They/them. Former Narrative Designer @ Monolith Productions. :') Queer, trans, class traitor, still wearing a mask. Fungus, birding, embroidery, animal rescue, F1, video & tabletop games. Making games and bartending over at @okayblueheron.bsky.social
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Also, Graham Lineham aka glinner has been arrested for inciting violence against trans people and part of his bail conditions are that he can't use X :D metro.co.uk/2025/09/02/m... (Caution, the tweets in question are quoted in the article and they're vile)
Did I tell y’all I got my hair cut? I look amazing.
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
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I keep going back to that jarringly sharp, perfect horizontal line. It's like they badly photoshopped the hat to be *smaller*.
With a picture taken today by Getty Images; once again: do I know WTF is going on with Trump? I do not. Do YOU know WTF is going on with Trump? You do not All I know is he has never voluntarily STFU for five days since he was born
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Okay well that was the most exhausting grand prix in recent memory. Also sorry to my upstairs neighbors whom I'm pretty sure I woke up with my wails of agony. I'm so happy for Isack Hadjar, though!!! My little duckling! From crying at his first race DNF to getting doused on the podium!
Hard case illustration for S. A. Chant ( @essaychant.bsky.social ) 's book, 'Peter Darling' - Rainbow Crate exclusive edition. I absolutely loved drawing this one!🌊 #artwork #bookdesign #bookillustration
Well done Oscar Piastri, who’s just delivered his first #F1 grand chelem - pole, fastest lap, victory, leading from lights to flag. #AnorakFact & pic: the last time an Aussie bagged an F1 grand chelem was in ’66, at Brands. The driver was Jack Brabham, the car a Brabham BT19.
shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...
hashtag blessed
I’m at the Pizza Hut, I’m at the Pentagon, I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Pentagon
Congrats and a very happy anniversary 🩷
Some of us are both and it's just really been A Time, okay
It’s a surprise trans pizza! If you are not cisgender and want pizza, reply here with a song that makes you feel good, or just the word PIZZA. I’ll pick 5 winners completely at random and send them $50 each for pizza via PayPal or Venmo. Let’s hear some bops!
Jacques Villeneuve being a racist with bad opinions isn't news. For the love of god, stop platforming this idiot.
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
Hey @governorferguson.bsky.social, can we do this
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
I'm facepalming so hard it's detectable on the Richter scale. (Monolith had a mostly open-office plan and when WBD tried to force us back in office, most of the producers were all sitting next to each other... that really was a special hell trying to do Zoom meetings for the rest of us.)
He can’t overdose too soon.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
"I can do anything as long as there's something else I don't want to do more!"
So I took a painting class this summer and, uh, it turns out I can paint???? Feat. Lella Lombardi and Michael Schumacher, my Formula 1 heroes
Oh! Unbearable!
Reading the list of conditions that qualify you for an updated COVID booster, I think the easiest route for most people without an existing diagnosis will be "physical inactivity" because that's entirely self-attested, with the runner up being "I was a smoker for a few months a few decades ago"
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
I grew up near the rainbow decay of cypress swamps (including the exact trail written up here) and its nice to see even brief stories about how beautiful they are. www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
Live your TRUTH
Jeeeesus, that’s sickening.
Fuuuuck. Well, I’m going to Italy in a week, so uh, y’all want anything?
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
Oh my goddd that looks so good.
This is all the more true b/c a bunch of folks I knew who were in unsupportive family situations used to have the option at 18 of joining the military or going away to college, but one's not currently an option at all and too many colleges are becoming actively hostile places for LGBTQ+ folks.
What if I told you that the depression was caused by a cabal of wealthy businessmen who want to rule the world?
GodDAMNIT
God damnit.
I hate to say it, but this feels like a horribly-targeted attack on trans healthcare, which so many people are being forced to seek privately because access via the NHS is so dire. Please do respond to the consultation if you can (the GCs will be all over this 😭) www.gov.uk/government/c...
I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry
This motherfucker is claiming the mantle of Leader of the Opposition. It's going to go to someone; media types find it easiest to tell stories that have clear opponents in clear opposition. Let's get someone better, find out if they're willing to do the job, and get behind them.
Just dropping this right here... www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
tl;dr: Donald Eastlake knew he'd tested positive, went to Worldcon and the MPC meeting anyway, took off his mask, and explicitly refused to put it back on. If you were at that meeting or at Worldcon in general: you can boost your chances by immediately starting a H1+H2 antihistamine --
*stares into the middle distance*
Farm workers in Washington state are calling on you to support the first UFW backed boycott in nearly 20 years! #BoycottWindmillMushrooms
this looks incredibly good omg
happening in three days!!
