"Strong" isn't "Sure, we'll sacrifice trans people if you leave us alone [which you won't actually do]." It's "Fuck you, we don't leave anybody behind and that means we defend trans people you're trying to write out of public life. Fix your hearts or die."

The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.

Ignore the clowns who come on here periodically to say Bluesky's irrelevant. Just this week I saw @katelynburns.com @ziibiing.com and @posters-madness.bsky.social raise tens of thousands of dollars for mutual aid for trans people and immigrants through this website for dorks.

here's my proposed platform for dems in 2026: 1. we do not throw trans people under the bus 2. we do not throw red states under the bus 3. WE DO NOT THROW ANYBODY UNDER THE FUCKIN BUS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU 4. war crimes tribunals

"They can't go back and change the call..." And YET we have seen them do that exact thing.

Refs handed that goal to the Wild.

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

If you want to stand up against fascism, then you have to defend trans rights. It’s nonnegotiable. We all lose otherwise.

Space opera standalones for everybody! A little bit of hope, a little bit of sports, a whole lot of competence, and even more queer shenanigans. They said write your own if you don't see yourself in what you read. So I did. Come join the #NeoG, hopeful spacepunk for difficult times. kbwagers.com

the term "purity test" used to be referring to shit like "i'm an anarchist, they're a slightly different kind of anarchist, ergo, they are a fascist" not, like, "should we have human rights?"

…Because, the story goes, we need the votes of people who *don’t* want full trans rights. Because THEY have that purity test, and must be catered to. So trans people and the people who love them should just suck it up and watch their rights taken away. For some mythical voter’s (yep) purity test.

A reminder (mostly for me) that your writing habits will change. No book gets written in the same fashion as the previous ones. There will be things that were easy which are now not and things you struggled with that suddenly flow like water. It's all part of the process.

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

i just want to hang out on the internet and talk about my hyperfixations but nooooooooooo powerful people decided being evil was the best way they could spend their time

I am cold and tired and too angry. I’ve been trying to write a thread for days, but it is just inarticulate middle fingers. Men need to do better about calling out other men for their fuckery when it happens. “Indelible is the laughter.” You want to be a hero? A good guy? You gotta do the work.

You mean good stewards like Kash Patel spending our tax money to chug beers? Fucking robber barons, the lot of them.

Your activism will either include sex workers or it will be useless. We can't build a better future by leaving the best of us behind.

The quoted list is clearly intended to slander the accounts listed. All the included accounts have a bio which includes reference to folklore, mythology, occult, tarot, queerness, or witchyness. On the bright side it looks like a great list of people to start following!

I picked up a copy of This is the Honey, which is an anthology of contemporary Black poets edited by Kwame Alexander. The first poem is called Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We're Going to Mars) by Nikki Giovanni and it's just stunning. bookshop.org/p/books/this...

Look just saying: Brady Tkachuk mic'd up: "BE CONFIDENT! BE CONFIDENT! BE CONFIDENT!" Hannah Bilka mic'd up: singing Joan Jett to herself on the ice Women's hockey > men's hockey

What's the one mailing list you know you shouldn't be on because it always temps you to spend money but also you can't pass up the opportunity to see the neat shit they want you to buy? 😅 www.oxknit.com/collections/...

i’m tired of hearing about the founding fathers. i just feel like, that’s enough of that

If you see a discourse you already did, congrats, you don’t have to participate. You did your time. You’re done! Yay!

Rep. Ilhan Omar shouts repeatedly at Trump: "You have killed Americans!"

you do not need to read anything Jesse Singal publishes. He is an immoral, unethical, bigoted, dishonest puree of feces poured into a science journalist-shaped mold. That the NYT publishes his lies shows they want trans people to die.

Crew Bulletin is all about what's on my mind - specifically the bullshit behavior of grown men. Available to all but if you'd like these in your inbox weekly sign up at the bottom of the page! crew-bulletin.ghost.io/tarnished-go...

They're ALL FUCKING EXPENSIVE, KAREN.

Pleased I can continue to wish Brock Nelson a very happy Gold medal.

i know people are intentionally lumping things like spell check in with AI to make opposition feel ridiculous but honestly don't push me. i'd strangle clippy with my bare hands if it meant getting rid of AI

NEWS: The gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team has declined an invitation to attend Trump’s State of the Union. This comes after Trump was heard telling the men’s team he’d begrudgingly invite the women’s champions or risk impeachment.

Fuck the US Men's Hockey team to hell for their misogyny against the women's team. They could have been silent when the Genocidal Syphilitic Nazi Pedophile made his "joke" but they laughed along. I wish them all Egyptian curses and I am very sorry that Canada lost.

I have so many opinions about this, but beyond how bad a look this is for USA hockey is that this exemplifies everything about this loser of a administration. They don't want to do the hard work. They just want to show up for the party.

oh, are people mad that we’re having fun without even bothering to Monetize Our Influence or whatever on this website again

I wish Brock Nelson a very happy gold medal. 🤣

Hockey should probably be a controlled substance

Cute that they wanted to be just like the women’s gold medal game and go to OT 🥺

Free hockey!

Man this is GOOD hockey.

That's my boy, Makar!

Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.

It's Friday, why not pick up a cozy queer slice-of-life portal fantasy about a world I'd much rather live in! (They do civics on purpose there.)

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

put it in the Louvre

KELLLLLLERRRRRR!

You'd think after almost 50 years in Colorado I wouldn't get fooled by a sunny winter day... But here I am, freezing my ass off on my walk. 😅

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.