Very full after a lovely Gay Aunt Alliance girls' day out at the Art Institute and the Berghoff. Couldn't ask for better company.

Trans on trains: Red Line edition

The US is usually a bit more subtle about setting up client states.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

War criminal says war crimes are OK.

Not all heroes wear capes.

i'm drinking coffee right now!

It's January 3, but this could be the reply of the year (and my first block).

"It's a distraction from..." No. It isn't. Shut up.

I've got nothing that hasn't already been said. We're a rogue state.

Lincoln Park + Lake Michigan + ☀️ + 🧊 = ❤️ 🥶, but ❤️

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

'Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist [ @friendlyatheist.com ] wrote that “Ark Encounter offers free tickets for children,” and warned of “the possibility that unvaccinated kids will pay the price because of one irresponsible person’s ignorance.”' People rarely have just one crank belief.

To be fair, the Singalmatic 9000 would be a great project for a novice programmer. Not many lines of code required.

day one in mamdani’s new york

I'll take it!

Well, my first post of the year, and it made perfect sense as a reply, was Sun Ra. 2026 is definitely starting well.

2025: four of my favorite moments. January: refugees @captnamy.bsky.social and @anneb.bsky.social arrive from Florida May: @scarlettaddams.bsky.social has new knees, and we can finally explore Chicago together November: your girl gives a conference talk November: Whittaker finds his forever home

Absolutely staggering... one of the best exhibits I've ever seen. I think this is the only US stop for this show and it's here until February. Go!

Trans on trains... not a commute today, but I'm VERY excited to be heading to the Museum of Contemporary Art to see the Yoko Ono exhibit. This outfit is as art girl as I get today. It's 19°F out there. Soundtrack: not Yoko, but Three-Swept, by the Cocteau Twins.

How @anneb.bsky.social sounds when she describes what she does to me. Also how I sound when I describe what I do to her.

With deep regret, we must share that we are unable to perform as planned on New Year’s Eve. [at Kennedy Center in DC] ...Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice. - The Cookers www.thecookersmusic.com

Good point.

"Our representatives in Washington... would be wise to recognize where the center really lies and stop supporting anti-trans bills if they want to come across as reasonable people."

I have no idea who this could possibly be about.

I do not want AI in my house. I do not want AI to generate a blouse. I do not want it in my games I do not want it to win fame. I do not want it, to be fair, Because I do not want it anywhere

Whittaker is very fond of his aunts.

a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

I’ll never pass for a cis woman, and that is absolutely OK as long as I pass for an unafraid and unashamed trans woman, that’s all I need

Visible? Sugartits, I'm fucking FLUORESCENT. Neon-lit, with flashbombs and fireworks. I spent decades in the closet. I'm not going to stay there until I get a Certificate of Passing from the Trans Respectability Committee.

“If you’re wondering the difference between a Gay Pride Parade and a Straight Pride Parade, a Gay Pride Parade has women at it.” — Stephen Colbert

Alexis worries that we are rapidly moving towards a society of self-absorbed and entitled individuals who have no time for their parents. I worry that we are still in a society where thousands of queer kids get abused and kicked out by their parents, and end up on the streets. We are not the same.

When this ends, every single ICE employee needs to face justice.

You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky

I know Christmas can be rough for queer folks. I hope it's a comfort to learn that Linehan's was absolutely fucking wretched.

It's been a while. Still about where I'd have predicted. www.politicalcompass.org

We were just beginning to emerge from "being trans is Sick and Bad and Wrong and must be suppressed at all costs." And we're fighting like hell to prevent its return.

I survived the administration's attacks on education, DEI, and trans people, and I'm still employed. I gave a talk on gender data at the Women in Statistics conference. I had fun exploring the best city I've ever lived in, with my lovely wife and her new knees. And this beautiful boy moved in.

Really really! This is true of other compliments as well! As my CM and my therapist have both pointed out, people don't *have* to compliment you. They choose to, taking time and getting past any anxiety they have, to do it. So take them at face value as genuine, because they are. And YOU are!

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering? "A balrog. Fuck."

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering? Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the fucking earth!

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering? YOU SHALL NOT FUCKING PASS

I clean up well, sometimes. Heading off to eat! Hope you're having a lovely day.

Lazy Christmas morning. Breakfast on the stove, Scarlett loved her gift from me, I loved mine from her. Whittaker off his tits on his catnip gift. Zoom call coming up with birth family, then dinner with chosen family. Merry Christmas if you celebrate, and happy and joyful holidays to all! ❤️

We're going to be out for some of the day tomorrow - so we started Whittaker's Christmas a day early.

It looks like these data aren't super accurate for the 1960s, but still... only 19 of us?