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I'm mostly here to look at cool human art and photos, and sometimes post silly birds.
Software tester and general nerd. Views my own and not those of my employers, partners, friends, or cats.
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Day 4 of #DecemberTransReadathon

Step by Step Feminisation, or How I Accidentally Invented Transness by @lunacy.fyi

As ever I'm still reading it (I finally managed something slightly longer) but so far it's hecking adorable especially if you like the eggs dense and the brainworms working overtime
The TFR December Trans Readathon calendar, with the following book covers in it: 1. Weeping Willow by Dani Finn 2. But There's Only One Bed! by Em Haeger 3. Does the Boss Know We Slept Together by Em Haeger 4. Step by Step Feminisation, or How I Accidentally Invented Transness by Luna C
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Day 3 of #DecemberTransReadathon

It's been a long day, and yesterday's book was such a lovely combination of sexy and unbelievably adorable that I've gone for the sequel:

Does the Boss Know We Slept Together by Em Haeger
The TFR DecemberTransReadathon calendar again, with the first three days filled
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Day 2 of #DecemberTransReadathon
But There's Only One Bed! by @8bitem.bsky.social

I was planning on saying something about each one but as it is I'm mostly reading in bed and posting this first. This one especially is not ideal for reading at lunchtime in the office.
December trans readathon calendar, with But There's Only One Bed! added in day 2
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#DecemberTransReadathon, finally a one-thing-every-day-of-the-month trend I'm equipped for. Not sure how many I'll get through given at the peak of the binge I was averaging "only" one book every ~2.5 days, so lets start with a bite size one:

Weeping Willow by @danifinnwrites.bsky.social
The December Trans Readathon calendar from the quoted post, with the first day filled in with the cover of Weeping Willow by Dani Finn
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Since I got a lovely present from my partner and her other partner last weekend, time for the closest thing to a selfie I'm willing to post. Please ignore the mess in the kitchen.
Picture of me from behind, standing in a messy kitchen, wearing a red checkered shirt and a leather hair clip decorated as a black and white feather.
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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You've just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. NO CHEATING!

Bad luck, for once it isn't a cat picture.
A hand holding a tub of soaked sage roasted garlic & lemon seasoning
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Crying in European
Screenshot of the timestamp on the first post of the update, with 2:33 AM highlighted
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I feel like I might be failing on the thing I told myself I wouldn't do i.e turn my entire feed into gender posting (or Dorley posting, which is basically a subset of that). So have some cute *flails randomly through a bunch of photo folders* lizards!
Photo of a lizard in sunlight between two wooden blocks Photo of a green lizard on a rough off-white wall, with a few rose branches in front A green brown lizard on a concrete surface The corner of a very old and weathered widow frame with one lizard on the left lying on the frame with its tail hanging off, and one on the right the wall its tail hanging behind the window's shutter.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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New gender euphoria unlocked
My hand, palm up, curling my fingers over to shoe the dark green sparkly nails
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Sometimes I just really need to remind myself of a time of year that isn't cold and dark, and a place that isn't England.
Landscape photo of some rolling green fields from a hilltop with a road emerging from the shadow of some large trees with a row of wrapped silage bales along it. Portrait photo of a sunlit oak tree growing out of the bank of a ditch. Portrait photo of a very ruined castle keep (Château de Montoussé in the Hautes Pyrénées) on the right, with a bright blue sky on the left, with a grassy area with couple of ruined stone walls in the foreground.
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Turns out cross-stitch is a good way to drag ones hands away from the computer while still being a terminally online nerd.
A mushroom icon from Stardew Valley done in cross-stitch A slightly wonky non-binary flag (yellow, white, purple, black) in cross-stitch, with a blue border A cross-stitch iridium sword from Stardew Valley, with the blade in trans flag colours
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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True, but they're just a lil' guy
Photo of a small green lizard in a patch of sunlight, poking its head out from behind a block of wood
October 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I knew I had a dramatic sunset picture of it somewhere. Also reminded of the thematic black cat that likes to hang out in that graveyard.
Photo of the crossroads between 2 asphalt paths paths surrounded by 4 yew trees described in the original post. There are 3 gravestones along the path on the far side. Evening sunlight is hitting the top branches of the trees. Photo of a black cat perched on an old gravestone in front of a hedge looking over it's shoulder with its tail trailing over the stone. Statue of an angel with raised wings on a cross, illuminated from behind in orange sunlight. There is a single stand of illuminated spiderweb running from the front branch of the cross down to the trunk, level with the bottom of the angel's robe.
October 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Garden squirrel is back
Photo of a grey squirrel, trotting away, taken at ground level. The frame is shaded black on the left side. A squirrel jumping forward and left, in shadow, with sunlit grass in the background. A squirrel jumping left across the frame, with all four paws off the ground, in shadow, with some plants in front sunlit grass in the background.
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Both diagrams from Tess' post, which I've added the characters' names on
October 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Had a visitor in garden yesterday
A grey squirrel on all fours facing left in some messy grass with a few yellow flowers.
October 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Didn't really go anywhere on my last France visit given both my partner and I got ill, so I mostly ended up with photos of dramatic skies.
A black silhouette of a bird (it might be a woodpecker, someone good a bird profiles let me know), perched on a TV aerial against an orange sky Looking up at five teasel heads against a clear blue evening sky faintly illuminated from the left by the light of the sunset An electricity pole on the left of the frame in a field of maize, with cables running from the top to the left and right of the frame silhouetted against a unset sky with bright orange clouds at the top and bottom and a line of blue sky in the middle Long thin orange evening clouds cutting across the sky, with some darker whispy clouds below them, and some lighter cloud above. A line of hills are silhouetted in the foreground.
September 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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With perfect timing, found this in my lunch break earlier while wondering what to read for 30 minutes, now got a bit further in and...