Subpoenas made public this week show the government is demanding doctors turn over a wide range of sensitive, identifiable data about its trans patients — everything from social security numbers to Zoom records, notes, addresses, "everything written or recorded." Our story: wapo.st/4lAnkRy
"the world doesn't revolve around you" is a fun way of saying "human rights don't actually matter until they're MY rights"
No, my plan is to educate the people I can reach while I focus on local and primary elections for the next couple of years, and cross the presidential candidate bridge when I get to it. I'm just begging the rest of you not to let the democratic establishment sacrifice even more lives.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
Hi! Trans person here. My ability to safely exist in public isn’t a pony, it’s a goddamn bare minimum, and if you’ll capitulate on my human rights, I’ll assume you’ll give up anyone’s.
Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.
This is the thing that gets me. I feel like we on the left are pretty well aware of the military capabilities of the US, it being one of the things we don't like, and same with the militarization of the police. So why does ANYONE think a war against the right is remotely winnable?
Yeah, weirdly enough, I don't want the people I care about to fucking die. I also don't want to die. I don't even want the people I *don't* care about to die.
No more showers, y’all! We need the water for the inaccuracy machines!
Thank you, Governor.
Every 2-3 years, like clockwork, science rediscovers that global poverty is absolutely a solvable problem that has been artificially maintained to accomplish political goals. Another world is so very possible.
JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
Gorgeous material! And what a cut! It suits you so well!!
OH MY GOD
It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.
Me at ChatGPT:
I volunteer to improve its accuracy by increasing the sample size of the experiment
Same argument is relevant to conversations about using AI, I think. I do my brainstorming, creative stuff, meal planning, etc with my own brain so that I can do them better and more efficiently in the future!!
Microsoft literally shut down the guy who made DOOM to pay for AI shit.
Jacques Villeneuve saying stupid shit stopped being news literally two decades ago. Can we please stop giving him attention.
This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead
“Over and over again, we have seen farmworkers go without the heat safety protections they are legally entitled to,” said Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers union. The state’s heat illness prevention enforcement system “isn’t working.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
I'll be at Worldcon this week! Wandering around, and also doing a few events: Panel: "More Than a Little Queer: Seattle's LGBTQ+ History" on Thursday from 12-1 Signing/Selling Books: Thursday from 4:30-5:30
All health insurance companies can eat a dumptruck of shit, and Luigi was right.
The punchline for those who missed it is that I had my double mastectomy two years ago and I had to kick and scream over the phone for SIX MONTHS to get these dumb motherfuckers to pay what they said they would.
Lol. We, your health insurance company, definitely know and care about you and your health needs! Lmao.
So maybe what we do today is we tell the Secretary Mayor Petes and Gavin Newsoms that their shitty opinions on trans rights will cost them our votes, because otherwise those will become mainstreamed in the Party. And this hurts me; I liked Pete a lot before this.
Fortunately, there are MANY cool jobs!
Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
Been thinking about this because I've been reading about Lella Lombardi, the only woman to score points in Formula 1, who learned to drive so she could make deliveries for the family business. She wouldn't have stood a chance today, in a way that has *nothing* to do with her incredible talent.
Not to mention that if you aren't already incredibly wealthy, your parents need to be willing to make immense sacrifices for that one-in-a-million gamble. Support for female athletes has grown but the barriers have grown exponentially.
My hot take for the week is that I think it's actually much more difficult NOW for women to make it to Formula 1 than it has ever been. These days, basically, if your parents didn't drop you in a kart when you were three or four years old, you don't stand a chance.
"But I don't share porn or look at porn or make anything pornographic so it won't affect me" Until they decide something you DO make or consume is "obscene" and they go after that too. Namely literally ANY queer content... also, looking at you Entire Furry Fandom. We should ALL be angry about this
Thread full of info to use when you need to address a “women’s sports” defender.
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The kids (at the local park) are all right
Yep!!!!
Yeah. Yeah.
Someone PLEASE give me european citizenship so I can leave before I am put in a camp for being a crazy tranny or honestly before we all get fucking cholera or our food is contaminated or some other dystopian nightmare shit.
Witnessing the wholesale, thoughtless destruction of the like, ONE good thing this country had going for it has me feeling a certain kind of way
FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMN FUCK I HATE THESE ABSOLUTE FUCKING PISSMONSTERS I HOPE THE WHITE HOUSE COLLAPSES WITH ALL OF THEM INSIDE IT I HOPE CHATGPT TELLS THEM TO DRINK JET FUEL
As long as he owned it from birth, then yes
behold: a woman
1976 American TV Network: We’re going to show Wonder Woman beating up fascists in prime time. 2025 American TV Network: We’re going to employ fascists and show them beating up real American citizens in prime time. #ImWithHer #WonderWoman
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Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
If tech companies felt any sense of justice or responsibility, they would have taken all these wretched things offline the first time one told a teenager to kill himself. What a miserable fucking world.