Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 9hJinkies, Natalie. It's almost like Bluesky is haunted. We have a mystery to solve! 030
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 19hIt's bad. The instant I seek to anywhere in a video, even a few seconds away, boom, the same two unskippable ads I just saw five seconds ago. If it's not an important video I just close the tab. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 20hI hear you. I used to have creativity. I haven't touched it in fucking years. I'm too depressed and with the state of the world it seems hopeless and pointless. 060
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 20hReminded of that time I tagged along with a friend to a tall girl clothing store and ended up literally in tears because every item in the store besides socks was my grocery budget for an entire month. Thankful that I'm just barely inside the curve height and width wise for off-the-shelf stuff. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 20hMe, in need of some winter clothes & leggings that aren't falling apart: 1. Go to outdoor & activewear store at the local mall 2. Look at price tags 3. Oh. Oh no. Well, so much for that. Guess it's back to the thrift stores and crossing my fingers and praying again. God I hate clothes shopping. 110
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 20hI wish I'd had this when I first came out, but the inverse. In my mid 20s, was the youngest one in the room by ten years. Most of the other trans women were in their mid 40s and up talking about careers and marriages and I was like I cannot relate to a single word of what's being said here. 120
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 21h(Sassy the Psychopomp gets hit by a soccer ball from offscreen) 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 21hThe first two Linkin Park albums go unbelievably hard, especially when they came out well after someone's egg cracked but they were still stuck in the closet. People mocked them for being overblown back in the day, but history has vindicated their pure truth. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 21hI disconnected myself from the local trans community in a nearby city aeons ago. I went back a couple of years ago and encountered a whole group of them at once, and my thoughts were: 1. I have no idea who any of you are. Used to be we'd all have mutual friends. 2. I'm old enough to be your mom. 130
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's like riding a bike. I was so wobbly at first but then my muscle memory went "hey, I remember how to do this". Then the young person I was writing the referral letter for had to get someone else to read it for them because they couldn't read cursive. 👵 110
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Temperatures in the mid teens celsius, slightly cloudy, AND daylight till 8:00 pm please. Unlimited outdoor weather. Nowadays, May through September I get burnt to a crisp and/or slide along the ground on a trail of my own sweat. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Dieses Ende sollte zum Boden zeigen, wenn du ins Weltall willst. Wenn es anfängt, ins All zu zeigen, hast du ein ernstes Problem – und du wirst heute nicht ins Weltall fliegen." 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My first three cars combined (which lasted me a total of seven years of use) cost less than this system. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I would show up with a significant percentage of my life savings if a car manufacturer brought back a simple user-servicable carbureted inline-four or -six stickshift rear wheel drive vehicle with all mechanical controls. (She said recently having had to spend $600 on a tiny engine sensor.) 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sorry Johnny, I already filled up on 𝚙 𝚊 𝚗 𝚌 𝚊 𝚔 𝚎 𝚜 . xkcd.com/472/xkcd.com<span style="color: #0000ED">House</span> of Pancakes 020
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I managed to avoid them all until this morning because I have that author's name on my list of blocked words. Then one showed up on a different platform and scored a direct psychic hit on me. 030
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The orchestral crescendos in the Beatles' A Day In The Life made me leave the room. I think if I had discovered Revolution 9 any earlier than I did, it would have made me catatonic. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Heard it first from Venus Envy in my mid 20s/ the early-mid 2000s, and @amazonchique.bsky.social grew up in Florida. Then it started popping up everywhere as I made more and more American friends. I honestly forget what the Canadian equivalent is. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lost my dream job before I even started b/c the guys I'd have been working for made my skin crawl the moment I stepped into the interview room. Turns out less than a year later I was vindicated. Still here living in abject poverty. But what I avoided by trusting my instincts, I shudder to think. 050
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTmk...youtube.com"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bite Me (1992) [CC]YouTube video by Yet Another "Weird Al" Yankovic Archive Channel 020
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One I saw earlier and unfortunately forgot to screenshot: "I don't have dysphoria, I just wish I was a woman." "How does it feel, that you're not a woman?" "Sad."static.klipy.comI Mean JoanneAlt: A blonde woman in a yellow sweater, giving a slightly exasperated out-of-patience shrug. "I mean..." 110
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah, the "steamroll the whole lumpy spiky concept perfectly flat for easy presentability" approach of the early-mid 2010s has ended up with a whole lot of emotionally damaged chronically-online trans women terrified to self-actualize. Dysphoria exists, and real life transition helps alleviate it! 110
