Kit Stubbs, Ph.D. (they/them)

Nonbinary assassin!!!! Need!!!

Yeah see people deserve a break and fun too. Joy is resistance. We need our cups filled.

It’s not weird. It is being human.

Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing

And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition.

Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back

What a great time to be alive for fans of existential fear and continuous rage

Saw some post somewhere earlier about people “not getting” transness or whatever

You don’t have to get it.

If you believe in bodily autonomy for all, then no one needs you to understand their personal situation to earn being seen as a person by you.

You just treat every human being as a person.

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

If you're doing overzealous things like putting an adult content label on Kate Bush or banning people for ill-wishing JK Rowling it's going to be very difficult to get people to accept there's nothing to be done about a user who announced his intent to use the platform to harass people.

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then.

A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

So, a piece of random administrative advice, for people who are trying to get their ID or financial shit together In These Times:

If you need to get something notarized and have a bank account somewhere with a physical office, they'll have a notary there and usually do it free of charge.

The only reason America wouldn’t feel fascist to you would be that you’re part of its fascism.

Butt pats, which is of course short for buttocks patricias.

Mom wins video game tournament while holding her 5-day-old baby - UPI.com A new mother is going viral after winning a video game tournament in Florida while holding her newborn just five days after giving birth via Caesarean section.

Slay you queen

A Loki Trade - a freaky friday situation between a closeted trans man and a trans woman who hasn't figured herself out yet.

Lessons in Lesbianism - a new adult romance between a shy trans girl stuck in comp het and a handsome cis butch.

My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg - a trans girl who doesn't realise she's trans falling for a cis butch personal trainer. Though there's a little alien hijinks and espionage going on.

Wait! You're A Girl? - super ground level, none of the main characters are trans, but there's some polyamory and trans secondary characters. And a little gender confusion.

Seeing other trans gals talk about how wild and spicy their books are, and how they might scare off the general public.

Um... a lot of mine are probably ground level beginner options, if you're curious but not ready to dive in the deep end.

techbros: behold we have made artificial intelligence!

bluesky: you f***ed up a perfectly good computer is what you did.

look at it. it’s got anxiety.

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

The Lavender South - Campaign for Southern Equality Navigate This Page: ➡️ Submit to the Lavender South ➡️ Why is This Project Called the Lavender South?  ➡️ Read the Lavender South The Lavender South is a project of the Campaign for Southern Equality ...

Do you identify as a LGBTQ+ Southerner in the USA?@southernequality.bsky.social 's Lavender South project wants your stories! Personal essays/poetry/artwork in any medium that responds to the prompt (see below) are welcome! If your work's selected, you get $150.
southernequality.org/the-lavender...

Revealing I Was a Teenage Death God by M.J. Beasi - Reactor M.J. Beasi's debut YA fantasy arrives March 2026

High school is hard enough without being a teenage death god (+ haunted by a vicious ghost)...

We're delighted to reveal the cover for @mjbeasi.com's debut YA novel I Was A Teenage Death God, coming March 3, 2026!

reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

Would it be okay if I shared your itch.io link for readers to follow you there so they know when the bundle is out?

Trans People Take on The World Itch Bundle Background: trans flag Text: Eligibility & Genre: At least one Main Character is trans (yes this includes nonbinary!) Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required. Your MC combatting transphobia is welcome, but not required. MC's who are incidentally trans solving murders, defending their kingdom, curing cancer, fighting a zombie apocalypse etc are very welcome. (So SFF, Thriller/ Mystery/ Crime/ Historical/ Drama etc.) Romance and NSWF involving a trans MC is welcome. Categories: Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.

November is Trans Awareness Month. But that title seems ill-fit to current politics, so I chose a better one for the Itch book bundle I'm hosting Nov 1-14.

Authors, if your MC is trans (yes including nonbinary!) and your book meets the criteria bellow, let me know and I'll DM you the sign up form!

A raptor with wings fully outstretched, view from below with a blue sky with little white puffs of clouds

Black kite (トビ) moments before attempting to steal an ice cream cone from a British woman's hand.

Kenrokuen Garden, Kanazawa #birds

OMG that absolutely sucks, I'm so sorry! :( :(

cover of THE HANDSOME PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF AUTUMN TURNS ME GAY featuring buckaroo taking off his shirt with a smile next to him is another shirtless bud with a pumpkin for a head

ladybuck in coffee shop with red hair and not wearing much, there is sentient cup of pumpkin spice latte next to her it is cover of book THIS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE GETS ME OFF IN A FUN AND SINCERE WAY BECAUSE IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY POPULAR THINGS WITHOUT BEING SHAMED FOR THE PERCEIVED ‘BASICNESS’ OF THEIR BEVERAGE CHOICES

cover of MY HOUSE IS HANDED BY THIS HAUNTED HOUSE AND HE POUNDS MY BUTT featuring a buckaroo with no shirt in a scary old house and next to him is a smaller sentient house that is glowing

ladybuck in sweater and no pants standing in a forest in front of a log cabin there is a living raindrop next to her the title is PETRICHOR IS A LESBIAN AND SHE GETS ME OFF IN A COZY WAY DURING A MUCH NEEDED RAINSTORM

that one buckaroo on october first

high praise for whoever in accounting decided that one of the two yearly book royalty payout dates for nightfire publishing is HALLOWEEN. i just think that is such a fun little gem for a horror publisher (even though it is very likely a coincidence. payout is same for most TOR authors BUT STILL)

I'm so sorry, Mo. That fucking sucks. :(

Fascists are desperate to be seen as strong.

"Strong" is the coin of their realm. It is their reason for existing and the reason they were voted in to office in the first place.

Branding them "weak" is in a very real sense to make them weak.

They are weak. Say it. Say it. Say it.

One very healthy coyote leans back sharply as another leans in to sniff where the other had been a second earlier, invading their personal space. They and the tan-coloured limestone are lit warmly by the rising sun.

Two coyotes checking out some interesting smells along the rocky shore of Lake Winnipeg at sunrise. These were part of a pack who were feeding on discarded fish left by commercial fishermen. I photographed them from my kayak. #mammals 🌿

Cock and Ball Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Torture

“No more beardos,” he decreed, taking aim at those whom he said looked like “nordic pagans.”

“You kill people and break things for a living. Move out and draw fire because we are the War Department.”

nordic pagans: famously not known for killing people and breaking things for a living,

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology