Jillian Whitton 🏳️⚧️, rising
@jillianw.bsky.social
"The thirst trap of Andersonville!" - Anne
Love, ferocity, and mathematics.
She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21
Love, ferocity, and mathematics.
She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21
Pinned
With love, ferocity, pride, and spite, we will endure.
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Democrats: If Texas/Florida/Oklahoma/whoever passes the Trans People Chopped Into Little Pieces and Fed to the Ducks Act, we will follow the law.
Trans people: Well, that's a shitty thing to say.
Democrats, six months later: We weren't transphobic enough. Also, Trump is your fault.
Trans people: Well, that's a shitty thing to say.
Democrats, six months later: We weren't transphobic enough. Also, Trump is your fault.
Palestinian-American voters: Please stop funding and supporting the cold-blooded murder of our kin.
Democrats: Best we can do is ask Israel politely to stop using the weapons we sold them to kill you.
Also Democrats: Those ungrateful fucking Palestinians!
Democrats: Best we can do is ask Israel politely to stop using the weapons we sold them to kill you.
Also Democrats: Those ungrateful fucking Palestinians!
January 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Democrats: If Texas/Florida/Oklahoma/whoever passes the Trans People Chopped Into Little Pieces and Fed to the Ducks Act, we will follow the law.
Trans people: Well, that's a shitty thing to say.
Democrats, six months later: We weren't transphobic enough. Also, Trump is your fault.
Trans people: Well, that's a shitty thing to say.
Democrats, six months later: We weren't transphobic enough. Also, Trump is your fault.
The moment when the campaign irrevocably went Full Shitshow.
January 29, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The moment when the campaign irrevocably went Full Shitshow.
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There's been some commentary to the effect that the only thing standing in the way of mandatory trans segregation in the UK is the outcome of the GLP vs EHRC judicial review.
On the face of it, this seems right.
But let's suppose that GLP loses...
1/
On the face of it, this seems right.
But let's suppose that GLP loses...
1/
January 29, 2026 at 12:25 PM
There's been some commentary to the effect that the only thing standing in the way of mandatory trans segregation in the UK is the outcome of the GLP vs EHRC judicial review.
On the face of it, this seems right.
But let's suppose that GLP loses...
1/
On the face of it, this seems right.
But let's suppose that GLP loses...
1/
A reminder:
It's not just Minneapolis.
It's not just Chicago and Los Angeles.
It's not just big cities.
It's not just blue states.
The goon squads are operating nationally.
Take care of your self, take care of one another.
Abolish ICE and DHS.
It's not just Minneapolis.
It's not just Chicago and Los Angeles.
It's not just big cities.
It's not just blue states.
The goon squads are operating nationally.
Take care of your self, take care of one another.
Abolish ICE and DHS.
I'm so angry.
At my food pantry shift today, 2 clients came running in. ICE was 2 blocks away, they wanted to get their food & run back home to warn people.
The pantry is in a very poor neighborhood populated with unhoused, Black & Brown people. In other words, easy pickings for ICE. /1
At my food pantry shift today, 2 clients came running in. ICE was 2 blocks away, they wanted to get their food & run back home to warn people.
The pantry is in a very poor neighborhood populated with unhoused, Black & Brown people. In other words, easy pickings for ICE. /1
January 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A reminder:
It's not just Minneapolis.
It's not just Chicago and Los Angeles.
It's not just big cities.
It's not just blue states.
The goon squads are operating nationally.
Take care of your self, take care of one another.
Abolish ICE and DHS.
It's not just Minneapolis.
It's not just Chicago and Los Angeles.
It's not just big cities.
It's not just blue states.
The goon squads are operating nationally.
Take care of your self, take care of one another.
Abolish ICE and DHS.
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Six years ago, I wrote about how the media has been falling for Trump's "new tone" nonsense for five years at that point. So we're now... 11 years into the media falling for Trump's "new tone." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Six years ago, I wrote about how the media has been falling for Trump's "new tone" nonsense for five years at that point. So we're now... 11 years into the media falling for Trump's "new tone." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Working from home today, so instead of the usual Wednesday commute pic, here I am in something other than multiple layers of warm.
Field Museum variant of the Chicago flag, complementary earrings.
Field Museum variant of the Chicago flag, complementary earrings.
January 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Working from home today, so instead of the usual Wednesday commute pic, here I am in something other than multiple layers of warm.
Field Museum variant of the Chicago flag, complementary earrings.
Field Museum variant of the Chicago flag, complementary earrings.
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40 acres and a pony
The pony:
The pony:
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
40 acres and a pony
The pony:
The pony:
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I've got half a mind to jump on that thread, and tell them I'll only vote Dem if they promise me an actual pony.
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I've got half a mind to jump on that thread, and tell them I'll only vote Dem if they promise me an actual pony.
I don't know how he does it, but the Hooligan can knock my watch charger off the night stand in the middle of the night. Without moving my watch.
He's very talented.
He's very talented.
January 28, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I don't know how he does it, but the Hooligan can knock my watch charger off the night stand in the middle of the night. Without moving my watch.
He's very talented.
He's very talented.
And it only works one way, for some reason. Not voting for Harris = a vote for Trump, but not voting for Trump ^= a vote for Harris.
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
And it only works one way, for some reason. Not voting for Harris = a vote for Trump, but not voting for Trump ^= a vote for Harris.
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The American Dream adage of "you can be rich if you work hard" serves only to convince the rich that they have worked hard.
January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The American Dream adage of "you can be rich if you work hard" serves only to convince the rich that they have worked hard.
A reminder that ICE was established in 2002, in the midst of an earlier bout of anti-brown-people panic.
