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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 14/10/2025

I’m not dead, I’ve just been prioritizing my mental health while executing a rather important life change ✌🏻

A fabric square onto which I painted the words “new dick, who dis” and appliquéd some painfully cute scraps of kawaii animal fabric on.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 01/09/2025

Y’all haven’t heard from me in a minute bc I’m out touching grass having the time of my life at DragonCon 🤘🏻

Goofy selfie of me (blonde, white 30-something man in rimless glasses) laughing while dancing on an outdoor patio surrounded by people in huge inflatable t-rex dinosaur suits of various patterns.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 26/08/2025

I love can label design. I hope businesses continue commissioning real artists, because it’s such a fun little sub-genre of art and design.

Promotional photo of a lineup of Original Sin’s non-alcoholic Widow cider lineup, each displaying the same spider and border but in a different color scheme.

Unrolled can art of Charm City Meadworks’ Wildflower mead, a bright yellow spread with a cleanly rendered bee and geometric elements.

Advertising promo flyer for Monk’s Meadery’s Dragon’s Nectar mead, showing a cute illustrated dragon-bee against a pastel background.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 21/08/2025

Lmao they turned it into an ugly-ass cafeteria and branded it accordingly

Interior photo of the remodeled Cracker Barrel in Mount Juliet, Tennessee store as posted by the company on Instagram. It looks somehow both blandly empty and cramped. The design is flat and beige, the only points of interest being some deliberately haphazard wall decor. And the lack of any upholstery means just breathing probably echoes.

Side-by-side of the old and new Cracker Barrel logos. The old one features an illustration of a guy leaning on a barrel and the name in brown against a yellow blob shape. The new one just has the name in dull black against a squashed yellow hexagon, utterly unremarkable.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 20/08/2025

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Portrait of a trans gay male couple, one embracing the other from behind, both bears with full beards and tattooed, hairy bodies. Sky, 64, and Mike, 55, Palm Springs, CA, 2017. Image from projects+gallery, photographer Jess T. Dugan.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 19/08/2025

I know we’re all passing around the same $20 at this point, but if anyone happens to have a few to spare, a fantastic local org is helping trans folks get their passports updated while we’re still able, but they’re short on the necessary funds. www.spotfund.com/story/b8ac2f...

Digital Flyer:

TRANS MARYLAND.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
In the first 36 hours we filled ALL 80 of our passport fee assistance slots!
But we only raised 10K (1/2 the needed funds). Please help us close the gap for the other 40 indivuduals!
DONATE VIA LINK IN BIO.

Digital flyer:

• FUNDRAISER : for trans passport
FEES.
As of June 17, 2025, a nationwide injunction has halted Trump's passport restrictions, giving trans people the right to obtain accurate and affirming passports.
We don't know how long this door will be open.
Trans Maryland is raising $20,000
to fully fund passport updates for 80 trans Marylanders.
We're racing against time.
Help us seize this opportunity.
Donate now!

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 18/08/2025

“Male / female” are adjectives too, and using them as nouns generally comes off creepy whether or not you’re referring to a trans person.

Two Ferengi from Star Trek leering creepily. (Is there any other way to leer?) Text reads, “females” along the top and “feeeemales” along the bottom.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 18/08/2025

Goddamn I love my little blonde goatee as much as a man has ever loved anything about himself

Super close-up selfie of a 30-something year-old white guy’s little blonde goatee, the rest of my face visible but extending out of frame. I look content.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 15/08/2025

It’s painfully frustrating to see such an organic show of solidarity—which should be seen as evidence that, idk, maybe the person in question actually did a shitty thing—being reported like it’s some kind of hostile attack on an innocent victim.

Simpsons “it’s the children who are wrong” meme: Two panels of a man in a suit pondering a question and reaching a conclusion.

Panel 1: “Did the LGBTQ+ literary award err by nominating a transphobe?”

Panel 2: “No, it’s 2/3 of the nominees who are wrong.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 15/08/2025

Just had to rescue my single-braincelled cat from behind the TV stand where she jumped deliberately even though it’s so tight she could not physically move once there.

The beast in question, a 7-pound tuxedo shorthair, sitting disgruntledly on the carpet.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 13/08/2025

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but as of late July, Stars and Stripes is being “reviewed” by the administration as well.

Screenshot of headline and lede from 404 media:

Military Says It Will "Continuously' Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order.
JASON KOEBLER.
JUL 22, 2025 AT 12:17 PM.

