Durham public schools absolutely *teeming* this morning with parents, grandparents, and community members making students feel welcome and safe and saying Fuck ICE.

#WeekUforUnloved #AlphabetChallenge I don’t love what is happening in my city and state right now, but I do love the way people are rising up and organizing in support of our neighbors.

we tried "it's morally bad because trans people are people" and that didn't work so I guess it's time for "it's strategically bad because most Democrats besides you guys think trans people are people"

another day, another reminder that I'm not a real therapist cause I'm not a psychologist

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

I decided to solve the male loneliness epidemic myself by making sure no man can ever get lonely again. my plan? katamari all the lonely men together into one big ball

favorite answers so far: Dolly Parton, Zhang yimou, Tolkien

"if I don’t get my pulse up to 140 beats per minute for an hour every day, I can feel the icy fingers of death scrambling to gain purchase around my throat" is actually what it feels like to exercise in middle age though

Ə de vivre

New rule: you're not allowed the use the term "magic realism" unless you can name at least one Boom author who isn't Gabriel García Márquez.

give to your local abortion fund!

have been busy w work and family the last few days so all I know about the musk/trump beef is through cryptic social media posts. keep 'em coming, everybody

they call me the

Q: Use fo'c'sle in a sentence A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms

burial plans in bio

I just watched my 17mo-old purposefully press a piece of salmon into the top of their head and all I could think of was this:

Wish there was a setting in my CPAP that was strong enough to just blow away all the congestion. like a pressure-washing setting or something.

my partner, while listening to "Sloop John B": Is this about Odysseus?

peanut butter+chili crisp on a rice cake YOU'RE WELCOME

we already have this, it's "how violent are they towards women?"

This is a real win for the f-bomb, cannibalism, house centipedes, weird piano music, and failed science expeditions.

Show me 4 pictures in your phone that have your energy that aren't selfies

For laws to work, they have to be EITHER statements of societal values such that violating those values is taboo and carries stigma, OR the consequences contained in the law have to be actually imposed by those with actual power to do so.

absolutely burst into loud laughter in the middle of the coffee shop after reading, "Oh no, did someone inherit challenging times?"

yup, more confederate flags in my hometown in rural PA than in my current home in NC

looks like my younger child's first word is going to be my older child's name.

my hs graduating class was ~260 people and I didn't know a single person who was out as queer

The carceral state is an institutional imperial boomerang. It's an insurance policy for the capitalist class. Where other countries have social welfare states and safety nets to catch people who fall, we have guns and prisons to push people off ledges if they step out of line.

moms everywhere thrilled to have a new weapon in their arsenal

I'm not a good candidate for gun ownership but I took a Stop the Bleed class and definitely recommend it.

this fucking sucks, I know so many trans ppl who do door dash work

I find the Duolingo owl's over-familiarity distasteful.

I'll be blunt: the Nazis knew better than to burn the Louvre. They knew destroying prized property would get more people into the streets of Paris than kidnapping entire neighborhoods of Jewish people. And they were right. White folk fetishize property & not vulnerable people. Stop doing that!

man, @chadstanton.bsky.social presented this in the most gentle, respectful, clear, and thoughtful way and he STILL got hassled for his tone.

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social by page 17 I was like "I would die for Kew"

I hate calling my reps but Matthew makes it so easy.

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

you think these cultures independently came up with the pierogi? no. must have been aliens

My dad (on the hospital board) clearly and immediately identified it as a scam, by the way, and told the board as much. "I don't want these people to think we're rubes," he later told me.

A bunch of RFK's people came to try to sell my hometown's hospital on a (clearly scam) investment. Can somebody re-write "Ya Got Trouble" for this moment? "With a capital T and that rhymes with V and that stands for vaccine" or some such.

I was scheduled to speak on a panel at a trans health conference in April. got an email today saying the whole 3-day conference has been cancelled, no explanation.

man fuck climate change. Groundhog Day used to *mean* something.

Like honestly the only way we're gonna get through this is to cultivate an unrealistically positive vibe to carry us through because a big part of resisting shock and awe is not giving into despair Giving into despair is worse than being cringe

Call script:

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