Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Me when I see a new Japanese word: I will never remember this. Me when I see a new Japanese word and then 10 other words with the same kanji: Ooooh, the context makes sense. I will remember this forever. 100
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Requesting fewer ads with guys in their mid-20s going "Since the beginning of the internet, there's never been [whatever they're selling]." Chad you don't remember the beginning of the iPod. 020
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Holy shit, whoever bought us two bags of cat litter AND two whole bags of cat food, THANK YOU!! I’ve been deodorizing the cat litter instead of changing it and it’s bothered Mila a lot. Fresh litter is ❤️. The cat food helps me feed my cats AND the TNR’d feral cats Miso and Annoying Orange. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Get someone who loves you like my cat loves my armpits. 020
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026Light pollution, climate change, and pesticides are wiping out fireflies across Southeast Asia. To reverse the loss, Indonesia’s only firefly conservation initiative, 'Bring Back the Light,' is breeding the insects and helping farmers go organic to restore habitat. Watch now! youtu.be/2yuJAeibED0 02010
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Writing kanji is like running out of poster space for "day" at the end of "Happy Birthday" but with every single letter. 031
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Seeing 書 as tall as a skyscraper in a native Japanese person's handwriting is vindicating. I'm not the only one can't cram that many vertical lines into a horizontal space. 141
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I got way more followers on Twitter but that’s mainly because of how often my tweets went viral among people who just came to harass a trans person, and then I’d get a follower boost from the few kind-hearted people who saw it and liked it. But the algorithm prioritized sending hate my way. 330
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Missed opportunity as someone with ADHD to not rename myself "Jack" as in "Jack of all trades." Think of the marketing. 020
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 28/09/2026An autistic woman would be far better at foiling James Bond than working at a call centre, she claims.thedailytism.comAutistic woman’s skillset better suited to Bond villain than customer service representativeAn autistic woman would be far better at foiling James Bond than working at a call centre, she claims. Miya Wilkes, 27, is adept at using technology and looking unnerving, neither of which she has… 210019
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Having ¥235 yen left in my bank account truly is the most exhausting thing I’ve ever experienced. 100
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm skipping meals to stretch my budget. A $20 donation means I don't have to stretch the cat food budget, too. On behalf of my 3 indoor cats and the 2 outdoor feral cats relying on me, any help is deeply appreciated. www.amazon.jp/hz/wishlist/...amazon.jpAmazonほしい物リストを一緒に編集しましょう 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Question for artists! How do you find graphic designers and verify their work isn't AI? I'm a copywriter and if I can't offer a service to my clients, I want to have a network of people I can recommend or commission. A LOT of small business owners use AI and I want to connect them with artists. 201
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m so tired of MAGA attempts at shade. Imagine screaming “You take photos of landscapes!!!” at a photographer and that’s your whole insult: that a person who takes photos…takes photos. 110
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123145238
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tell me why I’m standing outside in my pajamas at 3am swatting mosquitoes and serving two feral cats individual meals. (I know why. It’s so the Annoying Orange boy, who is neutered and shouldn’t be a dick still, stops harassing a tiny tortie who screams bloody murder at him to fuck off.) 020
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I really need to stop believing everyone who says kanji and keigo are hard. Visual pattern recognition and vocal stims. I'm built for this. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Turns out I'm not dumb at Japanese, I'm just an adult speaking to adults who all use keigo. 100
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 22/09/2026California's AB 2164, vetoed on Sunday by Newsom, is a shield law that would have extended existing protections from out of state prosecutions re: abortion to cover other reproductive care and gender affirming care. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...leginfo.legislature.ca.govBill Text - AB-2164 Legally protected activities.AB 2164 Legally protected activities. 4165
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If getting work in your industry is all about who you know and the only people you know in your industry are cishet white dudes... 000
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud 13775071562
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And if that happens, I think the Republic is over. Either this was an illegitimate presidency where everything must be undone, or it was a legitimate one with a guy democrats don’t like, and if it’s the second, if No Rules Fascism is now standard operating procedure, we’re done. 111326166
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I've never had a soft drink in my entire life (yes, really). This article does not do a good job of convincing me I'm missing out on Coca-Cola. "Vanilla, cinnamon, caramel, orange/lemon, phosphoric acid." Y'all that's just a coffee house's autumn syrup lineup with bubbles. 100
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Copywriting gurus" who confidently promote their experience and services with misused "your/you're" do, in fact, inspire me that I can be successful in this industry, though not in the way they intend. 110
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Being broke is a constant spiral downward of “I don’t need to replace that light yet.” “I can make the toilet paper last longer.” “I’m don’t HAVE to eat right now.” “It’s not THAT cold, we can get more blankets.” “I can put off paying rent to keep the electricity on.” Not a fan. 211
