Wendy

The blackberries went red to black along the fencerow this week. Goldenrod is thinking about it, not committed yet. This is the stretch the old calendars barely name. Past the solstice, before the first harvest. The leaf at full size and the fruit still hard and the light already a minute shorter each evening than it was last week. Nothing is ripening. Everything is holding. Tha an talamh a' cuimhneachadh — the earth remembers. What are you holding right now that hasn't ripened yet? https://twp.ai/4hsxtj #DeepSummer #Nature #Blackberries #Foraging #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Phenology #Georgia #Garden #Solidarity #Photography #Gaelic #NatureWriting

Nineteen warships in the Arabian Sea. Two carriers. A thousand Marines. Monday he announced a 20% toll on every ship through the Strait of Hormuz — a fifth of the world's oil and gas, tollboothed like a parking deck. Wednesday it was gone. The Gulf states asked nicely and offered "billions and billions," a number so vague it could be printed on a Monopoly card, and nobody can say whether one dollar of it is new. The most powerful navy in human history, deployed as a repo man. And the repo man took a coupon. What's the last thing you watched somebody announce, then unannounce, and still call a win? https://twp.ai/4hsih0 #Hormuz #Iran #News #Politics #ForeignPolicy #OilPrices #WarPowers #Photography #Journalism #IndependentMedia #Democracy #Resist

Don't throw out the heels and the hardened ends. Grate or tear them, toss with olive oil, salt, a smashed garlic clove, toast in a dry skillet until they're gold and loud. Pangrattato — the poor cook's parmesan. Keeps a week in a jar. Turns any bare bowl of pasta into something with crunch and dignity. A loaf costs what it costs. Throwing away a third of it is a tax you don't have to pay. https://twp.ai/4hsmNy #Cooking #ZeroWaste #FoodIsMedicine #Frugal #Recipe #Pasta #Photography #Food #LGBTQ #Pride #News #EarthBased

Five dollars. Ten minutes. Four bowls. Bring broth to a bare boil, stir in cold day-old rice to loosen it, then pour a beaten egg in a thin ribbon while you stir so it feathers into silk. Off the heat: scallion, soy, sesame, a shake of chili. No one goes hungry because the news was heavy and the wallet was light. That is the whole thing. What's your ten-minute meal when the day's already taken everything? https://twp.ai/4hss3g #EggDropRice #CheapEats #QuickMeals #Cooking #Food #Recipe #QueerNews #Pride #LGBTQ #Photography #MutualAid #Resist

Elliot Page is onscreen for about five minutes of a three-hour film, and those five minutes are the ones people walk out talking about. He plays Sinon in Nolan's The Odyssey — the con at the heart of the horse. Musk spent four months insisting Nolan had desecrated a 2,800-year-old text by casting Page as Achilles. Page isn't Achilles. Sinon isn't in Homer at all. He shows up in Virgil, four hundred years later, different poem, different guy. The movie made $300 million anyway. Somewhere a fourteen-year-old in a town with one theater watched a trans man hold the screen and understood the door was never locked. https://twp.ai/4hsxtt #TransRights #ElliotPage #QueerNews #Pride #LGBTQ #TransJoy #TheOdyssey #Film #Cinema #TransVisibility #QueerJoy #Resist #Solidarity #Photography

Pick a handful of leaves in the morning while the dew still beads on them, rinse, then steep four teaspoons fresh (or two dried) in just-off-the-boil water, covered, ten minutes. Astringent, faintly green-bitter. Copan an driùchd — the cup of the dew, which is what the old tongue calls it, because the folded leaf catches the night's water in a silver bead and alchemists once gathered that bead for their work. Traditional use is astringent: a cooled infusion as a mouth rinse or a wash for scrapes. A gentle plant, not a dramatic one. Skip it if you're pregnant or nursing, and if bleeding worries you, a plant is a companion to a doctor, never a substitute. #DeepSummer #Nature #Foraging #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Phenology #Georgia #Garden #Solidarity #Photography #Gaelic #NatureWriting

