⚧️ info request: a lot of writing about "third genders" is very outdated and bad. can anyone recommend resources (especially academic books + papers) that are recent-ish and NOT bad?

you can pry my birthday out of my cold, dead hands

rereading issue #1 of Gendertrash From Hell, the beloved trans zine from the 90s my reaction to some of the points being made is a knee-jerk shock: “how could they say that? don’t they know how it sounds?” and then i sit with it and realize they’re 100% right. sad.

good morning

the last minute plot twist in this is incredible

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

of course this is the thing that gets me back online

deactivating for a bit but i’m fine, just need a break ✌🏻

"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art

the directorial urge to spend every dollar of your budget on licensing really sick music

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

thank you, finaldestination dot fandom dot com

second-funniest toronto hamburger

there's a burger chain in toronto that sells "california style" burgers, which means that the buns are inverted. not a thing in california. im losing my mind at how stupid this fuckin burger looks. i can't believe they sell this as a regional specialty.

this is a really delightful way to spend half an hour of a Saturday morning

Woah calm down there Banksy

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

i tried to log off and go for a walk but transgender followed me…

i'm reading "Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl". at least a third of it is bullshit, but it is occasionally calling me out

💜 this was really cool

drew some beat up looking butterflies I recorded last year, all of them still flying and foraging

Count Dracula? As far as I know there’s only one

(giving a tour of the aquarium) this one’s called the gay little freak. that one too. this next one, actually, is bisexual

(when my video flops) wow i guess video essays are dying (when my video does well) wow i guess video essays are back

oh hey it's new video day so reminder to BUY TICKETS TO THIS LIVE SCREENING if you're in Los Angeles. patrons get $5 off. it'll be fun and we're screening a wild movie we made. events.ticketleap.com/tickets/hype...

got my ass

i just bought ONE HUNDRED COPIES of "murrmururmurrum", the excellent song Deana Kiner composed for my new video. If you support me on Patreon, you can get a free copy! 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

People have been asking me – thousands of them – “Lily, what is that BEAUTIFUL music in your video?” Each time I tell them “it’s murrmururmurrum” “Huh?” murrmururmurrum! An original song from TV’s own Deana Kiner! @kinermusic.bsky.social “OK but can I buy it?” YOU CAN! ⬇️

We talked for over an hour about probably the best game narrative of the year and managed to cover, at best, 15% of its depth

dumb new thumbnail to get the algo to love me back

And some of my photos of shorebird murmurations. I feel like I'm rarely able to convey the feeling of seeing birds like this through photos and videos, which is another aspect of the video that really spoke to me.

Yet another @lily-is.online banger. Truly an incredible video about birds and the feeling of wonder. I often find that my understanding of birds and the natural world enhances my wonder when I see them, and that feeling is illustrated perfectly here. youtu.be/Q-sE2C-5xrk?...

been trying to find a distinctive style for my thumbnails, and i'm having a lot of fun with a (quirked up) paper collage-type look. admittedly that second one is based on the conspiracy theory puppy meme

i had forgotten what a master of craft @lily-is.online . this video essay on Wonder and is beautifully written and edited and incredibly effective. top tier Video-Of-The-Year stuff. Watch it on a bigger screen than your phone if possible

My new video essay is about really, really big flocks of birds. It's also about Richard Dawkins' flawed philosophy, TikTok slop, and the feeling of wonder. Wanted to make something that offers some respite. Hope you enjoy 🩵 youtu.be/Q-sE2C-5xrk

the most beautiful thing about being transgender is having no particular connection to the moon

how it feels having to interrupt the end of my video (PERFECTLY CUT TO MUSIC) with an ad segment

vibes for the next project are strange

this is both a beautiful video about wonder and a wondrous video about beauty

Paradox Paradox, CO

Out now on Nebula: WHY CAMERAS CAN'T SEE BIRDS A video about feeling wonder at things we don't understand – and what happens to that feeling when we move a little closer. 🐦‍⬛🖤🐦‍⬛🖤🐦‍⬛🖤

Juniper Blessing singing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers at the New Mexico School For The Arts in 2024

i saw someone wish suffering on him earlier – up to & including execution – and like... that is not what we're doing here

Please help my beautiful boyfriend ❤️❤️❤️

I’m so sorry, Juniper www.them.us/story/slain-...

LRP my bad gang i misunderstood

wooo yeah!! donate to maggie’s freaky movie