Trans people (and other queer people, but trans people most starkly) prove gender isn’t necessarily easily visible, inherent, or immutable. Jews complicate the categories of race and religion. Queer people and Jews spark similar paranoia in conservatives because you can’t always easily ID them.

Here is my last stuff your TBR pile post for the year! Check it out for 8 more of my favorite books that I read this year.

It's backup day! 📂🎉 Back up your art, your writing... everything! Repost to remind a friend!

TFW you have enough queer books to make a rainbow. This isn't even all of them, it would have made the images too small to fit everyone in! I do need to get a proper yellow cover !! claudiearseneault.com/my-books/ 💙📚 🌈🚀💫 #QueerAdultSFF

Only one story, in the New Republic, made the direct connection between Kennedy’s repeated peddling of junk science and the effort to end healthcare for transgender minors.

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Despite getting my mom some nice things for Christmas, I'm pretty sure the 4 pack of snap to activate reusable heating pads will be her favorite present this year 😂 I gave them to her early because she was cold, and I was afraid to drop them into her stocking (didn't want them pop). She loves them.

Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?

Today I visited the Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, which specializes in deep sea animals. I saw giant isopods, spider crabs, deep sea octopus and all kinds of fascinating #invertebrates.

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I love when cis het women get married and suddenly every post is my husband my husband me and hubby my husband. Meanwhile, I have never seen this man before in her posts 😂 Did she meet him at the courthouse or was he only allowed in pics once the legal papers were signed?

📝 Final stretch before some well-earned rest. Stay organized and remember to schedule a little time for yourself. 🥰 Music: Evergreen Memories - Chronodrift Label: Lofi Records

Its just amazing our government is just blantantly lying about the state of the country.

BLUF: Press is talking about "Super Flu" bc this year's dominant strain isn't a great match to the vaccine. Get vax'd anyway (consider the high-dose vax), wear a mask (protects against airborne pathogens), and have a testing + treatment strategy ahead of time because viral replication is exponential

Reminder: resolutions can be fun! You can resolve to try a new cheese every week, eat all the weird fruits you’ve been curious about at the grocery store, or commit to watching 12 different classic films. Why make crappy resolutions when you can make happy ones

I think this is why fascists love AI art, not because it is good, but because it is bad. Not because it is original, but because it is stolen. To make art as an expression of skill and craft and humanity reinforces humanity. To push a button that steals art and call it your own is domination.

I didn't get vaccinated last year. And while being a hermit, caught Influenza A. Then I almost died from sepsis over Christmas. I'm still recovering from that. Get vaccinated. It saves lives.

If you use generative AI to "explore ideas" you are mentally weaker than even the smallest child. If you feel that you need generative AI to "structure your thoughts" you lack the confidence of an 8 year old. If you feel shame about your diminished inner world, you should. You're bad at daydreaming

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Me: Ooooh, a cute hoodie on Etsy that is very me *immediate buy* Also me: Uhhh, idk $8 for a wireless mouse I need to play games on my laptop. Idk about that Why am I like this

yeah i feel like in the near future, 5-10 years, we'll see a lot more value placed into people who actually did the work themselves and learned and studied, got an education, etc. Vs the people who used ChatGPT for everything.

Getting a lot more people on this list for sharing antisemitic lies about the Talmud over the past couple of days. Reminders: 1. The entire Talmud is public and freely available online. This Anyone claiming to know about "secret" or "hidden" Jewish teachings from it is lying to you.

Voting is still open, I think, probably!

The media never talks about educating the American voter. Only that politicians should cater to their delusions. But Democracy can't survive if the voter demands the lying politician always wins their vote because the honest politician tells them an uncomfortable truth. 🧵

Reminder- you can make present opening more accessible/easier for people with hand mobility issues by wrapping/taping a ribbon around the inside of the wrapping paper, so the person opening it will tear it like a Baby-bell cheese

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Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

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Do sign this petition! It will go to the House of Commons. We cannot allow trans people to be hurt and harmed in Canada. 💗🏳️‍⚧️

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Relistening to some BookLoverLaura videos while I toodle around, and I can't help but wonder where some people's family and friends are when their eyes are bigger than their stomachs when it comes to work. Hype people are great, but people saying, "hey, this is a terrible idea" are more useful.

AI summaries might automatically discard a document that I will eventually discard myself, but if I only relied on AI, then I wouldn't know of the document's existence at all. Again, I need a broad foundation to build my books on. We need to know everything in order to know what is/is not vital.

One more thought: a lot of what I do as a historian is discard material. 50% (or more) of what I read/find does not go into my books. But I still need to know what these documents say, where they're located, and why I'm choosing not to include them in the book. This is vital.

I am kind of drowning right now y’all and just trying to laugh through it. But even that’s becoming strained. If anyone is able to throw something in the tip jar every bit helps 🥲 ko-fi.com/ruesparks

My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.

This is a great place to donate to:

I'm seeing some good conversations happening around "using AI for research" and how the research process actually works, how that rabbit hole you go down leads to the most enlightening connections and how AI just dynamites that all to hell. (similar to the discussion of how creative process works)

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930 #Christmasghoststories

this is one very personal reason I read and write romance, to explore what a joyful and curious approach to sexuality can look like.

Hooray! My sapphic romantasy short story "Five Reasons Why I am Absolutely Not in Love with my Nemesis" is available as an ebook now. Just subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $5/month upwards to snap up this & a whole bunch of other stories from me: patreon.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

2025 was one of the worst years of my life, I lost my job of 16 years in February (I'm still looking for a new one, if you know of any design/comms jobs), so while 2025 still sucks, my art has gotten a chance to grow and for that, I am incredibly grateful for the time #ArtvsArtist #ArtvsArtist2025

🎉Time for a sale!🎉 Through the end of the year, all my books are 25% off! All entirely written by me, a human, with cover art by humans! Buying my books helps me keep this snoot in blankets!

"Do not pollute the common well." AI has done precisely that, polluted the information ecology we all live in and draw from. Think about what YouTube was like just 3 years ago. Think about what search was like 5 years ago. AI pollution is forced down every throat. mastodon.green/@Tarnport/11...

Almost at 10k, folks.

yeah. I think a lot about how the function of transphobia is oftentimes seemingly more about bonding amongst bigots and less to do with trans people ourselves ... even though the hate being this widespread and rampant is like literally killing us ...

#Trump's DOJ has been caught attempting to scapegoat Bill Clinton by inserting unrelated, publicly available photos of him into the #TrumpEpsteinFiles Thank you @meidastouch.com (for let me use one of your articles)