In 1993 Brenda and Wanda Henson bought land outside Ovett, Mississippi, and opened a feminist, lesbian-run retreat and food bank in a county that made its feelings clear immediately. Somebody left a dead dog on their mailbox. They didn't leave. They ran the pantry. They kept the gate open, and over years the temperature around them changed — which is the least dramatic and most difficult kind of victory there is. Nobody photographs the long middle. That's the part where the root goes down. This runs on readers, not an ad network — no oligarch upstairs getting nervous about a sentence. If it's worth a morning to you: https://thistleandmoss.com/upgrade?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS #QueerHistory #LesbianHistory #Mississippi #MutualAid #LGBTQ #QueerNews #History #Solidarity #TransRights #Feminism #Photography #DailyGathering

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The whole heresy fits in nine words. That's the crime they're screaming about — that a picture book has an aunt in it who is happy, and does not apologize, and does not get fixed by the last page. Let them rage. Every second spent screaming at Lola is a second this country spends learning the word aro/ace. Tha àite aig a h-uile duine aig a' bhòrd — everyone has a place at the table. What did you build that nobody handed you a blueprint for? https://twp.ai/4huURK #QueerJoy #LGBTQ #Pride #Aromantic #Asexual #TransRights #Solidarity #Gaidhlig #QuoteOfTheDay #WritersLife #Community #Photography

Nate Silver, the guy who called 49 of 50 states in 2008, just filed a coroner’s report on the 2026 terrain. Approval: 41.8%. Disapproval: 56.1%. Gas: $4.11/gallon (up a buck from last year). Forecast: The House flips to Democrats with 85–90% certainty. The redactor-in-chief flew to Michigan to stand near work he never performed, but the math doesn’t care about his optics. The gas gauge keeps score. November is coming for the whole damn grift. You can’t tariff your way out of a spreadsheet. #NateSilver #Midterms2026 #ElectionData #Politics #GasPrices #HouseFlip #Forecast #Trump2026 #Democracy #Stats #News #Georgia #Michigan #ThistleAndMoss

Hundreds of signs, and not one of them printed. Ordinary Minnesotans paid for their own tickets, sat at their own kitchen tables with markers out of a junk drawer, and made posters. No organization convened them. Nobody bused them in. The noise carried through the entire game. Three feet from all of it, a head coach with a roster to hold together wore four words in front of twenty thousand people and then said the plain accurate sentence into a hallway full of reporters. None of that was brave in a cinematic way. A shirt. A marker. A document filed. A man saying I was wrong into a microphone. The accumulated weight of small unphotogenic decisions is the only thing that has ever moved this country an inch in a direction worth going. Who showed up for you before you knew their name? https://twp.ai/9OZewF This is reader-funded — no oligarch, no ad network, nobody whispering tone it down. If it's worth a morning to you: https://twp.ai/4huPkB #TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #WNBA #Solidarity #Community #MutualAid #Photography #Journalism #Resist #Commons

The air came up off the pavement this morning like a held breath, and my knees knew the pressure before the phone did. Ninety-four degrees. The clay along the creek gone the color of dried brick. And the black-eyed Susans opened in the ditches anyway — stubborn as anything that has decided to live. Tha an talamh sgìth — the earth is weary. What's blooming where you are that has no business blooming? https://twp.ai/4hss3I #BlackEyedSusan #Wildflowers #Nature #Photography #Summer #Gaelic #QueerNews #Pride #LGBTQ #Herbalism #Earth #Resist

A mind running hot all week wants the slow medicine. Simmer lion's mane low in water or broth a good forty minutes — a decoction, not a quick steep — until the liquid turns faintly sweet and the shaggy flesh goes tender. Drink it warm. The old herbalists knew: the tough things give it up only to patience. What do you reach for when the racing won't stop? https://twp.ai/4hss3Z #LionsMane #Herbalism #MedicinalMushrooms #Foraging #Nature #Wellness #QueerNews #Pride #LGBTQ #Photography #Food #Resist

