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Debut LP “We Are Forever” out on @littlecloudrecords this Fall
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Shoegazing Mathemagician.
Friend of Dax. Hella Queer.
Guitars / Synths / Vocals / Production for kallaipdx.com
Guitars for Luscious Apparatus
Co-organizer for Dreamgaze PDX Festival
Shoegazing Mathemagician.
Friend of Dax. Hella Queer.
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They’re describing it as a “shock and awe” campaign, which is why it’s essential to show them there’s huge opposition NOW. Call / email your reps to let them know you oppose censorship bills like KOSA and the SCREEN.
Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.
Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.
With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action.
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
They’re describing it as a “shock and awe” campaign, which is why it’s essential to show them there’s huge opposition NOW. Call / email your reps to let them know you oppose censorship bills like KOSA and the SCREEN.
Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.
Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.
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When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:
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Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
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KOSA, SCREEN and a lot of US bills are going through a hearing today. Calling the committee and *in your own words* explaining why these impact you negatively would do good.
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
Main Office: (202) 225-2927
Majority Office: (202) 225-3641
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
Main Office: (202) 225-2927
Majority Office: (202) 225-3641
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
KOSA, SCREEN and a lot of US bills are going through a hearing today. Calling the committee and *in your own words* explaining why these impact you negatively would do good.
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
Main Office: (202) 225-2927
Majority Office: (202) 225-3641
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
Main Office: (202) 225-2927
Majority Office: (202) 225-3641
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btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
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This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
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The goal is to humiliate trans people and make our lives unlivable. It's a terror campaign. In the ideal world of these far-right activists, people would be scared to hire a trans person for a job, for instance, for fear of something like this happening.
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The goal is to humiliate trans people and make our lives unlivable. It's a terror campaign. In the ideal world of these far-right activists, people would be scared to hire a trans person for a job, for instance, for fear of something like this happening.
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I vastly prefer this genre of posting to the people who write tragedy porn about us going to death camps because they need to quote dunk on some marginally annoying cis person.
Show some real spirit, people.
Show some real spirit, people.
I hope Woke 2 means we get to dispense with the fear of exercising power and the glorification of being an underdog in itself. Because no, I don't want to be the underdog forever. I don't want to constantly fight the establishment. I want cultural hegemony. I want the reactionaries trembling.
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I vastly prefer this genre of posting to the people who write tragedy porn about us going to death camps because they need to quote dunk on some marginally annoying cis person.
Show some real spirit, people.
Show some real spirit, people.
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When I talk about crowdsourcing bigotry, this is what I mean. The OU case is an anti-trans campaign, full-stop. Confected outrage generated by a well-funded group of elites (far-right GOP) applying pressure to other elites (university admin).
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When I talk about crowdsourcing bigotry, this is what I mean. The OU case is an anti-trans campaign, full-stop. Confected outrage generated by a well-funded group of elites (far-right GOP) applying pressure to other elites (university admin).
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The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
Also demonstrating how democracy has been subverted…
Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Also demonstrating how democracy has been subverted…
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Any given trans person (particularly one in any role of power or prestige) is at risk of being forcibly cast as the villain in an algorithmic right-wing fairy tale by some grifter who's greatest dream in life is to be a pitchman for crypto schemes and off-brand fertility supplements
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Any given trans person (particularly one in any role of power or prestige) is at risk of being forcibly cast as the villain in an algorithmic right-wing fairy tale by some grifter who's greatest dream in life is to be a pitchman for crypto schemes and off-brand fertility supplements
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I know this is besides the point but watching lawyers say that the 1st Amendment protects you from getting a bad grade on an essay is so genuinely unhinged it strips the bourgeoisie's mask of civility away and reveals the Christian nationism inherent in the sustem
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know this is besides the point but watching lawyers say that the 1st Amendment protects you from getting a bad grade on an essay is so genuinely unhinged it strips the bourgeoisie's mask of civility away and reveals the Christian nationism inherent in the sustem
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Portland: a community member needs a power wheelchair today and community members are trying to source one
Does anybody have one? Please reach out to community free store on Instagram
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Does anybody have one? Please reach out to community free store on Instagram
www.instagram.com/communityfre...
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Portland: a community member needs a power wheelchair today and community members are trying to source one
Does anybody have one? Please reach out to community free store on Instagram
www.instagram.com/communityfre...
