Jackson Bird

@jackisnotabird.cool

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Once and future author Semi-retired creator Wannabe historian Pumpkin enthusiast đź“Ť Western Mass

Screenshot of an email newsletter. Text reads "It wasn't just the question of "what is America" that loomed over the whole weekend for me, though. I also wondered whether this was all even worth it. Not just White's $60 million investment, but, also, Trump's continued endorsement of hypermasculine gutter culture. Can you feed a political movement with jalapeño vodka slams, Monster Energy Drinks, and potato chip skewers? The modern Republican Party has always been a coalition of vampiric aristocrats and a roving tailgate of redneck dopes, but at least the party of Reagan and Bush was smart enough to LARP as some mythic cowboy archetype. Do the JD Vance's and Marco Rubio's of the world think there is a path forward after Trump if they can capture the "guy who wears an Affliction T-shirt in the pool" vote?"
Screenshot of text, which reads, "This weekend, a Kansas judge issued a scathing 117-page rebuke of the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth—and in doing so, methodically dismantled the case against that care. In his ruling, Judge Carl Folsom III worked through the testimony of the state's witnesses one by one, finding that its anti-transgender “experts”—routinely paraded by groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, SEGM, and Genspect—offered opinions built on "cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," and granting their testimony little to no weight. He then laid out 349 individual findings of fact, drawn from scientific evidence and the testimony of credible medical experts, documenting the safety and efficacy of gender-affirming care. He ultimately found that the ban likely violates the Kansas Constitution—which guarantees broader protections than its federal counterpart. That distinction matters enormously: because the ruling rests on state constitutional grounds, it is largely insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court and its decision in Skrmetti, which closed the federal courthouse door to these challenges but left the state one wide open."
A photo of four envelopes sealed with red and gold wax stamps featuring a small bird.
A photo of a cross-stitch hoop with a half-completed project showing the Emerald City. The hoop is sitting on top of a pop-up Wizard of Oz book, open to an Emerald City spread.
A photo of a headless horseman cross-stitch project in-progress. It has orange and black bobbins of floss and a pair of stork scissors on top of it. It’s lying amongst fallen brown and yellow leaves on the grass.
A photo of an old orange paperback copy of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, placed on top of an embroidery hoop featuring a work in progress in black stitching. Also on the hoop is a pair of stork embroidery scissors and a bobbin of black thread. In the corner of the photo is a sugar pie pumpkin.
Simpsons meme of a kid of a bus with a caption that says “(chuckles) I’m in danger.”
An illustrated wooden sign on a yellow background. The sign read "Stitch & Chill." Text beneath the sign says, "Every Monday in September. Twitch.tv/jackisnotabird"
screenshot of the Garbage Day newsletter, which reads: This is NOT “stomp clap hey ho indie,” as I’ve seen users on X claim. This is obviously closer to recession-era folk or folk punk, which came years before. It was smellier and annoying in a totally different way. “Stomp clap hey ho indie,” which arrived around 2011-2012, was made by Mormons, midwesteners that were functionally Mormon, or British nepo babies and it was explicitly written to cash in on the need for Silicon Valley Keynote background music or plantation weddings where all the drinks are served in mason jars. Bands like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were involved with dangerously insane cults, hung out with people who ate trash and tattooed their dogs, and made songs that sounded like they were written by preschool teachers suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Thank you!!
A graph from Our World In Data with a title saying "How old are you compared to the rest of the world?" And a subtitle that says "The global media age splits the world's population into two equal groups, with as many people older than it as younger." The graph's y axis show 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years old. The graph's x axis shows 1950, 1980, 2010, 2040, 2070, 2100. With a Note saying "Future projections are based on the UN medium scenario." A line on the graph, and text along with it, explains that in 1970 the median age was 20. Today, if you're over 30, you're older than most of the world. And that someone born today won't be older than most until nearly age 40.
Screenshot of an iMessage blue bubble reading “I forgot this actor whose name I always forget was on this show.”
Screenshot of Samuel Pepys’ diary reading, “In coming home I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed, but made a pretty good excuse that I took him for a gentleman of Gray’s Inn who sings well, and so parted. Home for all night and set things in order and so to bed.”
A bird's eye view of a work in progress cross-stitch pattern on beige evenweave fabric. There are lots of greens and blues starting to make out the hints of an Emerald City palace.