My recs for #TransRightsReadathon coming up in a few days! 10 transfem authors, 2 non-transfem ones :) @badambulist.bsky.social @callistokhan.bsky.social @ciricegray.itch.io @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io @b-saxon.femfactory.tech @trishusband.itch.io @autumnwolff.bsky.social @danifinnwrites.bsky.social.
You're closer to 1/3rd of the way through, yeah.
It's fun! You read the first book and think you're either 1/4 or 1/3rd done, and instead you're, like, 1/7th. There's so much more you get to read! :D
(Total length so far is about 1 million words)
also a reminder that this account is always an advertisement for the video game we made but please donate to trans lifeline if you already own unbeatable. also do it if you don't. do that first, do not just use us as pretend praxis and feel good fun money use. buy a small trans creator's game first
finally found the time to dig into this one and she's ripped my heart out again, yall. one brutal, visceral, gripping scene after another and while there is some respite to be found in the small moments, everybody's still in hell. F&F is a hard act to follow but Kay fucking knocked it outta the park
every person who worked on unbeatable (including many trans people) gets a cut of the game and it also supports the studio which helps us keep them hired
so basically buy your trans friends unbeatable to kill three birds with one forbidden ultimate move
a sketch of a smartphone with tactile buttons for home/window/back, headphone jack, no AI BS, sim card thingy you can open with your nail, camera that doesn't cover the damn screen, and a 5 inch/127mm screen which is a reasonable size
I wouldn't say I'm massively into phones or anything but I sketched this out of frustration bc why are there no modern phones with these features, it would be so perfect and I'm mad the only ones are old and slow
A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside.
And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.
...I *adore* Bravely Default and Bravely Second and I heard *nothing* about this. Not sure it's worth it to buy another copy of it, but some announcements would've been nice.
I think it's the book "Because Internet" that notes that keysmashing has set patterns (actual random keysmashes don't look like keysmashing) and also dialects based on keyboard layout and input type (phone keysmashes tend to be different from keyboard ones in predictable ways)
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Bottle Blondes is a really sweet and fun story; I'm really excited that it's getting a print run!
tweet by wokeometer. text id: In Stars And Time: Time-loop RPG derailed by all-queer cast's pronoun parades and aroace faith crises. Official score: 7/10 🦠 Found family sermon over swordplay.
ISAT is only worth a SEVEN on the wokeometer scale?????? im so sorry everyone. i have failed you
Team Butterfly Forever is my favorite web serial I've read in the last year.
It has a lot of heart (as you would expect), it very effectively captures growing up in the 2000s and come into adulthood in the 2010s, and I love the worldbuilding.
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A catalogue being held up in front of the very busy halls of Olympia, where London Book Fair is in progress. The catalogue features the cover image of Secrets of Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves.
Of course, the highlight of this London Book Fair has to be Dorley's pride of place on the @wiltonsquare.bsky.social catalogue! 👀 @badambulist.bsky.social
You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD.
You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it.
I've made my calls today. You need to.
I remember being interested in this when it launched on the Switch, but never got around to checking it out. The concept seems fun, and not exactly difficult to get a very queer reading from.
A broken, blue heart
With a broken Blue Bomber heart, I am no longer the voice of Mega Man.
I was asked to return for Mega Man: Dual Override, but only on the condition I work without the protections of a union contract.
Outrageously corrupt, prejudiced "science" from the NHS:
- Enforce one particular treatment pathway for years
- Rig your literature survey to exclude that pathway
- Declare that, amazingly, there is "no evidence" for any treatment pathway
- Ban the treatment
- Shrug as people suffer untreated
Two similarly designed boxes, white with a red spiral and a red gradient. The left is for PROGYNOVA (a transfem HRT medication), and the right is for Debian GNU/Linux
the ultimate example of this is, of course, the Debian Estrogen
you can't convince me that the "ADHD is overdiagnosed" crisis isn't manufactured bc the govt doesn't want to actually recognize ADHD as a disability that needs active medical attention & is frequently inaccessible bc the effects of unmanaged ADHD
If I had a dollar for every person who asks how defense attorneys sleep at night, I’d be able to pay my student loans. If I had a dollar for every person who asks how prosecutors sleep at night, I could maybe buy a pack of gum. Broken society.
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
Making conversion therapy the official NHS policy for trans youth
holy shit
This is really fucking frustrating as someone who has warned the community to stop shouting their mouth off on social media about self-medication, where to get it, or how.
People need to be more savvy about the realities of the beast they face, or they will get eaten.
The say "loose lips sink ships" but in reality, loose lips compromise yourself and everyone like you. Boats will be unaffected.
Stop talking to people you dont know irl about the subject - you are just as likely to be handing information to the enemy to use against you.
Wise up.
It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)
Happy women's day if you're a woman
if you're not there's always next year
