🌏 Happy Earth Day 2026 🌎

I hope everyone is taking today to think about the wonders of our blue marble and how we all work together to protect it.

The wicked plot against the righteous
and seek to bring down Natasha Cloud,
but The Point God laughs at the wicked,
for she sees that their day is coming.

For The Point God loves justice;
she will not forsake her faithful ones.

-Psalm 37 against the #WNBA Palestine exception

You heathens, forever opposing The Point God, just like your ancestors did!

Which prophet did your ancestors not persecute? They betrayed the one who pronounced the coming of Natasha Cloud! Now you have become her betrayers + murderers!

-More #NYLiberty fan rage posts, archived in Acts 7:51

#WNBA

Splash art for Darwins Paradox, featuring a blue octopus leaping out of the ocean with a polluting power plant in the background and flying saucers in the sky

Solid...Octopus? Join me at 1pm ET/10am PT to start a playthrough of Darwin's Paradox, courtesy of @konamina.bsky.social!

Twitch.tv/paintingpirate

fuck em up, professor

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!!

HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨

🪐 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain... 🪐

The peoples of Palestine and Lebanon stand united today against Israel’s genocide and horrific aggression.

Closing the Rikers Island 311 ‘Black Hole’ Proposed new law follows reporting by the THE CITY that found jail-related 311 calls are not publicly tracked or clearly resolved.

City Councilmember Gale Brewer is drafting legislation to force public tracking of complaints from Rikers Island made through the city’s 311 system, aiming to bring transparency and accountability to a largely opaque process.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/r...

We Mapped Out Where the Best Spring Blooms Are In NYC A guide to which neighborhoods have the species that are blossoming now, according to city arborists and data.

we made something nice for y’all, enjoy 🌸❤️ the magnolia locator is my fav part

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

SHOP OUR BOOKSHOP.ORG REGISTRY TO GIFT MUCH-NEEDED AND REQUESTED BOOKS TO PEOPLE AT RIKERS

We firmly believe that *everyone* deserves access to (good, new) books that they actually want to read so we're doing another books-to-jail drive for Rikers! Purchase books from our registry and they'll be delivered directly to us to pass along: bookshop.org/wishlists/8b...

oooo peep the Flower Boy jacket on Court!!

this also reveals the lie at the core of "we're ok with immigrants who do it the 'right way'" because it demonstrates how "the right way" is always subject to the whims of the ruler(s), and, importantly, their racism.

a blue Chicago recycling bin with two arms, a pair of eyes, and a name tag which reads “Loop” the top of the bin is slightly open, making him appear as though he’s smiling, friendly, and approachable

Chicago Streets and San are celebrating Earth Month with the introduction of Loop and I am immediately enamored with him

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all my lovely trans siblings. Hoping for safety and joy for all of us.🏳️‍⚧️💜

And just a reminder, visibility without protections can be dangerous. Throw some dollars at a trans person today for a little joy, or throw some words at your politicians to do better for us!

Only Justice Jackson had the courage to note that the First Amendment doesn't protect medical malpractice simply because it involves speech. Given she was the sole dissenter, this took tremendous courage and I greatly appreciate her.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.

Join me in backing All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... truly very cool to see devs stand on their principles

movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.

The WNBA And Players' Union Have A Verbal Agreement On A New CBA | Defector The WNBA and the league’s players’ union have reached a verbal agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, they announced early Wednesday morning. According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, the new…

The WNBA and players' union have a verbal agreement on a new CBA: defector.com/the-wnba-and...

Afroman Scores Legal Victory Over Deputies in Defamation Lawsuit Afroman prevailed in court after sheriff’s deputies accus...

Fuck yeah Afroman!

Now Both USA Today Bestsellers. The book covers and USA Today booklist logo are on a colorful lace background.

My trans and nonbinary historical romance duology titles, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN & A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS, are now national bestsellers 🥂

More info & buy links: tjalexander.com#books6

Hair products marketed to Black & brown women shouldn’t contain cancer-linked chemicals.

But a new Toxic-Free Future analysis of 577 products sold at Sally Beauty found formaldehyde releasers & siloxanes in products marketed for textured hair.

See what we found: toxicfreefuture.org/blog/an-f-in...

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

There's a six page appendix listing out all of the many many times these lawyers appeared to rely on hallucinated citations. YIKES.

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out.

The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco.

The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

A good name for a Billy Ocean cover band would be Billy Tributary

FWIW this is literally the argument the Supreme Court rejected in Loving v. Virginia

the state was like 'oh but Black people can't marry white people AND white people can't marry Black people so there's no Equal Protection Clause problem, checkmate libs' and SCOTUS was like '...fuck outta my face'

I'm seeing lots of scientific conference panels get criticism for not featuring diverse speakers on the panel.

As a frequent conference organizer, here's some advice on how to avoid getting criticized for not having diverse speakers on your panel:

1) Feature diverse speakers on your panel.