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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️

@gortess.bsky.social

I'm so alpha I killed every beta cell in my body. HRT: 11.15.23 46, programmer (probably not the kind you need), TTRPG, Warcraft, Ski, my dragon hoard contains song lyrics and useful information, sarcasm is my special interest.

created November 15, 2024

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Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Meanwhile testosterone...

2/9/2025, 5:20:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

When we are reduced to the #2 continental power instead of suzerain of the global maritime trade empire people are really going to regret this period of US History.

31/8/2025, 9:10:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

Love that we have a government that in the past people would have written entire books of eschatology about, but the modern equivalent is just posting on social media about it with no magic numbers or allusions to Babylonian myth.

30/8/2025, 6:09:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Another drink obviously.

30/8/2025, 8:59:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

If you aren't in Iowa she won't read them if you are in Iowa she also won't read them but a staffer might. So yes.

29/8/2025, 4:26:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

My new pc came with bitlocker on and this happened to me on day 2. I can't imagine the stress it would induce if I actually had anything stored on it.

29/8/2025, 3:25:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Captain Disillusion (@captaindisillusion.bsky.social) reposted

If you're doing a long text post, please include an ALT image where it's a cartoon of you with a dialogue bubble saying all the stuff, in hand-lettered comic book font.

29/8/2025, 2:52:24 PM | 309 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

It is so weird, like women shouldn't feel good about being hot? I wish more did. I wish more people were ashamed of how they treat others instead of being ashamed of their own bodies.

29/8/2025, 5:53:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

People don't understand trans they aren't likely to understand detrans as a phenomenon.

29/8/2025, 1:54:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Currently imagining that dog with a tophat, a cuppa, and asking, 'chewsday innit?'

29/8/2025, 1:26:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm pretty sure they think eradicating smallpox was sort of an original sin, and that illness is a gift from God to remove weak genes from the species. Whether they actually understand how vaccines work or not is a bit more tricky.

29/8/2025, 1:20:31 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

28/8/2025, 5:05:26 PM | 5477 2932 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

This is gonna be real interesting for me in a month, I wonder if the hospital will tell me not to get vaccinated this year.

28/8/2025, 10:14:48 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I absolutely hate it when politicians put their own face or name on things. Kind of small potatoes given all the other Trump nonsense but it is some seriously cringe bullshit that would turn my stomach even if the policy were good.

28/8/2025, 8:55:03 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd tolerate a little smarm in a politician because it is archetypal for the class, but his willingness to throw just about anyone under a bus for attention is where the line must be drawn.

28/8/2025, 4:34:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

They will ignore actual guns and take the reminder that they also want to ban guns in video games and movies. I was a kid during the satanic panic of the 80s and it is how these people's brains work.

28/8/2025, 3:55:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Video games are not guns. ^.^

28/8/2025, 3:03:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, we're fucking everywhere. They might not be out though.

28/8/2025, 1:24:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

One might get the impression people are more upset by the media interviewing a 10 year old than they are about yet another mass shooting. But that would be crazy.

28/8/2025, 1:22:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I know you are pointing out hypocrisy and I'm here for it, but the people we are up against will hear this and think you want to join them in more censorship.

28/8/2025, 1:03:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Tell religious people that they are free to believe you believe in a higher power, call it a test of faith.

28/8/2025, 4:21:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

As long as it crashes the pc less often than your grandma would it is a net win for society, right?!

28/8/2025, 4:06:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted reply parent

Most of the stuff written on the guns were purely for shock value so people will share and utilize it to target their political enemies. It's a sure fire way for these monsters to notariety and have everyone talking about them endlessly. It's a hack for fame in a politically polarized society.

28/8/2025, 3:05:25 AM | 189 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

✴️

28/8/2025, 3:40:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

In case anyone hasn't been paying attention the first hours after any mass shooting the right tries their best to convince everyone the shooter was trans. They want it to be true so badly we might eventually see a shooter actively fake being trans to help their "side". Always remain skeptical.

28/8/2025, 12:42:57 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

How long before the egg cracks and she regrets?

28/8/2025, 12:31:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

Gun autism is what happens when parents don't support train autism.

28/8/2025, 12:27:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

A yikes fr then.

28/8/2025, 12:25:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Are starter packs still a thing?

28/8/2025, 12:08:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Truly inspired. Still time to do Halloween as Barbie-barian and Ken-taur everyone.

28/8/2025, 12:01:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

"i can't find the clock" "oh there it is, it is 4:05"

27/8/2025, 9:06:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

What a great post I also love it when people assume I only post about things I hate.

26/8/2025, 11:09:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I've thought it was a bad idea to give the feds control of things like healthcare because in times like this, they would take healthcare away from people they didn't like, lgbt, veterans, minorities, kids, sick people. But as it turns out they will do that even if we don't have socialized medicine.

