Sevonaut
@sevonaut.bsky.social
Middle-aged trans woman surviving the apocalypse with baking, flowers/trees, silly times with my kid, and some righteous indignation.
This is horrifying. This is what the anti-trans bigots want. This is what people whinging about sports in lieu of standing strongly for trans people's rights enables - sanctioned rape of trans people. Don't tell me that anyone cares about "protecting women" when they support institutional rape.
New from me: The DOJ plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is horrifying. This is what the anti-trans bigots want. This is what people whinging about sports in lieu of standing strongly for trans people's rights enables - sanctioned rape of trans people. Don't tell me that anyone cares about "protecting women" when they support institutional rape.
Who knew you could tie for 5th place in a psychology course?
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Who knew you could tie for 5th place in a psychology course?
Agreed completely. It's not just "the cruelty is the point," although that's true. It's the belief that the cruelty will deliver something it cannot to a broken person's broken ego. Dangerous, b/c the broken people will keep increasing the cruelty to try to get their elusive righteousness. 1/4
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Agreed completely. It's not just "the cruelty is the point," although that's true. It's the belief that the cruelty will deliver something it cannot to a broken person's broken ego. Dangerous, b/c the broken people will keep increasing the cruelty to try to get their elusive righteousness. 1/4
I watched a cis person stumbling under verbal hectoring by a trans hater; this particular bigot was rehashing one of their little obsessions - how trans women's vaginas are 'fake'. They also seem pervertedly obsessed with dilation as proof of fakeness. Here's a point I wish the defender had made: 1/
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I watched a cis person stumbling under verbal hectoring by a trans hater; this particular bigot was rehashing one of their little obsessions - how trans women's vaginas are 'fake'. They also seem pervertedly obsessed with dilation as proof of fakeness. Here's a point I wish the defender had made: 1/
I think the move of being a mediocre young white cishet conservative woman who gets notoriety by seeking out contrived victimhood by framing a marginalized person as the perpetrator, should be forever named after Riley Gaines. A la Kavanaugh Stop.
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I think the move of being a mediocre young white cishet conservative woman who gets notoriety by seeking out contrived victimhood by framing a marginalized person as the perpetrator, should be forever named after Riley Gaines. A la Kavanaugh Stop.
Would that institutions cared enough about the human rights of trans people to risk the destruction of their institution rather than comply with fascist bigotry. But again and again, we see people and institutions unwilling to take on great risk for the sake of of trans people's rights.
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Would that institutions cared enough about the human rights of trans people to risk the destruction of their institution rather than comply with fascist bigotry. But again and again, we see people and institutions unwilling to take on great risk for the sake of of trans people's rights.
Part of my trans awakening was a book called "Boys & Sex," by Wardell Pomeroy, a sex-ed book for ~teens from the 1960s. I bought it myself when I was around 10. I don't know why I rode my bike to the bookstore and bought this book; I just know I did and my mother was rather shocked about it. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Part of my trans awakening was a book called "Boys & Sex," by Wardell Pomeroy, a sex-ed book for ~teens from the 1960s. I bought it myself when I was around 10. I don't know why I rode my bike to the bookstore and bought this book; I just know I did and my mother was rather shocked about it. 1/
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Yeah, this is what "big tent" centrism really means. "Your 'purity tests' won't let me pal around with misogynists who want stereotyped gender."
1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men."
Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men.
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Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny
Last week, Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego's texts leaked, where he lamented that Democratic "women look like men and men look like women."
www.erininthemorning.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yeah, this is what "big tent" centrism really means. "Your 'purity tests' won't let me pal around with misogynists who want stereotyped gender."
This is disgusting. If you're dehumanizing the person in your care, especially when they are under anesthesia, you are unfit to provide care to anyone.
1 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- 45 y/o Jennifer Capasso, who has w/ Stage 4 metastatic rectal cancer, files suit against NYC's Memorial Sloan Kettering: staff repeatedly used male pronouns, changed her records to "Male" w/o consent, & she taped them during surgery mocking her trans status.
Transgender Patient Sues Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for Years of Discriminatory Treatment — Wardenski P.C. | Civil Rights Law
Wardenski P.C. and Correia & Puth, PLLC have filed a civil rights lawsuit in New York state court against Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York City on behalf of Jennifer Capass...
www.wardenskilaw.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is disgusting. If you're dehumanizing the person in your care, especially when they are under anesthesia, you are unfit to provide care to anyone.
The Democratic party is functionally at least two parties, with one constituency most like the Greens in the UK, or Mamdani/DSA in the U.S., and the other constituency like Labour in the UK, and trad DNC, Schumer, Buttigieg, Clinton, etc. in the U.S. What is frustrating for the former is… 1/4
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Democratic party is functionally at least two parties, with one constituency most like the Greens in the UK, or Mamdani/DSA in the U.S., and the other constituency like Labour in the UK, and trad DNC, Schumer, Buttigieg, Clinton, etc. in the U.S. What is frustrating for the former is… 1/4
Whenever we've turned back the authoritarianism, and we've successfully repelled fascism, there will be voices in the center arguing for national comity. They will want to "just get along" by forgiving/forgetting. We should not allow the relief of winning to distract us from a proper Reconstruction.
