Switching to a local printer for TRANSplants but might have to raise the price if I want it to be in color (optional) and pay contributors what I want (mandatory). Would you pay $12 for a full color zine instead of $10 for black and white?

Dem insiders who eight months ago wanted to sacrifice trans people to maybe win three more votes in Georgia are celebrating tonight and I just want to say that I remember and I hold grudges. The Dem establishment and party should go the way of the Whigs.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

the voters have spoken and they love being trans and threatening to shoot republicans in the head.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Waiting

This made me feel bad in all the best ways.

Seattle friends and enemies, you better fucking vote today! Your landlord already voted. Handy voter guide here: www.thestranger.com/stranger-ele...

this story infected me in the best way (don't inoculate yourself against this story; i want you to read it; let it seep into you, let it breach the blood-brain barrier)

Happy Halloween! I dressed up as a cis woman 😈

"A sexier, kinkier story about infection, lust and MRNA does not exist!!" smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...

Happy Halloween! I dressed up as a cis woman 😈

"A sexier, kinkier story about infection, lust and MRNA does not exist!!" smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...

"everywhere I go in this city smells like shit"

The right wing desires death of the "other" above all else. Once one "other" is exterminated, they will choose a new one, and then a new one, until everyone in the world is dead, or they are.

Awaiting orders president Ferguson sir 🫡 long live Cascadia

What happens when you say the Pope's dead name? Is that a sin?

we WILL be going over Aster’s poor track record as a player in depth. might also talk about literature and her incredible work as well. hope you can make it out!

Who are your favorite Seattle trans writers, artists, and musicians I don't know about?

BTW in honor of thanksgiving I will be talking with my friend @zappy.bsky.social about the novella I put out last year and my disappointing behavior in the DND campaign she runs. Don't miss it!

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Bourgeois can mean whatever you want it to mean if you are dumb enough

November 1st! Come out and celebrate the first day after Halloween with me! Featuring Ever Jones.

4 years ago I hadn't written a single story ever and I'm trying to keep that in mind as the rejections for my current round of submissions pile up. I can cut myself some slack 🥲

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

Instead of being a marine and getting a Nazi tattoo Platner could have popped some hrt and gotten a cool bug or a sexy naked woman tattoo and a septum ring. Let this be a lesson in proper decision making.

Right wing scared of One World Government trans surgery for all. Mainstream left says we will do our best to lower the cost of living and keep you from going bankrupt but in return you don't get to be a bigot. Liberals see those two options and are like, what if we send more weapons to Israel...

Seattle pizzacat spotted

Abi ilu but this should have been under a thousand words ❤️

"the lion doesn't concern himself with--" Exactly, lions are lazy. They sleep all day and steal food from better predators. They don't do shit and skate by on a false narrative that only morons buy into. You are a lion [derogatory].

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

When centrist Democrats/liberals attack the "far left" they adopt the conservative definition of the left as a highly and centrally organized group hive mind, where the median and mainstream view can only be ascertained by the dumbest social media post made by an account with 200 followers.

Cherry picking a single person with a dumb post and holding them up as representative of an entire group is fundamentally reactionary behavior

Evil people really hate when people identify them as such

Cherry picking a single person with a dumb post and holding them up as representative of an entire group is fundamentally reactionary behavior

What it's like to eat a veggie whopper

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

you can get away with writing run on sentences if you have swag and are pure of heart

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

While I have issues with these sorts of sensationalist "no safe lead" studies, a reasonable takeaway from this is that you don't need to consume a lot of protein supplements and should focus on eating a balanced diet.

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants. Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

In a hundred years when they dig up my bones they're gonna say holy shit this woman took calcium supplements

Happy cissexual who hangs out with mostly trans women awareness day 🎉

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.

Not to NYC post but I love Seattle. Walked over to see the dahlias and there's impromptu live jazz and everyone is hanging out and enjoying this fall weather. Only in Seattle baby. Best city in the world.