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[zoem] aka helvetica lowercase

@noctalgia.space

i am the feeling of missing the night sky i am the sound of insects and electrical devices genderanarchist they/them 48 disabled mentally ill pdx cascadia art writing cats dumplings https://instagram.com/chaotic_zoem https://inprnt.com/gallery/zoemfox

created May 6, 2025

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Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i'm going to cry you are both too nice to me

2/9/2025, 1:15:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

you are my favorite person

2/9/2025, 12:48:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rose Schmits (@roseschmits.bsky.social) reposted

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2/9/2025, 10:33:56 AM | 62 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

live laugh llm

2/9/2025, 10:29:36 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

so i've got this extra kidney i'm not really even using

2/9/2025, 10:29:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

vibe thinking is just stimulants and google

2/9/2025, 10:23:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

oof. yeah i don't know what semeglutide is doing to me but it doesn't feel right if i can't eat a cheese sandwich without distress.

2/9/2025, 10:23:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i triumphed. but at some cost.

2/9/2025, 10:18:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

i do NOT have pants on

2/9/2025, 9:51:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

cheese sandwich was never meant to be a struggle this is what they don't tell you about drugs, kids.

2/9/2025, 9:43:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

i've known about low and high pass filters since i was 19 years old is all i'm saying

2/9/2025, 9:42:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

meanwhile you see any towheaded electronic music artists, stick em through the foot for me. this is what happens when part of you quits living rent free in your head and strikes out on his own

2/9/2025, 9:29:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i can probably get my hands on one of those. i just need to stop any more of them from awakening because i do not want them (or to be responsible for them)!!

2/9/2025, 9:24:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø Perfidious Josephine Riesman (@josie.zone) reposted reply parent

For posterity: web.archive.org/web/20150105...

Bro argues that there are eight days in a week Bro points out that bro #1 double counted sunday Bro #1 uses the r slur Bro #3 says Bro #1 is not right; bro #1 says Bro #3 should try counting on his fingers
2/9/2025, 9:11:58 AM | 82 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

what is the current day equivalent of bt - escm? robert miles - children? moby - everything is wrong?

2/9/2025, 9:21:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

think i got crumbs in the bed

2/9/2025, 9:10:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rose Schmits (@roseschmits.bsky.social) reposted

HRT jars going online in an hour! (The HR stands for HR Giger)

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2/9/2025, 9:06:40 AM | 167 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i only recognized it because they were all skewed reflections. i might have to put on my big tulpa pants and squish them

2/9/2025, 9:02:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i cut one head off and as one would expect in the year arbitrarily called 2025 two more sprang forth

2/9/2025, 8:58:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

3 so far. little concerned that they're cropping up with higher frequency.

2/9/2025, 8:53:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

i... i may have manifested a tulpa. with multiheaded form. i'm sorry. my proclivities were just sitting there.

2/9/2025, 8:33:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

everything is very stupid we must not succumb

2/9/2025, 8:32:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

just foresaw my own death and my last words were "bitch ass punk!"

2/9/2025, 8:26:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

kind of what else would you need ever?

2/9/2025, 8:10:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture osmote (@osmote.net) reposted

I would be so cool if I had bullets, pills, and cyber-sunglasses šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

2/9/2025, 8:03:26 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

it's all just waves except when it's particles hee hee

2/9/2025, 8:08:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

horrible frozen white castles were there for me okay

2/9/2025, 8:06:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

convinced of myself as the villain

2/9/2025, 7:58:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

if i knew then what i know now!

2/9/2025, 7:55:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

t e x t u r i z e d

2/9/2025, 7:54:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

thymecube

2/9/2025, 7:53:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reposted

socks for however many feet you might have

a set of three blue grey and black striped socks next to a single rainbow striped sock
2/9/2025, 5:04:11 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

souvenirs

2/9/2025, 7:52:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

heartbeats and tactile transmissions

2/9/2025, 7:48:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

boards of canada >

2/9/2025, 7:27:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kerry Reid (she/her) (@kerryreid.bsky.social) reposted

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

Sign at rally with picture of Malort bottle reading Go Ahead...Chicago Drinks Tear Gas By The Ounce.
2/9/2025, 1:36:53 AM | 2685 629 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

socks for however many feet you might have

a set of three blue grey and black striped socks next to a single rainbow striped sock
2/9/2025, 5:04:11 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i don't know what's happening but it seems good

2/9/2025, 4:36:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

can't quite get it from here! might do dxm tonight, closest i have hehe. hooray for dissociatives...

