Now that it’s 2026, my resolution is to speak up more and advocate for myself as much as I try to advocate for others, particularly when it comes to my autistic needs.

One of the things I said after I transitioned, about life before and after, which is still true: "If someone tried to kill me before transition, I would have let them. Now I would fight like hell." I like that I would fight now. So if you're thinking about whether 2026 is your year...

They tried to push out of society, they tried to erase us and they failed. We will always be here. We aren't going anywhere. Being trans is the biggest blessing of my life and I will fight for our community with everything I have. I love you all so much.

In 2026, I'm still a woman. Despite the power of the US Government trying to change that. They couldn't. That's why transition is scary to them. Mel Baggs told me when I transitioned: "You were in black & white but are in color now." That happened with transition.

and now, at the dawn of another new year, it is time to play the accustomed song from my family to yrs, darlings, everywhere: we're gonna make it through this year, if it kills us

I agree. My thoughts: "Were you listening to me, Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"

Why does it look like a gay club? Start bumping some Britney and Kylie Minogue and it'll be the hottest gay club in DC.

What I would like to see for 2025? People using the term "elective surgery" correctly. That just means surgery that is scheduled, rather than you show up at the ER and they operate on you right then. It does NOT mean "optional" or "cosmetic".

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

Trump would literally rather his believers drink radioactive water. (Seriously, that's why this project exists -- wells often have radioactive water in that area) And they probably are still glad the Black woman isn't in power. It's a fucking cult.

For me, it's where I can pee. To go to the west coast, I'd just need a short trip across Mexico. But to go to the east coast, I'd need to drive through Canada, and I'm not sure I want to drive through AB and SK. There is no safe land route from CO to either coast w/o leaving the country.

Marjorie Taylor Greene won't use a bathroom if Sarah McBride is there, but, sure, MTG wants to be part of the "big tent" when she can't even use an inclusive bathroom.

I literally know more about my politicians needing money than what they are actually doing for me.

What I would give for the Dems to do literally anything as hard as they do fundraising.

been thinking about this lou reed interview again recently

I will not forward Gavin Newsom's campaign social media shit around. And that's what all of his social media is. The guy is an asshole trying yet more of the "But maybe we can Republican-Lite to get into the Presidency!" Don't help him.

I'm thinking of the fake political stunt papers that _Hypatia_ (and several other journals accepted around 2017. "AI" was used to create it. Because it confirmed biases of many that feminist and anti-racist studies lack rigor (they don't, see thread), people failed to see the warning it was.

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It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

You bet I rejected my birth sex. Zero regrets. You can do so too, if you want. And that terrifies the right wing, because they think suffering is noble and joy is sin.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I just submitted final grades for Fall ‘25, and I’ve not been assigned a section for spring. So there are now, to the best of my knowledge, zero trans women (or trans men) teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

"I'm not a man" -Kurt Cobain "let me grow some breasts" -Kurt Cobain yeah... it was definitely just the wearing dresses thing that makes people say Kurt was trans. Nothing else going on there at all 🙄

I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it. A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

I truly believe what is wrong with America is that Americans are more concerned with (non-billionaires) getting something they don't "deserve" than they are with someone not getting something they need.

A Dem. US Senator using his privilege to respond to the moment - posting the banned CBS piece on Youtube, seemingly baiting them to try to take it down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh...

Not only this, but at every school, every employer, every club, there is someone who *wants* to destroy a trans person's career, enjoyment, or even life. And they'll win if they decide to do it. Yes, even at a progressive organization.

Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...

Once again but in pink. The wise words of Sara Ahmed…

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

This is what it is to be a trans professional. Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly. How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

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"Assume good intent" is wonderfully easy for awful people to weaponize.

🤷‍♀️ youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY

"What is a woman?" sure seems like one to me.

This tells you that Vance thinks the MAGA base isn’t just full of diehard racists; he thinks it’s full of diehard racists who are also too cowardly to be openly racist if they think people might disapprove

Gonna start asking GOPers who use he/she to refer to an LLM how they know what gametes the LLM's gonads would produce.

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

Reminds me of the post from a goth who had a child ask her to help find her mum. Turned out the mum had taught the kids to find a goth if they ever get lost for this reason.

My Hate Measured in Inches project, progress update: 8000 pages 95 lbs 44 kg 42 inches 16 reams 4.5 months 6 strips of staples 2 high capacity yellow toners 2 high capacity black toners 1 high capacity magenta toner 1 high capacity yellow toner

Amazing how it is legal to sell over-the-counter supplements to "increase male vitality and energy" or "compensate for low T" and as fake boner pills, but a compression top is too much.

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

FWIW, the clocks worked under Biden.

Hear, hear! My power is out, and I have no idea if it'll be a month or 3 days more. Apparently we need perfectly calm days and lots of rain before they'll think about restoring my town's power that is off because they turned it off.

I think Republicans are overestimating liberals' emotional attachment to Bill Clinton.

You know what would be cool? If some of these guys tried to replace the internet with a simple-answers machine where they control what's inside, how you access it, and what it's allowed to say. I can't imagine any problems with that! Maybe we should use their output to build all future software?