Joy Barlow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@inscrutablejoy
She/her, grumpy sometimes, safe to talk to unless you're shitty
Love it when a lazy AI meme is disproven by each of the first ten Google results
The original went defunct in the 1970s in the US before the rights were bought by a South African company, but due to trademark tomfoolery there's now a small regional chain in the US centered around Memphis TN
Just found out the online banking app that bought (or merged with, idk) the banking app I'd been using doesn't do "early" direct deposit, by having scheduled payments for electric and phone service both fail. My phone is already disconnected and my family's electricity has 9½ hours left. Capitalism.
Trans stories that haven't been delisted from Scribblehub due to mass reporting
Deleting the original ask Cat pic preserved here for posterity
How long until enough context is lost to time that a film student will confidently assert that noir detectives were all incels (because of the fedora) and "dollface" is a transphobic slur indicating clockiness, and receive absolutely no pushback
Mother: there were no signs Me: *remembers going on hunger strike at age 3 until the family agreed to call me a neutral nickname and putting one of my grandmother's dresses on my inflatable Dukes of Hazzard Boss Hogg punching bag*
7 year old is having a board game party at school tomorrow, and I am evil
All this needs is a yard sign that says NOT HAUNTED and it'll sell in a heartbeat
I suspect this situation may be... more than meets the eye
Update: I SURVIVED THE COGIATI I'm gonna go have a nap now, and probably dream of being chased through the streets by a feral pack of self-identified HSTS trans meds
Why y'all do this with your neck, please, I need a sensible answer
As a counterpoint to the Mamdani news, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia ran on transphobia and got spanked