Kit Morley
@gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social
Queer trans nerd (he/him). Ex-academic with the student loan debt to prove it. Fannish, sometimes on main.
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Looking right at you from the center of her ravishing lace collar: a woman, painted by Frans Pourbus the Younger. Today was his day.
February 20, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Looking right at you from the center of her ravishing lace collar: a woman, painted by Frans Pourbus the Younger. Today was his day.
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Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy.
For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/ital...
For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/ital...
Catholic rituals blend with Neapolitan folklore in pilgrimage for queer community
MERCOGLIANO, Italy (RNS) — The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing lacquered nails, towering wigs and heavy eyelashes.
apnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy.
For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/ital...
For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/ital...
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
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If you believe in radfem ideology you should at the very least raise your daughters as boys and give them t at puberty.
If oppression is really all womanhood is you're abusing them by socializing them into it.
If oppression is really all womanhood is you're abusing them by socializing them into it.
February 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
If you believe in radfem ideology you should at the very least raise your daughters as boys and give them t at puberty.
If oppression is really all womanhood is you're abusing them by socializing them into it.
If oppression is really all womanhood is you're abusing them by socializing them into it.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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I wrote about 'MELANIA' johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/my-melania...
My 'MELANIA' Experience
Melania, 'MELANIA,' and Me
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I wrote about 'MELANIA' johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/my-melania...
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The New Mexico Department of Health on Tuesday announced a newborn had died from a listeria infection that likely was caused by raw milk the mother drank during pregnancy.
Health officials: New Mexico baby's listeria death tied to raw milk
The agency noted raw milk can contain several types of disease-causing bacteria, including listeria.
www.santafenewmexican.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:16 AM
The New Mexico Department of Health on Tuesday announced a newborn had died from a listeria infection that likely was caused by raw milk the mother drank during pregnancy.
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"It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."
I love this final sentence. It's bleak and lonely and yet not, I like to think, devoid of hope. 🐋
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I love this final sentence. It's bleak and lonely and yet not, I like to think, devoid of hope. 🐋
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February 1, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."
I love this final sentence. It's bleak and lonely and yet not, I like to think, devoid of hope. 🐋
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I love this final sentence. It's bleak and lonely and yet not, I like to think, devoid of hope. 🐋
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I was struck by this line in ch 134: "but Ahab’s soul’s a centipede, that moves upon a hundred legs."
Ahab is boasting about his invulnerability, but in the process he imagines himself as something low, grotesque, ignoble. Typical metaphors for the soul are animals seen as noble, like hawks 🐋
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Ahab is boasting about his invulnerability, but in the process he imagines himself as something low, grotesque, ignoble. Typical metaphors for the soul are animals seen as noble, like hawks 🐋
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January 31, 2026 at 3:14 AM
I was struck by this line in ch 134: "but Ahab’s soul’s a centipede, that moves upon a hundred legs."
Ahab is boasting about his invulnerability, but in the process he imagines himself as something low, grotesque, ignoble. Typical metaphors for the soul are animals seen as noble, like hawks 🐋
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Ahab is boasting about his invulnerability, but in the process he imagines himself as something low, grotesque, ignoble. Typical metaphors for the soul are animals seen as noble, like hawks 🐋
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I wonder how much M is deliberately playing with readers' expectations in ch 133. The language becomes that of a sentimental Victorian novel, conventional for all its excess. So M primes us to expect or hope for a sentimental and morally legible resolution where Ahab has a change of heart. 🐋
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January 30, 2026 at 4:34 AM
I wonder how much M is deliberately playing with readers' expectations in ch 133. The language becomes that of a sentimental Victorian novel, conventional for all its excess. So M primes us to expect or hope for a sentimental and morally legible resolution where Ahab has a change of heart. 🐋
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Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
I couldn't read the whole article (paywalled, and I'm not giving the institutionally transphobic Atlantic my money), but the excerpt raises an interesting question: is there artistry in boredom? How do we cope with and value a text like Moby Dick that seems deliberately boring at times? 🐋
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James, what the fuck are you talking about?
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January 29, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I couldn't read the whole article (paywalled, and I'm not giving the institutionally transphobic Atlantic my money), but the excerpt raises an interesting question: is there artistry in boredom? How do we cope with and value a text like Moby Dick that seems deliberately boring at times? 🐋
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Man who's been fishing chats with his neighbor who spins. Unusual glimpse of male home-based labor & sociability from Quirijn Brekelenkam, 1663.
