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I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterday

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

A label has been created for your package Your package has shipped Your package is out for delivery Your package is never going to feel as good as smoking cigarettes did when you were 26, almost 27, when you still felt invincible Your package attempted delivery but no one was there to sign for it

in my experience a large number of non-fascists love to support trans rights but in their mind “supporting trans rights” is just… inviting a trans girl to their girls-only brunch. If you ask them to change their spending/voting habits or their (incorrect) beliefs about biology, that’s too radical

frankly quite impossible for me to get excited about the WPBL when mainstream sports publications are once again falling over themselves to give a “I just want to protect the little girls” bigot a platform

Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.

the good: five interviews this week the bad: if I get one of these jobs it'd be a 20-minute commute, a 40-minute commute, a 45-minute commute, a 55-minute commute, or a move three states away

Don't just share the most polished, professional works. Repost the people who are just starting, who are amateur, who maybe don't have the proportions or the anatomy or the color down. Remember they're choosing to pick up a pencil and enjoy the act of creating, many of them for the first time.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

This anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, remember that many people with disabilities are paid below minimum wage and many can’t get married because they risk losing their SSI benefits. SSI recipients cannot have more than $2,000 in their bank account.

People usually take on fragments of a local accent after living somewhere long enough. (I've got one or two stray Chicago vowels after my three stints in the Midwest.) I hope Curtis Mead plays in Boston for 10 years so we can study him for science.

baseball historical data: we at retrosheet have found that on august 2nd, 1911, bricky sticks did not in fact advance to third on a fielder's choice. we regret the error nfl historical data: in 2023 a center snapped the ball to himself and scored a -109 yard field goal. what a play by [NULL]

another day working at the staff cafeteria at NERV. everyone is gossiping about how downstairs some guy was trying to get his son to fuck his motherwifedaughter or whatever. all i know is that tomorrow is lasagna friday and something huge stepped on all the cows in the area so there's no cheese.

nobody wants to talk about the REAL problem with being trans: being forced to learn about Seattle parochial politics even though I‘ve never been there and live three time zones away