italodisco calvino
@jetvanderlee.bsky.social
NPO digital guy | adhd peer coach | trans communist | Miata enthusiast | local ecologies | they/them | ☸️
this sucks. truly the end of an era.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this sucks. truly the end of an era.
if you remember being radicalized by dick cheney + the bush administration, it's time to get a tretinoin script
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
if you remember being radicalized by dick cheney + the bush administration, it's time to get a tretinoin script
"organic house" is just Spyro music
September 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"organic house" is just Spyro music
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WEST LA! Please help find a friend’s cat!
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
WEST LA! Please help find a friend’s cat!
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If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK
in a great session at #nn25 about deep canvassing to uproot disinformation organized by the New Conversation Initiative, and feeling really hopeful about post-social media tactics to change hearts and minds.
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
in a great session at #nn25 about deep canvassing to uproot disinformation organized by the New Conversation Initiative, and feeling really hopeful about post-social media tactics to change hearts and minds.
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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
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The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
June 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
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As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.
June 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.
i don't post much these days, but i really think a lot of people angry about this thread would have done well to keep reading it through to the end. *please* see the forest for the trees, folks. this part is so crucial.
That we show them that we are trans adults and we almost invariably didn't have gender affirming care before puberty and we are loved and beautiful and happy. The story of trans joy and trans beloved community NEEDS to be louder than the story of trans suicidality today.
June 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i don't post much these days, but i really think a lot of people angry about this thread would have done well to keep reading it through to the end. *please* see the forest for the trees, folks. this part is so crucial.
Opening my email to a new essay by @pempem.bsky.social is really one of the few things keeping me going.
mentalhellth.xyz/p/how-the-in...
mentalhellth.xyz/p/how-the-in...
How the Internet Turned Us Conservative
Doesn't matter what you yap about, it matters who controls the yapping.
mentalhellth.xyz
June 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Opening my email to a new essay by @pempem.bsky.social is really one of the few things keeping me going.
mentalhellth.xyz/p/how-the-in...
mentalhellth.xyz/p/how-the-in...
the holly AND the ivy? in this economy?
December 25, 2024 at 4:10 PM
the holly AND the ivy? in this economy?
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[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun
December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun
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This saturday, you, me, the chapter at large can hang out together at our end of year holiday social!
We've got games, a book exchange, rad comrads, and discussions about what to do in 2025.
RSVP today! actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-l...
We've got games, a book exchange, rad comrads, and discussions about what to do in 2025.
RSVP today! actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-l...
December 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM
This saturday, you, me, the chapter at large can hang out together at our end of year holiday social!
We've got games, a book exchange, rad comrads, and discussions about what to do in 2025.
RSVP today! actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-l...
We've got games, a book exchange, rad comrads, and discussions about what to do in 2025.
RSVP today! actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-l...
love how emergency preparedness guides always emphasize that it's important to stockpile "adequate supplies of daily medications" as if extra doses of medication are something you can just ... easily acquire
December 10, 2024 at 1:03 AM
love how emergency preparedness guides always emphasize that it's important to stockpile "adequate supplies of daily medications" as if extra doses of medication are something you can just ... easily acquire
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this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared
December 5, 2024 at 7:38 PM
this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared
for all Scorpios and all of the Scorpio-adjacent out there
Completed at last. My heinous gift guide for sworn enemies. Enjoy this curated list of cursed objects. Bequeath one to your detested foe! open.substack.com/pub/holapapi...
My Heinous Gift Guide for Sworn Enemies
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal
open.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:43 PM
for all Scorpios and all of the Scorpio-adjacent out there
i’m a real freak but probably the worst thing about me is that i can’t get enough of those institutional reconstituted scrambled eggs. the stuff they have for free at hotel buffets? delicious. i can eat a plateful. grotesque
December 3, 2024 at 3:38 PM
i’m a real freak but probably the worst thing about me is that i can’t get enough of those institutional reconstituted scrambled eggs. the stuff they have for free at hotel buffets? delicious. i can eat a plateful. grotesque
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Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing
November 30, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing
reality television producers are just the kids who deleted swimming pool ladders in The Sims all grown up
November 29, 2024 at 3:48 PM
reality television producers are just the kids who deleted swimming pool ladders in The Sims all grown up
that’s right flavor flav
Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
November 27, 2024 at 2:40 AM
that’s right flavor flav
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The New York Times trying to figure out how many people can fit under the bus
Americans are losing the right to exercise state power to restrict the fundamental human rights of a tiny minority of marginalized people without being criticized for that online, and Jeremy Fucking Peters is on it.
November 26, 2024 at 3:57 PM
The New York Times trying to figure out how many people can fit under the bus
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Oh my god. I had no idea:
Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Oh my god. I had no idea:
Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making
Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making