i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

i went to a panel today where Ross Gay, one of my favorite writers, talked about poetry and process and paying attention with some of my amazing coworkers, and at the end of it i was able to give him a little letter thanking him for his work which he was so kind and gracious about

I like this a lot, and it applies to everything. You don't have to go total cold turkey on *every* backend-awful thing out there. Maxxabstaining/ Waldenponding isn't needed! Just push your behaviour in a new direction and turn that preference into a habit. That'll move the needle nicely.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

not even 10 mins into the 2nd period and kendall coyne is on hat trick watch 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Just published an update to this, covering the team structures for the US and Canada (ie. who is on which line), and the news that Team Canada left the Olympic village after one day and moved into a hotel:

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

Read our full story that details how we got inside the Dilley detention center for immigrant families here: www.propublica.org/article/life...

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY

'This decision is a major setback for Sex Matters, which raised more than £65,000 to try and force the pond to ban trans people, trying to go against regular swimmers. More than 32,000 people said they wanted the ponds to remain trans inclusive – 86% of the respondents to the consultation'

As January comes to a close, The Rec Center approaches Femslash February, which I believe we've observed every year since the start. But despite putting out a call for F/F fic recs several weeks ago, we've received *checks notes* 3 submissions. 😵‍💫 C'mon, folks! Please send us your favorite F/F!

This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

NEW: MN judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests. Sources tell @ms.now feds aren’t providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they’re accused. First byline with the great @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Alex Tabet. www.ms.now/news/minneso...

How to navigate the mental health impacts of immigration-related trauma, according to psychologists in Minnesota. Written by Anna Nguyen

This is insane. Insane that it's happening. Insane that these good folks need to do it in the first place. And insane that no one in power is helping them one iota.

the EU could collapse the American entertainment industry by simply withholding the Skarsgards until Trump is deposed

the worst part about writing is how you have to make up the entire fucking thing

5k of this hollanov dæmon au down, [redacted]k to go

"Many of ICE’s critics worry that the agency is hoovering up pro-Trump thugs... for a domestic security force loyal to the president. The truth, my experience suggests, is perhaps even scarier: ICE’s recruitment push is so sloppy that the administration effectively has no idea who’s joining."

OK! Request from an out of state neighbor for ways to help MSP. Here are a few: Via my absolute boss cousin, @allisonanne.com, artist, community supporter, and cool person extraordinaire: A doc! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New dating strategy just dropped

another good place to send money if you have it

Go ahead. Call me a "dillweed" again, you jackal. You brigand. But ask yourself this: where would the noble pickle be,, without the dilled weed's humble fronds

"Neocolonialism is you wanting to explain my own history to me. Neocolonialism is you expecting me to be the subject of your utopias." spot-on takedown of campism

2025 was a big year for queer fantasy but also for swinging wildly between different moods and genres and tbh i had a blast

ten years ago when i was toiling away in the hockey rpf mines i simply could not have even dreamed of times like these

yes i'm writing heated rivalry fic no it's not porn yes it's a character study of ilya and shane if they had dæmons who settled very early (ilya) and very late (shane) no i haven't figured out how long it's gonna be but signs are pointing to 5k

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

this is seriously so cool to see a transmasc idol come out

lol thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...

I’m opening my commissions again! Info below 🌟

wow “just the tip” hasn’t existed before? ……..glad it made it in

evergreen

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

Donate to your local food bank instead.

the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.

A quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV I took some shrimperties 🦐

Kobo is doing a 30 day free trial promotion for their Kindle Unlimited competitor service Kobo Plus for new subscribers (not sure if this is US only), if you like queer indie books, small press SFF, and backlist SFF from large publishers there's a lot to choose from on this service that's not on KU!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias