Calligraphy Instagram is so full of saccharine bullshit, holiday greetings, and wedding invitations… I’m going in the opposite direction with my practice sheets. India ink (Either… dirt) is remarkably different feeling. (It’s been a very industrial Christmas)

Happy “Brick” by Ben Folds Five Day to all who celebrate

oh shit, merry christmas to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIkH... I missed this one 3 months ago. Still waiting on that box set... and it had better have a good recording of Chrysanthemum on it.

life hack: get yourself a lil treat and have a bite. Forget about it. Find it again. It's like you got yourself two treats! (I found cookie dough in my fridge. Hello breakfast.)

This is a fun thing to have installed and forget about. You're reading a website and suddenly they're talking about "My Bloody Horny Werewolf" or "Bullet for my Horny Werewolf" (a random example I happened to find in my screenshots folder)

Only the most festive Christmas music will do for cleaning and wrapping presents this morning. 😊

It is 2025. The EHRC in the UK keeps trying to materialize a trans bathroom ban out of a muddled UKSC opinion third-sexing all trans people. A bill to criminalise those who provide trans minors with transition care passed in the US House of Representatives. And cis "allies" still think this helps.

oof

I wish every cis person who refers to gender affirming care as optional or cosmetic could just get downloaded the dozen of hours of "trying to disassociate while someone burns your facial hair out one pore at a time" I've experienced like in The Crow

it kills me a lil' bit that Salival isn't on apple music. The _best_ version of pushit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgDw...

That awkward moment when you realize your phone's auto-suggest has finally picked up on "heteronormative."

I think the fae could make themselves known to us again now, we're pretty cool people these days, now to take a big sip of eggnog and sort r/elfontheshelf by most controversial

I really love discovering shows I attended on the Internet Archive. This still ranks as one of the loudest I've ever been to... my ears rang for days. (sorry present day me.) archive.org/details/mogw...

Two and a half listens in and I think Ordinary Loss is still my favorite bit of Conflict DLC, but Don't Kill Yourself and Wasted Years are close seconds. It's all delightfully hopeless.

I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children. They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

literally every time I change guitar strings I think "wow, I really need to do this more often." I never do.

Dear "how are you finding the product?" survey email, I'd be happy to tell you... if it'd been delivered yet. You have the fucking tracking number and ought to be smarter than this. love and kisses, a

you really don't have to play a single off of Pretty Hate Machine after every single Health album I listen to, itunes. I love Down In It as much as the next 90s kid, but give it a rest...

the mail arriving 12 hours earlier than usual is... wildly disorienting.

Apparently I've listened to 98,344 minutes of music so far this year. I wish these review things happened at the END of the month. Or made an educated guess based on previous months... I was really hoping for 6 figures there. 😫 Yes, this is pointless bitching.

I know this time of year is tight for people but I am going to make some last pushes. I've paid my 3k USD deposit for FFS and have gotten my dates for late January. Insurance has told me they won't cover any of the 26k USD (excl flights & food). It's a lot of debt. www.gofundme.com/f/help-blue-...

I really forgot how fantastic Beacons is.

I realized a while ago that I play the lateralus riff in a constant 8/8 sort of time instead of 9/8 8/8 7/8. I tried to start tackling that this morning and my hands do not want to unlearn playing it wrong for 20 years...

Post Malone implies the existence of Get Malone, Put Malone, Patch Malone, Delete Malone and Options Malone.

I don't think I can really do this... - mewithoutYou - The Smashing Pumpkins - Baroness - Animals as Leaders - Protest the Hero

*sigh* it was a good run. Recoil into cursed rock is... a way to go.

Please consider commissioning these two! They created the cover for the final WEREWOLVES VERSUS issue and it still makes me swoon. Look at those WATERCOLOURS

Tattoos ought to be HSA/FSA eligible as mental health expenses.

I've been looking for opportunities to give the kids some responsibilities, so this morning before I took them to their mother's I asked them to strip their beds and "throw the sheets in the corner with the other laundry." I have 2 children and laundry in 4 corners... 🫠

my poor therapist...

is it worth taking a day off to go see Spiritbox in December? The triangle would be an easy yes. Greensboro warrants a hotel room... 😕

“Zaza, do you know what astinked means?” Yes, do you? “Yeah, astinked means that you’re sort of dead? Like your legs are dead but not your arms or anyfing”

"should I play a bit of noita this morning?" *remembers that I got through hiisi base for only the second time before I needed to go to bed* "...might be too much pressure for me right now." I finally realized luminous drill w timer could sub in for the other triggers while reducing recharge delay

I really didn't think I could get much more hyped for Health's Conflict DLC in Dec, but they just keep releasing bangers. (though I'm not sure anything tops Ordinary Loss for me)

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

one day I will not need to look up the syntax for a postgresql CTE... not today, though.

if the cloudflare hq isn't called the cloudflared base i'm gonna be very disappointed

`mist tex` ... Alright, Monday, I see you. (`mix test` is what we were going for)

TONIGHT at 5pm! Free film screening + discussion and Q&A with local Starbucks Workers Unite members, hosted by Wilmington DSA ✊ RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/starb...

I have regrets about not pre-ordering this.

oh. my. god. I might need this. One for each kid's bed? Yes. Sleep tight! (This is a bit. It'd obviously be for my own.)

5yo: “it starts with a ‘shh’ and ends with a ‘buh’ … SHARK-DINOSAUR!!!”

oof. this one blindsided me right in the feels this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=g96e...

Me: “ya’ll have the biggest hearts and it makes me so happy.” 5yo: “YEAH THE BIGGEST CORPSE!” Me: “you have the biggest corpse?” 5yo: “yeah, that’s what I call it. Cool dude corpse.” Me: “… ok …”

The best part of relearning cursive outside of a classroom environment is getting to pick and choose which letterforms I like best rather than whatever they want me to use. My Rs Ps and Bs got fucking fancy.

I don't remember the last time I was this happily surprised by a release. Inlet by Hum, probably? Apparently I can fit 17 1/4 listens in between meetings today. Sorry neighbors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeaA...

devil on one shoulder: you need to refactor, this is a mess angel on the other shoulder: just add a seventh parameter to this function it's fine

I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it. All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.

If you think you’re a more authentic and satisfied version of yourself now than you were in the past, and you got here without some form of agony, without shock at how much more awkward and ungainly the process was than you imagined, you haven’t actually started changing yet.