One of the things I learned during my stint on a DC federal grand jury is that they can federalize almost any criminal case if any aspect of the allegations included crossing a state line. Which, because DC is tiny, that's pretty much any case
Delphine, Canadian
@delphine.northsky.social
I'm that trans girl, you wouldn't know her A real actual Canadian
how dare you make jokes on the internet, don't you know my cat is at home STARVING waiting another 5 hours until her dinnertime? Don't you care about the rumbly in her tumbly? For shame, jokesmiths, for shame
It's like telling a insomniac to take magnesium. People just can't remove their privilege from the conversation.
Oh you're stressed all the time? You should get a lower stress job, struggling trans woman. That's what I, a cis straight person, would do if I had stress. You should meditate. You should eat better. You should work out more. You should take a vacation. You should take up a hobby. You should sleep b
hey trans woman, I see you're struggling under fascism and bigotry that targets you in particular with the full weight of the government, and you're having a hard time coping. Have you tried mindfulness? That works great for me, a cis straight person
thanks for your keen insight, I had no idea there was money involved in politics, this is my first day on earth I am a newborn baby
Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 20h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
so I learned yesterday that the family lore, according to the transphobes who disowned me, is that no one can remember what I changed my to because it's "some weird name." Delphine is a French name. My family is French. We're descended from French people. My grandfather spoke French as a child
like why does the English muffin look like an over-emoting actor in a closeup
I hear people are desperate for an ending to the dragon books that's better than the TV show, so here goes: "Suddenly, a giant mecha-dragon as big as a moon swooped down from space & enveloped all of Westeros in a plume of fire thousands of miles long. Nothing was left. Then it flew away. The end."
Jess Nevins@jessnevins.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm no fan of GRRM (the person), but I feel like the deaths of friends, sadness & depression, and age-related health problems are actually really good reasons not to be writing, much less working on a personal nemesis.
making the only recipe my mother ever taught me j/k she didn't teach me this one either, I had to reverse engineer it from memory
got a call that I actually needed to take, was dealing with an automated system on the other side meanwhile my cat is SCREAMING because she wants to be fed her dinner 2 hours early I had to go run and hide in my bedroom so she wouldn't confuse the robot on the phone 😂
[stares into the middle distance while wearing my 'ex-journalist who now works in pr' shirt] honestly part of the move was about feeling helpless to actually make the world better writing dry, dispassionate, nonpartisan journalism & not seeing a route to cover news the way I thought it needed to be
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 3d agoMany of those PR people are former journalists who couldn't make it on the pittance you get paid to write truth.
starting to think that the package that last had its tracking updated on tuesday and was supposed to have been here by thursday is just not coming it's fine, it was just a lovely handmade piece of queer art that perfectly states a core part of my ethos, I'm not upset about it at all 😔
Seriously, @cnn.com, what is the point of having him on to have this type of school-bully-retort exchange? The “engagement” you get? Cuz us telling you to stop platforming lying liars (and us refusing to watch your station) doesn’t seem like a sound biz plan. #ImpeachRFKjr, for killing Americans.
They always say "pick fewer battles," but I think that's wrong. Pick *bigger* battles. Punch a nazi. Battle a kaiju. Take the ring to Mount Doom. Open that jar of pickles. Your life can be so much more epic than arguing with strangers online.
when I wfh, my cat cries all day for attention but on the weekend when I'm just being lazy at home, doing nothing in particular, she's perfectly happy my cat is wise
Anytime I get advice on how to reach life goals I'm struggling with, it always boils down to "do a better job exerting willpower, just buckle down and do the hard thing & do it consistently" Like, I'm a trans woman in the US, how much spare willpower do you think I have lying around?
RIP delphine, the girl who died from lack of estrogen because she couldn't get the needle out of its wrapper
Delphine, Canadian@delphine.northsky.social · 4d agome, to me, trying to get myself to do my E shot
me, to me, trying to get myself to do my E shot
Delphine, Canadian@delphine.northsky.social · 5d agoSHOOT!
I don't think admonishing trans people as a cohort or implying that we're complicit in our own destruction is helpful I might tell individuals who I know personally to modulate their visibility and activism based on their risk tolerance, but we're too big and diverse a community to all fall in line
was this joke too subtle or too obvious?
Delphine, Canadian@delphine.northsky.social · 6d agoCeci n’est pas une "AI"
heard a mosquito buzzing near my ear and I instinctively smacked the side of my head and dangit if I didn't kill that sucker dead this is the greatest achievement of my life
a tough life lesson, given my childhood background, was that I had to stop seeking approval from people who get off on denying anyone their approval it feels like an accomplishment to get positive feedback from someone who almost never gives it, but it's a dubious victory, seldom repeated
AI is a plague on those who value authenticity who wants to live in a fake world full of fake things that no one made and no one asked for?
I really shouldn't have looked at the news this morning, or social media, or the internet, or really anything other than the inside of my eyelids
This was what boomer parents gave us instead of love, affection and guidance. Which, maybe that was for the best
S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 7d agoWere you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?