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it's she coolcab @coolcab.bsky.social · 21d
first time out in a dress and makeup, first time at a social occasion (a rock show my friend was playing at), first time using the correct bathroom and first year on HRT :3
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tommchenry.bsky.social
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
im p tolerant of most vices but i dont think i could date a guy who is regularly engaging in sports betting
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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adhd-alien.bsky.social
All a girl (me) wants is to shop without having a sensory meltdown in aisle 5
comic archive adhd-alien.com
Comic split into two panels labeled “People’s comments vs. My reality.” Left side: A simple angry figure with arms on hips shouts: “You just want drugs, you’re an addict!” Right side: The ADHD Alien character stands in a brightly colored, overwhelming shampoo aisle of a store, looking confused. Thought bubble: “Why is the shampoo isle so overwhelming?” Speech bubble: “Oops forgot my ADHD meds again.” Background shelves blur into overstimulating colors, showing sensory overload.
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
lmfao
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 15h
This was the official objection, from Maxwell Rice, a former Republican candidate for #IL09, who filed objections to several candidates this cycle

The hearing was this morning at 9 a.m.
December 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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reactiveashley.bsky.social
The Times, Telegraph, Mail, and other newspapers have been more accurate than the BBC in their reporting of the Sandie Peggie case. This raises the question of why the BBC appears to take such an intensely ideological and transphobic stance, far beyond commercial motives.
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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othatsraspberry.com
leon’s back, baby
doodle of Leon Kennedy (RE2 version) driving a car with one hand and sunglasses and saying “Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys” it is a Clone High reference
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
coolcab.bsky.social
fucking christ i hate how much i relate to this. in my heart of hearts i'll always know that a significant personal text, one which informed a lot of ways i think about nationalism, patriotism and fascism was titled What If? Vol 1 44, lmao

probably the most embarassing thing i'll ever post tbqh
Captian America: Listen to me -- ALL of you out there! You were told by this man -- your HERO -- that america is the greatest country in the world! He told you that americans were the greatest people - that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was -- how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is america! Cont: WELL, I SAY AMERICA IS NOTHING! Without its ideals -- its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of TRASH! A nation is NOTHING! A flag is a piece of CLOTH!! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could as easily be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different from them! When I returned I saw that you nearly DID turn america into nothing! And the only reason you're not LESS than nothing --
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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fasterandworse.com
I love how the premise of trying again with a socially rejected product is now it's harder to recognise it
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
coolcab.bsky.social
why am i crying at this. (checks calandar) ohhhhh i thought shot day was tomorrow, lmao
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18h
Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.

His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential. https://wapo.st/4iPToS0
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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floatinginwaves.bsky.social
Every interaction with the UK government involves them working out how to make you leave without spending money on your problem and the criminal law will be no exception.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h
see I get *why* the Labour Party is considering removing jury trials, I just don't really think they've throught through the second order implications
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h
> getting rid of jury trials [Labour]
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]

does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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antlervel.vet
There’s been an abandoned delivery moped on the sidewalk on my block for a week and I just now realized what that probably means
December 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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jamiroqueer.bsky.social
For a good dialogue scene with a human connection you’d need at least two people, a space, some lights, and at least one camera, but you’d never get it out of this software so what other message is available?

Is how it seems, I think
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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badambulist.bsky.social
Always remembering Lucy Meadows.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...
Lucy Meadows (1981 – 19 March 2013) was a transgender teacher from Accrington in the United Kingdom. She died by suicide in March 2013 after the decision of her employers to allow her to return to work after sex reassignment surgery was covered in the national press.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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diceyjune.bsky.social
oh hey i get an excuse to post my version
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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nrxia.bsky.social
Remember the good ol' days when people used to download (pirate) their mp3s and maintain their own libraries? Well those days didn't actually go anywhere. You all can still do that.
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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guntoucher.bsky.social
good use cases for genAI: 3 or 4, tops

evil use cases: 25,471 and counting
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
coolcab.bsky.social
it frustrates the shit out of me - there is! we have an incredibly rich understanding of the role progesterone plays in women's biology - we worked out that oral doesn't work like, in the 70s i think? no what they mean is "we haven't done bespoke studies on trans women" and that's true of everything
astralexistence.bsky.social Alyssa 🫀🩸 🌌 @astralexistence.bsky.social · 1d
“There isn’t any medical evidence for prog so you shouldn’t take it” is gatekeeping like even if you don’t support denial of HRT based on arbitrary diagnoses you are still gatekeeping based off the work of a system that is stacked against trans people and against women
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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heatherherbert.uk
I would recommend that people make formal complaints about the reporting in the Sandy Pegg case.
A Screenshot showing a complaint has been made. the text reads Make A Complaint To submit your complaint you must verify your email address now. Click on the link we have sent to the email address you provided. If you can’t find the email, please check your spam or junk folder. This link will expire after 60 minutes. If your email address isn’t verified, we won’t receive it and you won’t receive an acknowledgement or reply. BBC Complaints Team Read how we handle your complaint
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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theonion.com
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...
theonion.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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starshine.bsky.social
old soviet joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist

a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent

nobody knows how bad things can get
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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simzart.bsky.social
Sketch of a character casting spdlls while cooking. There's a window in the background.
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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hadas.bsky.social
a guy was explaining hegel
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
coolcab.bsky.social
lmao that statistic rules
jonnelledge.bsky.social Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d
"Incidentally, in the 1960s and 1970s, when net migration was running at minus 50,000 a year, more than 85% of Britons still thought immigration was too high."

Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.
Nerd's Eye View: 11 things you need to know about immigration
Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM