@alextomlinson.bsky.social they're on to us

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

get you a partner that loves you as much as the united states government loves shooting down mylar balloons

the anti-america woke 2 halftime show had a heterosexual wedding full of happy people 🤷🏼‍♀️

i don't think christians should be allowed to vibe advertise in commercial breaks like they're selling coca cola. no more shots of the night sky and vague cursive text about finding purpose. show your weird-ass mega pastor asking for money and telling people cholera is caused by loose morals

same, kitty. same.

Dickensian, or just some 1893 Wisden listings chronoported to our more diminished times (and sports).

I cannae believe these motherfuckers are gonna make me defend Don Lemon.

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

You heard Jer and the birds. Don't come back until you've done us all proud.

Everything is terrible but these COOT FEET are perfect.

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

Peace was never an option

this is the truth.

I'm browsing the Warhammer 40K back catalogue, pls send help

On a different regrettable platform, my friend dropped the phrase "pet piamh" and that is going to live rent-free in my head for at least a decade. @marguerites.bsky.social

Have spent most of the weekend sitting on the floor, staring at my toilet. (we adopted two young cats and hiding behind the throne is apparently their main hobby right now.)

Before all the shit hit the fan here in the twin cities i had been working on some blog posts about systems thinking and paying attention to change. Here is a quick thread trying to distill some key points I wish more people understood. 🧵

this essay is fantastic, and touches on a lot of the things I've been grappling with privately for a few years, both in broad human terms and more specifically as a queer transmasc person.

check this shit out motherfucker *hits self in dick with kettlebell, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do*

I remember a time when I could get through an whole-ass week without having to check in on traumatized friends and colleagues.

who says we can't have nice things? I ask for coot feet, someone delivers me coot feet, and now we all have COOT FEET. My day is now 4,000 percent better.

I need everyone to look at this fabulous bird. photos need moar feet tho. (coot feet Coot FEET COOT F.E.E.T.)

Confused but thrilled to discover even more friends who want to talk about Heated Rivalry purely because of the bird content. The Common Loon providing a bridge to collective smut appreciation is the energy I demand from 2026.

OK @aauerbach.bsky.social I watched the last episode of gay hockey and, as predicted, my brain struggled to pay attention to the action because of the birdsong. Me: Ah yes, very hot Some asshole, offscreen: DEE DEE DEE Me: FUCK

First bird of 2026: Ring-billed Gull. Honestly, an excellent option.

Worth it because we saw our ✨ lifer Tundra Bean-Goose ✨

Still on vacation but up early to look at some WEIRD SEA DUCKS.

I suppose at some point I will need to do a 2025 retrospective of Things I Did and Things That Happened, but that's work and I fucking refuse to do that on my vacation. From now until Jan 5, all I want to hear about are 1) cats 2) birds 3) straight guys getting into gay hockey.

You could put Elaine May, Dorothy Parker and William Shakespeare in a room together and they'd never write a punchline this funny.

It is entirely too goddamn early to be at an airport

I continue to believe that there's nothing fortuitous about the fact that a society so devoid of divinatory practices (and which treats them so dismissively) is utterly primed to be taken in by LLMs...

This was such a fun conversation with three excellent people. @rheisman.bsky.social taught us how to talk to gulls, @jodyallair.bsky.social went long on what it's like to live in a hybridization hot zone, and @n8swick.bsky.social reminded us that Indigo Buntings only show up once the cows leave.

Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff

I tried this at my bodega and the cat hissed at me

By absolutely wild coincidence (or maybe not, considering how much my mom has complained to me about it recently), @redford.bsky.social and I have been out there this week informing folks about the inescapable clammy embrace of tule fog. defector.com/what-is-the-...

I am *spiraling* about how rancid and grossly obsessed cis people are with subjugating trans kids. Go to therapy, you bigoted freaks.

My phone delivering powerful memories of dreams that never manifested. Maybe 2026 is our year.

There is a sankey diagram in this research paper I'm reading and I want to get into a fistfight with it.

Truly an underrated life joy

Lasted 20 minutes at the holiday party, introduced myself to somebody who I apparently already met, and decided that was enough.

Me frowning severely out the window at the snow as I prepare to head outside for this year's Central Park Christmas Bird Count.

Love it when friends try to assure me that whatever accursed upstate town they've decided to move to is "just like Brooklyn, but cheaper," except that it's full of cishet white people. Yes, because nothing says "safe for visibly trans people" like that demographic triple-threat.

My tarot deck is On One this week. First, it delivered the horniest Celtic Cross I've ever seen, then I got the grimmest shit when I was wondering about my job, and now it's telling me to YOLO something unhinged. Universe is really trying to make me relive my 20s ISTG.

extremely rude that I have "do my job" when I really want to just sprawl on my stupidly large couch and be gay.

I admit, I was not prepared for how gay and horny the gay horny hockey show is.

When the guy from Monster Mash said he was working in his lab late one night he was referring to the USGS Bird Banding Lab

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate www.todayintabs.com/p/turn-that-...

Fending off the sads by doing crime in the kitchen