Some subtext for why i'm especially disturbed by this: Chuck Tingle is a queer subversive author. "Love is real" is a core part of not only his messaging in his erotic & horror writing work, but his philosophy of life. It is a life-affirming catchphrase that is both obviously true but also subversive in a culture which routinely tries to frame love (of all kinds) as frivolous, a waste of time, or even dangerous & needing to be suppressed/repressed.

To censor this would be a very bad look.

Sooo i saw Chuck Tingle recently at the KPBS San Deigo Book Fair at UCSD. He wore his usual pink hood with "LOVE IS REAL" written on it....

Except when KPBS uploaded the video, the message appears to have been.... Removed?! Why??

Is there any (plausible) reasonable explanation for this?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DccL0Ilko_i/

#SanDiegoBookFair #UCSD #KPBS #chuckTingle #censorship

you WILL find love again and it will only come at the cost of going "wait why does my window resize every time i alt tab?? that's so annoying. but like, within acceptable ranges annoying. ugh" or something like that.

mine is "firefox stops having buttons in the top bar work after a time"

every single person i know who switched to linux

- likes it more then windows
- has one baffling bug that makes no sense they have no idea how to fix and cannot find info about online (partially cause of the death of google search)

and yes, this includes me

Oh no, did your car get stolen & crashed? Oh, you think my new robot CarJackie stole your car? Well probably, since it can't even function without being behind the wheel of someone else's vehicle. You think that should be illegal? But why? Nobody committed a crime. It was the robot! & unfortunately I can't turn it off now so everyone on the planet is just gonna have to give up their cars so CarJackie can work. Why? Well we'll find out after it gathers enough data from stealing & crashing cars.

Oh, sorry, did your face get in the way of my silly little Slapp-o-Matic (v5.1?) :) Don't be mad at me, i didn't slap you, the Slapp-o-tron did! I don't control the Slappinator, it makes its OWN choices about who to slap & how hard. I can even beg it to stop & it won't.

What? You're asking me WHY i made this stupid machine with no demonstrable benefit? Well, in 10 years it's gonna slap the sun right out of the sky & fix climate change so you better stay on the Slappadoo's good side or else. 🖐️💥

I had this thought recently that one day in the future, no one is going to believe that in the mid 2020s every single fucking thing was so politically charged that simply hearing a complete stranger say words like "raw milk" or "septum ring" out loud could allow you to detect with a fair degeee of precision their political leanings on at least 5 major issues.

It's weird how as I sing, there are some parts of my upper register which are still pretty strong, & while I don't have very much more lower range the notes I have are stronger, but there are parts in the middle that just *go quiet* lol. I have to really tune into breath support because it takes a lot more air pressure to make noise now!

It feels good tho, like yeah emotionally but physically it feels nice! It just vibrates in a completely new way lol. I feel my voice in a different part of my throat. It's a little harder to be loud sometimes, & singing is a little squirrelly, though admittedly I've been trying to stick to lower-pitched songs to get used to using this part of my voice at all. I don't really know where notes are in my voice that I could find just a week ago. But it's fun anyway. :)

My voice is starting to change this week, after just over 3 months on #LowDoseTestosterone, but i think so far if it sounds different at all to people it probably just sounds like i'm a little bit sick LOL 😮‍💨

#trans #transgender #testosterone #transvoice #transmasc #transmasculine #transjoy

I fuckin hate doctors man. If you're a doctor grow the fuck up.

Day 3 of testosterone today 😍

I'm on 20.25mg/daily gel packets at present. If I really like it i might consider injecting but it sounds a bit crepy, i don't think i have a phobia but i don't love needles.

Still not doing much for me in terms of effects yet as it's early days, but man, pretty exciting.

#trans #nonbinary #transmasc #transmasculine #ftm #genderqueer #testosterone #hrt

Is it a good thing that I haven't heard fuck all about DeadMau5 in like, 7 years? On the one hand it feels great, fuck that guy. On the other hand, I feel like he shouldn't be left unsupervised & I worry about what he might be up to. 🤔

I don't give a shit about your business or even your job. I think our current existential crises are bigger than businesses or jobs. You can't have a livelihood on a dead planet, you can't have an economy when most of the citizens of a society are climate refugees or gas chamber fodder or just homeless. You can't have nice things under fascism.

We have to decide at some point what actually matters & what's just fucking stupid idiot baby shit to talk about in the current circumstances.

How do we get people to figure out that sometimes businesses have to die? Like, that they should die, even if they are or once were really big?

That business operators don't really have a "right" to be in business if their business has no demand. That if basic amounts of competition render your business obsolete, you don't have a right to buy up or destroy that competition to simply reduce the amount of options consumers have. 🤷

Get ratio'd, nerds 🤣💀

I eat Cholula with breakfast most days, which is not very hot. But it sneaks up on some folks who get a false sense of security from the mild spice & yummy flavor & start to just douse their meal with it lol. But that never causes me problems.

Weird how different spicy sauces & peppers can affect you so differently, even with similar levels of hotness. 🤔🌶️

Bro I had a pad thai for the first time in a while, from a place I've never gotten it from, & i got it "medium spicy" (out of 5 spicy levels) & it wasn't that hot on the tongue but lemme tell ya, it stayed exactly the same level of hot THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH lmaoooo 💀

Giant swamp teddy

#art #mastoArt #drawing #sketchbook #sketch #tonedPaper #apocalyptic #lowbrow #lowbrowArt