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@esedia.bsky.social
The only communist cat rescue in NJ
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they/them; he/him
(This account is one big TW for self-harm, gender dysphoria, and mental illness)
Writer
Professor
Permanently broken
they/them; he/him
(This account is one big TW for self-harm, gender dysphoria, and mental illness)
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OK so I wrote up the whole conversion therapy/gender bit for those who are curious
On Becoming A Monster
As long as I can remember I was always a boy. There was no moment of realization, no great discovery — this is who I always was, even…
medium.com
Reposting this again in hopes that some Newsom-loving centrists pause for a second and briefly wonder that maybe, just maybe, trans people are a tiny bit tired of being a sacrificial offering to the idol of lesser fascism
“The Tankies ... How the years roll by. Dubcek is back. Russia agrees to withdraw its garrisons. Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off for capitalism. And all that remains of August '68 is a derisive nickname for the only real communists left in the Communist Party.” RIP Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“The Tankies ... How the years roll by. Dubcek is back. Russia agrees to withdraw its garrisons. Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off for capitalism. And all that remains of August '68 is a derisive nickname for the only real communists left in the Communist Party.” RIP Tom Stoppard
Look at this bullshit
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Look at this bullshit
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
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donations for palestinians have significantly slowed down but their needs are only growing more acute. odai needs painkillers, the family needs food--please help if you have any to spare!!
Please, anyone with a kind heart, Odai’s injury still causes him pain and his medicine has run out. We urgently need $250 to provide his treatment, warmth, and basic essentials. Your support and sharing can make a real difference for him and our family.
gofund.me/77a751af7
gofund.me/77a751af7
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
donations for palestinians have significantly slowed down but their needs are only growing more acute. odai needs painkillers, the family needs food--please help if you have any to spare!!
Ok AMABs: give me passing tips, fashion etc
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Ok AMABs: give me passing tips, fashion etc
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Maybe today you’re fighting the feeling of not being worthy. You know your dick is calling you, but you feel like a stranger. You don’t look like you fit. You have weaknesses. This is the beauty of our dicks. While we were still strangers, our dicks, in their great mercy, chose us.
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Maybe today you’re fighting the feeling of not being worthy. You know your dick is calling you, but you feel like a stranger. You don’t look like you fit. You have weaknesses. This is the beauty of our dicks. While we were still strangers, our dicks, in their great mercy, chose us.
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This was posted a while back but I just saw it this morning, and I think everyone should spend a moment reading it.
OK so I wrote up the whole conversion therapy/gender bit for those who are curious
On Becoming A Monster
As long as I can remember I was always a boy. There was no moment of realization, no great discovery — this is who I always was, even…
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This was posted a while back but I just saw it this morning, and I think everyone should spend a moment reading it.
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this is the solution to the "male loneliness epidemic" dudes need to either get butlers or become butler s
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
this is the solution to the "male loneliness epidemic" dudes need to either get butlers or become butler s
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I much prefer the genre of "yes they will and now they have and it's all quite--oh no what have you done you messy bitch this is NOT going to end well--oh FFS stop digging a bigger hole well THERE YOU GO don't say you weren't told now you have to sort shit out big time you beautiful idiot"
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I much prefer the genre of "yes they will and now they have and it's all quite--oh no what have you done you messy bitch this is NOT going to end well--oh FFS stop digging a bigger hole well THERE YOU GO don't say you weren't told now you have to sort shit out big time you beautiful idiot"
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I'm throwing a house party and I'm inviting @esedia.bsky.social @badposter.lol @punishedsiltyloam.bsky.social @gorl.gay
*I'm lining up 4 shots and doing them by myself
*I'm lining up 4 shots and doing them by myself
Best of Russian Hard Bass House Mix 2016 XS Project
YouTube video by Karambitzz
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November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'm throwing a house party and I'm inviting @esedia.bsky.social @badposter.lol @punishedsiltyloam.bsky.social @gorl.gay
*I'm lining up 4 shots and doing them by myself
*I'm lining up 4 shots and doing them by myself
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I don't think white liberals understand how many civil rights leaders were murdered by police. This has not diminished since the 60s, they're still murdering us.
