🏳️‍🌈⭐👏Newsletter Writer & Contributor @The Barbed Wire, formerly Digital Editor @Texas Observer, bylines in Teen Vogue, etc. Austin, Texas. They/Them. Home: https://kitoconnell.com/ Get Big & Bright: https://thebarbedwire.com/subscribe/https://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3myap2zfvok2mFinally testing clear on a Covid test, 3 weeks after initial exposure and over 2 weeks since getting sick. Still lingering fatigue, sinus pressure and sore throat today. Y'all, get a booster, mask whenever you can, improve air quality at gatherings and protect each other. Getting this still sucks.19 Oct 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3myap2zfvok2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3mybdk5gkvs2mIt would be so easy to use Musk whenever the trans rights issue comes up. He's obsessed with policing trans lives and a big part of why Republican advertising is so one-note now. Talarico comes very close to doing it in the recording here. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Oct 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mybdk5gkvs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3myap2zfvok2mFinally testing clear on a Covid test, 3 weeks after initial exposure and over 2 weeks since getting sick. Still lingering fatigue, sinus pressure and sore throat today. Y'all, get a booster, mask whenever you can, improve air quality at gatherings and protect each other. Getting this still sucks.19 Oct 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3myap2zfvok2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3my3v7usoic2uIve spent the last 2 weeks feeling intermittently quite miserable from a covid exposure so expect me to once again be one of those obnoxious people who thinks we should take care of each other's health and the air quality at our gatherings. I never really stopped but im fully back on my bs now.17 Oct 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3v7usoic2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3my3tmpoqgc2uOne of my major fears about modern life is that so much of LGBTQIA culture is built around Meta websites, which are now increasingly openly hostile to us. How many drag queen troupes, queer events, and book clubs are based solely on Instagram for example? [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2026 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3tmpoqgc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3mxzfczpcss2cThe algorithm is trying to sell me ACOTAR-branded period panties. It's like the clankers are SO close to understanding the trans girls.16 Oct 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxzfczpcss2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3mxz6gb2vec2bTIL [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Oct 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxz6gb2vec2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3mxz43fni6k2iThis program is great, and I'm happy to see it continue. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Oct 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxz43fni6k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kitoconnell.com/post/3mxz3xfmyc22iThis is literally how I feel about voting for James Talarico. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Oct 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:fzi2miubukpfb2ppkppihfe2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxz3xfmyc22i