Orwell that Ends Well

Glam and Giggle at PTown bar April 30th at 10pm featuring Abbey Hannis, McKinnlee McElroy, Dawn Viola, Seth Queen, Headliner Amanda Averell and hosted by Envy Sinn.

I’m posting a date and location for my exact whereabouts in case anyone in Pittsburgh wants to kidnap me or likes standup comedy.

You know when she goes to a Friday open mic night it’s because her dating life is going swimmingly

This is why I'm cynical about all these injunctions. The GOP are, as they were always going to do, going full "now let him enforce it"

It took a month before I heard “So you’re trans? Can I ask you a personal question?” Poor guy, I blurt laughed in his face. I have done like seven or eight open mics in Pittsburgh and this was the FIRST time! (It was even the 201 level question of “and also a lesbian? That’s possible? 😮”)

YouTube video by Chumbawamba - Topic I'm Coming Out

this is a fantastic “walking through the city” song
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📣 The case to support Annie Jump Vicente (she/her) of West Hollywood, CA.

A lead organizer for @transrescueaction.bsky.social, a non profit that relocates trans refugees from Red states to SoCal, was arrested after being hate crimed outside her home in West Hollywood, CA three days ago.

Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.

Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.

S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.

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Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

Open mic fundraiser for Pitt dependents Help community members fighting for Palestinian liberation pay their court costs Join us on SUNDAY, MARCH 2ND, 5-8PM at MR. ROBOTO PROJECT 5106 PENN AVE Please mask-up and help raise funds for our comrades facing charges with our open mic night! We'll have poetry readings, live music, an art raffle, door prizes and lots of delicious food! Musicians, distro chefs, and other interested volunteers, DM us! $5-15 at the door goes to the legal fees of recently charged students and allies.

Four weeks. It took four weeks before I found myself playing a benefit show. I’m proud of me.

@reynoldsgareth.bsky.social doing the act out of the doctor informing a man of his botched surgery on the most recent Dollop hits real real hard when you’ve had bottom surgery. Or as I occasionally like to call it, my CBT Diploma.

A picture of the 40th street bridge and Lawrenceville over the Allegheny.

Oh, hi. I moved to Pittsburgh. There's no internet at my house and no socials on my phone, so I hadn’t even thought about telling people I made it okay. It’s been amazing. I’ve been here two weeks and I’ve already gone and done more queer things than I would in year back in Nevada. My new home <3

Bruh, you literally liked the one Facebook post I made that month saying “if you want to say goodbye to me I’m going to be here at this time/place”. Also I’d explicitly asked you to hang and gave you times and you never got back to me 😅

Sorry, I found it in the wild without source and didn’t look it up

Why did we all used to say “holy shnikies”?

logo of a bat dropping a swastika into a trash can with text reading: Goths Against Fascism. The fascists do not dance in our darkness

I don’t know about y’all, but I think the US Government is a flat out bummer. Just the pits. Two thumbs down. Real crummy government. Let me live in your cities at night, so I can hide my romance in the shadows cast by the police lights and we will sing love songs to the moon. Buncha jerks.

whatever country offers refugee status to trans people first is gonna see their tech sector and their noise scene go through the roof

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I’ve known a lot of people who prefer that in their relationships too. Usually they’re in their mid thirties and they date a lot of people in their early twenties. Cool guys! Can’t imagine why they do that.

Huge win for the higher ups at the ny times

It was 12 degrees on my run this morning and my tears froze to the end of my eyelashes in little crystal globes. There’s real elemental magic coursing through and across this world.

I found the series really helpful. We don’t hear this kinda stuff often out here and I've talked to a lot of people about the concepts (I do a lot of public speaking). I’ve been told more than once that these conversations have changed minds and that matters in a small town. Thank you for your work.

I’ve been thinking about this all day. It feels like last year was my “enough is enough,” and that’s why I’m uprooting my whole life, but I should draw a new line. When do I reevaluate? If my id’s are all stricken, I think. That’s when I should think about if this place is getting too hot.

"Hmm, with the tariff rumors, I don’t want my retirement in such a volatile market. I should pull out now before February. No rush!"
😅😅😅

Not investment advice, since I do not follow the markets at all. I just have an IRA and for now it’s going into bonds and commodities, cause yeesh.

a corsi rosenthal air filter - a box of taped together home ventilation filters attached to a standard issue box fan designed to cheaply and efficiently clean your air

For those that don't know, I do have a new recommendation for you about air filters. They're good for much more than JUST SARS, they work great with wildfire smoke or pet dander, bad smells, and dust in the air. Plus you can make your own for very cheap:
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Her, “I’d latch on to you like a remora.”
Me, “A remora? But they suck.”
Her, “And if you’re good you can tell me where.”

The lady I’ve been seeing has a special way of horrifying me while also making me blush. At least I got to be witty for a second before the word salad that followed.

No one wants to be smug about being right on this shit, but also it feels maddening to constantly be warning people, ignored, and then seeing the thing you warned people about happen. So, this is to say a thank you to all the trans women who warned us last year to get your passport. I did. Thank you

legiscan showing US Congress Senate Bill 9 Status Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 36-0) Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression Action: 2025-01-08 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2. Summary A bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. title: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo.

short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.

if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵


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YouTube video by Bad Cop / Bad Cop - Topic Perpetual Motion Machine

You could break free and be your own salvation
If you recognize and then reclaim
The powers that you've given up
Invest instead in real self-love and
Righteous transformation of the brain
(And all of the blood in your veins)
Turn your heart into
A perpetual motion machine

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No one showed up to say goodbye or wish me good luck in a town I’ve lived in for thirteen years. Moving seems like it was a good choice. Eat shit, I guess 🤷‍♀️

Seriously though, just two cis men tonight treating me with all the respect I could ask for. Some real healthy masculinity