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You'd think I'd be comforted about my Japanese learning struggles by the fact that I, a native English speaker with a career in writing and editing, still find myself looking up the nuances of "a professional in" and "a professional at" to double-check I'm using them right. I am not. 120
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is? 11990250
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Netanyahu condemned the film as ‘intolerable’, saying it portrayed the Israel Defense Forces as war criminals.” 000
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It costs 0$ to share my post! I am selling merch of my VTuber to raise money for my friend Jia ( @jiakimchi.bsky.social ) to get a motorized wheelchair! This will greatly improve their life!! Link: bibipins.com/collections/... 18379
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@ass.golf just described burnout from the modern 40 hour work week and capitalism in 2 panels. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Algorithms don’t work because why am I, a guy 6 months unemployed scraping by on my last dollars, getting ads for time shares and private chauffeuring services. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Honest to god, one of my favorite TV tropes is “holiday-themed episode with a side character who is not-so-subtly implied to be Actual Santa Clause and at least one main character has an interaction with him that makes them go, ‘….wait.’” 010
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Today's challenge is putting examples of my extensive experience crafting attention-grabbing taglines for original fiction onto my resume without linking my AO3 account. 010
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 15/09/20262 cats I'm feeding are ferals outside. If I have to stop feeding them, they're not gonna understand why. I do not want it to come to that. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Six years into my transition, I finally found what'll make me a real man: some audacity. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Keeping the electricity and water on are paramount but if cash isn’t your thing then PLEASE help me keep the cats fed. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I need ¥5,529 ($36) for last month’s electric bill and ¥5,280 ($35) for last month’s water bill. I’m gonna go cough up ¥23,279 ($150) for the overdue phone bills today so it’s not shut off tomorrow, and then that’s it, I don’t have money for food next week. Literally anything helps. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/20262027 goal is to be as polarizing as pineapple on pizza. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hiring unpaid interns is on par with replacing staff with AI. Both show disrespect for people's time, effort, and labor. 000
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026AO3 and Tumblr were definitely the most important training grounds for me as a copywriter. AO3 fic summaries are customarily a few sentences long, or a single quote plucked from maybe 10k words to give readers the entire context for the story. That requires serious skill. 010
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think my copywriting niches are gonna be direct marketing that's just bullet points of the best features, or indirect marketing that's a long blog post targeting keywords that organically bring traffic to your website. Because I suck at the middle ground of selling an idea before a product. 000
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After 15 years of doing work on the side, I'm moving my copywriting and editing freelancing to center. If your products need concise yet memorable descriptions, your marketing needs punchy taglines, or your blogs and videos need attention-grabbing titles, I'm your guy. scribecheck.netscribecheck.netColin Savage | Copywriting & EditingYou don't want to sound like the competition. Landing pages, product descriptions, emails, blog posts, and more: I offer personalized, memorable copywriting for small to large businesses. 001
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Or, if cash isn't your thing, keeping my cats (and also the 2 feral cats, one with FIV) fed and giving the indoor cats a clean place to do their business is a high priority. Anything off the wish list is greatly appreciated. We desperately need cat litter right now. www.amazon.jp/hz/wishlist/...amazon.jpAmazonほしい物リストを一緒に編集しましょう 002
Reposted by Colin 🏳️⚧️Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If anyone would be willing to slide me some cash so I can pay the overdue phone bill, the overdue water bill, and the overdue electricity bill rather than choose which of the two gets shut off this week, I'd be really grateful. Unemployed 6 months, 120 applications. Tired. paypal.me/transplantmanpaypal.mePay Savage Colin Mitchell using PayPal.MeGo to paypal.me/transplantman and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. 103
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If anyone would be willing to slide me some cash so I can pay the overdue phone bill, the overdue water bill, and the overdue electricity bill rather than choose which of the two gets shut off this week, I'd be really grateful. Unemployed 6 months, 120 applications. Tired. paypal.me/transplantmanpaypal.mePay Savage Colin Mitchell using PayPal.MeGo to paypal.me/transplantman and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. 103
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After 15 years of doing work on the side, I'm moving my copywriting and editing freelancing to center. If your products need concise yet memorable descriptions, your marketing needs punchy taglines, or your blogs and videos need attention-grabbing titles, I'm your guy. scribecheck.netscribecheck.netColin Savage | Copywriting & EditingYou don't want to sound like the competition. Landing pages, product descriptions, emails, blog posts, and more: I offer personalized, memorable copywriting for small to large businesses. 001
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Heartbreaking: Local writer once again discovers that the way to continue improving at writing is to write. 130
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You don’t know how much pee a cat has in him until he’s in a turf war with a cat 6 years his junior. 010
Colin 🏳️⚧️ @transplantman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s more fun to spot adorable cats around the neighborhood when they have little ear tips showing they’ve been TNR’d. No fathering or birthing kittens who’ll die, no passing on diseases, no tomcats roaming into traffic or getting in horrible fights with other un-neutered tomcats. Just cuteness. 020