I got really interested last year in the history of alchemical and Aristotelian-Christian thought about the nature of substance, purity and impurity, and how those ideas were applied to humans in the Inquisition and the Conquest. (Un)luckily those ideas are still alive and fucking us up today

my latest kitchen obsession has been cooking with pancetta tesa. putting it in everything. just had a bowl of jasmine rice & ate it with big lardons of pancetta tesa & no other flavoring agents.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Beleive you me, there's some pots of beans you make where you're gonna want to add some dashi. Just like toss a packet of powdered dashi in there towards the end or make the broth seperately then add it to the bean pot. Either way.

Hi. Stop letting your kids get Covid, I absolutely beg you as a fully grown adult who can’t believe how little of a life I have after 3 years of LC. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

infrared air max 95's 😎

Another day on campus, another new pal 😍

This is a really important article, co-written by settler scholar Leon Laidlaw and Fallon Aubee, a Metis Two-Spirit survivor of both day schools and prison incarceration. I'm particularly blown away by the study showing that of the 99 gender-diverse incarcerated people studied, HALF are Indigenous

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They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

it seems really good that the entire american government right now is these two dumb bitches and 1000 evil viziers

made a new pal

From a transcript of a faculty meeting discussing this: Faculty are being told to not teach on gender and sexuality at all, regardless of their field, and the Dean isn’t even sure if the faculty *can accept papers from students that discuss these topics*.

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I finally got a lil 6-cup zojirushi this year & am now a zealous convert to its ways. Fully worth it.

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Why isn't anyone connecting the FBI's trans panic strategems of the past week with former Missouri AG, Andrew Bailey, becoming co-deputy director of the FBI a few weeks ago? His animus towards trans people is well known from his embarassing AG stint

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

don't piss on my leg & tell me it's raining, that's all I ask. and here the entirety of mainstream media is, pissing on my leg!

The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

i think the @wsj.com should pay every trans person's rent this month

more like see you at Niðhöggr's belly

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

It’s just Content all the way down. We live in Baudrillard’s vision of hell

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

those person of interest pics have like the je ne sais quoi of a Balenciaga campaign

If you so much as make jokes about men who've made it their life's work to see you and your people driven from society, made illegal, imprisoned and destroyed, you will be abandoned by society. When they didn't get the trans shooter they craved, they found a trans woman to punish anyway.

You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care: www.transincomeproject.org/donate (also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)

I heard from my old buddy now working in atf that the bullets had "down with cis" engraved on them

I'm from the Show-Me State. You're gonna have to show me

If you see me lib out on facebook, just let me cook lol. Different audience, different rhetoric

Can anyone convince me that the Trump oval office video from this evening isn't itself a deepfake. It looks so weirdly color saturated to me, and Trump sounds like he's reading those words for the very first time

who is poor ol gavin newsome gonna do podcasts with now :(

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

The goal here is nationwide Jim Crow—obliterating Black political power under the false guise of colorblind "partisan redistricting."

no lie, former philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter pulled this maneuver on me at a Shake Shack back in 2017. He kinda-sorta hugged me and told me to "never stop being who you are." lmaooooo

Hey Philly area writers, if you've ever wanted to work with me on cnf/essay/memoir but you haven't had the chance because I mostly teach within the academy, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. I'm teaching for Blue Stoop this fall! Six weeks, in-person, starting 10/16. Spots are legit filling fast!

the conservative project is a project of ensuring unfettered sexual access to women and children for their patriarchs, the right to do anything, anything at all, whenever you want, to people you control completely.

Everything you need to know about the western press: Reuters called its own camera a “Hamas camera” because Israel called it a “Hamas camera” after they bombed the Reuters camera.

I’ve been talking to trackers around the USA. This is the status of Novavax to the best of my understanding: no one has #Novavax in stock yet. Some pharmacies are saying they were told they’d have it late this week. Others say distributor can’t or won’t send it till ACIP meets Sept 18-19 🧵

Hey Philly area writers, if you've ever wanted to work with me on cnf/essay/memoir but you haven't had the chance because I mostly teach within the academy, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. I'm teaching for Blue Stoop this fall! Six weeks, in-person, starting 10/16. Spots are legit filling fast!

Celebrating the return of fall with “horse lunch” in which I get three apples at the produce store and walk around in the sun eating them

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

September 7 is a feast day in many afro-diasporic traditions for Yemayá. Back in 2019 I was invited into a ritual space for her, & feeling the presence of the Ocean Mother changed my life, refreshed me from my spiritual stupor. I will always make offerings to Yemayá in gratitude 🌊