SOURCE REQUEST: looking to talk to folks who have cruised at men’s sporting events (anonymously ofc!). Please share with anyone this might apply to & get in touch: DM or email frankie at britnidlc dot com

shoving priceless artifacts inside my dickhole because my financial advisor told me i need sound investments

"[This book] achieves the rare art of the best humor: a joke that tells you something dead serious about life." -Torrey Peters bookshop.org/a/24457/9798...

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

Hey you guys remember that time Donald Trump decided that if you're mentally ill he can send you to a concentration camp and no one will ever see you again. You guys remember that? I'm just thinking about that for no reason.

If you’re a queer person who loves sports, there’s a new way to connect: a project from Out of Your League & Rough Notes called Shoot Your Shot. Whether you’re looking for love, friendship, solidarity or partnership — we’re hoping this collab can help you find it. Call us your queer sports yentas.

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

Totally get that. You can email Jem at [email protected] – and please feel free to say that I passed on her email address and suggested you reached out.

(To be clear, their team is very small and their director is the person who puts the newsletter together most weeks – that's just her title in that role.)

I'm a big fan of JR and happy to connect you to their director if you want to discuss not being included in the future? I imagine your post got picked up due to how they search for call outs from editors looking for freelancers on social media, but you're more looking for perverts than journalists.

Your call for pitches was featured in @journoresources.org.uk's weekly newsletter yesterday, which may be playing a part in the sudden increase!

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Both Bari and MattY quit their jobs and pretended they were fired so they could promote their substacks. Neither have ever been cancelled or interesting

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Last summer my bff and I went to Epcot and we were waiting in line for the Ratatouille ride and he said "I've never seen this movie." And I tried to explain Ratatouille in words and sounded 100% unhinged, he didn't believe me at all.

Anyway that's what every day in 2025 as a trans person is like

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

“It often feels like it's a dystopian world that we live in, and the only thing that is real is Gaza and what's happening there.”

Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com speaks with 23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad about her book, leaving Gaza and the impact all of it has on young people.

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Bari Weiss is a political conservative who ran a conservative opinion blog with funding from wealthy conservatives. She has now been tapped to lead a legacy news organization despite having no news background or experience. That's factual reporting, everything else is propaganda.

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide.

2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

Being trans is the greatest gift I have ever given myself. Every good thing that I have in my life has come from my transness. Nobody can ever take my transness away from me.

When you dehumanize people and lock them up and/or force them into treatment 'for their own good,' you are setting up for catastrophic physical and sexual abuse. We have ample historical and current evidence; when you decide that people are not really people, what happens to them doesn't matter.

Is there a sexy word or 'fondle'? I'm writing about the gender-affirming ways I touch my junk, but 'fondle' feels so deeply unsexy to me.

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone.

The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.