“Long before Hoover denounced King as a liar, the NYPD issued a surveillance report on the civil rights leader’s visit to Harlem in 1958, with other memos to follow in the early 1960s. Rank-and-file organizers supporting King received unwanted attention as well.“
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I don't think white liberals understand how many civil rights leaders were murdered by police. This has not diminished since the 60s, they're still murdering us.
I can vouch for Kalivas! being really good! @clashbooks.bsky.social has a really nice lineup overall
Surely @clashbooks.bsky.social counts as a small business here on Small Business Saturday. So, get to Kalivasing!
indiepubs.com/products/kal...
indiepubs.com/products/kal...
Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest
In this science-fiction revision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Kalivas lives in solitude on the Farallon Islands, until the Master and his daughter M colonize his lonely realm. Kalivas, the last free-...
indiepubs.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I can vouch for Kalivas! being really good! @clashbooks.bsky.social has a really nice lineup overall
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The snow returns and Heronkind settle in, one leg cold, one leg tucked away toasty, for the long haul through winter. 🌨️
A Great Blue Heron from this morning after a winter storm yesterday and overnight.
#heron
#birds
#nature
#photography
#birdphotography
#heron
#birds
#nature
#photography
#birdphotography
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The snow returns and Heronkind settle in, one leg cold, one leg tucked away toasty, for the long haul through winter. 🌨️
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Got this anon question and wouldn’t you know, a person who wrote a novel and a novella largely on this subject has opinions! So buckle in, it’ll be a 🧵
Disclaimer: I am explicitly including trans men while discussing masculinity and its manifestations
Disclaimer: I am explicitly including trans men while discussing masculinity and its manifestations
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Got this anon question and wouldn’t you know, a person who wrote a novel and a novella largely on this subject has opinions! So buckle in, it’ll be a 🧵
Disclaimer: I am explicitly including trans men while discussing masculinity and its manifestations
Disclaimer: I am explicitly including trans men while discussing masculinity and its manifestations
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ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…
I have long been saying that for me the dividing line between liberals and leftists is where they stand on gun ownership (explicitly in the context of modern US)
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I have long been saying that for me the dividing line between liberals and leftists is where they stand on gun ownership (explicitly in the context of modern US)
Julia Elliott is so good!!
For Black Friday, a two-fer of great story collections from opposite coasts as holiday gift recs: HELLIONS by the atlantic southeast's JULIA ELLIOTT and NEAR FLESH by the pacific northwest's Katherine Dunn. Totally different in tone, but both great, evocative, insightful, imaginative! 3/?
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Julia Elliott is so good!!
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Today's holiday rec is ART WORK by Sally Mann, a great collection of essays/memoir about creativity from one of our best photographers. With copious photos, images, and the great first lines "This is a book about how to get shit done. Or, more particularly, how I got it done. Or didn't." 2/?
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today's holiday rec is ART WORK by Sally Mann, a great collection of essays/memoir about creativity from one of our best photographers. With copious photos, images, and the great first lines "This is a book about how to get shit done. Or, more particularly, how I got it done. Or didn't." 2/?
Biology faculty committing seppuku en masse
It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Biology faculty committing seppuku en masse
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I've had similar experiences both in MFA and community-based classes. What used to not require teaching--punctuating dialogue and other manuscript formatting--shifted to requiring it in 2022 and now I have to go over it every week, and to no avail.
We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've had similar experiences both in MFA and community-based classes. What used to not require teaching--punctuating dialogue and other manuscript formatting--shifted to requiring it in 2022 and now I have to go over it every week, and to no avail.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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video game harem but they’re all conspiring to forcefem the player
Any time I see a computer RPG where all the NPC party members are girls with extravagant outfits and big boobs, and then the actual player character is Generic Sword Guy, I'm like: come on, man. You're *out of theme*. Get with the program!
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
video game harem but they’re all conspiring to forcefem the player
Of course. Despicable.
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Of course. Despicable.