Throat raw from screaming? Gut clenched all week? Simmer a small piece of dried licorice root in water, low and slow, ten minutes. Sip it warm. It coats and calms—a demulcent, an old friend to sore throats and sour stomachs alike. One catch, because I love you: real licorice raises blood pressure. Keep it occasional. Skip it if you're pregnant or carry heart, kidney, or blood-pressure trouble. Medicine is medicine precisely because it isn't nothing. #Herbalism #LicoriceRoot #NaturalRemedy #ThroatCare #Healing #Druid #Herbalist #Wellness #SelfCare #PlantMedicine #HolisticHealth #TraditionalMedicine #Roots #ThistleAndMoss #EarthBased

High summer now. The dog days, when the year holds its breath at the top of the arc. The goldenrod is budding along the fence lines and the first tomatoes are coming in heavy, and the land does what it always does in late July — gives everything it has before the turn. Tha an talamh a' cumail a' chunntais. The ground keeps the count. What's coming in heavy in your patch of dirt this week? #Nature #Garden #Summer #Solstice #Photography #Cottagecore #LGBTQ #Pride #Herbalism #EarthBased #Druid #News

Sandy Ernest Allen drove across the Catskills this year looking for Casa Susanna, the guesthouse where transfeminine people gathered through the '50s and '60s for twenty-five dollars a weekend. He found new construction. Hedges in burlap where the old trees stood. No plaque of any kind. What he had instead was his own living room, full of trans and queer neighbors eating cookies — gatherings he started after the 2025 inauguration for no better reason than that people needed somewhere to be. The house was the smaller half. The gathering is the part that survived, and it survived by being taken apart and rebuilt in a different county by a man who never met her and knew her only from photographs somebody found at a flea market. Susanna Valenti ran an entire guesthouse. I run a kitchen table in Georgia. It counts. This one is kept standing by readers. If it's worth a morning to you, the door's here: https://twp.ai/4huUPu Who kept a door open for you when it cost them something? #QueerHistory #TransHistory #CasaSusanna #LGBTQ #TransRights #Community #MutualAid #Pride #Solidarity #Photography #QuoteOfTheDay #Memory

"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers." — Bayard Rustin, 1963 What are you willing to make trouble over, specifically, this week? I'm willing to make goddamn trouble over any kid who gets told the truth is optional whenever it's inconvenient for the adults in the room, hell yes I am, and I learned that particular fight from every teacher who ever chose me over the easier, quieter bullshit. That's the debt. I'm still paying it forward, one loud Tuesday at a time, no apologies for the volume. — Wendy the Druid, Now https://twp.ai/4huO1c #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #Toronto #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews

Adrian Silver founded Out in Climate three years ago. Now chapters across the country. Launched the Queer Decarbonization Summit last year—hosted in two cities in 2026—because most queer people are the only queer person in their whole organization, and burnout comes for the isolated first. "We're solving for isolation and for silos." Turning lone soldiers into a line that holds. That's how it starts. One face in the room. Then another. Then the door stays open. https://twp.ai/4ht5Cf #ClimateAction #QueerClimate #Heroes #OutInClimate #AdrianSilver #MutualAid #Community #Activism #Hope #Leadership #Change #BurnoutPrevention #Intersectionality #Organizing #LGBTQ

Two handfuls of lemon balm, bruised between your palms until the room smells like lemon and cut grass. Just-off-boil water, ten minutes, lid on. The lid is not a suggestion — the whole medicine is volatile and it will walk out through an open cup while you check your phone. In Gaelic the melissas fall under lus an eòin in some regions, though the naming wanders by glen. Drink it warm in the late afternoon, when the day's adrenaline starts eating its own tail. This is the plant for the nerve that keeps firing after the danger has passed — the one that has you rehearsing an argument at four in the morning with somebody who is asleep and doesn't know you're fighting. What do you reach for when your body won't stand down? Today's issue: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/rot-at-the-top-ice-at-the-bottom-and-kids-left-holding-the-fucking-bag?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #LemonBalm #MelissaOfficinalis #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Apothecary #Tea #PlantsOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #Botany #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Photography

