I'm maybe huffing my own farts here but I feel like I'm a canary in a coal mine. I say "yeah, screw this" and leave early, people think i'm being dramatic, and then whoops I caught a vibe and left a party or the club and the next day heard "after you left everything went bad" I think it's trauma

Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s 2019 ban on dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy.” So-called “conversion therapy” is an abusive pseudoscience that has been rejected by EVERY major medical and mental health organization.

I spent the night at my daughter’s house to watch my grandson while she has an appointment. They don’t have coffee. So I ordered it through a delivery app. My original ETA was 6:55-7:10. It has been updated three times. After the second I tried to cancel and was told no. When will it get here?

Taught myself how to do cyanotyping. It’s a little tricky in Western Washington in late September because you have to catch the sun when it’s out. But it did poke out for a few minutes.

Im redoing the picture wall in my house. With two trans kids it can be challenging to find pictures that make everyone feel okay. It is also important to give cis kids veto power over pictures. Just because you like them doesn’t mean the people in them like them.

Usually in the morning I run my Roombas. Today my grandson is at my house and they terrify him. So the floors will have to wait.

There’s a decided difference between a place that is “baby proofed” and set up for babies.

I have a hyphenated last name. Do I love it? No. Would I do It again? Fuck no. But it is my name. My parents cannot get it through their heads that I don’t ever go by anything but the full name. They have routinely made reservations for me using just my spouse’s last name. It’s been 27 years.

I have a trans autistic child. From a purely scientific interest because I’m curious how we get the full range of people I would love to understand what combination of factors gave me her. Unfortunately, so much of the search for “causes” is meant to make sure people like her don’t exist.

Look at that! 🤩 It reminds me of Lantana camara, one of many plants that change color upon pollination: bc it’s easier for bees to see yellows than reds, yellow are young unpollinated flowers, red ones are older and pollination triggered production of more anthocyanin. #plantjoy #iamabotanist 🧪🌿🌸

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

Making vaccines inaccessible for babies/children to get under the guise of protecting the few who may have a life threatening adverse reaction is bananas. To protect those kids we need everyone else to get vaccinated. It’s called public health for a reason.

Our lake was home to about 9 geese all summer. This morning I just counted at least 47. I’m guessing the south migration from Canada has started.

Trans people are not scary. Conservative white men are scary. Signed, An American

Taking care of my not quite two year old grandson this morning. I just watched him carefully some toys from one thing to another. Then he dumped them on a table and brushed them onto the floor. Makes you wonder what’s going through his head.

Dam jokes brought our daughter to the Hoover dam. It was too hot for French fries though so we had dam ice cream.

Every so often I go to the movies by myself. Tonight I’m seeing the Downton Abbey movie. I expect it will be exactly what it is and I can’t wait.

Just filed my very last Declaration of Intent to Homeschool.

The Wall Street Journal. The Guardian. All the other outlets who failed to confirm their reporting. I want to see fewer cowardly, shrugging "editor's notes" on these stories and more statements of "wow, we really failed in our reporting on a grave matter, and here's how we're going to do better."

Just saw a job listing for a teaching job I applied for in January. They had finally told me in June that they weren’t even going to interview me. It’s a temporary leave replacement. So that means they hired someone who isn’t able to work in September.

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

They really underestimated how many people shopped there BECAUSE of DEI. At this point I have embedded alternatives into my life. It would be almost impossible for them to entice me back.

I was just using a bar of soap that I made. Once again I was excited by the chemistry of saponification. You take fats which aren’t very cleansing and lye which is super harsh and you can make something that you can safely rub on your hands to make bubbles.

It is important that when you have a hypothesis you don’t get so wedded to it that you tie yourself in knots trying to make the data fit despite evidence to the contrary. In the end it just proves that you are unwilling to accept reality.

The spouse, our youngest daughter and I all got flu and covid vaccines today. It was touch and go with our daughter who wasn’t sure she was up to go. But her desire to be vaccinated won out over her brain wanting to stay home. Take that brain. #autism

I may have fed some wildlife.

Played Uno Party with a group of adults and kids. It was hilarious. Highly recommended.

Never thought this would cross my mind during my lifetime.

Spider season.

Chick #2 leaves the nest today. I’m so excited for him. I hope he flourishes.

Generally not a horror fan. But Sinners got so many accolades I watched it last night. I really enjoyed it. The tension of the scene with Cornbread at the door was so well done. And the music was amazing.

Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.

I think it's useful to unpack this. If Democrats agree with Republicans on excluding women's sports, what's the harm? Is it primarily harm to trans women who play sports, or is there something more to it? A reasonable person who doesn't know much about trans issues could ask these questions.

One nice side effect of being obese is that I qualify for a covid vaccine. Which is good because I live with a diabetic and I want to protect her with my own immunity as well as hers.

I really hate it when people lie to me. I had a nerve study done. According to the doctor who did it it was sent on the 11th. The doctor who sent me for it (who I never actually met) claims they still haven’t gotten it. I just fired that doctor.

I live on a little lake. Many of my neighbors have electric motors on their docks. On Labor Day we all meet in the middle of the lake for a party. It’s such a great little community. But I’m looking forward to having my own motorized dock so I don’t have to paddle.

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

The idea of a purity test as something that isn’t actually important being enough for you to throw away a perfectly good candidate isn’t what’s happening with the trans community regarding Newsom. It’s more like pointing out a huge blight before you start cooking a potato.

In a police state street crime goes down. That doesn’t mean that it’s a great place to be.

This is how I spent my evening yesterday. So happy to know there wasn’t the violence seen at the last visit from these bigots.

This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.

“I am aware of Godwin’s Law and that comparisons to the Third Reich are overused on both sides of the aisle, so I am sure that some readers will roll their eyes at this article. If you are one of those folks, I just want to say go fuck yourself and the president you rode in on.”

I want my kids to be the best version of themselves. That has meant letting the explore what that means. And part of what that means is that two of them are trans. That’s actually fairly nothing though in terms of knowing who they are.

Seems like it’s time for my second Truth Social post.

Have you ever wondered if that bitch ever got out of Ludacris’ way?

You know what bugs me from Better Call Saul. Cucumber water. Not that it was for customers only but that it was full at night when the salon was closed. Shouldn’t Mrs. Nguyen clean that at night. Everything else about the salon was good health practices.

I’m generally skeptical of billionaires because I just don’t think there’s a way to be a billionaire and ethical. But Pritzker keeps doing things that I like.

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I think Sirius wants to come with me to Maui. #cat #cats #catsofbluesky