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Fannish geek, elder queer. Please interact if you're friendly. I REPORT and block ~SPAM~ and FUND REQUESTS

[luluxa]

I saw someone say they look like they belong on the Soviet/Chinese posters and just had to lmao

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[akaahsokatano]

happy pride month !

[angelbabymikaa]

“potentially mature content” yeah that’s my pervert friend i hope it’s mature content that’s what i followed them for

[luluxa]

stained glass

[melagan]

I will always reblog

[evilthotiana]

Fish sculptures by Nina Fox Herlihy

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[maureen-corpse]

I know that when a recipe says like “easy one-pan quesadilla” or whatever and then tells you to put the filling in a bowl and wash your hot pan before using it again that’s because the target audience is people who only have one pan but I have so many pans for so many different purposes and whenever I see such a direction I get irrationally angry. You’re lying to me. This is a two-pan recipe with a burnt finger intermission

[hussyknee]

The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws

[intactics]

today we're going on a journey. we will need to bring certain items with us. the sage's instructions are clear: gather your identity papers, your coin, and your key of power to pilot the electric carriage to the supply depot and purchase pickles

[dangerphd]

yoooooooo. @scrixels may have created a monster with this post. 😄🤘

for anyone worried about language barrier, I found* both of these books super clear and easy to understand without being able to read any japanese.

por ejemple

I also read this blog tutorial, and am looking forward to more complex designs once I've gotten it down.

about to switch colors! 🤩🤗

[dangerphd]

denim / cotton thread and denim / polyester thread, not the classic silk...but in keeping with the original notion of using up scraps to make something pretty and useful, and I like the triple thick denim for pushing needles with these utilitarian devices.

now, back to patching and mending and darning and whatever...

[crankydevon]

I found these blog pages a few weeks ago when I was looking into it. Our library will have a demonstration, and I wanted to know what it was.

Category: Yubinuki

Wow, we are now ready to sew our first yubinuki! Or are we?  Before actually sewing the yubinuki, the core must be prepared with the padding

[notkatniss]

[ba-sing-saying]

I just finished reading The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold yesterday and I can honestly say I’ve never read a book that felt like that.

It’s like a combination of the morbid fascination of watching a car crash in slow motion layered with the upbeat thrill of a heist movie plus politics intrigue and spy-movie style paranoia, all in a gigantic blizzard swirling around this one little guy. I didn’t know how I would be able to become attached to a character in this series after reading Shards of Honor and Barrayar, because I loved Cordelia so much as a protagonist, but Miles Vorkosigan did the job. Truly the character of all time.

He’s a strategic genius. He can figure out a solution to almost any problem. He’s in love with his childhood best friend and gets shut down repeatedly. He serves as the officiant at her impromptu wedding to a guy he saved through another random act of kindness, and plays out the roles of three different people in it like some kind of vaudeville comedy act. He makes people laugh. He inspires everyone around him to genuine loyalty and trust. He was playmates with the current emperor of his home planet when they were kids and is the heir of an aristocratic family. He refuses to get anything by nepotism and uses his mother’s maiden name when he meets people so they won’t know who he is. On a whim, he decides to help a random stranger and has to lie to do it. He commits to the bit so hard that he ends up faking his way into running a mercenary fleet whose existence was initially a complete lie and stopping a war he had nothing to do with. He has stomach ulcers from how stressed out he is. He refuses to break a promise, even when doing so would allow him to escape the web of lies he’s woven. His house of cards is always one gust of wind from toppling and he’s somehow able to keep it standing by sheer force of character. He will not stop because if he does he’ll have a nervous breakdown.

Genuinely the most fascinating and lovable combination of wet rat energy, goodest boy ever, and rogue with a heart of gold. No one is doing it like him. I’m going to read all seventeen books in this series or however many there are, and then everything else Lois McMaster Bujold has written.

[farewell-to-lorien]

The Witcher, by Kathleen Neeley.

[crankydevon]

more here -https://www.kathleenneeley.com/

[yorgen-sh]

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[angelsaxis]

i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift

[chicafinal]

went to a screening of close encounters of the third kind aka one of my top 3 spielbergs. did you guys know that art is the only thing that makes sense in this word?