Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

I love wearing ugly outfits haha

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

The Army isn't being paid because the President doesn't want anyone to know about his connections with Jeffrey Epstein and since Trump also dismantled the whole "protect people from fraud" part of the government it seems like this is all entirely his fault and people should write on it and say so

We ALL deserve to live our lives being our authentic selves. For some though, it can be scary due to living in a world that is not always accepting. But please, never change. Be who you are proudly. "Come Out" when/if you're ready to. We'll be here waiting to embrace you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫂 #NationalComingOutDay

If you won’t stand for trans people that way then why the hell should anyone else expect you to stand for them the moment it seems politically inconvenient

“We aren’t going to indulge the fearmongering and scapegoating. It’s simply morally wrong to target vulnerable people for persecution and we won’t stand for it, period.” I’m sorry, I don’t believe there is any good reason why Dems *everywhere* can’t put that message out and stand behind it

Okay so I’m not a strategist and I’m trying to not PLAY strategist very much but if I can just say: I think this should be a model for Dems all over the country, even in conservative areas Not in literal content but in sentiment. “Trans people are vulnerable and targeted and that’s wrong”

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

October 11 is International Coming Out Day. I say it's long overdue for people to accept us for who we are. So, let me say this loud and clear: We're here and WE'RE NERDS! Oh, and some of us are gay, deal with it. 😎🖖🏻🤟🏻

naan is an awfully negative sounding name given how good it tastes and that seems suspicious as hell, like they were trying to discourage me from trying poofy little flat breads haha nice try

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Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

I believe this account tried scamming me. I had 15 mutuals with them (I suspect they were hacked and the hacker is trying to scam others). Watch out.

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the centrist Democrat attack line that universal benefits will "help the rich" is the most disingenuous bad faith attack line, but its also the most telling: it says that they know people dont like the rich, its salient rhetoric, but they will ONLY use it to attack benefits that help the poor

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

I can't get the images of the Kyoto cherry blossoms out of my head. I love the fluffy white blossoms and the feeling of being surrounded by beautiful color. Kyoto Light Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson, 2025 26 x 46 in www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/ky... #womenartist #kyoto #cherryblossoms #art

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

So let me get this today’s drama right: * Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait * Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week * Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay * But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

Please follow @ap.brid.gy for those who swapped to mastodon. It lets your bluesky posts on mastodon (fediverse) Especially if you do like, art and don't have a mastodon, cause i def want to see your art after im rid of this place Gonna do it soonish™

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

istg everything about our culture and society right now is set up to make us the worst versions of ourselves. it takes so much energy to not be angry and upset and aggressive. they did this to us and they did it on purpose. we don't have to let them get away with that contrived version of humanity

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Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one. A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Just to keep banging my drum: I think the Trump administration using every possible government website to blame the shutdown on the Democrats is a sign they’re really nervous that this is going to blow up in their faces. It’s once again a show of weakness, not strength.

If you think ther is a giant conspiracy between the UK government, media, and a handful of well-funded genitally-obsessed bigots to segregate and eliminate trans people from society, that's because there is.

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

lol, wrong almost half the time

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

Well don't I feel stupid

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

this. reposting with alt text!

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

i've had the first line of this poem rattling in my head for the better part of a year; finally sat down and worked out what it was trying to say. a bit like deriving the answer to a math question (transcription in alt text)

The apparent success of the boycott in defence of an incredibly wealthy white man, who has an extensive resources, cannot be where y’all put down your pitchforks. Take the win, turn the momentum to the defence of Mahmoud Khalil. Free speech, right?

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

There have always been trans people. There will always be trans people. The only "trans agenda" is to live authentically. Removing trans rights, banning trans people from sports, taking away care for trans people puts you on the wrong side of history. Trans rights are human rights 🩵💗🤍

Late night LRT: The *issue* in the room, the literal white elephant we seem unable to address: white male privilege and the attendant racism. And it's everywhere.