman about how my escapist reads have been lesbian romances & that I had tapped out of trans ones & I was reading more w/ cis leads. & when she also wanted more T4T romances I suggested Dorley & now I'm 1/2 through my 6th read of Welcome to Dorley Hall.

I often, have focused "foreground" thoughts, but have this undercurrent mental jukebox that continually plays snippets of varying lengths of one song or another. Often enough that I'm not sure if I _always_ have mental music playing or if it's just that I wonder that when I notice the music.

Reading this week's "Avengers Academy"... Sheila: Wow. Norman Osborn. I guess he isn't evil anymore? Martha: I mean, he's still a billionaire. So yeah, he's still evil. I swear, this book... er.. scroll... is my favorite thing coming out of Marvel right now.

Hey, Krista from 1998! You picked one of your usernames in the 90s as a reference to a knight from Renaissance epic poems who is mistaken by nearly everyone for a man, but is actually a woman? And you couldn't recognize that you were a trans woman then?

🎶I can make the grey skies blue I can make it rain, whenever I want it too I can make a castle from a single grain of sand I can make a ship sail on dry land I can fly like a bird in the sky I can buy anything that money can buy I can turn a river into a raging fire I can live forever if I so desire

🎶I am the voice inside your head I am the lover in your bed I am the sex that you provide I am the hate you try to hide I speak religion's message clear I am denial guilt and fear I am the prayers of the naive I am the lie that you believe I take you where you want to go...🎶

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.

All this week, I'll be posting lesson plans and materials from my History of RPGs class, where I ran micro versions of historically significant TTRPGs like AD&D and Apocalypse World! Every day I'll post a new game I ran in my class. Stay tuned!

Ok, I'll just wind down for bed now... oh... but first, I'll just check and see how Maxine gets through this next bit...

Can we please understand what is happening? He is disarming us as a prelude to our extermination. And making us mentally unfit to own firearms as a matter of law will exclude us from all manner of legal rights. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

The number of authors whose works I continue to enjoy, whom I first read by following on social over the past several years, is large & keeps growing.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Just talking with @aranock.bsky.social and we realized that Strange New Worlds desperately needs a Maquis-style organization that questions and challenges Starfleet that our characters have to confront morally. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CAPTAIN ANGELS ROLE BUT WHATEVER ITS FINE!

Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!

🎶three beats of crunchy guitar the same note & one a note higher🎶 (repeat) 🎶You've run out of lies (x4) 🎶three beats of crunchy guitar the same note & one a note higher, one a couple notes higher descending like a spring🎶 (repeat) youtu.be/ekq0yl9rbGo?...

🎶 All I Want is You Everything has got to Be just like you want it Too-oo-oo-oo-oo 🎶 youtu.be/uT-gDIEcrP0?...

I know I’m relentlessly harping on this eugenics thing and I’m gonna take a break from it but I’m just so tired of watching ableds discover eugenics for the first time and drawing all the wrong conclusions when literally many of us disabled folks RIGHT HERE explaining it and have been for YEARS

<yakov smirnoff voice>In Los Angeles, *we've* got the beat. In Miami, rhythm gets *you*!</yakov smirnoff voice>

So... 🎶 You're not welcome anymore. 🎶

Yo @mattfraction.bsky.social www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

My first blog post in many years: www.aprildaniels.com/2025/08/tran...

There's an old joke that goes: Q: "What's the difference between a crossdresser and a trans woman? A: "About six months." I'm afraid I took a bit longer than that to hatch - at least in a self aware sense.

Whose streets? Our streets! er.. wait...

Dems flip State Senate seat in Iowa in landslide breaking Rep's 2/3 supermajority in district which Trump carried comfortably in 2024. Hard to believe now, but Obama carried Iowa...twice! @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Texas trans organizers ain't playin! When they called, GLM answered. They asked for support on a bathroom sit in, inspired by our action at the U.S. Capitol we took last December, and we came down to throw down.

I had read very few romance novels before this year, but over the summer, I've been devouring them - particularly lesbian romance novels, ideally w/ at least one trans woman in them. Because in romance, there's always a happy ending. & I need happy endings for trans and other queer folks this year.

It was already monstrous to put 13 year olds in jail, but do you know any 11 year olds? Are there any 11 year olds in your life, do you remember being 11? Now imagine someone that age, imagine yourself, locked up for the seven years. Spending all of your formative years behind bars. A child.

🎶 Waiting for a star to fall And carry your heart into my arms That's where you belong In my arms Baby, yeah🎶 GenX high school dances... youtu.be/_XeGADJRIXE?...

🎶A TERF’s words will grate ‘cause they’re full of hate Also known as a bigot Always thinking about someone’s junk Don’t mind their own business, so...🎶 [I know it's not the right quite the match but Gail sent my brain to TLC]

Trans Femme Fact: If you're a trans woman or otherwise trans feminine, the instant you venture out in girl mode for the first time, the Choker Fairy appears and hands you a choker. Note: Choker Fairy chokers were exchangeable for a Blåhaj until June 30, 2024.

🎶 Damn That Television! .... Judy's in the bedroom, Inventing situations. 🎶 youtu.be/s4uqBkiVV5A?...

Saw someone wrote "friend of Dorothy", Which made me think "Nah. 'friend of Ozma' or 'friend of Mara'" Which m. m. t. "Ooh! She-Ra!" Which m. m. t. "It was serendipitous that the start of She-Ra & the end of Sense8 came out when I figured out my gender shit." & it's fun with neurospicy isn't it?