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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 29/09/2026

There are two in-training guide dogs in this cafe right now. Gorgeous black labs. We are keeping our adoring squee noises to a minimum but they're beautiful 😁

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

This here is why we come to Gail for the jokes, and stay for the advocacy. Self-awareness is a heck of a thing.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Good people use the platform and the voice and the power they have to help pull up and defend the people who don't. And I constantly see you doing that. A true ally understands that the label is given, not taken, and I'd give it to you without a second thought.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Thanks Gail. Our origins are less important than where we are now, and where we're going next. Trans folk tend to understand that more than most. I'm a masc-presenting agender queer thing and I'll admit I don't really read comics, but every time it matters I see you show up for us, and others.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Good! More of this! Just keep pissing them off and ignoring them to do it anyway. They might not shut up, but look at the sort of thing we'll get out of it!

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Like, we're pretty much always together but this is a bit more intentional which is nice, we're just having some fun there trying out different games 🙂 Also they have a pillow which tells us it is definitely not a mimic, so that's reassuring.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

-starting to be recognised and to recognise others, which is always nice. I've really missed having a place like this where I can just go and hang out and feel comfy and at home. And it's a good way to just spend a bit of quality time with Cuddles doing something different.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

-where I try to suss out how welcome I might be as myself. The sofas are super comfy, and I'm able to flop there for an hour and do some writing before we play. So we've worked it into our schedule to go every couple of weeks. We're not joining any other people games right now but we are-

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

I love this place though. It's a little out of the way in a repurposed mill (we live in what used to be lace country) with tons of stuff (like an excellent little coffee shop). The owner is great, and there's a big Progress Pride flag right 8n the counter s you enter which saved me to usual thing-

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

It helps that even though you can only ask the other player(s) 1 question, there is no rule against providing as much intonation to tour 2 word answer as you can. So that worked well for us 😆 The last couple of times we played Wyrmspan and Gwent.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

If you run out of ingredient cards before the sun goes up (it moves one place up with each stun), the witches win. You can't see the other person's cards unless they have Binx which lets them show their hand. And some cards let the witches cast spells. We won with 1 card left!

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

But, you know, we're not exactly mature over here so 🤷 It was fun, actually, and deeper than it sounds. Basically you work together to stop the Sander sisters from casting their spell, by throwing ingredients in to mess it up and stun a witch. You have to stun 3 times, each time ending a round

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

It was board game day today, which is where we go every couple of weeks to our nearby gaming store and play a couple of games. We've been starting with Unstable Unicorns because it's easy, cute, and fun, then picking another. This week we played the Hocus Pocus board game. Which is a kids game...

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Terrible things are happening to some of the side characters in my book right now and I don't like it (neither do they, tbf). And yet I keep writing. Not sure everyone is coming out of this alive though... 🙁 I knew they probably wouldn't all make it, but its happening and I hate it.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Right? I write whatever weird shit my characters make me write (I have no control, they do whatever they want). Which means I spend a lot of time down rabbit holes, but it's one of the things I love most about making stories It's such a great excuse to go learn new things.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

I had my annual health checkup today. All pretty good, actually. Lost 4kg since last year, my blood sugar is steady, my cholesterol has improved, and everything else is good. If it wasn't for the chronic pains, brain fog, and mental health, I'd be in pretty good shape 😆

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Which means a better idea of how to help, as much as we can with something like this. Cuddles has a complicated relationship with her own hearing so we're used to adjusting as needed 😆

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

We're pretty sure, through some experiments and generally paying attention, that it's Doofus' left ear that's going deaf, for the most part. Knowing doesn't change anything in general ofc, but it does explain a couple of issues shes been having and give us a better idea of what she's going through

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Kai (he/they) had top surgery 🏳️‍⚧️ @thegrumpyenby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LF someone who speaks Portuguese; ideally even someone not totally uninformed about chest surgeries. I spotted this in my post-op report and every app seems to translate it to "nipple-sparing". Now, I did not get nipple-sparing afaik. Is this just the Portuguese way to say ”free nipple grafts"?

Screenshot from Google Translate which translates "mastectomia total poupadora de mamilo" from Portuguese to English as "nipple-sparing total mastectomy"

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 19/09/2026

Your #Caturday this week has to be Monster, because she's barely moved her butt from my hip since we got home on Thursday after two whole nights away. Clearly I'm not allowed to leave the house ever again.

