Losing a family member, even if they are small & furry, is one of the hardest things I've experienced. The grief comes in overwhelming waves even when the triggers aren't apparent and the hole that's left behind will never truly be filled.
And yet, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. 😭
Dragging myself from bed on a Saturday to counter-protest a dozen transphobic shitheads knowing that no matter how many of us show up, it will get exactly zero coverage given just how profoundly broken the UK's media ecosystem is.
Worried I missed something trans healthcare-related due to my extensive list of mute words so searched for "trans" on Google News, and wow.
Despite following this topic for years, I'm never not surprised at just how mask-off the hatred of queer people in the press has gotten.
9% total hokum is the price we need to pay for utterly destroying organic traffic to news orgs, I guess.
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
Congratulations! Oddly enough, today marks my one year anniversary.
One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.
Many transition via DIY resources. I've never seen an endocrinologist or a psych because I don't want to go through a combative and adversarial diagnostic process to access what I need.
The healthcare risks are along the lines of "increased risk of breast cancer because I have breasts now."
Love that Thiessen is trying to pull the same "You're either with us or you're against us" shit that ghouls like him did during the Iraq war.
really, deeply losing my shit right now
Suppose dems do win in 2028.
Every single other country on earth will go "why on earth would we make *any* kind of deal with you if 4 years from now some pedophile asshole can come in fuck it all up? It literally happened last time, dipshits."
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
a shirt design featuring a skateboarding boy who may look somewhat similar to a famous skateboarding boy from a cartoon but it's impossible to know for sure because there's a black bar over his eyes, holding his own severed head and saying "anything subversive or countercultural can and will be commodified and re-absorbed by existing social order, defanged and neutralized, reduced to an aesthetic pose. No product can ever be radical, man." in blue and red on white
My new shirt design is so powerful that part of it had to be redacted for the preview image
roryblank.bigcartel.com
labour just straight-up lie to the public about their politics.
this is the most explicitly racist government of my life. this is the most explicitly anti-lgbt+ government of my life.
@lucympowell.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social, and co are not fighting the politics of hate they embody it.
Here's my in-progress dataset built from the Verified News list, if anyone's interested:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
It's small enough I could manually keep it updated if necessary, but I rrreeeally don't wanna
Can't help but feel this morning that I'll be anything other than less happy and financially worse off in my 40s, everything feels profoundly hopeless.
Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
Why must I always make the same mistakes?:
anxiety -> coping with food -> anxiety + stomach ache
Also, there is a thing as too much salami...
So bsky.team, about that pronouns field that's been languishing unused in the profile lexicon for months now...
I really wish people hadn't demonized calories because the one thing that calorie count is really, really good for is being able to say "Wow those are starvation rations."
this is what socialism looks like btw
hard working people getting shit done for the sake of the common person
(not whatever the fuck revisionist thing "luxury automated space communism" is)
socialists can be proud of their hard work because it serves the people, not capital
Every. Damn. Day.
The way trans issues and trans lives are discussed in contemporary culture is the ultimate example of talking about people like they're not in the room *while we're in the room* begging to speak.
This edible ain't ... wha?
Every time I see a new, horrible effect of this current end run to the end of all things, I can't help but wonder what their actual goal is? Surely, they have to know at this point that all that will be left to rule is ashes and they STILL won't be the ones sitting on the throne in the end?
Genitally-obsessed Bigotry is the Women's Auxiliary of Patriarchy
new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