An internal memo obtained by 404
Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's 'editorially independent' newspaper.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 13/08/2025

I’m going to go full nerd for a minute here, bear with me, but: While books that have been professionally edited have a lot of value, the idea that they’re the *only* kind that have value or are “real” isn’t just snobby, it’s (brace for buzzword) colonialist, classist bullshit. 🧵

Post from stable strategies:

maybe im a hater or a snob but some of you (a lot of you could stand to read real books and not just itch dot io indie stuff. too often i'll ask a girl what she's reading and she'll be like "oh it's called phantom wolf blood shifters, it's this snuffbait yuri thing" and like. read real books, girl.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 13/08/2025

Had a lovely first spread from my @fyodorpavlov.bsky.social tarot deck the other day. I bought it quite a while ago but only recently have I felt aligned with its energy. This spread felt like a warm and gentle welcome.

Three-card “identity spread” of Fyodor Pavlov’s tarot, laid out on a butterfly print fabric in trans colors and gold. The artwork is two-toned against sepia with rich, dark line work. Spread: Page of cups as outer self, for creativity and crafting one’s own future; ten of cups as inner self, for (chosen) family bonds; six of swords as inspiration, for charting a new path and reflecting on the burdens of the past.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 12/08/2025

Ofc then he ruined it by going on unbidden about his theories about metaphysics until I managed to escape. So whatever intuition he was using to understand my soul or whatever clearly doesn’t translate to the momentary practical talent of noticing conversation clues lol.

Meme: Drunk girl hanging on a guy and yelling into his ear as he stares off into the middle distance.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 11/08/2025

Yet another day when I have things to do and barely any ability to form a coherent thought due to The Horrors. 👍🏻

A simple, MS Paint style digital drawing by Nub Cat of a funky little blue cat looking blandly out of the mouth of its Gengar costume, smoking a cigarette.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 11/08/2025

Behold the “crime, bedlam, and squalor” our nation’s capital needs to be liberated from with National Guard troops and federally controlled police.

Wide shot photo of a peaceful scene of people happily picnicking on the National Mall, a Smithsonian building and the Washington Monument in the background.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 11/08/2025

in a perfect world I could collect Miatas like Pokémon cards

Photo of an NC (aka 3rd generation) Miata in Sunburst Yellow, looking clean.

Photo of a flashy Miata with a rear fin spoiler, blue geometric fire painted on the side, and white rims.

Photo of an NC (aka 3rd generation) PRHT Miata in Twilight Blue Mica, no modifications.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 05/08/2025

Anyway I think I’d get better results from the drunk guy.

Simpsons “tap the sign” meme:

DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.

ChatGPT and Al search result summaries are wrong as often as not. Al was designed to pass a Turing test and nothing else and you shouldn't trust a damn thing any of them say.

A 2025 study from the Columbian Journalism Review showed a 37-94% error rate across multiple Al tools.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 05/08/2025

Shopping for clothes as a trans man be like

A kid wearing comically oversized pants, dress shirt, and tie.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 04/08/2025

It occurred to me today that y’all might enjoy seeing this relic I kept from the beforetimes

Photo of a glass Sobe bottle (label removed), with the cool little lizard embossed in the glass.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 04/08/2025

My cat does this shit to me for two hours every fucking night lmao

Scene from Kpop Demon Hunters where the tiger is staring unblinkingly at Rumi and tracking her every move as she sits on her bed holding the RSVP note for Jinu.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 03/08/2025

Y’all, my combat robot has a tiny teapot 😄 Cup Noodle X Gunpla 💛

Photo of a 3” tall Gundam in translucent orange and red with black accents, posed in front of the container it came in, which used to be attached to the top of a Cup Noodle pack and is branded “Cup Noodle Curry X Gunpla.” The Gundam is holding a tiny yellow teapot.

Photo of the project-in-progress showing 4 sprues, a partially assembled toy, the packaging, and the instruction sheet.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 01/08/2025

“What did you do today, Xander?” Uh, well, you see what had happened was

Photo of a small tuxedo cat happily curled in a little ball on my lap.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 01/08/2025

I wasn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you have him blocked lol

Screenshot of a Substack post from Ian Dunt plugging his article “How to be a man.” His account has been labeled for enbyphobia, transmisogyny and transphobia (general) by a labeling service I use.

His post reads: “OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 01/08/2025

“Even if we ignore all of the women giving that advice”

Man looking at a car’s engine bay as he stands on the edge of the open hood of that car while it floats down a flooded street. Text above reads “well there’s your problem.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 31/07/2025

Anyway DuckDuckGo has a feature to turn off AI image search results. I haven’t used Google for searches in over a year. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Screenshot of DuckDuckGo’s image search marked up to highlight the setting “AI images: hide.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 28/07/2025

This is the “extremely inaccurate” and “disconnected from immutable reality” ideology that is “harming children” and “depriving women” of safety and opportunities: a chart that mentions how HIV affects trans people.

