Notes on 2025W38

I’m pretty behind on weeknotes again.

It has been a truly awful few weeks for trans people in the US. I am worried for myself and for every other trans person navigating the daily terror of the political climate here. You are loved and valid, no matter what they say. ❤️

Someone compiled all the station ditties along the Yamanote line in Tōkyō. Via Jonathan Wight, though the link is now dead.

Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the air by a combination of ABC, Disney, and Nexstar over comments he made about Charlie Kirk. His comments were mild at best, and his removal portends bad things for freedom of speech and a free press in the US.

The US seems poised to pass a country-wide bathroom ban for trans people. It would deny trans people the right to use the toilets matching their gender, and also deny them access to toilets matching their birth sex, effectively preventing trans people from using the bathroom in any public space. If this passes, I don’t think I will be able to travel to the UK for any reason for the forseeable future.

Sol Elias draws a comparison to the current moral panic around trans rights and the “crack baby” era of the 1980s and 1990s.

The team behind the Diablo franchise at Blizzard has unionized. Congrats to them!