Jana 🏳️‍⚧️

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

The thing about all these fucking statements now from world leaders calling for the food to be let in to Gaza: you have the ability to impose sanctions on Israel and every second you spend talking instead of imposing them is a collaborationist lie.

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3M Aura 9211+; the valve makes the heat and humidity a little less unbearable.

(disclaimers: valved masks don't protect others from viruses; 3M is based in the US, though the 9211+s I've bought in Canada were made in Singapore)

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their effects.

some resources for protestors

A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them

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New album out today: transgender street legend the acab anthology assigned compilation at birth

back when i made Transgender Street Legend Vol. one, i never imagined it making the impact it did, & somehow still does. as i made volumes two & three, i only felt more grateful despite it all. to be able to hear my art evolving across these three ep's was always affirming to me in my intentions to keep on growing, as both an artist & just as a person. in that sense, my music's a transition timeline; both things are emblematic of the intentional changes that keep me alive. I always intended to release an anthology of the series as a victory lap of sorts. it took awhile, but we finally did it. if you helped me at all in making & finishing this series, thank you. & to those who keep listening, thank you for your support, acknowledgment & patience. I'm eternally grateful. With love, /@/

The transgender street legend anthology is now available on vinyl cassette cd & digital. Only at the needlejuice left at london merch store. Also t shirts hoodies stickers & a real transgender st. street sign

The transgender street legend series has officially ended

NEW ALBUM

the transgender street legend series has officially ended.
leftatlondon.com/tslanthology

Are We Still Free? Living in the new American fascism.

After Patron blocked my latest review, I tried to write about censorship. Then I tried to write about aesthetics and the sexual politics of fiction.

What I ended up capturing was the violent silence of the moment - the grief and helpless fury of living in a world that marches on toward genocide ⬇️

Multiple email subjects all with wording like "Review of Misunderstandings in your Recent Olive Oil Article"

Woke up to a bunch of clearly coordinated spam saying Palestine was invented in the 20th century and I must work for Hamas, because I published article suggesting you might want to buy olive oil from Palestine. Here's that article again, go buy some olive oil! www.eater.com/24430125/bes...

Perhaps you could also cease with baselessly demonizing a marginal population whose vilification has dominated the news cycles?

Perhaps the incessant relitigation of where trans people can safely piss is a pointless, cruel circus that your party should stop entertaining for the benefit of zealots?

the transition (lol) from "hearing my recorded voice ruins my entire day" to "I don't enjoy it but it's fine" was maybe even stranger than when I stopped caring about seeing or hearing my deadname

"Transgender rage is more powerful than the courts.
Transgender love is more hopeful than the law.
We have always been here and no "ruling" can eradicate us!"

Seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland

British politicians are all drawn from a stagnant gutter-pool of classist sewage, who will lecture you on your manners even as they legislate away your ability to participate in public life and deny your very humanity.

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵

On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).

The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:

"not subject to appeal"

someone just posted an excerpt from a Guardian article about the recent Supreme Court ruling. The Guardian say that we are now banned from women's sports.

This is not true.

UK law does not control who competes where.

Do not buy The Guardian. They are bigoted liars, gleeful for this ruling.

Guess I knew what I was talking about when I wrote this, who'd have figured.

Thank you to the UK Supreme Court for marketing my book by validating everything I've said about sex as an ideological instantiation of the heterosexual regime. If you buy it, I can hopefully get the fuck out of here.

Also it is not a coincidence that the older friend who warned me "never forget conservatives want to kill you and liberals want you do die quietly" was drawing from their experience during the AIDS genocides.

Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. *On Friday, April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to Medicaid agencies directing them to not provide Medicaid dollars to any clinics that provide Gender Affirming Care services. At this time, Planned Parenthood Arizona is pausing Gender Affirming Care services as we continue to review and evaluate this order. We are committed to keeping our patients updated about the services we provide and will communicate further once we can provide more information. ---------- Care. No matter what.

GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals.
HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what.

can't make this shit up man

Pride bans work btw, Sinn Fein are *not* happy at being banned. They were the first main party to suport Pride decades ago and are not a transphobic party, but this ban has got through more than anything else we could have done.

Speak to your Prides. Ban parties that hurt trans people.

I have been surprised to see progressives mobilizing to yank Musk's citizenship. Like, please think three steps past your goal here.

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

I dumped a dentist here over that, only to sheepishly return years later because he's decent with COVID precautions and that's rare now

(and I did a legal name change in the interim, which made it a easier for them to not deadname me)

Missing children’s org removes LGBTQIA+ materials per Trump DOJ demand A staffer at NCMEC confirms the distressing effort to comply with Trump's executive order.

NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over.

"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.

that song makes me miss Parc-Ex; Moya makes me miss Mile End; Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls makes me miss Pittsburgh (but that's entirely because I was living there when I heard it)

I think the British media still doesn’t understand the extent to which the trans community—correctly—considers them to be filthy fucking liars.

i understand the pushback to "joy is an act of resistance" shit but also making yourself too miserable to do anything at all alongside the mindset of "if i DON'T do this im a bad person" is also decidedly not an act of resistance.