26/8/2025, 10:46:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

<3 Tacticool interior design and home organisation.

26/8/2025, 10:39:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

They did the math and figured out that it is profitable to provide exceptional customer service. Eventually someone will retire, a new idiot will seek to distinguish their reign, and the enshitification will happen. But for now, rejoice.

26/8/2025, 7:23:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why we pay extra for the luer lock syringes.

25/8/2025, 7:08:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. All those advertisements are for gold too. Allegedly.

25/8/2025, 7:03:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

They should make a separate tab for people who wtb\wts, I think the whole principle is anti video game, but enough people clearly want to p2w they should just facilitate it without bugging actual players.

25/8/2025, 6:07:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

We arent even venomous.

25/8/2025, 7:04:15 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

At least the people that do it while skiing I can hose down with snow as I go by. Hiking with Bluetooth speakers is a whole different level of uncool.

25/8/2025, 6:54:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm glad the raccoons are safe.

24/8/2025, 2:43:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

The Cardinals are going to have to trans their hats or change their name.

24/8/2025, 2:41:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I assume trashy uneducated possibly violent people who are also very easy to manipulate if you do have to interact with them for some reason.

24/8/2025, 2:22:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally I love 3 hour discussions of literal pamphlets. But I'm probably weird. If it is worth knowing it is worth going deep.

24/8/2025, 2:20:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted

A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.

23/8/2025, 11:54:01 PM | 15407 3224 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

She wasn't perfect but she was fine, especially in comparison to the trash fire we got. Most likely the next Dem we can vote for will be a whole lot worse on a whole lot of things than she is.

24/8/2025, 2:17:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I think a business that was named "restaurant for women who like breakfast at 8pm" would go hard.

24/8/2025, 2:14:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly, good thing they did. I'm not sure we are mature enough as a species for the tech we have now. We need to heavily invest in the culture tree.

24/8/2025, 2:11:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

Girl who waits 20 years to try a crunchwrap. They are pretty good. But I probably need a low carb version.

24/8/2025, 2:08:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Better outreach to the right than whatever those two are doing would be along the lines of hour long high concept costumed explainers using simple language and jokes, that push boundaries but not too much. Outreach is important, but you gotta bring people into the tent, not move the tent.

23/8/2025, 4:24:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

One is side scroll one is vertical scroll one is overhead camera 4 way scroll. A lot was sacrificed on the alter of 3d.

23/8/2025, 3:59:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was a kid I was terrified of meds skipping the liver. Needles were not scary, injections were. Luckily diabetes waited until I was old so it was never an issue outside a few vaccination meltdowns. Most people are, "Everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten" coded, unfortunately.

23/8/2025, 1:06:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

They exist. But, uhh, needles are better. High pressure jets of medicine kinda sting it turns out. Needles also protect your skin from injection sight reactions. Star trek should retcon the hypospray to use teleporter tech to beam the medicine directly into your blood stream.

23/8/2025, 12:59:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

If only Vance had a better magic system Dungeons and Dragons could be balanced.

23/8/2025, 12:55:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

Love would one shot my limbic system in ways AI could only hallucinate about.

23/8/2025, 12:54:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

That's, fuckin crazy.

23/8/2025, 12:52:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

22/8/2025, 2:00:01 AM | 40023 10383 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll hugbox just about anyone, if I think they are cute.

23/8/2025, 12:44:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I just finished it myself in my head a few different ways, just now. If he puts out a book I'll read it but if he would rather do anything else that's cool too. The big dick thing to do would be to put it in the public Domain and watch the chaos while he is still alive.

23/8/2025, 12:40:22 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

All the docs love low blood pressure, but the phlebotomists hate her.

23/8/2025, 12:36:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe if you didn't use ai to do all of your thinking...

23/8/2025, 12:33:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

You should provide an apology page to residents of Mississippi, and allow vpn providers to sponsor it.

23/8/2025, 12:26:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Seattle isn't a state.

23/8/2025, 12:23:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

First they will rob the banks and museums.

23/8/2025, 12:22:15 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Where were going, slaves don't need "jobs".

23/8/2025, 12:19:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah a lot of times insurance makes this sort of thing more expensive. Great system all around. 🙄

15/8/2025, 6:02:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

And you get to do gender affirming conflict avoidance! (I literally did the same, I am not making fun of you.)

15/8/2025, 5:23:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

It's Inanna, Ishtar if you're nasty. Astarte is cool too, but Isis is a different goddess entirely. 😉

15/8/2025, 5:21:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah Walgreens is probably just an employee who wasn't trained. You can probably get the pharmacist involved to give you LLs and train their tech. But it'll probably happen again next time. They don't pay those folks enough.

15/8/2025, 5:17:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

It is possible they are just idiots but probably they know what you are doing and are communicating that they disapprove.

15/8/2025, 5:07:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Fine, keep your dignity.

