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Tristan Crane

@tcrane.bsky.social
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Photographer, tea drinker, art maker, trans/non-binary entity, occasional writer of a weird comic book. tristancrane.com hereportraits.com

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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 5h
Loren's work was the some of the first times I encountered images of transgender men, and it changed the course of my own life and my own art. I'm so glad people are still sharing his story.
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The SRG Collective @srgcollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did you know professionals can now access @crashpadseries.bsky.social and get gift cards for their clients if it feels useful? Great for therapists, counselors, educators, etc. @drshannak.bsky.social uses it in class, and it's game changing for a lot of students. crashpadseries.com/queer-porn/c...
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i am against lesbian bars having a masc mandate, like come on now this is ridiculous let the fems take over once in a while
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My gender is buoy in the ocean these days.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
100% agree, and watching this play out in multiple communities is just exhausting and tragic. So many people will just let the loudest and most toxic person in the room take up all the space.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 23/09/2026
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state. www.ebar.com/story/1... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
ebar.com
Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
404media.co
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/09/2026
This is a devastating read on what it was like to work in an ER in Palestine in November 2023.
conversationalist.org
24 Hours in the Emergency Room at Al-Shifa Hospital
A Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nice 'uniform' nazi guys.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 17/09/2026
Loved this takeaway from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app!🔥 airesistlist.org
airesistlist.org
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This seems totally fine and not at all a bad thing which is going to usher in an apocalypse.
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CrashPadSeries.com @crashpadseries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Ain’t nothing sexier than gender affirming care!" Huge thanks to Mx Nillin for reviewing CrashPad 446: Nino Ryder & Memphis Bradley! 🫶 @nillinlore.bsky.social @memphisbradleyftm.bsky.social Read the review: mxnillin.com/queer-porn-r...
Text: As if Episode 446 wasn’t already affirming enough by this point, it ends on a deeply intimate and comforting moment of Nino taking their testosterone injection while Memphis watches and sensually caresses their thighs. It’s honestly a very trans moment, one I’ve personally experienced myself with various folks over the years as well. I can’t adequately explain the experience of watching a transitioning person while they take their HRT injection. To be included in something so personal feels really , and seeing the act here framed like a form of intimacy after really awesome sex just pulls the whole scene together.

Ain’t nothing sexier than gender affirming care!