2/9/2025, 4:06:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

please share!

2/9/2025, 4:02:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

what a wildly weird question to repeatedly ask people? i think there are companies who make product that are good that they stand by and i like them, but liking a corporation itself? that's weird.

2/9/2025, 3:05:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

you look so freaking cool, those sunglasses are awesome on you!

2/9/2025, 1:59:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt (@mattferrel.bsky.social) reposted

stevehofstetter I'm all for banning athletes born with an unfair competitive advantage over their field. That's why we should immediately ban rich children from all sports. Top-notch equipment? Private coaches? Travel leagues? I'm sorry if this offends you but that's just not natural. That's just not how sports were when I was growing up. Won't someone think of the children?
1/9/2025, 3:43:47 PM | 10138 1785 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

if you want to do a mass delete of your bsky, redact does not work. however, bskydelete.com does. if you have a lot to delete you might have to do it in chunks due to rate limits, but it'll do the thing. of course it's still out there, but it's harder to get to, and not right on the face.

2/9/2025, 12:11:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i have a picture of myself hiding behind freshly painted black nails and i guess that's just me right now, kinda. if you could hear me never shutting up it'd be in there, too.

1/9/2025, 10:55:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

some stills selected from videos i'm working on pretty happy with these, actually. there's a lot of signal in the noise. #art #videoart #digitalart

a pixelated, abstract image framed by an old crt tv screen a pixelated, abstract image framed by an old crt tv screen a pixelated, abstract image a pixelated, abstract image
1/9/2025, 10:07:07 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

this is me, doing things the hardest way possible first, before i figure out the easy way.

1/9/2025, 10:04:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture luke steuber (@lukesteuber.com) reposted

while you’re here you can upgrade a card, duplicate a card, or destroy a card

The image features the word
29/2/2024, 8:29:29 PM | 378 83 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Standplaats Kraków (@standplaatskrk.pl) reposted reply parent

PSA:

ALL EMPLOYEES YOU ARE ALLOWED BY UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW TO DISCUSS YOUR WAGE WITH ANYONE INCLUDING COWORKERS, STRANGERS, OR ANYONE ANY STATEMENT ISSUED BY CORPORATE OR MANAGEMENT THAT SAYS OTHERWISE IS INVALID AND ILLEGAL
23/10/2024, 10:19:30 PM | 950 363 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anthony Moser (@anthonymoser.com) reposted

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

16/7/2025, 9:23:29 PM | 479 152 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture OK Sauce (@oksauce.bsky.social) reposted

"I Am So Tired" Available at www.teepublic.com/user/ok-sauce #art #glitch #glitchart #cyberpunk

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31/8/2025, 8:06:22 PM | 13 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tea Berry-Blue (@teaberryblue.net) reposted

This shirt is not for my ace butt (torso?) but I’m sure it is for someone on Bluesky. www.pagewings.com/products/pag...

31/8/2025, 2:37:09 AM | 95 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

you don't deserve me (complimentary)

31/8/2025, 4:26:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

caturday tax

jonny the black cat looks handsome
30/8/2025, 11:43:34 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

if you're looking for something to read that offers a commentary on the current state of things, you could do worse than john brunner's books. the shockwave rider felt particularly near future. from 1975.

30/8/2025, 11:20:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

well i puked and pissed myself at the same time and no drugs or alcohol were involved so i'm just going to go die without dignity now

30/8/2025, 9:55:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i feel like that should be a metric in developing technology - "did black mirror do an exact episode of this and it ended badly, already?"

30/8/2025, 8:17:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

the "like an eager lover" there just set my stomach feeling unwell

30/8/2025, 8:16:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

ok this is not a junk drawer, this is a *tool* drawer. mine often overlap, but this level of actual organization deserves to be called more than junk :)

30/8/2025, 8:08:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

still trying to understand how automated victim fanfic became admissible. well, not trying very hard.

30/8/2025, 7:49:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

i'm not a professional but i have lost people, and this is going to result in some very sick people out there. we were meant to forget. we were meant to move on. facilitating a fantasy where a loved one still lives can't be healthy.

