Mikaela

Repression Queen by @imharperoneill.bsky.social was such a heavy read, but it's cathartic to learn about others who coped with dysphoria in a similar way to how I did while repressed. It was such an isolating experience at the time, and even now I feel weird talking about it.

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

I still hold one of the boys track and field records at my high school, and I think it would kind of funny to have my name updated on the record tracking website

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.

But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.

Denial makes things worse

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence. “Go to Pony, go to Pony, go to Pony—there’s more people there,” said a frantic woman as she approached Madison Carstens and her friends next to t...

Horrifying, insane scoop from @vivmccall.bsky.social .
Five beatings of trans women have occurred in Seattle so far this year. The suspects have all been men. In at least one case, random men—strangers—have joined in on the attacks. Depraved shit.
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

So much if our current problems are tied up in a weird cult that continually thinks that all our long term crises are pointless bc human existence is going to get wrapped up within the next five years so why bother.

It's fascinating how, because the left is coded as feminine, criticism is "scolding," while all the shaming and blaming on the right is masculine and therefore not "scolding."

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

The Right has such a stranglehold on the media in this country. It feels completely hopeless.

Ironic that trans writers have been cautiously waiting to write our takes until the facts were known while every mainstream pundit in the country made the biggest, stupidest, most predictable blunders imaginable by assuming the shooter wouldn't also be far right.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

I'd like us to move past wondering how 10s of millions of Americans are morally empty people to an acknowledgement that this is they what they are, and that they are allowed or even incentivized to be that way, so we can grapple with what that implies about society and what is required to fix it.

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

I will likely be there!

I agree the media failed, but Biden also failed. So many different people and institutions failed us.

Excellent presidents do not set themselves up to be succeeded by fascists. He completely failed at the single most important task: ensuring Trump would never return to the presidency.

cosign. i met James Dobson in person when i was a kid growing up in evangelical churches.

that rat bastard is part of why i was subjected to conversion “therapy” as a child. his soul was as rancid as his rightwing ideology.

rot in piss, you fascist fossil. the world is better without you in it.

the thing about dobson is that, like a lot of these guys, he didn't actually have a religion, properly speaking. he had a lust for violence against those he viewed as lessers, a need to brutalize those who couldn't defend themselves, and made that his religion. that is the religion of america

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.

What if I imagine dragons taking cross sex hormones?

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

But how is it pronounced?

i love guys who are scared of the city. they fuel me. i could lift a car just to spite them.

Rise of Skywalker was so bad! It still makes me sad to think about it.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

They are Christians though. Many Christians are terrible people. Christianity is not inherently good, and there are many ways to justify terrible behavior using the bible.

the coolest part about the elmo hacked posts is that the most insane people online are treating elmo like he’s a real guy