*beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a portion of this sweet cake bread anytime. Use the knife to cut off part of the loaf. You can take a full piece or a small piece depending on how hungry you are.

This label is preventing people from realizing The Joke of Bart Simpson (Rude) youtu.be/uXKoiJrEUtI?...

This is the advice I give people a lot. I’ve been out as trans for 8-ish years, I’ve been sober for just over 6 of them. I always say that they are both things I wanted to fix all the broken parts of me, and what they did instead was give me a life worth putting the necessary work into.

Being trans in 2025 is really miserable but it’s infinitely better than being closeted. The Trump admin’s rapid moves on youth transition care is scary and depressing. There’s a baseline of safe and valuable care these kids are going to be denied for no reason and their lives will be worse for it

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes a day in an american life

Lia Smith was a transgender rights advocate and athlete who spoke out forcefully against this administration's policies. Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power. www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...

Penda’s Fen Texas Chainsaw Massacre Eyes of Fire Communion

I should be allowed to cancel class if life is hellish

He stopped at my door and looked me in the eye, and I’ll never, ever forget this. I repeated it recently. He said, “Jim, our job is to protect empathy at all costs, and to live groovy lives.”

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

There are some sick ones in this list. A Wounded Fawn and Jethica are both standout ghost movies of the past couple years. Light From Light looks killer too.

One of the better lists of underseen films I've read, from @thathagengrrl.bsky.social, @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social, @rifewithkatie.bsky.social and others! Rare you see actual obscure movies on one of these, but this is about 70% things I've never watched! letterboxd.com/journal/lett...

"The World's Greatest Sinner" is a deliriously dumb fucking movie but it feels like it meets our deliriously dumb fucking moment where it is in a way "A Face in the Crowd" doesn't quite. It's so dumb and I can feel every major Nicholas Cage role squirming around inside of it.

of all the mid-20th century "british gaslighting" movies I think "So Long at the Fair" is one of the best. Jean Simmons just goes for it, although like a lot of these movies it sort of putters out once questions start being answered.

I choose Vegeta. Let’s give him a chance and hear what Vegeta has to say.

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

I often wonder what these policies imply for trans faculty. Like, as a trans professor I imagine even if I shut up and played nice theoretically under this sort of model I’d be under the gun nonstop

Guy at Primus concert: It’s almost like heavier than heavy music. Because it’s so challenging. Primus: I’m a real funny bunny, and I know you’ll be my honey, when I put on my big wig and preen, That hunter got a shock, when I went and called him doc, and started munching beta-carotene. YIPPEE!

UPDATE: According to the @healthvermont.bsky.social, Vermont is officially part of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. They weren't part of the official announcement today, as they were busy issuing their state's own standing order to protect COVID vaccine access.

a pack of newport gokus would fix me

on the prowl for whichever grift-adjacent democratic think tank will treat me the worst and say the meanest things about me. my therapist is begging me "no" but what's she gonna do about it. powerless to prevent me from donating 15 dollars to the John Byrne Institute for Hairline Studies

Negatives (1968)— if you like movies where everyone looks like Sandra Bernhard in disguise and is locked in horny emotional combat this is the one for you

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

the way the right keeps obsessively trying to blame this shooting on trans people is deeply sick and incredibly dangerous, and powerful people and institutions turning a blind eye to it are complicit just leave them alone

Disgraceful, chickenshit move

One oft-overlooked example: Sheev has a secret assassin who is entrusted with his most closely guarded secrets and is so deviously brilliant he can escape the pursuit of Luke and Lando, but who also unfortunately dies by accidentally stepping in quicksand three feet away from his ship. Incredible.

The most redeeming characteristic of TROS is that it genuinely has a number of contrivances and plot decisions that are almost unfathomably stupid to the point that they become deeply enjoyable whenever you unmoor yourself from any desire to find coherence or quality

Charlie Kirk wasn't from New York. He didn't live in New York. The shooting didn't happen in New York. In July he Tweeted "Was just in NYC all weekend with our family. Never felt safe. So many people in the city who don’t belong." Why did the New York Yankees have a moment of silence for him?

Philly’s tomato pie tradition dates back at least to 1910, when Iannelli’s Bakery started selling it. In the decades since Iannelli’s red gravy classic debuted, Philly’s tomato pie landscape has evolved. From old-school to new-school, vegan to gluten-free, here are the city’s current bests 👇

This Arnie Roth series wound up being pretty personal and having it all done and out their feels like a huge weight off. This also dropped on a pretty rough trans news days and like a week before Fall semester starts so feel free to say Nice Stuff to me today about Arnie & Co....

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 In the Callowness of Your Misspent Youths: Arnie Roth, Captain America, and the Utopia of Monsters, by @hollyhambone.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/08/20/i...

I've been tearing through a bunch of zines lately and using my pre-semester free-time ti watch a ton of movies. I want to use the teeny character limit here to avoid having a blog or chewing peoples' ears off on discord.

Ahead of @hollyhambone.bsky.social's fourth and final Shelfdust essay about Captain America's gay best friend Arnie Roth - which is out tomorrow - catch up on her essay series here! shelfdust.com/tag/arnie-ro...

Next week on Shelfdust: @hollyhambone.bsky.social FINISHES THE STORY I mean her incredible four-part essay series on Arnie Roth

With payment processors and governments censoring the Internet and queer content, there’s never been a better time to start making and selling and buying zines in person.

Hey #Flamecon! I'll be on "Rebellions are Built on Hope: Organizing Andor Fans to Fight for Freedom from Fascism". Our panel about #ProjectFulcrum, the Star Wars fan activism campaign I did with @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social & @kaludiasays.bsky.social. Join us Sat. 1pm RM A bit.ly/flameconrebe...

@eikeexner.com's new history of manga is out today-- 'comics and the origins of manga' was eye opening, entertaining, and super teachable, so I'm looking forward to spending some time with its follow-up this week bookshop.org/p/books/mang...

FUCK, yes, this, EXACTLY. from a 1995 curatorial essay

One of the things that helped the most when I was first transitioning was being welcomed open-heartedly into femme spaces & not treated like an interloper or curiosity. This sounds corny but it's true--going to the gym with friends, being in bridal parties, etc.. It helped a ton to hear "you belong"

Guess who's on @cerebrocast.bsky.social talking about space weirdos! Its me! And we're talking about Gatecrasher and Technet! Grab yourself a can of paint to snack on and give it listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

"To be queer in a Marvel comic in 1984 was a bit like being queer in real life in 2025 – often seemingly impossible on paper; precarious and confusing in practice" - @hollyhambone.bsky.social shelfdust.com/2025/07/23/i...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust this week! 🚨 “I Couldn’t Lie To You”: Secret Identities, Outsides, and Arnie Roth, by @hollyhambone.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/07/23/i...

Another great piece by @hollyhambone.bsky.social at @shelfdust.bsky.social - shelfdust.com/2025/07/23/i...

look at what democrats have mustered against zohran mamdani vs. what they've mustered against trump. they've decided who their enemy is and it's the democratic majority.

This is a major boon to discrimination, dehumanization and elimination from the Trump regime. Trans people aren't "trans", we're "untreatably ill". You don't have to be a historian to see the precedents here: this is an Untermenschen law.

today I am thinking a lot about the 2016 bathroom ban and the subsequent uproar and how completely insane it feels to be here, 9 years later. and I think what you have to take away from that is so much responsibility lies with right-wing media, sure - but also with The Atlantic, with the NYTimes,

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today!! 🚨 ”About the Bad Thing”: Spectacular Spider-Man #182 and J.M. DeMatteis’ Poetics of Serial Trauma, by Holly Raymond: shelfdust.com/2025/06/18/a...