A calico kitty curled up asleep on a pillow.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

On getting home, the cats managed to be mad at us for approximately 10 seconds before demanding cuddles to salve their wounded hearts. I don't think they're leaving us alone any time soon.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Cuddles was at this point outside with the dog, then we switched so I could be with the dog and Cuddles could hang out and get her book signed. It was great. And aside from the dog (who was Very Sad that her humans kept vanishing) a good time was had by all.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Of course the main point of the Nottingham trip was this. Getting to hang out a little with Miss @gailcarriger.bsky.social and other readers was lovely. I don't get many photos of me (seriously I look like someone stuck a football on top of a tube 😆) but I think I'll keep this one 😁

A photo of two smiling people in front of a white wall hung with photos of Nottingham. On the left is a woman with a headscarf, cats eye style glasses, and red lipstick, wearing a patterned dress and white lace gloves. On the right a bearded person with a Trans Rights Are Human Rights baseball cap, blue glasses, a navy and white polo shirt and a purple walking stick.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Notts was always a friendly place for me, both in general and queer friendly. It was still years after I left before I realised I was trans, but I was always sapphic and I loved being a part of that. I'll use my new totes and pins with appropriate Pride. As will Cuddles and CuddleDad 😁

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

We encountered @theprideshop.bsky.social right next to our hotel so after checking out today we had a drink there and bought some stuff. Lovely place, lovely guy there that I chatted to. I'd be there on the regular if I still lived close enough but dropping a little cash was the least we could do.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

So nice to be able to reach out and get a kitty again. I've been doing that thr entire time we've been away and no kitties have been there. I missed them. We did go last the kitty cafe to peek at the cuties inside, but obv we couldn't go in because dog.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

I am in no hurry to take that scooter on a bus or train again but aside from the travel bits, we had a nice time. More after I recover a bit, currently everywhere hurts and my entire back seems to be in spasm 😭

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

So I wound up gritting my teeth through the pain of holding a largeish staffie while we wrestled her back into the harness so I could get her off the bus. But bless that bus driver, he was understanding of the dog issue and let us take a second to solve it, then helped out with the scooter.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Well the dog panicked when Cuddles got up to start shifting my scooter for me (she is WAY better at getting it round tight spots because she will just lift/drag it, which I can't do) and managed to slide entirely out if her harness. So I grabbed her collar and she almost slipped that too.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

We all made it home in one piece, only about an hour or so later than scheduled because first the train was late then the first bus that came alr had prams in the spots where my scooter would otherwise go. So we went to the bus station a couple minutes away so we could be first. Then the dog...

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Travelling home. Doofus dog has decided my scooter is a pillow now because why not?

A long-legged staffie wearing blue harness am& leash and a red collar lies on the floor of a train carriage, with her head resting on a blue mobility scooter

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Currently not at home and it says it won't run right on my phone, so I'm saving this as a lil treat for when I get through a task I must complete over the weekend 😁

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Now that's an excellent plan! Thank you, I'll rack up some listens on them.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Same. If I tried really hard maybe I could somehow consume a negative amount? I don't even remember the guy exists most days. I could not possibly be less interested than I already was and yet somehow I now am? 🤷

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

We have an accessible room in the hotel, which means the bathroom is a wet room, and I am so fucking happy right now. Our bathroom at home is small and has only a shower stall so getting clean is a nightmare of pain that takes forever. I just spent 15mins in the wet room and I am squeaky clean.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

She has a tiny cut on her back leg. Not that she's noticed or anything. Anyway Passenger Assist worked perfectly, everyone was super good and ready for me, so I might fret 2% less on the way home 😁

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

We made it to Nottingham in mostly one piece. Doofus managed to walk under the front of my scooter. She runs in front of me all the time and I never hit her, she just did it in the single second I looked away from her to check the time on the train clock 🤦

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

We don't go away much, especially given how much everything tends to hurt me, but sometimes it's just worth the effort.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

Off to Nottingham tomorrow. The cats are suspicious about the newly packed bags, and they're gonna be super mad at us when we get home on Thursday. But I have everything planned out, with buffer time. Haven't used Passenger Assist on trains before so that's a new wrinkle since last time.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 14/09/2026

It's really fucked to be glad I'm too disabled to work because it means not facing the impact of being trans at work. I found a queer af gaming store near us recently & the joy of going into a place which shows me, the second I look past the front door, that I'm welcome, is both great and tiring.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's something extra exhausting about the expectation from cis people that trans people should be nice and acquiesce quietly, when a lot of us have lost friends in recent years, have been fleeing homes or are helping out friends fleeing or trying to keep them afloat after being ousted from work..

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 13/09/2026

She's only shy when the phone points in her general direction, the rest of the day she will happily run around the house and YELL about everything that crosses her mind 😁

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 13/09/2026

This week's #Caturday is a rare decent photo of the beautiful but camera-shy Squeak. Enjoy!

A grey tuxedo cat sat atop a pillow, front paws angled down the edge like a hinge, looking down and to the left of the camera

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