Tina Carleton

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

Gotta love conservative media running stories like “‘Portland is a hellhole! declares Eastern Oregon resident who hasn’t visited city in 20 years but is upset because liberal voters kept discriminatory measure from becoming law.”

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week

(via Matt Storer on IG)

feral queer by chekhovsraygun please do not feed or tease

Hey so fyi my “feral queer” shirt by @edidin.bsky.social DID NUMBERS at the Chappell Roan show in KC last night, get urs here: www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2269...

The conservative influencer who got hit in the face at the ICE facility was part of notorious and obnoxious doxxer Andy NGO’s little propaganda network. Let’s just say her story might be a little difficult to take at face value.

A painting of a bird beside the text "motherfucker it's only tuesday"

Corrupt Chauncy Gardener

Representation won't ever fix everything. You can't just celebrate the success of a few non-white actors or politicians or celebs and pretend everything's cool.

But people give up bigotry through PERSONAL EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE. Most typically through a loved one. But fiction and art can help.

How have I watched RHPS and Shock Treatment hundreds of times and only wearing a Nurse Ansalong outfit at Rocky Horror do I realize that she's wearing the white plastic belt from Hot Patootie!

A selfie of two hot women

A woman dressed as Nurse Ansalong

Look what I did to my id. #rockyhorror #shocktreatment

This was something @edidin.bsky.social pointed out in the audio description for 50 Shades. They were so afraid to repeat words that there would be directions like: "The helicopter lands. They approach the flying machine. The aerial vehicle ascends."

I recommend everything by I.S. Belle she writes strangely wholesome queer horror. www.isbelleauthor.com

Fascists treat debate like you're trying to plead with them for permission to exist, and they can withhold it and say you didn't convince them. It's not about the facts, truth, or human rights to them. It's a performance to indoctrinate people and put a target on their opponents.

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

So we can assume that translators do not translate cultural context.

The words are translated, but it is up to the individual Tamarian to use phrases that aren't memes. So when Kayshon can't remember the Federation Standard for "honor" the translator translates the literal words "Rapunki, when he joined the seven" but it does not translate the meaning of the phrase.

A headline from The Guardian: My wife and I had couples therapy on TV. It nearly wrecked our marriage.

Me: Have you seen the movie Shock Treatment?

Them: No. What's it about?

Me:

Anybody else thinking about how Somewhere That's Green is supposed to be funny and poingent because the things she dreams of are so small and basic and now we've come full circle and they're completely out of reach for the majority of us?

A dog

A dog

A book. Blue cover. Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun. The cover shows two women in hiking boots sitting at a cafe table.

A 🧵for books I'm reading.

Picked this up last night. Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun. I recently read her first book (The Charm Offensive) and kept wanting to go back to it even after I finished it.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

A selfie of red haired woman with her hair pulled back. She wears black, cat-eye glasses, green lollipop earrings, heavy makeup, and a jean jacket.

My evening fit

I felt a little guilty, sort of, almost. Something was wrong, and I hoped it wasn’t about me.

I was looking at some medical uniform supplies stores for a Halloween costume and now I think I might order five black scrub dresses and wear them every day like a cartoon character.

An alarming number of people in positions of power seem to be completely unable to distinguish good from evil as long as the evil is spoken in a reasonable tone of voice by a white man in a suit

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.