No matter how hard they try, they can’t make us like them. No matter how hard we try, we can’t make them feel shame.

1/3: Gender-affirming care is legal and protected in Washington state. ✅ Health insurers cannot deny or limit gender-affirming care coverage for people of any age when it’s prescribed as medically necessary.

I’m loving the San Juan County flag!

oh yea thats the stuff

If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids. You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.

It is so clear that @cantwell.senate.gov needs to go. She just got reelected but I won’t forget her weakness and am ready to support a primary challenger when the time comes.

Is someone keeping a list of all the Dems we need to primary and why? I don’t want to forget these betrayals.

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas’d me, complexions that lik’d me, and breaths that I defied not

For your consideration: Willie in his best Christmas finery.

If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids. You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.

I'm so scared for all the trans kids. It all just makes me so sad and I just want to give each and every one of them a hug (if they want it).

LLMs are like overconfident white men. They may be wrong but they say it with such authority that people believe them.

super cool that the Democrats shut down the government to "protect ACA subsidies", then threw away all their leverage in exchange for a pinky promise to have a vote on subsidies a month later, which is now being used as an excuse for the GOP to slip in anti-trans clauses and dare Dems to agree

Software engineers love to sprinkle “orthogonally” in nerd debates. So I made a play on “the more you know” rainbow shooting star meme 😂 It’s on my hobby Etsy now! 🌈✨ amysmangostand.etsy.com/listing/4416...

The buck stops there.

Recipe time! I want to share one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken thighs. Then turn the leftovers into soup. It’s simple: carrots, celery, onion diced up. Garlic. Take chicken thighs and brown them in olive oil. Put the thighs on the veggies. 1 cup stock. Herbs, salt, pepper. 1-2 hrs at 350.

This is worth a listen. Dan talking about how the uproar around “just following orders” is different from a lot of the various crisis of the day.

Seriously. Don’t boost something without reading it. This is just irresponsible.

Carville’s way will be another turn of the crank of what happened during Bidens term. We must hold people to account. That won’t happen with this thinking.

I’ve given quite a bit to RFS (look it up @amandalitman.bsky.social) but your boosting of this piece is very disappointing and I will reconsider my support in the future. Now is the time to stay strong for values. To fix our system we must condemn those that broke it.

It’s time to put the Goth back in Black Friday.

Ok so both McLaren cars were disqualified for riding too low. I’m in the Las Vegas lounge and a lot of the team is here. “We might as well not have come” 😂 #f1

So excited for my first #f1 race.

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won. Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

well,

SPOG may not technically be the mob or a terrorist organization but they sure do act like it. If not gang, why gang shaped?

This Transgender Awareness Week, we acknowledge and celebrate the resilience, beauty, and strength of the trans community. Today and every day, let’s stand together to create a space where everyone can live authentically and safely.

Yup. My personal tolerance levels are absolutely couched in my being a cis straight white dude with immense amounts of privilege. It's easier for me to brush off stuff than it is for other people.

My first formal remarks as mayor-elect: When I say, “This is your city,” I mean you have a right to be here, no matter your background. But I also mean that we have a collective responsibility to this place and each other. #thisisyourcity

#KubeCon T-shirt came with wristband calling me large and straight. True. Also RUDE!

Maybe he should “look it up, baby”?

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

If you see me at #kubecon I have a stack of Nova stickers if you want a few.

Woohoo! @castrojo.bsky.social kicking off Day 2 of #kubecon. Go Jorge!

I miss you, @krisnova.net.

Hey @bryanl.dev! Call out to your talk from a couple of years ago talking about being inspired by rails. Keynote at #KubeCon from Joseph Sandoval from Adobe.

I’m disappointed the CNCF keeps picking deep red states for #KubeCon. It’s unsafe for so many community members. Why not Canada or Mexico? (Next 2 in North America are Salt Lake City again and New Orleans)

Excited to be back at #KubeCon. It’s been a minute. Fun to see all the new faces. I do miss how it was back in the day though.

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Katie Wilson is leading in the Seattle mayor's race!

I just called the offices of both @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov to express my disappointment in Dem leadership and to encourage them to call for @schumer.senate.gov to step down from leadership. It is clear that Schumer is either disingenuous or incompetent. Either way he needs to go.

We’re starting #KubeCon week with news: Kubernetes cofounder Joe Beda is joining Tailscale as an advisor. Joe will be on-site with us in Atlanta — stop by the Tailscale booth to meet him and learn more. thenewstack.io/tailscale-we... All our KubeCon plans: tailscale.com/kubecon-atla...

Schumer must retire.

A couple of weeks ago @kenmartin.bsky.social sent me an email asking me to “Invest in the DNC” with a slick powerpoint deck attached. This was my (as of yet unanswered) response. I’ll invest in the Dems when they give me something to invest in.

It's weird. A hundred years ago, only rich people owned cars while everyone else owned horses. Now only rich people own horses while everyone else owns cars. How the stables have turned.

Oh! And I forgot one of my favorites: "We shape our tools and, in turn, our tools shape us" - supposedly Churchill but unclear.

TIL: Antimetabole - "is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimet...) "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" - JFK "Dreams cost money but money costs dreams" - The Hold Steady (paraphrased)

Pulling for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!