would not say I considered the TEC household diversity survey to be "good" "well-designed" etc but would say, from the bottom of my heart, that this screenshot is set to see a LOT of use in the bash' groupchat going forward

When the guy’s life flashes before his eyes I do think it’ll include a full performance of Phantom of the Opera which lasts way longer than all the other stuff

And another thing. I don't think anybody actually thinks the jewelry/arts-and-crafts uses of old vials are cute. I think we do that shit because the psychologicals of throwing out a vial are so bad even if you know it's literally empty. My nightstand is covered in empty vials for this reason

my dating profile…

Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.

I don’t live in an ivory tower like you guys, I watch 9 hours of paramount+ every day like a factory worker

basically my friends ask me about my emotions and I'm like You know how it's possible to deliberately give yourself a charley horse. And they say No we don't know about that

one way I shorthand my deal sometimes is to say the reason couldn't manage to be straight pre-transition, despite how gay I am now, is I never liked straight guys—this is basically true—but it does mean when I get one of my periodic straight boy crushes it really is incredible levels of Oh goddamnit

the thing about trans men and the posts we do is a lot of us have the psychologicals we get when we hang out with lesbians too much but then the thing about THAT is a trans man having those psychologicals doesn't necessarily mean his lesbians have done anything wrong or indeed harmed him in any way

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

new version of becoming joker is feeling incredibly empowered by the thing I've started doing where I just go around flat-out admitting to various people that I don't like dogs. Simply don't care for 'em. Not cats neither

Music is so ass when you don’t feel like listening to music

aggressively misgendering a Jeopardy contestant because I've decided she is 'giving transfag egg'; K refuses to comment

re last reblog--really reminding me of, does anybody have that tweet from a million years ago that was explaining how giallo work and the line was like "Oh, Clarabella, don't worry! there's no such thing as murder"

if the detective goes to a bar and watches a beautiful woman sing a song called Six Pennies For My Bus Fare or He’s A Funny Kind Of Guy, it’s a noir. If it’s a torch song called Darling I’m The Culprit In This Mystery or What Happens In This Movie, it’s a neo-noir

and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God

THE UNATTAINABLE IS INVARIABLY ATTRACTIVE

my new one is talking to bxys who are about to get their chests done and when they say things like 'oh I'm just never going to wear a shirt after this' I reply in a worldly-wise tone, "You say that now, but the novelty wears off faster than you'd think"

the thing about reading the whole Jubilate Agno, and not just the bit about his cat, is that a lot of the time you're like God this is so much weirder better more interesting than the bit about his cat! and then some of the time you are like We regret to inform you the cat-loving poet is racist

the amount of sitting on my hands, biting my tongue, etc, when the "introduce yourself as what almost killed you" prompt thing goes around. Girl im not allowed to do that joke stop setting me up for jokes im not allowed to do

Maxine, who still refuses to just get her own account on here, will not rest until I post "becoming a schmittian but ONLY for making a fundamental distinction between Friends of the Puss/Enemies of the Puss"; she insists this joke will "blow up" on "transsexual lit/political theology bluesky"

really hate new year's / Year End Roundup type chat can i just say. Bad time of year for me

have said it before but I have trouble really relating to anybody who talks about hormones in terms of discrete effects anyway. Like for me it's mostly that when I'm on E I dissociate all the time and periodically try to kill myself which nobody enjoys very much

obviously it's very good however you slice it to have never seen Star Wars but the best thing I think is that nobody can ever trick me into thinking I ought to care about whatever an "Andor" is

would say the biggest change I've made in my life in 2025 is I always used to sit towards the back of the cinema but I've started sitting right at the front because I read somewhere(?) or somebody told me(?) that's what Wittgenstein always did. Not certain that's even true about Wittgenstein

Or. And hear me out. We could, as another option. Take that shit to coffee hour

an amazing category of text message I receive is when Silas has been looking at crochet/knitting patterns a gay person designed and they want to know if I would wear a slutty little whatever because they want to make it but I'm, somehow, the only gay person they know who wears slutty little outfits

always so stressful when podcasters try to sell you their patreon as a charitable concern. I get like "we can't make the show without you!" but beyond that please just let me purchase your product (pay you five dollars a month for an extra episode)

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Yet because there is no remedy, but that of necessity there must be some rules:

I of course at all times very much enjoy to read the tasting notes on single-origin coffee and chocolate but I am really really enjoying this single-origin chocolate bar I'm eating currently where the first item in the list of tasting notes is "Chocolate." I sure hope it does!!!!

unseasonably warm this week so I'm experiencing an early-spring effect where about a third of the men who come into my work are wearing quite short shorts and I haven't had time to get acclimated to that kind of behavior on their part so I feel slightly dizzy my whole shift; God bless us, every one

I've heard this conversation a dozen times this month. Person 1: You notice how The Grinch is everywhere this year? Person 2: Yeah, there must be another movie coming out. There isn't. The last Grinch media was the NBC musical in 2020. No reason other than the oldest reason in marketing: sex sells

every year I forget how bad "The First Nowell" sucks. Christmas eve church posting

didn't grow up with an Advent wreath, still don't super get them; the Advent tradition meaningful to me is every year someone links that "here's why IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE isn't misogynist" essay & every year I click through & half-read it & say "well perhaps. But it's still not a very good movie"

two turtle doves

can americans learn to love breakfast in bed and a handjob

earth, divided

they say the wheel is the greatest invention but I'd say two wheels is the greatest. I mean the bicycle

one belief that literally nobody will go with me on is that the funniest hark a vagrant strip she ever did is that one that's a long very weird riff on the janet jackson song 'nasty' nobody i talk to EVER remembers it but it still makes me goddamn lose it

tried the hockey show and I do think it's amazing that they're allowed to put all that on my TV but unfortunately it's still all the (kind of ineffable tone/character/dialogue etc) things I hate about romance novels

"I come from a long line of old weird freaks" we all do, pal!!!

It's good that it's going to take decades for @andrewhickey.500songs.com to finish his 500 songs because when he does, all of rock n' roll music is going to wink out of existence forever, a lot of people don't realize that

on the phone with Maxine and she's asking me if I think anyone's ever said that the Syro-Phoenician woman "ate and left no crumbs"; she's demanding that I post that, about the Syro-Phoenician woman

69, LXIX or تسعة وستون is a number symbolising completion, harmony and the beginning of new cycles. It is also the number of the FDN episode that I have just uploaded. It is dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X campsite.bio/firedrawnear

scrolling social media at this time of year I always rediscover something about myself, which is how deeply I fucking hate Dickens actually i've just remembered that i can do term muting to help me with this problem so post maybe cancelled

I am pure of mouth, pure of hands. (BDB)

my last one like this was doing "I am dying, Egypt, dying" to 'The Dying Californian' and I didn't even bother posting that one because I knew none of you people would appreciate it even a little bit at all

[singing] oh the monsters and the critics / when they are both full grown