Mel

@palefailmel.bsky.social

millennial | programmer (bad one) | 18+

a couple years ago I made a joke in a faculty meeting about teaching a whole class on Mormons in YA Literature and said we could start with Twilight and go from there and anyway that’s how I ended up teaching a weirdly successful class on Religion and YA Literature that’s gonna run again this year ☠️

The big reveal of the game I'm finally playing is that actually you suck and the girl was happier with her new girlfriend. Everything is sapphic, even action games with male leads

Facial surgery is always cool because the swelling makes you look younger. Then when it fades you're like oh, some of those wrinkles are still there aren't they

The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes

• Venom's symbiote attaches to Petra Parker, absorbs her estrogen, becomes girl • Venom attaches to Eddie Brock. Presents as femme when in Venom form • Estrogen passes into Eddie from Venom, giving Eddie dysphoria because he's not trans • Venom becomes trans activist with Petra, Eddie is an ally

My favorite thing about growing up loving tech is the feeling as an adult in my 30s is that tech absolutely sucks and is actively used to make things worse. The feeling that it would be used to help the world is gone