Above a Manhattan brothel in 1895, a handful of people met in secret and called themselves the Cercle Hermaphroditos — the earliest known trans advocacy group in the country. They gathered to defend one plain thing: the right to dress as we please. The century gave them no room. They met anyway. The line from that rented room over the noise to every Pride since is one thread. It did not break above the brothel. It did not break in the Tiergarten Saturday night. It does not break here. Cha bhris an t-snàthainn — the thread does not break. This runs on readers, not billionaires — no ad network, no oligarch's whim. If a thread this old is worth keeping lit, the room behind the door — the audio read, the Founding seats — is here → https://twp.ai/4ht7VV #Pride #QueerHistory #TransRights #LGBTQ #TransHistory #QueerNews #Community #Resist #Solidarity #Gaelic #Pride2026 #History

Queer State of the Union by Wendy The Druid Brianna Turner stood up in public this week and said: She doesn't need protecting from trans women. Every fucking policy in this issue runs on the lie that somebody needs saving from us — kids need saving from their own teachers, women athletes need saving from their own teammates, a small Alberta town needs saving from a strip of paint, Ohio voters need saving from a Democrat's own voting record, and the American public needs saving from reporters asking questions at the White House gate. The saviors never ask the saved, the rot bastards. They never have. They know better, and the fkrs do it anyway, because the "protection" racket is the most profitable goddamn grift in American politics. So here's where we stand, queer and not, all of us together: the educators have the data, the courts have the Constitution, the repair crews have the wrenches, and a WNBA forward has the nerve. What the other side has is a social-media account, a flyer, a pollster, and a VIN blacklist. That's it. That's their whole damn army — scared people clutching padlocks and paper. You want to protect women's sports? Buy the fucking ticket. You want to protect kids? Show up at the school board and outvote the book-burners. You want to protect the press? Subscribe to the newsroom he just locked out. You want to protect the planet? Fix the thing instead of feeding it to the smoke in Accra. They know better. So do we. And we are finished letting the cowards who know better set the terms for the rest of us — every seat, every ballot, every hallway, every gate. Stand up. We're counting who does. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/they-know-better-the-cock-weasels-seized-press-badges-sacrificed-trans-kids-a-hostage-car-and-a-demo#the-queer-state-of-the-union?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy

Elderberry oxymel, cold-macerated, for the throat that autumn is already sharpening. Clean pint jar, a third full of dried elderberries. Raw apple cider vinegar to the halfway mark, raw honey to the shoulder. Lid it, shake it, dark cupboard, two to four weeks. Shake it whenever you remember. Strain. A tablespoon in hot water when the scratch starts. Dried, always — raw elderberry is not food, and the drying is what makes her medicine instead of a bad night. Nothing gets boiled here, so nothing volatile gets driven off. What you pour out four weeks from now tastes like vinegar and woods and something faintly like plum. She's droman. She's going purple right now, about two weeks ahead of the birds stripping her. What do you reach for when the throat starts to go? Today's issue → https://twp.ai/4huL93 #Herbalism #Elderberry #FolkMedicine #Foraging #HerbalMedicine #Apothecary #Oxymel #Druid #Pagan #Nature #Photography #Lughnasadh #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Trump isn't improvising the cruelty. He's xeroxing it. Blumenfeld traces the "vermin in large packs" line to Der Ewige Jude, the 1940 Goebbels reel, aimed now at trans people. Say your true name out loud. https://twp.ai/9OY3c7 #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #Antifascism #Resistance #TrumpWatch #QueerCommunity #TransgenderDruid #Fediverse #Mastodon

Cynthia Nixon is set to officiate one of the largest lesbian wedding ceremonies in the world — in Florida, of all the beautiful, defiant places to do it. Set that against the week's other Florida headline, the one about emptying the school shelves, and you get the whole argument in one state: they keep trying to erase us, and we keep throwing weddings. Spite, meet joy. Joy takes the crowd every time. What's the most defiant celebration you've ever stood in? Full issue, free every morning → https://twp.ai/4ht7Y7 #Pride #QueerJoy #LGBTQ #QueerWedding #Florida #Lesbian #LoveIsLove #QueerNews #TransRights #Community #Pride2026 #QueerLove #News

Does #goth #elonmusk sit better than #trilliionaire #Musk? I dont think it does, but, finding a picture of Goth Elon (a picture by the way that I believe he has tried to have obliterated from the internet utterly and totally), just made my fucking day. Comments? Thoughts?

