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Trans male. He/him. 34. Chronic pain/physical/mental illness. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 8h
Honestly, and perhaps this is more subjective reasoning than anything else, but I wonder if, at least when trans men say it about ourselves, if it's a dysphoria response. I know for me personally, it does certainly hit me that way.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 9h
Damnit. I came to post this, but knew in my heart someone already beat me to it.
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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 13h
oh, my darling hold these hands of mine up to the moonlight make them into fingerlings of soft shadow bring them to your lips in bright benediction let the day melt into the promise of evening come at last #poetry
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 9h
There's a "anything is a dildo if you're brave enough" joke in here, somewhere.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 10h
static.klipy.com
Elissa Slater's Funny Spit Take on Big Brother
ALT: Elissa Slater's Funny Spit Take on Big Brother
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Dan Tuke @danieltuke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Timeless advice:
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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 12/10/2026
ray blanchard not being dead in 2026 was not on my 2026 bingo card
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♠️♥️Black Jack- St. Vincent♦️♣️ @wolfs-black-jack.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Today's journal #poem.
"Blushing gold where the sun has touched you
Bruised milk where it has not 
And in the language of quiet moments 
Your name is the taste of a salt jeweled collar bone."
                                                  Black Jack ♠
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I literally cannot remember a time where I felt otherwise about myself. Only, now, I see it as a positive instead of a flaw.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Same. 🫂
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 14/10/2026
I do not like being asked to believe that compassion is stupid, or weak, or a mistake. Then again, I believe it's possible to feel compassion for someone even as you cut them down. I understand this makes me something of an outlier.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Because I've known I was a boy/man/male since I was 4, and finding out I could heal the traumatic incongruence that is my AGAB saved my life.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Because I've known I was a boy/man/male since I was 4, and finding out I could heal the traumatic incongruence that is my AGAB saved my life.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For real though. This is...yeah. Called me out by my full name.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Read me for filth, only, in my case, add "" around girl. Otherwise? Let me take off my jacket before you go for the jugular next time. Nice jacket isn't so easy to find.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
cw rape I cannot emphasize enough the extent to which if you are raped the thing society and the legal system expect you to do is to go report your rape to the rapists and hope they do something about it to your rapist and not to you Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Pam: They're The Same Picture - The Office
ALT: Pam: They're The Same Picture - The Office
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Raven Lyn Clemens @ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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🍬 @holojester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
keep zooming out until you can see the pattern
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Worse---his self-defence plea was initially rejected, but it has been successfully argued that the jury should have known the woman he killed was trans and not cis. Because apparently, the woman he killed being trans makes the killing more justifiable.
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fag jigsaw @voredere.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
actually i hate men, don't care if that hurts their feelings, and if that man is your boyfriend he may as well be your crusty white dog to me. this will never change and if it bothers you you're in the wrong place.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yeah, all of that. It's a reason I want to jump and down and scream when people say "gender identity is a choice" lmao, the fuck it is, because if it was? I'd be anything else!
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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
oh, my darling haunt me like houses —inhabit me until I forget how it feels to be empty
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As soon as I saw they overturned the conviction, I knew. And bet real money he gets off by "trans panic" defense bs. Fuckin' coward.
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The thread as a whole is a certain flavor of horrifying, but this description genuinely made me ugly laugh.
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Yum. Give me that Hieronymus Bosch burger”
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Solomon "THE VALUE OF A HEARTBEAT" Skalozub @sollizyy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
145.45/2k! Please remember to dm or email me to claim an ebook and/or a doodle!
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Kelly Sutton (aka IglooChik)🐧 @igloochik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don't try to hide it. 😝😂
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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As a leftist it is due diligence to ask people what sort of argument people who are claiming be "just asking difficult questions" are trying to entertain
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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 10/10/2026
MUSE by Rebecca leveille Guay is brimming with meaning and emotion. Every pattern and color seem to come alive in such a powerful way.
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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
elsewhere everyone is speaking a little louder to be heard I nod at what may have been a question someone leans closer bringing the whole room with them through the open door a narrow strip of sunlit grass my mind has gone there the rest of me is still being polite #poetry #ADHD 
Photograph from inside the house through the front door to the lawn. Only a thin strip of sunlight, grass is visible. 
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🍬 @holojester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if i dont say it ill explode
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Aj d'Wit (Audrey) @audjde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Morning Confessions I met the slip of the moon this early morn, where the ocean courts the land she did not tarry long, for the sun was near, would soon dominate the sky quietly she listened to my heart’s murmurings, smiled took my heaviness in return, instilled quietude #Verse #poetry #ECK
Image: A slip of the moon appears on the right, just above centre, against a backdrop of a darkened orange sky.

