i cried more in my orthopedic appointment about my hip earlier this week than in any other appointment before it. my practitioner actually prescribed me serious pain medication, i was that pathetic a sight. idk if it’ll help but the gesture alone honestly meant a lot lol.

just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...

trying to pivot in a big way and working hard on building real self-esteem, which i notoriously lack. been repeating “i wouldn’t be the way i am and act the way i act if i didn’t think it was a good way to be and a reasonable way to act” and it’s been shockingly helpful.

nearly 4 years in the midwest has got me crying over missing rude people lmao

creativity does not exist inherently in your "heart" absent of the world, it exists in your hands, and can only be "made" by interacting with the world, reverse engineering it and putting it together in new ways. copy reference remix

pleaseeeee learn and practice art by referencing everything and trying to recreate things. please its like learning the scales and covers you need to train your eye and your hand

See, the thing is, Singal did violate the TOS, unambiguously. An then Bluesky changed it to accommodate him. You know this to be the case; you were there just as much as I was. So you're telling a lie. And you know it to be a lie. And that kind of makes you look like a shithead. I'm just saying.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

seems like a good portion of the bluesky experience is seeing a post about how everyone who uses any social media site but this one is essentially a fascist collaborator and then scrolling to see a different post about some ugly fascist thing bluesky is doing.

what an absolute horror show. it calls for nothing less than ferocious resistance on every front.

Earthquake in Cebu, if you'd like to help you can donate here! www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...

6.9 magnitude earthquake hitting the Visayas and affected north Cebu. Our friends on the ground are asking for donations if you can spare them! PayNow (QR Code for SINGAPORE ONLY) Wise via @tracyt162 Aid remains ongoing!

a rat and an octopus. they haven’t met in-person (conflicting access needs) but they are pen pals :)

These new restrictions require any organization accepting VAWA grant funding to comply with all Trump executive orders which would, among other things, force programs to cease providing culturally specific services to POC communities and queer and trans survivors. 4/11

Funding for DV, SA, and trafficking services have been under threat since Trump took office. OCADSV, the oregon coalition against domestic and sexual violence filed a lawsuit in June to block new funding restrictions placed on VAWA (violence against women act) grants. 3/11

But that is a much, much longer thread for another time. Funding for DV services, almost all DV services, is primarily federal or state funds. And some of those state funds are pass-through funds (meaning the state receives then from the feds and passes them on to local non-profits). 2/11

There's a lot to be said about the way many DV services receive funding from the DOJ and VOCA (victims of crime act) and how the financial entanglement of these services with the criminal justice system is not ideal and how one can care deeply about survivors and also reject the carceral system 1/11

It's October so that means 22 days until revision spinal fusion 3.0. I'm having my 2 paraspinal rods taken out & replaced with longer ones that extend to L5 or pelvis depending on damage. Also having misaligned screws replaced. It'll be another 12+hr long surgery with a rough recovery. I need help.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

The general strike spanned more than 80 cities, blocking ports, highways, train stations, secondary schools, metro stations, universities, shops, hospitals, and public administration offices. truthout.org/articles/we-...

For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job. Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women

The so-called “Gen Z” protests that broke out in Indonesia in August, overthrew the government of Nepal on September 9, and spread to Peru continue to resonate around the world. Today, protests toppled the government of Madagascar.

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

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.

drove an hour to see a specialist about my hip, and of course i need to get another mri with contrast, and also apparently the hip is more specialized than this ortho can handle, so i’ll have to figure out how to get myself to one who can, 2 hours away. surgery likely.

i think the point i often want to make is not that people shouldn’t be alarmed or scared, fear is a very reasonable response to what’s happening. more, i want folks to see fascist pronouncements as they are: battle plans, not accomplished facts, and as such reveal opportunities for resistance.

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

Finally Barbara’s story is getting national attention. New update from her gofundme: she is now in a Louisiana ICE processing center after three days of travel in shackles. She’s sleeping on the floor and has been denied care for her medical condition.

prescriptions are fascism it should not be illegal to buy medication without getting a doctor to allow you to do so i should not need to see a doctor multiple times a year to ask for permission to have a working endocrine system because that permission can be denied and be turned into a weapon

The reason Miami is a major setting in my novel - aside from the importation & its Latino assimilation (which I've done more research on lately) - is the huge presence of plastic & SRS surgeons, making it a hub for trans women. It's a tragedy that those doctors didn't really push back on DeSantis.

once again directing friends to hesperian’s health guides, who specifically write (in many languages) on care outside medical systems, including specific pages on gendered & social violence as a cause of community health concerns. en.hesperian.org/hhg/HealthWiki

Imo this goes for all healthcare for marginalized groups: disabled, poor, etc

Every fresh piece of news about patriarchy’s backlash against trans liberation affirms what the radical among us have always known: if the means for our care is in any other hands but our own it cannot be relied upon and indeed may be used against us.

Since PinkNews is run by a transphobic bad actor and has a habit of sloppy, sensationalist bullshit, I feel like I should clarify: he wants a complete withdrawal of federal funding for facilities that provide gender-affirming care. That's devastating, but different from a ban of that care in law

no more death or detransition

"More than 1,000 renters across five states in affordable apartment buildings owned by the same private equity firm are launching a first-of-its kind coordinated union drive effort."

NEW: Over 320,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City by Israeli forces since Israel’s second invasion of the city of 1.3m residents in the last two years. Many of those that fled aren't able to find a place to pitch a tent in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi.

always towards the beautiful idea

the following is another survivor's statement about piper smith aka @/yourfriendpiper

A statement that an abuse survivor has given me permission to share about user @/yourfriendpiper - CN SA, abuse apologia Piper seems like a very generous and caring person, and she is very good at making people feel comfortable enough to share very personal details with her. (1/7)

Any time you approach social phenomena without any analysis of power dynamics you end up erasing important aspects of reality and help undermine people’s ability to fight oppression because the aesthetics of their methods can be superficially likened to the very oppression they’re fighting.

I will be a forever hater of the term “cancel culture,” a truly epic tool of context collapse and reductionism that has only benefited the powerful. Folks are always using this term to talk about critique of a celebrity and social campaigns against the marginalized like they’re the same phenomenon.

BREAKING: The Gaza-bound aid flotilla says it has “credible intelligence” that “Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours,” possibly using weapons that could scuttle boats or cause fatalities. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/e2pi2j

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

Alaa and the twins are really suffering right now. They have been sick and everyday has been harder than the last. Can you share or give what you can? chuffed.org/project/help...

waiting to get the 5th MRI of my year this morning. i am sick of this screaming tube i don’t wanna!! :(

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

i’d take a triple-autism pill if it helped to reduce my pain.

doing crippled butch gender: limping out to the shed, sitting with injured leg splayed, measuring and sawing my cane down to proper size.

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!