30/8/2025, 7:44:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture marthapearce55.bsky.social (@marthapearce55.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

And your point? There are other issues that you could address while the factories are being built... or can you not multi-task? Pick an issue, and help. And stop asking, "What's in it for me?"

30/8/2025, 2:40:54 AM | 278 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

he looks like a little man *made* of cuddles.

30/8/2025, 2:05:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i'll be flying through here for the first time next week and i'm actually looking forward to it!

30/8/2025, 1:17:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

In my observation, a degree in political science does not prepare anyone for politics in any kind of normal way, just for being a capitalist libertarian in the worst way * *with rare exceptions of people so disgusted by their classmates and instructors they vow to dismantle the system

29/8/2025, 9:04:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

Boot-licking speechwriter believes scientifically illiterate hack who has given himself brainworms from eating roadklil to be an expert on public health.

29/8/2025, 8:57:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

What are the armored vehicles supposed to help with, besides terrorizing citizens? Sure as hell not making kids in schools or public servants more safe.

29/8/2025, 8:53:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jana H-S (they/she) (@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social) reposted

"girl are you the atlantic meridional overturning circulation because you're collapsing faster than anyone had previously predicted" a girl says into a mirror, crying softly. in another life she would have been a marine biologist. she's not, in this one. she isn't sure who she is. but she's not that

29/8/2025, 8:28:37 PM | 228 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

you too. <3 and that's the fight, right? to keep each other alive.

29/8/2025, 1:47:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

very literally in my case. i'd had suicidal ideation every day of my life since i was a teenager. and now i can just live, and be happy i'm alive. if they take away my t (and/or my psych meds) my chances of living go way down.

29/8/2025, 1:44:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

I've been on T for 18 months and it's been the most mentally stable my bipolar I ass has been in my whole adult life. I feel correct now. My chemicals were always wrong, before, and I never knew it.

29/8/2025, 1:41:13 AM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

I can, and may do so, the main reason for the novavax is the minimal (for me none) side effects, plus I heard they made really significant improvements on the duration of protection this year... I should go re-read on that though, that might have been speculative.

29/8/2025, 1:23:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

My cat sitter for my upcoming trip came by to meet the beasts today. He was wearing shorts with cats all over them and rode a scooter. Truly charming cat lover. There are still good people, and there are always good cats. But I'm not making or eating this thing.

29/8/2025, 1:18:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

my health provider (kaiser) hasn't been doing novavax, and costco, where i've been getting them, doesn't even have covid vaccines listed right now. this is gonna suck.

29/8/2025, 12:53:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

gross but true. there's already coerced (and often filthy) blood/plasma "donation" in prisons.

29/8/2025, 12:42:34 AM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

I mean this crap comes up pretty often by capitalists who want the poor to suffer, but the funny part about it is he's apparently giving the talk at the seasteading institute. are any of these guys *not* total cranks?

29/8/2025, 12:41:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i think if you take into account their follower counts (1.4M vs. 1K), she's already smashed him.

29/8/2025, 12:26:28 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

this is such a good idea. i'm going to do this too.

28/8/2025, 11:59:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

as a medicare user this is pretty not good. i hope there's massive pushback on this. fucking with medicare has never produced wins, afaik.

28/8/2025, 11:38:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

i think this is a good approach. spreading panic should be avoided, but asking for support is absolutely valid.

28/8/2025, 11:25:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CascadiaPNW (@cascadiaresistance.bsky.social) reposted

The Washington/Oregon bureau of land management is actively working with ICE and are the ones who helped ICE kidnap the firefighters who were working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state. Here’s all the contact info for every BLM office in Washington and Oregon. No need to be kind.

Contact info for Washington and Oregon BLM offices. Contact info for Washington and Oregon BLM offices. Contact info for Washington and Oregon BLM offices.
28/8/2025, 11:15:27 PM | 20 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

someday i'm gonna get my knucks: TIME FAKE

28/8/2025, 11:09:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

my thoughts exactly. wrote a lengthy reply chain on this just today, probably responding to the same posts you are. living in constant terror is not productive.

