Monstrous Regimen

Look I just wanna make a cottage court with my friends someplace, is that really such an unreasonable desire?

Brand logo for an ice cream sandwich by the SF Bay Area company “IT’S IT”

I’m not an it/its person and sometimes I regret that because then I can’t make use of this absolutely stellar local brand:

With that said, it might be kind of awkward (and a sadly accurate metaphor) to take something about supporting trans people, strip out the context, and use it in a way that lets you avoid having to support trans people.

For any politician facing them, there are two ways of handling these attacks: by promising to care less about trans people or by promising to care more about everyone. If you are not responsive to the needs and interests of a broad coalition of working people, you can be more easily caricatured as dedicated to the interests of some nefarious (and often racialized) other. But if you do have a compelling vision for how to improve all people’s lives, the fact that not all of those people are the same carries less weight. It is true that many Americans would rather starve than share a table with someone they view as less deserving or too deviant from their own experience. But it’s especially true if all that’s on the menu is scraps.

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Screenshot of Reductress post. Jake tapper sitting next to Hakeem Jeffries Text reads: Establishment Democrats Just Not Sure if Mamdani Went About Decisive, Crushing Victory the Right Way @reductress Reductress*

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.

Former vice president Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. His legacy will far outlive him as the man responsible for wars that have killed and displaced millions abroad; and who worked diligently to lay the groundwork for fascist authoritarianism in the U.S.

NYT headline tomorrow:
"Zohran Mamdani's landslide victory is an insult to the Democratic Party's longstanding commitment to being useless, believing in nothing, and losing, and he must be expelled from the party"

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

If the world did not have Americans, you would need to invent them.

Every single time one of the people I follow talks about their experience being even slightly famous on social media, it makes me so glad for my obscurity.

Visibility is not always a blessing.

i am very exhausted by disinformation about the cost of transition healthcare. it costs less than $100 for 1-2 years of hormones, depending on your exact sourcing. presenting HRT as impossibly expensive and inaccessible to people who need HRT but don't know how is equivalent to medical gatekeeping.

my theory of transness and queerdom does not view the closet as anything but an extremely negative space you're forced into, and some people get really really really upset that said theory doesn't center them, and the only thing i have to say about that is: come out or shut the fuck up

your choice to remain trapped does not give you permission to dictate the terms of other people who took the leap of faith into coming out. your pain is not a hall pass to tell people who are out what to do and how to do it and how to talk about themselves and each other. simple as.

see u later, epilator / in a while, autogynephile

A pumpkin carved with a human shaped opening, and then the guy from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito has been cut out with a text bubble saying “it was made for me!” And attacked to the pumpkin so it recreates the scene from the manga where the guy is climbing into the human shaped hole in a cliff side except now it’s a human shaped hole in a pumpkin.

The ruling class has had 20 years to come up with something better than “buy less avocado toast” to explain why you can’t afford a house. And they’ve opted to just play the old hits.

Depends on if you’ve read (kimmy)

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Insta serves me basically:
1) work clothing, like work gloves and insulated hats and
2) very sexy lingerie.

They’re not wrong, either

left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism?

right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables

Sexy PGE San Bruno Explosion, oof

Edited far side cartoon. A cow wearing a jeweled crown and necklaces stands behind a table with an angle grinder and 3 other crude lumpy tools. In the background is a corner of The Louvre with a vehicle-mounted ladder extended up to a second floor balcony. Caption reads, "Louvre tools."

the plan lacked something in sophistication, you say?

Have you considered sucking the farts out of my asshole?

Oh my GOD.

Brown Betty with a Bosc
Bramble jam
Bartletts got soft
Bramble jam

if you're trans you have to stay alive. i do make the rules

Spider-Man float eating Uncle Sam floats ass like it was aunt May’s special 4th of July 3 bean casserole

Every parade has the right to exist