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What gets covered: 
• Pop culture & creativity dominates headlines 🎬 
• Policy coverage gets less attention ⚖️ 
• Resilience & solutions are underrepresented 💪🏾 What gets amplified — and what doesn’t — shapes understanding and real lives. transnewsinitiative.org

oh and on this trans day of visibility, please be aware that TN republicans are trying to force medical workers to give the patient data of trans people to lawmakers. The lawmakers *say* the data will be kept anonymous but absolutely no one believes that. wpln.org/post/bill-to...

I just enjoy Elizabeth Sandifer's brain so much, that's all

I need the Harry Potter rants to come with 100% less fan-shaming adults who loved the series. It is absolute bullshit to shame someone for loving children's fantasy, one of the most popular literary genres in existence. Obvs shame them for still clinging to it now. Not for having ever loved it.

If anyone needs 2 tickets to Sirens (March 18-22, New Haven CT), please hit me up. I got them at the advance price, but we can negotiate. With car trouble and some other things, I’m regrettably not going after all. sirensconference.org

I've been living in a hotel since mid-2024, and I've finally found an apartment if I can come up with $2500 up front for the deposit + first month's rent. Any help is appreciated, including sharing this post. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

We live in extremely cruel times, and helping ensure a trans kid's survival and safety is a vital form of resistance. Please donate to help Eli and best boy Ianto if you can.

i just think that if you're an audio/video editor and you deliberately overlay songs that are in two entirely different, non-relative, discordant key signatures on top of one another, you probably deserve to spend at least a little bit of time in hell

We should understand "Alpine Divorce" in conjunction with men being known to abandon women on roadsides, during partner dives (eg Tina Watson), and when partners are extremely sick. Often (like the case below) this is all premeditated rather than spontaneous. (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

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tonight I am thinking about all the disingenuous editorial room debates across NY/digital media over the idea that what's been happening to trans people in the US over the last decade constitutes a genocide. I hope all of those editors choke on their semantics.

I am the last person to learn that apparently Kaleidotrope is no longer streaming on any of the podcast platforms it's supposed to be streaming on 🤦 no clue why. But until we figure that out, anyone wanting to listen can still find it on YouTube! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Everything Carly writes here is correct. There's a reason I and a number of others have basically given up on trying to place fandom coverage in mainstream pubs. And I'm hopeful that we get at least a decent level of subscriber support for @fansplaining.bsky.social to try to help remedy this! BUT—

I think a lot of things can be true at once re: fandom and the fourth wall. The basic reality is that there *is* no fourth wall and arguably hasn't been since 2011, 50 Shades era. But that doesn't mean fan privacy goes out the window, or that it's fine citing fic or fans in articles w/o permission.

Imagine having the absolute lack of conscience required to act performatively troubled about the metric ton of scientific research that confirms the *staggeringly high* rate of trans suicide/ideation that magically drops when you empower people to transition. Imagine making THIS your battlefield.

I see it's time to bring this back: Trans people deserve better journalism. www.vox.com/culture/2365...

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in S1 the individual patient cases felt meaningful, both bc they were interesting and bc they introduced us to the characterizations of the doctors. In S2, we're spending more time on far less interesting cases, while the character stakes all feel lower, cheaper, and more predictable.

Anyway - AFTER THE GOLD - Olympic pairs skaters w too much chemistry try to figure out their life after the Games. M/F romance. INK AND ICE - an elite figure skater from a creepy island in the middle of Lake Erie starts dating a former war reporter while trying to make the Olympic team. M/M romance

Free instant all-day playlist in these replies, all day. Have yet to pass a non-banger. bsky.app/search?q=%22...

every time i think i'm fully worn down by this administration's utter contempt for the law, one more incremental horror like this comes along to jolt me

the deliberately blank faces of bai jingting, william chang, huang bo, and jackson wang as they vainly try to conceal their Horrified Misgiving about the weibo night "dancing" robots? will in fact be my new reaction gif for all of 2026 i'm just warning you now

“Talent is a gatekeeping mechanism”

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN 🔥

Aging infrastructure is a major challenge when it comes to extreme weather in prisons, jails and detention facilities across the U.S. Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchaman, Mississippi, both lost power due to Winter Storm Fern.

The Bible references are just- OW. Non Bible folks- first one is a rebuke from Jesus to his disciples for not letting children approach him. M Second is “Jesus wept”. No notes

fun fact i once auditioned for david geffen which means i apparently now have an epstein files bacon number of 1 🙃

local ICE fuckery in Oakmont - GFM link for family support and legal fees in the replies.

A friend asked if I still have videos of Len testing out the prototype of "touch-activated saxophone that can be used to make cats play Careless Whisper," since I pulled all my old content off the hellsite ages ago. And I do!

Solidarity with every single person participating in today’s general strike against ICE’s terror campaign. You’re changing the world ✊🏽❤️

I know that on some level the Democrats in power probably genuinely believe they're acting as boldly as they can to keep the country from falling into complete chaos, but do they fucking HEAR THEMSELVES? I feel insane all the time now

whole thread is genuinely the stuff of nightmares and yet here we are. nice sentient life form you got there, it would be a terrible shame if it…stupided itself to death. #antiAI #thereisnoethicaluse

"This should really be a wakeup call for studio executives who believe that love stories can’t succeed on their own," @gavia.bsky.social writes. "If Jacob Tierney can strike gold by adapting a tried-and-tested romantic formula, then other showrunners can surely do the same."

“People like me—maybe they don’t have trans kids, but they’re very liberal, very progressive—think, ‘Well, we’re in Washington, so we’re okay,’” Sierra told Erin in the Morning. “That’s absolutely false. No one is safe until everybody is.”

The replies in this thread come from very smart critics so it's frustrating that everyone here is treating "fandom" like a media-illiterate monolith when transformative fandom is entirely *about* engaging with and critiquing canons thoroughly and cough up symbolism-rich meta 800 times a second?

low level just started having an anxiety attack out of nowhere, then realized it was probably because I'd just read Erin Reed's reporting on Kansas legislation to bounty hunt trans people in bathrooms, followed by a Schumer quote doing the absolute least against DHS. Take care, all. These times.

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man imagine what a culture shock it's gonna be when the nostalgia for Obamacore finally kicks in and we realize that the whole aesthetic was just "not treating people like shit"

i need a timeline cleanse, look at this superior human who probably doesn't believe in phrenology

I mean for one thing, the president of the United States suggested less than two weeks ago that Omar can easily be murdered like other people who "live in Somalia." "Same missile. Ping! That's the end of them." bsky.app/profile/atru...

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so many of my friends are struggling right now but the winds of communal support are sustaining all of us. please chip in for Suaine if you can, or pass it on. 🫰

I can't get over the detail from the NY-er Bari Weiss profile that she and her wife inscribed a book they gifted to their months-old daughter with 'We can't wait to see if you'll choose to cancel us from the right or the left' Just. Imagine using your baby as a prop for your contrarian brand.

hey if you check our their GoFundMe page today, you will be greeted by cute kittens! 😸

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Here's the thing. A small handful of what Weiss wants to do here is smart, namely diversifying brands across platforms + live events. Other legacy media brands like Dateline have done this and been hugely successful. But she can't do that if she fucks w/the brand's work and alienates all its fans!