sparrow

a painting of a man lifting a sylveon by the armpits

Long, firm, tubular body, DEEP blue eyes, really wonderful expression. he is so calm, confident, really in charge here. Big, bouncy ears, perfectly set, a slender, whippy tail, and of course, those smooth, vibrant ribbons. Best in show.

the news has got me feeling like a husk today

This is a policy of genocide.

I guess I just feel pretty strongly that the lives of people who live in other countries are also very important

This was an insta-buy book bundle for me. Autonomous and The City in the Middle of the Night are favs of mine. Best of all they didn’t require me to jump through any de-DRMing hoops. I just downloaded a bunch of epubs to my reader app.

Please also support the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas lgbtqks.org

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

For those unaware, this is the graduate school of social work. This guy trains future therapists. Fucking abhorrent.

At least 2 NYU affiliates involved in organizations that promote anti-trans practices - Washington Square News

just found out NYU Silver employs a virulently transphobic adjunct professor. Like “blogs for genspect and performs ‘gender exploratory therapy’” transphobic. 🤮

nyunews.com/features/new...

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Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...

rolled credits on Disco Elysium for the first time earlier today 🥲 what a beautiful game

No way, I had no idea 😦

This is horrific beyond words

point for woke

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Catholic rituals blend with Neapolitan folklore in pilgrimage for queer community MERCOGLIANO, Italy (RNS) — The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing lacquered nails, towering wigs and heavy eyelashes.

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy.

For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com

apnews.com/article/ital...

oh my god??

pretty obvious at this point that the conditions in the MAGA camps are considerably worse than Japanese internment

Let's see how much traction in the news this gets...

This should be front page news.

a group of people are sitting in a field with a horse in the background ALT: a group of people are sitting in a field with a horse in the background

I cannot imagine a way to make the DSA more popular than by investigating them for existing

It will be like this all day every day with people joining DSA

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story.

I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.

The Strangers’ Case I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

Slow Walk by Six of Hounds Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious larp.

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

America Runs on Sucking A brief history of straws and American consumption

I wrote for the new @gourmetlives.bsky.social about straws and convenience and American myths of productivity gourmetmagazine.net/nation-of-su...

Ever since the Stochastic Parrots paper was published, I've been fielding the question "How do I know that you're not (just) a stochastic parrot?" ... one that I find inherently dehumanizing, as I write about here:

journals-sagepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/doi/10.1177/...

Short 🧵>>

it’s difficult to overstate how much the next generation of Republicans is worse

we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society