A painting of a green heron taped to an art board in front of a monitor displaying the reference photo.
A painting of a green heron on a desk next to a palette of paint.
Close up of the painting on the face of the heron.
Close up of the painting on the foot of the heron and the log
Process and detail of Green Heron painting
Painting of a green heron standing on a log with moss on its beak.
Green Heron
Acryla gouache on paper
February 2026
(Detail and process follow)
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
One of the few truly cathartic moments of 2025 for me was stopping with the whole of the Queer Liberation March in front of the NYT building and shouting a bunch of "shame on you/people died" chants at it with a bunch of other rowdy, sunburnt trans people. Anyway, looking forward to watching this
Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
this is the clearest black and white picture of how the US is fucked. illegal unprovoked war at the height of financial, healthcare and employment crises by a rogue pedophile president and it has 3/4ths approval from the "opposition" party.
A photo of the cover and final spread of a zine with illustrated pictures of the South Korean musician ONEW. Text reads: My Top 10 Onew Songs/ by Kori Michele / #1. 0/Circle (Circle, 2023) A song about enduring the endless cycles of life, finding the strength and hope to carry on despite loss and hardship. It's so beautiful and moving, and resonates with my experiences with grief. The choir-backed chorus gives it it volume and gravity, and it feels like a spiritual experience. This feels like Onew firing on all cylinders: it's deeply compassionate, powerful, soothing, and sung with the voice of an angel. Listening to this song regularly brings me to tears.
Happy third birthday to Circle by ONEW, one of the most beautiful songs ever performed
youtu.be/30VMl9ZkmgE?...
so privacy focused it shared shit with the swiss government that shared shit with the fbi
A chickadee tries to pick up two meal worms from the palm of my hand
The chickadee seems to have bitten too hard and the mealworm shatters around her as her mother hangs open and eyes close
Close up
The chickadee sits on my hand and stares at me directly.
Even she seemed kind of surprised at exploding a dried mealworm in her beak
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
yes
and I love you
which is all to say it makes the same point you did. Like you gotta GOTTA toss the guilt out because if you don't you're gonna keep trying to justifying it as "right" and "normal" and "the natural order" of things so you don't have to grapple with the meaning of CHOOSING this on purpose!!!
I feel like there was a great, wise tumblr post from back in the day that was like, re: straight ppl complaining that they don't wanna see gay "kinks" on TV: "well I gotta endure seeing straight white man kinks on TV all day - your obedient pretty housewives- that's not "normal" that's your kink bro
before sharing information
1) read the article
2) examine your source (what else has the reporter done? are they real? what else is on the website?)
3) check whether any other outlets are reporting on it
ESPECIALLY IF
- it makes you feel something
- it confirms something you already believe
I put the paintings together digitally, for fun. The fragmentation is essential to the reading of the zine, but it's still fun to see them all lined up and in sequence. =) I am excited to try so many things.
The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
Bypass here.
archive.ph/4NboB
perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?
Page 8 Top: painting of the top of a chickadee (top half of previous image) Bottom: alas, I no longer have a body with which to do it
Photo of zine, flat and unfolded, showing all eight pages, unmasked.
Partially painted progress photo.
Even earlier progress photo.
"Stay"
Page 8, full sheet, and process images.
Page 1 (cover) of a one-sheet zine. Top: Hello, friend/ we are not well Bottom: painting of a chickadee foot grasping a bee balm twig.
Page 2 Top: painting of a chickadee (top half of previous image) looking to right. Snowy background. Bottom: The world is we/ the world is me. Page 3 Top: painting of a sparkling icicle. Bottom: I've become unmoored/ Grief has untethered me
Page 4 Top: On the bright side/ I am now a free agent Bottom: painting of a sparkling icicle (bottom half of previous image) Page 5 Top: Without corporeality/ I can exact revenge Bottom: painting of a bundle of three woody buds encased in sparkling frost
Page 6 Top: painting of a sparkling frost covered twig (top half of previous image) Bottom: Oh! But the desire to do so/ has evaporated along with my body Page 7 Top: What remains/ is a desire to love Bottom: painting of a chickdee head plucking a worm from a cupped palm offering food.
"Stay"
Pages 1-7
Acryla gouache on paper, one-sheet zine.
(Final page and process follows)
a black and white typography edit that reads "i am making permanent choices because i want permanent changes." the text is in all caps and is printed over a opened case of tools. the image is textured with very small halftone dots
i ❣️ bodily autonomy
A government which does not want trans people to exist, and is legally allowed to force detransition in prisons, has created incentive for itself to put more trans people in prisons.
