Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)
@nicomaramckay.com
Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Ephemeral Record of queer and trans histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
There will be typos.
Ephemeral Record of queer and trans histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
I mean, seriously.
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I mean, seriously.
With alt text.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
With alt text.
Good morning, Bluesky.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
It's an industry.
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's an industry.
This 20-page zine features 19 original photos and is the first in what I hope will become an ongoing series exploring autistic differences and their everyday realities -- the things you won't find in the DSM-5.
It's available for 10% off to the first 10 purchasers.
It's available for 10% off to the first 10 purchasers.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This 20-page zine features 19 original photos and is the first in what I hope will become an ongoing series exploring autistic differences and their everyday realities -- the things you won't find in the DSM-5.
It's available for 10% off to the first 10 purchasers.
It's available for 10% off to the first 10 purchasers.
Ruven Afanador, I was previously unfamiliar with your work, but damn.
Happy International Men's Day to you and Zack Hunt too.
Happy International Men's Day to you and Zack Hunt too.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ruven Afanador, I was previously unfamiliar with your work, but damn.
Happy International Men's Day to you and Zack Hunt too.
Happy International Men's Day to you and Zack Hunt too.
I'm not an actor, so I will never need discipline and diet required to see my abs like this, but damn if that's not gender.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I'm not an actor, so I will never need discipline and diet required to see my abs like this, but damn if that's not gender.
Happy International Men's Day, especially to trans men.
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy International Men's Day, especially to trans men.
I finally rememebed to get my latest covid and flu vaccines, so let this be a friendly reminder to you too:
'Tis the season to locate your nearest walk-in clinic and/or book an appointment! 💉
'Tis the season to locate your nearest walk-in clinic and/or book an appointment! 💉
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I finally rememebed to get my latest covid and flu vaccines, so let this be a friendly reminder to you too:
'Tis the season to locate your nearest walk-in clinic and/or book an appointment! 💉
'Tis the season to locate your nearest walk-in clinic and/or book an appointment! 💉
I just spent the last five and a half hours creating the zine, then realized that it was 14 pages and it needs to be a multiple of four to fold correctly.
Whelp. Guess I'll come up with another two pages tomorrow.
Whelp. Guess I'll come up with another two pages tomorrow.
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I just spent the last five and a half hours creating the zine, then realized that it was 14 pages and it needs to be a multiple of four to fold correctly.
Whelp. Guess I'll come up with another two pages tomorrow.
Whelp. Guess I'll come up with another two pages tomorrow.
It has begun.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It has begun.
I am autistic and have ADHD.
I either eat lunch at 12 pm because that is the correct and appropriate time to consume a midday meal, or not until my apo-methylphenidate has worn off and I can feel my insides begin to consume themselves around 10 pm.
There is no in-between.
I either eat lunch at 12 pm because that is the correct and appropriate time to consume a midday meal, or not until my apo-methylphenidate has worn off and I can feel my insides begin to consume themselves around 10 pm.
There is no in-between.
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I am autistic and have ADHD.
I either eat lunch at 12 pm because that is the correct and appropriate time to consume a midday meal, or not until my apo-methylphenidate has worn off and I can feel my insides begin to consume themselves around 10 pm.
There is no in-between.
I either eat lunch at 12 pm because that is the correct and appropriate time to consume a midday meal, or not until my apo-methylphenidate has worn off and I can feel my insides begin to consume themselves around 10 pm.
There is no in-between.
Good night, Bluesky.
Here is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
Here is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Good night, Bluesky.
Here is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
Here is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
Should I start a thread of the transphobic garbage I receive?
I receive far fewer now that I've set it so only people who follow me can reply, but bigots continue to find creative ways to harass me.
CW: Quoted below is a particularly vicious death threat from an account that followed me last year.
I receive far fewer now that I've set it so only people who follow me can reply, but bigots continue to find creative ways to harass me.
CW: Quoted below is a particularly vicious death threat from an account that followed me last year.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Should I start a thread of the transphobic garbage I receive?
I receive far fewer now that I've set it so only people who follow me can reply, but bigots continue to find creative ways to harass me.
CW: Quoted below is a particularly vicious death threat from an account that followed me last year.
I receive far fewer now that I've set it so only people who follow me can reply, but bigots continue to find creative ways to harass me.
CW: Quoted below is a particularly vicious death threat from an account that followed me last year.
They're also looking for a Head of Communications.
After how many years?
Good luck to anyone who takes on this dumpster fire.
More info: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
After how many years?
Good luck to anyone who takes on this dumpster fire.
More info: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
They're also looking for a Head of Communications.
After how many years?
Good luck to anyone who takes on this dumpster fire.
More info: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
After how many years?
Good luck to anyone who takes on this dumpster fire.
More info: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Not sure this new account with fewer than 50 followers counts as "notable," and it looks like this was verified by Bluesky itself, not prompted by a "trusted verifier."
Full statement: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Full statement: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not sure this new account with fewer than 50 followers counts as "notable," and it looks like this was verified by Bluesky itself, not prompted by a "trusted verifier."
Full statement: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Full statement: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Why is Link still banned?
Is it because he embarrassed Bluesky's CEO after she followed another anti-trans hate monger while she went on a three-day meltdown mocking trans users and their safety concerns on Bluesky?
Is it because he embarrassed Bluesky's CEO after she followed another anti-trans hate monger while she went on a three-day meltdown mocking trans users and their safety concerns on Bluesky?
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Why is Link still banned?
Is it because he embarrassed Bluesky's CEO after she followed another anti-trans hate monger while she went on a three-day meltdown mocking trans users and their safety concerns on Bluesky?
Is it because he embarrassed Bluesky's CEO after she followed another anti-trans hate monger while she went on a three-day meltdown mocking trans users and their safety concerns on Bluesky?
Is John Scalzi next?
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Is John Scalzi next?
With alt text and a reminder to unfollow.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
With alt text and a reminder to unfollow.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
It's just not the same.
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It's just not the same.
Good morning, Bluesky.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
This is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
Looks like Walmart might have just taken down their white supremacist t-shirt:
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Looks like Walmart might have just taken down their white supremacist t-shirt:
I also bought this sweet print that I now need to frame.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I also bought this sweet print that I now need to frame.
I bought so many cool zines recently.
Might review a few of them for Ephemeral Record in the coming weeks.
Might review a few of them for Ephemeral Record in the coming weeks.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I bought so many cool zines recently.
Might review a few of them for Ephemeral Record in the coming weeks.
Might review a few of them for Ephemeral Record in the coming weeks.