Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
Expressions of queer and trans joy, solidarity, and resistance, are so important.
We know who we are.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTnB...
A 3 inch diameter embroidery hoop with stretched cream cotton fabric. On the fabric is a single curved line of running stitches in green thread with a subtle gradient from light pale green to a darker, mossy colour. Under the hoop sits my project bag, with more green thread visible, and some needles and pins.
This is the first thing I've sewn in six months. The rotator cuff tear seems to have healed, or at least isn't my worst source of chronic pain currently, so I'm back to fiddling with thread and poking my fingers to death.
fuck cancer.
Yes, you're helping Pedro! We need more cis allies with platforms to call this out.
The cover of the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
Reading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi in my 20s genuinely opened my eyes to how diverse graphic novels could be as a medium. It's something I return to every so often over and over, seeing something new every time. I recommend it to everyone. It's on my mind today for obvious reasons.
I just cannot get past "encourages sickness". Ill health and disability is not something people CHOOSE. It happens TO us, not BECAUSE of us. If I could choose to be abled, I quite possibly would, but I was born with wonky DNA, so I can't!
I am old and have been an obsessive videogame nerd for a verrrry long time at this point, basically
Stardew Valley
The Sims 4
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
bonus answers: Ocarina of Time, various King’s Quest games, Balatro, Satisfactory, Quake back in the day, Minecraft, Infinity Nikki, Myst and Riven, Breath of the Wild, Pokemon Red & Leaf Green & Crystal as a kid, I genuinely could keep going
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
this became the norm in the UK in 2022, fyi americans. (yes, I'm high risk and therefore still allowed to get the boosters)
An instagram post by teewatterss that has a Twitter post saying “”he can’t keep getting away with this” and it’s just Pedro Pascal on a red carpet” overlaid on a picture of actor Pedro Pascal on the red carpet looking exceedingly handsome in a sleeveless tank.
labour: we welcome the verdict that bans you from public bathrooms
lgbtq people: okay you're banned from attending our party
labour: wtf that's so disrespectful??
If you can’t handle me at my Dance Yourself Clean 0:00-3:05 you don’t deserve me at my Dance Yourself Clean 3:06-8:56
Pope Toast III reporting in!
Love this story about Refried, @blairbraverman.bsky.social
(nah the obvious reason is I want people to know they're safe with me if they're like me (trans, nonbinary, queer, etc), especially any anxious lgbt youth that might see me out and about with my own kid)
background: a leet gamer laptop keyboard lit up in teal LEDs. foreground, a plastic pin, the kind you'd put on a jacket or a cloth bag, of a cartoon frog happily hugging a heart. the heart is colored in the transgender pride flag. pin creator is Atelier Stellari on Etsy UK
decided to be a little more obvious about things. for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
with everything being crammed into the same feed, it sometimes feels like you can't get away from the companies or people who make your online life worse. I propose we create specific places - "sites," I've been calling them - which are independent, but also connected with a sort of "web" of links
having to wear knee-length compression socks during a heatwave is sensory hell 🫠 heart please do your job better thx
There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
why did nobody warn me about Satisfactory. help. I have no idea what I'm doing but I can't stop playing it anyway. It's like Minecraft on steroids combined with the addictiveness of Balatro (somehow) 🫠
anyway, that's why I've been absent from here. because it's fucking relentless and I already have enough shit to deal with without also being depressed by the internet, honestly.
honestly as a disabled person living in the UK who has been medically retired, you'd think I'd be used to being told by the government I don't deserve things like basic food, water, clothing, heating, a place to live, etc, but it's uniquely depressing for it to be coming from a labour government.
Digital illustration of a duck with a flower on its head, on a green background, surrounded by text saying „being nice is free” and a rainbow border
duck of wisdom ✨ #art
an abstract sketch evoking water, reflections, fishing nets, distorted lines, the shape of nerve cells. a stark black net of curving connecting lines over a faded, watery grey net of further warped lines, with horizontal quivering shaking lines of dark blue overtop everything.
Finally started a new sketchbook with something I don't absolutely hate
Here's Rick Astley singing Pink Pony Club
