Stacey

I’m so sorry about that. I feel like the trans and gender-expansive singers that I have sung with are really contributing to the community, and making the singing better. I hope you’re able to make more connections with people who want to sing with you. They’re out there.

Somewhere in my 50s for me - but I still don’t feel like an adult all the time.

No kings. Sacramento CA.

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

"Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control." -Roxane Gay. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

How To Be A Resilient Writer First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it’s about a witch named Jamie who decides to...

"...that there is such a thing as a “through” - that eventually, we’ll come out the other end. And I'm no longer quite so sure that is the case. Instead, I think we need to talk about the long haul. The wandering in the wilderness without a clear endpoint in sight."

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

It's kind of refreshing to have somebody come out and say it:

"... But that ain’t why “we” lost. It’s time for this country to reckon with the real reason America lost with one indisputable fact:
More people wanted Donald Trump as president."

open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...

#shapenote #sacredharp #shapenotefriends
All day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, in northern Wisconsin, on Saturday June 7. All all welcome, details on Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/share/19ZLec...

Happy Easter.

How Could the Scientists Bringing the Dire Wolf Back From Extinction Mess This Part Up? Come on, do you even know your Game of Thrones lore?

The tyranny of gender and a direwolf called Khaleesi: they couldn't call it "Ghost" because IT'S A GIRL DIREWOLF.

slate.com/life/2025/04...

Yes, there are certainly other atheists at Sacred Harp singings already. Having some kind of emotional connection to the songs is helpful (like nostalgia for singing in church when you were growing up), but you can also find meaning in the words even if it's not exactly what you believe.

A butterly with stripes of blue, pink and white on its wings (like the transgender flag): International Transgender day of Visibility.

For Trans Day of Visibility I became a paid subscriber to @assignedmedia.org.

I once could mourn o'er dying men, and longed their souls to win
I travailed for their poor children, and warned them of their sin
But now my heart's so careless grown, although they're drowned in vice
My bowels o'er them cease to yearn, my tears have left mine eyes.
(2012 Cooper Book, #67, verse 4)

Current mood: My tears have left mine eyes.
#shapenotefriends

There's no exit ramp from a shutdown, but there's also no exit ramp from going along with each successively more terrible thing that the Republicans do, because it could be even worse.

I said I know a shutdown is going to be awful, and possibly give Trump more power to wreck things -- BUT THEY'RE DOING IT ANYWAY. Isn't it better if they have to do it without support from Democratic senators?

I failed to save a copy of what I wrote, and it vanishes as soon as you submit through the email form. I'm sure it was very eloquent (just kidding).

Minnesotans: It sounds like Amy Klobuchar may be voting with Republicans and Schumer to support the continuing resolution. DC and Mpls offices lines were busy, but the Rochester office line was taking messages: 507-288-5321.
Email: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...

It's almost like obeying in advance doesn't work, won't keep you safe, and only emboldens totalitarians to be worse!

I have quite a lot of days where I don't buy anything, so this is not going to be too difficult. It seems worth a shot. And yes, it's nice to have a good visual.

What Kind of Person to Be In an Age of Collapse I’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. Our job is to give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the issues that matte...

"You have to be the adult in the room now.
...
Which is scary as hell."

Umair goes long, I usually sort of skim through. But I generally agree with him.

(Being a camp counselor is a good way to work on being the adult in the room. That's how I learned it.)

www.theissue.io/what-kind-of...

I signed up to become a monthly donor to www.familytreeclinic.org, a clinic in my neighborhood that provides gender-affirming and reproductive care and education.

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

Liking this book! I love @annaleen.bsky.social's fiction - but I don't read much nonfiction, and propaganda didn't sound interesting to me. But I'm very interested in stories, and maybe this helps me figure out why so many people are believing the wrong stories now. bookshop.org/p/books/stor...

Image from the movie Mad Max: the Road Warrior, a bunch of vehicles racing across the desert.

Image from Mad Max: The Road Warrior. Some of the good guys, in front of an abandoned refinery, maybe?

What this week is like: It feels like they're trying to get us into full Mad Max dystopia, as fast as possible. (Images from The Road Warrior -- I wasn't brave enough to watch the new ones.)

Screen shot of an email from a health clinic saying "We will not comply with an unlawful order to discriminate..." and "executive actions cannot erase our existence or our commitment to one another".

What a relief to see someone saying, "we will not comply with an unlawful order to discriminate". More of that, please. Family Tree Clinic is in my neighborhood in Minneapolis, I've donated before, and just sent them another contribution.

TCM is running a marathon of Nazi movies today.
(I can't figure out how to add alt text. Screen shot of the web page for Turner Classic Movies showing part of today's schedule. 11:00 am The Mortal Storm, 1940, The Third Reich tears apart a German Family. Next up is The Great Dictator, 1941.)

The Beautiful Failure of Being a Man Trans men and cis men have more in common than you might think.

Not a short article, but I really liked it. Rigid gender roles are bad for ALL of us, no matter how privileged you are.
How can we not be appreciative of gender-expansive people, who are breaking down barriers and making things better for everyone?

drdevonprice.substack.com/p/the-beauti...

A while ago there was a post by @charliejane.bsky.social (I can't find it now) that said something like: "Don't forget, it's time to stop writing 2024 on documents, and instead draw a skull with blood coming out of its eye sockets." And this is helping me to remember to write 2025 instead of 2024.

A photo of a small crocheted object? creature? representing a garbage dumpster with flames com out of it. It has a smiling face and little feet, and little hands holding a sign that says “Emotional Support Dumpster Fire. It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine!”

Happy Boxing Day