Lamentation and consolation (Part 1/3) A new day rises, Another battlefield waits. Say, when will it end? Courage now fails me, My arms have become heavy, My weapons fall down. Love, I see no end. Evil never stops its work. Why then fight again? #poetry #poem

It feels so strange that I'm 35, still alive and on my way to graduate from my dream education. For the longest time, I didn't think I'd see 30 and I certainly didn't think I'd ever have the mental stability necessary to get through university. Gender-affirming care really is fantastic. #ftm #trans

I've had to take another temporary break from my personal writing projects because I'm swarmed with writing assignments this semester. I keep reminding myself it's the last before I get my degree and then I'll never have to think about homework ever again.

I mean, yeah, now maybe your son might be drafted and die in a war in Venezuela, but at least he never had to play soccer with that one trans kid in your town. #MAGA #leopardsatemyface

It's been 25 years and this sketch from the French political puppet show Les Guignols de l'info has sadly never stopped being relevant. #news #USA youtu.be/et4eekh-5XE?...

When Russia say they want peace what they really mean is that they want to invade and take land without the local people fighting back. And when they do fight back, as Ukraine has done, Russia points at the defensive violence required as "proof" the invaded people "don't really want peace". #Ukraine

One of my favourite odd French expressions is "grenouille de bénitier", which translates to "stoup frog" or "holy water font frog". It refers to a person, usually a fervent Catholic, who spends a lot of time in church. The expression is supposed to be derogatory but I think it just sounds cute.

Got a two-day train and bus trip ahead of me to get back home and I'm weirdly looking forward to it. I find long bus rides soothing and perfect for writing. #writer #travel #writing

Spent a little over a week with the French part of my family and I'm more convinced than ever that this is where I belong. The Swedish side of my family dropped me like a dirty, stinky sock when I left their church, but my family here still loves me. 1/2

Russia carries out its worst attack on Kyiv in months. #news #Ukraine www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Thinking this #Caturday about the many fierce #cats of Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923)

The president of the world's most powerful nation getting accused of being an accomplice of literal child murder should be worldwide #news but it feels like nobody is talking about it??

Är vi inte på vår vakt kan SD:s blåbruna höger en dag förvandla Sverige till den sortens kristi-fascistiska land USA håller på att bli. #hbtq #nyheter www.qx.se/samhalle/153...

Just saw a tattoo studio use AI art for their advertisement. Mate, if you can't even draw your own logo I'm not gonna let you put permanent ink under my skin 🙃

All I want for Christmas is Glory to Ukraine, and an end to Russian imperialism.

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

Some artefacts found at the Neues and Altes museums. #art #antiquity #travel

Last day in Berlin tomorrow. Going to check out Museum Island! #travel #Germany

When people call Karoline Leavitt's lip injections or Elon's hair plugs "gender-affirming care", it trivialises just how life-saving gender-affirming care is. Cis people being vain is nothing like the healthcare so many trans people need to stay alive. #transrights

Saw many cute animals at the Berlin Zoo but this young panda was the cutest. #travel #Berlin

Some photos of the outside of the city library of Berlin. #travel #Berlin #Germany

First impression: Berlin really is HUGE. Nine times (!) the size of Paris, I'm told. #EU #travel

Miljön är vår tids ödesfråga och alla länders ansvar. Sverige måste bli bättre på att göra sitt. #svpol #Sverige #miljö www.expressen.se/nyheter/expr...

Getting on a bus to Berlin in a few hours. Should be there by tomorrow morning! #travel #Germany #EU

Every time you think he can't sink any lower, he does.

Whether it's birds or falling snow, there's always something on the cat tv/window. #Caturday #cats #tuxedocats

Every year I think I've learned my lesson and every year I eat too much ris à la Malta. If only it wasn't so delicious. #Yule #HappyHolidays

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

Going to get to experience one of my favourite Yule season traditions this evening: the julbord (meaning: Yule table), a smörgåsbord of traditional Swedish Yule foods. #Yule #HappyHolidays

I've lived in neighbourhoods that are considered rough by European standards and I've still never seen a gun outside of relatives' hunting rifles. The only gun violence that I know of happening in my immediate family was when a relative went to the US and got robbed at gunpoint outside the airport.

Iceland becomes the latest country to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation. That's now five countries in total. #news #Eurovision www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

One of those days when I feel exhausted for no reason, but I had enough energy to plan the novella I'm going to work on during my time off from school. Really looking forward to that project! #writing #writer

The title of "richest man in the world" should be seen as something shameful, not as an accomplishment. #TaxTheRich #NoEthicalBillionaires

One exam done and passed, another one in two days. And then it's done for the year! #studentlife #university

Musk and other MAGA/Russian propagandists want people to believe the #EU is some authoritarian hellscape, but the reality is that the European Union is a parliamentary democracy. Every five years, people in the member states get to elect representatives to serve as members of the EU parliament. 1/3

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This might sound weird to North Americans who see them all the time, but one of my life goals is to see a raccoon IRL 🦝

Trump's peace "award" from FIFA can't even be considered a participation trophy. You get one of those for the effort. Trump hasn't done shit for world peace. #FIFA #FIFAPeaceAward

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

I love that somewhere in Virginia, a racoon is going about their little racoon life, completely unaware that they're worldwide news.

It hit me just now that much of the Upside Down just looks like Sweden in November. #StrangerThings

The amount of people, even in LGBTQ-spaces, who don't understand the difference between style, personality and gender is annoying. I keep seeing people saying things along the line of "How can some butches be transphobic when they're almost trans themselves?" 1/3 #lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans

Reading about so many interesting subjects at the university, but the stress really takes the fun out of learning 🥲

Höll på att kolla runt efter böcker med transtema på Adlibris när jag såg att min bok finns att köpa där. Det visste jag inte ens 😅 #hbtq #hbtqia #böcker www.adlibris.com/sv/bok/manne...

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

It's interesting how US right-wing grifters will say things like "Europe has fallen!" and "It's a hell hole!" while we have more stable economies, less gun crime, universal healthcare, better social safety nets, a longer life-expectancy and generally a better quality of life. #EU

More than 1,800 banned titles in the 2023–2024 school year contained sex-related content. In a new interview, bestselling YA author @malindalo.bsky.social explains the necessity of reading those works in full before considering pulling them from shelves: pen.org/malinda-lo-i...

Great news from the EU: the Union's highest court has ruled all EU countries must recognise same-sex marriages from other EU states. #news #lgbtqia #gayrights www.lemonde.fr/en/lgbtq/art...

I've started working on a devotional for the Goddess Snotra. It's one of six writing projects I'll be working on (including my upcoming student thesis) so, I don't dare give an estimate for when it will be done. But I'm quite excited about creating this book for the Norse Goddess of Wisdom! #Heathen

Didn't get a whole lot of writing done this week but I did get a manuscript of my novella sent to a #horror publisher 👻