Reminder that we’re just putting the cum back where it belongs. www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

The longest day of the academic year done.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpday together again. But we still be post.

WFH but first, this

UNITY • Final One of 2025 Free. Inclusive. Community-driven. SLM x WAQK x DOB Sydney x SYDPAH Dance, connect, socialise with your community. All Fetish and Kinks Welcome. Friday 5 Dec | DJ George Roussos 8–11pm Everyone welcome.

Tits out for a new week.

PFTE2026 entries close on Nov 22. This will be my fifth time participating. Feels good to be stitching again, it’s been a while. postcards.visualaids.org

In the decade I lived in NYC I went to Staten Island five times, each time for the NYC Marathon start, and so my only experience of Staten Island has been running away from it with a horde of people. Oh well.

Aerodynamic head so I can leave meetings faster.

On Thursday I volunteered for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation’s HalloQueen trivia night. Thank you everyone who attended and helped the BGF exceed their fundraising target for the event! My special thanks to Sydney drag icons Portia Turbo and Joyce Maynge. I fucken love you both ❤️❤️❤️

I may be gay-biased but Sébastien Delage should be a global superstar.

I really don’t like children and prefer them to exist in a different part of the country to me, but this is fucking cruel.

Thanks all for the messages and comments the other day. I’ve never met many of you yet it meant a ton. Thanks also to the local friends checking in. On Thursday the second round of redundancies were announced, even more brutal than the first round. We’re losing some amazing folks.

Mental health has def taken a nosedive this week, from what already felt like a nadir. The ongoing catastrophe at work doesn’t help, on the back of a really difficult year of family illness, relentless attacks from the local community during the last months of my title year, etc.

Bloodlines by the Huxleys goes to my bones, after first encountering it at their 2023 World Pride exhibition at Carriageworks. ‘I’m still fucking queer against the odds.’ youtu.be/JHkdIuTbP-M?...

At a work event yesterday the photographer apologised to me for having me backlit. I said it’s the only facelift I can afford.

Our October 2025 Newsletter is Out Now. Its Vol. 21. sydneyleathermen.com/newsletter_o...

Thank you to outgoing @sydneyleathermen.bsky.social president @mrrlm.bsky.social! I look forward to continued work with Coach (and dad) in his new role as president.

Tuesday morning run and swim 💙

Feeling rusty so got a refresher manual from the library at work. Seriously though, Gayle Rubin praised the book in an essay so got it out to take a look.

Reminder that despite how imperfect and dysfunctional our communities may be, when the circumstances call for it, we come together beautifully.

I also solve important work problems in my sleep: last week I dreamed about stacking the dishwasher at work (only a handful of us do it) but I couldn’t because an unknown ceramicist was using it as a drying rack for their work. My university hasn’t had ceramics since the 80s. Woke up intrigued.

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays @polyamorous.bsky.social! 😍😈😏🥵🥰

Gym done ahead of Parramatta Pride Picnic with @sydneyleathermen.bsky.social - see you there! Remember: the SPF of lube is perhaps.

Pup family: with my sash son Luis, Sydney Mr Leather 2025 and Pup Leo at Bark after Dark at APHC last week. This party was a bit of a watershed for me: first instance I’ve walked around with my dick out with zero shame. More to come.

The hippeastrum (inherited from my late mother-in-law) began blooming yesterday. In four years this is the first time the red and white has flowered, and instead of one stem as we’ve had the last few years, there are at least 11 ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️

All up I did six events on the long weekend, finishing with a cleansing dance at Loose Ends on Gadigal. Thank you Matt for the tunes 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Naarm photos from the weekend; I was there briefly to support my pup at APHC. He might not have brought home the patch but I’m proud as a bunch of all he did. Here’s a window selfie of my sash son Luis and I waiting for four different Ubers to the event. One eventually came.

All the while Meta exercises all kinds of bullshit censorship under nebulous ‘community guidelines’.

The deep self-reflection I am bringing to this hump of a Wednesday.

There’s fit after 50 and there’s mental breakdown in the workplace toilet after 50.

The Hide was mostly lovely but I got critiqued for my outfit in the first two minutes by someone who always goes for whatever I wear. Tonight it was a backhanded compliment, trashing what I wore on Friday to Heroes & Villains. Anyway, fuck him. I felt sexy both nights.

From the dressing room at Heroes vs Villains last night, thanks for the photo @sexydabodipa.bsky.social 😍 Great catch ups with all you sexy folk 😈😘

Hilarious and frustrating: the review is blocked by my work computer.

This arrived yesterday; I ordered it a while back and forgot. In the first 15 seconds of opening a page I thought, oh naur… To be clear, I am not an expert on all things leather but nonetheless I have read enough and spoken with enough folks over the years to have a nuanced sense of us.

In a workshop today we were asked to describe visions of 2035. One of the groups described a world that’s a little bit hotter, a little bit wetter. I thought we were already there 🤷

The ears are the buttholes of the head.

Sunday morning: slowly increasing the length of my runs

Friday evening: @sydneyleathermen.bsky.social BLUF Social. One of the biggest turnouts we’ve had - thanks all for coming! Photos by @darkroomdaddy.bsky.social

In my little microcosm the world is falling into a million pieces today so, tits and ass 💁😭

Two years ago while on a work trip in Berlin I met @polyamorous.bsky.social and my life was changed forever, as was my gut microbiome 😍

When I began running 13 years ago I was about 15kg lighter and in my 30s rather than my 50s. So, however a run now goes - pace, splits, etc. - I’m just grateful I still can.

First swim of the spring and probably the first since April. This was the first winter in five years I didn’t swim throughout, because of travel, being sick, and the incessant train. Did me a world of good 💙💙💙

Long-billed corella (a type of cockatoo), one of the little shits behind the holes in the fly screens in our windows. We always suspected them, today we caught two of them in action. But still damn cute.

A day for Westwood tartan and @polyamorous.bsky.social’s PA

Let’s see you at 21ish

I won’t make it to The Hide’s eighth birthday on Sunday: happy birthday! I adore these shots of Lani and I taken by @hdgimage.bsky.social at the July Hide, 24 hours after we completed our title years, with our title patches and my vest by the brilliant Damien of DR13:18, in the second photo 🖤💙❤️🤍

The camping trip maybe over but I’ll always have the memories.

The three mirrors of my hotel room.

Sending a ton of love to @polyamorous.bsky.social & @alex-1984.bsky.social. I’m grateful to have you in my life ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️