dr. gendeerqueer boydyke (zey/zem)

having *feelings* about learning of this on the first night of hanukkah. idk idk just let me be jewish about the miracles of modern medicine

08.12.2023 06:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

[sighs deeply] *those of you who

08.12.2023 06:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

good yontif those you who celebrate hanukkah! though the candles' lights have been out for several hours now, i am listening to yedid nefesh and crying with a combination of yearning and lightness. hope and longing for justice curl around each other in my heart.

08.12.2023 06:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Bluesky! I’m Seren Briar and I make TTRPGs!

My newest is Dive Bar in HELL, a solo journaling game that takes you on an existential journey through the life, death, and afterlife of a character you create.

Check out my work at faefatale.itch.io!

01.10.2023 13:41 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Not just another strike authorization vote, another one at NINETY EIGHT PERCENT. Let us freaking go.

26.09.2023 13:33 — 👍 576    🔁 104    💬 8    📌 0

Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they’ll never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don’t do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.

Which reminds me of a Bruce Sterling passage I read a long, long time ago which has stayed with me. "Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don’t do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it."

26.09.2023 12:07 — 👍 603    🔁 251    💬 19    📌 32

Ableism Al Chet | Jewish Covid Resilie

Yom Kippur is a time for reflection and apology. We all have work to do examining ableism. This Al Chet, meaning long apology is enlightening and powerful. You should read it. And If you have a shul, definitely tell them www.covidresilience.org/ableism-al-c...

22.09.2023 15:09 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

when you walk into kol nidre tonight, i hope you take a moment to reflect on how you treated yourself this year. often we are more careless with ourselves than anyone else. we hurt ourselves and say cruel things to ourselves. there is only one person who can grant you forgiveness for that: you.

24.09.2023 18:34 — 👍 62    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1

dontcallthepolice.com is a solid resource for alternatives, both local and national in the us.

23.09.2023 20:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

relaying the caller's info to 911 occurs in about 2% of cases and half of those are with caller's consent. but it is still important to be aware of.

23.09.2023 20:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

just a psa that 988, while an important resource for mental health care, is a hotline that may route the caller's info to 911 for acute crises where they feel there is imminent danger. police may be dispatched, but it is not an automatic process.

23.09.2023 20:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An empty lantern, its top covered with moss and lichen, standing in long grass in the dappled shade near the edge of a Japanese garden

Good morning, friends! Here is a moss- and lichen-covered lantern in a peaceful spot in the Japanese garden.

21.09.2023 13:06 — 👍 35    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Black and white photo of a lovely shorthaired tabby cat sitting up on a wooden chair in front of wooden shelves of knickknacks in a living room type setting. The lighting is very nice, coming down from the upper right to highlight the cat's sweet face and little front feet placed politely together on the chair.

I love that "A cat sitting on a chair" was deemed important enough to photograph, save, and now it's part of a museum collection to be preserved and enjoyed forever. digitalnz.org/records/4534...

20.09.2023 22:57 — 👍 1514    🔁 185    💬 38    📌 8

Disabled and chronically ill Jewish friends, if you are not well enough to fast safely, your Yom Kippur mitzvah regarding food and water is to eat and drink.

You do not owe anyone on here or in person an explanation. Your body and health are not up for public debate.

21.09.2023 13:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Looks like wild oyster mushrooms! Found a log with a couple dozen small ones on it.

Absolute unit of a polypore.

Very photogenic moss-covered log with mushrooms sprouting from the top

Closeup on the top of that log

More 🍄📷 from last weekend!

13.09.2023 19:52 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: Marvel VFX workers have just won a historic first union in the visual effects industry.

The workers who power the biggest superhero movies on the planet voted unanimously to unionize with vfxunion.

This is a major first step for the industry, and Disney is next.

13.09.2023 17:15 — 👍 3943    🔁 1178    💬 26    📌 139

A green pacific treefrog wedged into the bottom petal of a vibrant tropic sunset rose.

A green pacific treefrog hides in the lowest petal of a tropic sunset rose.

The tropicana #rose #frog hotel is occupied again.

🐸 🌹 🏨 🌱 #PseudacrisRegilla #PacificTreefrog #garden #bloomscrolling #flower

13.09.2023 22:21 — 👍 37    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Andromeda. Our closest galactic neighbor, sitting among stars. Taken in the dark skies of Ellis County, KS. Stats for nerds. Camera: Nikon D3400 Lens: Rokinon 135mm f2.0 Mount: iOptron SkyTracker Pro Settings: (50 stacked) 135mm 90sec. exposure ISO 1600 f/2.8 Stacking in DeepSkyStacker Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom ImgCredit: Chris Schmidt #Astro #Andromeda #Astromeka #Galaxy #Space 🔭🪐✨

Andromeda. Our closest galactic neighbor, sitting among stars. Taken in the dark skies of Ellis County, KS.

ImgCredit: Chris Schmidt

#Astro #Astrophoto #Andromeda #Astromeka #Galaxy #Space 🔭🪐✨

13.09.2023 18:22 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

The most prominent crater on the Moon is named after a guy who brought a drunken moose to a party. 🔭

13.09.2023 18:40 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS
1. Sleepy Heap
2. Calamity Smith-Jones
3. Scrimblejack
4. Lap Lichen
5. Le Trash Royale
6. Scram Danders (not technically a breed, refers to cats who are lawyers)
7. Potato Bay Couch Puddle
8. Microdoot
9. Guiltless Impwhisker
10. Snooze Wizard

13.09.2023 04:37 — 👍 595    🔁 123    💬 41    📌 17

Stop with the edgy apathy and actually care for people

14.09.2023 00:11 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

*nigunim

25.07.2023 20:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

jews were so right about nigguns

25.07.2023 20:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0