yeah. speed & info density has been increasing steadily for years; what took like a year to evolve, spread & fade in 2015 took abt a day by 2025. but we've hit a new level. i was semi-offline for a week & like 3 decades have passed by 2015 standards, which were themselves too fast for many to track

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

You can get 21 books for $18! What?! That’s such an amazing deal! And your purchase supports trans people?! Slide that donation adjustment bar AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL the way to the right! Max it out! 21 hrs! Let’s get to $15,000! And 5,000 bundles! Tag your friends! Repost! Do the thing!

The last fifty years of American politics (or more!) summed up by a mere two lines of dialogue.

hatred is the most pathetic form fear can take; they hate us because they fear us. it is not nothing to know yourself braver than these sick, sad cowards. every action you take in love--for yourself, for your neighbor, for your world--is an act of courage. they want you to forget this. do not.

[looks sideways at link after the seven bajillion hours of zelda i've logged] i'm just saying, we should consider letting him cook

about to take off in an airplane (was visiting family, trip out was my first time flying in ~8 years, so naturally i'm coming back today bc... of course i am lol). however! if you're having a Day, or indeed a Week! if the chill is understandably elusive! pls consider the grounding techniques below 💜

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

From the genius mind that brought you “bananaphone”…a message for our time.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

we also WILDLY underestimate how much we lose to the lack of biodiversity in crops. a black plum (the kind you mostly see at the grocery store), a greengage plum, and a wild goose plum all have radically different flavors. there are more than 2000 types of plum! there is simply so much we don't know

this was seriously such a good conversation! could have talked to these two on this topic for hours, but covered a lot of ground in 26 minutes 😄

i hear it's "bad articles about fanfic" season again 🙄 if you'd enjoy a GOOD discussion of fic from people who actually know/care about it, i had a BLAST talking to @fansplaining.bsky.social and Anne Jamison on this week's episode of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: www.wgbh.org/culture/film...

10 years ago i too had a different body, gender, name. 18mo ago i knew who i was, but 100% believed i would never be able to produce a single book as me, let alone get one published. today i have 2 books pubbed, a 3rd out in may, & am finishing #4 rn. you truly can be anyone you damn well please

this was absolutely unreal. holy shit. incredible, gorgeous, inventive, brilliant work.

short about working at the coast guard

Crochet, solar and wind energy, open source software (especially R, LaTeX, Inkscape), light-based alarm clocks, e-bikes, cargo-bikes, bicycles in general, fast trains, running water,...

Glasses, contact lenses, water screws, terracing, wheelbarrows, pencils, public transit, ramps, solar cells, wind farms, dental floss, cassette tapes, books, notebooks, books, spades, dibbers, cauldrons, spoons, crutches, kitchen knives and oh yeah, hammers and sickles.

also: i am so much less concerned with what AI might (or might not) be able to do FOR us than i am with what it does TO us. i hate mopping the floor, but if someone said "i'll do that for you, but the cost is you'll forget how to do it yourself & also maybe run out of water for life," like, no deal

[nodding] leleton and skluge

hmmm. just had to edit my birthday here on bsky bc it was set to a random day and month in... 2008. while that is hysterical (i was born in 1989 and can very much prove it; in 2008 i, among other things, voted), it's odd. not a mistake i would everrrr make. might be worth checking your settings too!

not the point, but for the record: the very existence of trans people completely disproves this argument?? if overwhelming social pressure to present as a certain gender could really override intrinsic knowledge of the self... trans people wouldn't exist. yet all through history, there we are

CHARLES: some of the parents DO balk at the murder bit. knight to bishop square ERIK: did you explain that mutant supremacy is the only true path to peace? rook to king five CHARLES: ah. more your line than mine, isn't it, old friend? LOGAN: you guys know you're playing hungry hungry hippos, right?

people pleasing is people fearing. fearing rejection; fearing anger; fearing yourself. it's hard to let it go, but nearly everything worth doing is difficult at first. it gets easier. it's worth working on. people pleasing is people fearing, and fear of other people is a path to being alone.

This bundle is an amazing deal if you like queer fiction and supporting trans folks and trans rights. (And who doesn't?)

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...

seeing a lot of posts about an olympian called misha winning a gold medal for figure skating, which is obvs very exciting. less exciting: i've been Online so long that my unexamined first thought was "yeah okay, i'll buy that misha collins is an olympian figure skater now. why wouldn't that happen"

my third romance novel, SECOND HELPINGS, comes out in may! my books are FUN: they're made to make you feel like you're watching a rompy 90s romcom, but queer. also there is a dog in it named pastrami & i believe in my heart that if enough people read it, that dog will become real & come to my home

bro... bro. do you really think the average trans person can't tell the difference between well-intentioned ignorance and transphobia? between someone trying their best but putting their foot in it, and someone acting out of hatred or bigotry towards us? bro. come on. be so serious right now bro

this is a good point well made, but i regret to report it made the following image appear in my mind: a man in an old-timey nightshirt and cap, laying on the crushed remains of a bed, right next to... [deep sigh] the whale

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

true when you trans your gender the other way, too. with every passing year i look more like my father and brothers, watch my hair thin down into my grandfather's hairline. it's honestly great. my body knows where i came from. transition doesn't make you into your fantasy; it makes you into yourself

every transphobic argument boils down to "in spite of the infinite variety of experience inherent to humanity, you are only allowed to be the kind of person we (a collection of miserable ghouls) say you should be." an amazing coincidence that every fascist argument boils down to the same thing

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

funniest thing as a trans guy in ohio who i'm told come across as 'charlie day's voice in a danny devito-sized body' is how cis dudes now (wrongly) assume i know about Sports. today a guy asked who i was rooting for in the superbowl & i replied "jesus is THAT why this grocery store is so crowded"

A group of men who regularly rape children decided to ruin the public's perception of trans people in this country for shits and giggles and every time I think about that my heart clenches into a blood-red fist of rage. And I can't stop thinking about it.

i gotta say, though it used to baffle me, the more we learn the more i understand how and why this *specific* group of people could have thought it was a good idea to create the torment nexus from sci-fi classic and cautionary tale 'don't create the torment nexus'

i wrote this story, and this comment came directly to my inbox when it was made. in unrelated news, i'm legally changing my name to "wizened husk morrison" and would really appreciate if someone could come collect my bones from where they've been gathering dust on the floor since that email arrived

what if instead of every writer having an individual premium substack we had lots of writers working together for one publication. you might have editors, too, and designers. and only one regular fee, instead of seventy billion! wonder who will invent that. sounds like it’d be good

a thread of grounding techniques for anyone finding it A Bit Much right now. most are a little unconventional; all are things i've found effective. if you feel like you need to soldier on and be fine, no you don't; if you feel like your struggles don't merit using this kind of approach, yes they do.

Puppy want a break

a piece of my worldview i call Bloody Stupid Johnson's Law: if a person or organization argues for something while acting/building stuff in obvious direct opposition to that purported goal, you should approach said person/org and their work assuming major risk of mortal peril to yourself and society

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

the best bet for people who want to cover up their own disgusting behavior by projecting it onto others is choosing a tiny target group w/ low social power to scapegoat. so if you see someone pointing their finger at a group like that, and what YOU want is the truth, you just turn that finger around

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