Juliebear

Working on improving my lipstick skills. I'm very out of practice. I think this is maybe the third time ever I've tried to use lip liner.

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

I’m here to break the hearts of ICE supporters

I like how most requests we have for "allies" are: 1. Speak up against the things trying to eradicate us 2. Don't buy/support specific products that loudly fund the movement to eradicate us And the collective answer to both is, "No, but I'm still safe and you can trust me"

Cis women, teach a trans woman how to do her makeup. Braid her hair. Take her shopping. Teach her everything you know about presenting as a woman. Maybe you resented it, but you can use that knowledge to affirm her. And for godsake, if you are attracted to trans women, shout it from the rooftops!

I’m frustrated right now because, without naming names, I’m watching an excellent vid by a big creator making the very argument I made two years ago that got me huge harassment and smears. But now he has years of evidence of exactly what I said would happen. I bet his vid will be widely praised.

COVER REVEAL Thrilled to share the *incredible* cover for “Not Like Other Girls,” my upcoming story at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer Preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

'we can always tell' update:

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Do men just sit around thinking up the worst most ignorant thing to say? The terf movement isnt organic its astroturfed and paid for by billionaires and evangelicals and some governments. It is supported by major media outlets because of their owners bias. It is a manufactured moral panic.

Sex is both mutable and socially constructed. Trans people change sex. This change comes in a wide variety of forms, social, medical, legal, etc. Trans liberation hinges on the rights to enact and shape these changes, and protections against discrimination for doing so.

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

The only thing Thomas Jefferson has ever gotten uniquely and loudly right compared to his peers is that the Constitution should be a living document and change with the times. Which we didn’t do. We kept the rape and racism though!

sometimes something is really obvious but you need to type it out anyway for mental health reasons: the venn diagram of people who believe in dignity and democracy for all & people who support the rich, cops & israel is two entirely distinct circles

It's simultaneously validating and frustrating to see everything leftists have been saying about electoral politics be proven right, only for Dems to freak the fuck out and act like actually addressing problems is an existential threat to the country.

Local media did not pick this up, despite nearly 100k views on FB. I have continued to hear from people who are concerned. Usually, when there's a local connection to a national event, media pounces.

Gargoyles is legit a “You can’t make em like this anymore” show. A bunch of classically trained actors getting Disney to lusciously animate their horny high fantasy Shakespeare fanfic that they made during their off time from making Star Trek. And it was a huge hit somehow?

people hate me for this but i am consistent and correct: colorado should get to them first, top down and bottom up. the hospital is in contempt of court, so start grabbing their board and executive suite. the providers are violating state nondiscrim law, so start stripping them of their licenses.

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

1) countless trans kids are going to needlessly suffer because of this. 2) 18 year olds are ADULTS – so your conceding (as Trump admin hoped by setting 19 at age) that restricting care for trans adults is fine. 3) this goes against the recommendations of most medical professional organizations...

Gotta admit after more than two years of being called a crank and a doomer for saying that businesses will flinch when they’re made to pay the real costs of AI it’s nice to see this in the newspaper

Every once in a while you hit the Rosetta stone of American politics and yeah this is about 60%-70% of American gender politics in one post Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s very funny to me that over on Facebook I stumbled (algo put it in my feed) onto a conservative group posting a meme accusing hbomberguy of supporting CSAM, and over here there’s a group trying to cancel hbomberguy for *not* supporting CSAM. The internet is wonderful.

To keep people up to date: six people who exercised their first amendment rights had their lives overturned and were forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees because of clear prosecutorial misconduct.

😂 And the musical timing is just 👌🏻

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

The more I read how actual revolutionary anarchists spoke back at the start of the 20th century, the more I realize how much the liberal state has done to limit our imagination these last 100 years. We can do so much more than the socialist bandaids within state power many leftists fight for now.