I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air: 1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span, 2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black, 3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic. 4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

Hey, New York: Zohran teams up with John Wilson (!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohR...

Last two of ones of these. Tooth fairy letters to my kids. Will miss the project greatly.

we live in an endless downward spiral wherein the world’s worst people learn regulation is Good Actually right after the irreparable harm

In case you were wondering Philz was recently bought out by a larger company

If you're on signal & haven't already, maybe go to Settings → Notifications → Content → Name Only or No Name or Content Because apparently phone forensics can scrape msgs from notifications storage. Not just a signal problem, btw. Any encrypted messaging service w/ a "msg preview" type of setting

tbh I still feel I get more enjoyment out of reading this short review of the first Mario movie than I do out of watching most full-length films

the number of things wrong in this one New York Times paragraph is an embarrassment to anybody who works there

THIS IS SO GOOD #MustRead seriously, take a moment for this, friends!

Brutal.

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

I just signed up for Nebula — what channels should I check out?

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this great set of refs on INTERLOCKING FINGERS, by the talented @taco1704! The key here is to remember that the KNUCKLES-JOINTS are HARD and will retain their WIDTH, while the fleshy sections of the PHALANGES will COMPRESS! #anime #manga #ART

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent.” —Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet

The reason abolition is scary is because we've all been told the US prison system is normal and we're all in danger without it. That's a lie. Prison labor is a $9 billion industry annually. That's why they lie to you. We don't need prisons. We need healthcare, housing, and education for all.

Just a quick reminder that Ronald Reagan yanked the solar panels off the White House. If America had remained on the path Jimmy Carter set us on, nobody would be talking about the Strait of Hormuz or gas prices right now. Republicans have been fucking America and the world for decades.

@jeffhauser.bsky.social letter in WSJ a few months ago on big business going for Trump II

A different perspective. Always helpful.

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

This thread is shocking in the best possible way.

Says “The New York Times” like one would say “The Aristocrats”

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Print this, frame it www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out." 2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance." 3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

One thing Trump has successfully done is cowed a lot of people into thinking they can't call for meaningful accountability for him and his cronies because it would be "revenge" or "political" and therefore illegitimate. Absolutely essential to reject that

Clearly, he's not a student of history. Because if he was, he'd know that the one time the federal government did "take care of daycare," they did it *because of a war* and used defense funding to pay for it. 1/🧵

The world is full of interesting light to stand in at night. More front porches and bodega doorways and red neon in hissing kitchens than you could ever hope to count.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

So on Friday morning I left to go to the Atmosphere Conference and my wife went out to pick up a dog to foster. All weekend she was sending me photos and I swore this dog was too cute to actually exist. But he's real. And boy is he fluffy. He also loves to stand up.

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

this is art

It pisses me off so much when I see those ChatGPT ads where someone gets advice for sticking to a running routine or opening a restaurant — all that information is stolen from folks who have done actual research studies, run trials, written blogs, published essays & books. Fucking thievery.

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

Literally last month in Miami I was out at dinner and used the restroom. As I walked in, a woman came out of a stall, saw me, then looked over at the urinal and said "oh my god, this is the men's room!" We survived.

I don't know how to speak about being Jewish right now. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-pr...

Cities do not really have democratic control over their own police departments and Dem politicians nervously pretend like they don’t notice this.

Only found out a few hours ago that there’s a new Julio Torres special available on HBO tonight. I don’t feel ready to cross the threshold, it’s like having a dessert that’s too beautifully decorated to eat.

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

the biggest disconnect between most people and government is that they don’t feel like government is doing anything useful for them bridging this divide is as difficult as it’s ever been in the age of fractured social media, but I genuinely do not think anyone is doing it better than Zohran

I LOOOOOVVVEE Sage the Bad Naturalist. She’s a top-tier science communicator and I’m so glad she’s doing her thing in the world. This video kicks off with a warning about existential dread, but I was actually feeling extra relaxed and hopeful by the end.

You need to read this. Sweet sweet schadenfreude.

“Separate the art from the artist” is a nuanced concept that should be reserved for dead creators only, whose legacies we have to grapple with in the context of history. It should NOT be used for living creators actively doing harm. That’s my two cents.