I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Me. (And every follower of @peculiarityshop.bsky.social ) I do not know who the photographer is. I'll update credit if I find out.

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

In my lived experience, this has proven to be true.

This is absolutely insane framing for an article about a guy who was killed because his tank fell into the Euphrates

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Sex workers are some of the best posters hands up. I don't know why y'all ain't following more. And also they need money so tip them.

Contemplating sleeping all day or buying a new wardrobe. Maybe both.

HELP

"Was I just blind going to the grocery store..." yes. Yes you were. Yes you absolutely were. Welcome to the world of magnificent variety. I can get harissa at fucking Walmart. (To be fair the "Gunpowder Spice Blend" made me blink too, but it sounds like I'd just need to read the ingredients list.)

The Internet is not a great place to Do Nuance but this is one of those places where nuance is really called for. A lot of enlisted folks enlisted out of economic need, did not sign up yesterday, & really cannot just walk off the job without severe consequences. AND enlistment is not heroism, AND

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Wonder if he can differentiate between the first and second Presidents George Bush. Bet he can.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

Roughly 100 ICE vehicles are on their way to a warehouse in Western Maryland, as signs mount of an impending operation here.

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

We are at $2560 / $2670!! Literally just $110 away from being *completely funded* days ahead of schedule! Thank you all so much for helping my dearest St. Paul friend. We keep us safe. 🥹

Much Ado About Nothing and A Room With A View gave me an unreasoning desire to visit the Italian countryside. (Comfort watching is happening.)

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

too many people are being waaaayyyy too consent manufacturing shaped right now dawg. they fucking blew up kids. if your gut reaction to what's going on right now is anything less than "holy hell this should never have happened and it needs to stop immediately" you need to do a lot of self reflection

(this is why DS9 is so great and worth watching in this era because Major Kira goes from being a resistance fighter/terrorist to being an official in the new government and is absolutely punched in the gut and torn in all directions by how hard and complex that is.)

I get this sentiment fully, but the point is, 1. he's literally doing crimes 2. if he had to follow rules and procedures, we wouldn't have bombed iran.

Reminder that if you see something horrific, there is good evidence that playing Tetris as soon as possible helps. Giving yourself PTSD from seeing photos or film clips doesn’t help anyone.

"We're in the cellar, and you're going back to prison, and my life is wasted, and we've lost each other... and you're smiling." "It's the way I register despair."

Feeling very like Eleanor of Aquitaine at the end of Lion in Winter today.

Y'know what we need? Live cams of birbs. Here's my thread. Here's a Bald Eagle on a snowy nest. explore.org/livecams/bir...

Sad to read that G.G. Santiago, creator of “Rainbow Brite,” has died. Her obit is quite moving. ♥️ www.billingsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/g...

I think the fact that this is gaining traction again says a lot about where everyone's head is right now.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Speaking of, help a girl with rent that's due tomorrow? Still at 0/1500 essentially. Donations: paypal.me/tormentedart... Or my shop if you want stuff in return: tormentedartifacts.com

it's 1982. i'm baby. a dubious war in the middle east is underway. it's 1990, i'm 8. we are starting a dubious war in the middle east. it's 2003. i'm 21. we are starting a dubious war in the middle east. it's 2026. i'm 44. we are starting a dubious war in the middle east...

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

let’s stop calling each new outrage a “distraction” from the last outrage and instead call it what it is: a vast ongoing machine of death, kidnapping, graft, abuse, and larceny built to operate on many fronts simultaneously at home and abroad for the benefit of the wannabe god-emperor and his toads

This is your regularly scheduled reminder to please take two seconds to check if that inflammatory post you’re about to share is factually accurate before sharing it. This is extra important in times of heightened stress and conflict, not less important.

So much ICE out there today in South Minneapolis. They’re prowling around harassing schools. Stay frosty, friends

Stock market go down the hooooole. (Yes, yes, I know the stock market is at $ NYSE LOTS but like. It crashed at the beginning of the week, barely recovered, and looks like it's crashing the same amount again, which is more reaction than I've seen for a while to the *gestures at everything*)

Spoke too soon, I have the focus of a caffeinated chipmunk. The energy is there but the cognitive function still needs another half dozen naps.

Major update to the story of #HenriettaLacks and the first immortal human cell line, HeLa cells! Novartis and the Lacks' estate have reached a settlement. www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/novar... (1/5) 🧪

ICE is all over TN right now, kidnapping people off roads and construction sites. Nashville's seen the most visible pushback from citizens, but it's getting essentially zero media play. Johnson City has seen a surge in the past two weeks. Today it looks like they're pushing in Chatanooga.

It is FRIDAY the week after a two week stretch of overtime and one week stretch of the husband being sick so me taking on all the household stuff and I am JUST NOW starting to feel like a human being again. (Though work cropping up complicated problems isn't helping.)

man i am trying to win by saving what i love rather than fighting what i hate but these fuckers sure don't make it easy

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Hey folks, I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but protesting planned AI data centers in your local area *could literally bring the entire fascist house of cards down*, b/c the big fascist tech cos have bet HEAVY on AI, but the demand ain't happening so their $100s of billions of Nvidia chips...

The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org