this is my very soul

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

Do I know anyone who knows Japanese and can read this artist’s signature?

i need things to stop happening please

Lessons I've learned from the LLM era (list to be expanded, probably): 1. Sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from an impossibly well-read toddler on peyote. 2. Almost any decision has the potential to be a life-or-death decision, if you're bad enough at it.

Surreal Painting of a Mirror in Field, c.1960 by Anthony V. Martin

Bari Weiss is pro-torture, pass it on

We will hunt him down because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A vigilant shepherd. A gloomy chaperone. A hushed bodyguard. A shadowy paladin. A crepuscular tutelary. A ghostly conservator. A closedmouthed attendant. A macabre aegis. A tenebrou

I find it funny when teachers who are annoyed by kids saying 6-7 all the time respond by banning it, which of course only makes it more appealing. If instead they started making 6-7 jokes *themselves*, it would instantly become uncool.

I want to see an Odyssey movie with the bright colors of the Aegean, not the muted colors of Masculine Toughness

does "lieutenant" just mean "placeholder"?

I'm loving the way @never.horse formatted the page numbers in her book "Sara, or 'I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead'"

muting every word that bugs me until my feed is completely empty

Epic Rap Battles of History: HDG vs Mechsploitation

The way people online now censor themselves even when using platforms that don't have algorithmic feeds is such a perfect illustration of the panopticon metaphor and I think we should fucking stop complying

I just half-remembered a movie/TV scene where someone makes an “a few bad apples spoil the bunch” point by saying something like “if I make a pot of delicious stew and then add a single cat turd, what I’ve got now is a whole pot of shit stew.” Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

Oh the weather outside is gloomy And the fire will soon consume me The demons let out a cry: “Let it die! Let it die! Let it die!“

The Bestie Boys

I Have No Mouse and I Must Click

I was reading about the painter Klaire Lockhart, saw that she was Miss Art World South Dakota, was briefly amazed that there's such a thing as Miss Art World, and then found out that Miss Art World is itself a conceptual art project

Remember, in dangerous times it's important to devote your energy to getting mad at your friends, not at the people in power!! (that's my impression of social media do you like it)

They want to call gender-affirming care "sex-rejecting procedures"? Fine. I rejected my sex. I emigrated from maleness. I'm an apostate from the Church of Biological Destiny. Anyone who doesn't like it is cordially invited to go jack off to their own misguided sense of moral certitude.

this is the Most Bluesky Post

btw of this "start here" list the only ones I've read are Nevada, Girlfriends, Transgender History, Whipping Girl, Welcome to Dorley Hall, Love/Aggression, Tell Me I'm Worthless, Magica Riot and Cat Wishes, so clearly I have my work cut out for me!

While we're here: who are your favorite transmasc authors? I feel like about 80% of the trans lit I've read has been from the other side of the spectrum.

Love this list of where to start with transfem literature by @thetransfemininereview.com thetransfemininereview.com/start-here/

We're doing seven years now? ok cool

What fool called it Habitat for Humanity rather than Cottage Corps

@ass.golf I suddenly find myself needing to know: does Claire have a Blåhaj

So many people get it wrong This song is not a Christmas song But you don’t really know the lyrics, do ya? It’s Jewish and it’s sexual It’s not about young Yeshua So next to Frosty, don’t play “Hallelujah”

Christians leave Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” alone challenge

A genie grants you one wish. But there are two catches: 1. He's very altruistic, and if he thinks your wish is purely self-interested, rather than for the greater good, he will explode you. 2. He's not capable of permanently ending war, poverty, hunger, disease or death. What do you wish for?

My social media experience is a lot better when I remember that I don’t have to argue with the bad takes

no it’s not (just in general)

Finally finished this soprano sax and piano piece (with "secret lyrics" the audience can follow along with)

There's a trope in old cartoons where being sick makes you see spots everywhere. Is there an actual disease with that symptom or is totally made up?

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

Gotta hand it to Jordan Peele for making me feel a frisson of eeriness every time I encounter the word "tethered" in any context

@nataliereed84.bsky.social I feel like you have a good opportunity for a pun based on the fact that Christmas is "Natale" in Italian

bumpin that

Seeing Inland Empire with my friend who I had a big crush on and her shitty abusive boyfriend, after I'd a) already told her about the scene where Laura Dern talks about gouging an attempted rapist's eye out and b) mentioned that that version of the character reminded me of her

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

LOOK!!

reactivating my FanFiction dot net account so a US official will have to base my admission decisions on 120,000 words of softcore Naruto erotica

Panama City, Florida was incorporated in 1909, but a few decades later a spacetime rift passed over the area and the whole place got turned backwards. Rumor has it that even to this day, if you visit you'll come back backwards too.

Things I say to my cat: "Let me give you a food so that you may unmeow"

I literally wrote my dissertation on electronic advertising music — some of which I really love — and I still would be happy if I never saw another ad again!