The Déliquescent Future
@bothpithyandangry.bsky.social
Old-ass trans woman from the bad old days. Work as a professional trauma dumpster. Have a dog for when I'm sad and a bsky for when I'm pissed off.
Won't post my face, my hometown or my employer.
Trevor Project (crisis support for LGBT+) 212 695-8650
Won't post my face, my hometown or my employer.
Trevor Project (crisis support for LGBT+) 212 695-8650
Pinned
GenX butch transbian working in the shaft alley of a pocket seiner listening to Team Dresch seeks same- or any human on this earth who knows what all those words mean.
Chris Sununu called me a faggot
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Chris Sununu called me a faggot
@becauselanguage.com In college I worked at a non profit in Philly that provided services to homeless youth, and noticed a grammatical variant that didn't invert after an interrogative, i.e. "how he's going to get there?" or "what I'm supposed to do about this?" It was AAVE and also seemed regional.
December 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
@becauselanguage.com In college I worked at a non profit in Philly that provided services to homeless youth, and noticed a grammatical variant that didn't invert after an interrogative, i.e. "how he's going to get there?" or "what I'm supposed to do about this?" It was AAVE and also seemed regional.
Can confirm. Depending on where people have recently traveled I'm doing flu tests on spec.
Flu is absolutely ripping through my clinic, anecdotally worse than last year which was also brutal - get the shot this year it’s going to get worse
December 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Can confirm. Depending on where people have recently traveled I'm doing flu tests on spec.
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so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average
December 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average
This is, and has prompted, class dunking, nothing more. If you justify your policies by saying the other guy is poor and didn't go to college, I don't think you will serve the country. Period.
There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is, and has prompted, class dunking, nothing more. If you justify your policies by saying the other guy is poor and didn't go to college, I don't think you will serve the country. Period.
This feels like a containment breach. There have always been creepy "dissidents" like Daniel Everett saying that the Pirahā have a different cognitive structure, or Chagnon and Neel with their eugenics of violence; normally they get in fights at conferences and don't influence policy (hopefully)
The anti-empathy idea, that there is no cross-cultural consistency in emotions or internal experience, is either pedantry, akin to insisting we don't know if Greeks saw blue, or else wishful thinking by psychopaths.
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This feels like a containment breach. There have always been creepy "dissidents" like Daniel Everett saying that the Pirahā have a different cognitive structure, or Chagnon and Neel with their eugenics of violence; normally they get in fights at conferences and don't influence policy (hopefully)
It's a stretch to describe this as a "field"- if you ignore Boddice, the other sources are say:
1) we don't know much about the emotional experience of committing acts of violence, and
2) most experiences are interpreted -between- people through the lens of culture
...which no anthropologist denies
1) we don't know much about the emotional experience of committing acts of violence, and
2) most experiences are interpreted -between- people through the lens of culture
...which no anthropologist denies
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. theatln.tc/KD2QRX9Y
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
December 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It's a stretch to describe this as a "field"- if you ignore Boddice, the other sources are say:
1) we don't know much about the emotional experience of committing acts of violence, and
2) most experiences are interpreted -between- people through the lens of culture
...which no anthropologist denies
1) we don't know much about the emotional experience of committing acts of violence, and
2) most experiences are interpreted -between- people through the lens of culture
...which no anthropologist denies
@goingmedieval.bsky.social remember when people couldn't read and lost all critical thinking facilities?
(Xenophobia and quack remedies don't just naturally arise from the primordial shape of the unlettered human brain, they are profitable to the powerful who sell them)
(Xenophobia and quack remedies don't just naturally arise from the primordial shape of the unlettered human brain, they are profitable to the powerful who sell them)
No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@goingmedieval.bsky.social remember when people couldn't read and lost all critical thinking facilities?
(Xenophobia and quack remedies don't just naturally arise from the primordial shape of the unlettered human brain, they are profitable to the powerful who sell them)
(Xenophobia and quack remedies don't just naturally arise from the primordial shape of the unlettered human brain, they are profitable to the powerful who sell them)
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
Oooh now I get to use the word "quickening"!!!
fucking hate protestants (every pauloid) did you know the "life begins at conception" bullshit is a victorian age invention
December 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Oooh now I get to use the word "quickening"!!!
@thetransfemininereview.com I found you another author- Iolanthe Woulff is Herman Wouk's trans daughter and a novelist in her own right. Haven't found a copy to read yet though, but I can vouch for her dad's work
December 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@thetransfemininereview.com I found you another author- Iolanthe Woulff is Herman Wouk's trans daughter and a novelist in her own right. Haven't found a copy to read yet though, but I can vouch for her dad's work
That time you ran away- did your parents go looking for you?
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
That time you ran away- did your parents go looking for you?
Oh no! I got so sidetracked by my transgender vampire revenge novel that I almost forgot to make eclairs for the anti-ICE bake sale! #BlueskyProblems
December 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Oh no! I got so sidetracked by my transgender vampire revenge novel that I almost forgot to make eclairs for the anti-ICE bake sale! #BlueskyProblems
Jesus Christ this whole thread
December 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Jesus Christ this whole thread
Making a sticker based on something @adriandaub.bsky.social said about Thomas Mann's L'Haine, that liberals in 30's Germany failed because they did not understand hatred, and responded to an existential threat with facts and argument.
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Making a sticker based on something @adriandaub.bsky.social said about Thomas Mann's L'Haine, that liberals in 30's Germany failed because they did not understand hatred, and responded to an existential threat with facts and argument.
Basically the inside of my brain
me gusta MUCHO aprender espanol, estoy the most annoying espangcais speaker pero parce que je parle francais the most petit bit, mais on doit utiliser las idiomas y mots para explicer mis emotions y pensamientos
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Basically the inside of my brain
Fun to think that in fact we are currently living in the "before times"
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Fun to think that in fact we are currently living in the "before times"
One of the worst things about being an old anarchist is seeing successive generations of kids come up with the great idea to strap homemade feathered wings to their backs and jump off a building.
And you can't talk them out of it because it's different this time and they're so sincere.
And you can't talk them out of it because it's different this time and they're so sincere.
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
One of the worst things about being an old anarchist is seeing successive generations of kids come up with the great idea to strap homemade feathered wings to their backs and jump off a building.
And you can't talk them out of it because it's different this time and they're so sincere.
And you can't talk them out of it because it's different this time and they're so sincere.
It's not a question of can, it's a question of must. Some people will have an easier time, but history is full of people fleeing genocide on handmade boats or in the back of cement mixers. The sooner you start planning the less traumatic the trip will be.
There is no stay and fight, I'm sorry.
There is no stay and fight, I'm sorry.
American trans people need to plan on leaving. I lost most of my family tree to fascists, this will end the same way.
“compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism”
"adherence to radical gender ideology"
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
“compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism”
"adherence to radical gender ideology"
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It's not a question of can, it's a question of must. Some people will have an easier time, but history is full of people fleeing genocide on handmade boats or in the back of cement mixers. The sooner you start planning the less traumatic the trip will be.
There is no stay and fight, I'm sorry.
There is no stay and fight, I'm sorry.
I imagine a "jingle horse" is as nightmarish as the song that spawned it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I imagine a "jingle horse" is as nightmarish as the song that spawned it.
I've left the land of wifi saturation and can only look at this app once a day or so...
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?!???
I have no idea what's going on
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?!???
I have no idea what's going on
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I've left the land of wifi saturation and can only look at this app once a day or so...
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?!???
I have no idea what's going on
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?!???
I have no idea what's going on
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Seems like the message here is "You too can receive a special commendation from the Reich if you find a trans person to drive from society"
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Seems like the message here is "You too can receive a special commendation from the Reich if you find a trans person to drive from society"
North Carolina and Illinois are states and were not able to stop "such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol [their] city"
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
North Carolina and Illinois are states and were not able to stop "such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol [their] city"
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“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
Okay for real goodbye space hotel!
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Okay for real goodbye space hotel!