Sevonaut
@sevonaut.bsky.social
Middle-aged trans woman surviving the apocalypse with baking, flowers/trees, silly times with my kid, and some righteous indignation.
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Always relevant!
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Always relevant!
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
I was a biology and English double major in college, and I feel I am thus qualified to state unequivocally that pronouns are not biological.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I was a biology and English double major in college, and I feel I am thus qualified to state unequivocally that pronouns are not biological.
It's lovely to read someone who can write such an eloquent, incisive and clear-eyed appraisal of the vapidity of the 'journalism' being done at the New York Times. Like the United States, its good reputation is solely based on past glory, not its shambolic present-day work.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's lovely to read someone who can write such an eloquent, incisive and clear-eyed appraisal of the vapidity of the 'journalism' being done at the New York Times. Like the United States, its good reputation is solely based on past glory, not its shambolic present-day work.
Dating websites are very, very, very disappointing as a 50-something trans woman with self-respect.
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Dating websites are very, very, very disappointing as a 50-something trans woman with self-respect.
You have ardent fans in the U.S., Zack.
A lovely guy who can think on this feet.
Also - do penguins have knees???
Also - do penguins have knees???
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You have ardent fans in the U.S., Zack.
This is why Dems still trying to play nice with Rs is fruitless. They’ve been intentionally undermining democracy for at least 25 years. Whenever Dems take power again, they cannot go back to “our hands are tied!”
Only time besides Obama‘s
election that I saved multiple newspapers for several days around the event. A horrifying and overt corrupt action to prevent Gore being seated. Bush stole the election in plain sight and anybody who was adult at the time saying otherwise is playing right in your face
election that I saved multiple newspapers for several days around the event. A horrifying and overt corrupt action to prevent Gore being seated. Bush stole the election in plain sight and anybody who was adult at the time saying otherwise is playing right in your face
November 7th, 2000.
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is why Dems still trying to play nice with Rs is fruitless. They’ve been intentionally undermining democracy for at least 25 years. Whenever Dems take power again, they cannot go back to “our hands are tied!”
I cannot stress enough that using AI is training it for its raison d’etre, which is to eliminate the need for company owners to pay workers to do or make anything. This is why they are investing billions. This is why they don’t care if it tells people to kill themselves. We are all expendable.
November 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I cannot stress enough that using AI is training it for its raison d’etre, which is to eliminate the need for company owners to pay workers to do or make anything. This is why they are investing billions. This is why they don’t care if it tells people to kill themselves. We are all expendable.
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One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
It's nosurprise at this point that the SCOTUS 6 are ethically and morally bankrupt. It seems they have no sense of the law as anything impartial; rather, they see themselves as Special, appointed wielders of power to rubber stamp the law when they agree, or create law where it doesn't exist. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's nosurprise at this point that the SCOTUS 6 are ethically and morally bankrupt. It seems they have no sense of the law as anything impartial; rather, they see themselves as Special, appointed wielders of power to rubber stamp the law when they agree, or create law where it doesn't exist. 1/
Wait, do I have hips? When did that happen?
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Wait, do I have hips? When did that happen?
With the latest weasely SCOTUS ruling shadow docket ruling denying that trans people are discriminated against, I'm wondering whether State will begin invalidating already issued passports. They are petty and dickish enough to do it.
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
With the latest weasely SCOTUS ruling shadow docket ruling denying that trans people are discriminated against, I'm wondering whether State will begin invalidating already issued passports. They are petty and dickish enough to do it.
Welp, back to the bad news.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Welp, back to the bad news.
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I think the fact that a huge number of people across the entire country were absolutely stoked and cheering in bars about the Democratic Socialist who won the NYC mayoral election *should* cause the Democrats to try to harness that energy rather than Schumering/DNCing/Third Waying it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I think the fact that a huge number of people across the entire country were absolutely stoked and cheering in bars about the Democratic Socialist who won the NYC mayoral election *should* cause the Democrats to try to harness that energy rather than Schumering/DNCing/Third Waying it.
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There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either.
Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.
Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either.
Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.
Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.
Centrists' determination to not question their worldview and their absolute conviction that the worst thing one can be is a leftist, must always tack right, etc. is on full display now. They cannot conceive that a left wing candidate could be popular except through unreproduceable circumstances. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Centrists' determination to not question their worldview and their absolute conviction that the worst thing one can be is a leftist, must always tack right, etc. is on full display now. They cannot conceive that a left wing candidate could be popular except through unreproduceable circumstances. 1/
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"He stayed away from identity politics"
Not even 12 hours and people already rewriting history. 🙄
Not even 12 hours and people already rewriting history. 🙄
Zohran Mamdani honors trailblazing Hispanic transgender activist Sylvia Rivera in a new campaign ad in which he pledges to “deploy hundreds of lawyers” to fight Donald Trump’s anti-trans attacks and to make NYC an LGBTQ+ sanctuary city: “In a time of darkness, New York must be the light.” 🕯️
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"He stayed away from identity politics"
Not even 12 hours and people already rewriting history. 🙄
Not even 12 hours and people already rewriting history. 🙄
Throwing LGBTQ people under the bus has historical roots.
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Throwing LGBTQ people under the bus has historical roots.
This is just a reminder that the Dem consultants saying we have to abandon all left-wing positions in order to win were the same people talking endlessly about "demographic inevitability" after Obama was elected rather than minding the store while Rs planned to destroy the country.
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is just a reminder that the Dem consultants saying we have to abandon all left-wing positions in order to win were the same people talking endlessly about "demographic inevitability" after Obama was elected rather than minding the store while Rs planned to destroy the country.
Third Way is not center-left. The kind description for them would be reactionary centrist. The unkind would be cowardly accommodationists. Your purple politics has lost us so many winnable elections.
![Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreidedpbe5cweyx6x5pz66ypn74fumifyvinjjr4prysjpvopaqi4vi@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Third Way is not center-left. The kind description for them would be reactionary centrist. The unkind would be cowardly accommodationists. Your purple politics has lost us so many winnable elections.
Centrists don't understand in their "focus on kitchen table issues" that they don't have to sacrifice trans people. Mamdani, Polanski and others show how to do it. They affirm trans people, imply the interlocutor is weird for focusing on it, and then talk about affordability in a seamless way. 1/
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Centrists don't understand in their "focus on kitchen table issues" that they don't have to sacrifice trans people. Mamdani, Polanski and others show how to do it. They affirm trans people, imply the interlocutor is weird for focusing on it, and then talk about affordability in a seamless way. 1/
I feel like a lot of people in American cities are in a constant tantrum over not being able to have the "Does Not Exist."
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.
Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I feel like a lot of people in American cities are in a constant tantrum over not being able to have the "Does Not Exist."
My gender is woman, but my philosophy is non-binary. I find something so crass and juvenile about the exercise of labeling people. Nothing against anyone who wants to self-describe, but it often feels like labels are little prisons for people to include or exclude.
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My gender is woman, but my philosophy is non-binary. I find something so crass and juvenile about the exercise of labeling people. Nothing against anyone who wants to self-describe, but it often feels like labels are little prisons for people to include or exclude.