Thank you to Nebraska Women in Technology and the Aksarben foundation for recognizing the work I do to improve outcomes in education for all students

I need to start posting about math more

New index for how everyone is doing right now How many people are trying to read Man's Search for Meaning at your local library

This takes a mere 7 minutes of your time to listen to, btw, and probably less to read

This was lovely, and it'd be great to hear more like it. I thoroughly enjoy the podcast in general, but this small, personal chronicling and sort of walking through the things that matter, and the things that help ground, well it's just rarely seen in any podcast, let alone ones by trans folks.

If you know me from ~my previous work~ please follow this new account I made I'll be mostly posting things there including art stuff, podcast stuff, activism stuff, maybe shit posts? Probably should keep shit posts on here But anyhoot go follow

The trajectory of the Republican party over my lifetime has followed the trajectory of computing Their form of government has become small enough to fit in your pants

Making trans women sin eaters for men's misogyny is such A Choice

Related: whenever I've seen a cis queer person discuss their time in the closet I've never heard anyone interrupt and insist they need to own up to their "straight conditioning."

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I think we need the latter every six weeks at a minimum.

This ain’t my first rodeo 🤠 (It’s my 2nd rodeo and I’m still super anxious and scared so pls don’t be mean to me or I might cry)

NYE is my least favorite holiday ❌ Staying up past bed time ❌ Loud noises ❌ Lots of alcohol and little food ❌ Crowds 0/10 Give me more holidays where we eat a large dinner at 3pm, have a little booze as a treat, and then all take naps

Yeah this about sums up what I think about people reporting Gaza fundraisers.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Trump apparently wants the US to own Greenland and between that and the Canada thing it really seems like he has a weird expansionist agenda and that is probably bad

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

Nothing has turned me off of Tiktok more than Trump saying he doesn't want it to get banned Like that can't be good

You can't pray away a miracle. That's why we're still here and we always will be.

This is what clicks with me. We wouldn't have so many stories of creation and transformation if those things weren't meant to be cherished, and if they hadn't already been since we started asking questions about the world around us. Self-actualization - to me - is a sacred act.

I have always been uncomfortable when people look too hard for a scientific basis for trans people It always seems like a question to ask before they look for a "cure" But what is there was a spiritual and metaphorical reason and the gods made you that way It can't be fixed or cured, it just is

Coco Chanels Latke recipe just dropped

At last, antisemitism has its own Freedom Fries!

The danger of Prosperity Gospel Christianity isn't that it is hypocritical It's that it tells people that if they profit from something they have God's favor It disguises exploitation as exhaltation and encourages people to view the impoverished as suffering because they sin by being poor

As I handmade a new loom hook from an old yarn needle, a paint brush, and some hockey tape, I joked to my wife that once it was done I would find my loom hook I then found my loom hook

The slippery slope of banning Jesse Singal is not real.

Reskeet if you think Jesse Singal should be banned.

yes

It's wild to me that Nancy Mace lied about a man who was named "Public Citizen of the Year" by the Illinois chapter of the National Association Of Social Workers and now is threatening journalists who report on it www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

It turns out Nancy Mace is a liar who defamed an award winning advocate who survived horrific child abuse www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Hot take, you should actually hold cis people to a higher standard. It's should really take a lot before you bring any negative attention on a trans woman tbh

NHS: "it's okay for us to prevent you from transitioning since you're still vALiD if you don't"

Detransition is when you choose it. Forced sex change is when the state does it Bigoted cis people need to stop being given "polite" language for what they want. They need to be forced into saying what they want: forced sex changes as punishment

I think maybe perhaps a political movement that can't participate in online spaces without getting a free pass to break completely normal codes of conduct like "don't engage in stalking, harassment campaigns and hate speech" doesn't have to retain access to those online spaces

Quid Pro Whoa: The Trump campaign made a $100,000 payment to RFK Jr.’s law firm — shortly after RFK Jr. dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Trump. Last month, Trump named Kennedy as his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Checks and balances in the new century: when you write a check, make sure it balances.

Something I keep thinking about is that only 29% of adults in America voted for Trump

Jesse Singal is a liar and a fraud of a journalist and I will prove it as an unassailable fact in this thread. I'll also talk about why I don't think BlueSky moderation will do anything about him afterwards so stick around or maybe just skip to that if you don't want to read the boring details.

A request for cis allies: Report and block Jesse Singal. In addition to his highly problematic history in journalism, he's now actively calling on his Twitter followers to harass trans women he disagrees with on Bluesky.

the answer to "why don't americans have..." and it's something so simple like national healthcare or feeding kids at school the answer is "bc Black people would also have it"

There's a moment for the history books.

ok when i was setting up this joke i swear i didn't know he would literally be named "Luigi Mangione"

withholding my take about whether the assassin is good or not until they publish his name and reveal if he was italian-american

The real "cult" was the friends we made along the way

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What is something you thought was a totally normal holiday thing as a child that as an adult was not a common thing Mine is participating in a holiday ice show every year

I'm away from Bluesky for one morning & come back to find all the skeets are about Jesse joining then being suspended from the platform 👀