The joys of hEDS. Though I feel seen.

Thanks to help from friends, I'm seeing a new physical therapist. He was actually happy with my muscle mass & appalled by connective tissue. "Right now your muscles are like a Corvette engine strapped into a Yugo. It will go real fast and isn't going to hold together going around a corner. "

In honor of Indigenous People's Day.
You can read the whole poem Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141847...

Hating trans people is not a valid opinion and never will be.

“Why can’t we all get along?” is code for “Shut up and stop bothering me with your petty ethical concerns.”

REBUILD is now also providing no-fee therapy to people who have been detained by ICE. Please support REBUILD by donating, and share it with those who may benefit from it.
findmeatherapist.org

Hey y'all. We are so many big red flags in. And we are further into the timeline where government issued documents aren't being honored by the issuing government. Allies, we really need you to speak up.

“Substantial procedural lapse” is an impressively politically correct way to say “colossal screwup”.

The post con bar consensus tonight:

The holy trinity of cinematic T4T coded relationships

Roger Rabbit/Jessica Rabbit
Gomez Addams/Morticia Addams
Seymour Krelborn/Audrey

The arts are essential to being human. They are how we embrace beauty, how we process the world we move in, how we make relationships. From little faces drawn on food to a well baked loaf, from high fashion to a creative clothing patch, lullabies to operas, dirty limericks to sacred texts.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that

I love being able to find food from around the world. A cozy tea house/ coffee shop where I can overhear conversations in 4+ languages while I read is my happy/ safe space.

Remember when we were conjecturing that this is what would happen to that apartment building in Chicago?

That there were dealings behind the scenes and it would end up with the ICE raid being a very convenient alternative to eviction?

Here are the receipts:

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

Fuck that indeed

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

Grim Reaper [ 2 ]
Part 5 or 5.

Some days I'm in awe of my students. That they, these brilliant, talented, creative beings trust me and think that I've got something worthwhile to say.
I work every day to live into that trust. It's part of smart keeps me working to learn constantly.

Everybody should read this. Gives you a really good idea of the types of questions trans people have to ask ourselves almost every day just to do normal things that others don’t even need to think about.

This whole section really.

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.” [nytimes.com]