Ways my protagonist is not like me at 12: * she's cis * she's growing up in a single-parent family * 12 in 2015 Ways my protagonist is like me at 12: * $$ precarious family situation * literal and perfectionistic * hyper-focused on special interests * has trouble verbalizing * socially isolated

yeah, unfortunately this is not uncommon right now. "I'm personally doing fine right now, but it freaks me out when I see other people in my professional and social circles being ruined professionally for what seem like arbitrary reasons" is a pretty understandable way to feel.

i told a guy on a TikTok Live that I was trying to listen to him talk but that he was really hot so it was difficult to pay attention and he said “oh crap I thought I had the chat set to 18+“ and immediately booted me 🤣🤣🤣 bro what the fuck I am 30 or 40 years old let me back in

taking the drug that makes you post good (hormone replacement therapy)

The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returns—who fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lost—now wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.

Ways my protagonist is not like me: * she's 19, cis, and hot * social chameleon * ruthless and manipulative * borderline nihilis * literally sadistic Ways my protagonist is like me: * really really angry * kinda dumb about a lot of stuff

Chat do I need a belt

Ultimately, a lot of resistance to sex work comes down to that some people think sandwiches are gross, therefore they must be bad, thus they must be banned. They will *always* jump over step one when pressed

Necroing a two-year old post but I pronounce the y in crayon but I pronounce caught and cot the same Do these markers usually correspond?

I do not particularly tire of reiterating that that first wave of Javelins that stopped the Russian advance on Kyiv in early 2022 got there solely because of the demented idiosyncratic caprice of no-shit Russian asset Donald John Trump, not the principled liberal internationalism of Obama or Biden

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

Sometimes when I'm lazy i do the thing where I quote a choice line from a Trump post But this one has at least three chef's-kiss moments

Hurrah for libraries! Meltdown is one of the top ten most borrowed books in Alberta libraries! @ualbertapress.bsky.social

It's a store where you buy corners? hello?

The last bit here brought tears to my eyes, because, yeah. (I also think the display of competence was one reason Artemis II was so compelling.)

This is just a reminder that the original Terminator movie is really good and worth watching, especially if you’ve never seen it

I knew i was right to have a Lot of Feelings about this guy when I was 12-13

'Enforce what is natural because it's good' under pressure becomes 'enforce what I think is good to make it natural'

One of the few things that keeps me sane is how ludicrous transphobia is. So much of it is based on lies - living as a trans person for over a decade, you have so many experiences and meet so many people, and then your read what bigots say and it's just objectively incorrect

I like my men like I like my art: nude, falling down a staircase

also this is almost certainly a thing—whether you connect to a VPN in Venezuela or Vermont. remember, there are (probably) lots of foreigners connecting to US based VPNs. With encrypted traffic, the NSA can claim a presumption of foreignness.

Exactly one year ago today:

...Wait Could I program in Old Babylonian??

To everything turn, turn, turn There is a season, turn, turn, turn And a time to every purpose Under Heaven

Dear Pope Leo: I'll one-up this. I had never considered becoming a Catholic. But now ....

To me this is one of the strongest marks of political decadence. A society incapable of getting together to authentically confront, examine and deal with its own problems weakly gesturing toward dead ideas.

also get the classic "save your cooking grease so we can make HE filler" campaign

dedicated to @jdcmedlock.bsky.social

In NYC, a shelter for trans people experiencing homelessness should be a godsend to the most vulnerable members of our community, but issues including predatory cis men lying their way in have made it a nightmare. And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't answering activists' emails...

Golly, I can't believe I got to visit Bluesky headquarters and sample the local cuisine

People are blaming vibe coding, but I see Reddit is having problems too

Friendly Fyre Festival

I wonder how these numbers break down by gender. In university I find that more and more of the most engaged students are women, fewer and fewer are men. This trend has been quite pronounced in the last few years. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a play Trump has run for decades. If someone has a valid criticism or conflict with him he will personally insult them and the story becomes a two-sided "feud" or "quarrel" rather than "authority figure levies valid criticism of Trump"

girl who didn't realize the 30 minute train ride would take her somewhere 12 degrees cooler

No one photographs me as well as victoria does, especially when it comes to getting my personality to show

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

I feel like the only two ways of interacting with Beach Boys music are 1) I kinda like it 2) my life is now about deciphering the song Silly Banana, Yummy Banana and I am gazing into the abyss

bottom left ..... both of em but especially the white ..... im shook ......

unreasonably happy to discover that science has developed Vitamin Bee www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

On this note, my daughter is helping my son with A level essay prep. She remarked, "Bro, hella commas" and I just thought of the acres of time I spent composing careful critique across an entire fucking editorial career and how 'bro, hella commas' would have done so much and yeah, woods/crone it is.

Hey #portfolioday, I'm a Canadian freelance illustrator who loves bold shapes, rich colours, and whimsy. Most of my recent work is for Magic: the Gathering, but I try to fit in a bit of personal work here and there. serenamalyon.com

And, done. A few minor alignment problems, but not bad.

Hot take: (after watching too many murder shows) Stories about serial killers are boring. I am much more interested in stories about why sane people kill.

actually not gonna make a joke about this

new disc horse format just dropped: