This is Parker's parents It is with shattered hearts that we ask for your grace as we travel this new path. Our child Parker, "Parks", Lakes lost their lifelong battle with depression last Sunday.What we ask is that you be kind to all. You never know what troubles lie behind a smile.

Oh hey, talk about your animals like you would if you were trying to get them adopted challenge

Spock is a beautiful tabby with a Ziggy Stardust orange stripe. She's also extremely soft and affectionate. This isn't an adopt this cat post, I'm just bragging.

BBC was playing top of the pops when I was driving yesterday. I had thought top of the pops had ended at some point. I was further confused because apparently Eminem is making music again, but he sampled one of his own old songs, so I had about 3 minutes of wondering if they were playing a rerun

Another excellent day of habitat restoration. Did get mistaken for a different trans dude I worked with last time, and then spent some time working with two older women who both had the slightly wrong name for each other and were both mad about the other one. Names y'all

Good morning, loves! Gigi is off to the vet for routine bloodwork this morning so I thought perhaps for #SaturdayPoem we’d do one about cats.

oh to be one of 4-5 perverts of acquaintance to an artist. what a privilege.

Watching X-Files season 6 and the MotW are great so far. Speed! But the bomb is a man's brain. Boat!

MULDER: believe in aliens SCULLY: no MULDER: please SCULLY: no MULDER: please SCULLY: no MULDER: please SCULLY: okay MULDER: well now I don't want it

Look, friends, pals, nemeses, I feel like the time has come to make something clear: If we are talking about fanfic in a complimentary way, you have a moral obligation to DROP THE FUCKING LINK. It's 2024! We've rejected cringe and embraced being horny on main and I need the links, ok, please. PLEASE

Man if I spent as much time writing as I spend thinking about writing I’d be unstoppable 😂

Letter to Joe Biden from Israeli teenagers who are in prison for refusing to join the IDF:

A thing people may not know, a fair amount of lifeguard training is A) how to move people without further damaging spines and B) how to grab people so they can't grab you back

#FanFiction writers, show us all the fandoms you’ve written for so far

I keep going "How the hell have I gone six paragraphs with using anyone's names?" and then I realise it's because I'm writing about a man and a woman and I don't have to keep clarifying which he I mean. I am a clown.

This is one of the reasons why I say that environmentalism has taken the shape of diet culture. The goal is always to obsess over minutae and put the focus on the individual to the exclusion of the broader system.

Which media to consume? Have you considered just spending 6 months watching X-Files? It mostly won't awaken anything new in you because you already got it second hand. Except everyone feels something about Krycek.

i know there are folks out there who think of my work as some kind of joke or meme and think i will find joy in them putting my name in large language models. i do not. i find it ghoulish and disgusting on level that is almost difficult to quantify. it is existentially abhorrent

"Attack and dethrone God" Elmo poster spotted in Sydney

Previous hyper fixation about to be knocked out.

Them

this is my favorite genre of Them

I hike after work a lot, and the button ups and khakis don't draw a lot of weird looks when I do the river trails, but wow do people in their work out gear startle when I pop out from behind a rock half way up a hill.

Talking about rediscovering your primal nature, by which I mean working in the brush in a loose group, coming together to chat and moving apart, but staying in yelling range because there's a large animal in the area. (So many happy childhood memories of berrying and landscaping)

Contemplating a ball cap that says "I don't have a major, I'm 3- and work in an office" for my next work day with the wildlife group. The trans masc problem

It's such a nice feeling to see the same names pop up in kudos amd comments again and again. Sometimes leads to becoming discord buddies (we love you @whatfunlifewas.bsky.social)

Sometimes you talk about writing something for 5 months and then type up two sections in two days. This is a RatChat special. Noncon dreamsharing. Lots of weird stuff and gore, and I got to use a goal tag "Non-Fatal and Oddly Romantic Vivisection" X-Files, Mulder/Krycek

Was reminded today of this two page description of a women who has a tongue that's a ferret, a spine that's an anaconda's unknown hieroglyphic and cheese breasts

WIP X-files, Krycek, Mulder and some dreams.

My brother gave me an excellent hat.

douglas adams rolling over in his grave

“Civil defense crews say they cannot reach people under the rubble right now because of how heavy the bombardment has been in some of these middle areas. They are receiving calls from families trapped under the rubble still alive.”

I'm looking for songs about corn fields, summer and/or the midwest.

Me writing about murder, rape and torture: I trust readers to understand that I am not condoning these actions. Me using the DEA as a plot device: should I include a note explaining I don't agree with the US government's drug policy at this or any other point? 🤔 Clown shit y'all

American doctors are in Gaza - but their sedatives aren't strong enough for surgeries. People "wait for death": "I never saw the situation we saw in Gaza... many, many of them are children" One is a 7 yr old w/ burns on 80% of body Jane Arraf reports www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1...

Ooh! I loved this one, glad it's more widely available now, do rec.

Was feeling extremely grumpy, so signed up to go camp and move rocks for wildlife restoration once each for the next two months. And some more group walks.

As the one who organises the semi regular movie watching group, DMs/GMs I know your pain. Well one part of it

80% of the time I'm good on my own, but today feeling very if I had a driving buddy I could go see the northern lights 😔 (I've seen them before, so it's not worth 16 hours of solo driving in two days)

Important work

PSA: If you live anywhere near this blob and it’s not cloudy, tonight is a good night to go outside and look up www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...

The joy of bringing fresh denim crimes to the discord and letting someone else make the Jop top joke. I am the best provider.

so funny seeing companies scrambling to claim whatever goofball thing they were already doing is actually 'ai' now. NEW AI MICROWAVE WILL GENERATE A TEMPERATURE BASED ON YOUR SETTINGS. NEW AI GROCERY STORE SETS PRICES BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO PAY. PLEASE INVEST IN ME

That said, I'm pretty sure my sexuality is shirtless Skinner beating the crap outta Krycek while Scully looks on with disinterest XDDD

So it turns out that Playmobil do various ancient Greek sets and now I need to make them hold hands.

Some people can't let the dicks touch until all the murders are absolved or explained and they are cowards.

Politicians and journalists need to stop pretending that “evacuation” is a meaningful concept in Rafah when there is nowhere to evacuate to. Evacuation orders are sick jokes and just efforts for the IDF to absolve itself of genocidal intent and action.

"“We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in the Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies...with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...