I have a concept called curiotization that explains this dynamic if anyone wants an essay on the "Transgender Tipping Point" & the historical reduction of trans people into curios for the fascination of non-trans people! philpapers.org/rec/MARTTC-9

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

we literally need to tell durable myths that portray the Roberts court as a nest of dragons or something. nine generations from now people should still be rancorously spitting on the names of these most crooked of judges

It is high fucking time the iron grip of the medical and psychiatric complex around the throats of trans people was named, interrogated, and frankly shattered. Trans people are not novel phenomena in need of eternal study, nor are we guinea pigs for cis people's macabre sexual fixations on us.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

a continual problem we see in AI-generated images of Māori is that they just slam multiple indigenous traditions together because the internet thinks 'indigenous' is a monolith. That looks like some sort of Native American headdress, pukka shells are Hawaiian, and that's a man's moko.

one of the super kitties had a headache #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Took a minute to clean this up for Pride. If you played the old version, nothing's really changed -- this one's just a bit prettier to look at.

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Christ. This is death camp shit.

been thinking lately of LLMs as causing a digital dust bowl, especially vis-a-vis the GDP decimation that'll happen when the LLM bubble bursts.

You can tell if a movement is serious by whether or not it abandons its prisoners, especially the "messy" ones. If Trump-era political prisoners are not released after he is removed from office, then the specter of Trump will not be gone.

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

Remember, it’s not hypocrisy, it’s an assertion of supremacy. Supremacy does not aspire to consistency

In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...

Another Black trans woman was murdered in Mobile, Alabama, on June 22, Blaque/Out Media reports. Say her name: La'Daijah Walters. La'Daijah was killed just 12 days after Kalena Peaches Croskey died in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. Like Peaches, she is being misgendered by local media.

rewatching Gender Troublemakers (1993) was a great antidote to the beleaguering discourses of the weekend

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

i do find it really funny that everyone transhistoricizes cis genders ([cis] man/woman) and heterosexuality and homosexuality but it's transfemininity specifically that has this bizarre burden and discourse of being a frame that one "should not" transhistoricize

My essay “Weathering the Comic Storm: On Being Trans and Funny” is now published! I think about how transmisogyny works by participating in a stand-up comedy scene philpapers.org/rec/MARWTC-9

question for those who work outside of academia: is your preeminent trade publication almost singlemindedly devoted to destroying your profession, or is that just a thing for us?

here's the thing about how people talk about solidarity: people refer to it through the lines of community obligation. but there is no community, none, & so obligation is never fulfilled. it is not an obligation. solidarity only exists *at* the point where it is made out of free will.

I think that the ceiling of what many trans studies scholars can achieve with their work is to shadowbox in The Archive, largely b/c so much of humanities academia is both full of 1) proxy fights over what "materialism" means, & 2) competitive pressures to be more materialister than your peers

Jesus fuck how does he keep finding ways to be the worst human alive

yellow sign panopticon

soursop juice >>>

You could hardly ask for a better example of investing in vibes over value than shutting down *real* cancer research to free up money for teaching more words to the word-guessing machine because it's about to become God and cure cancer. 11/

We often think about activists devices being siezed as a risk because of the retroactive information the cops can get. But there seem to be clues pointing to a seized device being used to actively monitor activist group Signal chats and calls in Minneapolis. Checklist: activistchecklist.org/signal/

Ok fine. My 2019 book Hall of Waters, if you want to revisit it, is a deeply prescient text on whiteness & U.S. misogynist cultural reaction, and I think further prescient when considering the Donald Judd essays in light of AI's impact on art. free PDF: www.theoperatingsystem.org/wp-content/u...

Brianna ghey has become the face of a social media ban for young people Despite the fact that her killers knew her in real life, at school, and she was socialising with them outside when they killed her And the reason they killed her was the traditional print media moral panic Truly sickening

look at this happy little fucker. i fenced in the perennials this year and the rabbits are starving but the bees are slurpin that good shit down. get on your knees, pray to god: the birds and the bees

"generative AI to me feels like a corporate DDoS on society in a way that is really disorienting" "we're running on the fumes of knowledge produced in the past and underfunding and undermining knowledge production and serious science right now" Perfectly stated, @alixdunn.com

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

also look how neat this Wawa sign is! & how cute my partner @dwindlingbeth.bsky.social 's smile is!

went down the shore this weekend, brought back a pal

Every single thing about the American government and economy right now feels like this

these assholes didn't deserve this many words written about them

You might think I'm joking when I say the billionaires.of this world stole an area of Antarctic sea ice the size of all of France but I'm not that's what they did that's what happened to the ice and no one with any power is even trying to stop them so they're not gonna stop stealing our world away

"While you were out living your culture that is different than mine, I studied the statistics! ... and can therefore correct you regarding your culture." - bipartisan American proverb

Emi Koyama was most likely the first writer and activist to spin my sex work politics toward an analysis of racism, colonialism, and later disability justice. A tremendous loss, who left behind so much good work to continue. Grateful we got to share some spaces. Rest in power 🦋

I heard she was sick, sad to hear about this. One of the original pioneers of contemporary transfeminism. In addition to her feminist work, Emi was also a major promoter of transfeminine literature for a Japanese audience. She translated many summaries of Western trans books into Japanese. RIP.

🖼️ Jin Xingye

i think if we can prompt inject it to buy pornography the ceo of visa will shoot sam altman to death with a gun apnews.com/article/visa...

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

Coming soon

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

The Wild Mother is finished :D

Big Stretch

like i said, men in media defending this shit: your women colleagues see what you’re doing and won’t forget.