Laz
Teacher. Trans man. 40s. This is where I hang out to be very un-teacher-y, so please, 18+ only.
- Reposted by LazMoney can’t buy happiness for a hoarder, miser, amasser, or creditor. But it can buy away unhappiness for OTHER PEOPLE. Give it away. In big, recklessly liberating chunks. Jubilee is salvation.
- Reposted by LazJust saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
- Reposted by LazDear Dems, the people want you to run on abolishing ICE, not appeasing fascists.
- INBOX: the Democratic National Committee is forced to delete a premature congratulatory message to former Rep. Tom Malinowski in the #NJ11 special election primary to succeed Gov. Mikie Sherrill this morning. DSA member Analilia Mejia, running on abolishing ICE, took the lead late last night.
- Reposted by LazSince we are discussing art and making bad art before you can make good art and why the plagiarism machine sucks, here is a watercolor of a hill. It's terrible but I painted it myself.
- Reposted by LazI am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.
- Reposted by LazHAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by LazIs Donald Trump a racist? I don’t know was he doing anything racial? I don’t have monkey memes on my phone At the ready in Black History month
- Reposted by LazOh hell's teeth. This is bad news.
- Reposted by LazWe've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?
- Reposted by Lazthe Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
- Reposted by Lazif you are holding hands two abreast taking up the entire width of a snowbound sidewalk your fellow new yorkers should be able to hunt and kill one of you at a time for sport while the other lovebird is forced to watch
- Reposted by LazNo, really, @washingtonpost.com, I am the one who is sorry to see you go. Farewell to what was once my go-to, trusted news source. I'm sorry that you had to die in darkness.
- Reposted by LazTN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.
- Reposted by LazAs someone working on opening my own queer bookstore, this is heartening. And a great read besides.
- Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
- Reposted by Lazthere's gotta be a better way to say this
- Reposted by LazMamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
- Reposted by Laz[reads email] Lead handling concerns? [bone creaking "lich in a tomb" noises as I rise] Let me tell you of our lead handling concerns since the Manhattan Project, child.
- Reposted by LazExperts warned against drinking raw milk before it killed this baby, too.
- Reposted by LazI don't know where the cutoff for notability lies but wherever it is, a woman who helped to calculate the orbit of Pluto and create GPS clears it. And that's before you factor what she had to overcome to get there.
- No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Laz“Being anti-AI is gatekeeping!” I’m *literally* saying there is no gate. Unlike the people telling you the only way through it is AI.
- Reposted by Laz"Natalia Bonanno’s family owns 200 apartment units"
- Reposted by LazNo joke, the very best comics artists I know are people that can't stop drawing. If you go to dinner with them they will draw on napkins if they don't have their sketchbooks.
- Reposted by LazFollowing the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota, "Commander at Large" Gregory Bovino was reassigned away from his leadership role in the operation. Journalist Amanda Moore notes the violent culture and widespread fear he helped create won't be so easily removed.
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- Reposted by LazSupport LGBTQIA+ authors @charliejane.bsky.social & @annaleen.bsky.social! A @humblebundle.com of 18(!) ebooks, w. multiple award-winning books. Donations also help support a Black Trans Cultural Center. Humble link in article. #BookTalk #Books #SciFi #Dystopian #LGBTQIA #RepresentationMatters
- Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
- Reposted by LazFinneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
- Reposted by LazYou’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
- Reposted by LazEgg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.
- Reposted by LazThe fact that AI boosters always go to “but art is EXPENSIVE” is telling. Most people started with crayons, lined school paper, cheap pencils, ballpoint pen, the back of junk mail and misprinted pages. Art supplies can be outrageous but you can make art with literal trash
- Reposted by LazA small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
- Reposted by LazI think the improvement is noticeable, and I would therefore like to point out that even the older image was drawn several years into my syndicated career, and two decades into my comics career. And I’m still getting better. And to me that’s a lot of the fun of this, you know?
- Reposted by LazHow Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
- Reposted by LazThey really said the vibe is baked potato for the country placket bearers at the Olympics.
- Reposted by LazICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
- Reposted by LazHere's what Dems should do: 1) Double down on the demands. 2) Make clear there will be no additional funding. If the GOP wants to shut down DHS, that's on them. Don't surrender to pushback from these goons. Take inspiration from the people of Minneapolis. apnews.com/article/home...
- Reposted by Lazsome of my happiest creative moments have happened while I was trying something I knew I’d be bad at, at least initially
- Reposted by LazWhy does art need to be democratized anyway? That’s such a strange worldview, to me. Viewing artists, people who have labored for years, often for little reward, as elitists who are “hoarding” the skills they’ve worked to develop.
- Reposted by LazI realise I've said for a while that eating the rich could lead to prion diseases, I must caution everyone that the risk is greatly increased by the rich already having eaten people. I must insist on ensuring they remain several steps removed from our food chain. Please dispose responsibly.
- Reposted by LazDemocrats are the party of love. Republicans are the party of hate. If the current Dems can't run on that, defenestrate them.
- Reposted by Laz“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
- Reposted by LazI used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
- Reposted by LazCops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
- Reposted by LazOne of the comments called this “Beige Against The Machine” and I made a noise that startled the dog.
- Reposted by Laz5 More Minutes 2026
- Reposted by LazFollowing the Australian precedence, the UK, France, and Spain want age checks for social media. 😡But age verification & ID checks destroy everyone's #privacy. 😡 Learn what countries are planning a social media ban & fight #AgeVerification 💪 👉https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity
- Reposted by LazYup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.
- Reposted by LazRed Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.
- Reposted by Lazwhen I was in high school I had male teachers in their 30s who I totally thought I was adult peer friends with. when I was in my 30s and was a high school youth group leader I was like “those are not my friends, those are children.” that’s when I realized those men just had bad boundaries
- Reposted by LazI’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
