Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

M.J. Beasi

@mjbeasi.com

590 followers 370 following 1.2K posts

YA author, educator, gamer in denial, nonbinary disaster. 👻 I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD (2026) 👻 http://mjbeasi.com 🍃 It sounds like “MJBZ.” 🍃 Rep: Lee O’Brien at LGLM 🍃 pn: any/all 🎶 ghosts, opera, cartoons, books 📚 I play a cat on twitch dot tv

mjbeasi.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 5d

Finally I can share this here in all its glory. Besides conveying the vibe of my book perfectly, I also resonate with this design personally more than I knew I could reasonably expect. I’m obsessed. I’m in love with it. I hope you love it, too.

Illustration by Tracy J. Lee, design by Emma Hardy.

A nonbinary character in shadow embraces a swirl of colors with a human-like shape, surrounded by ghosts with various facial expressions from scary to whimsical. Text reads: I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD, M.J. Beasi.

1 6 7

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 23h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

18 180 470

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

64 1.8K 4.6K

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Getting COVID 5 times doesn’t make you “stronger.” The immune system isn’t a muscle—repeated infections can cause cumulative damage and raise long-term risks.

Protect your immune system by avoiding repeat infections: clean air, masks, vaccination.

Source: x.com/Engineer_Won...

Alt text: Screenshot of a tweet by Adam Wong.

Quote: Someone claims having COVID 5 times gives them antibodies and makes them stronger than someone who hasn’t had it.

Adam (masked, with air purifiers) replies: “Then why did you have it 5 times??” Laughing emoji.

4 74 290

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

DID kinda made sense on my first read where you went on to talk about memory loss as a trauma response, I was like oh, okay, update on Jaci. 😅

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

Like, whatever, I can’t make you wear a mask, and you’re obviously not going to do it no matter how many studies on long covid or covid brain damage are published or how often a few of us beg you to care. Just. Don’t make us listen to your excuses, over and over again. It’s so demoralizing.

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

I’ve given up on the hope that most people will ever care about others to acknowledge that choosing not to wear a mask in public spaces is a big 🖕to disabled people & everyone more vulnerable than they are. But I’m a little stunned how many folks will spend time loudly justifying it on social media.

1 1

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

Only masking keeps you from spreading it to others.

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

nah, the real classical music move is to call it String Quartet No 2 and drop something in a letter to keep the musicologists busy a century later

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
“Male Precipitation Fantasy in C Major for Female Duo of Solitary Chart Triumph”

If Pop Songs Had Classical Music Titles

“Friday” – Rebecca Black “Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)” “Mambo No. 5...

buff.ly

1 3 15

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

I always thought you had a really creative mind! Like, yes, it's oriented in its very particular way, but the way you connect things always seemed creative to me!

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

Me!! I’m not surprised at all!!

1 1

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

Ooooooh yes see it IS cool!!

1 1

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

And THAT happened because our former primary care (whom I almost never saw because of the THINGS) moved to New Orleans to play the blues (I am not joking) and Spouse made the phone call to get us a new one & scheduled my appointment. 😅

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

Okay but also what is… the other word… haha

1 1

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

I finally managed it by having been placed in a room with a doctor who could arrange the things for me and somehow magically remembering to ask if she’d do it.

1 1

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

The two words in this post I don’t remotely know the meaning of sound extremely cool, and for that reason alone I support you and your rapidly growing [thing I don’t know] collection.

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

This is so real. 😭

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

1 1 5

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 1d

This is why it took me YEARS to ask a doctor if I could get evaluated. 😭

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

6 110 430

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Decaf [Invidia] @decaf-invidia.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Spooky Month!

Collabs w/
@mjbeasi.com

Jadiemoon
@shadowmonarch1371.bsky.social
Rikuo_Toshiro12

The CAVALRY:
@crescentsquirrel.bsky.social
@shinybottv.bsky.social

#Reverse1999 #GenshinImpact #Minecraft #Schedule #Twitch #Youtube #Collab #VoiceActing #WatchParty

The Schedule of Decaf!
EST GMT+8 EST UK Time GMT +8 Stream Length Possible Activities
Tuesday Tuesday 5:00 AM 10:00 AM 5:00 PM 3 Hours Reverse 1999
Wednesday Wednesday 5:00 AM 10:00 AM 5:00 PM 3 Hours Genshin Impact
Thursday Thursday 5:00 AM 10:00 AM 5:00 PM 3 Hours Reverse 1999
Saturday Saturday 5:00 AM 10:00 AM 5:00 PM 4 Hours Minecraft
Saturday Sunday 2:00 PM 7:00 PM 2:00 AM 3 Hours Over the Garden Wall Watch Party
Sunday Sunday 5:00 AM 10:00 AM 5:00 PM 4 Hours Editing and Minecraft
Sunday Sunday 10:00 AM 3:00 PM 10:00 PM 4-6 Hours Reverse 1999 Voice Acting
Disclaimer: Decaf reserves the right to cancel streams based on health, offline priorities, or other factors.

2 3

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

88 1.8K 5.1K

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

320 8.2K 24K

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

Michiganders and those within the Detroit metro area–I'll be facilitating a rad Youth Right to Read Summit on November 8 for people ages 15-22. It's *FREE* with travel reimbursement for young folks.

Details + registration ---> www.milibraries.org/youth-summit...

Image of a megaphone on a green background. The text in the image says "Clinton Macomb Public Library - Main Branch, Saturday November 8, 10 am - 3 pm. Youth Summit on the Right to Read."

1 19 28

Reposted by M.J. Beasi

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

26 1.1K 4K

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 5d

It’s the NJ slander, right? 😉

M.J. Beasi @mjbeasi.com · 5d

💜😄