I did not expect this morning to include a visit from our downstairs neighbor's plumbers to take out the toilet and part of the wall of our only bathroom, but here we are. Happy Monday, everyone. @loveandcrossbones.org and I are having just a great, great time.

If you, like me, have a sore throat that is so bad it's keeping you from eating solid foods, go get a strep test. Seriously. I waited 7 days to find out I had strep and the nurse practitioner at urgent care felt sorry for me because my throat looked so inflamed. Don't wait till an NP pities you!

It's here! It's here! My solo dance show film A Singular They can now be rented on demand, from anywhere, by anyone (you??!). Come with me through the fluid embodiments that hold my core self. Audience feedback includes things like "gorgeous", "intimate", and "accessible" 💜💛🖤♿ tobymacnutt.vhx.tv

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60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:

The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor

Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site

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if that stupid as fuck terf t-shirt was ACTUALLY* biologically accurate * don't get me started on XX/XY mosaicism, Swyer syndrome, de la Chapelle syndrome and more, we only get the one t-shirt

This is hilarious, tbh. The Third Way folks have clearly never been to a DSA meeting. The "dirt" is that it takes forever to organize anything and half of the electoral committee members don't believe in electoral politics so endorsements take months

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3w ago

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

This is my 6th primary cycle as a campaign manager in VT and this work has aged me more than anything else I do

You know, historically it always goes really well for rulers when they intentionally starve their people...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

My housing plan for VT is that every house that sells for $750K or more gets a $50K tax that goes into a housing fund. 25% of that fund creates supportive housing and pays support staff livable wage salaries. 25% creates non-congregate homes for folks moving out of homelessness. (1/2)

Who is responsible for what in Vermont’s government? Here’s a guide for Vermonters preparing to vote. 🗳️

Who is responsible for what in Vermont’s government? Here’s a guide for Vermonters preparing to vote. - VTDigger

As voters prepare to fill elected positions for the next two years, VTDigger has summed up the primary responsibilities of each.

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Fannie Lou Hamer. The police brutality that disabled her during her civil rights activism highlights the importance of police brutality as a disability rights issue.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last mo.

In honor of #ADA36, who is a person with a disability in history most people don’t know but should?

We had a good streak going there, but now we're back to 1

Every candidate I know and all of us who work on political campaigns are very, very ready for the primary to be done. We're not even able to take in the realities of what the general will be like. This cycle has been brutal.

I grew up with the saying "red sky at night, sailors' delight/red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" but no one said anything about an unnatural peach colored wildfire haze that looks like it's signaling armageddon. Rude, frankly

Scars

Since a whole bunch of people are all of sudden very sympathetic to vets with PTSD, sexual trauma while serving in the military is 4 times more likely to cause PTSD than combat, just fyi

Dr. Fred Fay was an activist, psychologist, and computer programmer who was essential in developing assistive technology that helped people with disabilities access the world around them. As a leader in the Independent Living Movement, Dr. Fred Fay helped advance disability rights legislation.

I'm here for a political purity test that includes having comiitted rape as a disqualification for elected office.

Half my feed is swearing about the world cup the other half is swearing about Planter and it's not easy to tell which is which...

I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.

I hope the people who set some serious fireworks off from 10pm till after midnight last night (in this densely populated neighborhood with a bunch of refugees living here) are itchy and inflamed for a month straight

A dragonfly hanging out in the shade on a very, very sunny day in my backyard, possibly a meadowhawk considering I have them in my yard every year...

REJOICE FOR BEST COMPETITION OF THE YEAR NOMINATE YOUR BUGS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nominate your invertebrate of the year

We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition

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Finding an outfit for an August wedding that 1) won't cause heat stroke and 2) won't cause gender ick feelings, and 3) is affordable has turned out to be a boss fight level challenge

In my 20s/30s pre-gaming for a pride party included lots of alcohol and fussing over my heavy eye liner. Now in my late 40s it involves making sure I take a Claritin an hour before I leave, packing bug spray, and using my wife's eyeliner to write my pronouns on my arm so I can just point if asked

If you, like me, have an absolute garbage human as a father who is still has a starring role in your nightmares well into your adulthood, I imagine you too may not be having a great day. Fuck father's day. Go eat some cake. Engage in frivolous fun. Find your joy. You are doing great, I promise.

Today is an excellent day to learn about the Sew Their Names quilt project out of rural Alabama that has included the names of enslaved church members embroidered into fabric by current church members and worked into quilts by quilt artists - www.hopewellproject.net/sew-their-na...

An excellent thread for those of you who are pitching your books to indie bookstores -

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy Sunday! Here is a thread for writers about approaching indie bookstores for readings, signings, and finding out whether they want to stock your book. I already posted this as a reel over on Instagram, if you're a video person, but here's the text-friendly version.

Lewis is my velcro cat who loses his mind when he can't see me or be close to me. I was not paying enough attention to him this morning while desperately trying to get work done so my 20 lb dude decided to shove himself into a space on my desk he does not fit in so I could not ignore him