@flywithheron.bsky.social
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They’re raised to believe that their adherence to a gender binary is key to their ability to be successful in life & the world, & that strict gender binaries hold some sort of intrinsic value, which is false. They “followed the rules” & think everyone else should to. They could just be free instead.
January 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM
They’re raised to believe that their adherence to a gender binary is key to their ability to be successful in life & the world, & that strict gender binaries hold some sort of intrinsic value, which is false. They “followed the rules” & think everyone else should to. They could just be free instead.
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I feel like this also connects with something about Shakespeare that really does feel unique among "great" artists, which is the fact that he himself disappears – his work resists the Romantic impulse to find the singular individual behind it
I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
January 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I feel like this also connects with something about Shakespeare that really does feel unique among "great" artists, which is the fact that he himself disappears – his work resists the Romantic impulse to find the singular individual behind it
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him.
Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him.
Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
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Blockades are an act of war
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Blockades are an act of war
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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Also if you are generally satisfied with life in spite of not being able to get everything you might want, congratulations, you’ve already have something many billionaires can never have—enough.
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Also if you are generally satisfied with life in spite of not being able to get everything you might want, congratulations, you’ve already have something many billionaires can never have—enough.
Has anyone started a cloud service for their friends? I would love to provide a way for me and others to get off of Google.
If they gave me $2/month it would be perfect!
If they gave me $2/month it would be perfect!
December 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Has anyone started a cloud service for their friends? I would love to provide a way for me and others to get off of Google.
If they gave me $2/month it would be perfect!
If they gave me $2/month it would be perfect!
Listening to Stimmung by Stockhausen. So glad I discovered this composer
open.spotify.com/album/3x7xEp...
open.spotify.com/album/3x7xEp...
Stockhausen: Stimmung
open.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Listening to Stimmung by Stockhausen. So glad I discovered this composer
open.spotify.com/album/3x7xEp...
open.spotify.com/album/3x7xEp...
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My hot take is you should not be expected/practically required to bring earplugs to a show if you're not going to stand next to a speaker. I'm paying to hear music played live. You have all this tech and you just turn shit up and make it into mush. Great.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My hot take is you should not be expected/practically required to bring earplugs to a show if you're not going to stand next to a speaker. I'm paying to hear music played live. You have all this tech and you just turn shit up and make it into mush. Great.
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The threats to digital civil liberties aren’t secret rooms in AT&T buildings anymore. They’re AI systems, data brokers, and privatized surveillance sold as products.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF we need now
Why the next era of digital civil liberties requires a tighter mission, a bolder strategy, and a clearer view of how power works.
werd.io
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The threats to digital civil liberties aren’t secret rooms in AT&T buildings anymore. They’re AI systems, data brokers, and privatized surveillance sold as products.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
U.S. humanities and arts majors, over their lives, will increase their salaries while their engineering friends start pretty high, and increase more modestly.
Despite being against valuing peoples’ lives based on money, this stat has helped me feel good about my choices and my love of the arts.
Despite being against valuing peoples’ lives based on money, this stat has helped me feel good about my choices and my love of the arts.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
U.S. humanities and arts majors, over their lives, will increase their salaries while their engineering friends start pretty high, and increase more modestly.
Despite being against valuing peoples’ lives based on money, this stat has helped me feel good about my choices and my love of the arts.
Despite being against valuing peoples’ lives based on money, this stat has helped me feel good about my choices and my love of the arts.
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Some level-setting heading into the final week of veto:
1️⃣ Pre-pandemic our transit network frequent riders on monthly passes made up a huge portion of the farebox. Post-pandemic, many of those riders are riding less frequently due to WFH, making monthly passes uneconomical at 2019 price points.
1️⃣ Pre-pandemic our transit network frequent riders on monthly passes made up a huge portion of the farebox. Post-pandemic, many of those riders are riding less frequently due to WFH, making monthly passes uneconomical at 2019 price points.
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Some level-setting heading into the final week of veto:
1️⃣ Pre-pandemic our transit network frequent riders on monthly passes made up a huge portion of the farebox. Post-pandemic, many of those riders are riding less frequently due to WFH, making monthly passes uneconomical at 2019 price points.
1️⃣ Pre-pandemic our transit network frequent riders on monthly passes made up a huge portion of the farebox. Post-pandemic, many of those riders are riding less frequently due to WFH, making monthly passes uneconomical at 2019 price points.
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postmodern finance theory
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
postmodern finance theory
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god, I just want to resist the trope of the tortured artist so badly. we don’t have to be in pain to create good art. we can learn to embrace & channel our sensitivity & empathy in good health. I know we can.
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
god, I just want to resist the trope of the tortured artist so badly. we don’t have to be in pain to create good art. we can learn to embrace & channel our sensitivity & empathy in good health. I know we can.
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Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.
As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.
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Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
I would make a new law that makes all “push” sides of doors have no handles, or unnoticeable handles. We need to stop confusing and embarrassing people exiting coffee shops everywhere!
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I would make a new law that makes all “push” sides of doors have no handles, or unnoticeable handles. We need to stop confusing and embarrassing people exiting coffee shops everywhere!
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Ask the 'privacy-is-dead' bros
(you know, the ones who are all "everything we do is tracked, anyway")
for a single thing in 20 years they've done to stop growing surveillance?
The 'there's no point' dudes never lifted a finger for ANYONE.
So no, my dude, I don't listen to you. I do the work.
(you know, the ones who are all "everything we do is tracked, anyway")
for a single thing in 20 years they've done to stop growing surveillance?
The 'there's no point' dudes never lifted a finger for ANYONE.
So no, my dude, I don't listen to you. I do the work.
September 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Ask the 'privacy-is-dead' bros
(you know, the ones who are all "everything we do is tracked, anyway")
for a single thing in 20 years they've done to stop growing surveillance?
The 'there's no point' dudes never lifted a finger for ANYONE.
So no, my dude, I don't listen to you. I do the work.
(you know, the ones who are all "everything we do is tracked, anyway")
for a single thing in 20 years they've done to stop growing surveillance?
The 'there's no point' dudes never lifted a finger for ANYONE.
So no, my dude, I don't listen to you. I do the work.
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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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trump heading into an epstein sex party
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
trump heading into an epstein sex party
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Fun facts and definitions:
- a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
- a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
- a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees
- a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees
Now you know!
- a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
- a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
- a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees
- a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees
Now you know!
September 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Fun facts and definitions:
- a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
- a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
- a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees
- a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees
Now you know!
- a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
- a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
- a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees
- a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees
Now you know!