The right’s preferred gender ideology—one of male supremacy, women’s exclusion from dignity, citizenship, and vast spheres of public life, and an enforced heterosexuality of eroticized domination—is much more prescriptive, aggressive, and ubiquitously pushed than anything coming from trans people.

I was a kid people expected to fail. Foster care, homeless. I heard what adults said about kids like me. Today, I reported on Alexandria schools trailing state averages. The data matters. So does this: those kids hear what we say. The narrative can become the ceiling. Or we can refuse to let it.

Pete Hegseth Invokes ‘Fog Of War’ After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-invokes-fog-of-war-after-pissing-in-break-room-refrigerator/

'I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived... all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child... one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination’ Ursula le Guin

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

Reading about abusive, right-wing data orgs gives me shooting pain down to the soles of my feet. I have Palantir fascistitis.

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

Yes yes yes 1,000 times yes

@everyheron.bsky.social a gently cubist take. Artist unknown.

Alexandria neighbors: Working on a story about Housing Alexandria's shared equity homeownership program (Seminary Road, Cardinal Path, etc.) Looking to speak with anyone who's gone through the lottery, is in homebuyer classes, or has purchased through the program. Email [email protected].

Spreading the word on this recognition now, but I'm also working on a deeper look at the city’s community policing strategy and its connection to public safety outcomes. Have a thought on it? Email [email protected].

Brief recap: On Friday, the WaPo reported that SecDef Hegseth personally ordered the execution of helpless survivors of a military attack, literally the definition of a war crime. Since then, no other outlet has been to able to replicate that reporting, even though they’d love to. (1/2)

Nice family gathering for Thanksgiving and Dad's 85th!

Friends, raise a glass, if you will, for my dad, 85yo as of a couple weeks ago, and still doing it with his offspring!

Actual accumulating sneau in Les Peaucaneaux.

ChatGPT, explain the #geology concept of mass wasting.

Go go go ALX Turkey Trotters!

Once again I am deeply grateful for the @alexandriavagov.bsky.social sanitation team who must get up wicked flippin' early to get our stuff out of the way. Thanks for doing us a solid (waste)!

My latest masterpiece, in my head for some time and finally realized. A definitive study of egret subspecies. #bird @everyheron.bsky.social

I don't think I have heretofore posted this bit of handiwork form some years back, but, in prep for a new one, I am doing so now. My analysis of key barred owl subspecies. 🦉#bird

A movie that takes place where you are from* * In that it mashes together multiple towns and takes the name of the one

The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.

@josephfray.bsky.social "boost-mo-BEEL", I suppose?

Simply glorious.

ALXSkeeters, esp with West End restaurant intel: did Feru sell Feru the restaurant? I also see something about it now being soul food, as of recently, but the site still suggests Ethiopian? What's going on?!

It's not a parking lot; it's a bike-share rack. Cool story for shared transit nerds. wtop.com/national/202...

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Hey ALXSkeets folks. I think I posted this a while ago but long since lost the thread. Anyone have recommendations for reasonably-priced landscape contractors? I want focus on native plants - this should be a BatSignal to some of you - but also bigger stuff like creating a rain garden. Thx,

I don't THINK I already posted this. Further evidence the Polynesians ABSOLUTELY made it to South America and back. Which makes complete sense. www.npr.org/sections/the...

I just can't with conventional archeology's take on early human capabilities. OF COURSE people in SE Asia figured out how to travel the sea - science keeps trying to suppose the Pacific was populated by accident rather than just accepting the obvious. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

We are trying Pupatella tonight. I am sure no references will be made to narration of one's morning constitutional. Nope, not one. Not even anything close.

Well, this story checks a bunch of my boxes... very cool. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Jupiter says trans rights

When I was a kid I fell in love with a song. 24 years ago today, I made a pilgrimage for the song. Cruddy pictures of pictures, but this is Whitefish Pt., MI, home of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and closed point in the US to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today. 🔔*29

Very cool. Congrats to Korean marine archeologists. www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place. The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.

Son: I got the ignition issue with my car figured out so it works now! I needed a different part than I had. Me: So the idea of keeping the part you had in place was a... non-starter? #HelpfulDad

Yes, please. More of this. Speak the obvious truths. Decry immorality and hypocrisy loudly and openly.

It’s almost as if checks and balances was a good idea for a reason.

The MVP for Helena and my run this morning - and other contestants really need to just sit back down and wait for next time - was the Australian shepherd puppy in Four Mile Run Park. More cute per gram than should be allowed.

This was a very useful explanation

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

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You all who got to the Sean Dunn case puns first are doing EXCELLENT WORK

How come no one has created an Indian recipe LLM called ChaatGPT?! Do I have to do ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING?!?!

Add child kidnaspping to the ICE Nuremburg file.

For the love of all that is holy, can we PLEASE keep this straight: Bi-annual means every 2 years. Like "bicycle" - 2 wheels, not 1/2 a wheel. Something that happens every 6 months is *semi-annual*. Like semi-circle,which is 1/2 a circle. Get it? I don't want to have this conversation again.

F**k yeah

"And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism... Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong." This is the kind of solidarity we need.