📣 The UUA has issued a powerful response to the recent anti-trans presidential proclamation. Trans people are sacred. Trans youth deserve safety, love, and affirmation—not hate. 💬 Read the full statement: www.uua.org/pressroom/pr... #UU #UnitarianUniversalist #Transrights #belovedcommunity

What is at stake if IMLS is defunded and dismantled from a Michigan perspective? 1/xx

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." — July 4, 1776

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security: Red Flag Alert for the Anti-Trans Agenda of the Trump Administration in the United States. www.lemkininstitute.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Ferndale Pride just stood on principles and rejected a sponsorship from Corewell Health because they cut access to gender-affirming care. Support is way down this year, so please join me in becoming a sponsor or donating. 🏳️‍⚧️ pridesource.com/article/fern... ferndalepride.com/sponsors/202...

My brain gave me this image and I felt the need to share #transpride #transgender #trans #lgbtpride #digitalart #digitalartist #procreateart #trogdor #homestarrunner

If you are seeking healthcare, please continue to do so. If you are providing healthcare in compliance with Michigan law, continue to do so. m.youtube.com/shorts/X6IBy...

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

I just sent this post by @stacybias.bsky.social to my therapist in preparation for therapy tonight in case anyone else needs it #AuDHD

"The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." — John Gilmore, 1993

I'm operating on the assumption that the Internet Archive itself won't be available in the long term. It's too much a single point of failure — and thus an obvious target — for so much of our history. If there's anything there you consider precious or irreplaceable, download your own copy now.

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

If you don't have many transgender people in your life, you might be aware generally of the anti-trans bigotry coming from the Trump administration, but not aware of the extreme details and the immediate danger. Good sources to follow include @erininthemorning.com and @assignedmedia.org. (1/3)

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

When they make you a criminal just for existing as yourself, then the entirety of the law no longer has any claim on your obedience. You are then bound only by your own conscience.

I've been feeling this a lot lately as someone who helped build an early dialup ISP in the 90s. It seemed like connection across divides was going to lead to so much good change. The global village and all that. But now look at us. This was my "farewell" video on TikTok to that same effect.

Bluesky doesn't support audio files, and video files are limited to 60 seconds. Guess I'll just keep posting my music over on Mastodon. I love making music but rarely find time to turn little sketches into something finished. Here's last night's bit of synthiness anyway: tech.lgbt/@autumn/1137...

It's been a rough stretch and I'm trying not to be too hard on myself for struggling to keep up with everything. But the youngest kiddo and I just made the most charlie-browniest yule log out of extra campfire wood and a bunch of birthday candles... and that feels like so much more than enough. 🕯️

Listening to a friendly debate between the armchair quarterbacks at the bar: "I've been watching football longer than you've been alive."

Today seemed like an appropriate day to renew my ACLU membership and send in a donation. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Detroit Public Library is such an amazingly beautiful and reverent place. "Knowledge is Power", indeed. Michigan folks — if you already have a library card in your home city, show it at the DPL circulation desk and they'll give you a Detroit library card for free.

This has been a really difficult month for a number of reasons, and I'm finding that at least right now I'm having a hard time focusing while working alone at home. So today I rode my bike to the library and am working from one of the study rooms. Libraries coming in clutch once again... 💚

Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. @eff.org has been maintaining these resources for years: ssd.eff.org

The Pink Haven Coalition is dedicated to helping permanently or temporarily relocate trans folks so they can access gender-affirming care or other support. www.uuworld.org/articles/rel... For how to donate, check www.pinkhaven.org.

I would love to find a book that spells out a clear vision of what "what we were working towards" really means and imagines what our country could look like if those ideals were fully realized. Do any of you book lovers out there have a recommendation?

The bikeability of my city was one of the deciding factors when I bought my current home. I run errands by bike when I can, and have replaced nearly 1,000 miles of trips by car in the last two years. Here's a trip down the new bike lanes on Woodward Ave. during this year's Dream Cruise festival.

Since we're all loving on libraries over here, I just found out that if you work in Ann Arbor, you can get an @aadl.bsky.social public library card with no fee just as if you were a resident. On a very related note, isn't my new library card adorable?

I have no idea which preparations over the next two months will prove to have been necessary. But come what may, the 2024 archive of Wikipedia articles that I've downloaded seems like an appropriate snapshot in time to hold on to.

We are way more car-dependent than I'd like here in southeast Michigan. Until we pull off a breakthrough of a reliable bus and train network, though, I'm loving the utility of e-bikes. I'm using mine for trips and errands around the city when I can. Almost 1,000 miles on the odometer so far!

Oh. Seasonal depression is going to be rough this year, isn't it?

not so much tired as weary hard chasing the sun when instead of setting and rising splinters and shatters its light fragments scattered to chaotic intolerable dim

Do not give up. Especially your values. Don’t think for even one second that you are powerless. I’m serious.

I'm used to a 1,024 character limit from my Mastodon instance. I've only been here on Bluesky for two days, and it already feels like editing thoughts down to 300 characters isn't leaving the same room for nuance.

From the day before a seismic change, this was a prayer that I must have known I needed. Here are five minutes of Lake Michigan's shoreline, in case they can bring any stillness to you as well. woodland.video/w/xvkjbXUnZn...

in the dawn of all to come may our hearts be open may our voices be strong and our magic shine through while we build our new world moment by moment hands worked rough and dirty but held together come what may

Let's give this a try...