Brian Sargent

Lord help us

My kid was stuck on the subway for almost an hour last night so I got to get in my first THANKS MAMDANI. Felt good. Like old times.

Give it time.

The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.

roses are red
big laughs are hearty

RIGHT??

I❤️NY

A linen bin in a doctor's office with a handwritten label reading "DIRTY GOWNS"

3 things:
1. VOTE!
2. Vote for candidates that listen to those most at risk.
3. My new drag name:

These are like notes I write myself while fully awake.

Everything is poopy and FIFA is definitely one of the orgs making it poopier, but also I just scored World Cup tickets so imma do a little cognitive dissonance happy dance right here by my computer

YouTube video by HassleRecords Dead Pioneers - The Caucasity (Official Audio)

And long songs

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YouTube video by Dead Pioneers - Topic STFU

I like short songs

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Amtrak ad showing a happy couple on a train with text “travel shouldn’t take a toll” and “retrain travel”

Dear @amtrak.com I’d be willing to pay a little more for my tickets if it means the person who created this ad gets a raise

Metal straw case that contained a note saying made with love by Canada

Today a stupid metal straw case legit made me sad

My middle school librarian pronounced it that way, every day on the announcements naming students who had overdue books at the libary. I swear she leaned into it. She was a delight.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Nothing disproves white supremacy more than white supremacists.

My handsome dog Paddington

Just now I gave Paddington his lunchtime peanut butter covered allergy pill, but because I was warming up some pasta, he refused to eat his pill until I grated Parmesan over it like a goddamn Olive Garden

That was a whole universe ago!

That Laura Jane Grace song WILL NOT LEAVE MY HEAD.

I've been struggling to figure out how to be social in this new world order, and it might be a cop out but I think I need to ignore all the horror and damage and train my brain to focus on the positive. So here we go! Here are some things that bring me happiness right now:

White sweatshirt with the phrase “I do not aspire to be humble“ in black hand lettering

White sweatshirt with the phrase “I do not aspire to be humble“ in black hand lettering on Asian model

Black sweatshirt with the phrase “I do not aspire to be humble“ in white hand lettering

Black sweatshirt with the phrase “I do not aspire to be humble“ in white hand lettering on white model

Made some sweatshirts for The Resistance love-mel-store.printify.me

SAME SAME SAME SAME

And it’s been a couple of months since I’ve met anyone who says verve, so we’re even, Colten.

Hell yeah let’s goooo

JEAN!!! We all suck. You?

SAME

cc @naominovik.bsky.social

Screenshot of NYT crossword with clue: Author Novik of the Scholomance trilogy.

Reader, I yelped

Text from Artificial Condition by Martha Wells “When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.“

My child was struggling to choose a Year Book quote…Dorothy Parker, Terry Pratchett, Tamsyn Muir…many possibles considered

But today they reckon they’ve made their choice:
“So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”

Thank you @marthawells.com
Thank you #murderbot

The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.