Chart on the CDC’s website breaking down HIV diagnoses by gender in 2022:

Men: 30,000, 79%.
Women: 6,981, 18%.
Transgender women: 869, 18%.
Additional gender identity: 66, <1%.
Transgender men, 59, <1%.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 28/07/2025

I went to look up stats about HIV in the US and was confronted by this at the top of the page, presumably bc the data accounts for trans people. These assholes hate us so fucking much they can’t even stomach mentioning trans people as a statistical category.

Screenshot from the CDC’s page on HIV data:

Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 11, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 27/07/2025

Design peaked when all our electronics looked like forbidden gummies and I’m glad someone at Bandai realizes this.

Photo of fully assembled MSN-02 Zeong Gundam, Real Grade, clear variant, from slightly below to show the undercarriage jets. One arm has been detached and posed as a projectile, the other is stretched out along its line of sight. The outer hull plastic pieces are all translucent, revealing the gray foundational build below. Most are a delicious grape purple, with some butterscotch yellow, cherry red, clear, and pine green accent pieces.

Rear view of the Zeong better showing its “skirts” flared outward.

Closeup of the Zeong’s outstretched, fully articulated right hand.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 27/07/2025

Just here to give you a hand.

Photo of a fully articulated tiny Gundam hand, just built, viewed through a magnifier and with other Gundam parts visible in the background. The palm of the hand is roughly the size of my thumbnail.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 24/07/2025

In other news, I got to tour a rye whiskey distillery today and look at this cool Willy Wonka-ass machine they make my favorite vice in.

Photo of the Sagamore Rye Distillery’s distiller, “Penny,” a three-story tall, rainbow patina’d copper pipe about a meter in diameter with little round portholes all up the side of it, showing the mash as it falls from the evaporating soon-to-be whiskey. A 1990’s maze book of PVC and metal pipes surrounds it and fills the background, leading to other big distillation tanks beneath the grated floor below. Three artistic-looking little copper boxes with glass windows sit in the foreground, where the liquid can be accessed between each of three evaporation processes.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 19/07/2025

I’m a good cat dad, I gift her boxes of exquisite size.

Photo of a small black and white cat sitting contentedly in a cardboard shipping box that’s only slightly larger than she is.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 18/07/2025

Y’all I’ve been informed by the OP:

Data doing standup comedy. Text overlaid says “that’s the joke.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 18/07/2025

Facts. We’re already such a society of perfectionists, people are deeply unwilling to go through the necessary steps of Bad to improve.

Jake the Dog from Adventure Time overlayed with the quote, “Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 18/07/2025

In the future everyone uses kilometers but they still listen to the classics.

Scotty and Kirk from Star Trek flying over a blue planet in the dinkiest little round shuttlepod you’ve ever seen. Text says “but I would walk 500 miles!”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 17/07/2025

"You can only speak to your experience, and so my experience was great, and a lot of people's experiences were great when we made 'Firefly.'” Dude shut the fuck UP.

Comic of eagles having a polite discussion over coffee.

A: “Do you think The Owl is a predator?”

B: “Of course not, he’s never bothered me.”

A: “Exactly. No idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about.”

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 17/07/2025

I just looked up more pictures and yes, he IS the moment. In fact I think I may have a new fursona.

Photo of a Crested Auklet, the most emo punk little bird you’ve ever seen in your life, he somehow even has the hair.

Photo of the same kind of bird, but he looks like he’s doing a cocky pose for the camera.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 16/07/2025

I made some con badge ribbons to hand out. :) One of these will probably piss off more people than the others lol—especially as I intend to hand out “HP funds bigotry” info cards with them 😏

Four ribbons with adhesive strips along the top, 3 by 1.75 inches each.

“I support trans people not TERFs” and the trans and genderqueer symbols, in gold Harry Potter like font on royal purple.

“I can’t tell you my name or where I live…” with an Andalite silhouette, in shimmery dark blue on bright teal. Reference: Animorphs.

“Some people never change. Some people do…” with an Andalite silhouette, in shimmery dark purple. There are two variants of this one, one against a cool colors gradient and one against a warm colors gradient.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 16/07/2025

I was going to say “I’ll wait” was the icing on the cake, but this is even better.

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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 16/07/2025

Please tell me you’re being sarcastic, because this is absolutely the funniest comment I’ve read all day.

Simpsons “don’t make me tap the sign” meme. The sign in this case reads:

ChatGPT and Al search result summaries are wrong as often as not. Al was designed to pass a Turing test and nothing else and you shouldn't trust a damn thing any of them say.

Footnote:
A 2025 study from the Columbian Journalism Review showed a 37-94% error rate across multiple Al tools.

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