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Morning Confessions

I met the slip of the moon
this early morn, where the
ocean courts the land

she did not tarry long, for
the sun was near, would
soon dominate the sky

quietly she listened to my
heart’s murmurings, smiled
took my heaviness

in return, instilled quietude
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Kirpal Singh @kirpalsingh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohan (1934-2016) 🪄 ✨ ✨ 🌳 Photo by Kirpal 💌
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Solomon "THE VALUE OF A HEARTBEAT" Skalozub @sollizyy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Please just know that I'm working really hard for this, I'm even cutting back on bread to lose some more weight and improve my fitness to lower complication risks Please understand how hard it is for me to eat less bread, bread is so precious to me.
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🍬 @holojester.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
more of the same please keep the change
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Distant cries echoed and it was clear danger lurked where the ocean was deepest. So did the gold they coveted. When her song soothed their worries all evil would be washed away. Today's #vss365 #prompt is #siren.
Art by Irenhorror https://beacons.ai/irenhorrors
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 09/10/2026
Your irregular reminder that trans adults were once trans children. If you “support trans people,” logically speaking, you HAVE TO support trans kids. If that’s a bridge too far for you, well…
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An update ate my post. 🫠 Basically, my whole mind feels like an over-wet sponge. What I'd give for someone to reach, and ring it out for all it's worth. Only, if you do- please don't mind the stagnant water that will inevitably spill out. I made sure the reptiles where somewhere else.
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£ittle Wølf Witçh ($90/$300) @littlewolfwitch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
TW: SA . . . .
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuiV...
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Lyin' Eyes (2013 Remaster)
YouTube video by Eagles - Topic
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This song used to make me ugly weep. Let's see if it still does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdI0...
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John Barleycorn
YouTube video by Traffic - Topic
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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.
The image is a six panel black and white comic. 

Panel 1 - a girl sits at her desk in front of a computer, looking disheartened. She says, "I dont know if I should post this art, who would even want to see it?"

Panel 2- A new person bursts through the door in the background with a loud BAM

Panel 3- The new person pushes the girl out of the way, smushing her face in the process, while slamming their fist down on the keyboard. 

Panel 4- The computer shows that the art has been posted 

Panel 5- The person makes direct eye contact with the girl while pushing their finger against their own phone screen

Panel 6- A motion blur is added to the last panel, enhancing the impact of the new notifications on the new post. It reads, "(Friend) Liked Post just now" Followed by "(Friend) commented 'I FUCKING LOVE THIS AND I LOVE U'"

Underneath the last panel is a watermark that reads, Shubbabang
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V @not-the-painter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you find out? Lmk. 🙃
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/10/2026
I'm going to get angrier and more unhinged and more unlikeable and more incisive and more furious and more capital-M Mad and I'm not going to apologize for a single damn word of it.
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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy vs sad guy on bus meme

Sad side: Getting called faggot by cishet people

Happy side: Getting called faggot by faggots
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 09/10/2026
Having spent the past hour reading about the direct links between ABA, "conversion therapy," homophobia, and transmisogyny, I can confirm that the likelihood of me ever considering pacifism as a viable personal philosophy is somewhere below the likelihood of me sprouting wings and flying to Saturn.
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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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