Got a transgender irreversible medical procedure today (flu shot)

nobody's done more to promote political violence than the GOP, but damn if the dems haven't played a huge role in creating the conditions for mass violence by absolutely choking off any sense that people can create positive change through non-violent, traditional political channels

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Got to be part of my friend's music video today ☺️💖. Nothing like grilling up some man meat and playing blood pong with the girls.

Klein’s entire political project has been problematizing minor transgressions of the left while insisting we excuse or valorize the cruelty of the right. Every few months he facilitates the ceding of more ground, assuring us it will protect whatever thing he will then insist we cede 3 months later.

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Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

The fact that environmental review kicks in as soon as they add more density than the original proposal shows how backward the state requirements are, because it assumes that dense housing has negative environmental impacts while existing car-dependent single-family sprawl is neutral or positive.

4 hours left!

I and several other writers have books/services up for auction to fund raise for Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network and to help Alice Correia Barbosa, a trans woman kidnapped by ICE. Bidding closes in 9 hours! I would appreciate it if you donated/bid! auctria.events/migrantsolid...

septemtober updates: new stories, an interview, TRANSplants Reading Series guests buttondown.com/asterolsen/a...

I love this!

subbed a bunch of stories so i can receive a steady stream of rejection for the next couple months to remind me of my place :)

living in a big city where being a trans woman is totally unremarkable and often does not impede my daily activities makes me kind of recoil at any sort of trans separatist / trans pessimist ideas about cis people

proud to have been an ezra klein hater ever since coming across his amoeba thoughts

Wake up, new Aster Olsen story is out ——>

Whenever I talk to someone from Bellevue and mention I live in Seattle, they immediately tell me about the one time they saw a homeless person while in Seattle. Incredibly diseased suburbanite minds.

seattle - CM rivera's amendment 102 is a poison pill that does not protect tree canopy, and will curtail housing in wealth neighborhoods this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands please sign & boost actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

New story out today in Smoke and Mold. Come get infected! smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...

New story out today in Smoke and Mold. Come get infected! smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...

My "not involved in illegal doxxing" website has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my website.

the year is 2027. whenever any crime is committed, the government checks if the perpetrator is three degrees of separation from any trans person, and if so, the defendant and the trans individual are immediately executed and their bodies are sacrificially burned in offering to charlie kirk

what you say matters more than how you say it. much more! that defenses of charlie kirk have to abstract away politics to an entirely content-free realm where ideas are as substantial as gossamer threads is itself an indication that everyone defending him knows his ideas were odious and harmful

if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate

I actually think it's cool Sally has a second grade reading comprehension and the reasoning skills of a bellow average koala. She shows us you can fail at essential journalistic skills but rise to the top if you dedicate yourself to protecting the powerful and the hateful. So please be nice.

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

He’s not saying this because of anyone making jokes or celebrating on the internet. The fascists are gonna do what they want regardless of how you act. don’t make it worse by giving the Feds an excuse to knock on your door, but don’t pretend the fascists will respect your humanity and restraint.

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

i care about farmworkers. most farm owners suck.

Join me and several other trans authors tonight for the virtual launch of TABOO, the latest anthology from Lilac Peril. I'll be reading from my story about a guy who makes sissy hypno porn music videos. www.eventbrite.com/e/taboo-virt...

Fun chat with my friend in front of 75 of our best friends 😊. Victoria's so passionate and knowledgeable, always a pleasure to hear her discuss her artistic vision and name cars I've never heard of like the Ford F420. Very surprising to hear her talk about having a favorite cop car though 🤔.

No offense to the King 5 interviewer but you my questions are going to be fire tonight compared to hers. We're getting INTO IT.

No offense to the King 5 interviewer but you my questions are going to be fire tonight compared to hers. We're getting INTO IT.

Seattle! Come out Monday night to hear me talk with @victoriascott.bsky.social about her book, We Deserve This.

i’m genuinely pleading with you to read this entire article

gotten many messages (public & private) the last few months re: abundance i'm the single stair guy i support *broad* zoning + code reforms, i'm a big housing nerd, i wrote a book on development, i've been pushing baugruppen for 15 years (🫠), a founding board member for seattle social housing PDA

Florida is a beautiful state that has been taken over and destroyed by ghoulish death cult freaks with the support of retirees from out of state who would rather burn the world than pay any taxes. I will hate these people as long as I live.

i just don't think you get to claim to be punk rock if your politics are about tweaking the status quo from within while equating the right with the left. doesn't matter if you're part of an oppressed group.

I just hope he suffers

Private group chats or better yet, just vent shit at the bar with your friends, cause we live in a panopticon

I know many people who have worked in federal agencies and there are exactly zero of them that I would even begin to describe as "radical." They are people who believe in the work and find meaning in serving the public -- it takes a lot to get people like that walking out against their employer!

Inshallah they will suffer mightily during the butlerian jihad

[talking to my grandchildren in 2070] it was called Unclockable Kimmy Schmidt. They put her in a bunker just like this one and made the trans cult. No one was supposed to know. She said she was stealth. But we all watched the show. We all saw her on the monitor [crying]

Tonight at 7 pm at the Lake Forest Park Third Place Books I will be absolutely grilling @charliejane.bsky.social about her latest novel, Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Likely topics: messy trans women, queer trauma, & 18th century English literature. Come out!

Arguing about if Gavin Newsom can win in 2028 is insane when we are already living under a fascist regime. The midterms will be a preview: if Republicans don't win any of the newly drawn districts (bc of their deep unpopularity) this will be considered evidence of election fraud.