Tomorrow: book launch! There will be cake!

New pronouns are he/hater

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

precisely 10 years ago today, the concept of "transgender social contagion" was first invented on the now infamous anti-trans parent website 4thWaveNow. a full timeline of how the concept spread (not unlike a "social contagion") can be found here: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

What do birds call it when it starts to snow? Suet-er weather

as an indie bookseller, can confirm!

but somehow I'm the asshole because I keep saying we shouldn't invest half of our school's budget into this

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Unsure about a taste? That's ummmami

Well, it's no longer possible to opt out of AI in Word. Switching to LibreOffice.

I created a template academic job market folder for folks to use Feel free to share around! bit.ly/AcademicJobF...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Transgender for everyone, motherfuckers 🏳️‍⚧️

If you've read A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara, I want to hear what you think

For anyone looking for a Wordle alternative, I'm really enjoying Well Word: wellwordgame.com or in-app

My single Red Hood issue was the 15th best-selling comic of September, like out of all serialized comics in America. Incredibly funny.

What do you call a depressed cactus? A sadguaro

Love sending anti-GenAI propaganda to all my fellow haters. Love you, Merriam-Webster! Best thesaurus in the game.

If you live in the U.S., it's a good day to call reps to keep pressure on them about not caving to pressure to harm trans people: 5calls.org/issue/gender...

Transvestigating the xenomorph in ALIENS (1986)

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

why, dear god, have i been texting the same 5 transsexuals to get a g-d passport since november and (despite being able to/afford it) none of them have????

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Here's how to support my work: I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

What’s the convent’s most popular weapon? Nunchucks.

This is the kind of shit they'd sell you in Kakariko Village

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

A civil litigation attorney’s favorite dessert? Tiramisu(e)

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

This morning’s whitewashing of Kirk’s legacy by civility-obsessed liberals isn’t just offensive to anyone targeted by Kirk (ask anyone on the ‘professor watchlist’) but dangerous. 1/2

Lotsa people having to explain the difference between situational and dramatic irony today, and I think that’s a beautiful thing

Considering moving some work from paper to PDFs on a tablet. Anyone use this combo to read/mark up PDFs? Tips on best hardware, software, etc?

Still wild to me that people don’t understand how bad it is for us. We have been here before, and we will make it through, but it is an unusually bad time.

Should I send my Venmo handle to Anthropic now or

Subscribed finally to The Believer and it’s an excellent compendium of essays and thoughtful ephemera. Hoarding every issue!

Tom Clancy’s Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic

Reading CHAIN GANG ALL STARS and wow wow wow

Do it!!!

What does one do with fourteen large (2-3lb) zucchini? Asking for uhhh me

I am now thirty-five. I lived! As a birthday gift, I'd love it if you pre-ordered my weird trans story collection: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The folks in my new department are so kind, honest, and friendly. I was nervous about a big move and am very glad to have made one!

Which is why Tom Crewe's review of Ocean Vuong is so effective. It's like a lawyer reading from the record to destroy the witness. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you’re not local or can’t make it, pls consider coming to our virtual launch a few days later on Tuesday, September 9 :) www.eventbrite.com/e/taboo-virt...

TABOO is almost here 😈 celebrate with us on Sunday, September 7 at Lost City Books for an evening of readings from contributors and other literary perversions

Title “Our Town” in honor of Thornton Wilder, who managed among stiff competition to write the blandest play about a small town

Would like to see a romantic comedy feature the real foundations of small town U.S.A.: -niche microcelebrity (you’ve never heard of him? no one has) -guy who believes in a conspiracy theory loudly -drug front (badly concealed) -sex work front (somewhat concealed) -place cop likes to be -teens

Watching the Wim Wenders documentary on Anselm Kiefer and uhh every time he asks Kiefer about politics, Kiefer is like “well I’m not a fascist, but I’m also not not a fascist, you know?”

The largest ever data analysis of the US trans population is out today •2.8m trans ppl total, including 724K youth •3.3% of youth are trans •Minnesota had highest rate of trans adults + Hawaii had highest rate of trans youth, tho trans ppl are widely represented in similar ranges in all 50 states