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Whenever we've turned back the authoritarianism, and we've successfully repelled fascism, there will be voices in the center arguing for national comity. They will want to "just get along" by forgiving/forgetting. We should not allow the relief of winning to distract us from a proper Reconstruction.
My Discover feed is pretty much all people I already follow that somehow I don't see on my Following feed. I don't understand.
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My Discover feed is pretty much all people I already follow that somehow I don't see on my Following feed. I don't understand.
Is this like do your Kegels and follow your dreams?
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Is this like do your Kegels and follow your dreams?
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
If comedians et al who whine about being cancelled had any talent, they'd mock the irony of own grubby descent into self-identification as a put-upon victim in order to make money when most of their historic material leans on mocking people victimized by society.
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If comedians et al who whine about being cancelled had any talent, they'd mock the irony of own grubby descent into self-identification as a put-upon victim in order to make money when most of their historic material leans on mocking people victimized by society.
🧵 I'm not sure people in the U.S. understand the fundamental difference between public health and personal health ('healthcare') as systems. We have a massive, unwieldy, capitalist personal healthcare system that functions at a scale to look ~public. But it focuses on the individual's health. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🧵 I'm not sure people in the U.S. understand the fundamental difference between public health and personal health ('healthcare') as systems. We have a massive, unwieldy, capitalist personal healthcare system that functions at a scale to look ~public. But it focuses on the individual's health. 1/
My most hard-earned insight: showing vulnerability in how we show up & relate to others is strength. Not victimhood, but statements of revealing truth. Our country is being run by weak men, who think vulnerability is weakness, who posture fake strength b/c they're too scared to be vulnerable. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My most hard-earned insight: showing vulnerability in how we show up & relate to others is strength. Not victimhood, but statements of revealing truth. Our country is being run by weak men, who think vulnerability is weakness, who posture fake strength b/c they're too scared to be vulnerable. 1/
For the NYT and mainstream media, there are simply 2 or more contrary viewpoints on everything, reported as equally valid, and nothing more can be reported regarding the veracity, morality, or context of anything that happens.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
For the NYT and mainstream media, there are simply 2 or more contrary viewpoints on everything, reported as equally valid, and nothing more can be reported regarding the veracity, morality, or context of anything that happens.
I think society should be a heckuva lot more freaked out by AI passing as human than trans women passing as cis women.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I think society should be a heckuva lot more freaked out by AI passing as human than trans women passing as cis women.
It's toxic femininity when so-called 'feminists' argue that all women should be transvestigated if their features are perceived as masculine by anyone. Toxic femininity is having to prove your womanhood to the satisfaction of every other woman and the men they bring in to enforce their standards.
They call these women "regrettable costs" 😒
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It's toxic femininity when so-called 'feminists' argue that all women should be transvestigated if their features are perceived as masculine by anyone. Toxic femininity is having to prove your womanhood to the satisfaction of every other woman and the men they bring in to enforce their standards.
Watched a ~documentary police procedural thing on Netflix called "Missing: Dead or Alive." The last episode of the just released season featured a young trans woman. The police were pretty respectful of her gender identity, but the family consistently misgendered her while affirming.. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Watched a ~documentary police procedural thing on Netflix called "Missing: Dead or Alive." The last episode of the just released season featured a young trans woman. The police were pretty respectful of her gender identity, but the family consistently misgendered her while affirming.. 1/
I look at the unruly, fragmented collection of newsletters, streaming services, indy reporting, etc. I subscribe to and feel tempted to create cable tv and newspapers again from first principles.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I look at the unruly, fragmented collection of newsletters, streaming services, indy reporting, etc. I subscribe to and feel tempted to create cable tv and newspapers again from first principles.
Jesus: "Look, I shall guide her to make her male. So she may become a living spirit resembling you. Every female who becomes male. Will enter the Kingdom of Heaven." - Thomas 114.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Jesus: "Look, I shall guide her to make her male. So she may become a living spirit resembling you. Every female who becomes male. Will enter the Kingdom of Heaven." - Thomas 114.
"Asking ChatGPT" is not "doing research." I can ask crazy Uncle Larry's opinion, too, and he can tell me he read all the relevant material too. You are abandoning critical thinking at a moment where we desperately need more of it, not less.
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Asking ChatGPT" is not "doing research." I can ask crazy Uncle Larry's opinion, too, and he can tell me he read all the relevant material too. You are abandoning critical thinking at a moment where we desperately need more of it, not less.