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Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

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I live with Foof the Cat, and two ghosts who only speak German. At least they only speak German when I'm around. Sometimes they play music. Sometimes I tell stories.
Also: I’m staggeringly transgender.

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Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Had Thanksgiving dinner with my bestie and assorted mutual friends.

White woman with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a black T-shirt with the words, super leftist villain on it with an unbuttoned pink button down shirt over it, and a faded denim jacket with various interesting pins and buttons on. It looks at the camera and smiles slightly.

The same older, white woman, wearing the same clothes as in the first photo, sits with a non-binary unicorn with dark hair in a buzz cut and green rimmed glasses. They wearing a plaid flannel shirt. They are leaning into each other, heads and shoulders, touching, and smiling broadly.

The older white woman and the non-binary unicorn sit on the couch, dressed as before. The non-binary unicorn is holding a scruffy white Doggo but you can only see the top of her head. Between them sits a young woman with glasses and a green T-shirt with an appliqué of a group of potted plants. Underneath the plants and script letters are the words” just one more.”
They are all making a Kissy face at the camera, with a possible exception of the Doggo, whose face we cannot see, we will never know

The same three people as in the previous image, plus the Doggo, whose face we can see in this one. The three humans are all smiling broadly at the camera. The Doggo is neither smiling nor making a Kissy face.
Some things will remain a mystery.

November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

My outfit for when I visited the urologist from a rather trans-problematic health system.
I made many of the staff super uncomfortable, including the doctor.
But, I was cooperative, interested & engaged, relentlessly charming and good-natured, causing them to like me whether they wanted to or not!

November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

THERE
ARE
FOUR
LIGHTS
CHARLIE BRIOWN

FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 4d

And you, CharlieBrown, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 4d

No it was one plus two plus two plus one Charlie Brown

November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee, Charlie Brown.

Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 4d

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die, Charlie Brown.

David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 4d

He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died, Charlie Brown

November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Back in the day, I directed post-game recaps of SU sports for SportsChannel, and I also produced & directed the "Highlight" show that aired starting on Tuesdays. I'd spend my Sundays cutting each quarter down to 10-11 minutes, plus analysts reflecting on the game.
My first comment is 💯 accurate

November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

#Caturday #Photography

November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

I did a thing.

Coffeeshop (1) by Penny Stering

Click to read the poem and comment...

hellopoetry.com

November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky

November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

fizz

#photography #swillburg

Closeup of a pilsner glass with frost on the bottom, sitting on a wire mesh table on a porch, with a blue adirondack-style chair out of focus in the back. The glass is in the process of being filled with an effervescent brown liquid, being poured from a can, which we can see the lip of at the top of the image, as well as part of the can, and the thumb from the hand that's pouring it. The glass is mostly full, and we can see the stream of the soda pouring in, and splashing into the liquid in the glass, proucing effervescent bubbles that are suracing and bursting as they reach the top. Also, tiny droplets of the soda are visible above the rim of the glass, some of which are streaking upward, others are paused at the zenith of their arc.

November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

From my yard: Lilac, Clematis, and Honeysuckle
#Photography 📷

November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Mae Dean

@maegodhavemercy.com

Hi folks - we’re still behind on rent, though you had all helped us get ahead more than you know. If you can help us out with this week’s installment payment, it would mean the absolute world to me. ❤️

PayPal.me/MaeGodHaveMercy
Cash.app/$MaeGodHaveMercy
Venmo.com/u/MaeGodHaveMercy

PayPal.me

November 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Views of the Swillburg Labyrinth Garden from June, 2025

#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #G+Circle #flowers #nature #garden

November 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

When music becomes worship.
#Photography #Performance

Close-up of a man with a grey beard and long hair tucked under his cap, playing an accordion. We see the top half of the accordion's bellows directly under his chin. His eyes are closed and he is deeply feeling his emotions as he plays.

November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

This one was a runner-up selection for an exhibition by queer photographers at the George Eastman Museum of Photography earlier this year.

November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

These photos are in color; all rehearsal spaces exist in black & white (unless there’s a dramatic reason for a splash of color, of course.
#photography #performance #rehearsal #dance #blackandwhite

November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Things I Have Seen on My Bicycle pt 1

#Photograpy #ErieCanal #GeneseeRiver

November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

RGB Cat
#Photography

November 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

It's weird for me to consider myself a photographer, but these two photos are currently hanging in the George Eastman Museum of Photography, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pic 1: Sam Nordquist is Dead
Pic 2: Quiet Morning

Descriptions in the alt

#photography

The bottom of a Transgender Pride flag, frayed, and torn, looking like it's moving slightly in a breeze, but there's a ridge of snow on it, showing that it's frozen. The background, which shows a small house and trees across the street in a city neighborhood, is in black & white with a slight ecru tone.
I took this photo one afternoon in February 0f 2025 after hearing about the horrific month-long torture and murder of a young Black trans man from Minnesota, in a small town 30 miles from where I live. I was stunned, horrified and in anguish over the news about this man, so I went onto my porch to get some air and clear my head. Seeing my flag, frozen, and tattered, but still there, felt like an accurate reflection of everything I was feeling at the time, and, ultimately, a reminder to me that no matter how tough things get, we will always be here.

I took this self-portrait in April of 2024. I was feeling a little "less than" because I was thinking about how transitioning at 55 had robbed me of any chance of looking and feeling sexy. So I put on this custom-made dress that has a white short-sleeved bodice & a black floor-length skirt adorned with a floral-looking white line pattern, that buttons from the high-necklne collar to the floor, and nothing else except my eyeglasses, a necklace, a pair of black & white dangly earrings, my watch and some makeup, unbuttoned 15 of the 16 buttons, leaving only the one at the waist, buttoned, and took some selfies with my camera at a low position, in my office. I positioned my upper body between the two windows behind me, both of which were streaming bright morning light into the room, giving my reddish blonde hair a fair bit of highlight. I crossed one leg over the other, exposing almost all of one leg while the other was draped in the open skirt, positioned my coffee cup (with the word "Queen" on it) high enough to give a glimpse of the bottom edge of my right breast peeking out from behind the white bodice, and triggered the camera from the app on my watch, which is why I'm looking downward in a seemingly demure fashion.
Fuck a bunch of ageism.

November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Me: How's the setup for <event> going?

E: We're almost finished. I made a balloon arch!

Me: Wow, that sounds impressive! I've never made a balloon arch before. The best I could do is make a balloon moan a little bit.

November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

My friend Mae is—dare I say—a-MAE-zing!!!

Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 27d

I wish we had gotten more Trick-or-Treaters, but our yard looked better than it ever has this year! I already have some projects in mind for next year, too!

(The background for the window projection is something I literally threw together in 2 hours in Blender last night. It came out pretty well!

November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Say "thank you estrogen."

November 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

@psiluvu.bsky.social

Halloween, 2014
First time in public as a woman. It was a friend's party, but a lot of folks there didn't know about me. One friend said to me "I'm disturbingly attracted to you." I replied "I'm justifiably appalled by you."
The party had prizes for scariest costume & sexiest costume.
I won both.