Aeryn 🖖 Part Time Ma'am
@baphometta.bsky.social
40s, US, She/Her t-queer, specializing in ADHD, too many cartoons, and weed. I like to yammer about pop culture and food 🔞Minors DNI, I used to share more art for adults until the mod team revealed they're a bunch of spineless prudes MAGA Nazis: FUCK OFF
seems like a politician could make hay promising to ban this shit where are they?
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 3h ago"cancer and Alzheimer’s patients are praying that these treatments will succeed. But Kalshi is about to permit outside speculators to place ghastly bets that they won’t." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.advocate.com/politics/sta... So, wait... the Dem Gov Candidate @amyactonoh.bsky.social is anti trans... But this republican... wants to propose a pro trans bill?? What...
Ohio Republican lawmaker proposes election bill that could protect transgender candidates
The measure would address name changes.
advocate.com
I feel like a bare minimum criteria for Primate Leadership should be Understanding How Bananas Work. Like, on one hand, of course we’re not going to ask you, ‘Do you understand how bananas work?’ We will just assume you do. BUT! If you demonstrate inability to clear that hurdle you must resign.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 20h agoSpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
About 100 courses in women's, gender and sexuality studies are slated to be removed from the core curriculum at the University of Houston, as colleges around the state try to appease the right-wing culture war. It will never be enough to stop the next attack.
University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
texasobserver.org
In this new opinion piece, Daniel Dawer and Ruth Kravetz argue that, after the state takeover, Houston ISD systematically held back students and hurt their learning opportunities in order to inflate school ratings:
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
texasobserver.org
This reminds me of that hair stylist/amateur archaeologist who figured out that ancient Roman hairstyles were sewn in after a hundred years of rich white dudes insisting that all that art must be representing women in wigs bc OBVIOUSLY there was no way to actually make hair do that 🙄
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · yesterdayYou can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
You’ll always mourn the lost time, but doing it late is still worth it. There are different challenges but you are more experienced and independent.
Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.
we need language that addresses the oppressions we experienced as kids that don’t imply that those things define our current self or deny others experiences. some trans men hang onto socialization language to talk abt very real childhood misogyny, but heres my take on it:
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
chicago.suntimes.com
A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
erininthemorning.com
british people legally can't talk about their culture of elite pedophilia because they don't have freedom of speech. that's not a right they have. and what speech her undying majesty does permit is subject to prior approval by jo terf.
Jose@jum.bsky.social · yesterdayAmericans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
We will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.
Due to popular request... the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 2.0 (Kiwi edition)
May May the Nard@maymaythenard.bsky.social · yesterdayPlease please please.. we need the Kiwi
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
We have higher rates of kidney and bladder problems compared to the general population, and historically rather than address this, medicine has chosen to either ignore it or blame our healthcare. Nope, turns out marginalization just destroys bodies. Quelle surprise.
Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10h agoHere's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...
Can't read it because I don't subscribe, but my gosh, this headline alone makes my whole morning! Thanks, @wsj.com, lol!
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
huffpost.com
Fallout never got better than this, this was the pinnacle, right here
Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d agoChat will you judge me if I fuck this light switch
![Screenshot from Fallout New Vegas showing a dialogue box option that reads
Light Switch 01
[Cherchez La Femme] It's not often I meet a light switch with brains and beauty. I think I'm going to like it here.
What function do you serve?
I have to go. We'll talk later.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vmhrtckqi7ghdoqhf3lgvm4y/bafkreib3iu3gic25mfv6nenkldchl3ogydbxdju6se7sase7sopka2c7i4)
That's some racist-ass shit right there.
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 20h agoSeems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.
SODIUM FOR THE SODIUM GODDESS! CHLORINE FOR THE CHLORINE THRONE!
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
for those who celebrate: it is the 20th anniversary of a funny dog eat a pepsi.
