Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

🕯️ also up today, a really lovely feature interview with @post-trash.bsky.social wherein @tbirdthanyaiyer.bsky.social spoke to @purityolympics.bsky.social about her beginnings (s/o fellow LOTR enjoyers), the stillness she discovered while creating this record & what's changed in the last few years:

NASA posted a photo of Jupiter under ultraviolet light 🏳️‍⚧️

new yorkers are so funny because all they want to do is talk about getting from point A to point B and what trains they will take. it’s like the snl skit “the californians” except you’re just talking about comprehensive public transit

"Recently, an art piece that I co-created over 30 years ago with my then-partner, musician Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, was unearthed from a storage facility, after apparently being misplaced by the band’s management." I Watched One of the Biggest Bands of the '90s Erase Me from Their Story:

I simply would not be here without SNAP benefits. I am so grateful my parents had that resource when I was young so we never went hungry. You interact with so many people who rely on that resource every day.

does anyone want to start a trans orchestra with me where we exclusively cover songs by the trans siberian orchestra

I’m in the business of missouri let’s take it from the top

if you know a single soul in… • the Kansas City metro area • the St. Louis metro area • the Indianapolis metro area • the Nashville metro area @ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC tomorrow thru friday our last shows of the year!!!! linktr.ee/ekkoastral

disrespectfully, fuck merch cuts

cannot believe i missed the jelani sei reunion show god dammit

texas loves ekko astral and that is my favorite kind of irony

if this tour has taught me anything, it’s that the scene kids are alive and well

double band made me rip my pants tonight. shoutout atlanta, you go hard af

jael and i responding to each other while in the van together is like pictochat for the chronically online

massive ekko astral tour photo diary dump let’s go

just saying, they’d hate it if you focused on other things today instead of worrying about a breaking news event. keep talking about the genocide of palestinians. climate change. the dc occupation. immigration raids. don’t narrow your focus to a moving object surrounded by online misinformation.

happy birthday to the light of my life and one of the best friends i have in this whole miserable world: ekko astral’s tour manager and merch slinger mastermind jo morgan (@sepiadisco.bsky.social) here’s jo picking up our tour van

all of you should follow the badass trans punk rocker journalist who broke the news of ice showing up at the military base in chicago: @vimiller.bsky.social

ekko astral is the only band that watches the news in the morning on tour

my biggest take away from wisconsin is that there are so many spiders

the restful comfort of a big big couch

and the soft plucking of a piano in the distance ugh yes

accidentally stayed up all night because i got too excited working on a spreadsheet 🙄

i just asked our tour manager if we can have someone play toontown behind us while we perform on the tour this fall and suffice to say calls are being made as we speak

if by calls you mean going up to em’s room where she was actively playing neopets then yes, i have made the calls. and the calls have been answered. she’s got a maxed out toon, it’s over for u bitches

“Cardiac” Pretty Bitter — Pleaser (2025)

hey guys check this out A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FEMINIZING HRT (15.9k words) pghrt.diy

there are more trans americans than there are operating farms in the united states

begging and pleading for people to start internalizing that “show me your papers” is not just about immigration

home is where smoking weed after working the jam band gig is

All of you need to follow a DC band that is actually doing the work… @prettybittermp3.bsky.social. Their new album “pleaser” is the best new album of the year, AND they’re working part and parcel with us on the ground.

please donate: linktr.ee/remorahousedc and follow @remorahousedc.bsky.social

Please enjoy, in these trying times, the best tree in Washington, DC.

A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.

This is the best concert footage I’ve ever seen/heard

white reporters describe racism challenge

one thing the computer can never do is capture the fun of hanging out with your friends in a basement once a week yelling and banging on shit

takoma park is a unique metro community centered in Maryland but spans the DC border and is a good example of the blurred lines of jurisdiction these agents are going to, i am sure, now navigate with tact and grace and care

“i can’t call you by the name i don’t recognize” “i can’t call you by your chosen name” “i can’t call you by a name i can’t pronounce” jump into the coldest lake and get mild hypothermia but not enough to go to the hospital, just enough to be in pain

nothing quite like taking your dad to the lesbian bar (he had a blast and so did i)

once again, cancel culture is dumb and also predators do not get to be absolved

as a rebellion against my landlord who won’t actually solve any of the problems i am solving them myself but i am using the wrong caulk cause frankly you couldn’t pay me to care enough to go get the right kind

gender is a performance and ekko astral is touring the united states this fall

a public service announcement from your favorite cartoon punk band on bluesky

Hey, booking agents: I've never seen a harder working band than Perennial. Check 'em out!

happy @prettybittermp3.bsky.social day to those who celebrate