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"This blog last posted 8 years ago"

Haha okay so 2012

"no, 2017"

WHAT

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I know everything is shit fucked sixteen ways before lunch time, but it remains a fact that you should not trust anyone who wants you to feel like the whole world hates you all the time. That's a person trying to sell you something, swallow you whole, or bleed you dry. Especially those times when it feels like they're right.

No one wants anything good from you who wants you always feeling scared and hated. They will wear you out and leave you in the bin the second fashions change. Things are extremely high levels of fucked, but you are not hated like that. It's scary and isolating but you are not alone like that. Worst case, come and shiver like a wet dog with me, I won't say anything and we can dry out.

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the state of the job search these days is something fucking else man

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This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not a detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

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A new drawing- visualising the books always stacked up on my bedside table.

From top to bottom mine currently are:

The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff

Every Elizabeth Strout book

Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

A crime thing I know I won’t like with a cliched ominous house on the cover

Bleak House by Dickens, I’m going to guess the second half

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

An Elric omnibus by Michael Moorcock, absolute nonsense and I love it

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman, waiting on my third Libby queue after tackling 30% on each of the other borrows

And finally on the right- gigantic The Lyrics by Paul McCartney, doesn’t fit anywhere and I don’t currently have a coffee table for it to be in its natural habitat

You can buy a print in a couple different colours via my Etsy shop

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Me: You HAVE to draw gay commedia dell’arte characters. Also me, somehow: I do? Me: You are OBSESSED with commedia dell’arte characters. Also me: I am???

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E—m—d—a—s—h—N—e—c—k—l—a—c—e

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Cat

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I lost my album full of pigeon pictures that was on my old phone and now I have to start over. I need you guys to give me all of your pigeons pictures RIGHT NOW, I don’t care if it’s the highest quality 40k picture or the crunchiest bitcrushed Nokia quality picture, I nneeed them NOW

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smootie :)

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misclicking a poll result feels horrible. you little bitch baby with clumsy fingers. you just lied on a menial poll online. shame! everyone point and laugh!

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iconic!

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you cannot save me!! i am unsaveable!!! i have never been saved!!!!!!!!

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why is privacy so eroded. I get treated like a nutcase if I say no, I don't want strange companies taking pictures of my home and putting them online for maps or whatever. I don't want to be in the background of your tiktok, and I think it's weirder for you to assume I'm okay with it than it is for me to politely ask you to refilm it so my face isn't in the frame. I don't enjoy handing my employer a list of every online account I have and feeling under surveillance when I'm just shit posting or sharing pictures of my cats or garden harvest. I don't want to hear your private calls on speaker on the bus, esp when the person on the line doesn't know you're broadcasting their words to strangers. I don't want an algorithm guessing what will piss me off the most so I spend more time online, engaging with shit I don't want to see or hear out of outrage. I don't want any of this. it's total ass.