28/8/2025, 10:55:15 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted

it’s really damn bleak right now & it’s hard to feel good about anything but some trans folks out there are 100% determined to make sure every trans person is exactly as panicked as they are in a way that’s not additive or informative & i’m not sure that’s helpful or what solidarity looks like.

27/8/2025, 9:31:39 PM | 624 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ripperoni (@ripperoni.com) reposted reply parent

I don’t even think it’s intentional, but information you can’t do anything with becomes a burden at a point. It’s important to know what your checkpoints for when you’ll act or do something is, but if there is no call-to-action at a certain point it does just become staring into the abyss

27/8/2025, 10:08:50 PM | 56 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

It's exhausting to have to examine everything for its reality, and unsurprising people make errors. It's just another element of the erosion of reality by this crap.

28/8/2025, 10:23:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Johnny Normality (Feral Mode) (@probgobl.in) reposted

I WILL NOT STOP PURITY TESTING YOUR CANDIDATES. I WILL NOT STOP GOUGING THEM WITH A POCKET KNIFE THEN RUBBING BITS OF THEM ON MY GUMS TO SEE IF IT MAKES THEM NUMB OR TINGLE OF IF THEY'RE JUST BABY FORMULA. IF I CANNOT DO A KEY BUMP OF YOUR CANDIDATE THEY DESERVE TO LOSE.

28/8/2025, 10:17:17 PM | 26 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jessica jonestown (@midnightmasseffect.bsky.social) reposted

reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.

28/8/2025, 5:47:27 AM | 4781 1851 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nanoraptor (@nanoraptor.danamania.com) reposted

It's a little known fact that tiny bunnies are really damned cute.

A photo of a small black bunny laying on a rug, looking side-eye at the camera taking a photo of him, which is honestly the only way a bunny can ever look at anything, considering where their eyes are on their head. He's shiny blue-black, there's furniture behind, and the photo is taken from down low.
28/8/2025, 10:16:49 PM | 717 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

(sorry this was kinda long, I apparently have a lot of feelings I'm working through about this topic, and I didn't mean to disparage or minimize anyone else's feelings or fears)

28/8/2025, 10:19:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

Anyway my point is not to tell anyone to not be afraid, because there are VERY REAL reasons to be afraid. But *I* can't live my life in fear of what every political analyst says. The question at the presser & the response are much more frightening, so we agree on that.

28/8/2025, 10:18:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

It's been hard for *me* to find, anyway. I try to look to the source, when people say stuff like this, and to me this guy is a nobody. I've never heard of him. He has no power and no sway. That's why I want to know who asked the question at the presser - they're the instigator there.

28/8/2025, 10:16:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

We give people's words credibility when we repeat them. But also, I am also trans, and I don't think living in constant terror is productive. I also don't think waiting for horrible things to become real is productive, to be clear. I think there's a line through the middle and it's hard to find.

28/8/2025, 10:14:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

I still want to know who asked that question, and haven't been able to get an answer. Do you know, by chance? I think there are shit disturbers, and I agree there's more than one of them. I just think we have to be careful who we promote and listen to.

28/8/2025, 10:10:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

This guy is a "political strategist and commentator" - he's a talking head, not someone in any kind of power. I don't think giving him air is going to help anyone, to be honest. He is calling to lock up trans people, but who the hell is he? He's just some guy.

28/8/2025, 9:00:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

The lack of communication is just pathetic, honestly. They need to stand up and take responsibility. Promise to provide pronunciation guides following years ("I didn't get them" sounds like cover, I still think). This isn't hard stuff, even high on painkillers or with covid.

28/8/2025, 8:56:51 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

incredible! i just hope they don't fly into windows the way the drunk birds in my yard did as a kid! they'd get tanked and fly, never safe.

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Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space)

i was thinking all night about cutting my hair today and then i woke up and it was all cute, so it gets a delay. for now.

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Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

I absolutely follow journalists on their newsletters (and pay for a few) just because I can't trust the papers to actually publish what they write. I don't think that many people go that far though, because like you said, people really want easy to read news, easily accessed, and free.

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Profile picture [zoem] aka helvetica lowercase (@noctalgia.space) reply parent

not that this administration minds destroying trust in an organization, of course, but it does make the headlines more important. because the CDC are still the good guys at this point, and they can't leverage that if they destroy it, so, hmm. it's an interesting problem, for them.

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