It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

if anyone in/near buffalo wants a soccer mommy ticket tonight hmu because i’m too tired to go

I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

Aeris is a disabled trans woman who is facing homelessness in two months. If you can spare a coin or two, please do so. A few dollars en masse will see them safe in a new home.

i like these photos a lot :) i am really proud of how far my photography has come especially at the start of this year when i was feeling in a rut. also i just found out i get to see @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social play fest two night in a row when i head down to florida for fest with Mud whale!

Bunch of bills just went through and I'm unemployed. Any help you're able to give would help so much. Buy a trans girl a coffee. Venmo: ameliaidiotwitch

sorry for being grumpy i have to have a phone call with a cis person in an hour so she can tell me how much she’s trying her best not to misgender me because i sent a really non-offensive email reminding her

Part and parcel with the elite impunity crisis is that these people feel entitled to insert themselves and their profits between you and your humanity and will just openly admit it.

my unchecked theory is that it’s hard to watch a sex scene in a movie or on tv when all of your earliest exposures to sex is likely to have come from porn videos. like it’s hard to divorce sex scenes from that context if you have that stuff ingrained in you as “porn material”

This is how I talk about music

Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.

They did. I wrote a whole zine about this. queer.archive.work/library/down... - this is why I ignore a lot of people who talk about the Black freedom movement of the 50s and 60s. They don't know anything.

tomorrow morning a truck is gonna deliver WAY TOO MANY copies of Sex Change and the City to my house, so anyway I panicked and now you can get 25% off of 2+ copies of SCATC, this week only, with code TWOSHOES. 📚🛒: girldadpress.bigcartel.com It's a trans/queer Sex and the City anthology btw :)

the white flower platforming in silksong is hell. i’m getting much better at fighting splinter sister but it doesn’t even matter because half the time i can’t get past those last two white flowers to reach her 🙃

Wishing our Jewish siblings Shanah Tovah this Rosh Hashanah

huh?? it was in the mid to high 80s with at least 70% humidity (making the real feel temp in the 90s on several occasions) for the entirety of july

MUTUAL AID REQUEST A good friend of mine is seeking mutual aid to help leave an unsafe living environment! Donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/vbjuv7-hel...

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

how your email finds me

not a lot of ppl know that The Beatles' longtime producer/mentor was a dog-man hybrid named George Barkin

u should check this shit out i went nuts

having a bad drawing week so I made a badly drawn comic about it 1/9

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Alright Cheer Squad here’s the proposed track list. If you know my stuff these are the ones you know.

buffalo loves @skatunenetwork.bsky.social

never been to a ska show before tonight godDAMN am i glad i discovered ska and @skatunenetwork.bsky.social and the local ska scene in buffalo !!! y’all have GOTTA see Jer live their energy is INSANE!!!

want to see Turnstile so badly but $75 for a ticket is just more than my pathetic bank account can handle right now 🥲

still unbelievable that i get to have MY CHEEKFACE SHOW memorialized forever in this awesome video 🥰

It’s my birthday and if you like what I do you could sign up for my newsletter (which is *not* hosted on Substack) at www.cheercaptain.band I respect your inbox but I’ve got a LOT of updates on the album coming in the next issue. Made a lot of progress this weekend so far.

i don’t want a job i want to follow my favorite bands on tour

GOT TO YAP ABOUT DEATH OF THE HEART WITH PUNKNEWS!!!! GO CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

JER tomorrow

when i go to shows i get to turn my rage into joy. it’s always worth it and always will be.

They're making the sunsets transgender!

People "care" about a lot of things. Human beings cannot ACT on everything.

payroll screwed up my paycheck and now I'm gonna be broke again for another week because of bills, what a wonderful system that is not at all borked, anyway buy some music from me and help me offset the insane hole I'm gonna be in for a week. howibecameinvisible.bandcamp.com/music

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

so far this may be my song of the year youtu.be/CPZskGKmRrM?...

favorite albums so far: home is where cheekface clipping but i’m so behind on 2025 albums. it feels like almost all my favorite artists have an album out this year, which is a great problem to have

happy Friday, time for some Wednesday youtu.be/aZmtWp1d_Jg?...

i’m so sick of reading and hearing that man’s name. you’d think the president himself died or some shit.

might fuck around and be a non-conformist and an aging tourist. might even hustle like a tortoise while i’m at it.

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

at least we have music

okay but what if we were all talking about how cool my stickers are???

i will drive myself insane with all the things that i can't change i hate all the things that i can't change open.spotify.com/track/3ljDcV...