I decided to close the fundraiser from the writers conference and start fresh. This is really important. My daughter is terrified and I am on the other side of the ocean. Until I can get an early flight home, I need your help. Thank you. gofund.me/5267910de

$80/1500 Thanks for everyone sharing so far. This is a shitty situation but I am trying to lock in a new apartment by the beginning of next month. If you can please help or share this post.

💸💕🏳️‍⚧️ this is extremely urgent. abscess can lead to sepsis. Please help wylder survive if you're able.

Those that back the fuck away from Omelas.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

*Bane voice* Ah, I have found you on Linkedin!

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

every social platform goes through: 1. inception - invite a handful of people to promote fomo 2. early growth - all the lbgtq & SWers show up to add coolness & legitimacy 3. late growth - mass appeal to casual users (you are here) 4. purge - lgbtq/SWers get pushed off by repressive policies

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

Another Sunday, another interview in the New York Times where two cis men politely discuss if trans people are actually human or not. No consensus reached! Oh well!

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

It’s 100% time to gird your loins and get your head ready to fight any government that tries to bail this out when it pops. This isn’t the banks, which are essential to everyone’s well-being. It’s not even a railroad or an insurance company, where failure would harm a subset. This isn’t essential.

My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.

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Netanyahu should be arrested and sent to the Hague, not allowed to speak before the UN. He's a mass murderer guilty of genocide.

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

"Cell phone images smuggled out of jails and prisons across the country reveal food that hardly looks edible, let alone nutritious. ...kitchen workers at prisons in Arizona, Oregon, and elsewhere reported seeing boxes of food that were served to prisoners marked: 'not for human consumption.'"

Imagining it's Raptcha, and somewhere an angel is trying to raise a mortal soul to heaven but has been stopped, looking with its countless impossible eyes at a pic asking the angel to first select all the squares that contain Motorcycles.

PRIDE was a great movie in 2014 but an *essential* movie in 2025. Please find it and watch!

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

sorry i was sleeping instead of watching the horst wessel televised grief pageant

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

by some miracle, i need to raise $1301 TODAY to keep receiving treatment 20% was due on the 6th, but i could not meet it. the facility has demanded the full payment bc i didn't stick to the agreement but my doctor talked them down to 20% if you can help, PLEASE do: ko-fi.com/rebekamash/g...

I hate that I have to keep asking for help right now, but I'm waiting for my insurance card to come in and seemingly have to pay full price for Spiro and Prog in the meantime Almost out of both, and they are ready at my pharmacy. I just can't afford them. $75 covers both. Info below:

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Any reskeets or help deeply appreciated. I can't lose my car. I also need to put ads back up ♥️♥️♥️ www.paypal.me/marlahsmith Venmo: venmo.com/u/Marla-Smit... cash.app/$marlahsmith #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdfund #HelpSky

transitioning in the 2020s

an article asking whether it's feminist to use AI? i will get right around to reading that, but first, would you join me in the cellar for a moment? i have a lovely new cask of sherry of dubious origin i'd like your opinion on

TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!

We have lived through every essence of loss; is there no way to divert the path of death away from us? tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p

8 years HRT