It's been around for less than 24 years. Its existence isn't a law of nature.
Tearing it down is the bare minimum. Anything less is collaboration.
It's been around for less than 24 years. Its existence isn't a law of nature.
Tearing it down is the bare minimum. Anything less is collaboration.
Ah yes, I see senate Dems have gone from "abolish ICE!" to "well actually ICE is pretty great, as long as it's pointed at *those people* and they're wearing ID while they brutalize them. Also somehow they'll obey all of this despite covering up murders."
Expected yet still disappointing.
Expected yet still disappointing.
Word is from NBC that instructions from Mr. Schumer to his caucus are: “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” 1/ www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 27, 2026 at 3:02 PM
A reminder that ICE was established in 2002, in the midst of an earlier bout of anti-brown-people panic.
It's been around for less than 24 years. Its existence isn't a law of nature.
Tearing it down is the bare minimum. Anything less is collaboration.
It's been around for less than 24 years. Its existence isn't a law of nature.
Tearing it down is the bare minimum. Anything less is collaboration.
That would be the SPSDTTEONASAA
Did you know that NASA has an entire SharePoint site dedicated to the explanation of their acronyms?
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM
That would be the SPSDTTEONASAA
Data: homeless kids are disproportionately LGBTQ
Labour: it's not disproportionate enough
Labour: it's not disproportionate enough
"The guidance states that where a child requests action from a school in relation to “any degree” of social transition, schools should speak to parents “as a matter of priority” and encourage the child to speak to their parents."
This will get people killed. 🤬
This will get people killed. 🤬
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Data: homeless kids are disproportionately LGBTQ
Labour: it's not disproportionate enough
Labour: it's not disproportionate enough
...looks over at @scarlettaddams.bsky.social, nods in agreement.
Wife4wife is best life
The thought you can be a wife without having to be married to a man is so freeing
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 AM
...looks over at @scarlettaddams.bsky.social, nods in agreement.
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The gif of the year continues to deliver.
January 26, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The gif of the year continues to deliver.
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When you see the writing on the wall, and the writing says "better update your resumé, loser"
Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 PM
When you see the writing on the wall, and the writing says "better update your resumé, loser"
January 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Heads up, folks!
My settings haven't changed but it wouldn't hurt to check yours.
And if you don't have this setting checked already:
Settings -> Accessibility-> Require alt text when posting
You like what you're posting - so make sure everyone has access to it.
My settings haven't changed but it wouldn't hurt to check yours.
And if you don't have this setting checked already:
Settings -> Accessibility-> Require alt text when posting
You like what you're posting - so make sure everyone has access to it.
FUCK! Bluesky fucked with my accessibility settings. I had alt text on that, then deleted/reselected the photo and lost it. I should not have been able to poast! 🤬
Noticed it when I went to poast this color-corrected version.
Check your accessibility settings, just in case.
Noticed it when I went to poast this color-corrected version.
Check your accessibility settings, just in case.
January 26, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Heads up, folks!
My settings haven't changed but it wouldn't hurt to check yours.
And if you don't have this setting checked already:
Settings -> Accessibility-> Require alt text when posting
You like what you're posting - so make sure everyone has access to it.
My settings haven't changed but it wouldn't hurt to check yours.
And if you don't have this setting checked already:
Settings -> Accessibility-> Require alt text when posting
You like what you're posting - so make sure everyone has access to it.
Change a letter, ruin a film;
The Good, The Dad and The Ugly
The Good, The Dad and The Ugly
Change a letter, ruin a film:
Host in the Shell
Host in the Shell
Mobile Suit Gundap
January 25, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Change a letter, ruin a film;
The Good, The Dad and The Ugly
The Good, The Dad and The Ugly
Change a letter, ruin a film;
The Italian Bob
The Italian Bob
Change a letter, ruin a film;
Lock, Sock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Sock and Two Smoking Barrels
Change a letter, ruin a film;
Stat Wars
(Frequentists vs. Bayesians?)
Stat Wars
(Frequentists vs. Bayesians?)
January 25, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Change a letter, ruin a film;
The Italian Bob
The Italian Bob
Change a letter, ruin a film;
Stat Wars
(Frequentists vs. Bayesians?)
Stat Wars
(Frequentists vs. Bayesians?)
Change a letter, ruin a film;
The World According to Carp
The World According to Carp
Change a letter, ruin a film;
Apocalypse Wow
Apocalypse Wow
January 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Change a letter, ruin a film;
Stat Wars
(Frequentists vs. Bayesians?)
Stat Wars
(Frequentists vs. Bayesians?)
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Fourteen years ago I wrote a sonnet sequence. THE POET TO HER YOUNG COMRADES about the coming of Fascism, and some possible futures. It gives me no pleasure that I was Cassandra.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1ByP...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1ByP...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Fourteen years ago I wrote a sonnet sequence. THE POET TO HER YOUNG COMRADES about the coming of Fascism, and some possible futures. It gives me no pleasure that I was Cassandra.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1ByP...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1ByP...
Timeline cleanse.
Someone mysterious sent the Young Gentleman a formal collar. If it was you, thanks so much!💜🐈
Doesn't he look dapper?
Someone mysterious sent the Young Gentleman a formal collar. If it was you, thanks so much!💜🐈
Doesn't he look dapper?
January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Timeline cleanse.
Someone mysterious sent the Young Gentleman a formal collar. If it was you, thanks so much!💜🐈
Doesn't he look dapper?
Someone mysterious sent the Young Gentleman a formal collar. If it was you, thanks so much!💜🐈
Doesn't he look dapper?