THE PRISONER is a spiritual sequel to those YA books people used to write about teens with wings or superpowers or whatever being tormented in labs. real catnip for sadists who want plausible deniability

a group of my colleagues came over with food and wine... my job is good, actually

we do not have room for these perfect creatures, but maybe you (Bay Area followers) do???

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · yesterday

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

I started quietly identifying as non-binary at about 20, but I didn’t get started on hormones until 31. this is me like four months on T. no such thing as “too late”

Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

day 24 of Knee Broken. pending a final decision on surgery from the bone surgeon, it seems like it's good news! my x-ray from today showed some matter regrowing in the fracture space, indicating healing, and minimal displacement (some displacement is basically guaranteed)

New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome

literally just yesterday an off-duty nurse helped me crutch up onto the sidewalk from the road. also a total stranger who just happened to be walking by opened my car door for me. i am sure this is not a universal experience but people have been very solicitous while my knee has been broken

☀️@stel.energy · 5d ago

quote this with a time a bystander helped you out

today a cleaner came (to compensate for my total inability to do chores right now) and Roxy HATED it. when the vacuum cleaner came on she bolted into the room where I was, tucked herself onto the kitchen counter beside the fridge, and did a proper, deep-in-the-chest cry of feline sorrow

day 21 of Knee Broken. having gone outside twice yesterday I am sore and exhausted today. nervous about seeing orthopaedics on Monday, irritable at having been reminded of my limitations. morale not great, though leavened by this diva over here

other things I did yesterday

last night I finished VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER by Ned Beauman, simultaneously a harrowing near-future thriller-y romp and a brutal climate-fiction satire on the theme of carbon credits. bleak, funny, appropriately down on the concept of England. recommend!

st vincent at the sf symphony (with orchestra!) was off the hook. just a phenomenal musician and performer. i don't think i have ever seen anyone play the guitar like that? absolutely worth the stress of getting there while functionally disabled

uncommon Waverly win: successfully got to a medical appointment totally unrelated to Knee Broken, have so far only needed to ask two strangers for help (holding a door; assisting me in crutching up onto the sidewalk from the street)

Ben was my mentor at the Lambda writers’ retreat in 2019 and he was a sweet, gracious, incredibly insightful man. I’m so sorry he’s gone; I’ll always remember chatting to him on the bus home from karaoke, feeling weird and liminal in a way I think he would have enjoyed writing about.

Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · last wk.

i am honestly distraught "To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing." RIP to one of the greats.

day 19 of Knee Broken. Isaac has started showing me THE PRISONER now that we are out of vampire show, and i am captivated. it's a rare show that can convince me that something i know (from a doylist perspective) is not going to happen MIGHT be happening, actually – feels exciting, feels cool

*standing up on the plane* okay i'm gonna read "america" by allen ginsberg. don't worry i'm not gonna do the n word part. okay. america i've given you all and now i'm nothing. america two dollars and twentyseven cents january 17, 1956. i can't stand my own mind. america when will we end the hu

it’s been a minute since anything injured my faith in, I don’t know, the human capacity for literacy? as hard as the response to Wilson’s extremely thoughtful and smart piece of criticism

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”

day 17 of Knee Broken. worked out remotely with my personal trainer this morning, upper body stuff only, and now my whole body is sapped. morale whatever; feeling sad about writing out of nowhere lmao. friend coming over later with takeout though which will be lovely

me in sunglasses on the way to pride this year

pyra is so tired and cranky@pyracantha.bsky.social · last wk.

Quote a pic of you in sunglasses 😎 almost 3 years to the DAY. why do i look like i'm dying of heat stroke? this is what seeing Fall Out Boy with your kid for his birthday looks when it's outdoors in Atlanta in July. hat tip to Crowley for letting me borrow the sunglasses 😉

day 15 of Knee Broken. today I’m really sleepy and disinclined to do much. that said, my crutch pads came and while not perfect, they do help. morale middling, Roxy still cute

caturday! one of the things I call Roxy sometimes is “little butt” and lo, here it is

Day 14 of Knee Broken. today’s big news is that Roxy has her little head resting on my good leg. really important stuff. morale good due to Roxy and her ways

day 13 of Knee Broken. have to admit, the novelty of Knee Broken is wearing a little thin as we approach the two-week mark. that said, i've moved up a difficulty level in civ 7 and i did SO much solid work catch-up today, so it is not all bad. also roxy's currently bathing on the bed with me.

laughs in "I went back to England and they told me I sound American, which made me feel obscurely sad"

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

day 12 of Knee Broken. wishing I'd gotten a haircut before all this happened. having to play a depressing amount of catch-up on work missed last week. morale kind of mid, honestly, though I did successfully get out of the shower unaided this morning, which was cool.

all right, yes, the gender-affirming care posts were very irritating to me; but this? this is, dare i say it, "valid"

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

BREAKING: Federal judge questions Hegseth's "High-T" military plan in light of Trump's anti-trans ban. Judge Ana Reyes wants to know "the Department’s basis for treating trans men and other service members differently." New, at Law Dork:

i laughed so hard it hurt when bender said "he's pending for a bending" one time. not really sure why! maybe because it rhymed

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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