Backrooms was like, aggressively fine. an entertaining enough way to pass a couple hours but i got frustrated with the efforts at making it deeper with psychological horror and metaphor and ultimately I think it's just not for me. it did, however, really make me want to read House of Leaves again.

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

"This isn't me being gay, it's science"

If you are attending demonstrations this week at Delaney Hall or other detention centers, please study operational security and arrive properly equipped. How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in protests? How can we protect ourselves? crimethinc.com/opsec 🧵⬇️

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

watching people get into fights with the discourse bot is incredible

Rep. Pallone reports a woman detained at Delaney Hall suffered a miscarriage before being transferred out.

they will not be going to space today

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

GameStop's half cash/half stock offer for eBay just gets funnier and funnier the longer I think about it, and the fact that Ryan Cohen has been throwing a tantrum on Twitter for weeks now just keeps it fresh in my mind.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

50% of American workers say they want to join unions, but 10% of workers are IN unions. Where’s the disconnect, you might wonder? The game is rigged. www.epi.org/publication/...

Brooklyn trans folk, neighbors, and allies: Please come out tomorrow evening to remember our sister, Eryka Caldwell, murdered in Bushwick. Black women continue to be the most frequent victims of deadly violence against trans people. Wed. May 27, 8 pm Cooper & Knickerbocker

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs." from Nevada by Imogen Binnie sometimes i worry i quote this too much but i think its just that good of a line

Actually in ye olden days the femmes were the providers because they were more gender conforming and could get hired in those professions that were regarded as feminised labour---secretaries, salons. Butches had seasonal work at best. This is obvious if you're not, you know, making stuff up.

not to call anyone out specifically: many cises responding they didn't know and imo that speaks to how most ppl have done no work interrogating the transphobia they've spent their lives absorbing. would you say that i am a whitewoman or a jewishwoman? i bet you wouldn't, even by accident!

this adorable, chubby little girl was examining shug on the sidewalk while her mom brought a stroller down her front steps. had this very adult facial expression of scientific curiosity. then she looked at her mom and went MOMMY THE DOGGY IS CUTE!!!! all accusingly lmao

awful lot of words for what could be much more readily accomplished by a jerking off gesture

i don't much care for the shark one way or the other but if there's something i know for a fact it's that it's not an "ally". that shark is a tranny

good for her.

imagine hating on striking workers because they “already make too much money.” so interesting to see which jobs are seen as deserving of high wages

“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.”

35 year olds on bluesky:

This is an entire group of internally displaced trans refugees larger than the population of New Orleans Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

R.I.P. JUNIPER BLESSING.

woke up so mad about Curry Barker's Obsession that i had to go on letterboxd to take away another half star from my rating

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:

This happened against a backdrop of a large scale migration of trans people to the Seattle metro area combined with an alarming rise in the number of hate crimes against trans women in the area. These events are happening in the city’s university district, and in its ‘gayborhood’.

I repeat: THE PITT is saving television. And not in the flippant, "I just really like it" way. THE PITT has a full writers room, full crew, full seasons and is wildly popular. It's the type of TV that execs thought was dead, and, most importantly, it's the type of TV viewers will always crave.

"trans women spent time as a dude" is like "gay men used to be straight" or "you were neurotypical before your diagnosis"

the pride and accomplishment I feel for my own success is somewhat undercut by the knowledge that I'd have been absolutely screwed entering the workforce as a baby writer today. Like outside of writing / journalism, I just have no idea in general how new adults are surviving on their own rn

hell yea @prisonculture.bsky.social

"come on, Nem, gimme a smile"

I’m sorry, what?!

"Let people enjoy things" No. Fuck that. We are witnessing the slow death of all art and we have the power to stop it and painful though it may be to do so the only path forward involves us telling people to stop enjoying things that objectively drain the good out of society.

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

Think of this as an absolutely gargantuan bet placed by the investor-class on a future of inescapable fascistic mass-surveillance...

i simply don't understand why this is being treated as some sort of accomplishment in the queer press. this is quite grim!!!!!!!!!

He may be a liar. And he may be a nazi. But mainstream Democrats are coalescing behind Graham Platner because in the end he believes in the same core value they do: asking for $5

happy star wars day to this tweet in particular

ROXANNE...

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

Last night, ICE brutally kidnapped a man in Bushwick and brought him to Wyckoff hospital, where the community came out in force against this. The NYPD actively collaborated with ICE, smiling and laughing every step of the way.