Calls to suicide hotline decline sharply after Christian conservative resigns as education head - buff.ly/TTn3Nby

The RI Community Food Bank has set up this page. RI food bank and local pantries know best how to serve communities. Give to them what you can and utilize them if needed. (If giving, $$ is always good. If you do give product, make sure it's what they are asking for.) Mutual aid is resistance. 💙

Got to see Belly do their second album, “King,” front to back but also a second set of songs including one of my faves of theirs… a b side from that album era. “I’m holding out for a spaceman.” 💫 (“Spaceman” live at the Paradise in Boston 10-23-25)

Local restaurant near work has an impressive wall of light switches and less impressive fall “decor.”

Frosty looks a lot like Grover.

A dreamy Fazerdaze show in Boston. Been waiting a while to see them & lucky me, they did some headlining shows this past week. A clip of them performing “Cherry Pie.” Thanks for making all the effort to travel across the U.S. from Aotearoa / NZ. “Soft Power” is one of my faves of the last year. 🍒✨

It’s the 30th anniversary of “Showgirls”! So glad Elizabeth Berkley created merch to coincide with it. I once had a boyfriend who asked for her autograph on my behalf & he didn’t even read it til later. We’re still friends and yes he’s attractive lol. It’s the only celebrity autograph I’ve kept. 🥂🌋

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One of my favorite albums turns 35 today. It remains as stunning when I first heard it in the fall of my senior year of high school. And it’s been there with me through so many moments of my life. Feeling thankful in many ways. ❤️🧡🩷

30th anniversary of Showgirls haiiii

Good morning

New beatnik headshot

I’m not in the literal sense…

Happy weekend

Good idea leaving these behind.

Smoky skies. Tired. Trying parse the signals from my body. It’s not in my nature to rest. But…

New book is ready to print (as soon as I figure out who is printing it…🙃)

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Always good when a new Patty Griffin album arrives.🩵

Future gold medal winner for Australia's breakdancing team

I bet I take this lying down.

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On the anniversary of David Wojnarowicz’s death, the new edition of this book landed in my mailbox. This in particular inspired my own writing/art projects in many ways. Sometimes it feels like his memory is becoming a way to sell product. But nothing can erase the visceral fire of his creations. 🧡

I keep coming back to all the powerful men who raped girls through Epstein, yet only one woman is in jail, and none of them have faced any consequences.

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Wretched. More ghouls. Who have the ear of the govt.

My classic rock these days. Impossible to overstate the influence of this musician and song.

My tank top has an important message. 💐

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

100% obsessed

A break…

Breaking: Transgender people lose Skrmetti, SCOTUS rules that Tennessee's law banning gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. I'll be reading and reporting more fully today. Terrible day for transgender people. Full decision here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Can’t join the protests today (because Covid) but stay safe y’all and thank you. ✊🏼 (image: painting titled “Emigrants” by the great queer artist Frank Moore from the book “Toxic Beauty.”)

Covid got me again after 3 years. Not terrible, but I have been in bed 12 of the last 24 hours. The luxury of being able to lay down or sleep when you feel the need… I am not taking that (or the gallons of water I’m drinking) for granted.

I miss Lower Dens

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Correct. This should be *THE* national story right now.

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

Have always hated this billboard. Good riddance.

Really special to get to see Aimee Mann do this whole album live last night. 💙

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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.