Theo
@theokane.bsky.social
Author, cat person, plant daddy, comic nerd, and book lover. 🚫 AI. They/he. In my garden in Seattle. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 sliverofice.com/links
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Theo
@theokane.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Solace in Fantasy Monster Romances and My Trans Body - Uncanny Magazine
In July 2022, I lay in bed recovering from gender-affirming bottom surgery.1 Outside of two modest earlobe piercings, I’d never permanently changed my body before; to finally feel in control of my own...
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Read my essay in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for free — Solace in Fantasy Monster Romances and My Trans Body www.uncannymagazine.com/article/sola...
Thanks to Michael and the team for making this happen, and my friend James for their early feedback. 🏳️⚧️💕 #Romancelandia
Thanks to Michael and the team for making this happen, and my friend James for their early feedback. 🏳️⚧️💕 #Romancelandia
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Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist!
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist!
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
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As it's Ms. Bev's birthday—which should be a #Romancelandia national holiday—here's a few of my favorite Ms. Bev heroines!
Billie, Destiny's Surrender
Teresa, Wild Sweet Love
Maggie, Night Hawk
Jessi Rose, The Taming of Jessi Rose
Kate, Topaz
Spring, Wild Rain
Loreli, A Chance at Love
Viveca, Vivid
Billie, Destiny's Surrender
Teresa, Wild Sweet Love
Maggie, Night Hawk
Jessi Rose, The Taming of Jessi Rose
Kate, Topaz
Spring, Wild Rain
Loreli, A Chance at Love
Viveca, Vivid
February 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
As it's Ms. Bev's birthday—which should be a #Romancelandia national holiday—here's a few of my favorite Ms. Bev heroines!
Billie, Destiny's Surrender
Teresa, Wild Sweet Love
Maggie, Night Hawk
Jessi Rose, The Taming of Jessi Rose
Kate, Topaz
Spring, Wild Rain
Loreli, A Chance at Love
Viveca, Vivid
Billie, Destiny's Surrender
Teresa, Wild Sweet Love
Maggie, Night Hawk
Jessi Rose, The Taming of Jessi Rose
Kate, Topaz
Spring, Wild Rain
Loreli, A Chance at Love
Viveca, Vivid
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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
All this Star Trek "discourse" makes me want to get my sci-fi magazines from the 90s out of storage because haters have been complaining about the same tired things for 30+ years. Grow a personality.
February 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM
All this Star Trek "discourse" makes me want to get my sci-fi magazines from the 90s out of storage because haters have been complaining about the same tired things for 30+ years. Grow a personality.
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I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:
Not to 🌵🤓....
You'd be very lucky to grow one that ends up looking like that. That's 20+ years of optimal growth and specific conditions for flowering.
Here's mine, in the same genus (Mammillaria), flowering in March 2025 at age 9.
(Mine's not grown in optimal conditions.)
You'd be very lucky to grow one that ends up looking like that. That's 20+ years of optimal growth and specific conditions for flowering.
Here's mine, in the same genus (Mammillaria), flowering in March 2025 at age 9.
(Mine's not grown in optimal conditions.)
February 13, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Not to 🌵🤓....
You'd be very lucky to grow one that ends up looking like that. That's 20+ years of optimal growth and specific conditions for flowering.
Here's mine, in the same genus (Mammillaria), flowering in March 2025 at age 9.
(Mine's not grown in optimal conditions.)
You'd be very lucky to grow one that ends up looking like that. That's 20+ years of optimal growth and specific conditions for flowering.
Here's mine, in the same genus (Mammillaria), flowering in March 2025 at age 9.
(Mine's not grown in optimal conditions.)
20th read of 2026:
Transgender History, 2nd ed: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
A very good primer on the history of the US’s trans rights movement through 2017. Even knowing the history, I found it enlightening to see the timeline and events laid out.
4/5 stars #Booksky 🏳️⚧️
Transgender History, 2nd ed: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
A very good primer on the history of the US’s trans rights movement through 2017. Even knowing the history, I found it enlightening to see the timeline and events laid out.
4/5 stars #Booksky 🏳️⚧️
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 AM
20th read of 2026:
Transgender History, 2nd ed: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
A very good primer on the history of the US’s trans rights movement through 2017. Even knowing the history, I found it enlightening to see the timeline and events laid out.
4/5 stars #Booksky 🏳️⚧️
Transgender History, 2nd ed: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
A very good primer on the history of the US’s trans rights movement through 2017. Even knowing the history, I found it enlightening to see the timeline and events laid out.
4/5 stars #Booksky 🏳️⚧️
This book is my current read, and it's so good ❤️ #booksky #romancelandia
The romantic fish scaling is from Forbidden by @authormsbev.bsky.social — a perfect read for Valentine’s Day and Black History Month! www.beverlyjenkins.net/books/old-we...
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
This book is my current read, and it's so good ❤️ #booksky #romancelandia
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Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
America - where you can use an HSA debit card, linked to your health insurance situation, but cannot have an online account to check the balance and pay it off, or whatever, because you're not the "primary" account holder.
