Beth Boyle Machlan

Texas A&M helped me thrive as a transgender person. Now, it's complicated. A mostly good college experience is hard to square with the school that exists now.

back from my socials sabbatical because for the past few weeks i've been trying to put down words about how it feels to be trans and see what's been happening at my alma mater, texas a&m university.

on being trans, texan, and loving things that can't love you back: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

“Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Nigga, this is a not an apartment building and I am not the super. Why are you talking to us like this??????

I've had a theory for a while now that Trump thinks the Ayatollah is the same one as in 1979 and that's why he's been so impossible to dissuade from this plan. It's like how he's constantly living mentally in the 80s about everything culturally.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Emergency protests against war on Iran in cities across U.S. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

There's an emergency "Stop the War in Iran" protest kicking off in NYC at 2 pm at Times Square. www.answercoalition.org/iran/ - I'm going to head out. I've also included the list of other protests across the country.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

As an aside, Melania Trump will be presiding over Monday’s security council meeting, no doubt to offer us her learned legal perspective on Iranian civilian casualties. She couldn’t actually do worse than Mike Waltz, who made no effort to justify Maduro’s abduction under international law last month

This seems like a bad time to have all the FBI's anti-terrorism guys out helping ICE chase undocumented grandmas.

Welp,Barron is the perfect age to enlist.

He wants to send "American heroes" to die in a stupid war? Then his family should be first in line to serve in it.

Times like these I’m so glad Merrick Garland stuck to “norms” & refused to prosecute Trump for his many crimes. Because yes—while we are facing the very real threat of global nuclear war—at least we don’t have the shame of a former president sitting in prison. Boy would that’ve been embarrassing.

"If you piss people off, they will criticize you" is the kind of insight you only glean from writing for more than a decade

If you’re bored at work, may I suggest pouring a full glass of water into your hard drive?

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

“I thought I knew what getting yelled at by random men on the internet was; what did I know?”

It is a good time to start showing up for women's sports and your local gender inclusive sporting events.

Show up, be kind, look out for one another, and actively contribute to the community that cares about you like you care about it. ❤️

Oh, I knew I was wading into a cesspool. I just forgot how predictable and entitled a cesspool it was. Somehow.

“THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

(And @kpower90.bsky.social ) I was mocking the guy who didn’t understand the podcast name and this happened:

I think it’s ALL Team USA’s burner?

I wandered back over to Not-Twitter for the hockey discourse and am now being lectured by a man about why he is Not Wrong while also reassuring me that he is Not Mad, as long as I acknowledge that he is Not Wrong, and I mean that place is MUCH WORSE, right?

went to the store

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Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

How Rev. Jesse Jackson Understood Sports & a Winter Olympics Round-up Podcast Episode · Edge of Sports · February 25 · 58m

Thanks to @edgeofsports.bsky.social for having me on his podcast to wrap up the Winter Olympics and talk about the Games from a queer & anti-oppression lens. Always great to get to chat with Dave.

Obviously his life has been ruined

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Question: I'm looking for examples, if you can think of them, of novels/films/TV in which Covid simply never happened. Specifically: a narrative either dated post-2020 or set in a recognizable "present day," in which not only is no mention made of the pandemic...

NYU Professors Vote to Strike After Bosses Stonewall for Months - The American Prospect The decision by Contract Faculty United at New York University comes as more workers walked off the job in 2025 to win higher pay, stronger benefits, and other gains.

"An overwhelming majority of New York University contract professors voted to strike, after more than a year of waiting for administrators to finish bargaining a first contract in good faith."

📰 prospect.org/2026/02/25/n...

Brand new to being forced to use ChatGPT; loving the way it lies or contradicts itself and when you flag it and it responds with something like "Good point, you're right to call me out on that!"

This is the revolution? A simulation of a psychotic person trying to kill me? Is everyone insane?

Supreme Court Says You Can’t File Tort Suits Against Postal Carriers Who Won’t Deliver Mail to Black People According to Clarence Thomas, mail that your mail carrier steals from you is really just “lost,” if you think about it.

You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

If you have parents, adult children, or a spouse who you think can't be trusted to handle your end of life care, please please please make a power of attorney for health care that names someone you trust. It's fine if that's an unrelated friend or a grandchild!