Kassie Withakay 🏳️⚧️
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What a terrifying fucking time to be alive.
If only this nation had some sort of investigative, journalistic tradition, or profession even, that could have warned us about this.
We Asked AI Models to Analyze Trump’s Latest Bizarre Rant. Verdict: ‘Profound Narcissistic Vulnerability’
Three AI models analyzed Trump’s latest rant and reached the same conclusion: a blast of grandiosity, insecurity, and authoritarian paranoia.
www.mediaite.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
If only this nation had some sort of investigative, journalistic tradition, or profession even, that could have warned us about this.
If, like me, you're in desperate need of a laugh, check out "Fackham Hall", like Airplane or Naked Gun, only English! Come for the silly visual puns, stay for the JRR Tolkein jokes.
Fackham Hall | Official Green Band Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Bleecker Street
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If, like me, you're in desperate need of a laugh, check out "Fackham Hall", like Airplane or Naked Gun, only English! Come for the silly visual puns, stay for the JRR Tolkein jokes.
What makes this, by @thegaslightreport.bsky.social, especially terrifying is not just the idea of a demented POTUS, it's that he's surrounded by people who see his behavior every day and do nothing, either because they're afraid, or more likely, in order to enact their own agenda without consequence
DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
frankgeorge8675309.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What makes this, by @thegaslightreport.bsky.social, especially terrifying is not just the idea of a demented POTUS, it's that he's surrounded by people who see his behavior every day and do nothing, either because they're afraid, or more likely, in order to enact their own agenda without consequence
Dreamt last night that I had to register for a work-related meeting involving the government, and they wouldn't accept my ID marked F because I was clearly trans, so I couldn't go and I was upset, and co-workers were sort of sympathetic but weird and stand-offish about it. Also, there were spiders.
a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat
Alt: Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons is riding by himself in a schoolbus and says: *Chuckles* I'm in danger.
media.tenor.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Dreamt last night that I had to register for a work-related meeting involving the government, and they wouldn't accept my ID marked F because I was clearly trans, so I couldn't go and I was upset, and co-workers were sort of sympathetic but weird and stand-offish about it. Also, there were spiders.
This petty cruelty meant to publicly erase the identity of a noteworthy transgender person is the raison d'être of MAGA and anyone associated with Trump. It's infuriating and depressing and I hope there are people in positions of power and responsibility who are willing to speak out against this.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This petty cruelty meant to publicly erase the identity of a noteworthy transgender person is the raison d'être of MAGA and anyone associated with Trump. It's infuriating and depressing and I hope there are people in positions of power and responsibility who are willing to speak out against this.
I was fortunate to be at the publication event last night with @sharplorin.bsky.social for this book I've been waiting months to read, and even snagged a few autographs! @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I was fortunate to be at the publication event last night with @sharplorin.bsky.social for this book I've been waiting months to read, and even snagged a few autographs! @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social
The anti-transgender grifter pipeline. From @parkermolloy.com
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The anti-transgender grifter pipeline. From @parkermolloy.com
Every day brings a new indignity from transphobes. I don't know how to bear it except to try my best to #protecttranskids
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Every day brings a new indignity from transphobes. I don't know how to bear it except to try my best to #protecttranskids
This makes me sad. Medical personnel at Sloan Kettering in NY took it upon themselves to change this transgender woman's gender marker in her medical records while she was under anesthesia for cancer surgery. NY Times paywall.
The Transgender Cancer Patient and What She Heard on Tape
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This makes me sad. Medical personnel at Sloan Kettering in NY took it upon themselves to change this transgender woman's gender marker in her medical records while she was under anesthesia for cancer surgery. NY Times paywall.
Strong floor, no ceiling, we pass the savings onto you.
brick wall, no door
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Strong floor, no ceiling, we pass the savings onto you.
And so it begins.
a group of people standing next to each other with the words " felicitous compliments of the gorging season to you sir "
Alt: From Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a group of people standing next to each other with the words " felicitous compliments of the gorging season to you sir "
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And so it begins.
