I think I'm very much in a time of flux, and it's disorienting, but I've been through times like this before and they lead to better things 💖

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

The US and Israel couldn't open the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran hasn't reckoned with the full firepower fury of Melbourne CBD cafe owners

It's a nice feeling to realise that you're experiencing love for yourself – a love for being alive, for ever so slowly aligning yourself and your body. I am still overflowing with love, more than I know what to do with, but it's nice to know that I'm not just pushing it all outwards

Saw someone say on here that communists only do literacy programs and raise literacy rates for propaganda reasons and I thought about this post

Never forget the all-time greatest placeholder asset, from Doom 64

Gonna use this one a lot

Kids should not be the property of their parents :)

oh my god this is extremely funny

My finished Absolute Wonder Woman piece.

No one tells you how often near-death experiences involve capsicums. Only Iron Chef can face the truth

correspondent on cnn portugal: these missiles can't reach portugal but *faint smile* they CAN reach spain

A classic frolic.

According to One Nation, first there were no good Muslims, and now we are cattle to be bought and sold. It can’t get more disgusting. This is what Islamophobia looks like, and this is the kind of racist, hollow culture wars that are all One Nation have to offer.

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

This sort of thing is exactly why I think attacking people who aren’t doing X, Y, or Z to transition to transmedicalists’ satisfaction is unconscionable. People make their journey in different ways, and people who feel dysphoria often don’t recognize it until they learn more and introspect a little

the golden age is when you have to get to the airport 4 hours early to get through the ice checkpoint before getting on your flight that costs 3x more than it did last year when you booked the exact same flight

Notes for String Theory by artist Candace Hicks.

This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now

like by the time you’re saying ‘forgive these silly buffoons they know not what they do’ about adults who have the same opportunities to know better that any teenager has, you’re doing the exact opposite of humanizing them

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.

Great, let's put the SS in our airports and let them handle all air travel. What could go wrong.

I was in multiple rooms at GDC where management of games studios let their hair down and said "everyone's using it, gamers hate it so we just have to hide it now", but none were actually able to explain if and how AI were making games faster to develop or better at all

Yep. The “my info is out there anyway” people need to shut up and sit down because A) that’s not the case for everyone and we don’t deserve to go down with the unbothered and B) every point of friction in a system designed for exploitation and abuse is tactically CRITICAL to hold onto

I miss my friends in the states, and I miss going to conferences and other book-related events...but every day brings a new reason not to travel to the US.

“If pussy is so good, how come there isn’t a pussy 2” There is. It’s trans guy pussy AND trans girl pussy. it’s a heart gold/soul silver situation

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

the reason we keep getting reports showing ultra-low-quality standards for carbon offsets is because it is fundamentally a system that rewards volume of sales, not quality of service A system of trading climate action for profit will always tends towards not working!!! cdn.catf.us/wp-content/u...

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

God this song gets better every time I hear it. And Da'Vine's vocal presence, holy SHIT.

I keep thinking about this. There's a gender part to this, but also a post-chemo part to this, and more besides. I've been happier than I have in a long time, really, but sometimes the buried stuff starts floating to the surface when you find yourself in a better place.

If you cast a cis actor to play a trans person, you also need to pay the medical bills of 3-10 trans people per shooting day

Men who think they own their daughters are always the biggest red flags.

Are you ugly? Or are you addicted to comparing your appearance to people who are professionally fuckable?

This is an excellent piece that’s worth your time and answers some questions I had.

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

I’ve got a level of sympathy for people who have bought into tech scams but I draw the line at “bought property in the metaverse”

On the latest count, One Nation is likely to make the final two in more than 30 seats

I actually don't think I know what I look like

Elon Musk tweets with the energy of someone who still wants to be told they've "won the internet today, sir"

Keanu got $30mm in salary alone, plus pointd, for the matrix sequels and that was twenty years ago. MBJ could charge a lot more

Another great @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece: "Because of the way we treat politics, and how dedicated so many of our institutions, including the media, are to maintaining the status quo, the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians and... #AusPol

This lays the nu-pro-life movement bare. - An actual living baby is not a life. - Two more babies who were created in part to save that first baby is also not a life. - Cum in a petri dish? That's life, baby! Everyone else can and should get fucked and die.

For no particular reason, I was just thinking about how they tried to get people fired from their jobs for being insufficiently sad after Charlie Kirk died.

I know it's fun to make fun of Elon Musk but I hope everybody also knows that tweet is white supremacist signaling all the way down

when I see a redhead I go "Redhead Spotted" when I see a redhead with freckles I go "Redhead (Spotted)"