Look nobody ever had autism before we were aware of and capable of diagnosing autism, you merely had a second son who was “touched” and he joined the monastery where he was known for communing with the birds.

i wish i knew how to quit you

what’s made in fire must properly belong to fire; and so hell’s probable.

so if i have to pay 200usd for a year of bare bones hospital-only coverage (that will not cover things like a recurrence of my cancer) but the deductible is 6000usd is that...stupid of me?

as much as i hate not having any privacy now, i think i hate knowing anything i leave here will be closely scrutinized even more.

the thing about acting stupid so people find you approachable is that sometimes they fully believe you ARE stupid. there's a lesson in there somewhere.

ao3 authors out here calling men my age forming relationships "late-in-life romance"

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

what standard smut phrase haunts your nightmares? mine is "answering hardness"

every time u post "normalize (x)" i estrange (x) doubly just from spite

why does stevia taste Like That

experiencing the emptiness of phenomena again (in the beginning of a depressive episode)

you merely adopted ironic detachment. i was born in it, raised by it. by the time i saw sincerity i was already a man.

Grad students when they realise there's a noun no one has yet put "epistemic" in front of.

The earth turns & the leaves change but our politicians don't. Efforts at the state & federal level are determined to restrict access to abortion by mail, but remember that YouAlwaysHaveOptions.com

fairly sure i have never given pinterest permission to speak to me this way

'Advice from a 1918 suffragette pamphlet'

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

ellipsus is fun and good but i really wish its spell check would learn words. "sotto voce" is not a typo, please i am begging u.

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

pretty sure no one in any fandom knows what an unreliable narrator is (and do not get me STARTED on death of the author)

dysregulation sunday, calling it now

dems grow tf up teenage girls get violent threats just for having instagram accounts

26 years ago today, the Philadelphia Inquirer (19 September 1999) was enthusiastic about the Magnetic Fields' wonderful album "69 Love Songs". #MagneticFields @themagfields.bsky.social

“Frog!” cried Toad. “I am sorry for all the dumb things I do. I am sorry for all the silly things that I say. Please be my friend again!”

I think about this from time to time.

they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy

bc it's going to be my carry-on i bought an organizer for my tote bag and now it is a qiankun tote bag -- truly amazing for some felt in a shape.

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp. What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.

Good article.

L + ratio + Heaven has revoked its Mandate

a *lot* of anti trans shit coming from the house toward the FY26 bill & i can’t tell you how much it matters for a lot of people to tell dem senators—amidst the week’s jenga tower of moral panics—not to compromise & that trans people are worth fighting for. info & script in the QT ⬇️⬇️ please call!

love asking cis ppl with whom i am very close to call or email or send a pigeon to their elected representatives as things are dire for us and watch them make excuses and change the subject when i remind them. i know it doesn't do much on its own, but it is something most can do easily. guess not.

my dog, who is honestly more attached to the relative i live with (don't know why), goes through phases of being completely obsessed with me and unable to leave my side without crying. wtf is this? i don't mind but i do get sad that he's so distressed.

I feel like more coverage of this should grapple with the fact that it sounds like he's just plagiarizing Rene Girard and Nietzsche and passing it off as his own thought. www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

trans mass institutionalization was so much not on my bingo card that i recently tried to comfort a friend by telling him that was just not ever going to happen. still hope it won't, but wow.

ulta is hiring for holiday jobs right now, my seasonal-work brethren

Classical Chinese for Councils of Eunuchs:

i love Chiitan right back!

trying to explain to the monkey who ended up eventually typing the complete works of shakespeare why he's getting rejected by publishers

head to ko-fi.com/sstemery and peep the feed to learn more details about my move to Thailand than you probably ever wanted to know!

more bisexual awareness??? i am at least more aware of my bisexuality than people who say "oh, i thought you were gay." (fair mistake honestly)

amazingly, there's room to respect marginalized people who are staying in the US and also marginalized people who are leaving.

give me 3 things you like right now! mine are purple, hamsters, and reading light novels.

This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state. You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread. Don't pretend this isn't possible

Oh this is very cool #MathNerds

Parents Really Hitting It Off With Daughter’s Emotionally Abusive Boyfriend https://theonion.com/parents-really-hitting-it-off-with-daughter-s-emotional-1851327818/

if you're looking for a book to read, Legend of the White Snake is cute and sweet and full of good folklore. and it's gay.