“packmate” is a very good word to describe how i feel about some people. like we’re more than friends in my eyes but it’s not romantic you’re just. my person and im #keeping you. because you’re in my pack. wags my tail
one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.
This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.
If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "Grímnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.
So you're not sinning, you're participating in an ancient literary tradition!
Marc Hempel ‘Spaceman: Daydreaming Can Be Dangerous’. I originally posted only the first page of this brilliant comic. Now here is the full illustrated story. Scanned from short lived sci-fi magazine Questar, February 1980.
somebody on twitter blocked me for saying that the status quo does not see trans people as men or women but a deviant, third gender. he told me "☝️its really transphobic to say that trans people arent the gender they really are and that theyre a third freak gender"
like yeah I know it is. are you saying im transphobic for pointing out that transphobia exists.
I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid
Lucy Liu shares a heartfelt memory of learning to speak english by watching Sesame Street and finding a family within the cast. Share your favorite Sesame Street memory on social media with #ThisIsMyStreet!
I was five years old when Sesame Street first aired in 1969. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching the show in the afternoon, and then, the next day, kids talking about what Oscar had said over snack time (he was the first character for children I saw that was allowed to be grouchy and not be “bad”).
Sesame Street celebrated a neighborhood that was multiracial and multicultural. When I was in preschool, that was my reality, too. Though I did and still do have a lot of cultural racism to unlearn, the extent to which I was able to learn how to be friends and neighbors with a diverse peer group was supported by Sesame Street. To be clear, this is why conservatives have wanted to destroy it from the beginning.
The Mississippi State Commission for Educational Television briefly banned Sesame Street in 1970 with the flimsy excuse that Mississippians weren’t ready to see racially integrated neighborhoods. And that happened in a few other Southern states, including one where the owner of a local NBC affiliate chose to air it, for free, no ad revenue, because he thought people were ready for it — or needed to get comfortable with it. And these state ETV commissions eventually relented after getting a lot of negative publicity.
It infuriates me when self described TMEs decide that they're allowed to say what is and isn't transmisogyny. Especially when they attack trans people. I consider the cis women who do this to be out and out TERFs. They have no right to speak on trans issues, and are only causing the spread of hatred.
A lot of the time, trans feminists are blamed for the actions of these people. Trans women and femmes get blamed. I and my sisters have nothing to do with cis women being transmisic.
I'm not saying trans feminism is all good. There are some horrible essays and people out there. I'm saying that not every bad take should be blamed on feminists. That you're promoting the idea that trans feminism is bad as a whole.
Imagine a cis man telling you that wearing your clothing is misogynistic. That according to feminist theory, wearing long sleeves and dresses is a sign that you agree with the patriarchy. Do you think that he's a true feminist, or just a bigot twisting progressive language for his purposes?
Please continue to call out transmisia and transandromisia. It's very important. Please continue to call me and my sisters out when we do bigoted things. Please be clear when the bigot is *not* a trans woman or femme.
I also really recommend that people look at the way that a lot of these anti-transmasc people and transandrophobes treat trans women and transfems that don't follow their narrative.
Examples include:
They ignore the fact that Julia Serano (coiner of transmisogyny) said that she doesn't like the tma/tme labels and regrets speaking over transmasc people.
They ignore the fact that Emi Koyama (coiner of transfeminism) said a part of transfeminism has to be nonbinary people and trans men refusing to let trans women speak over them or for them.
They ignore the fact that Kate Bornstein (author of the first transfeminist workbook) supports genderqueer gender fuck trans mascs and FTM lesbians.
They just blatantly ignore what are probably the three main transfeminist scholars of our time, in favor of malgendering and misgendering trans men. While also calling every trans woman and transfem person that doesn't agree with them a 'pick me' or straight up misgendering them by claiming they aren't "really transfem" or that "no trans woman would ever say this, so it's clearly a dude lying about being a trans woman online" (hmm, where have I heard that before 🤔).
Transfem people are not and never will be our enemy. I have always been very clear on that and it needs to be ingrained in everyone's head. Transfeminism is not the enemy and never will be our enemy.
Are some transfeminists actively transandrophobic? Yes. Are some transfems actively transandrophobic? Yes. Are they the majority? No!
