Ah yes, the mind is boggled by immigrants and tourists who don’t want to get abused and thrown into a secret nightmare prison for weeks or months before eventually being whisked away to a country they didn’t come from in the first fucking place. What a mystery!

Semafor@semafor.com · yesterday

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Being a devoted coffee drinker with anxiety and IBS is like being a park ranger who walks around slapping hungry bears with a dead salmon.

✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.

The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion

Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.

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fucking hell

Kelly@justkelly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

Yeah, why not, let’s play along. These are the nine-ish games that best define me.

Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼@pairofclaws.bsky.social · 7d ago

Okay, doing one of these. Also, wow I wish I had more time so I could replay all of them.

It's sad that I have to get knock-down-drag-out sick to finally find time to dig into some of the larger games in my backlog, but I'm seeing a pattern: Covid '22: DQXI/Elden Ring Surgical recovery '24: Horizon 2 Covid '24: Erdtree Listeria '24: FFXVI Norovirus '26: Cyberpunk 2077

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Hello and happy Monday! It's lovely and fresh outside, I hope you get outside and enjoy! The ghosts and I are here with lots of suggestions for your spooky season reading, stop by and we'll hook you up! 🧡👻📚 @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

So apparently the thing rocking me hard this week isn’t Covid, so… be warned, this year’s flu is hitting hard and early. 0/10, do not recommend. But hey, at least my temp has finally stabilized. 103.6 and shivering in a pool of my own sweat and fear was not how to wanted to spend my Saturday.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

Unsolved Mysteries told me I'd be dead in the Bermuda Triangle by now so I consider my continued perseverence a sign I'm winning.

just learned this today

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

I mean ditto.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Ah well then

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month

Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month

I came, I saw, I Wayzgoosed.

Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned

Important question, as I take a swig of Coke Zero with a sip of cold brew and am pleasantly surprised: Was this as disgusting as I remember, or was I just not a coffee drinker yet and this was secretly amazing?

*emits strange and slightly disconcerting sounds of joy*

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 3w ago

Metroid Ravenous Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku-v...

Everyone disturbed by Link looking moist are people with no imagination, no capability to fill in the blanks of the limited graphics of the time. He was always intended to be moist. I always imagined him moist. The boy is moist. Sorry you were left out of the moistness I always knew he posessed

Four years old today and still as soulful a stare as ever. 💜

books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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