February 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
America - where you can use an HSA debit card, linked to your health insurance situation, but cannot have an online account to check the balance and pay it off, or whatever, because you're not the "primary" account holder.
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Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.
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Great thread on the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Great thread on the Bad Bunny halftime show.
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fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
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The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
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"Romance readers happily shell out three or four times the price of a mass market on deluxe hardcovers with colorfully stained edges on the paper or other embellishments."
No. No. I don't. I buy most of my books used.
No. No. I don't. I buy most of my books used.
just to be clear, this also means that huge numbers of romance titles are now functionally out of print. and sure, romance has always been an ephemeral genre, but this decimates the genre in a very real way.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:51 PM
"Romance readers happily shell out three or four times the price of a mass market on deluxe hardcovers with colorfully stained edges on the paper or other embellishments."
No. No. I don't. I buy most of my books used.
No. No. I don't. I buy most of my books used.
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You should be reading books by queer men if you are reading m/m romance. You should be intentionally be reading diversely when it comes to both BIPOC and trans authors.
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
You should be reading books by queer men if you are reading m/m romance. You should be intentionally be reading diversely when it comes to both BIPOC and trans authors.
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It's wild in the worst possible way to me that we have an exposed, massive, ring of pedophile oligarch wealth fetish freaks who have been fucking with all our lives on multiple fronts and there are people who still think immigrants are a real problem. What are you doing.
February 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
It's wild in the worst possible way to me that we have an exposed, massive, ring of pedophile oligarch wealth fetish freaks who have been fucking with all our lives on multiple fronts and there are people who still think immigrants are a real problem. What are you doing.
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*banging pots & pans* UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE FIRST 3 GAME CHANGERS AUDIOBOOKS AT THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY libbyapp.com/search/queer...
two men are holding hands in front of a bookshelf with the words intimacy coordinators hate them
ALT: two men are holding hands in front of a bookshelf with the words intimacy coordinators hate them
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February 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
*banging pots & pans* UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE FIRST 3 GAME CHANGERS AUDIOBOOKS AT THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY libbyapp.com/search/queer...
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Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.
Thinking about how Harlequin started and boomed because they published romances in mass market paperback for cheap. 🤔
Thinking about how every major publisher ahas stopped mass market paperback publishing during a Recession and Harlequin is shutting down historical publishing. 🤡
Thinking about how every major publisher ahas stopped mass market paperback publishing during a Recession and Harlequin is shutting down historical publishing. 🤡
February 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Thinking about how Harlequin started and boomed because they published romances in mass market paperback for cheap. 🤔
Thinking about how every major publisher ahas stopped mass market paperback publishing during a Recession and Harlequin is shutting down historical publishing. 🤡
Thinking about how every major publisher ahas stopped mass market paperback publishing during a Recession and Harlequin is shutting down historical publishing. 🤡
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In his latest e-newsletter Rob Saka takes credit for SAVING CURBY, the traffic safety median he personally wanted to remove since before he was elected & was ready to pay $2 MILLION to do it until he got widely ridiculed for his absurd vendetta. What an utterly shameless & pathetic laughingstock
February 5, 2026 at 11:02 PM
In his latest e-newsletter Rob Saka takes credit for SAVING CURBY, the traffic safety median he personally wanted to remove since before he was elected & was ready to pay $2 MILLION to do it until he got widely ridiculed for his absurd vendetta. What an utterly shameless & pathetic laughingstock
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Slaves. They just want slaves back.
The amount of work being outsourced to the Philippines, they might as well be a plantation
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
February 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Slaves. They just want slaves back.
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If you live in Washington state please take 20 seconds to sign in PRO for our millionaire tax bill currently going through state legislature.
Sign on PRO for WA's millionaire tax
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February 6, 2026 at 6:46 AM
If you live in Washington state please take 20 seconds to sign in PRO for our millionaire tax bill currently going through state legislature.
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Thursday sunset from First Hill in Seattle. I was on my way to an event and really only had time to snap a quick photo from the cross walk. Turned out ok!
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Thursday sunset from First Hill in Seattle. I was on my way to an event and really only had time to snap a quick photo from the cross walk. Turned out ok!
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SJR.8206 has been scheduled for a hearing in Senate Ways & Means!
Date & Time: Friday 2/6 at 10:30am
Sign in Pro by clicking on the link below (before 9:30am on Friday)
http://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=33844&aId=170156&caId=28084&tId=3
Date & Time: Friday 2/6 at 10:30am
Sign in Pro by clicking on the link below (before 9:30am on Friday)
http://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=33844&aId=170156&caId=28084&tId=3
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
SJR.8206 has been scheduled for a hearing in Senate Ways & Means!
Date & Time: Friday 2/6 at 10:30am
Sign in Pro by clicking on the link below (before 9:30am on Friday)
http://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=33844&aId=170156&caId=28084&tId=3
Date & Time: Friday 2/6 at 10:30am
Sign in Pro by clicking on the link below (before 9:30am on Friday)
http://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=33844&aId=170156&caId=28084&tId=3