Bee C.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

despite all the fear mongering about trans people and the attempts to abandon and actively harm us from both political parties in the US, transitioning is still the greatest decision i’ve ever made, only regret i have is not doing it younger, and that it has only made my life infinitely better

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

So stay with me here, but fun ballet fact: part of the reason you're supposed to start ballet young is so you stretch & hold your joint in certain ways regularly enough that your body grows different. You know how men who do ballet look only sort of muscular but then like lift a whole ass person? Their muscles are trained to lie flat like that for flexibility, they don't bulk up. Girl in your class who always stands in turnout? It's likely not just habit, her joints probably sit like that now. I started ballet when I was six & stopped after three years. I then took a break for three years, & came back & did jazz ballet (which has most of the same body mods but without turnout) & tap for another couple of years. & every physio who works on my body looks at my feet, hips and calves & goes "oh you danced". I was never even flexible enough to do the splits, but you best believe I stand in turnout. I never went en pointe, but I'm 95% sure tap is the reason my feet have random spasms if I don't take to them with a tennis ball once a week. When I said I wanted to be a dancer at six years old, adults took that to mean I'd want certain permanent alterations to my body. Unlike with young trans kids, no one was looking to make sure I fully understood what I was getting into. & unlike with young trans kids, these changes were not reversible when I changed my mind. There wasn't even a way to delay things to buy time (like puberty blockers), it was all or nothing. If I wanted to be a professional dancer, my normal ass joints were a ticking timebomb. So like ~cis opinion~, but I really don't have a lot of time for people getting feral about trans kids socially transitioning or going on blockers or even (when they're old enough for it be relevant) hrt. Me "identifying" as a dancer at six years old was more physically impactful and less informed than if a six year old changed their name & grew their hair, but you don't see any of the adults in my life getting accused of child abuse.

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The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021.

The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.

If the Supreme Court just calls balls and strikes yesterday’s oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act was as if Louisiana threw a wild pitch into the stands and the conservative Justices called it a strike and the liberal Justices said you’ve got to be kidding

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Sometimes Catholics really do go hard, still

I absolutely love the fact they've Pokemon-ised the museum staff, for the upcoming Pokémon partnership with the Field Museum. Museums, take note.

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

Screenshot of court order, which reads in part: “A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon.

That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

I am in AWE! Please give this wonderful artist a follow. She drew Sandry straight from my heart.

Text: The characters of Circle of Magic Characters pictured, from left to Right: -Briar, a boy with tanned skin & short curly hair. His pants are smudged with dirt from working in the garden with his teacher, Rosethorn -Tris, a chubby girl with pale skin, glasses, and a lion's mane of red hair. She's wearing a hand-me-down blue dress and carrying a thick book -Daja, a dark skinned girl wearing her hair in a number of short braids. She is carrying a wooden staff capped with bronze, and is wearing all red— a symbol of mourning in trader culture. -Sandry, a pale skinned girl wearing her blonde hair in two braids. She is also in mourning, wearing all black.

The sketches got the ball rolling in my brain, I'm gonna be drawing scenes from Circle of Magic as a personal project! (Similar to my junior thesis at SVA.)

To that end, I wanted to put together some character introductions to refer back to as this goes on.
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Catholic politics run sideways to a lot of contemporary US political divides -- i've always thought a Christian Democrat party could do numbers in this country

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open"

That's it. That's the whole story.

i'll say again, the most remarkable thing about the US is that it took us this long for someone to act like Trump while President

closest before was Jackson, about 200 years ago

Among other things, we often contrast in Greek military thought between the personal-excellence 'Achilles' ethos and the clever-tactics 'Odysseus' ethos.

Whereas Pete Hegseth recalls the Ajax-the-Lesser ethos of being forgettably bland and unimpressive except for doing a bunch of sexual assault.

it’s a question beyond the ability of the writers of that piece but “what happens to ‘anti-government extremists’ when people at the highest levels of government share their politics” is a question we urgently need to deal with

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I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with:

1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.

2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.

3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Temple Grandin (first famous autistic person who came to mind) is 78. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism | NEJM It has been suggested that vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is a cause of autism. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1991 th...

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best.

This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

It's a freefall like Covid but the markets haven't noticed yet.

I think my most annoying autistic trait is having been unable to figure out for my entire life whether a request I need to make is going to be considered reasonable or unreasonable by neurotypical people and as a result of that learning to be unreasonably self sufficient and masking my needs.

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.