Jackie Hedeman

Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69 YouTube video by Lidia

RIP Country Joe.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I think I've realised what bothers me about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights: it makes a huge deal out of how edgy and controversial it is to add all this kinky sex but it strips out any of the actually difficult subtext. It wants to be seen as cool and brave but it's profoundly timid.

Just used the phrase "need my beauty sleep" unironically so put me in the ground (for my beauty sleep)

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Bookkeeper & Cold War-era aerospace engineer (the family phone was tapped)

a very misty view of the chicago river in downtown

unironically one of my favorite kinds of chicago weather

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

ICYMI! Feat. strange & wonderful queer stories and poems (incl. @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's dark delight "The Homeowner's Bride" & my Indian vampire reprint "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet") + an essay by @jackiehedeman.bsky.social ("He Is Survived By His Wife") that brought tears to my eyes!

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An excerpt from “Drivethrough" by Jackie Hedeman.

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I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Notable examples Some examples of settings, groups, and eras where purity spirals have occurred:[1][2] Khmer Rouge Cultural Revolution, Red Guards and mass denunciations French Revolution Instagram knitting circles[4] Moscow trials[6]

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

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I understand the instinct to donate to orgs that are helping trans folks flee red states but let's not forget about the orgs that are still fighting for trans folks in red states.

I'm in Kansas and yes, this is 100% to terrorize - and also it will cause and has already caused irreparable harm. It's not the only law out of a barrage of anti-trans laws pushed through in Kansas recently. Our Dem governor vetoed and was overruled.

*Homophobically* We need the 4 Day Work Week

Kansas used to be one of the easiest states to navigate gender marker changes, BTW. This police state bullshit makes me sick to my stomach.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

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March Madness, but the brackets are all the ways it™️ could happen

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You might think a house would run out of improvement-based History Boys references, but you WOULD be wrong. Natalie, goin strong! What a house!

A bouquet of flowers with a card reading: Jackie, The things I do for insulation! No more the chill's melancholy long withdrawing roar. No more confusing learning with the feeling of cold fingers. Are we insulated for life. d'you think! We must hope so! Love, Natali (E. A. the Housman)

A rendering of Natalie the house with the message: Dear Jackie, I don't always understand poetry! But thanks for making this house a home. Love, Natalie

Previous entries in the Natalie canon that never made it onto Bluesky.