Stacey Winn

I am so serious when I say that there is a direct line to be drawn between Evangelism having no meaningful concept of the future save death and American conservatives having zero awareness of or interest in the future consequences of their actions

It's ok to not feel ok.
It's ok if your antlers haven't grown in yet.
It's ok if you can't shape-shift into a raven.
It's ok if you haven't haunted the night for a while.
I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW:
Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

YouTube video by Chris Willman The Chicks and Brandi Carlile sing 'Not Ready to Make Nice'

The Dixie Chicks deserve an apology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2bn...

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

It is, in fact, exactly like this. The pivot to demonizing trans people began promptly in 2015 as soon as they lost the fight against gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. The specious arguments against trans people now are directly reused from those against gay/lesbian people in the 90's.

After i finished I was pretty sure I would never read a book again. Just stare into the middle distance and cry.

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*

A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.

Please buy books that are coming out this year.

Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

A Year of Reading, Transly Like many onlookers in the wake of Trump's election last year, I've consistently wrestled with feelings of despair and doom. As a writer, a cultural studies sch

It's not beautiful visually, but here's my article reflecting on a year of reading trans, two-spirit, nonbinary, & gender nonconforming-authored works!

It includes descriptions of each book or story to help you find something you might enjoy

beforewegoblog.com/a-year-of-re...

#transbooks #booksky

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I say this with love: no.

Every person who doubts the atrocity should witness, so they understand.

There is no need to watch if you read a description of the atrocity, register its moral significance, and commit yourself to speaking out against these horrors.

pointing at the hamburger menu icon in the top left hand corner of a mobile bluesky app screen

settings menu option circled

content and media menu option circled

autoplay videos and gifs toggled off

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app

select the icon in the top left corner

go to settings

go to content and media

make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

One thing I love is that Strega Nona and Baba Yaga roughly translate to the same name but one of them will make you a big meal and the other one will make you the big meal.

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

🍞+🌹🌹🌹

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves

I’m howling.

It was, for Oates, a small killing. JCO is a remarkable creature: a literary author who, having shed her former skin as a regular contributor to the New Yorker, found her true calling in her eighth decade of life as the most extraordinary shitposter who has ever lived. She is a born predator: she quote-tweets, she annihilates, and she moves on. She kills without malice or anger, but only because it is her nature, like the lion sweeping down the savannah upon the doomed gazelle in her path. She is the most savage trash talker since Gore Vidal. She awes me.

Not just fine prose but sanity, human perspectives, and humor; @flaminghydra.com is the best $3/month you can spend.

From yesterday's post about Musk and Epstein, from @zachrabiroff.com

flaminghydra.com/issue-445/

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:

Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's

The newest edition of The Onion featuring the headline Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled Don and Jeff: Time Pedophiles

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

The real banger in this is the coinage of the term "epistemia," for something that has the surface appearance of knowledgeability & plausibility but no actual verification or expertise. Gonna get a lot of use, connecting the dots between bullshit, technochauvinism, & epistemic/hermeneutic injustice.

‘Sinners’ Production Designer Hannah Beachler on Weaving in Folklore, History and Spirituality Into Her Sets "Sinners" production designer Hannah Beachler on weaving history and folklore into the film's sets.

“‘Sinners’ Production Designer Hannah Beachler on Weaving in Folklore, History and Spirituality Into Her Sets” variety.com/2025/artisan...

I do think it's terribly funny in a post-ironic sense that the viewer managed to, accidentally, self-insert themselves into the work and experience the themes firsthand. you couldn't pay for that level of metatextual immersion in a semiotics course

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings and the late yellow petals of the mullein fluttering on the stalks that lean over their broken shadows across the cracked ground but they all know that you have come the seed heads of the sage the whispering birds with nowhere to hide you to keep you for later you who fly with them you who are neither before nor after you who arrive with blue plums that have fallen through the night perfect in the dew

you who are neither before nor after
you who arrive with blue plums
that have fallen through the night
perfect in the dew

-W.S. Merwin, To the Light of September"
#everynightapoem sharing Merwin on his birthday

A greenish yellow milkweed, with pods bursting open and fluff floating through the air and grass.

It’s the time of year when milkweed seeds blow everywhere. We started with two milkweed plants. Now we have over a dozen.