Fae Papercuts

@aptshadow.bsky.social Saw this and thought you'd appreciate both the delightful subject and the very cool way the image is constructed with microphotography: www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... #spider

As a culture, we have to get a lot more comfortable saying yeah it sucks for you that you’re uncomfortable and that is a personal problem that you personally are gonna have to solve. And saying it to cis white women specifically.

Fun side effect of using so many privacy protecting tools - an email newsletter you read almost every single time asks you to confirm you still want to be on the list, because you "haven't opened an email in a long time." Nah, guys, I love the news - just don't want you spying on me 🤣

The issue that matters most.

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

It's mostly working because the capitalist class have distilled capitalism down to its most abstract - exchanging money for the idea of owning something. They have just managed to make it so that the things they own no longer need to have any use, real value, or even actually exist.

nice to get mask off with it

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

NO COMPLAINTS! NOT ONE! Because people who aren't TERFs tend to be decent and want everyone to get their best treatment.

Challenge... Accepted? Kinda? 🤷🏻 #indiedev #gamedev #creatureslikeus

Build a home by squatting in abandoned buildings, forage and repair broken essentials, and hold house meetings that test solidarity in Creatures Like Us, a narrative life sim indie game! Try the demo: playtester.io/creatures-like-us by @circlea.co.uk #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Just watched Teenage Sex & Death At Camp Miasma and fuuuuuckin hell that's a good film! I expected as much after I Saw The TV Glow, but that was glorious. I want to lick Jane Schoenbrun's brain, she's bloody brilliant

this.

Going to plug my website guide once again: blog.itsnero.com/webguide/ This will get you online with a website in an afternoon. It's not the fanciest or most modern way to do it, but it's code that has worked for decades. Get yourself a site ASAP and figure out what else you need to do later.

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Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.

Oh, fuck yeah! youtu.be/Kl9POM--Bi0

On my way to @pridecaf.bsky.social! If you see a tart in a black hat, goth heels, fluorescent pink skirt & waistcoat, and a pink face mask - that's me, come say hi! I don't bite unless you want!

The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...

Incredible headline here (among other things)

The Scottish Government announced last week that it was proceding with a Basic Artists Income scheme! Here are some notes I took from a roundtable about bringing the scheme over to Scotland, with some of the points that need to be addressed to make it a success.

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

The enemy of your enemy is often, in fact, not your fucking friend.

Clean Air Cville has just released our step-by-step PC Fan Air Purifier build guide, with a complete supplies list and photos of many key steps: www.cleanaircville.org/buildguide

the masked part of the "masked fascists" is not the part that is the problem guys

I had the audacity to leave the house last week, and in payment I am suffering with an illness which has turned me into a being consisting of 80% mucus by volume. I have had to reassess my understanding of how much mucus the human sinus can contain. I think it is too much, honestly.

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever watched a media company suffer actual consequences for their shitty behavior?

Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.

A full video is available by the investigative team who exposed the scandal may be worth your time watching it… www.verbatiminvestigations.com/full-investi...

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Good thread for all disabled folks. Ask for stuff you need, even if you only need it sometimes. Life isn't for struggling.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I thought this would delight you, especially as they seem to be a fan... www.tumblr.com/onenicebugpe...

The Lovers by @studioheartbreak.com came out today, and after years of anticipation I was extremely pleased to find it is an absolutely gorgeous animation about love, freedom, loyalty, imprisonment, power imbalance and how hot it is when your lover wants to literally devour you youtu.be/eUa2V044BK4

CND condemns the British deal with Ukraine which will use AI ‘battle-tested’ tech to target protestors at British military bases. It is a chilling attack on our right to protest. Burnham must reverse this decision now!