January 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Man who's been fishing chats with his neighbor who spins. Unusual glimpse of male home-based labor & sociability from Quirijn Brekelenkam, 1663.
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Researchers K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin document the discovery of a family unable to conceive of gender...
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social's "CONGENITAL AGENESIS OF GENDER IDEATION by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" is free to read now on Reactor!
Edited by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com
Art by Reiko Murakami
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social's "CONGENITAL AGENESIS OF GENDER IDEATION by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" is free to read now on Reactor!
Edited by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com
Art by Reiko Murakami
Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botki - Reactor
Researchers K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin document the discovery of a family unable to conceive of gender.
reactormag.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Researchers K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin document the discovery of a family unable to conceive of gender...
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social's "CONGENITAL AGENESIS OF GENDER IDEATION by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" is free to read now on Reactor!
Edited by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com
Art by Reiko Murakami
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social's "CONGENITAL AGENESIS OF GENDER IDEATION by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" is free to read now on Reactor!
Edited by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com
Art by Reiko Murakami
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
I'm fascinated by how M wrestles in chs 104-105 with deep time, evolution, and the possibility of extinction.
Moby Dick pre-dates The Origin of Species by a few years, but evolution was known (Darwin's work explained the mechanism). As was extinction--but human-caused extinction? 🐋
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Moby Dick pre-dates The Origin of Species by a few years, but evolution was known (Darwin's work explained the mechanism). As was extinction--but human-caused extinction? 🐋
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January 25, 2026 at 4:25 AM
I'm fascinated by how M wrestles in chs 104-105 with deep time, evolution, and the possibility of extinction.
Moby Dick pre-dates The Origin of Species by a few years, but evolution was known (Darwin's work explained the mechanism). As was extinction--but human-caused extinction? 🐋
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Moby Dick pre-dates The Origin of Species by a few years, but evolution was known (Darwin's work explained the mechanism). As was extinction--but human-caused extinction? 🐋
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for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...
Michael Connelly Should Stick To Fake Crime | Defector
The origin of Michael Connelly’s new true crime podcast, Killer in the Code, was a rather far-fetched tip fielded by Rick Jackson, a retired detective from the Los Angeles Police Department. A self-de...
defector.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:43 PM
for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...
I had a whole thread about today's reading almost ready to post, and then I clicked the wrong button and it was gone.
I'm too tired to fully reconstruct it, but I do want to talk about how M describes Pip's experience as divine revelation and cosmic horror simultaneously. 🐋
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I'm too tired to fully reconstruct it, but I do want to talk about how M describes Pip's experience as divine revelation and cosmic horror simultaneously. 🐋
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January 23, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I had a whole thread about today's reading almost ready to post, and then I clicked the wrong button and it was gone.
I'm too tired to fully reconstruct it, but I do want to talk about how M describes Pip's experience as divine revelation and cosmic horror simultaneously. 🐋
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I'm too tired to fully reconstruct it, but I do want to talk about how M describes Pip's experience as divine revelation and cosmic horror simultaneously. 🐋
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For my fellow queer folks, I'll note that trans people are generally allowed to donate! MSM are allowed to donate, though still with ridiculous restrictions.
Please don't boycott donating; people who need blood will die without it, and they didn't make the Red Cross's donor policies.
Please don't boycott donating; people who need blood will die without it, and they didn't make the Red Cross's donor policies.
If you can donate blood, this would be a good time to do it
www.wabi.tv/2026/01/20/s...
www.wabi.tv/2026/01/20/s...
Severe blood shortage declared in US
The American Red Cross has declared a “severe blood shortage” in the country.
www.wabi.tv
January 22, 2026 at 4:45 AM
For my fellow queer folks, I'll note that trans people are generally allowed to donate! MSM are allowed to donate, though still with ridiculous restrictions.
Please don't boycott donating; people who need blood will die without it, and they didn't make the Red Cross's donor policies.
Please don't boycott donating; people who need blood will die without it, and they didn't make the Red Cross's donor policies.
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Melville, in chs 85-88: Whales are bigger, better elephants, except when they're people. They're mostly people, and people are mostly whales. Also, big strong dudes are the hottest, and Jesus was a twink. 🐋
January 21, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Melville, in chs 85-88: Whales are bigger, better elephants, except when they're people. They're mostly people, and people are mostly whales. Also, big strong dudes are the hottest, and Jesus was a twink. 🐋
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This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
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