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I WANT MY COFFEE SERVED BY A TGIRL AND MY ICE CREAM SERVED BY A TBOY AND I WANTED THEM TO BE PAID $30 AN HOUR TO DO IT

Bureau of Prisons: February 19, 2026 PURPOSE AND SCOPE To establish professional guidelines for the mental health evaluation and treatment of inmates meeting the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria (GD) to assist their progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

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First show of the year tonight! Playing at @thearcaneworkshop.bsky.social with @thelowblowtn.bsky.social and Star Funeral (NY). Doors at 7, music at 8. $15, all ages. Let's get it!

they can dig us as many graves as they want. we will not be laying down in them. not today. not tomorrow. not ever.

Please accept my application for the job of new PR person for the mayor's office.

Thank you for your consideration.

Honestly I'm just really excited to see @thelowblowtn.bsky.social live again this weekend. T-minus 5 days until you can catch me sobbing in a game shop and ruining my makeup

This Sunday at 7PM at @thearcaneworkshop.bsky.social is our first show of the year! We're opening for Star Funeral along with other local favorite @thelowblowtn.bsky.social. $15, all ages. Let's kick off March and close out Star Funeral's tour in style!

Recently, I listened to all of Weezer's albums chronologically for the first time to prove once and for all (to myself, subjectively) that the people who say only the Blue Album and Pinkerton were good are (somewhat) wrong. I also wasted so many hours of my life. Synopsis in the thread below:

Anyway that was the Weezer saga. I kinda want to make some kind of video with my overall thoughts, but the main thing is that my predictions were pretty accurate so my hypothesis has been more or less proven correct. The end.

...it feels like the band have become so derivative of themselves that it's hard for them to do something truly memorable/exciting at this point (but at least they've learned a new trick of writing songs where each section just hard-switches to a different key, like wtf is that about?)

SZNZ EPs -
I love a "four seasons" theme, and these 4 EPs do represent 4 distinct enough variations of the band's sound to justify the theme. Autumn is my favorite but it also has the only song that I disliked so much I skipped it. There's some variety and experimentation here but...

Van Weezer -
Listen. I love '80s pop/rock and their modern-day revivals, so if any Weezer album should work for me it's this one. But the hair-metal guitar tone and shameless interpolations of classic riffs are more parody than pastiche. Couple crazy good choruses in there though.

OK Human -
A late-career Pretty. Odd.-esque turn is an interesting choice, and though less compelling and creative than that album, the indie rock/baroque pop canvas does suit Rivers' '60s-pop-inspired songwriting sensibilities. Not mind-blowing but charming enough

Sombr is short for "sombrero"

This is what I was getting at earlier - pop music only works if you fully commit to the idea of it being pop music. Raditude didn't so the pop songs on it sounded like nothing. PD mostly did but lacked the star quality to sell it. And now with the Black Album we're back in forgettable territory.

Black Album -
Another attempt at a poppier album I guess. Some formulas from previous releases played out again to diminishing returns. I gotta be honest - this is the 5th album of theirs in a row today that I listened to and it's the one that stuck with me the least

Teal Album -
It's just covers, most of them very similarly arranged to the originals but in a slightly lower key so it just sounds like karaoke. I almost skipped this one and now I wish I had.

To pull off being a pop star, you have to commit to the bit. Sonically they have done that (which scans since the producer on it had success doing similar things with FOB and P!atD), but they lack the charisma, confidence, and ambition to fully pull off pop stardom and justify using the pop formula

Pacific Daydream -
Listen...I kinda don't hate this one. It's a full pop album but the production is actually good this time and it's fun and catchy. If you played these songs on pop radio, people unfamiliar with the band wouldn't bat an eye. But it still doesn't fully work for me and here's why:

White Album -
The only other one I've heard anyone defend before. One of their more straightforward albums but it's hooky and enthusiastic. Absurd lyrics are at an all-time high ("Thank God For Girls" made me hear things I can't unhear) but I've stopped taking it seriously which makes it tolerable

Everything Will Be Alright In The End -
Again, another solid one that I think would've become more well-regarded by their fandom had it come sooner after the early stuff. There's still some moments that are still a little derivative, but it's compositionally ambitious and memorable

Just got through that one and maybe I've been warped by how much of them I've heard lately but I didn't hate it this time. I think it gets so absurd that I don't feel obligated to take the weirdness about women seriously. But if it was meant to be serious then I truly don't even know where to begin😂

If you're keeping score at home, we're 6 albums post-Pinkerton and at about a 50% success rate in my opinion which is honestly a pretty good rate for a band this big, much better than the first-two-albums-only people would have you think

I know :/
I've heard it before and I know there's some weird shit in it but I don't remember details and I'm not ready to be reminded

I played rock music so hard that it transed my gender. Weezer could never.

Feels like we got close for a second with the whole femboy rivers cuomo thing but no dice there (yet)

Our band is not for you if you think about girls so much that it makes you write weird shit about them, our band is for you if you thought about girls so much that you realized you were one

Side note on lyrics, I get really tired of bands full of grown-ass adults who only write about their attraction to women in a really juvenile way. I don't like my band being compared to Weezer, blink-182, etc. because I would never write the kind of gooner diary shit they manage to get away with

Hurley -
Back to form, more or less. I felt a surprising amount of relief at the less polished production, and there's some solid songs with a reasonable yet safe amount of stylistic variety. I raised an eyebrow at some of the lyrics but that's been par for the course for most of these albums so far