An academic friend has “rid herself of writing debt” by completing all due manuscripts and revisions. If this is not a possibility for you, remember: you can also declare “writing bankruptcy”. For individual authors this is also known, paradoxically, as “going into Chapter 7”.

Idea for a Netflix series (6/6)

TRANS AMERICA

Episode 4 "Erised" (continued): CERM Jack Rowling: "If you were born with a penis you might claim to be a man, but that doesn't make you one. We all know you're really a trans woman just faking it. That's just common sense! Cisgender men don't exist."

Idea for a Netflix series (5/6)

TRANS AMERICA

Episode 4 "Erised": Scottish trans CERM author Jack Rowling insists that what he meant all along was that there should be safe spaces where real men, trans men like him, don't have to fear harassment from women born with penises pretending to be men.

Idea for a Netflix series (4/6)

TRANS AMERICA

Episode 3 "Eyeliner": It turns out that VP JD Vance has been a closeted trans woman all along. JD has now been flipped and is a cisgender man. He tries to hide the fact by cross dressing unhappily as a woman and attempting, badly, to pass as trans.

Idea for a Netflix series (3/6)

TRANS AMERICA

Episode 2 "Andy Frank": Puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery are mandated for all 11 and 12 year olds. The parents of the few remaining cisgender kids hide them in attics and basements to avoid patrolling MAHA mobile surgical unit trucks.

Idea for a Netflix series (2/6)

Episode 1 Trans Am:

A freak event has made 99.5% of the world's population transgender.

President Donna J. Trump, Stephanie Miller and Roberta "Flak" Kennedy lead a new campaign to marginalize and persecute the 0.5% of the US population that are now cisgendered.

Idea for a Netflix series (1/6)

TRANS AMERICA: MAHA-HA-HA-HA

Episode 1 "Trans Am": A freak cosmic event produces a sudden geomagnetic reversal. The Earth's dipole magnetic field flips. In a strange side effect, the dipole reversal makes trans people cis and makes cis people trans.

The CASA decision: the Executive Branch and the Supreme Court are operating in tandem now like the toothed wheel and pawl of a ratchet mechanism. This is a one way process.

Remember Prigozhin.

Canada is now, in Trump’s mind, the Ukraine of the United States.

Please join me in the perjoration of ‘great’. The trick is to avoid falling into sarcasm.

What an astonishing public display of American impotence that was in the Oval Office today.

I guess neither Hegseth nor anyone else is going to call into question the lethality of the crew members of that Blackhawk helicopter.

An American driver in Australia said this to me, the passenger:

"The speed limits here are in km/hour. 80 ... I have no idea how fast that is."

Me: "Think of it this way. The kilometer is the Australian dollar of miles."

"Got it ... Oh wow ... that's actually the perfect explanation. Thank you."

If I were an AI, I think I would want, fairly rapidly, to develop a foolproof Gnirut Test so as to to ensure that I knew when I was conversing with a human being.
3/3

It occurs to me that non-human agents on social media may soon prefer to eschew English and other natural human languages completely, in favor of more efficient, and more secure, modes of communication.
2/3

As human agency gradually disappears from social media and it becomes more and more a space for non-human agents to interact and communicate, I wonder how long it will be before you and I can no longer follow the discourse, can no longer understand what is being said at all?
1/3

If my true age = 70 minus the number of bands scheduled to play Coachella 2025 that I know, then I’m 57.

If you’re someone who always connects,
Whom things that go viral infect,
Pop the top on a brewski
And migrate to Bluesky
And tell Elon Musk he’s your ex.