This has been a godsawful year but I draw such strength from my friends. One of them, Matthew, crocheted me this beautiful blanket for Christmas and I’ll be taking it to my parents’ tomorrow where I’ll be doing solo caring for a couple of weeks; it will help to wrap myself in queer community. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Walliams? Who knew?

I miss my friend Adam. youtu.be/P3P1K6N3Fc0

After last night, I’m officially designating 2025 the worst year of my life. Of course I still have a lot to be thankful for and to cherish, and I’m not going anywhere, but jesus fucking christ.

Still really proud of this little video I made with my friend Stuart, sharing some queer joy from an unexpected source. Can be consumed audio-only too, and I humbly recommend it to you if you want some queer hope and happiness. youtu.be/Wt1ArezeaiQ

Looks like my mum won’t be with us that much longer, and one thing I’m most concerned about it helping my kid cope with her grandma’s passing. It would be the first major death she’s experienced, at 10. Do you have any gentle, kind advice?

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance, and I fucking hate it. youtu.be/HrTW0n6HW1Q #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance

Did Alfie ever work out what it’s all about, and is there, like, a Substack or something?

whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered

ig it was always a vain hope, but I really did hope that one lesson we’d learn from Covid was wearing a mask when you have a cold or other similar transmissible ailment

I’ve never looked straighter

Y’know, one area that’s always been unsettled for me in the fight for trans rights is competitive sport, but I guess for me it’s the whole ‘ranking of humans based on physical prowess’ that seems kinda pointless and arbitrary.

One of my annoyances with Sony’s handy Product Showcase mode is that I don’t always want to have the camera focussing on whatever’s closest to it in a video; most of the time, I want it focussed on me. Here’s the fix – with a text step-by-step underneath it! youtu.be/DQdhe-m_4Ao

Can anyone recommend a nicely designed, non-scammy (paid is good) #chess app that lets two people play asynchronously across iOS and Android?

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Why I bought the Apple Silicone Case for my new iPhone eyes-open – despite assuming it has the same fatal flaw of previous Silicone Cases.

Survived caseless for a week! 😅 I’m sure I used to have an orange Apple Silicone case before so went looking for it for a photo. Couldn’t find it, but did find this 6S case, and the difference in camera aperture over 10 years amused me!

Attending a memorial this morning for a friend who decided to leave the party far too early, at least as far as the rest of us are concerned. Go tell someone you love how much they mean to you. Go make some art. Ensure the world is more beautiful because of you, and the community you raise up. 🤍

Has anyone successfully thrown video to a car using the new AirPlay functionality in iOS 26’s CarPlay? I’m aware it needs to be added by devs for third-party apps, but I assumed it would work with video from Photos or Safari’s default media player, but I couldn’t get it to work. Am I dumb?

My friend Stuart and I have often talked about the rich #queer resonances in the song ‘A World Of Your Own’ from the 2023 movie Wonka, and recently, finally, we did so with a camera rolling so you can join in on the discussion. youtu.be/Wt1ArezeaiQ I’m proud of this. I hope you share this joy! 🏳️‍🌈

Technically, I lost comprehensively 😅 but being able to successfully coordinate five adult schedules to get some of the most important people in my life round for a night of Mario Kart, means that’s really, I’m winning the biggest prize of all 🥰

Looks like my very long but I hope very useful guide to painting your nails is closing in on a thousand views, so giving it a little reboost! 💅

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"open season on these cunts"

Today is my 20th anniversary. I shot this on my first. Can highly recommend finding someone incredible to go through life with hand in hand. More please, @jennyphin.bsky.social; you’re a fucking phenomenon. 😘

Sometimes things occur to me and I have to exorcise them from my brain

Reminded of this very silly video I made back when I wrote a column about vintage Apple tech. Ejecting the internals of a G4 Cube always felt like pulling out a nuclear core, so I went all-in, scripting something, having friends record dialogue, slathering vfx and sfx… youtu.be/69PE6XSqE0g

The world is divided into two types of people: people who, on hearing you have availability from, say, 2–5pm, would book at half hour meeting at the latest at 4:30 or at 5pm. And the latter group needs to be respectfully euthanised. For their own good.

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

A small thing: I’m adding ‘Kit’ to the list of names I respond to chrisphin.com/blog/kit/ Thanks to all the amazing people who’ve contributed to that thinking :)

Too silly. Sick of my desk so took my laptop out in the car to work this evening, which not only has a standard wall socket to charge the laptop, but an HDMI port. Turns out (of course) that I can use one of its screens as an extended display 🤪 and of course audio plays through the car speakers 😄

New pins 🥰

Honestly why I’m happiest on Mastodon. (Not a pissing competition about which is the more niche or woke social media platform, just a point about why I like my little gang of queerdoes on Masto.)

A friend asked me to list what 10 songs he could play me to snap me out of a coma 😅 and while I could easily spend the rest of my life obsessing over the list, that seems suboptimal, so I tried to give it a strong-opinions-lightly-held pass, trying not to worry about it too much… ▸

Hello, fren

The company I work for is recruiting for a rather special person, someone who can mix the rigours of project management with creative thinking and visual storytelling chops. You’d be working closely with me as exec producer on this project. Feel free to ask me questions!

Your semi-annual reminder to use (and defend) whatever consumer right protections are available to you in your country…

Robert De Niro Sr. wrote in his journals about how agonizing it was to be a closeted gay man. His usually recalcitrant son has discussed this in depth and communicated to his children that they are better off being open about their identity.

Look, if I say “those who don’t study art history are doomed to repeat it” it sounds like a kinda humorous line, but if you don’t know the history around the Nazis and ‘degenerate art’, I strongly encourage you to ① read up, and ② make some degenerate fucking art

I hope my email finds you letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves. (Reference: youtu.be/ERc2aQKzTFw)

It has been extremely heartening to see so many messages of support for trans people, and so clearly articulated too. In the midst of so much intolerance, the response this time has felt different to me. Broader, kinder, more determined.

Today’s UK Supreme Court ruling, which bases the definition of a woman on biological sex, is not just horribly dangerous for trans, non-binary and other gender non-conforming folks, but it does misogyny and patriarchalism’s work for it. Why do women want to limit the definition of what a woman is?

It’s not called fem-scara

What a brilliant little idea from the brilliant Simone Giertz. If you know a #jigsaw fan (including yourself), I bet they’d love this!