Joey W. Atreides 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 🐦‍⬛

Transgender men's invisibility is violent erasure. Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man, was tortured for over a month to death, and his slaughter is not being considered a hate crime. The media has gone to disgusting lengths to minimize Sam's transgender identity. Hardly anyone is outraged.

Op-ed: Trans Men Experience Far More Violence Than Most People Assume Boys Do Cry: When we expand violence data beyond hate crimes, it's clear that trans men are targeted at comparable rates to trans women.

The truth is that when you actually ask trans men about our experiences of violence, we suffer victimization at comparable rates to trans women. Nothing about being trans *men* makes us safer, as some people like to assert.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2...

I hate to break it to everyone but queer people and even other trans people, even some trans men, regularly claim trans men don't suffer from transphobic oppression and violence because of the kind of erasure that's happening to Sam Nordquist in death.

From from they were eleven

People are more interested in seeing trans men as betrayers and corruptions of femininity, there aren't any real methods people want to reconcile with trans men. Trans men are not really interested in spurning womanhood, they're interested in rejecting societal coercion, to reinvent masculinity

Also, I absolutely love it when my strange wee “pet theories” are spotted out in the wild like this. So exciting.

Just because something has a scientific explanation doesn’t make it any less numinous. Corvids speaking in the voices of the dead only further solidifies their place as psychopomps and carriers of the dead across folk traditions and mythologies of peoples they share range/contact with.

First I tried coming out in the mid-80s. Then again when I was in high school. I graduated in ‘99 and by 2000 I was living two separate lives, one of which was secret. Due to financial and safety reasons I didn’t start physically transitioning until 2021. Been in med debt most of adult life.

There it fucking is.

We need to look out for us, because no one else will.

Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, was murdered in New York after being tortured for more than a month by five people. He was 24 years old. Please do not forget his name. www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/u...

Have a great day y’all

When I say there are some 18th Century traditions we should bring back, this is what I mean 🤷🏻‍♂️

Visit Joey Atreides's Ko-fi Shop! I've opened a Ko-fi shop. Come take a look!

I have some of this truly dazzling wood up on my wee shop. Come take a look and add some to your own collection: ko-fi.com/deeptimedepo...

Relics of Mesozoic Appalachia are very dear to me and I’m thrilled to have some of this material in my collection. *chef’s kiss*

Also known as Brilliant wood, named for the town where they are found—but it’s an apt name, as this wood can be found absolutely encrusted with smoky quartz druzy crystals, giving it a truly dazzling effect.

One of me new favorite pocket stones. Wetumpka petrified wood from the Cretaceous Coker Formation of Alabama.

Visit Joey Atreides's Ko-fi Shop! I've opened a Ko-fi shop. Come take a look!

Aussie opal, glittering petrified wood encrusted with druzy, and more. Come check out my wee rock shop and get yourself something affordable and special.

I’m struggling so hard. I feel like I’m only barely keeping my nose above water. I’m really not okay but trying very hard to be. Or at least, be functional. I still have to dance for my supper, even if both feet feel broken. I am so, bone-deep exhausted.

Sometimes it feels like the world is on fire.. Joey Atreides published a post on Ko-fi

New blog post:

You can always choose not to be a fucking plague rat 🤷🏻‍♂️

Your words and reblogs are absolutely empty if not backed up by visible action. But at least it tells me exactly who can be trusted to put their money where their mouth is. WEAR. A. MASK.

My bird-friends at the aviary. I was so happy to hear Buddy whinnying and chittering away at me.

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

If they are disrespecting human workers, then they probably aren’t respecting our mycelial allies either.

Oh indeed. I’m going to see what alt or better sources I can find. But this is why I say ultimately, find a basement grower you trust, get to know their business and cultivation methods. Develop a relationship of trust and, well, buy “small business” lol.

Yup.

@thatgalbunnybrown.bsky.social figured you might want to see this, too. I mean, I’m not surprised at all, but I am disappointed.