Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

This is your reminder that Pete was mayor when two historic Black firsts took their positions (fire chief, police chief) and both had resigned under pressure from racists before the end of his tenure. Pete did nothing to protect them. He’s been shit for a very long time!

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Looking at these pictures of Ruby Bridges, and thinking about how moving it is to see how tiny and vulnerable she is. And, I'm thinking about our language and culture around trauma, and how on a personal level it often feels lacking for me.

#PhotoFriday Ruby Lead performing in Elm Street Tease (2016) #burlesque #photography #Flickr flic.kr/p/H13MMQ

The first time we met Charlie Brown, exactly 10 years and one day before we lost him, November 11, 2015, with baby Ludo. Look at that handsome brick of a cat and such a good dad.

I’m never going to get my hopes up about a statewide election in Texas going any way other than red but the 2026 senate election is is an interesting case to me on the grounds that nobody really cares about Cornyn and a lot of people hate Paxton, which is maybe a slight edge for Talarico

Business Cat has finished another busy week of making deals and producing deliverables (i.e., scratching the chair and pining for a gray feral cat at the window)

Be like women and ruin the workplace by celebrating the 14th of November as tradition demands - BEGIN WITH A SUSTAINED SCREAM OF THIRTY SECONDS AND THEN PROMPTLY VANISH.

Yes, and loads of top down pressure which if left unexplained blames individuals or collectives when it was companies lobbying www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Who writes Rogue and Gambit in the comics? I do! @marvelrivalsglobal.bsky.social #RogueGambit #Romy

Last week's elections showed the power of women voters, who delivered decisive wins for Democrats across the nation. Now, there's a surge in calls to repeal women's right to vote. Could this radical Christian nationalist agenda splinter the MAGA movement or pull them further toward extremism?

you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

New publication announcement for this #WritingWednesday ! I've got 2 poems in EDGE CITY #2. It's only available in print so get it here: www.nocobo.co/store/p/edge... #poetry #JeniverseWritings

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

NEW: A pro-voting group sued Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) after he tried to eliminate them for helping young Latinos register to vote. They argue his long-running intimidation campaign is designed to stop Latino Texans from exercising their growing political power.

New publication announcement for this #WritingWednesday ! I've got 2 poems in EDGE CITY #2. It's only available in print so get it here: www.nocobo.co/store/p/edge... #poetry #JeniverseWritings

If any of my followers are interested: it's World Ballet Day and this year the focus is on accessibility. The event is being Livestreamed on the Royal Ballet YouTube channel and there are three versions: one without any additions, one with AD, one with BSL. youtube.com/@royalballet...

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - I read the book at 13 when I was experiencing suicide ideation. Ponyboy was so relatable and gave me a sense that I didn't have to change myself. When I hit rock bottom a couple years later, I remembered his words at the end of the book (1/2)

Caught the tiniest hint of the aurora borealis tonight! It was barely visible to the naked eye and there were lots of clouds, but the camera caught a bit.

pro pedophilia is in fact the main value proposition of the current Republican party

in the offline world, trans people do not have the power to tell you that you disappoint us. this space is the only space we have. we have few elected leaders anywhere who look like us, understand our feelings and speak about the world as we understand it. so forgive us for dropping the F bomb.

Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Saying queerplatonic partners are "just friends" undervalues both of these types of connection and belittles language accessible to us. Perpetuating the allonormative idea that true love is inherently romantic is harmful to both aromantic people and the community as a whole

Or… and hang with me here… Did The New York Times Ruin Opinions?😬

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

i had the pleasure of hearing Anthony Hopkins recite a stanza of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in an NPR interview the other day and we really need to make recitation cool again

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

#MovementMonday - It's interesting looking back at #lyra videos from 2.5 years ago pre-accident and see what moves I'm no longer able to do and what I've finally gotten due to revisiting the basics. #aerials

Presidential approval needed for lessons on race & gender, & ‘The policy does not say how the university would decide what constitutes “race ideology” or “gender ideology,” or what would happen if a faculty member is accused of violating the rule.’ Yikes.

SB12 sucks, but as Brigitte points out, drag storytime and most drag shows are still legal based on the exact wording. Support your local performers!

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

Let’s draw, sluts twitch.tv/killernen Dan heng //honkai or geshu lin //wuwa Black Lady //sailor moon Erika // viewer oc Ovelia // FFT Kusuriuri // Mononoke Zoisite x Kunzite // Sailor moon Marathon time, let’s play #sketch #art #livestream

Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.

Chuck Schumer and the Democratic establishment, fascist collaborators. 👍 Republicans are actual evil, but this will never improve until people stop acting surprised every time they do this and start recognizing that Democrats aren't your friends.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Going live to play more #DateEverything ! www.twitch.tv/hanaliontwitch

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

This #PhotoFriday is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Wonder Woman TV show. I took this at #Allcon before I got to know and befriend Black Mariah. #Flickr #photography #cosplay #WonderWoman flic.kr/p/bFjLFv

I'm flattered that Lynda Carter shared our artwork and love the sentiment here. @sarahsatrun.bsky.social and I loved watching her and the Wonder Woman character.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

James Watson never gave Rosalind Franklin the credit she deserved so no eulogizing post from me (a biologist whose focus was genetics in college).

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

I saw The Outsiders musical on Tuesday so I've been revisiting all my feelings and memories of the book, including how it helped me find a reason to live. As a result, I'm horrified to learn about all the times ChatGPT has encouraged suicide because if it had been around when I was a teen (1/2)