15/8/2025, 5:03:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I think for viscous meds even the pros would avoid the slips. youtube.com/shorts/TsG4g...

15/8/2025, 5:01:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Just show up anyway and don't accept that you are wrong until they see you.

15/8/2025, 4:49:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, my pharmacy includes whatever random needles they have laying around, got the slip the first time, immediately bought a 4 year supply of locks. I need to find out if I can donate the unused ones to a needle exchange or if I should just accidentally drop them around the back.

15/8/2025, 4:46:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

For your own safety I recommend you find yourself a witch with thick thighs before boarding any watercraft.

15/8/2025, 4:42:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I dunno I just got some luer lock syringes and some fattie 18g needles to draw with. I can't imagine trying to push or pull estradiol through the 32g I use for insulin.

15/8/2025, 4:35:43 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

It'll eventually go away and\or you'll get used to a baseline level of pain. 🎉

12/8/2025, 11:43:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I had the same experience when a friend made me play it a year or two ago. I'm pretty sure they make you play bots or super low MMR afk people until they put you in a real game.

12/8/2025, 11:40:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Oral Ibuprofen and lidocaine cream might be the best you can do anyway. You could also try overwhelming the nerves with capsaicin, but I don't think even I would be insane enough to rub tiger balm on shingles.

12/8/2025, 11:14:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I really miss when holy wars only happened on Usenet instead of spilling out into the real world.

12/8/2025, 6:07:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Rock climbing is great, and you get to apply some of the XP to your shibari skill tree as well.

12/8/2025, 5:23:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I tried to Google it but, obviously, that can't work.

12/8/2025, 5:16:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I have no affinity for country music but I enjoyed learning about it a little. I used to imbibe at a dive bar where we were the social contract required singing along to a particular song when the owner got drunk enough. It was about rodeo, ex wife, pickup truck, all the tropes. Total banger.

12/8/2025, 5:13:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

-Right hand on head- -Left hand gestures wildly- "Microplastics in the air! Man! Microplastics in the air..." -despondent, scanning eyes-

12/8/2025, 5:05:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Why can't people just say, "I like your top." Why must it be "anatomy detected"?

12/8/2025, 5:02:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

The main statistic they (and their supporters) use to determine the crime rate is how many brown people they see walking around. The actual crime rate simply isn't a factor in their decision making or propaganda.

12/8/2025, 4:54:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rebecca Watson (@skepchick.org) reposted

ME (placing my arm around my best friend): hey buddy here's what I'm prepared to do together with you--purchase one-way tickets to The Netherlands where, together, we will turn you into the International Court of Justice for the genocide you're doing.

11/8/2025, 9:35:59 PM | 316 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I've been very annoyed by this in teams, someone makes a comment and includes a URL, email, or phone number and I need to copy it to use it or send it somewhere else and it will only let me grab the whole message. So terrible.

12/8/2025, 12:30:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

We have to embrace buying clothing that might make us happy. If it turns up and is unwearable garbage or it doesn't fit right, keep trying and learning. So far I only really trust myself in the athleisure space.

12/8/2025, 12:23:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

They are going to "liberate" more American cities like they did LA. Someone needs to tell them that means "install liberalism" so they stop.

11/8/2025, 3:32:50 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

I'm not sure meatloaf fried rice works but it worked enough. Sometimes you get in late from a road trip and anything in the fridge is fair fodder.

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11/8/2025, 3:27:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I have always shown up for the comforts of humor, camp, sfx, and tropes. Movies can't be scary, they are movies.

9/8/2025, 9:21:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm old enough to have had the joy of pox parties. Shingle showed up in my 20s; thought I got bit by a spider with necrotizing venom or something. It continues to hurt for no reason a lifetime later. Vaccines are very cool.

9/8/2025, 9:02:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

The ivermectin manufacturing industry quietly hired the "Got Milk?" ad firm back in 2019 so this is just the reality we live in now.

6/8/2025, 7:25:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)

Is trolley problem autism just low key train autism? (I enjoy trolley based metaphors.)

6/8/2025, 7:18:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

A sarcasm based one, sorry. It will never not be weird to me that I can get tonsils removed because I felt like it, but something equally accessory requires sign off from multiple mental health professionals.

6/8/2025, 7:13:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

They do like to make academia sound like being sent to the Colosseum to face the lions. It is always publish _and_ perish in the end anyway. Though I guess if you publish something important enough they will give you immortality in statue or a hall or something.

6/8/2025, 7:06:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't you just tell them you are an adult and can make medical decisions for yourself?

6/8/2025, 6:53:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

The feminine urge to be useful and fulfill the needs of society. I wish I could have been the kind of primadonna who thought she could get away with studying history or art instead of always computer.

6/8/2025, 6:48:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm more of a bronze age girlie but you should get a loan and do it. Inflation is going to go wild, spend other people's money now.

6/8/2025, 6:37:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view