Jackson Bird

I can do anything when powered by seltzer and podcasts.

I just started listening to A Bit Fruity this week and I’m loving it!

It was SO good. I can’t wait for the author’s next book.

Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir)

Bookshop.org is doing their Anti-Prime Day event, which means free shipping through 7/11!

If you want some book recs, here's what I've been reading lately: bookshop.org/shop/jackisn...

Or you can also pick up a copy of my book. It makes a great gift for allies lol bookshop.org/a/826/978198...

I love this!! 🎃🐙

First Draft Theater The online rehearsal space for semi-retired influencer and wannabe historian, Jackson Bird, to explore unexpected connections, overlooked stories, and the past and future of our changing world. Some o...

And uh, this sucker is 4000 words. So if you’d rather listen to it while you commute or do dishes, lucky for you I also record it in podcast form: pod.link/1677171173

Hello from JOMO-ville 👋🏻 How to experience the joy of missing out

I was worried I’d feel FOMO when I left NYC (and Twitter). Instead, I’ve been feeling the incredible *joy* of missing out.

Let me share my JOMO ways with you:

Just realizing I have been reading more and more non-fiction every year since coming out as a man. The T side effect they don’t tell you.

Going to spacious, cheaper supermarkets that reliably stock the same items on the same shelf location has been one of the greatest joys of moving to a small town.

National Parks Celebrate the great outdoors with our limited time National Parks Collection, available through Summer 2025. These specialty packages feature majestic scenes from Yellowstone, Yosemite, Great Smoky Mo...

Support the National Park Foundation while also getting a limited edition version of one of my go-to beers with cool art featuring some of my favorite parks? Hell yeah.

sierranevada.com/national-parks

I'm a notorious hater of the baby shower trans flag. I think I could be into this.

I love everything about this.

J.K. Rowling’s New Org Will Fund Cis Women Fighting to Exclude Trans Women From Public Life The author turned anti-trans activist announced the fund on Elon Musk’s X on May 24.

Any money you spend on Harry Potter stuff is directly supporting this www.them.us/story/jk-row...

I asked siri to play alternative rock and she said, "ok, playing 'alt rock 2000s dad music."

Yeah ok, fair.

For context, I have a little over a thousand books and have read *maybe* half of them. This is really just a "quit social media" idea with a theme.

What if I just stopped looking at social media until I read every unread book in my house? lol

Wow, that is the quickest I have ever pre-ordered a book based on the subtitle alone. Thanks for the rec!

Conducting and Flying Squirrels

I saw this in the Nerdfighteria newsletter, We're Here. Even if you have no clue what that word is I just wrote, you might like it! It has uplifting news, poetry, games, and occasionally, data that feels like a personal attack.

werehere.beehiiv.com/p/conducting...

A graph from Our World In Data with a title saying "How old are you compared to the rest of the world?" And a subtitle that says "The global media age splits the world's population into two equal groups, with as many people older than it as younger." The graph's y axis show 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years old. The graph's x axis shows 1950, 1980, 2010, 2040, 2070, 2100. With a Note saying "Future projections are based on the UN medium scenario." A line on the graph, and text along with it, explains that in 1970 the median age was 20. Today, if you're over 30, you're older than most of the world. And that someone born today won't be older than most until nearly age 40.

What a wonderful graph to see on the week of my 35th birthday.

Source: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Screenshot of an iMessage blue bubble reading “I forgot this actor whose name I always forget was on this show.”

Me, engaging with media:

Oh no. This is very bad. Dude has been trying to start a registry of trans Texans, and has gotten close to succeeding. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's a decent primer, with more of his corruption in the thread below.
www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/k...

anyways. hi, cis folks!

the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.

context & guidance in the thread below. it’s not hard; you can do it while you’re still angry about other things.

9 days left, as of this post!

This is also why Nazis keep trying to burn this stuff!

Thanks to folks who have been (re)reading 'Sorted' for the #TransRightsReadathon! Fun fact: I read the audiobook myself so it's kinda just like listening to really long podcast or YouTube video from me 😅

✨ efficiency ✨

I think the question for me is how much time does present me have to prepare for the trip. Do I have time to research LGBT communities that existed in 2004ish Dallas to drive my younger self to? With only 30 minutes, I'd need to leave him with resources to keep figuring things out on his own.

you've still got a few days left if u wanna pitch a Trans Day of Snack event for funding help! bit.ly/tdos2025

(or if you can self-fund, please just do that and don't even worry about pitching to us.)

Ooh and a great follow-up here! (old Cool Stuff Ride Home listeners will already know I have mixed-at-best opinions about Colossal)

bsky.app/profile/rest...

I am aware this is neither grammatically nor biologically accurate.

Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths They are small and tuskless, but extremely fluffy

Nerdfighters have long wanted puppy-sized elephants, but what about mouse-sized elephants?
www.economist.com/science-and-...