one guy sheepishly came up to me afterwards and went "hey I dunno but ... was that about EDM? I didn't wanna say in case I was wrong but I thought it was about EDM" and because I was 19 and very insecure I pretended it wasn't, I'm sorry dude you were totally onto it

One time I was meant to be presenting poetry, and I remembered 20 minutes beforehand because I was hung over and had spent all night at a dubstep show (look it was 2009) so I wrote a poem about dubstep on a piece of scrap paper from the trash, and everybody said it was about the beauty of death

The lack of basic humanity some cisgender clinicians and researchers show toward Trans+ people is staggering

To them, Trans+ lives are just fodder for advancing their careers

Their lack of empathy
Their careerist cruelty
It’s utterly monstrous

They are monsters

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how tf is this guy one of the most evil men in the world, he looks like an uncle who keeps sending you NPR articles, coexist bumper sticker-lookin ass, taika waititi stump double who won't stop talking about vitamin water

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Brisket!

my bluesky experience has been remarkably free of harassment and abuse, and I attribute that to moderation lists making sure MAGA/TERFs etc never get to see me in the first place. Is it against the rules to make a list of TERFs now?

the ONLY reason bluesky is bearable with this many followers is the existence of lists that let me filter out people I don't want around. if that's going away, I am too

part of the whole promise of bluesky, the reason we put up with lax moderation, was that we could moderate ourselves, and choose what we wanted and didn't want to see, and apparently that's a problem now that we don't want to see silicon valley's latest worthless garbage

I feel like that is important to remember. Because one day a lot of people will distance themselves from this very obvious, very much on the record monopsony and authoritarianism and claim it was all a conservative boogeyman.

yeah I started making it lunchtime yesterday and I STILL gotta wait another four hours? 😭

(did an overnight marinade in the braising liquid)

(not that he's a good man even when he's cogent, it's just that he's fundamentally a crook trying to strip the copper out of America's walls, he doesn't give a shit about anything that doesn't feed his ego or his bank account, whereas Miller and his goons actively want to kill)

it's been in around 20 minutes and the smell is already incredible

something less grim today, I suppose: on my journey to learn kosher cooking for my girlfriend, and I just put my first-ever brisket in the oven. Nervous about this one, but fingers crossed.

yeeeeah the obvious genuine confusion over Portland as well, definitely getting flashbacks to grandparents sundowning. Which honestly scares me more than regular Trump, because the Stephen Millers etc can lead him around like a dog.

look, Taylor has to release a dogshit album every so often, we don't get Lover or Folklore without a Reputation. This is the deal I have accepted, in my heart

You're so proud of your masculinity? You want to show everybody what a Real Man looks like? Now's the time to stand the fuck up, be brave, fight for something that matters. a Real Man wouldn't whine that it didn't work out like he planned, he'd knuckle down and fix it.

good. now they need to start the quest to find a shred of decency and the courage to use their platforms to stop him.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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