Firstly, the story absolutely adorable, also I love the chapter titles.

Secondly, ouch, this was literally me 12 weeks ago:
"Has it really been a whole decade since I saw my face shaved? I wondered. It wasn't entirely out of the question."
September 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I should probably post some more of these given I'm going to France again tomorrow and will inevitably come back with a few hundred more photos. Time for more gratuitous waterfall! (You can see some people for scale at the bottom of the second picture)
Portrait format photo of the tallest waterfall in the Cirque to Gavarnie across some rocky ground with a bit of grass. The waterfall has a shelf about a third of the way up, causing a lot of spay and mist (foreshadowing for the final picture). Closer landscape shot of the waterfall with the foot of the cliff on the left in shadow, and a sharp diagonal line where the mist is lit up in sunlight above. Photo from the foot of the cliff looking up at the waterfall, the rocks on the left are very damp
August 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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And some more
View from behind a tree into the Cirque de Gavarnie with a low cloud hanging in front of the top of the waterfalls Portrait view with a field of snow in front of a cliff of the cirque in front of a cliff with two high waterfalls. Some small figures of people are visible in the grassy and rocky area between. View up into three successive stony ridges with a bit of grass and a few pine trees with a triangle of bright blue sky at the top. A close up of a small waterfall
August 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Taking a bit of a liberty with definitions, but I just found out about #StandingStoneSunday and I feel like this picture from the same walk was thematically appropriate.
A deliberately arranged little pile of rocks on to of a big rock, taken from the to of the Cirque de Gavarnie, with the out of focus view down towards the hotel at the top of the valley in the background
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Finally posting some photos from our trip up to the Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees from when I was visiting my parents in the spring. Starting with some atmospheric low cloud on the way up.
The side of a hotel with cream coloured walls and a slate roof in front of a green wooded mountainside with the top of the slope hidden in cloud. Portrait format, with a dry stone wall in the foreground, with some trees behind it , then a meadow with a cottage, leading up to mixed deciduous and coniferous wooded mountainside with a small waterfall in the middle, and the open slopes hidden in cloud. View down towards a bend in a torrent at the bottom of a canyon with trees at the top of the rocks. Portrait view up into the cirque with some small waterfalls at the bottom, the top right of the frame hidden in cloud, and the largest waterfall visible between the clouds in the top left.
August 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Good luck with that! I'll be incredibly jealous if you manage it, Pyrenees are probably my favourite place, I always try to go up there whenever I'm in the region.
Photo taken from the top of the Cirque de Gavarnie, looking down a green mountain valley with the hotel visible at the bottom of the frame in the middle distance, and the village much further down the valley just about visible in the middle of the frame with a layer of cloud above it.
August 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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And even then, internal Mako Group documents suggest that their proprietary Post Misssion Stress Reduction techniques are fully effective on fewer than four percent of pilots; and that's before you remember that those also need the cockpit that perks you off.
Screenshot of John Oliver holding up a document.
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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"He, him" pronoun badge, never worn.

(Not for sale, I still have some male friends)
A rectangular wooden pin badge with "he, him" written in pyrography
August 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM