Kit Morley
@gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social
Queer trans nerd (he/him). Ex-academic with the student loan debt to prove it. Fannish, sometimes on main.
Quiet Christmas on my own (which after 7 straight days of Xmas retail I don't mind at all).
Ate red beans & rice, plus a thousand Christmassy sweets. Listened once again to Cabin Pressure, "Molokai."
Now drinking eggnog, to be followed by more eggnog (this time + brandy) & more sweets and reading.
Ate red beans & rice, plus a thousand Christmassy sweets. Listened once again to Cabin Pressure, "Molokai."
Now drinking eggnog, to be followed by more eggnog (this time + brandy) & more sweets and reading.
December 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Quiet Christmas on my own (which after 7 straight days of Xmas retail I don't mind at all).
Ate red beans & rice, plus a thousand Christmassy sweets. Listened once again to Cabin Pressure, "Molokai."
Now drinking eggnog, to be followed by more eggnog (this time + brandy) & more sweets and reading.
Ate red beans & rice, plus a thousand Christmassy sweets. Listened once again to Cabin Pressure, "Molokai."
Now drinking eggnog, to be followed by more eggnog (this time + brandy) & more sweets and reading.
I find myself wondering how much of the loud contempt about people using GLP-1 drugs (e.g. Ozempic, Mounjaro) comes from people who are also loudly contemptuous of fat people for existing.
I bet there's a lot of overlap.
I bet there's a lot of overlap.
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I find myself wondering how much of the loud contempt about people using GLP-1 drugs (e.g. Ozempic, Mounjaro) comes from people who are also loudly contemptuous of fat people for existing.
I bet there's a lot of overlap.
I bet there's a lot of overlap.
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
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God damn I am a good performer and @mattround.com makes good and foolish toys
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December 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
God damn I am a good performer and @mattround.com makes good and foolish toys
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Devil: see, this is an EVIDENCE BASED argument! St. Wolfgang: sorry, that is not a peer-reviewed journal. By Michael Pacher, 1479. It's his day.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Devil: see, this is an EVIDENCE BASED argument! St. Wolfgang: sorry, that is not a peer-reviewed journal. By Michael Pacher, 1479. It's his day.
I love it when the fucking city reroutes a bunch of bus stops for some fucking event, and this change is announced exactly nowhere.
I had an extra 15 minute walk on top of the 20 minute walk to my usual stop. I guess people who take the bus aren't important!
But we are progressive!
I had an extra 15 minute walk on top of the 20 minute walk to my usual stop. I guess people who take the bus aren't important!
But we are progressive!
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I love it when the fucking city reroutes a bunch of bus stops for some fucking event, and this change is announced exactly nowhere.
I had an extra 15 minute walk on top of the 20 minute walk to my usual stop. I guess people who take the bus aren't important!
But we are progressive!
I had an extra 15 minute walk on top of the 20 minute walk to my usual stop. I guess people who take the bus aren't important!
But we are progressive!
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Today's artist without a known birthday: François de Nome. French painter working in Rome and Naples. Here, courtyard of a mysterious palace, because eerie was his thing.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Today's artist without a known birthday: François de Nome. French painter working in Rome and Naples. Here, courtyard of a mysterious palace, because eerie was his thing.
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Watching Brokeback Mountain in a packed theater, and during the heartbreaking, emotionally central scene with the two shirts, someone's phone started ringing.
Absolutely radioactive levels of rage. No one said a word, but you could feel it.
Absolutely radioactive levels of rage. No one said a word, but you could feel it.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Watching Brokeback Mountain in a packed theater, and during the heartbreaking, emotionally central scene with the two shirts, someone's phone started ringing.
Absolutely radioactive levels of rage. No one said a word, but you could feel it.
Absolutely radioactive levels of rage. No one said a word, but you could feel it.
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profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
I regret my life and my choices. Specifically, the choice to allow a bit of tidying to become rearranging everything, in yet another futile attempt to turn a crappy, badly-designed studio apartment into a comfortable place to live.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I regret my life and my choices. Specifically, the choice to allow a bit of tidying to become rearranging everything, in yet another futile attempt to turn a crappy, badly-designed studio apartment into a comfortable place to live.
