I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

Happy Skyscraper Day! (architects dressed as their NYC buildings, 1931)

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

smartphones have never ascended to this level of technological achievement (sound on)

Now that many people are buying my 2017 metrical verse translation of the Odyssey in great numbers (thank you, Mr Nolan!), or at least, gazing at it and wondering whether to buy it, I thought I should share some thoughts on the cover design.

im like 70% sure of my birth time but wow this is such a restrained colour palette lmao

JP 🪼🫧@zstraps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

wait, nope, had my birth time wrong. it’s even more fiery

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

(stede bonnet voice) do we think it’s fine that i just sent a sext in morse code or does something need to be done about that

i’m experiencing the horrors (person i’m seeing keeps replying earnestly to my attempts to starts bits in the text thread)

Finally getting around to Deadloch season 2, Eddie remains the greatest televised gremlin.

tmi but shout out to the universe for sending me the perfect heatwave gift: a short king union organiser that wants to be pushed around that CRUCIALLY lives in a flat that is about 10°C cooler than the outdoor temp 🙏🤲☃️

im slowly resurfacing from 5 months of truly stupid work scheduling (self-inflicted) and I MISS PIRATE FRIENDS so if u would care to share... i would love to know a thing that made you smile this week my pick: returning to my bike at 1am + catching two snike thieves [snail bike thieves] red-handed

This is such a beautiful piece. And so many times I was the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing meme while reading it

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...

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just started week 4 of The Big Five-Week Work Project and man.... I really gotta start planning ahead but ALSO giving less of a fuck somehow bc this combo of winging it whilst trying to cover for the fact that I'm missing a key collaborator... is not working

well I guess they're not gonna leave me alone, so enjoy some new old friends for #OFMDMerMay (I have not gotten any better at houseboats in the last 2 years) read Again or for the First Time: archiveofourown.org/works/57622447 #OFMD #OFMDfanart #OFMDfic

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨@gaywatson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

tried to do some sketching tonight and whomst should appear but this happy, soggy boy🧜 #OFMD #OFMDfanart #mermay

LIFE IS WORTH LIVING

地獄へようこそ。お出口は左側です@smolizzyhands.bsky.social · 4mo ago

good morning youtu.be/auJBwZycR80?...

This is the one that got me recently

can confirm that the retail park puregym will indeed save me! i love the gym!!!!!! ft. my tried and tru process: 1) panic that idk where anything is 2) fake a phone call so i can lean + look 3) remember im a cool boy that doesnt care!!! 4) finally spot the freeweights. phew! everything will b ok

el 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@loopslip00.bsky.social · 4mo ago

working away for 5 weeks and I'm determined not to Go Fully Mad. save me one-month membership to the retail park puregym........................

not to big myself up too much but it is one of the pleasures of my life that I seem to be really pretty good at creating a supportive culture at work + making my colleagues / collaborators laugh. I cracked jokes all day + we still got so much done! 🥰 (+ the vibes are so goofy + nice even at 4.10pm!)

working away for 5 weeks and I'm determined not to Go Fully Mad. save me one-month membership to the retail park puregym........................

obsessed with the head technician im currently collaborating with (dude, mid 50s) who keeps replying to all of my very formal work emails with "🫶" anyway. ed teach

fucked up that i (guy incapable of letting myself need or want anything) am also a vegetarian with a bunch of random allergies so every party / meal / stay with someone becomes a goddamn therapeutic exercise

ofmd no longer on bbc iplayer (boooo) but bc it's hbo it is now on nowtv (yayyy) merry sunday to us all

A message from @immcouncil.org to all of you, our #fandommarket team:

It's important to have the data on how harmful this was to help us fight the ways they might sneak in things like it eg similar measures against trans folks

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people - which specified that Local Authorities could not intentionally promote, through material or teaching, homosexuality or same-sex relationships as a 'pretended family relationship’ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule

niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 5mo ago

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

too busy fighting with the hosts of the lesbian pub quiz about unjust apportioning of points to notice i was maybe being hit on: the el loopslip story

im exhibiting normal not at all trans masc behavior (watching videos of dudes reviewing the whitesville quali-t shirt)