Jess Short

@shorttics.bsky.social

✨Short by name✨ ✨short by nature✨ 🏳️‍🌈She/Her🏳️‍⚧️ 💖 @dburridge.com 💖

It’s been pretty eventful for Joost and his fan base recently as his latest album, Dutch Hardcore, was leaked (on Roblox to start with I think? Which definitely adds to the madness in my opinion 🫪) but now he’s officially released the album, I can’t say I’m a huge fan of it. (1)

Disability Pride Month is almost over but love for Jimothy lasts all year (as should disability rights and advocacy 🥰) thinking about it, I’d love Pokemon to add Jimothy (and Punch the Monkey) 👀

a photo of Jimothy the raccoon with the disability pride flag in the background. There’s also text surrounding the photo of Jimothy that says “Disability Icon of the Year”

I’m hugely saddened to hear about the attacks at Berlin Pride last night. Pride should be a place without fear and prejudice, pride should be a place full of love, joy and safety 💖 especially after seeing the success of London Trans Pride, now (more than ever) is the time to support each other 💙

a photo of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lit up in rainbow colours with someone holding a rainbow flag in front of the monument

A hell of a lot has happened in the last 10 years: the world went through a pandemic, the UK has had (what feels like) a new prime minister each week AND! On a personal note, I found the love of my life and we rent a little flat together 🥰 (1)

Though I love Christmas (probably a bit more than most people 😳) I really don’t like the Christmas in July trend BUT! Saying that, I feel like seeing JackSepticEye’s latest announcement that he’s already started his Christmas charity drive ‘Thankmas’ has given me a good excuse to like the trend (1)

Happy birthday to my wonderful mum, Julia! You’re one of the most caring people I know, you always put others before yourself yet always do your best to stay positive too so in return you deserve a birthday (and every day!) to be full of your favourite things: (1)

Watching Gab Smolders while drinking the nectar of the Gods! There’s no better way to celebrate the return of the king (Vanilla Coke 😁) also shoutout to Gab for doing this Ocarina of Time playthrough, especially as I was part of the minority that knew nothing about this game 🫪😁💖

a selfie of me holding a can of Vanilla Coke in front of my face while a let’s play of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time by Gab Smolders is playing on the TV behind me

Old School RuneScape back at it again with the peak artwork for the World Cup…though not me finding out Jagex is an English company, I thought they were Dutch 🫪 either way! Best of luck tonight lads! 💖

A screenshot of some Old School RuneScape themed artwork with England’s football team as avatars on the left holding Saxon helmets and Norway’s football team as avatars holding Viking helmets on the right

I’m a few days late to the party but happy 18th birthday to @yogscast.com! I’m so grateful my other half @dburridge.com introduced me to you wonderful lot! You’ve all given me hours upon hours upon HOURS of joy, laughter and helped me find the best creators and communities the internet has to offer

The Yogscast YouTube banner drawn by Nina Serena

Happy 18 years today to the Yogscast channel! Here are some memories old and mostly new that no where near encompass all the brilliant people involved and amazing stuff we’ve got to do together over the years. To many years more!

Simon and Lewis sit at desks in the Yogscast office, laughing, being filmed.Lewis, Boba, RT and Osie embrace in Rotterdam in a park. Two are wearing orange cowboy hats.Group of Yogscast members in fancy outfits posing on the steps outside a mansion, ready to film Blood on the Clocktower IRL.
Lewis and Simon dressed as their Minecraft characters on a green screen backdrop of Minecraft. The photo is many years old!

In lieu of this news 📰 article (🔗 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...) about RuneScape turning 25 there is one very important omission. RuneScape survived to be 25 *because* of the LGBTQ community 🫂, not despite it. Pride 🌈 belongs in Gielinor. Fuck Mod North.

‘You never truly quit’: how RuneScape survived to 25 – and beyond

The massively multiplayer online role-playing game has grown into a virtual social space and part of daily life for thousands of players

theguardian.com

First the football, now Wimbledon! My posts are getting sportier than usual 🫪 (though any excuse to have some strawberries and meringues is a good excuse in my books 😁)

a photo of my hand holding a white meringue nest with a red strawberry sat on top with the tennis at Wimbledon on my TV in the background

The gaming industry is in SHAMBLES! (As am I!) more reason why physical media is SUPER important! (Though sailing the 7 seas on the internet doesn’t sound too bad either 🫪)

a meme detailing how PlayStation and Xbox are either cancelling their projects or how Sony is no longer producing game discs after January 2028. Meanwhile Nintendo are announcing a new update to Mario Kart World.

A massive thank you to everyone who tuned in to our Pride Week streams and donated to our Mermaids fundraiser! We're chuffed to share that, together, all of our teams have raised £22,731.17 for an incredible, important cause. Thank you so much again - and Happy Pride!

Pride Week fundraiser graphic. Features total '£22,731.17' raised and Mermaids logo.

Ik ben heel trots op Meneer Klein 💙 dank je wel Joost! (Voor het onderwijzen van de wereld eenheid en Nederlands…I had to double check my translation for that last part 🫪)

a screenshot of a post from the Instagram user ‘EasyDutchLearning’ that has a photo of Dutch musician ‘Joost Klein’ with the caption on the photo “People are learning Dutch because of Joost Klein.”

Not only did I celebrate Pride, I saved a bee’s life! Not sponsored but thanks Beevive for selling this little magic keychain! Me and my new BEE-stie are very grateful for all you do! 💖

a photo of me (on the right) holding up a Beevive Bee Revival Kit keychain next to a bee (on the left) sat on a green leaf from a white rose busha photo of a bee sat on a green leaf from a white rose bush