Legitimately thinking you might die will kind of fuck you up for a few days, huh

if my trans siblings can't use your restroom, i will pee on your floor as many times as it takes

some choice names from my grandfather's early 1950s West Virginia year book

Sorry to be an "attracted to every woman and like one or two men" bitch for Ben Whishaw but goddamn

They did this with Avelo planes they bought for their DHS “deportation” fleet, too. Avelo source told me told me they were offered “fuck-you money” and snatched it right up. Real stewardship of our tax dollars, huh?

this is doing numbers, so; im a broke disabled transmasc guy who makes a little money off my writing every month and it would be rad if you helped me survive thisisharmonwest.ghost.io

Hitting the phase of recovery where I’m alert enough to be bored but too tired to focus on much

Finally ripped off the electrodes and took the most welcome shower of my LIFE

On the tube

My only advice is not to go away. Or, go away. Most Of my decisions have been wrong. (Larry Levis)

Cleaning my office means finding things I meant to get framed. Like this delightful J.C. Leyendecker cover:

recent digital collage // made on a plane

requested audience // handcut paper collage on cardstock, may 2026 #collage #abstractart #artsky #queerart

I dislike the equating of slop generation to laziness bc laziness actually has value. Lazy art still expresses the artist, and laziness can often breed cleverness, something not possible with sloppers, though they believe they're clever bc a program told them so. Slop use is a desire to be served.

To mark Grace Jones’s 78th birthday, please enjoy her insisting that ‘Pull Up to the Bumper’ is simply a pleasant song about the joys of manoeuvring a long, well-waxed limousine into a very tight space, and ‘shame on you’ if you think otherwise! 🚘

1400. Albert Goldbarth.

These days, they would’ve just hit St Sebastian with a Jeep Wrangler. No erotics of pain there, let me tell you

Love that we live in a world where Walk Hard and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and A Mighty Wind and This Is Spinal Tap all exist and they’re all 10/10 diamond-perfect from start to finish

it makes me feel insane when people recommend concealed carry to trans people who are worried about being confronted in public bathrooms. Like, ah yes, I am sure the cops would be extremely sympathetic and supportive of the transsexual invoking castle doctrine to take an unharried piss.

If I get billed for a CT scan they better show me the pics of my fuckin head

It's World Bee Day! 🐝 This little Mason bee (genus Osmia) demonstrates exceptional strength & fortitude in removing a nail from a brick wall. Mason bees are solitary: the females make nests from mud or, in this case, masonry walls. So, our narrator should say: "good lass." (📷: MrDowner1306, YT)

Learn how to cook, or don’t, whatever (not whatever, honestly, but that’s another story) — but just go do like 15-20% of your transactions in person and so much will blossom from that. The bar is on the floor and i believe in us.

Outside - Arthur Tress, 1977

I posted about how well things are going and immediately had a seizure lmao

Two months ago I felt deeply hopeless and helpless about my mental health, and then 1) I bottomed out at someone who didn’t deserve it, they were kind to me when I believed *I* didn’t deserve it, and it broke something in my (brain’s) gloomy/suspicious outlook that needed to get good and broken

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE www.teepublic.com/user/chekhov...

If you're looking for queer & trans-designed pride merch sans rainbows, my teepublic shop is currently hella on sale: www.teepublic.com/user/chekhov...

alright fine, if google doesn't want to do it, maybe we can start our own search engine. does anyone know who won the 1973 world series

Remembering with a start that I left chocolate in the pantry and the AC off

the older i get the more clearly i see just how much trend-chasing there is in poetry (a phenomenon that has always existed, i suspect). and i want to encourage poets, especially younger ones, to give up the chase, to write instead according to your own concerns, courages, strange uncouth pulses.

Crying at the office over the last twenty pages or so of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Doing abortion access drag as Ms. Oprostol

When I’m ashamed, I make a point of reminding myself what / is shame but to have shown — to have let it show — that variety / of love that goes hand in hand with having wished to please / and, in pleasing, for a while belong. So shame can, like love, be / an eventual way through? (Carl Phillips)

Don’t do press about: • Your leftist gun club • Your DIY HRT and abortion med networks • Your fresh and perhaps turbulent entry into a style of nontraditional relationship you were not practicing before • Your relationships in general, frankly • Olivia Nuzzi

Learning a new instrument is just discovering a million new ways the skin on your hands can get fucked up

“If you're ever heartsick in an elevator full of bachelorettes / Cornered in and it's taking forever, please don't forget” such a good lyric in a sweet, poignant song that *without fail* makes me think of the wildest Snapchat I’ve ever seen in my life

Now why did I have the thought “Cis Siberian Orchestra” months and months away from having any use for it

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Shut up and go make some art that no one is asking for

Impossible to observe fluctuations in your own accent when you’re thinking about it, but pretty sure I hear myself say “island” WAY more southern in e.g. “Tybee Island” than e.g. “Long Island Rail Road”

incredibly, there's an arthouse version of the guy eating baked beans during Cars 2

In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards. They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments vimeo.com/293437684

It finally happened: shared an elevator with a guy carrying several huge clear plastic bags of condoms to refill the condom buckets in the employee-only lobby areas on every floor of my normal public health office building that is not any type of clinic or public-facing point of service at all

chatgpt never sent me twelve beers in the mail

The season of Humidity Vs. Officewear is upon us

My favorite movie? Easy: Stop Making Sense with descriptive audio on

Actual life hack: you’ve gotta be the person who’s bringing two people to almost everything you’re invited to unless it’s, like, a seated dinner reservation. Combine the social circles. You don’t need to make an individual catchup date with everyone you know. *That* is what is holding you back.

[shania voice] man! i won eurovision

LIRR strike comes at a difficult time for me, a person who periodically needs a medium-length out-and-back train ride to an arbitrary location to heal myself emotionally