I once got a group of volunteer choir members to help me herd a roadrunner out of the building after hours. I was a musician with zero expertise in birds or wildlife ..... but lucky for me (and the roadrunner) I had a field biologist girlfriend on speed dial!

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.

what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.

five living writers that you've read five books by each Ali Smith Premee Mohamed Ann Leckie Emily St John Mandel Allison Saft

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4w ago

five living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

medium.com

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

And the New York Times - which has obsessively covered minute aspects of the gender affirming care fight - chose not to cover this, or a major study finding anti trans laws increase calls to suicide hotlines, or many other stories that don't fit their agenda.

Rob Ricci@ricci.io · last mo.

The Utah legislature put a "moratorium" on trans youth healthcare while it commissioned a study. When their own study showed benefits, and little if any evidence of harms, they ... ignored it and turned the moratorium into a permanent ban, of course www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

In case nobody has posted this btw. Jpg is cruddy but alt text has the text

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

I read so many books as a kid where I didn't understand the references!! When I first read The Black Arrow, I had no what the Wars of the Roses were. When I first read Little Women, I didn't understand the references to Pilgrim's Progess.

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wrong to the point of malpractice

..... I'd burn some topless towers for her any day

SinnamonS@sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lupita on set and in motion! 🔥💃🏽

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

glaad.org

Yes! one of the main characters in my political intrigue fantasy novel has a gift for healing magic.....but she has deeeeply disappointed her healer mother by choosing to pursue a career as a musician instead!

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QueerWritersChat Question Three: Do any of your characters have expertise or abilities related to healing? Next question at :35! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

this is a classic breakfast taco that you can get literally anywhere in Austin!! and people eat breakfast tacos at 2pm all the time. everyone involved in this NYT story should be embarrassed, this is just. incredibly silly.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 3mo ago

NYT story about the supposed “controversy” around Talarico ordering a potato, egg and cheese breakfast taco has an Austin dateline but includes this EXTREMELY convoluted and fake take that a potato, egg and cheese taco is somehow “middle of the road” LIKE TALARICO???

Stoppe callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "shitty plagiarism hellmouths" calmatters.org/environment/...

Data centers are guzzling California’s water. We have no idea how much.

A new report warns that data center buildout is encroaching on California’s most vulnerable, water-stressed communities. The problem is, no one’s saying how much water they use

calmatters.org

Community, labor, and religious leaders just held a press conference in front of one of Delta’s corporate offices in Bloomington, MN. We’re asking Delta to: * Sign the Businesses for Democracy Pledge * Use their lobbying muscle for good * Establish a process to fly released detainees home to MN

I'd be on board with, like, an opera adaptation of the story of Turin. Beren & Luthien would be terrific as a ballet. But yeah, the Silmarillion does not want to be a movie, or even a series of movies. Could we please just not.

Mariah McCourt@monsterteatime.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Look, I love The Silmarillion but no. You really can't adapt it to film without making massive changes because it wasn't written in any way to be filmed. There's virtually no dialog. It's both biblical and like an oral fireside epic.

Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina, Matthias, and Wylan.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

this book is incredible!! just finished it yesterday and it's an absolute gift. wonderfully complicated characters, a stunningly weird and lovely setting, and a really thoughtful exploration of different cultures in (often uneasy) conversation. one of the best books of the year, easily

Roseanna Pendlebury@chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Book post! I’m excited about this one.

MenGenuises

Mr Dr Bae@dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Taylor Fast

all of this has happened before all of this will happen again

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s racist to hate your toaster now

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 3mo ago

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

this is stunning!!

Tim Osborne Photography 🍁@timosborne.ca · 3mo ago

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

I have been sharing the Magic 8 Ball analogy for a while now, but I think this is maybe the first time it's made it to print: >>

#nowquerying A SONG AGAINST RUIN (113k words), adult fantasy. When an ambitious musician and her best friend try to secure fame and status by aligning with rival noble houses in a deadly political conflict, they don't realize that one's success could cost the other's life. #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Helen Wiley@helenwiley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A new #AgentsGuide to A SONG AGAINST RUIN, a queer adult fantasy perfect for fans of Swordspoint, C. L. Polk, and scheming sapphics. Querying now! #amquerying #fantasy #LGBT

Lor plans to dazzle society with her virtuosic music skills—and win back Veren, the noblewoman who broke her heart. But Lor doesn't know that Veren is conspiring to rule the city. Or that Lor's best friend is a spy for Veren's enemies. SWORDSPOINT x THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oh wow really