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Backpacker, craft nerd, queer autist, primary care doctor. “What is true is already so. Ignoring it won’t make it better. Acknowledging it won’t make it worse. We can stand what is true, for we are already enduring it.”
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Squeeeee 🥰

Here is a nice mushroom

That this country has come apart at the seams may be the most optimistic telling of this part of history. What will historians make of this period of time? It’s all just so completely off the rails and weird and surreal. Am I in a story by Borges?

Some much needed good news!

What fresh horror is this? 😭 I really respected Whitman Walker until now. This is truly deplorable, and very concerning.

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

Some much needed humor for today

This is fucking incredible.

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

This is an incredible piece of art.

The gender affirming care ban executive order has been blocked in court! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.”

Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

Big ups to @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social for allowing usernames instead of phone numbers last year (signal.org/blog/phone-n...). Washington basically runs on Signal right now and that one change has made reporting and whistleblowing way more private and secure.

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

Huge win in DC. A TRO has been placed on DOJ from transferring multiple incarcerated trans folks.

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”

This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.

I am getting spotty reports of hospital systems in blue states cancelling gender affirming care appointments for those under 19 years of age. If true, this would be a major problem, as systems comply with illegal EOs in advance out of fear of DOJ weaponization. Please let me know if yours has.

This is so goddamn funny

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states: “'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

YIKES 😬 🤦‍♀️

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

If aliens chose New Jersey of all places to make first contact that would be pretty in line with all the shark jumping the writers of Reality have been doing lately

Oyyyy I hope this doesn’t work. AOC is great & should totally be in a leadership role.

The blue dragon is a marine mollusk that floats on the ocean and feeds on venomous creatures. Its appearance is incredible! Have you seen it before? #bluedragon #sea

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The most confusing part

Hilarious advertisement (for Arcane fans) twitter.com/JINXLUTION/s...

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

The gender affirming care ban in Montana has been BLOCKED by the MT Supreme Court in a unanimous decision. Montana has a constitutional right to privacy, including in our healthcare decisions. And today our constitution continues to protect individuals from government overreach.

Embroidery helps, though

Sad!