Alyson McManus
@alysonmcmanus.bsky.social
Writer. Trivia purveyor. Musician. Wrestling Fan. she/her
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
Havarti makes me Havafarti
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Havarti makes me Havafarti
I feel like Marty must be close to stopping Biff and resetting this 1985 dark timeline given everything in the last few months.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I feel like Marty must be close to stopping Biff and resetting this 1985 dark timeline given everything in the last few months.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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As I read this, I'm thinking about the man I interviewed who had to be hospitalized from the Covid he caught at the poultry processing plant and he got fired for it and he still has long Covid
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
As I read this, I'm thinking about the man I interviewed who had to be hospitalized from the Covid he caught at the poultry processing plant and he got fired for it and he still has long Covid
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So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
I love Elsbeth
This show is so fun.
This show is so fun.
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I love Elsbeth
This show is so fun.
This show is so fun.
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ugh was trying 2 avoid the bone dimension...
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
ugh was trying 2 avoid the bone dimension...
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As a woman who grew up in the era of Billie Jean King, the whole discourse about trans women athletes is a bit baffling to me. I'm appalled that 50 years after she inspired acceptance of girls and women as athletes, so many have now been influenced to think that women are inferior and can't compete.
Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
defector.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As a woman who grew up in the era of Billie Jean King, the whole discourse about trans women athletes is a bit baffling to me. I'm appalled that 50 years after she inspired acceptance of girls and women as athletes, so many have now been influenced to think that women are inferior and can't compete.
If the Seattle progressive city council can accomplish one thing of their progressive slate, I really hope it’s more public bathrooms and funding for their cleaning. Theres just a lot of small things that can become good if people can go in dignity.
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If the Seattle progressive city council can accomplish one thing of their progressive slate, I really hope it’s more public bathrooms and funding for their cleaning. Theres just a lot of small things that can become good if people can go in dignity.
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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Jarvis Brownlee suplexing Stefon Diggs:
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Jarvis Brownlee suplexing Stefon Diggs:
The US Bishops announcement about gender affirming care in their medical systems is frightening.
Even in Washington state where a few of our largest medical systems are owned by Catholics. Swedish and Virginia Mason are both Catholic now because of mergers.
Even in Washington state where a few of our largest medical systems are owned by Catholics. Swedish and Virginia Mason are both Catholic now because of mergers.
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The US Bishops announcement about gender affirming care in their medical systems is frightening.
Even in Washington state where a few of our largest medical systems are owned by Catholics. Swedish and Virginia Mason are both Catholic now because of mergers.
Even in Washington state where a few of our largest medical systems are owned by Catholics. Swedish and Virginia Mason are both Catholic now because of mergers.
Could it be the mainstream media's obsession with trans people and causing us to be afraid of being assaulted or filmed? And cis people are also affected by this. Thanks I hate it.
Americans aren’t getting naked in locker rooms as much anymore. It’s a striking reversal in cultural norms—one that could profoundly change how we view the naked body, Jacob Beckert writes:
The Disappearance of Everyday Nudity
American locker rooms are getting more modest. We’re losing something in the process.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Could it be the mainstream media's obsession with trans people and causing us to be afraid of being assaulted or filmed? And cis people are also affected by this. Thanks I hate it.
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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ROBOCOP 3
OCEAN/EDEN ENTERTAINMENT 1993
SEGA GENESIS
OCEAN/EDEN ENTERTAINMENT 1993
SEGA GENESIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
ROBOCOP 3
OCEAN/EDEN ENTERTAINMENT 1993
SEGA GENESIS
OCEAN/EDEN ENTERTAINMENT 1993
SEGA GENESIS
Transphobia from center left and leftists is just as bad as transphobia from the right. Please please don’t abandon us.
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Transphobia from center left and leftists is just as bad as transphobia from the right. Please please don’t abandon us.
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An antifascist popular front and transphobia are incompatible. A big tent that includes transphobes isn't a big tent, it's a tent with a hole in the roof.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
An antifascist popular front and transphobia are incompatible. A big tent that includes transphobes isn't a big tent, it's a tent with a hole in the roof.
Fuck Aaron judge and east coast bias
And double fuck the New York Yankees
And double fuck the New York Yankees
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Fuck Aaron judge and east coast bias
And double fuck the New York Yankees
And double fuck the New York Yankees
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Game 5 of the ALDS has entered the 9,748th inning, the Sounders are in round 3,250 of their shootout and Katie Wilson leads the vote count for mayor by 91 votes. Seattle just doesn’t like knowing results.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Game 5 of the ALDS has entered the 9,748th inning, the Sounders are in round 3,250 of their shootout and Katie Wilson leads the vote count for mayor by 91 votes. Seattle just doesn’t like knowing results.
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As many of you know, a handful of Dem Sens have voted on a CR that keeps the government funded until Jan 30, which would end the shutdown. For those watching for anti-trans provisions, there are none in the CR.
Senate Vets-MilCon, Leg, Ag minibus bills for FY26 have no riders.
Senate Vets-MilCon, Leg, Ag minibus bills for FY26 have no riders.
Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
As many of you know, a handful of Dem Sens have voted on a CR that keeps the government funded until Jan 30, which would end the shutdown. For those watching for anti-trans provisions, there are none in the CR.
Senate Vets-MilCon, Leg, Ag minibus bills for FY26 have no riders.
Senate Vets-MilCon, Leg, Ag minibus bills for FY26 have no riders.
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(helpless laughter) “BUREAUS.” 🤣
At a private equity firm on “5th and Wall”?
Actual New Yorkers know Fifth Avenue (never 5th!) in NYC doesn’t intersect with Wall Street. It ends at Washington Square Park.
Can you find the other clues that this account is lying and probably a foreign-run bot?
Good luck on leaving the “5 bureaus”
Actual New Yorkers know Fifth Avenue (never 5th!) in NYC doesn’t intersect with Wall Street. It ends at Washington Square Park.
Can you find the other clues that this account is lying and probably a foreign-run bot?
Good luck on leaving the “5 bureaus”
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
(helpless laughter) “BUREAUS.” 🤣
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Between this and learning Alize is one of those right-wing weirdo lesbians posting anti-vax and anti-trans shit on her Insta the brief joy of "oh hey a queer couple tag team that rules" from Wednesday is well and truly dead
Miranda Alize and Nixon Newell (Tegan Nox) refused to lose tonight against TayJay, per a PWInsider report. Working to confirm and get details.
They were replaced by Hyan and Maya World
They were replaced by Hyan and Maya World
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Between this and learning Alize is one of those right-wing weirdo lesbians posting anti-vax and anti-trans shit on her Insta the brief joy of "oh hey a queer couple tag team that rules" from Wednesday is well and truly dead