in the early days of the net websites used to have messages like "welcome to my amazing webzone, i hope you enjoy the things i've collected that represent my strange mind." now they're just like "by clicking this box you agree to recieve targeted advertisements in your dreams"

Lovely.

Pipe shaped like worm on a string cw:drugs

bringing the goat out of retirement

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Tomodachi life real

[screenshot of Heatfreeze Island from Mario & Luigi: Brothership with penguins visible in the distance and the caption "extremely small and distant penguin"] [close-up views of the penguin in question] Source: DogToon64, models.spriters-resource.com/nintendo_switch/marioluigibrothership/asset/525909

Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains an extremely cute model of a decorative baby penguin that appears only outside the playable area and is never seen up close. Below is a detailed view of the model to appreciate the penguin.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Hey, I spotted "Find your organizing home" on my mom's desk :)

I appreciate the variety of Black hairstyles.

Oh, those are cute.

Woah!

One girl injecting a girl with estrogen, who is injecting a girl with estrogen, who is injecting the first girl with estrogen, while they're on the floor surrounded by injection supplies such as needles, bandages, alcohol wipes, a sharps box, and vials

three-person estrogen circle for my friend who just started her injections

Gondorians hearing Isildur’s heir has returned:

Nice shot.

We love the library!
#nationallibraryweek

They literally have one of these. It's called Pascal's Mugging and it's dumb as hell.

A digital illustration of two japanese lesbians flirting in a queer underground bar in the 80s. One of them wears a blue jacket, the other a suit, while in the background there's liquor and a multitude of little stickers and illustrations of lesbian and queer marks.

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here"

The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨

#queer #lesbians #illustration

A needle felt sculpt of the Pokémon, Growlithe, done up like a queer punk. She is sitting with a smile that shows off a stud piercing on her tongue, and is wearing a leather vest with spikes on the shoulders and a trans flag on the back, beneath the word "EVOLVE", wherein the O is a Pokéball. She has rainbow streaks dyed in her tuft of hair. Other details include studded leather cuffs, an o-ring collar, red eye shadow, rings along her ears and one in her septum, a dangly pink skull earring, and eyes that subtly include the colors of the trans flag.

Another angle of the same sculpt.

Another angle of the same sculpt.

Another angle of the same sculpt.

Queer punk Growlithe needle felt sculpt I sold last year! Got really self-indulgent for this one. #Pokemon #Needlefelt #Queer #Punk

Brass snail

Brass snail mesuring tape

The best thing ive ever found in a garadge sale, a snail that is also a mesuring tape

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

I wrote a steam guide years ago for a game with an achievement that's impossible for thematic reasons, and the comments are always a dumpster fire.

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

teaaaa

One of the more emotionally affecting things of my transition was hearing of a cis woman saying it felt empowering to know that in a world like ours that so routinely hates women, there are people who actively choose to be one and find worth and value in that choice

retch

You might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? They do fight, virtually. Physically, do they fight? No— Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?

reading this like Werner Herzog finding out about Pokémon Go

I was just telling my friend about this yesterday!

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS SITTING ON A SMALL STOOL, AND SHE HAS HER HEAD PROPPED UP IN HER LEFT HAND SHE LOOKS WORRIED, SHE IS THINKING OF A JAIL P2- NANCY HAS HER HANDS OVER HER EYES AS SHE THINKS OF MUGSHOT PHOTOS, THE FIRST ONE IS AL CAPONE THE SECOND IS JOHN DILLINGER AND THE LAST MUGSHOT IS A PICTURE OF HERSELF P3- FRITZI SEES NANCY SITTING ON THE STOOL, NANCY IS COVERING HER FACE AS. SHE THINKS OF HERSELF IN A STRIPED PRISON UNIFORM FRITZI: WHAT'S WRONG, NANCY? P4- NANCY: THIS BOOK IS SEVEN DAYS OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 19,1947

Cover, with an ASCII illustration of a hand with long pink nails holding a blue 3.5" floppy disc. The label on the disc is the trans flag. Title: "Shareware Made Me Trans."

Grid showing the layout of the 24-page zine, plus front and back cover.

"Gallery of shareware amazons" featuring images of four women warriors from various games.

As a pre-teen author undergoing the incorrect puberty, my own ZZT games circled the same themes again and again, at first with a layer of distancing irony that slowly eroded like the mountain being pecked away by that bird in Hell: they were fetish games. They revolved around captured princesses, with bare feet and torn dresses, chained in ASCII dungeons, punished and degraded, threatened with torture and hardship and peril. These were, in essence, all manifestations of the submissive woman, the painslut and pillow princess I would eventually become, but could not yet admit to wanting to be, could not yet admit that such a thing could be wanted.

everyone is currently obsessed with *checks notes* a 1997 game called Moon Child. but did you know other weird games came out in the 90s? you can read about some of them in my new 24-page zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, coming to itch next week!