Val but a Cenobigbite @Valerie_Elysee@awoo.space

ANYONE IN PENNSYLVANIA

My trans-femme friend just had the house she was gonna rent sold out from under her AS she was driving crosscountry to the property. She's 10 hours out from the destination in southern PA.

ANY leads on long term trans friendly housing in the area would be greatly appreciated

Any donations to help her pay for a hotel room should be sent to Jfordshack@gmail.com and would be HYPER appreciated.

veggie is short for veginald

“We in Silicon Valley like to watch the ants dig harder into their dirt. They send us money as we watch.”

-- from Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier, page 91

(Here, the ants are us. The dirt is social media. Lanier’s point is that the algorithms of social networking spaces are designed to amplify the negative, so that we become more angry and engaged. Engaged means profit.)

#smallquotes

"Queer Time" A nice overview of articles about how growing up LGBTQ disrupts many of the traditional markers of "adulthood."

https://daily.jstor.org/queer-time-the-alternative-to-adulting/

Alas, none of the photos of the graffiti etched into the window on the bus came out legibly. Scratched glass is hard enough to read, let alone photograph in a moving bus.

“STAY IN DRUGS
EAT YOUR SCHOOL
DON’T DO VEGETABLES”

Sometimes this gets wrapped up in other language or political ideas, like, y'know, "Consent matters, so, abandon your collars and pup hoods, and don't you dare address these topics in public or mixed company social media"

And I'm like **gestures at this entire fucking planet** Have You Been Outside?!?!

Our entire culture is awash in heteronormative signaling of desirable and acceptable behavior, of implicit and explicit sex acts, but you want -us- to be *acceptable*?

Tumblr tried to sneak in data collection under the radar. After a few taps, you can get a list of who they're sharing data with.

The list takes 19 screenshots to see all the names on my phone.

NINETEEN.

I'm playing something called Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, and uh

this is the most adorable crouch animation

Street name is Bathroom Marshmallows. Kids try it at parties, next thing they know they're at a Hot Topic gettin' paid to wrestle with Birkenstocks.

"Fight me," the knight called.
"No," the dragon yawned.
"You must!"
"No."
"But it is your purpose!"
"In your story, not mine. Tell another."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Hey Mastodon, do you know of any cool psychology people who live and work in Germany and hand out hrt indications to trans people after one or two sessions? This system is actively trying to bring me down. I'm nonbinary but I still want T. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Singapore deploys robotic 'NUSwans' as a camouflaged water-quality test probe in a move that really could go to either our cyberpunk dystopia or our luxury gay space communism, to be honest.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/bevy-of-robot-swans-explore-singaporean-reservoirs

tired: marvel vs. capcom
wired: Longmont Potion Castle vs. Achewood

Overheard/Seen elsewhere:

"So they claim [Outlandish justification for political thing]. And in other believable news, I just gave birth to a centaur."

"Hey, congrats! Can you raise them to be a communist, so I can call them Li'l Trosky?"

Boys with skirts.

Boost if you agree.

(yep, this is a re-edition, the first one died with my previous instance)