micco caporale

the firefighter i've been fucking said i have too much muscle to be a twink???? ???

have been saying over and over that it's a great time for zines, this is precisely why

Best underground entertainment trend - Chicago Reader A combat sport and entertainment source dating back to ancient times, this sport has long been associated with the modern underground.

our best of chicago issue hit newsstands this week, i dove into how wrestling is having a moment in underground entertainment -- especially a particular kind of wrestling🩸🩸🩸

chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

ya it's perfect

our best of chicago issue starts hitting stands today, i wrote about the best place for snack-time bleach :)

Officine Schwartz - Live @ ExEnel, Bergamo 2017 YouTube video by Fonoarte Video Channel

officine schwartz is a sociopolitical group started in 1983 that fuses noise and opera. their sound blends screams and choral elements, caustic audio flourishes and tidy rhythms produced by homemade metal instruments, and it's always accompanied by dramatic visuals

youtu.be/CQsZjtwkJcU?...

i've been learning italian and by extension about the uniquely italian lineages of music genres i enjoy, like industrial

will update this 🧵 as my bandwidth allows...

b-tier is generous

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

i love being a shapeshifter, i never want to stop revising my body's script and making an illegible text out of my flesh

when they come to throw me in the gulag, remember i was hot!!!!!

below a photo of a crowd surrounding a guillotine, there is text that reads "micco is getting their tits guillotined and will barely be able to use their arms for three weeks. to have the most perfect body imaginable -- the kind that will make many heads turn from erotic provocation and inspire actual dozens of people to transition -- they must forego using their stove and microwave. can you help feed them?"

meal train wants me to tell people why i need a meal train

struggling to reconnect with my journalism joie de vivre, but deeply enjoying my professional strongman life

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trans people in general but trans women especially, it breaks my heart how often i see it :(

what kinda protein powder they got

before i was maimed by my own hubris

Equalpride Lays Off Journalists From Legacy LGBTQ Publications Out, The Advocate Equalpride, the parent company for Out Magazine, The Advocate and Pride.com, recently laid off a number of staffers, including several of its editorial leaders.

And the parent company of Out/The Advocate/etc. just laid off almost everyone there. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea ALT: kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea

i also think there's something to explore about the gentrification of zine culture and universities' role in that but of course.....that would require those universities to engage with the history

i scraped my chin on a barbell cuz i got cocky and didn't set my safetys (don't do this, always set your safetys), and the mark is so specific and pristine it mystified my primary care doctor

looking at this i feel 17 again

Civil rights stories removed from Border Patrol’s website during Black History Month Historical accounts of women, Black men, and the agency’s deployment against segregationists in the sixties have disappeared from the official Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website.

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page.

Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

steve: ya i wanted to be with my fiancee. i was also frustrated with a lot about american life

dude : FUCK YOU FOR MAKING A CHOICE I CANNOT MAKE, STEVE (fucking idiot) I WILL SUCK FROM YOUR MUSICAL TEET BUT I WILL **never** RESPECT YOU (also i know exactly what it's like to live in chicago)

there's something oddly reassuring about seeing that even niche musicians with very little social or material capital have totally psycho fans

ambient artist steve hauschildt moved to georgia (the country) to be with his fiancee while expressing dissatisfactions with the united states, and people on reddit were very normal about it

people can say many things about me but someone who shies away from discomfort is not one

thanks for reading!

i have been working on my arms, everyone who does not notice my work on my arms is going to heck

hell ya!!!!

so true :(

i have read a history book, thanks!

from a strictly branding perspective i cannot fathom why anyone would choose protestantism, catholicism fucks