my short stories are coming out in paper form from feminist press next may! time to pre order a copy!

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wait so the “chili” goes on fucking spaghetti?? please say psych

I don't care how many times I see the maps over how many years, it still does not compute for me that the entire US is at southern european / mediterranean / even north african latitudes. and that northern europe is canada

ok, but don't the American people really want us to focus on kitchen table issues

trans people deserve so much better

the total normalization of "biological sex vs. gender identity" framing with "biological sex" synonymous with agab is just a really kick in the teeth

I feel weird. I don’t have a word for this sensation.

He had me the moment he cruised to a stop on one bike pedal

Please for the love of god let this be true

Woke up today to the news

honestly the best thing mainline Dems can do is to keep our names out of their mouths (while having their staff hold the quiet lines quietly)

Feels so much lower stakes, but actually important to turn out for the Portland parks levy after their park renovation in my east-of-82nd neighborhood park made a huge and hugely positive community impact this year

she’s just a girl with a little something extra (god complex)

the most expensive part of transition is actually all the books

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

I appreciate baseball for the way every team is like, nine different version me of Some Guy and their teammate, Achilles Himself

ok but how do we actually snatch Lord of the Rings back from the chuds? this isn't for you, fuck off

I mean it just kind of sucks to be out with the six year olds just as trick or treating is getting going, trying to have a good halloween, and every single "take one" bucket has already been emptied out by teens or other aholes

Ok but where can I place this 7,000 word essay on the closet, queer fantasy, and noted transsexual woman writer Robert Jordan

watching the worlds largest coffee franchise go on a years-long nationwide illegal union busting crusade just to clear out all the queers

A cool thing about being a trans woman in 2025 is how you’re simultaneously having to scrub LGBT anything from your resume to have a hope of getting hired while also being browbeat by a bunch of others to share your pronouns

being a top line scapegoat fucking sucks man

LEWIS: Then the children meet Santa. The jolly old elf- TOLKIEN: Disgusting. Elves should be autistic war criminals who set off an apocalyptic chain of events that end with a moody twink stabbing Satan at the end of time. LEWIS: So you say. TOLKIEN: But my editor said to stick to hobbits.

attorney job lists are full of employment law postings rn. useful for someone w exp in that, but also like, as a countercyclical field, a terrible indicator for the state of the overall economy and basically everybody else. lots of companies gearing up for firings and related union fights + lawsuits

i don't have any nazi tattoos

but you didn’t have a bingo card. you don’t play bingo. you’re lying

"see, after years and years consolidating power they finally corrupted your precious institutions past the breaking point -- bet you feel stupid for ever believing in anything! which is also why I was right to stand back and let it happen-"

starting to think we shouldn't have thrown away the federal courts over nothing in 2016. like maybe that was bad actually

chat is this a big deal

real center-left technocratic institutionalism has never been tried

6-year-old saw this over my shoulder and so I had to explain the entire concept. “That’s ridiculous” she says

Back at my old journalism undergrad to speak on a panel after having gone through w every media person’s musing “what if I just went to law school” and I have to say it’s refreshing to show up with “journalist” as the centered identity from back when that I abandoned instead of like, the usual one

The actual vibe on the ground in Portland: everybody’s notably *off* in a harried, overwhelmed, beaten down and absent kind of way. You can feel it pretty much everywhere and it sucks

Penn, the school which already banned trans women from campus, took back medals, erased records, and posted apologies to Nazi cis women? No, I don't think I'll be congratulating them today.

Zero congratulations are in order for an institution which already functionally banned trans women from their campus.

Even if the decline is 3/4 shifting away from transness and 1/4 shifting towards more “binary” transness, we still land at a trans population share far greater than anything ever estimated or claimed or hoped until like 5 minutes ago.

There used to be a preschool a block away from the Portland ICE building but it had to move because goons kept shooting so much tear gas at modest nonviolent protests. Realizing few people know that

Fake Portland problems: antifa-ravaged war town hellscape Real Portland problems: my kid is too cool for goodwill or the child consignments but the good vintage shops don’t stock anything that fits her

The whole “president and henchmen boldly lie about Portland and media both-sides it” is extra brain melting when you lived through 2020 and remember what mass sustained protests here actually look like. This isn’t even that. Nothings happening here. Nothing is fucking happening.

Follow the money 👀

That middle aged transsexual lifestyle thing where you’re out in the yard watering some shrubs with the sun beating down and your brain won’t stop looping that québécois franglish drag influencer saying her pronouns are Go / Habs / Go

I should also say that Persona is the first novel I've read since maybe Nevada that made me go, "I didn't know how much I (we) needed this."

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

Couch

Boy in my kid’s graphic novel has a lot of trouble talking to girls and I’m stuck, like actually do not know how to explain this to a trans femme six year old

the fact that everyone says franchise instead of series nowadays is so insidious

portland frog you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your rubber suit is too bad. they’ll kill you portland frog