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I felt really socially left out because my family didn't own a VCR or have cable TV until well after I graduated high school. In retrospect that was probably for the best. I scared *really* easily. Still do. I am not a horror fan unless it really gets inside the characters' heads, like Carrie. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Watched Time Bandits right around the time a neighbour's house burned down. That messed me up pretty good. And non-movie-related: the Hall Monsters in Coleco Venture. Between that and a couple of other reaons I was terrified of being alone and vulnerable in any unfamiliar room with only one exit. 110
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Gotta swim into your bait time nylon line bad luck fish fuck" - Trout Reznor 000
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That damn floating head from Time Bandits. r̴̲̀̃ḙ̷̲͗t̴̗̻͝û̶̜͔͐r̴̨̭̓ṅ̸̬̆́ ̵̗̳̃ẘ̷̫̠̞h̵̝͆̅̾á̶͙͎t̵͈̭͊̏͂ ̴̧̨͎͂͝y̸͈͓͌o̶͙̫̐ͅṷ̶̆̓ ̸̠̹̠̂h̴̜͇͠a̷̪̣̩̚v̴̺͈̱͑ē̷̖̯ ̴̜̜͌͑͝s̵͚̉͑̍t̴̖͎̂̕̕ǫ̸̨͕̀̃l̷͚͍̀̓͛e̶̤̖͒ṋ̵̢̹̀̏̐ ̷͕̳͕̐f̷̣̆̆̓r̵̡͇͛̅ő̸͕m̴̻̍ ̶̠̼͔͛ṁ̴̦̯̜e̴̱̯̲̅ Hell, the whole entire movie. House burns down, parents zapped into nothing by touching Pure Evil, movie ends. Why my teacher recommended it as a kids' movie I will never know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHP...youtube.comThe Supreme Being - Time Bandits 1981 1080pYouTube video by Farrington 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Heck yes. Weird Al live also got checked off my bucket list about a month ago when he was in my neck of the woods. If you'd have asked me in 1991 if I thought he'd still be touring in 2026 I would have said you were dreaming. Thrilled to hear Harper's a fan too. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm not up to the "making plans beyond next month" just yet, but I did get to say hello to two neighbourhood cats this afternoon. One of them walked up to me and let me pet her. I'm definitely a lot better when I'm off the internet, as long as I can willfully ignore all the election signs outside. 000
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm kind of grateful men don't hit on me anymore. It was 20% validating, 80% Hehehe I'm In Danger. 120
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thread. Folks I know in LGBTQ+ safe bubbles love to talk about their protest vote & how the far-right are wingnuts who are easily debated, shut down & ignored. They can't seem to understand that out here, those folks are EVERYWHERE. They are your neighbours, they are admins of every community group. 030
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fixed the baby but now he's being abducted by aliens. 0442
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I really wish the folks I know in insular LGBTQ-safe bubbles could understand what it's like living out here. I have yet to see an election sign in my town that's not either a conservative or ultra-conservative candidate. Last elxn most of the center & left ones I saw were knocked down & vandalized. 1150
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Good idea. You never know when one of these guys is going to change lanes into you. 030
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fun fact: the Star Trek Music actually came from the ships themselves. They just ran it through a DI box when it came to dub the soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPuF...youtube.comStar Trek: TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-DYouTube video by Auralnauts 021
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah, this hit harder than any kids show had any right to. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I go for the super long flowy open cardigans with a hem that hits somewhere between my knees and calves. I used to call them Rinoa Heartilly Sweaters but mine always had full sleeves. Kept my torso warm and also literally covered my ass. I can't stand coats that stop at my lower back. 110
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's hard to sit with the (lack of) knowledge at how many people you rubbed shoulders with in the early online and IRL trans community 2001 to 2009-ish are just GONE. I've kept touch with a handful, and I know more who've passed away, but the vast majority simply vanished off the face of the earth. 030
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This basketball court is operating under admiralty law. 1191
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Many years ago there was some terminology I randomly picked up from certain people in the community and only later learned it was from the kink scene and not the trans scene. I still cringe to this day. 060
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I feel thankful that this discourse has been absent from my feed. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Social media had a good run from about 2011 to 2021 but it wiped out forums and LJ in the process. Now everyone is drifting away back into their real lives and I'm slowly going back to floating alone in a featureless void again. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I literally had no friends whatsoever from spring 1998 until I discovered some niche forums in summer 2000. And the "friendships" I had IRL before that were more limerance than actual two-way relationships because communicating in person while autistic and closeted was nearly impossible for me. 240
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This hit my life right when my transition started and holy crap is it the perfect soundtrack. 160
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What do I get for a total blackout of the entire board? Seriously, when the adults in your life see the boys in school bullying the shit out of this awkward nerd when they're not harrassing the girls, & their solution is to tell the nerd "be more like those boys or you deserve what you're getting". 020
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I went to do this and realized I was just checking off every single box in this grid. 010
Laura Foster @lauramfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Get in the yellow submarine, John. Or Ringo will have to pilot it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnI...youtube.comThe Beatles - A Cruel Angel's Thesis (Sentence Mixing)YouTube video by RednasVGM 010