Japan/World/Food/Migration historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Still masking. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
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They didn't lose it.
It was stolen from them.
This one's important. Multiple people I know have been denied gender affirming care for size reasons and medical professionals need to get on it.
hey, if you care about accessibility in journalism, our friends at EAPM could use some support!
See also: academics and the university, Jews and ... Jews, humans and global warming... the list goes on.
Eugenics
Fascinating.
I've long thought that Stoicism has an Upanishadic quality: world soul, shared humanity, fatalism/quietism...
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives
I'm reminded again that the first people to suggest secession in the 1850s were the abolitionists, because they couldn't tolerate the federalization of Fugitive Slave Laws. But actual secession came because of the mere *threat* that the federal government might protect the rights of the enslaved.
The Doctor visits a university to discover that there is no history department, not because interference with the timeline has made their labor fruitless, but because they were defunded as humorless scolds for explaining why a time traveler couldn't possibly effect meaningful change...
Nationalism is bad history with a body count.
We must protect each other to survive.
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Today on Assigned Media, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social is centering the experiences of people who are both fat and trans in a piece that lifts up trans voices, and also seeks answers to medical concerns about surgeries for trans people of size.
assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Today, I have to get back at it: more fundraising for @equalaccesspublicmedia.org. I really would like to see us get to $300 in donations/mo. Right now, we have about $40 in donations/mo.
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Fat trans people talk self-love, gender-affirming surgery, and why everyone’s always all up in their business.
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Over 700,000 children have lost SNAP food assistance since trump and Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
www.axios.com/2026/06/08/u...
There's a broad problem among Americans who think about politics: We are all dismayed and grieving the slow loss of everything we were taught to believe made this a country worth caring about. An unaccountable strongman authoritarian as the American president is, in a very real way, unthinkable. 🧵
"More than 333,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage from January 2025 through February 2026, with nearly 92% dropped because of paperwork issues — not because the state determined they no longer qualified."
This is *before* complex work requirements are in place.
Together, we build a more accessible journalism industry and more accessible public-facing news products so we can make #NewsForAll.
I have been giving talks on my book for over a year now and the one thing that is guaranteed to get an audience reaction is the Berenike Buddha in Egypt. People seem amazed it exists and then what it tells us about the ancient world.
So I wrote the whole thing up as a Bad Ancient article:
okay let’s hear your wildest Doctor Who reboot pitches
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When I say weakening the federal government is one of our better options at the moment, this sort of thing is what I have in mind.
Recent cuts to safety-net programs and higher living costs could add further pressure to kids already struggling, a report warns.
I suffered, being made to go through the wrong puberty. I don't want the people out there who are the kid I was, to suffer. *Making* them wait until 19 and have their bodies change into something they don't recognize, before they access HRT, is monstrous torture that you cis people cannot fathom.