I wrote a thing about Squid Game: The Challenge "reality" tv show.
What's next, Squid Game: The Musical? Squid Game: The Breakfast Cereal?
A number of shows and movies that depict the competitions of the sort seen in Squid Game as a dystopian aspect of an authoritarian state. In none of them is a winner-take-all death match portrayed as ...
such-small-portions.ghost.io
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I wrote a thing about Squid Game: The Challenge "reality" tv show.
If I somehow found myself competing in Squid Game: The Challenge, on elimination I would stagger around, hand to chest, like Shatner in a third season episode of Star Trek: TOS. It makes me sad that none of the shows players thought to do this.
a group of people are playing a game called squid game with numbers 1 through 12
Alt: Contestents on Squid Game: The Challenge pretend to die gruesome deaths when eliminated.
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If I somehow found myself competing in Squid Game: The Challenge, on elimination I would stagger around, hand to chest, like Shatner in a third season episode of Star Trek: TOS. It makes me sad that none of the shows players thought to do this.
For a shame-free Thanksgiving feast, I suggest that you *do not* first watch Ken Burn's "The American Revolution". Too bad if, like me, you already watched it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
For a shame-free Thanksgiving feast, I suggest that you *do not* first watch Ken Burn's "The American Revolution". Too bad if, like me, you already watched it.
Where's your God now, Charlie Brown?
This one goes to 11. It’s one louder, Charlie Brown
Have you no sense of decency, Charlie Brown, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Where's your God now, Charlie Brown?
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I may be okay but the collateral damage is going to be something to behold.
I may be okay but the collateral damage is going to be something to behold.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I may be okay but the collateral damage is going to be something to behold.
I may be okay but the collateral damage is going to be something to behold.
I love this movie so much, especially Dan O'Bannon as Sergeant Pinback. "Time to go sleepy-bye, you useless piece of garbage."
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I love this movie so much, especially Dan O'Bannon as Sergeant Pinback. "Time to go sleepy-bye, you useless piece of garbage."
I just watched "The Way to Eden" from Star Trek:TOS season 3, and it was every bit as bad as I remember, but it reminded me of this picture of an SF landmark I recently took.
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I just watched "The Way to Eden" from Star Trek:TOS season 3, and it was every bit as bad as I remember, but it reminded me of this picture of an SF landmark I recently took.
I was an English Major back in 1981 and decided to take an intro to computer science class as a lark.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I was an English Major back in 1981 and decided to take an intro to computer science class as a lark.
Also, interesting use of cis and trans prefixes for "Atlantic" by Thomas Jefferson in 1788, in case anyone claims these are made up terms. From docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jef...
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Also, interesting use of cis and trans prefixes for "Atlantic" by Thomas Jefferson in 1788, in case anyone claims these are made up terms. From docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jef...
If you're enjoying Ken Burn's American Revolution series like I am, I recommend this as an excellent companion piece.
Rationalising Colonialism - How the US Stole Indigenous American Land
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you're enjoying Ken Burn's American Revolution series like I am, I recommend this as an excellent companion piece.
This is great.
Yes they really use remote operators 😭 @Abir Bhattacharjee
TikTok video by Alberta Tech
www.tiktok.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is great.
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Donald Trump left on two blue ticks after Zohran goes back to New York 😢
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I wrote about Leelah Alcorn for #TransgenderDayofRemembrance #TDOR
Remembering Leelah Alcorn
Transgender Day of Remembrance
such-small-portions.ghost.io
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I wrote about Leelah Alcorn for #TransgenderDayofRemembrance #TDOR
No, @raskin.house.gov, we should not welcome the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene this easily. If she renounced the conspiracies, the anti-semitism, and the transphobia, and if she apologized directly to the colleagues she's maligned, then maybe, but certainly not yet.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
No, @raskin.house.gov, we should not welcome the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene this easily. If she renounced the conspiracies, the anti-semitism, and the transphobia, and if she apologized directly to the colleagues she's maligned, then maybe, but certainly not yet.