My husband, a cool person: “Yeah, the show tonight was just a guy making drone-type music using only two drums. It was so intense that someone in the crowd had to run out to puke!” Me: “I watched the new Superman. There was a super dog!”

More than 450 lawsuits filed by people who say they were sexually assaulted as kids and teens in NYC juvenile detention centers have been tossed by a judge due to a 'flaw' in the City's law. Survivors are rallying right now at City Hall for the law to be fixed.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

I’m at a Spanish language resource fair for work. It was coordinated by, and only word-of-mouth advertised through, a network of, locally well-established, high-trust Hispanic orgs. It’s in a church. They have hospitality volunteers monitoring the entrance. And there are ZERO participants.

Let me assure you: this is NOT about And Tango Makes Three. I will forever stan Roy and Silo.

I spent a non-zero amount of time talking about the married gay couple’s penguin children’s book grift at my workplace’s weekly clinical consultation yesterday.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

After five back-to-back class periods filling in for a coworker on a 8th grade Healthy Relationships module, I'm beginning to understand why you go to middle school when you're a young adolescent and not, say, 46 years old.

The way the monster comes to life in this film is legitimately some of the most frightening body horror I've ever seen.

My 7-year-old nephew: “I believe in peace and justice, I love nature. I want to connect with all living things, and I want to cause God pain.”

Happy Sunday from Ben Whishaw

“Wow, there are some pretty decent older movies playing at the mall … at 10:00AM? On Thursdays? Oh. It’s the Silver Screen Senior Series. And it’s sponsored by Smith Funeral Chapel.”

God, I’m a nightmare.

My kid’s high school Homecoming theme this year is Rio Carnival, and I really wish I’d photographed the Cristo Redentor statue rendering I just saw on one of the floats, crafted from party supply store materials. Words can’t capture the horror/fascination/beauty.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Well-played, @milwaukeerecord.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but this is a huge deal: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop providing abortions next week in an apparent bid to keep accepting Medicaid. The GOP budget law "defunds" PP affiliates that offer abortion care after October 1 We broke the story on @autonomynews.co

Ok. Adding this to a Letterboxd list that only had Disobedience.

Me, to my husband: “I read this article the other day. Well, maybe ‘article’ is straining credulity…”

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

People "care" about a lot of things. Human beings cannot ACT on everything.

Leaving for LA tomorrooooow!

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

Yeah they leave out that bit! “Whose radicalizing my child how do I stop it” “I don’t get the lingo” You don’t have to get the lingo to stop him picking on the queer/ Black/ immigrant kids You don’t have to control their internet to stop them from justifying abusing their friends

Full, bolting-from-sleep panic attack about the heart MRI I have scheduled for next week, which means I’d better call my provider about a sedative 😕

“there were only a few drops of poison in that smoothie but you’re barfing like that’s the only part you drank”

It’s our one-year Lottie-versary! From an inauspicious start, abandoned by the side of the road with her mom and six (!) sisters to a stupidly charmed life that definitely involves sleeping in/somehow monopolizing most of our bed: we’re sure in love with her!

Someone with media training, who can utter words in an even tone and deploy rhetorical flourishes while dressed and groomed “presentably”, is not necessarily an intellectual giant. Or a reasonable person. JFC, have you never encountered one of these people in real life?

Lee Pace, speaking to my point 💅🏻

My college freshman kid got a work study job as a Custodial Equipment Operator & Supply Support Staff 🎉 I imagine the hiring manager was won over by the first line of his cover letter: “I’m thrilled to be applying for a job as a Custodial Equipment Operator & Supply Support Staff!”

Now I’m in the ophthalmologist waiting room and a guy is listening to you-know-who videos at full volume. Another guy, with typical Midwestern passivity: “If I hear much more, I’m going to have to throw up.” Woman, stage whispering: “Turn that down it’s too loud!”

I was going to say “Let’s see if I can actually make it through both medical appointments today without a new one being by ordered”. (I have five scheduled in the next three weeks, as-is). But the first provider already threw a mammogram on the calendar; so this is a dream for another day.

Is “saved owner’s life” a quote from the puppy?

also weird: widespread tendency to apply the term “political violence” only to acts of violence committed by non state actors.

I just realized, in the second screenshot, they are using "survivor" to mean "employees who are still around after the 'compassionate terminations'". Which feels even more repulsive because, given the nature of our work, we use that term as shorthand for *survivor of sexual violence*.

A couple colleagues and I attended a free webinar purporting to offer a space for discussion on nonprofits staying aligned with our values in the shadow of prospective funding loss. It turned out to be … not that. [1/]

Guess what. I'm going to the Mysterious Skin screening and panel discussion at the Academy Museum next week! A literal dream, made possible by support from my friend and traveling companion. But, still, a big financial crunch. So: V: @ tacittaciturn CA: $tacittaciturn

As if reinforcing the insecurities of the teenage boy in this Buy Nothing post, I discovered Bluesky had flagged the image as "sexually suggestive"! It's underwear packaging, featuring a person ... just standing there, wearing underwear! We ("we") are very weird about bodies!

I firmly do not want an "AI assistant" to do this, but I'd take a stern gnome who scurries out to admonish me-- "ANNOYING!"-- whenever I'm about to send an especially irritating text or email.

Everyone talks about Occam’s Razor but what about Occam’s Shaving Cream? Occam’s Aftershave? Occam’s Warm Towel?

I live in Wisconsin, a 50-50 purple state, which has been so gerrymandered by the legislature that we only have 2 Democratic representatives in Congress, compared to 6 GOP. Anyone calling to abandon people in red states is really showing their hand. They're not allies.

I’ve finally convinced @cullenryanwisco.bsky.social to watch All of Us Strangers, only to be met by this somber warning.

Trump accurately summarizing Citizen Kane

As I & others have been saying criminalization manufactures consent for fascism. Most people are OK w/ occupation of communities just not theirs. Our best chance at striking at the heart of fascism is to break our investment in criminalization. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

i don't feel the need to entertain arguments about gender including transness or sexuality being innate or not. it does not matter to me. if it's a choice it's a fine one to make. that's what caring about autonomy means

New! Anna Anderson on Medical Debt Behind Bars Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...

I need a second job but, since I am unskilled and also physically useless at the moment/probably from here forward, it’s got to be one of those Black Mirror gigs.

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic