Christopher Phin

Looks like my mum won’t be with us that much longer, and one thing I’m most concerned about it helping my kid cope with her grandma’s passing. It would be the first major death she’s experienced, at 10. Do you have any gentle, kind advice?

YouTube video by Christopher Phin International Trans Day of Remembrance 2025

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance, and I fucking hate it. youtu.be/HrTW0n6HW1Q

#TransgenderDayOfRemembrance

Did Alfie ever work out what it’s all about, and is there, like, a Substack or something?

whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered

Selfie in a mask

ig it was always a vain hope, but I really did hope that one lesson we’d learn from Covid was wearing a mask when you have a cold or other similar transmissible ailment

Selfie on a bus in an open-necked white shirt and dark jacket, sunglasses, pearl necklace and ‘diamond’ earring, holding a Keep Cup of black coffee. The early morning sun is bathing me in golden light.

I’ve never looked straighter

In other words, my simple solution to resolving how we ensure the dignity and inclusion of all athletes in competitive sport is just to abandon the lame-ass concept of competitive sport altogether. 😘

“Look at this human do an amazing/inspiring feat” is fine. “This human is 0.0026% better than any other human we’ve measured at doing this feat” just seems kinda dumb to me.

And then we have the problem of tribalism in sports like football. Just: yawn, honestly.

Y’know, one area that’s always been unsettled for me in the fight for trans rights is competitive sport, but I guess for me it’s the whole ‘ranking of humans based on physical prowess’ that seems kinda pointless and arbitrary.

YouTube video by Christopher Phin Fixing my big annoyance with Product Showcase mode on Sony cameras

One of my annoyances with Sony’s handy Product Showcase mode is that I don’t always want to have the camera focussing on whatever’s closest to it in a video; most of the time, I want it focussed on me. Here’s the fix – with a text step-by-step underneath it! youtu.be/DQdhe-m_4Ao

Thank you :)

Can anyone recommend a nicely designed, non-scammy (paid is good) #chess app that lets two people play asynchronously across iOS and Android?

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I worried for years that being nice, being helpful, being generous, being useful came from a broken place inside me — A place where my value could only be articulated & assured if I was useful — I don’t think that any more. Generosity of spirit; joy; compersion — give I instruct you (me, and you): love wildly and love widely And if it were ever true that that love wells up and pours forth through a crack in your soul that deserves care & repair, accept that repair when it is tenderly offered but never again question its value

They used to have cut-out on that bottom edge iirc, which was very nice. Guess the trade-off is more protection on that edge, but I hear ya.

(And thank you! xxx)

YouTube video by Christopher Phin The problem with Apple’s Silicone Cases (which I’m ignoring this time…)

Why I bought the Apple Silicone Case for my new iPhone eyes-open – despite assuming it has the same fatal flaw of previous Silicone Cases.

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(I really like the Silicone cases, but stopped buying them because they degrade fast. This is a treat, therefore. I like how grippy they make the phone to stop it sliding on a chair arm/bed, I like I can put my phone face-down, AND they stop the damned rocking…)

An orange iPhone 17 in the orange case, next to a still-packaged blue iPhone 6S case. The hole for the camera in the latter is TINY compared to the ‘plateau’ aperture for the 17.

Survived caseless for a week! 😅 I’m sure I used to have an orange Apple Silicone case before so went looking for it for a photo. Couldn’t find it, but did find this 6S case, and the difference in camera aperture over 10 years amused me!

Attending a memorial this morning for a friend who decided to leave the party far too early, at least as far as the rest of us are concerned.

Go tell someone you love how much they mean to you. Go make some art. Ensure the world is more beautiful because of you, and the community you raise up.

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That would make sense! I did make sure I was, but maybe not being reported back. Surprised the accelerometer data isn’t enough!

Has anyone successfully thrown video to a car using the new AirPlay functionality in iOS 26’s CarPlay? I’m aware it needs to be added by devs for third-party apps, but I assumed it would work with video from Photos or Safari’s default media player, but I couldn’t get it to work. Am I dumb?

YouTube video by Christopher Phin A World of Your Own: the modern queer anthem we didn’t know we needed

My friend Stuart and I have often talked about the rich #queer resonances in the song ‘A World Of Your Own’ from the 2023 movie Wonka, and recently, finally, we did so with a camera rolling so you can join in on the discussion. youtu.be/Wt1ArezeaiQ

I’m proud of this. I hope you share this joy! 🏳️‍🌈

A group of five people sitting around a living room, laughing as they play Mario Kart.

Technically, I lost comprehensively 😅 but being able to successfully coordinate five adult schedules to get some of the most important people in my life round for a night of Mario Kart, means that’s really, I’m winning the biggest prize of all 🥰

YouTube video by Christopher Phin How to paint your nails (especially if you’re nervous about it)

Looks like my very long but I hope very useful guide to painting your nails is closing in on a thousand views, so giving it a little reboost! 💅

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"open season on these cunts"

I don’t need to be reminded that the world is beautiful. I know. I need to be gifted the opportunity to sink into its beauty.

A pretty young Caucasian woman with long hair sitting on a mat on a beach, smiling Mona Lisa-style at the camera. She wears a deep pink silk dress adorned with smatterings of opalescent sequins (actually the dress she got married in) and a dark denim jacket.

Today is my 20th anniversary. I shot this on my first. Can highly recommend finding someone incredible to go through life with hand in hand. More please, @jennyphin.bsky.social; you’re a fucking phenomenon. 😘

PS You have no idea how much I want to make memes beautifully using all my design skills, like, matching the font and drop shadow perfectly etc, but that is antithetical to meme culture…