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'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!'
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
June 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!'
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
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I heard that now they're placing people who criticize ICE under surveillance. I want it to be known to the entire world that I despise ICE to the core and I think their entire institution should be abolished. They are cruel, inhumane, and are examples of the worst of humanity
Fuck ICE Fuck Fascism.
Fuck ICE Fuck Fascism.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I heard that now they're placing people who criticize ICE under surveillance. I want it to be known to the entire world that I despise ICE to the core and I think their entire institution should be abolished. They are cruel, inhumane, and are examples of the worst of humanity
Fuck ICE Fuck Fascism.
Fuck ICE Fuck Fascism.
This is unspeakable.
New from me: The DOJ plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is unspeakable.
I saw Nuremberg today. It's brutal at times (incl. the 5-ish minutes of real documentary footage from concentration camps), but worth watching. It's clearly meant to speak to our political moment, and as such avoids letting the audience feel smug, which I appreciated. And Russell Crowe is amazing.
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I saw Nuremberg today. It's brutal at times (incl. the 5-ish minutes of real documentary footage from concentration camps), but worth watching. It's clearly meant to speak to our political moment, and as such avoids letting the audience feel smug, which I appreciated. And Russell Crowe is amazing.
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i am not usually shrill about media consumption as a moral metric. i read historical romances, a genre riddled with colonial fantasies and gender essentialism! but the thing is that none of those authors are billionaires converting my money directly into anti-trans violence
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i am not usually shrill about media consumption as a moral metric. i read historical romances, a genre riddled with colonial fantasies and gender essentialism! but the thing is that none of those authors are billionaires converting my money directly into anti-trans violence
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
I don't live there anymore, but Minnesota is still my state.
1. The indoor roller coaster at the Mall of America.
2. Prince + gender + sex + religion + death.
3. The feeling of going outside when it's -30° Fahrenheit.
4. The Duluth lift bridge.
5. The big statue of Paul Bunyan in Bemidji.
1. The indoor roller coaster at the Mall of America.
2. Prince + gender + sex + religion + death.
3. The feeling of going outside when it's -30° Fahrenheit.
4. The Duluth lift bridge.
5. The big statue of Paul Bunyan in Bemidji.
Question: if Sufjan Stevens did an album about your state, what would there be songs about? (sorry, Michigan and Illinois, you have to sit this one out.
I'll go first for Maryland:
1. Baltimore
2. Harriet Tubman
3. The Snallygaster
4. The pursuit of John Wilkes Booth
5. The Chesapeake
6. Crabs
I'll go first for Maryland:
1. Baltimore
2. Harriet Tubman
3. The Snallygaster
4. The pursuit of John Wilkes Booth
5. The Chesapeake
6. Crabs
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I don't live there anymore, but Minnesota is still my state.
1. The indoor roller coaster at the Mall of America.
2. Prince + gender + sex + religion + death.
3. The feeling of going outside when it's -30° Fahrenheit.
4. The Duluth lift bridge.
5. The big statue of Paul Bunyan in Bemidji.
1. The indoor roller coaster at the Mall of America.
2. Prince + gender + sex + religion + death.
3. The feeling of going outside when it's -30° Fahrenheit.
4. The Duluth lift bridge.
5. The big statue of Paul Bunyan in Bemidji.
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This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.
Read all about it!
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Read all about it!
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A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system
Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.
Read all about it!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...
🔭 🧪
Read all about it!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...
🔭 🧪
"The Holly and the Ivy" and "The Cherry Tree Carol"; I can't choose between them.
Low's "Just Like Christmas" is maybe stretching the definition of Christmas Carol a bit, but I love it.
Low's "Just Like Christmas" is maybe stretching the definition of Christmas Carol a bit, but I love it.
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
"The Holly and the Ivy" and "The Cherry Tree Carol"; I can't choose between them.
Low's "Just Like Christmas" is maybe stretching the definition of Christmas Carol a bit, but I love it.
Low's "Just Like Christmas" is maybe stretching the definition of Christmas Carol a bit, but I love it.
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i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
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Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices