yes this is help, who's calling?
@forgethere.bsky.social
queer disabled trans dude with the brain but not the presence of a very online person. has never not disappeared. well, once. sad and angry, but with jokes. he/him.
Nickel and Dimed. This was years ago and I was a college sophomore who had never even seen real poverty. I had always had empathy but this made me face the details, the logistics, and the precarity of minimum-age work. It changed the way I looked at the world. And it's worse now than it was then.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Nickel and Dimed. This was years ago and I was a college sophomore who had never even seen real poverty. I had always had empathy but this made me face the details, the logistics, and the precarity of minimum-age work. It changed the way I looked at the world. And it's worse now than it was then.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
global peacekeepers will do nothing if the US starts an illegal unilateral war against another country, without even a 9/11 to blame it on.
is this what it would feel like to see an ancient eldritch god destroy the laws of physics? growing, growing, rising into space, heedless of void and vacuum?
is this what it would feel like to see an ancient eldritch god destroy the laws of physics? growing, growing, rising into space, heedless of void and vacuum?
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
global peacekeepers will do nothing if the US starts an illegal unilateral war against another country, without even a 9/11 to blame it on.
is this what it would feel like to see an ancient eldritch god destroy the laws of physics? growing, growing, rising into space, heedless of void and vacuum?
is this what it would feel like to see an ancient eldritch god destroy the laws of physics? growing, growing, rising into space, heedless of void and vacuum?
been watching a bunch of this goofy old tv show. obvs i google all the celebrities involved. one of the panel regulars was kinda just irl lois lane & may have been murdered because she was investigating the jfk assassination. another one was the first woman to host a late-night show. old shit good.
October 6, 2025 at 5:52 AM
been watching a bunch of this goofy old tv show. obvs i google all the celebrities involved. one of the panel regulars was kinda just irl lois lane & may have been murdered because she was investigating the jfk assassination. another one was the first woman to host a late-night show. old shit good.
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"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.
Sorry, but fuck that.
Sorry, but fuck that.
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.
Sorry, but fuck that.
Sorry, but fuck that.
Tagging @smartypantsshow.bsky.social bc Rekha isn't on bsky.
My bf wrote a piece of microfiction last week in which Jane Goodall skinned her knee. When I sent him the news about her today, he responded:
OH NO
I REKHA'D
My bf wrote a piece of microfiction last week in which Jane Goodall skinned her knee. When I sent him the news about her today, he responded:
OH NO
I REKHA'D
October 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Tagging @smartypantsshow.bsky.social bc Rekha isn't on bsky.
My bf wrote a piece of microfiction last week in which Jane Goodall skinned her knee. When I sent him the news about her today, he responded:
OH NO
I REKHA'D
My bf wrote a piece of microfiction last week in which Jane Goodall skinned her knee. When I sent him the news about her today, he responded:
OH NO
I REKHA'D
so many reasons to send jay money for this circumstance! are you:
selfless and moral? trans people are economically disadvantaged!
selfish and obsessed with her intellectual output? post-op is a great time for ideas and writing!
an optimizer? get double points on your cis loyalty card this month!
selfless and moral? trans people are economically disadvantaged!
selfish and obsessed with her intellectual output? post-op is a great time for ideas and writing!
an optimizer? get double points on your cis loyalty card this month!
hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?
i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93
i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93
Donate to Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery, organized by Jay Dragon
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gofund.me
September 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
so many reasons to send jay money for this circumstance! are you:
selfless and moral? trans people are economically disadvantaged!
selfish and obsessed with her intellectual output? post-op is a great time for ideas and writing!
an optimizer? get double points on your cis loyalty card this month!
selfless and moral? trans people are economically disadvantaged!
selfish and obsessed with her intellectual output? post-op is a great time for ideas and writing!
an optimizer? get double points on your cis loyalty card this month!
Bring back webrings. The discovery problem was already solved, then we re-fucked it.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Bring back webrings. The discovery problem was already solved, then we re-fucked it.
I have ordered a melodica
August 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I have ordered a melodica
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Should you find yourself
the only masked person
at work or in a store,
please, do not despair,
instead just think back
to kindergarten
and your teacher asking
“if everyone else
jumped off a bridge
would you do it too?”
and know that at least you
can honestly say: no.
the only masked person
at work or in a store,
please, do not despair,
instead just think back
to kindergarten
and your teacher asking
“if everyone else
jumped off a bridge
would you do it too?”
and know that at least you
can honestly say: no.
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Should you find yourself
the only masked person
at work or in a store,
please, do not despair,
instead just think back
to kindergarten
and your teacher asking
“if everyone else
jumped off a bridge
would you do it too?”
and know that at least you
can honestly say: no.
the only masked person
at work or in a store,
please, do not despair,
instead just think back
to kindergarten
and your teacher asking
“if everyone else
jumped off a bridge
would you do it too?”
and know that at least you
can honestly say: no.
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Depression is happening to me and several people I know right now, and I don't appreciate it. I know there are a lot of things that could have started those cyclical state changes, but I miss not drifting back to "sad" in quiet moments.
is anyone else having just an ungodly difficult time being anything even faintly resembling their "best self" of late
July 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Depression is happening to me and several people I know right now, and I don't appreciate it. I know there are a lot of things that could have started those cyclical state changes, but I miss not drifting back to "sad" in quiet moments.
Gosh, I hope we can all pull together to make this right! Why don't we all post a TRUE thing that makes Gavin Newsom a bad choice for president, instead of a lie?
I'll start: he has no fucking principles.
I'll start: he has no fucking principles.
Alert BlueSky! There has been a massive troll attack spreading anti-Gavin Newsom propaganda and lies since yesterday. Swarms likely coming from a troll farm somewhere are already spreading information to try to weaken so far, one of the best candidates for 2028. 7-16
July 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Gosh, I hope we can all pull together to make this right! Why don't we all post a TRUE thing that makes Gavin Newsom a bad choice for president, instead of a lie?
I'll start: he has no fucking principles.
I'll start: he has no fucking principles.
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honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers
We now know that an “830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community.
For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
July 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers
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Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team?
❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite
💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!
❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite
💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!
July 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team?
❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite
💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!
❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite
💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!
Went out and bought a book of baby names with my gf at the time. Made long list of "could be OK", then short list cutting out names with Christian coding or bad nicknames. Test-drove & got down to 2; one was the name of good guys I kinda knew and the other was shit guys I knew. Went with the former!
Trans ppl, where did ur name come from? U don't gotta share ur deadname but mine is a journey that starts there:
Legal Michael, but Miguel sometimes to my latine family
Go to college, theres too many Michaels, i go by Miguel
Sometimes those friends call me Miggs
Bing bang boom: Miggs
Legal Michael, but Miguel sometimes to my latine family
Go to college, theres too many Michaels, i go by Miguel
Sometimes those friends call me Miggs
Bing bang boom: Miggs
July 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Went out and bought a book of baby names with my gf at the time. Made long list of "could be OK", then short list cutting out names with Christian coding or bad nicknames. Test-drove & got down to 2; one was the name of good guys I kinda knew and the other was shit guys I knew. Went with the former!
can anyone suggest a friendly, gentle online space for a shy late-forties AFAB enby who is beginning low-dose T? they are interested in hearing about the physical experiences of others but are not especially Online - like, reddit is advanced. cozy would be ideal but i know that's a moonshot.
July 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
can anyone suggest a friendly, gentle online space for a shy late-forties AFAB enby who is beginning low-dose T? they are interested in hearing about the physical experiences of others but are not especially Online - like, reddit is advanced. cozy would be ideal but i know that's a moonshot.
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Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals
March 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals
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Congressional Democrats need to show up at every single one of these and refuse to obey the unlawful policies of DHS.
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Congressional Democrats need to show up at every single one of these and refuse to obey the unlawful policies of DHS.
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
I once had a cis (?) man approach me and two other trans dudes and tell us that he was obsessed with the thought of becoming a man with a vagina, to the point where several years prior he had purposely caused himself an injury that would necessitate an orchiectomy.
I wish I never again had to have the experience of a cis man approaching me with sexual interest only for it to segue into disclosure about his sissy fantasies and desire to cross-dress or "take the female part" during sex.
I have absolutely zero interest in that, please take it elsewhere.
I have absolutely zero interest in that, please take it elsewhere.
June 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I once had a cis (?) man approach me and two other trans dudes and tell us that he was obsessed with the thought of becoming a man with a vagina, to the point where several years prior he had purposely caused himself an injury that would necessitate an orchiectomy.
I think I watched this movie six times in one day when I was a kid
June 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I think I watched this movie six times in one day when I was a kid
I realized that I forgot to come back here because there wasn't enough stupid & funny bullshit in my feed to lighten up between the stuff I need to know about. Please send help.
June 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I realized that I forgot to come back here because there wasn't enough stupid & funny bullshit in my feed to lighten up between the stuff I need to know about. Please send help.
Good work, all the places I love. Fill those streets.
June 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Good work, all the places I love. Fill those streets.
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.