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Project Open Arms – TRACTION A community project supporting trans+ red state refugees seeking sanctuary.

Another good trans relocation org in the Seattle area is Project Open Arms under Traction

As with KOI, they are looking for funding and volunteers, especially people willing and able to lend couches for folks

If you are fleeing Kansas or Idaho to WA state, try them

tractionpnw.org/open-arms/

If you are #trans and looking to flee to the Seattle area from Kansas, I recommend KOI, a 501c3 running out of the state of Washington that helps refugees fleeing to Seattle find temporary housing and resettle

koinitiative.org

Speedy recovery friend!

If you want confirmation it's normal, my partner is a wound care nurse. Though I'm sure you could just ask your doctor 🤣 All I can say myself is I hear horror stories and I think your situation sounds as Partner would put it - "boring" ie normal and good

Happy for you btw 💚

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees

If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me

Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

It's so fucking exhausting.

Tell me about your folk magic #writesky - I'm trying to brainstorm and would love to hear what other people are doing.

The things seem like superstition but actually have some basis of truth.

I just have protection charms made from the dropped branches of a tree associated with the Guardian.

This is an idea that has lived in my brain in various forms for a VERY long time. Some concepts have been combined and I've been finding they don't all fit together. So I've been trimming and refining the world. I know I have to clarify the foundation before I can build more.

Y'all the section of "background that might show up in flashbacks" is bigger than the part that is the actual meat of the story. 😭😭

Maybe trying to be specific with the things these parts need to *do* will help me figure out what they *are*

I'm so cooked lol rip

So for the moment, I'm refining the mess of ideas into an actual outline of sorts. Up until now all I've really had is a disjointed jumble of vague points, but if I look at it as it just being the beginning... I'm hoping it helps

Lots of "she finds foreshadowing things" tho

#writesky #amwriting

I've started to realize that I really only have act one of this idea plotted.

The questions and more specific details I have to work out are exactly the parts that will inform the rest of the story.

Y'all I'm a plotter not a pantser...

#writesky #amwiriting

Video proof this really happened!

large boulder the size of a small boulder tweet from San Miguel sheriff, dated 1/27/20

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

So I guess I'm giving up on falling back asleep.

I just love when my do not disturb gets randomly disabled and I get calls at 7:30.

Really helping that flu recovery there.

r/Seattle over on reddit is a decent spot

This one got mentioned there

Know I'm out there with you in spirit today.

Flu is keeping me sidelined tho.

Cabled Summer Halter pattern by Sian Price-White This cool summer halter is easy and quick to knit up. It is knit in the round with a cable detail, picot edges and i-cord strap. Nicely fitted it drapes over the body with enough coverage for a strapl...

I think my current knitting project is going to be slightly more complicated than I thought. Something seems wonky with the sizing.

And sadly the pattern creator passed away so I can't ask.

But it is simple enough I think I can figure it out.

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

You know, I came for video updates, but I'm actually staying for the knitting inspo.

(I do not need to add to the project pile, but here we are.)

This is deeeeply relatable

It might just be the hyper fixation talking, but looking at knitting patterns determining which certain characters would wear is my current obsession in character creation exercises.

(Also like, how many of these do *I* want for me...)

cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.

The bill passed only 216 to 214.

4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.

If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

Maaaaan replacing our media PC might quickly be becoming a now issue.

Leaving it off for 10 mins did *something* but "no bootable device" is not an error message you want to see.

i would rather not make anything ever again than use generative ai for writing a first draft or generating ideas or whatever. i would rather die basically

If I may be intentionally and rather indulgently vague -

"Do not love a Fragment. Theirs is a cursed fate" is a common, though far from universal, sentiment.

Which doesn't really answer *anything* but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ hourglass coffin.

Okay I'm several days back on this, but I figured I would still share.

This was tricky. I use a very limited set of emoji so this was an interesting thought experiment.

Alma: 🦔⚔️ 👁️‍🗨️⏳⚰️
Erid: ⛪🏮🌱 🫵 🫖

You know... I was going to complain that I was going to have to change something and invalidate what I think is a pretty cool opening line, but in typing it out I might have figured out a solution. At least for now.

So uh, thanks I guess? 😅

#writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting #rubberducking

I always have a good 75%? that I just cant engage with because first person makes me nauseous. So I only ever connect with the indie darlings and I haven't played any of this year.

I think the only *new* game was a rhythm game and it absolutely rules, but it's way too niche 😅

That's honestly a large part of the story!

But short version, taking on less work and being around people who don't think she's cursed goes a long way!