Image shows Memphis gazing at Nino as they prepare a T shot.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just requested this from the Oakland library. I'm both excited and also bracing myself for this book.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really appreciating this project logging the positions of Flock cameras around the bay area by @cara.city . Best use of a drone imho!
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
cara esten hurtle
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Jiz Lee @jizlee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
OMGX4 it's out!!!! I wrote a little about our new performer POV collaborative film "FOUR BI FOUR" by @huntersjohnson.com @thebishopblack3000.bsky.social @charleexchaste.com and a very lucky fourth: me! 🤩 Read here: www.jizlee.com/four-bi-four/
Jiz Lee, Hunter S. Johnson, Bishop Black and Charlee Chaste in FOUR BI FOUR. 
The four performers stand in a sexy way engaging with one another against a grey wall.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026
germany should ban both the afd and twitter tomorrow
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This honestly looks like a long-form chance to observe a true narcissist and their partner at work, which is gonna be a wild ride and also psychologically a lot to take in. It's hard to imagine how different the worldviews of these folks are for the majority of people who aren't low key sociopaths.
variety.com
‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Is a Shameless, Fascinating, Reality-TV-Eats-Its-Tail Look at Entitled Duplicity
It's a reality-TV-as-hangout-movie portrait of the Theranos fraudster, which is Fielder's way to ask: What makes someone like Elizabeth Holmes tick?
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Burning Man is, for me, akin to Harry Potter fandom at this point. If you continue to think it's a good thing, you might wanna re-adjust your moral compass to reality because maybe it started out cute but where it's at is pretty bad.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just had a flashback of my cat chugging water and burping like the cutest little frat boy ever.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anyway, I'm gonna go meet a friend for lunch and a photo session of her hand-made, wood-fired ceramics because turns out centuries of human led technology actually is pretty nifty.
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Tyler Cohen @tylercohencomix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
SF Bay Area: SF Zine Fest is this Sunday, Sept 6, 11-5pm. New location:The Hibernia. One of my absolute favorite comics and zine events. A fantastic experience of visual overwhelm and wallet depletion 💖 So much talent, so many voices, major effort by organizers to rep diversity www.sfzinefest.org
sfzinefest.org
San Francisco Zine Fest
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Too late buddy, we all know who and what you actually are. The irony of all of this is just... pathetic.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEW: I wrote about all the MAGA figures claiming to have had advance knowledge of, or helped cause, Milo Yiannopoulos' deportation, and what that tells us about power, influence and threats in the movement now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
What the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about the state of MAGA
The saga goes to the heart of the disturbing nature of power, influence, and punishment in Trump’s America.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh look another corrupt mayor of SF doing corruptions.
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Rainbow Rodeo Magazine @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There is something almost funny about how much Dolly Parton means to queer people. She was not queer. But somewhere along the way, Dolly became ours anyway. In this essay, Alivia Stonier works with Justin Hiltner to explain how that came to be. rainbowrodeomag.com/... #QueerCountry#DollyParton
A mural of Dolly Parton painted on a dark red brick wall. She is looking up and to the right surrounded by wild blonde curls.
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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wrote about Sean Duffy's role at the department of transportation to Make America Manly Again. From the IndyCar race at the national mall over the weekend, to posting videos of himself revving big trucks, he's branding the department in a very specific way. 19thnews.org/2026/08/cars...
19thnews.org
Real men don't bike: How cars became the symbol of American manhood
Inside the Trump administration's campaign to sell a vision of masculinity rooted in speed and strength — and what it means for people who walk, bike and ride the bus.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I love camping but the sheer amount of prep work sometimes does feel a little silly. Like 'I have this perfectly good home so why pack my car full of additional home to go camping'. and then I get there and IT'S SO WORTH IT.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Not a shocker that so many of the most vehement anti-trans folk are deeply wounded parents who can't accept their children have agency. The sad part is those folks are really missing out on getting to know some incredible adults.
huffpost.com
He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.
Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.
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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For Burning the Right Bridges 🔥🌉🔥 #art
A simple digital drawing of a yellow maneki neko with flames where its spots should be. There are flames in its eyes and it sweats a single drop, looking determined. It holds a matchbook with a fat pinup laying on her belly and facing away on it. Text on the matchbook says “enjoy the view, you’ll be seeing a lot of it!” Text above the cat says “for burning the right bridges”.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A+ for quoting a former cop who's gotten tickets twice for speeding in a school zone.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you followed or signal-boosted the claims a few weeks back by the historian who said the graphic novelist had done an unauthorized adaptation of her work on Charity & Sylvia, a lesbian couple from 19th c Vermont, please read this essay from someone who fact-checked these claims in detail.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Letting go is a process.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
George is a pretty great chicken.
Black and white photo of george the very bold chicken
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Imagine what the comic book world could be if instead of continually bringing back these sexist, tired old writers who churn out the same dreck as usual they embraced new talent. Maybe talent who hasn't, you know, raped or sexually harassed multiple people. Just a thought.
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Warren Ellis is garbage, and I think Image made a shitty decision to haul him back out into the sunlight to stink up the place again. Once again comics proves it can't just fucking level up.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
She's been gone for three weeks and I still sense her. It's really hard to be in my office and work, the rug has never been more clear of cat hair and I haven't been this sad in a very long time.
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 03/08/2026
in which @annaleen.bsky.social asks us to dream big: “What if we gave public transportation the same amount of money that investors have given to AI? With billions of dollars, what could transit do? And how might it transform our cities and lives?” www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
coyotemedia.org
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
On top of everything else in this dumpster fire of a month, I came home last night to a leaking kitchen sink. The jokes write themselves. However @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social just fixed it because he's the kind of person who is really fucking good at just fixing things.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”
oxfordamerican.org
Mister Anthony
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you for all of the kind words about the loss of Paloma. If you need support around grief, pet loss related or otherwise, reach out to a friend or therapist for support. Related, this forthcoming book looks amazing and I'm grateful for it's existance.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My friend is gone. For 16 years she was my shadow, my comfort, the sweetest cat on the planet, the most amazing 'start up' brrrrrrup, and always there to let me cry into her soft belly. The house is so empty without her, and waking up without her next to me just... hurts.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My heart has joined the thousand. My friend stopped running today.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Been thinking about this framing of Hegseth's insistence on giving cis guy soldiers extra t as 'gender affirming'. It rubs me the wrong way for a few reasons. 1. cis people don't see HRT as gender affirming. 2. Guys like Hegseth think men are entitled to testosterone, not 'affirmed' by it.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My cancelable take is that I don't trust people who are 'any pronouns'.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I truly hate the roller coaster of caring for an elderly cat with kidney disease. It's bringing up a lot of really tough memories of having a cat with cancer, the back and forth on care plans, quality of life, trying to get her to eat, wondering if what I'm doing is helping at all.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I know it's called 'acting' but I just can't imagine Matt Damon as Odysseus.
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