I'm sorry, I WILL stop "posting through it" as they say because I know it doesn't help anyone but I'm 40 hours into a mental breakdown and if fucking blusky gets some spillage, so be it
I understand that posting THIS is not helping anything but God help me I have queer loved ones in Iran and if they die I will likely never know.
I'M NOT LOSING HOPE, I SWEAR TO GOD I'M TRYING SO HARD HERE
Screenshot of a youtube thumbnail: "Breaking News" Ayatolla Ali Khamenei's death CNN: Inside the precision strikes that shattered Iran's leadership 126K views/ I hour ago
HOW PRECISE YOU MONSTEROUS PIECES OF SHIT? PRECISE ENOUGH TO MISS A BUILDING FULL OF SCHOOL GIRLS? OR PRECISE ENOUGH TO HIT IT ON PURPOSE? YOU FUCKING MONSTERS? ALL OF YOU
Like I know we already have them! And there are so many layers of fucked up things happening! But this is what broke me today! So maybe posting about it will do something. BUT ALSO PLEASE DO SHIT OFFLINE TOO! THIS IS CRITICAL!
Please Understand:
Make enough things illegal when a trans person does them (bathroom, have driver's license, be seen)
And then make it policy to detransition people in prison in ways that WILL kill them
(Denial of hormones, application of conversion therapy)
Then you have extermination camps!
ii. Inmates Currently Receiving Hormones to Address Gender Dysphoria In instances when an inmate is previously and currently diagnosed with GD and is currently receiving hormones to address GD, the MRT shall review and approve or disapprove the tapering plan submitted by the Primary Care Provider for all such inmates. Each tapering plan shall consider the appropriate factors, such as the duration the inmate has been receiving hormones to address GD, the initial rationale for receiving the hormone intervention, the response by the inmate to the intervention, and whether the inmate has undergone sex trait modification surgery. For inmates that have recently begun receiving hormones to address GD, the Primary Care Provider shall develop a tapering plan that includes a rapid discontinuation of the hormone intervention. For inmates that have been receiving hormones to address GD for an extended period of time, the Primary Care Provider shall develop a tapering plan that includes an appropriately paced discontinuation of the hormone intervention.
Gender Identity: a fully intemal and subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basisfor identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex
5. TREATMENT Executive Order 14,168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, 90 Fed. Reg. 8,615 (Jan. 30, 2025), prohibits the Bureau from expending federal funds for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate's appearance to that of the opposite sex” “to the extent consistent with applicable law.” d. at 8,617-18. The Bureau will comply with this Executive Order unless compliance with the Executive Order is prohibited by a court injunction or court order. Though Executive Order 14,168 supports this policy, the Bureau also adopts this policy independently of Executive Order 14,168.
Psychotherapy should be prioritized. Treatment should include, at a minimum, therapy in accordance with their mental health care level as outlined in Program Statement PS 5310.16, Treatment and Care of Inmates with Mental Illness. Additionally, other treatments, such as psychoeducational group interventions, may be added as clinically indicated. Treatment interventions will focus on managing the psychological distress/dysphoria, assisting with adjustment to incarceration, community re-entry, and strengthening resilience. Follow-up mental health care should target any associated emotional or behavioral problems and should emphasize: supportive treatment modalities. All clinicians will ensure individuals with GD are not experiencing acute distress during any clinical contact. Ifthe individual is experiencing suicidal ideation, a suicide risk assessment and appropriate protocols related to decreasing distress will be prioritized (in accordance with Program Statement PS 5324.0, Suicide Prevention Program). The psychologist may deem it appropriate to refer the individual for trauma treatment, if clinically indicated. Additional areas of focus may include adjustment to incarceration, other mental health diagnoses, community re- entry, and strengthening resilience. Follow-up mental health care should target any associated emotional or behavioral problems and should emphasize supportive treatment modalities. Psychotropic medication should be considered to determine if its use may alleviate the symptoms of GD.
Things I need you to see:
1. Treatment: Policy of "tapering" HRT.
2. Definitions: Gender Dysphoria is "disconnected from biological reality."
3. Purpose: Executive Order 14168
4. Priority: Psychotherapy, but don't worry, we're aware this will make them suicidal
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Federal Bureau of Prisons
PROGRAM STATEMENT
Management of Inmates with Gender Dysphoria
If you didn't know about this, please know about it now.
It makes federal policy the (deadly!) forced detransitioning of transgender people.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
a line of tall trees, its night and a cresent moon can be seen
Jan Mankes’ Evening Landscape, 1912
