okay well i didn't love going viral but now that you're all here, if you want to keep that same energy going, you can donate to my friend's birthday fundraiser and i would love that, xoxo

alex flannelshirt@coffeedetective.bsky.social · last wk.

i know everything is gofundmes all the time now, but a dear friend of mine has asked me to help her coordinate/promote her bday fundraiser to fulfill her dream of writing a memoir. the things she has seen and the way she tells them are unbelievable, but mostly I just adore her. gofund.me/4295300ef

It's important that the Party not misinterpret what happened with this election. Most people were not voting FOR Democrats. They were voting AGAINST the GOP fascists.

Every place in the US that you think is too red to fight for is filled with people who need you to fight with them

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2d ago

The South is worth fighting for and southerners are worth fighting with. Don’t ever forget it.

In a further repudiation of the politically toxic broligarchy, 35 out of 35 US ballot measures to *limit* data centres were passed last night.

ok but what will the "blue wave" do to turn things around for my fantasy hockey team

and imagine how amazing this would feel if the democrats were actually good

BREAKING: Maryland voters just approved a constitutional amendment that paves the way for Democrats to redraw their state's congressional map, per AP.

love and light to trans people everywhere, fuck you to everyone who wrote off the south, on god we will see a free socialist appalachia in my lifetime

OH MY GOD! Keisha Lance Bottoms wins governor of GEORGIA. WITHOUT throwing trans people under the bus!!!! "I do not believe the government should weigh in on medical decisions made by Georgians and their physicians. " She ran FULLY supporting trans youth care!

He won it! www.advocate.com/politics/ele...

Longshot JD Ford elected first out gay member of Congress from Indiana, unseating GOP incumbent

The gay state senator unseated Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz.

advocate.com

Cherry blossom@chocilate.bsky.social · 3d ago

YEAH JD FORD LET'S WIN THIS

Congratulations to the incredible activists in Virginia who worked so hard to protect abortion rights and keep the state a regional hub for access.

tuning in to the election results to take my mind off the hockey game

i’ve never really developed a strong adult relationship to halloween so i don’t exactly have “plans” in any given year but this year we saw Jukebox the Ghost ’s HalloQueen show and then ran a hot-cider-themed 5k the next morning and saw Only Living Pickpocket in theatres so. great holiday for me

being told my writing sounds too much like AI at work by my boss who uses AI (i do not use AI)

“Casual, careless use of general-purpose GenAI can threaten the very learning processes necessary for committing new ideas to memory… and also the higher-order thinking needed to deeply understand and use these ideas in novel ways."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.

“In writing, for example, Kendeou said students need to learn to put their thoughts in writing on their own before using a tool that does that task for them.” 🧪 I believe this applies at all levels, not just elementary school.

i know everything is gofundmes all the time now, but a dear friend of mine has asked me to help her coordinate/promote her bday fundraiser to fulfill her dream of writing a memoir. the things she has seen and the way she tells them are unbelievable, but mostly I just adore her. gofund.me/4295300ef

Donate to Help Alicia Finish Her Memoir, organized by Alicia Jones

As I get ready to turn 55 next month, I am working on something that has lived in my heart … Alicia Jones needs your support for Help Alicia Finish Her Memoir

gofund.me

hoy (y ayer, y los otros días ahora para el futura preverable) estoy leyendo un libro verdad en español. que eso divertido porque el hace mi vocabulario mas impresivo pero no hablo jack shit.

i know everything is gofundmes all the time now, but a dear friend of mine has asked me to help her coordinate/promote her bday fundraiser to fulfill her dream of writing a memoir. the things she has seen and the way she tells them are unbelievable, but mostly I just adore her. gofund.me/4295300ef

Donate to Help Alicia Finish Her Memoir, organized by Alicia Jones

As I get ready to turn 55 next month, I am working on something that has lived in my heart … Alicia Jones needs your support for Help Alicia Finish Her Memoir

gofund.me

yeah, not to put too fine a point on it but the actual literal thesis statement of You Can See Everything is, in no small part, "there is no objective version of events which makes a cohesive story, and nothing which feels like a cohesive version of events is therefore objective"

el camino acid@sexdracula.rocks · 2w ago

The number of people who seem to think that until now “documentaries” were objective, uncoloured reports of unambiguous truths is honestly just incredibly fucking depressing

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Don’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans Democrats

The Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

erininthemorning.com

we've instituted a playershaming channel in my fantasy hockey league discord and i'm proud to report the person responsible is my very own goalie. history maker dot mp3

“I graduate in two years. But I’m more concerned about kids in elementary or middle school who are coming up and realizing they are queer…and finding out that teachers can’t protect them,” they said. translash.org/wire/trump-v... by @lewispants.bsky.social

Trump is threatening trans-affirming school districts. Student activists are fighting back.

The Trump administration is taking legal action against school districts in multiple states for upholding trans-affirming policies.

translash.org

the World Wide Web

poem about an encounter on the metro today. nothing snarky or clever to add here i'm just gonna be thinking about this person for a few weeks. sometimes it sits with you, you know?

swan boy is the most canonically northern virginia comic to ever exist and every time i hone in on a new niche dmv type of encounter i really have to stop and consider what it means to have lived here long enough for that to become almost soothing to me

Dreamboat 💘 Branny@bransonreese.bsky.social · 3w ago

swanboy.com/comic/smooth...

great source of joy in my life right now is the custom team names and logos coming out of our fantasy hockey league. hitting a nerve receptor that hasn't been touched since early blaseball