Does anybody have one? Please reach out to community free store on Instagram
www.instagram.com/communityfre...
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You’d think transitioning to a woman would be about taking off the armor that kept you safe and finally letting yourself be gentle without fear. But, regrettably, it’s about finding the exact amount of evil you need to be to scare away the people in your life who are secretly not normal about you
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You’d think transitioning to a woman would be about taking off the armor that kept you safe and finally letting yourself be gentle without fear. But, regrettably, it’s about finding the exact amount of evil you need to be to scare away the people in your life who are secretly not normal about you
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
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the claim that this student was penalized for her beliefs is in blatant bad faith. and because the instructor is trans, people see an opportunity to depict *them* as the ideological dogmatist looking to punish wrongthink.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
the claim that this student was penalized for her beliefs is in blatant bad faith. and because the instructor is trans, people see an opportunity to depict *them* as the ideological dogmatist looking to punish wrongthink.
Wait forgot this was also the band account — buy our record you contemptible jerks!
I’d love to live in a world where I didn’t feel compelled to hold 99%+ in utter contempt.
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Wait forgot this was also the band account — buy our record you contemptible jerks!
I’d love to live in a world where I didn’t feel compelled to hold 99%+ in utter contempt.
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’d love to live in a world where I didn’t feel compelled to hold 99%+ in utter contempt.
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anyway the answer to the question "how many of california's 13 current gubernatorial candidates defended trans people when asked" is three. 3/13 current california gubernatorial candidates defended trans people when asked.
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
anyway the answer to the question "how many of california's 13 current gubernatorial candidates defended trans people when asked" is three. 3/13 current california gubernatorial candidates defended trans people when asked.
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betty lee, you’ve lost my vote
katie porter, you’ve lost my vote
i’ll be calling swalwell today, biting my tongue, to thank him and let him know he has my vote if he keeps this energy
katie porter, you’ve lost my vote
i’ll be calling swalwell today, biting my tongue, to thank him and let him know he has my vote if he keeps this energy
California’s 13 gubernatorial candidates battle over banning trans student-athletes
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
California’s 13 gubernatorial candidates battle over banning trans student-athletes
Trans girls' future in school sports may rest upon whoever succeeds Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.lgbtqnation.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
betty lee, you’ve lost my vote
katie porter, you’ve lost my vote
i’ll be calling swalwell today, biting my tongue, to thank him and let him know he has my vote if he keeps this energy
katie porter, you’ve lost my vote
i’ll be calling swalwell today, biting my tongue, to thank him and let him know he has my vote if he keeps this energy
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I caught the, like, third wave of discourse on this, when it had shifted to being about proper citation methods or something, and immediately went, “Was the teacher trans?” because these are the waters we swim in.
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I caught the, like, third wave of discourse on this, when it had shifted to being about proper citation methods or something, and immediately went, “Was the teacher trans?” because these are the waters we swim in.
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“I will never throw trans rights under the bus” decries the law professor, but his voice is hard to hear because he’s panting from the labor of throwing a trans teacher under a bus.
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“I will never throw trans rights under the bus” decries the law professor, but his voice is hard to hear because he’s panting from the labor of throwing a trans teacher under a bus.
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Grifting dipshit from a family of grifting dipshits: "The grade that evil TRANS teacher gave me made baby Jesus cry 😥"
Very serious 1A lawyer: "This is, simply put, unconstitutional."
Very serious 1A lawyer: "This is, simply put, unconstitutional."
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Grifting dipshit from a family of grifting dipshits: "The grade that evil TRANS teacher gave me made baby Jesus cry 😥"
Very serious 1A lawyer: "This is, simply put, unconstitutional."
Very serious 1A lawyer: "This is, simply put, unconstitutional."
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All of conservative media, in unison: "All trannies are mentally ill and shouldn't be allowed to teach."
Some cis lib: "I think we can all agree that this whole thing could have been avoided if the rubric was more clear."
Some cis lib: "I think we can all agree that this whole thing could have been avoided if the rubric was more clear."
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
All of conservative media, in unison: "All trannies are mentally ill and shouldn't be allowed to teach."
Some cis lib: "I think we can all agree that this whole thing could have been avoided if the rubric was more clear."
Some cis lib: "I think we can all agree that this whole thing could have been avoided if the rubric was more clear."