They can threaten; they can menace; they can make it illegal; they cannot stop it

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦7 sisters family portrait My last attempt on the Pleiades. Easy to capture, not that easy to keep clean , in particular, collimation to get crisp star spikes. 📷Newton 130/900 · Sony A7S · 6h exposure #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ?

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Where is the great puppygirl novel?

I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!

EVERYBODY LIB OUT

everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I hate all the parts of being sick except the no one expecting anything of you parts. You are allowed to just exist, a machine for making gross phlegm and lymph and headaches

“The incalculable damage left by Bush and Cheney’s day-in-and-day-out contempt for national and international law includes the power to sweep forward in time and trivialize into a matter of personal preference any future president’s adherence to the law.“ Elaine Scarry in 2008:

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

The shitty feeling of a cold creeping up on you and realizing that the body is at last settling the score

1/3 cup red lentils 1 cup whatever liquid seems good (fake chicken broth? Wine?? Sure!) Red miso 1 tomato Olive oil Whatever green + protein sauteed Whatever spices Cook tomato in oil until she melts Add&roast lentils + spices ~2 min Add liquid + miso, simmer until mush Top w rest Live your dream

Tfw deciding to take an art therapy techniques class

i had almost forgotten about this! so happy for the opportunity to talk about weird dead things and methods with @mayadeane.bsky.social @jeannethornton.bsky.social and @olivasthewriter.bsky.social

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Saw the woman met the first time canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social again on Everyone Canvasses Day. Best interactions: people who leaned out the window and joy shouted WE'RE VOTING FOR ZOHRAN; guy with patio covered in fake webs and skeletons (yes), Apartment of DJs (yes) we will win <3

My old job is making me wonder how I would graph the degree to which runners slow down by the water station as a function of their pace average :sickos_meme:

One day I want to be a weird old lady who runs the marathon

Conan what is best in life??? It is the moment when a marathon runner comes to the sidewalk to happily greet their friends

Not a fan of daylight savings: local cats. Why have I Betrayed

Remember: whoever scores the winning run gets to take the first bite out of the baseball and enjoy the fresh juices running down his chin

:( RIP to amazing TOS director Ralph senensky. I spent so much time once reading his blog about the episodes he directed --this one, about the amazing Metamorphosis, is a gem. senensky.com/metamorphosis/

Vote Cuomo: because it's childish to believe

Thinking about my high school friend and I's fascination with this song / happy halloween ghoulzzzz youtu.be/vhG8zC4npsE?...

Here's 374E! This year marks the 50th anniversary of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW-- so Jessikah and Jenn spoke with contributors to ABSOLUTE PLEASURE: QUEER PERSPECTIVES ON ROCKY HORROR. @margotatwell.bsky.social @rotbacchus.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/10/30/t...

TIL, thanks to the great @megsokay.bsky.social, that Aimee Mann wrote "Save Me" about her romantic relationship with Dave Foley?!?!?!? www.thecurrent.org/feature/2012...

In 2009 I got an infected cut on my finger; I was still technically an intern and didn't have insurance through work. A public health clinic I went to prescribed me quinine for it for like $200. My med student friend was horrified and wrote me a prescription for actual antibiotics on a street corner

went to paris and had my first madeleine,, i couldn't remember shit

My girlfriend is facing steep legal and housing expenses as she struggles to take care of her kids in the face of her ex's transphobia. Please give as generously as you can, and share even if you can't give right now. gofund.me/8da1ea8fb

I did not need the story of Hachiko on my train ride today, dear yomu yomu, thanks

such an immediate sense memory

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Once saw a man by the river doing a sort of Mortal Kombat stance, squaring up to a massive hissing swan & he kept shouting “I won’t fucking back down pal” at it, as it advanced on him, wings outstretched like a terrible, vengeful angel & sometimes it seems like that is basically the entire world now

www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv here go here go meet your neighbors ya nahds!

I went canvassing a month or two ago for this man! It was the first time in my life I had done this and despite there being one Jerk Neighbor I talked to his staff made it fun, collegial, and easy. There are opportunities this weekend; I am exhausted but doing it; I will hope to see you there maybe!

I regret to inform you that again they are trying to ratfuck the man who is concerned about whether your rent and your income have any relationship to one another

There was a brutal eviction on my block. Neighbors' stuff thrown all over sidewalk, gathering and deeply upset. Guy saying "we used to have morals, we grew up with morals." Then he looks at me, transsexual in running gear, face hardens. "Now we just got these mor-ons." I keep thinking about this

Sign up sheet dropping imminently / since I drafted this it dropped and is full now sorry!!!!

was honest to god finishing this up seconds before seeing this post

We're all going to the world's trans forum (2021)

I am going to the world trans forum

A Sunday evening alone, and time to work at my little embroidery-hoop (read: lettering digital comics) while listening to someone read me a story (a sour audiobook)

Four books to get to know me

!! Feminist Press titles spotted (including Joanna Russ)

Okay you know how Strange New Worlds could get it back? S4 is explicitly about Kirk and Spock fucking. Then S5 is about them rebuilding their friendship after a stormy S4 finale. Y'all have all the pieces you need on the board. It's the year 2025. Do you want to squeak, SNW or will you roar

Cf Joanna Russ on her abiding love of K/S: www.jprstudies.org/2011/03/inte...

154 - Hal Schrieve This week we’re talking with Young Adult author and children’s librarian Hal to talk about hir new book, vampires, monstrosity, the Old Internet, and the publishing landscape. www.librarypunk.gay/e/154-hal-sc...

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.