Most Heated Rivalry coverage has been focused on what young people, particularly younger straight women, think. I cover aging and decided to ask older gay men about their thoughts. I found: A founder of what may have been the first gay hockey blog, a wedding cake shaped like a Zamboni and more.

Cookie update. Almost 3 weeks & we're at that staying 5 ft from me at all times phase. Here he is judging the way I clean his litter box. He has opinions. Cats are amazing. This morning all of his cat toys were lined up at his water bowl. Sharing? Drowning? Love this guy so much. Hugs to you all ❄️💙❄️

Today in Hell Yes, Research: It's not that there are fewer autistic girls/AFAB people/women. It's that they present differently than boys/AMAB peeps/men, so there's a "catch up" diagnosis increase/rebalancing during & after adolescence: www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... #autism #neurodiversity

Black autistic women live at the intersection of racism and ableism. We don’t lack courage to unmask we lack safety. And that truth needs to be said out loud.

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

no disrespect, but I'm not subscribing to your Substack for reasons that should be obvious if you google words like "substack" and "nazis"

Wait... Jetpack Cat is real? Is it time to do more Overwatch Cosplay? #Overwatch #JetpackCat #ColeCassidy

At the City Club event last night a room of about 150 people, majority white, majority middle aged, clapped when I said if the police legally can’t protect us against federal agents they shouldn’t get more money.

We cannot have normal responses in abnormal times. This moment requires incredible imagination, leadership, and a willingness to step outside the bounds of normalcy to protect everything we hold dear.

You want 'British values', here's national treasure Ian McKellen performing a speech by national hero William Shakespeare about how we should be humane and welcoming to migrants and refugees. bsky.app/profile/lala...

…me and say you will get it if you work for Team Trump, and saying no immediately would be one of the easier snap decisions I’ve ever made.

There is a type of sadly highly political person who doesn’t understand the idea that not being able to be bought actually is, like courage, rather common. There are people who will never understand how, speaking for myself for a moment, you could slam down literally a billion dollars in front of…

Oh my GOD, the White House copied our ad but made it completely deranged. The Nazi slop factory is all out of ideas! SAD!

Wait... wait wait. Jetpack Cat is real? I take 1 day away from things and Jetpack Cat became a reality? #Overwatch #JetpackCat

We need something that's a hybrid of an old-school forum and a modern social media platform; a place where authors, booksellers, publishers, writers and readers can network, promote and be online in the same spaces without the threat of having the rug pulled out from under us.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

So weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

Billionaires are fearmongering about California’s proposed billionaire tax. Baloney. Just look at what happened when Massachusetts raised taxes on the rich.

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.

Corporate profits have hit record highs. CEOs are paid 280x as much as a typical worker. We're subsidizing huge corporations that pay lousy wages through food stamps and Medicaid. But instead of cracking down on corporate greed, Republicans want to punish the working poor.

And now a #stucky charm ❤️

“But what do you want Democrats to do….” I don’t know stuff like this?

Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Big stretch 🐾

Molly inspired the Stay Weird drawing as she always seems to prefer to look at the world upside-down . Such a funny little creature.

Stay weird, have fun, do things that bring you joy. www.doodlecatsshop.co.uk/stickers/

Alt: "If you want to understand how to fix a problem in the world, you have to ask who is profiting from the problem. Not who is suffering from it." Next alt: IF THERE IS A PROBLEM THAT CAN BE FIXED WITH MONEY, IT IS NOT A PROBLEM, IT'S THE COST. ~ Jewish saying

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Our Lil Sugar Bombs... they grow up so fast. #Fallout #Sugarbomb #HankMacLean

Too many of our Haitian neighbors are stuck in legal limbo. As the fight over Temporary Protected Status continues, we encourage anyone with TPS to use the city’s free immigration legal support and explore every legal pathway available. Call 800-354-0365 to learn more.

Did you know we have a free & confidential Reproductive Rights Hotline? When you call it, you’ll be connected to an Oregon lawyer who can answer your legal questions or refer you to out-of-state resources if your question goes beyond Oregon law. Find it: https://ow.ly/eJGL50Y4Zzv

As a Florida resident, I’d tell everyone in Canada or elsewhere in the world, don’t come to FL or anywhere in the U.S. It’s not safe for you here (it’s not safe for us either). We have ICE, and we have diseases, thanks to lower vaccination rates.

A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro

LRP: This is key. If PDX didn’t have the 50/50 split on city council, we too could get more good things done, more easily!!

It's very weird to hold Zohran Mamdani's accomplishments so far up as proof of the ineffectiveness of Dems on the federal level. He's a Dem exec in a city with a Dem legislature in a state with a Dem trifecta. It's proof that things can be accomplished when you aren't a disempowered minority.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

All of Us Murderers enjoys the advantages of both a perfect gothic historical romance and an excellent place to start with KJ Charles' books for the uninitiated. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's review invites us to Lackaday House:

From a tiny watermelon to 523 pounds of tapir, Ume the Malayan tapir is officially ONE! 🎉 What began as a 24-pound bundle of squeaks and spots has grown into a curious, confident tapir, stealing hearts every step of the way. 💗 Happy first birthday, Ume! We love you! ❤️

We know your weather app is telling you it’s going to be 60 degrees this week. We know you want to spend your time, money, and energy on doing anything except for preparing for snow that, let’s be honest, might not come this year.

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Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

this hit me like a fucking freight train, but it’s important and I am so glad to have read it. Good for him. Fuck. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

Defund and dismantle ICE. This is state sponsored terrorism.