blog est. '09

trans fella | naarm, australia born in the 90s °eternally sad°

[nevver]

Summer constellations, Eli McMullen

[bear-throuple]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The mythical disabled person who is so disabled that everyone consistently supports and accommodates them without question is a straw man which only exists as a hypothetical for the political purpose of denying real disabled people care while still being able to argue that said care would be accessible to disabled people who "actually deserves it"

[laissez-vibrer]

he might exist but he's a statistical anomaly and should not be counted.

he's a 6 year old blind, nonverbal autistic boy with cerebral palsy that my partner is a support worker for, whose being raised by his grandmother.

[miamaimania]

fully Crafted Consciousness - Nam June Paik’s Reclining Buddha (1994)

[egberts]

i wish i could make everyone understand just how fucking good marianas trench is. i wish i could inject the feeling i get listening to them into other people so they'd know why i love them so much

[laissez-vibrer]

haven't posted a photo of my face in nearly a decade.

just a trans fella from the old days of tumblr still scooting along in the background🐌

[liminal-x-wave]

𝙴 𝚄 𝙿 𝙷 𝙾 𝚁 𝙸 𝙰 夢

[laissez-vibrer]

I've left the house no more than 20 times this year, and I do nothing but sleep, go to the bathroom and sit in the dark. this is the third year running like this.

I call the city begging for access to a social service that can help. they say I need a doctors referral.

I see several different doctors over the phone. they say I'm not unwell enough for any specialist services.

I disappear further into my madness.

no one notices.

[pinnyy]

[witchrealms]

(x)

[laissez-vibrer]

since I was a kid I've had multiple things happen that have either implied or straight up acknowledged that I'm not going to live last 2027

and I kind of forgot about it until this year and with every passing moment and event in my life I can feel the walls closing in on me

[depsidase]

[nociceptrix]

tweet sequence of a not-quite-friend and artist i admire that i find myself thinking of constantly

[fial-inka]

the signal catcher 📡

[liquid-clorox]

[laterkiss]

happy pride to my favourite post on reddit

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.