So, you're a trans person in America considering firearm ownership? Due to surging interest I've decided that I'll start doing threads about them. This is the megathread post for where I'll link all of my various threads about firearms basics. Each thread will have its own subject.

Every story we grew up with makes it clear: There is no controlling evil for the sake of good. The One Ring corrupts completely and must be destroyed. Any faction with a planet-destroying laser is bad. What in history possibly could have inspired these metaphors? What could they mean now?? HMMM

I made an 11x17" double-sided poster version of "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Please DO NOT edit anything on it, but print and distribute freely! I'd love to see it in windows, bookstores, schools, taped up in public, rolled and rubber banded, etc. tinyurl.com/WhoSharesWit...

Felt compelled to pop into Animal Crossing: New Horizons today. I hadn't touched it in 5.5 years. It was surprisingly emotional to see myself- bass guitars, monstera, record player, sewing machines, heart-shaped sunglasses, beret. "Despite everything, it's still you."

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

Every "AI Haters" list I'm added to makes me stronger

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US.

As a millennial, how will I even know when my midlife crisis hits? External forces have given us constant crises for our entire adult lives! It always just feels like this!

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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Prepare to say goodbye to Discord (the enshittification will begin no later than date of IPO +3 months): https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-233734571.html

It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall. It's probably not your fault—too much news. But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.

Came up with an idea that I wish I could follow through on: "Make it Stop," a video essay series on why beloved IP should stop creating content. Star Wars. The Simpsons. The MCU. Adventure Time. Unfortunately, I am a woman, and having these opinions on the Internet could actually get me killed!

You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away -- turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.

It’s a “keep an eye out for chuds in rental cars” day here in Chicago. Grab your whistle, work near your window, take a walk at lunch

I miss people inviting me to be in cosplay groups, but I recognize that 1. I only go to 2-3 cons a year and 2. There's like a 50% chance I won't finish the costume I committed to, due to medical reasons, laziness, or sewing incompetence. Groups are for finishers!

2025 was about seeing just how much Americans would allow. 2026, it seems, is about seeing just how much the world will allow. Feels like the natural result of shrugging, insisting we all wait to vote again, and focusing on "kitchen table issues," but what do I know?

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

I love having a close friend who is a hair stylist, because she can give me the real, professional reasons my hair looks bad short and I should not chop it off. I appreciate getting dunked on with facts. Keeps the intrusive thoughts at bay.

For some reason, when I was a kid, I was CERTAIN that real-time video calls were too futuristic to ever happen. I just finished a seamless (and extremely bland) video call with a colleague in Hyderabad, India, and the wonders of the future washed over me. Sci-fi tech so common that it's now boring!

Good morning to everyone suffering through return to office mandates simply because your bodies refuse to poop at work. TMI? Yes, but this group should not suffer in silence.

Your purpose on earth is not to argue with people who intentionally want to misunderstand you

My boss: "I caught up on sleep over the holidays! I'm feeling rested and recharged." Me: "Oh, that sounds so awesome. I, uh, I never feel that way." My boss (EXTREMELY DEADPAN AND GRIM): "I know."

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

2026. I want to be a voice actor in one (1) video game. I want to officiate one (1) wedding. These are my demands. My reasoning: I am legitimately way more qualified than anyone who is currently in charge of pretty much anything, so you all should let me.

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WHOA craft supplies at Michael's have surged in price, huh? That store rarely has what I want, is organized with moon logic, and now also costs luxury dollars? RIP JoAnn, for real. We learn why monopolies are bad in like third grade.

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Gosh, the HUBRIS of Jeff Bezos/Amazon to fill Fallout with messages like, "There is too much corporate money in politics!" and, "Assassinating a really bad guy is OK if the outcome is righteous!" Powerful people know what ideas are popular and will sell, believing they will never come to pass.

May we all move with fierce love and solidarity in 2026. It's been a brutal year, but I am entering 2026 with more hope than I had at the end of 2024, because the people of my city gave me that hope. I love you, Chicago.

I don't think it's going to get better soon, but I do believe it will get better. Until then, I brought in 2026 with family and friends, laughing harder than I have in months, and that's enough.

Apparently the first-ever Chicago NYE to be broadcast on the national stage is... "everyone do the Cha Cha Slide while Chance the Rapper kind of sways and watches?"

Chicago theatre, cosplay, and drag folks: Where can I donate new or worn-once wigs? I have 7 or 8 to pass along. These are cosplay quality (sources like Arda, Wig is Fashion, and Epic Cosplay Wigs) and deserve to help someone! (FYI, almost all non-natural colors.)

Between the Saja Boys and Verso Dessendre, 2025 was the year I realized I'd 100% be a victim in a fantasy story and not a hero. Those tactics work on me. I will be manipulated, I will be killed, and I may very well enjoy it.

It was never really about cutting overall spending - that was the grift. It was destroying disliked programs, securing lucrative contracts, stealing valuable data, and further decreasing trust in government - all of which were quite successful

Attempting to make a custom-fitted superhero mask using a lifecast, for the first time, and sighing with embarrassment as I widen the pattern multiple times to accommodate my nose. Shut up, perfect replica of my face! Stop bullying me, perfect replica of my face!!

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

I'm working on a cosplay, and I just found BOTH colors of fabric dye that I need in my "surely this will be useful someday" craft supply stash. Good omen for 2026?

I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on a day I was super filled with grief, thanks to the 1-year anniversary of when we said goodbye to our dog. Oddly, I think that was the right way to do it.

I've had a new project idea rolling around in my brain for months, and it isn't going away. Do you have a personal story about a fandom (either the work of fiction itself or the fan community surrounding it) getting you through a period of hardship? Would you be willing to share it? Let's chat.

Sent to Whamhalla by LiteFM on the last possible day. They know exactly what they're doing.

All Chicago transit sickos have their favorite CTA bus route. Mine is the 11! Lincoln bus! Diagonal bus! My beloved!

my 2026 message to all of u

Fighting for my life trying to explain to my Boomer coworker that no, she doesn't understand the "love note" my spouse left in my lunch, because it's a doodle combining references from Into the Spider-Verse and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and she doesn't know what any of that is.

I miss the Spindle sculpture in Berwyn with all those cars impaled on it. We should make a new one. We should make a lot of new ones.

Jesus Christ @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

My response to anything over the next two weeks

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Typing and erasing extremely obvious and heavy handed posts about the psychic damage I am taking living under a fascist regime over and over

You simply cannot make me care about a sports team when, every time said team performs even a little well, they threaten to move their operations from the city for which they are named to the suburbs or even another state.