@zolmes.bsky.social
Queer discourse needed a “can’t be seen by straight people flag” because it leads to straight white guys confidentially asserting only black people do drag and thinking this is being informed and intersectional
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Queer discourse needed a “can’t be seen by straight people flag” because it leads to straight white guys confidentially asserting only black people do drag and thinking this is being informed and intersectional
Reminding me of similar thinking I’ve been doing around mise en place and the value of taking time to set things up before you start your work
I wrote a post about pressing letters and going slow
Embrace friction
On letterpress, tech, and the power of going slow.
eva.town
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reminding me of similar thinking I’ve been doing around mise en place and the value of taking time to set things up before you start your work
Fighting the urge to tell a semi annoying person in a discord server that they’re being really condescending
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Fighting the urge to tell a semi annoying person in a discord server that they’re being really condescending
Reposted
Giving people ownership over their legal name isn’t just about cutting red tape, it’s about helping trans people to safely travel, work, and access social services.
Help Namesake continue our work by becoming a one-time or sustaining donor this Giving Tuesday: namesake.fyi/donate
Help Namesake continue our work by becoming a one-time or sustaining donor this Giving Tuesday: namesake.fyi/donate
namesake.fyi
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Giving people ownership over their legal name isn’t just about cutting red tape, it’s about helping trans people to safely travel, work, and access social services.
Help Namesake continue our work by becoming a one-time or sustaining donor this Giving Tuesday: namesake.fyi/donate
Help Namesake continue our work by becoming a one-time or sustaining donor this Giving Tuesday: namesake.fyi/donate
Sorry but it’s extremely weird to call yourself a “gig worker” (which describes a very specific kind of job) when you are in fact a freelance writer
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Sorry but it’s extremely weird to call yourself a “gig worker” (which describes a very specific kind of job) when you are in fact a freelance writer
On the one hand, an absolute clown and basically a republican won for Ridgewood’a city council seat, on the other hand I think that if we’re loud enough we can push him on a lot of shit
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
On the one hand, an absolute clown and basically a republican won for Ridgewood’a city council seat, on the other hand I think that if we’re loud enough we can push him on a lot of shit
I’ve seen a few late deafened people on here talking about the struggles which are real! And I’m not going to hop into a strangers mentions but if you become late deafened you should really learn ASL
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I’ve seen a few late deafened people on here talking about the struggles which are real! And I’m not going to hop into a strangers mentions but if you become late deafened you should really learn ASL
Fascinating litmus test in the QTs etc of who is actually familiar with the Satmar and who is going off vibes of “ultra Orthodox Jews”
🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed.
Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.
Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.
Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
Why Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
The Satmar Hasidic community’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor shows the broad coalition built by the democratic socialist and Muslim.
forward.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Fascinating litmus test in the QTs etc of who is actually familiar with the Satmar and who is going off vibes of “ultra Orthodox Jews”
I’ve never seen such progressive / left confusion around what to do about ballot measures as this year
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’ve never seen such progressive / left confusion around what to do about ballot measures as this year
Obviously the need for accessible stations trumps everything else, but it’s wild how poorly subway infrastructure integrates the needs of bike commuters
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Obviously the need for accessible stations trumps everything else, but it’s wild how poorly subway infrastructure integrates the needs of bike commuters
Thank god COVID discourse either doesn’t exist here or hasn’t hit my radar because over on twitter they’re arguing that actually, weaponizing HIV stigma is good
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Thank god COVID discourse either doesn’t exist here or hasn’t hit my radar because over on twitter they’re arguing that actually, weaponizing HIV stigma is good
I had to read this so now you do too
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I had to read this so now you do too
There are many people on here who are either ignorant (or idea logically motivated) of the fact that BDS comes directly from Palestinian activists
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There are many people on here who are either ignorant (or idea logically motivated) of the fact that BDS comes directly from Palestinian activists
Called in by Gemini for my biphobia :(
October 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Called in by Gemini for my biphobia :(
I’m in a language related discord with a 65+ retired woman who is lovely and very sweet and inadvertently gives the most brutal burns of all time as a result
October 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’m in a language related discord with a 65+ retired woman who is lovely and very sweet and inadvertently gives the most brutal burns of all time as a result
everything about my jobs and job searching experience right now feels like it’s designed to slowly drive me insane
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
everything about my jobs and job searching experience right now feels like it’s designed to slowly drive me insane
I fully get the intent behind this, nuance, blah blah but I really hate when covid cautious people talk (nearly always with a negative framing) about “rawdogging the air“
September 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I fully get the intent behind this, nuance, blah blah but I really hate when covid cautious people talk (nearly always with a negative framing) about “rawdogging the air“
I’m not saying BDS is a perfect tactic or even necessarily the right one, but it is always revealing how people critical of it seem to go entirely off vibes / assumptions and make very little effort to learn like, extremely public information
September 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m not saying BDS is a perfect tactic or even necessarily the right one, but it is always revealing how people critical of it seem to go entirely off vibes / assumptions and make very little effort to learn like, extremely public information
Watching Europeans doing their little several week long bike trips and feeling such deep jealousy
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Watching Europeans doing their little several week long bike trips and feeling such deep jealousy
reading a series of quote tweets is probably as close as I’ll ever get to the experience of Talmudic study
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
reading a series of quote tweets is probably as close as I’ll ever get to the experience of Talmudic study
I understand the value and the need in certain situations to make people mindful of the fact that COVID is still a very present public health issue, but because I’m petty I do notice how many people who complain about “during COVID” being incorrect use “during AIDS” type language
Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine!
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
September 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I understand the value and the need in certain situations to make people mindful of the fact that COVID is still a very present public health issue, but because I’m petty I do notice how many people who complain about “during COVID” being incorrect use “during AIDS” type language
Protesting the NYT by calling it Longacre Square
August 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Protesting the NYT by calling it Longacre Square
Ah, I see inaccurate AIDS nostalgia has made it over to this website now
August 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ah, I see inaccurate AIDS nostalgia has made it over to this website now
Regardless of my feelings about the NYT, it’s always funny when people get mad about the New York paper doing New York based stories for New Yorkers just because it also has national prominence
August 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Regardless of my feelings about the NYT, it’s always funny when people get mad about the New York paper doing New York based stories for New Yorkers just because it also has national prominence
vaguely non binary leftist zinester who has “detransitioned” (removed pronouns from bio) and now has to sell a zine about their complicated takes (standard anti-trans bullshit with more ~nuanced~ language) is one of my least favorite types of people
August 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
vaguely non binary leftist zinester who has “detransitioned” (removed pronouns from bio) and now has to sell a zine about their complicated takes (standard anti-trans bullshit with more ~nuanced~ language) is one of my least favorite types of people