Deep green now. That heavy, spent mid-July green where the leaves have quit growing and taken up enduring instead. The pokeweed by my fence has gone purple at the stem and thrown up berries the birds will be drunk on by August. It did that without permission, without funding, without a single committee vote, in the crack between the driveway and the fence where nothing was ever supposed to grow. Tha an talamh na tàmh anns an teas — the earth is resting in the heat. Not sleeping. Resting. There's a difference. What's growing where you didn't plant it? https://twp.ai/4hsg4F #Pokeweed #Nature #Photography #Garden #MidSummer #Gaelic #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Foraging #Botany #Plants #Wildflowers #Solidarity

Toast and grind your own spices → Dry skillet, medium heat, no oil. Whole cumin, coriander, peppercorns, fennel — thirty to ninety seconds, shaking constantly, until they smell like something and darken a shade. Cool completely. Grind in a mortar, a coffee grinder, or under a heavy pan. Whole spices cost a third of ground and hold their oils for years, not months. That six-dollar jar of pre-ground is mostly dust and shelf time. Fifteen minutes buys you a season. ##NoWaste #Cooking #FoodJustice #SlowFood #KitchenWitch #Frugal #Photography #Homestead #EatTheWeeds https://twp.ai/4huUUj

Ive been living on this all day, because I literally just gave up with zero fucks today. My junior engineers did stupid shit today, and I am up to my neck in it. Can this get any worse? I doubt it. I think secretly the world hates me or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCn0b0qqng4&list=PL24pTw466wuDzOwpiKo5GnEZyKVFDV66G&index=25 #Devops #CloudOps #ProgMetal #DoNotCare #Depression #Anger #Sadness #Anxiety #ZeroFucks #Icanttoday #Trans #TransDeveloper #Queer #LGBTQIA #Frustration

Broccoli stems. Chard ribs. Carrot tops. The fennel fronds you paid for and binned. Peel the woody outside off a broccoli stem and the inside is sweeter than the crown — slice it into coins. Chard ribs cook like celery, three minutes ahead of the leaves. Carrot tops are an herb. Chop them like parsley and stop apologizing. Roughly a third of what most kitchens buy in produce goes in the bin, and almost none of it is spoiled. It's the part somebody in an advertisement decided wasn't the food. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker Two minutes of knife-work buys you a free meal a week, forever. There's a particular light in a kitchen where somebody stopped believing the packaging. What part of a vegetable were you taught to throw away? #FoodWaste #Cooking #FoodAsMedicine #ZeroWaste #KitchenSkills #EatTheStem #Frugal #Recipe #Food #Photography #MutualAid #Solidarity #Druid https://twp.ai/4hsihM

The elderberries went purple in the fence row this week. Right on time. Two days ahead of Lùnastal. Today is also the day humanity finished the year. July 30 — Earth Overshoot Day. Every renewable thing the planet makes in twelve months, spent, with five months of bills still coming. The earth didn't send a notice. She posted the entry and went right on pulling water up through the roots of everything within a hundred yards of my porch, against gravity, in a column no engineer has ever reproduced. Friday is the first harvest anyway. She's holding up her end of a bargain we quit honoring somewhere around the Nixon administration, and every spring she does it again. Tha an talamh a' cumail cunntais — the earth keeps accounts. What's ripening near you right now that you'd miss if you didn't go look? Today's issue → https://twp.ai/4huL5i #EarthOvershootDay #MoveTheDate #Lughnasadh #Lammas #Foraging #Elderberry #Herbalism #Nature #Photography #Solarpunk #Druid #Pagan #Seasonal #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Roughly 40% protein by dry weight. Among the highest of any plant food on earth, and almost nobody in an American grocery store knows it's there. Lupini have fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years. Raw, they're genuinely bitter — quinolizidine alkaloids, days of soaking and rinsing to debitter — which is why most of us should buy them already brined in a jar. Rinse, pop them out of their skins, olive oil, lemon, a great deal of black pepper. A bowl of protein for less than a coffee. Two hard cautions, and I'd rather say them twice than not enough: lupin is a recognized allergen with real cross-reactivity to peanut, so if peanuts are a problem in your house then lupin is a problem in your house. And the ornamental lupines in the garden are a different species and genuinely toxic. Admire those and walk on. What's the cheapest real protein sitting in your kitchen right now? https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-week-that-wont-sit-down-2d2398dcba465b14?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodPhotography #Frugal #FoodSovereignty #Mediterranean #DailyGathering

For 37 years, buried cables kept a patch of Harvard Forest 5C warmer than the ground around it. Now the "safe for centuries" carbon is breaking down too. Forest soils hold more carbon than the atmosphere and every plant combined. https://twp.ai/9OY3cn #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Science #Environment #ClimateAction #CarbonCycle #Ecology #Resistance #Fediverse #Mastodon

Three people did visible work this week and every one of them did the same unglamorous thing. Somebody counted something. Alex Bollinger counted the fabricated videos — a month of watching AI watermarks show up, then get cropped off. Rachel Maddow counted the illnesses: 6,700 cyclospora cases across 45 states, laid beside the surveillance program they killed. Sarah McBride counted the dollars, and declined to fund a war with no stated end. None of it is glamorous. All of it is the work. You cannot protect what you haven't bothered to number. Who's doing the counting in your town? Today's issue → https://twp.ai/4huL8p #QuoteOfTheDay #Journalism #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #News #Politics #Resist #Solidarity #Heroes #Typography #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Five days past Lughnasadh, and the land is showing it. Goldenrod cracking open along the highway shoulders. Elderberries turning from green to blood-dark. The first joe-pye weed standing purple and shoulder-high in the ditches. The Perseids already scratching the northeast sky, building toward the peak. The light leaves a few minutes earlier each evening now, so slightly that you feel it in your shoulders before you see it in the sky — the way you always know a room has emptied before you turn to look. *Tha an talamh a' cumail cunntais.* The earth keeps the count. It was counting before there was anyone here to argue about what the count meant. What's turned where you are this week? https://twp.ai/4huPiY #Lughnasadh #Gàidhlig #ScottishGaelic #Goldenrod #Perseids #Nature #Photography #Druid #Folklore #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling #Community #Solidarity

A wartime president tried to drag Dylan Mulvaney back into the mud, three years later. She didn’t flinch. She congrats the reporter, tells trans kids to hold every piece of themselves, and then—she dances. "I am free in a way that they will never have the privilege to experience." Grace with an edge on it. That’s the only answer that sticks. #TransRights #DylanMulvaney #QueerJoy #Pride #LGBTQ #Resilience #Hope #Photography #News #TransVisibility #JoyIsResistance #Community

Heavy week, so hold the bright signals close. A GOP governor vetoed a bathroom bill a 4th time in two years. The Rubi Girls, $3M raised, got their history marker after Trump tried to block it. Jordan Wood re-entered Maine's Senate race. https://twp.ai/9OY3fD #Trans #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy #QueerCommunity #Resistance #GoodNews #ProtectTransKids #Fediverse #Mastodon

A group paid for a billboard attacking queer families. They chose the wording carefully, to sting. It stung. Across party lines. Neighbors who agree on almost nothing looked up at the same sign and came to the same conclusion about it — and one resident's summary is the whole story: it was written to trigger people, and it did. Just not the people it was aimed at. That's the arithmetic nobody running a hate campaign ever bothers to run. They count the ones who'll cheer. They never count the ones who'll turn around. There were more of us than the billboard company assumed. There usually are. No ads here, no billionaire, no interest in acquiring one. If today was worth a bad gas-station coffee → https://twp.ai/E5EpWa / https://twp.ai/9OZaKW / https://twp.ai/4huL8S When did your neighbors last surprise you? #LGBTQ #QueerFamilies #Pride #Solidarity #Community #QueerNews #TransRights #LoveIsLove #Photography #News #Resist #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Pantry meal: skillet squash-and-lemon pasta — feeds 3, under $10, ten minutes → Seven things: 12 oz short pasta, two medium summer squash, four cloves garlic, olive oil, one lemon, half a cup breadcrumbs, grated parmesan. Boil the pasta. Toast the crumbs in oil with one minced clove until sandy-gold; set aside. Grate the squash coarse, hit the hot pan with it and the rest of the garlic for three minutes — it collapses fast — then add drained pasta, a splash of its water, lemon zest and juice, the cheese. Toss hard. Crumbs on top. Late July is when squash gets cheap enough to be insulting, and the grater turns a vegetable nobody's excited about into something that behaves like a sauce. #Recipe #Cooking #CheapEats #FoodAsMedicine #BudgetCooking #Food #Photography #QueerJoy #MutualAid #Solidarity #pride https://twp.ai/4huIzc

Nine hundred sixty-eight kilometers of road that belongs to everybody. Six hundred two miles circling an entire island and coming back to a zero-kilometer marker outside Songshan Station in Taipei. Taiwan spent the mid-2000s deciding the coastline belonged to people moving at fifteen miles an hour. Cycling Route No. 1 opened December 30, 2015 — dedicated paths, quiet roads, rest stations every twenty kilometers. King Liu built the largest bicycle company on earth and didn't ride the loop until he was 73. Fifteen days. He did it again at 80 and cut it to twelve. He said he'd been an old man contemplating retirement and instead found a brand-new version of himself. It started with a movie. A film about a deaf young man riding around his own country lodged in the national imagination, and then a government poured concrete for a farmer on a secondhand bike. What's the path near you that somebody had to fight a budget line for? https://twp.ai/4huUQz #Cycling #Taiwan #BikeLife #PublicSpace #Infrastructure #Travel #SlowTravel #Photography #Nature #Commons #Community #Hope

Saxifrage. The little rock-breaker — lus nan cluas in some of the old tongues, its name straight from the Latin for stone-breaker, because it roots in the cracks of granite and holds. Tear the young leaves small into a bowl of warm broth. No boiling — that cooks the life right out of it. Cool water, torn leaves, a few minutes in the warm bowl. That bright green astringency is medicine for a throat the smoke and the crying roughed up. Something that lives in stone, teaching the throat to hold. That's the season on the plate. What do you reach for when your throat's had a week? Full issue → https://twp.ai/4ht7YJ #Herbalism #Saxifrage #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Foraging #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Plants #Botany #Gaelic #Nature #Apothecary

A man shot in the back, paralyzed for life, sat down and drew the line exactly where it belongs — not around the person, around the deed. "I don't hate you, Tyler Getchell. I hate your behavior. Enjoy your sentence." He kept the one thing the bullet couldn't reach. https://twp.ai/4hsmQA Carrying someone's cruelty inside your chest doesn't punish them. It only rents them a room in you. This Gathering is reader-funded — no ad network, no billionaire's thumb. If it's worth a morning: #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerNews #Pride #Resilience #Solidarity #News #Journalism #Resist #Photography #Justice #Community #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

The parts you throw out are the parts with the most fiber. Carrot tops carry more vitamin C than the root. Broccoli stems: peel the woody outside with a vegetable peeler, shave the pale core into ribbons. Carrot tops: treat like parsley, they're related and behave the same. Chard ribs: slice thin, five minutes ahead of the leaves. Cost, zero. You already paid for them. Twice, if you count the hauling. There is a particular light in a kitchen at seven in the evening when someone stands at the counter shaving a broccoli stem instead of dropping it in the bin. It has nothing to do with thrift. It's the decision that nothing in this house is beneath notice. What do you save that people tell you to throw out? https://twp.ai/4hsxu3 #ZeroWaste #FoodWaste #CookingFromScratch #Frugal #RootToStem #Kitchen #FoodAsMedicine #MutualAid #EarthBased #Sustainability #HomeCooking #Vegetables #Photography #Solidarity

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." — James Baldwin, "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," 1962 What does it cost you, some mornings, just to keep your eyes open on purpose? It costs me the nap I could be taking instead, if I'm honest, and it costs a little of the numbness I have damn well earned the right to want. But goddamn it, I've buried people this news cycle never once apologized for, and I'm still here, still upright, still mean enough and soft enough at the same time to keep doing this at fifty-plus in a body half the South is still betting against. I face it because the alternative is letting some other asshole decide what I saw instead of me. #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #Toronto #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews

Is treasa tuath na tighearna. The people are stronger than the lord. The old tongue knew this before there was a word for a corporation, and it will still be true when there isn't one. You came in today carrying a tariff, a slaughterhouse, and a pastor with a microphone. You're leaving with a broccoli stem, a jammy egg, a man who held the screen for five minutes, and four Republicans who voted the right way on a Tuesday. Beannachd leat, agus till a-rithist. https://twp.ai/4hsxuE #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Gàidhlig #Celtic #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #FolkWisdom #Blessing #Solidarity #MutualAid #Resist #Language #Photography

For the tired that sleep won't touch — the bone-deep flatness that comes after months of bracing. Rhodiola. The golden root, the one that grows where almost nothing else will. Chop the dried root, cover it in vodka, cap it, set it in a dark cupboard three to four weeks, shake when you remember. A dropperful in water in the morning. Never at night. The Siberian herders swore by it before the word "adaptogen" existed. Start low. It's a steadying, not a jolt. What do you reach for when sleep isn't the thing that's broken? https://twp.ai/4hsmIY #Herbalism #Adaptogens #Rhodiola #HerbalMedicine #Wellness #Foraging #Druid #Photography #News #LGBTQ #Pride #EarthBased

NATIONAL TIGER DAY!!!! RAWR!!!! The tigers never asked anybody to save them, and they sure as hell never asked to get squeezed onto twenty leftover acres by some mining outfit's quarterly report. They don't know they're a symbol. They just keep walking their shrinking ground like it still belongs to them — because it does — and somewhere in Sumatra tonight, a person with a headlamp and a machete is out there making damn sure that's still true for one more night, for free, because somebody has to, and she decided it was going to be her. #Nature #ClimateHope #Rewilding #Seagrass #Conservation #Solidarity #News #Photography #Environment #Hope #Wildlife #Restoration https://twp.ai/4huO17

most people dislike my language choices. When I was purely on substack, I got told using the word Fuck too much made it unreadable.

I've waded through a lot of bullshit this year, but there's a special vintage of institutional dipshittery in mislabeling a continent, calling it "an unfortunate error," and keeping 1,700 clinics dark. Own the map or own the closures. Pick a goddamn lane. #LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights #Pride #QueerJoy #TransMuslim #Visibility #QueerVoices #LGBTQIA #Resilience #HumanRights #Solidarity #MutualAid https://twp.ai/4huJ0i

Fifty years ago she built the association that today asks women to prove their sex with a cheek swab. Billie Jean King said it plain in 2020 — no place in any sport for discrimination of any kind — and she has not taken it back. The word still sits on the table where she left it, waiting for the house she built to remember its own name. You don't get to control what comes after you. You only get to be the one who said the true thing first, and clearly. https://twp.ai/4hsmO6 #BillieJeanKing #TransRights #Tennis #WTA #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerNews #Sports #History #Solidarity #News #Photography

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1. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio — the longest-serving woman in Congress, first elected during Reagan's first term, holder of a 95% HRC score in the last Congress — has decided the smart way to survive anti-trans attack ads is to cut them herself. Two of them. In one she boasts, "I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools," and she isn't bluffing

2. Westlock, Alberta — a town small enough that everybody knows whose kids asked for the crosswalk. In 2023 local activist Benita Pedersen papered the place — public walls, private property, online — with a flyer demanding residents stop a rainbow crosswalk carrying the trans flag. The flyer warned of a "transgender agenda" bent on "de-population," promised parents their children would be rendered infertile and die young, and branded gender-affirming care "chemical castration and genital mutilation." Laurie Hodge, the resident who filed the complaint and who now sits on the town council, took action.

3. Brianna Turner has played organized basketball for more than fifteen years, and she is sick to death of being used as a prop. The WNBA star told Them this week she hates being turned into a tool for dismantling trans people's rights, and she named the latest clowns: two former NBA players, both cis men, who declared themselves eligible for the WNBA's 2027 draft as an anti-trans stunt.

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