A sad vocal group of them are loud and mean and exist in a cult like community with each other. Which creates an environment where unlearning anti-transmasculinity and transandrophobia is difficult and comes at the cost of loosing their community. Which is one of the reasons why I disavow callout posts against them, as it will only drive then further into those insular groups and that separatist mindset.
Choosing to group all transfems and transfeminists with that vocal minority is 100% transmisogyny, there is no excuse for it and it is not a valid form of "activism".
The majority of people who are actively transandrophobic or who are pushing anti-transmasculinity are cisgender people. That has always been the case and it has not changed, becouse cis people are the ones given the structural power to do the most amount of material oppression.
If a transfem person is being transandrophobic or participating in other forms of anti-transmasculinity, try talking to them and explaining why what they're saying is harmful. If they refuse to have a conversation or they double down then accept that you won't change their mind right now and either walk away from them or if you're online block or mute them. You don't need to screenshot them and you don't need to write a callout post. There are far more effective ways of combating anti-transmasculinity then harassment or public shaming rituals.
If a non-transfem person is being transandrophobic or otherwise participating in anti-transmasculinity, try talking to them and explaining why what they're saying is harmful. If they refuse to have a conversation or they double down then accept that you won't change their mind right now and either walk away from them or if you're online block or mute them. If they start to use transfem people as an excuse for their behavior, point that out to them, that they are using the concept of transfeminity as a weapon, thus utalizing their sisters and transfem siblings as a tool to harm others while claiming to speak for them, which is transmisogyny. If they refuse to have an actual discussion about gender and oppression intersections then you can assume they're a troll or that they're more committed to finding a socially acceptable demographic to hate then they are to activism. Then block them or walk away, becouse you don't feed the trolls.
Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday in response to rising pressure from student-led protests.
‘Cockroach Movement’ Forces Out India’s Education Minister
"Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday amid mounting pressure from the “Cockroach Movement,” which demanded major government reforms—starting with his departure. Student activists accused Pradhan of failing to safeguard a competitive medical school exam, the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), after authorities concluded that its contents had been leaked online. ...
Without accepting fault, [Education Minister Pradhan] explained that he had agreed to step down in order to prevent “anti-national forces” from exploiting the upheaval.
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the CJP, celebrated the resignation with fellow protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
“It's a victory for the people of India,” Dipke said to the crowd. He later posted an image of India’s Constitution on social media, with the caption: “Thank you.” ...
On the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian President Droupadi Murmu appointed Pralhad Joshi—who already oversees the ministries of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, along with New and Renewable Energy—to oversee the Ministry of Education “in addition to his existing portfolio,” which is a typical arrangement in India following a Cabinet vacancy and does not preclude a later permanent appointment...
CJP Spokesperson Saurav Das said in an interview with local media ANI following the president’s announcement that the party members will be meeting the new education minister “very soon.” ...
What Comes Next for the CJP?
The CJP established its list of demands on May 16. In addition to calling for Pradhan’s resignation, the CJP asked for compensation of 10 million rupees ($104,000) for each student who died by suicide following the leak.
They also sought greater legislative oversight of the educational system, gender equity in government roles, a fully independent media, and certain reforms to the electoral and political system—such as creating a 20-year ban on politicians switching parties before seeking election.
Adding to those mandates, the CJP last week asked that the central government drop any potential charges against protesters, after claiming that several had been “illegally detained” by police.
Following Pradhan’s resignation, representatives from the CJP met with officials from the Indian government to discuss the rest of the party’s demands. In a press conference following the meeting, Das said on Saturday that the negotiations had been successful.
"All our demands have been accepted,” he said, without elaboration. “We request the protesters to withdraw immediately and return home peacefully."
The CJP added during the press conference on Saturday that representatives from the movement would meet with officials again in four weeks to work on broader reforms. Its spokesperson told local media that the fight for a transparent educational system is far from over.
He said that members of the CJP conveyed to officials that if the issues are not addressed, the protesters will reconvene “and demand accountability.”
-via TIME, July 25, 2026. Non-paywall version here via MSN, July 25, 2026
This is sort of an experimental piece that I've been excited to share for a while!! Mourning doves are common near me, and I always get a nice feeling of calmness when I hear them in the early morning, singing while perched on the powerlines outside. This illustration is dedicated to that feeling.
i love my black trans siblings, i love my indigenous trans siblings, i love my latinx trans siblings, i love my arab trans siblings, i love my asian trans siblings, i love all of my trans siblings of color. yall are so important to our community <3
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