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Tess

@itstessinadress.bsky.social

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Creative Australia awarded director, animator and producer. Relapsed writer. Daughter of Bruce Spence (illegitimate). On unceded Gadigal land. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳‍🌈

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hey bluesky nerds! If you like sci fi written by trans women you'll love Blue Sky Nine (title unrelated to platform), a comedy about a future where Australia looks to the stars for new sources of coal and work for the dole placements. Follow for development news & please boost to find our audience!

Vision board labelled "mining crew" showing orange hi vis overalls, a blue singlet, a bubble helmet, a lighter and gatorade bong, a can of premix Bundaberg rum and coke, steelcap work boots, and an Australian flag patch with the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag. To the right of these items is an illustrated figure wearing the above and throwing an airlock switch

Photo of a loungeroom partially converted into a spaceship cabin set with equipment for a shoot, featuring three figures, two male, one in orange pants and a blue top holding a sign saying "universal basic income studios", the other in orange pants and a white singlet, grinning, and a female figure in reflective goggles and a dark jumpsuit gesturing at the other two

Screenshot of a text document reading "Computer (voice): The ship’s computer can communicate verbally. That doesn’t mean it’s
intelligent. Despite ostensibly running the systems of an advanced interstellar spaceship it
can and does encounter the same frequency of errors as an early 2000’s desktop PC,due to an in-universe ban on advanced AI systems. Can be text to speech but the ideal casting would be Robbie McGregor, the SBS guy himself. Through cosmic accident or deliberate upgrade (or both in one incident) the ship gains true machine sentience, a fact it initially tries to hide from the crew due to the AI ban but eventually has to come clean on after acting against flight inputs to save crew lives. From that point forward we learn that the ship, still with the deep authoritative masculine voice Australian crew implicitly trust, self-identifies as female, as all ships are historically considered to be and for the exact reasoning that she sustains life (the crew) within her womb (hull) which nobody is exactly comfortably hearing about. This is important as it allows for exploration of gender identity designation as a cultural or anthropological trait, as well as the inverse, eg: “objects” being able to correct their own misgendering, and gender identity as a non-biological construct when applied to a sentient being that possesses a self-referential understanding of humanity, but none of the biology thereof. Many science fiction and even fantasy properties have explored the question of what it means to be a human even if one is not a member of homo sapiens, for example an android like Data from Star Trek, or a demon like Hellboy f rom Hellboy. Blue Sky Nine is the first work of media to explore the question of what it means to be a woman, even if you are a spaceship."

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 31m

(Barber of Seville theme intensifies)

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 32m

My therapist was all "that's so weird that this doesn't work for you on that one specific issue, let's unpack that" and it turned out to be something that DOES keep happening so much that I evolved beyond a need to have cPTSD about it, rendering me totally okay AND immune to therapy 😎

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 37m

Once again thinking of that post that was about how transition turns you into your own type, because if you told younger me that there would be a messy haired scantily clad redhead in the kitchen already stoned and making coffee at midday on a Saturday, they would have spontaneously develauped covid

Photo of a tall scantily clad messy haired redheaded lesbian in a kitchen wondering to herself "when the fuck did this happen lol"

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Lubna 🩵 @l222ubna.bsky.social · 4h

Dear friends there’s finally a glimpse of hope with recent positive news but we’re still exhausted and need to reach safety The crossing may open soon and we hope to leave before it’s too late I’m in early pregnancy after losing a fetus during the war please donate and share 🙏 ❤️

Help Mohammad and Lubna evacuate to safety!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I’ve created this fundraiser to help my dear friends Mohammad and Lubna, who are currently living in unthinkable conditions in Gaza.

chuffed.org

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1h

Me if I could afford FFS

Oliver 💙 @oliverniko.bsky.social · 10h

#Repostober day 10: Sunset Portrait 💙

#ArtSky #Art

A digital painting with oil like brushes of a feminine redhead facing the side. They hold fingers by their chin and lips, smiling. They have shoulder length wavy ginger hair. They are standing at sunset, painted with colourful high chroma tints of warm colours and blue/green.

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Alys Rujasu @rujasu.net · 8h

Ok look, I know you have concerns about how Discord makes discussions hard to follow but we should really take this convo to # No Access

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 30

It's never a bad time to bring up that we

a b s o l u t e l y

have the resources and ability to provide housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and education to everyone at no direct cost to the individual; and we just choose not to do it.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 30

People should just get paid six thousand dollars a month to exist. You may have counterpoints and things to consider about this idea but let me just get ahead of them: shut up

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Robot Girl (Warranty Void) @queererthing.bsky.social · 9h

genuinely nothing sums up how weird internet stuff has been mainstreamed and turned commercialized more than 'shitpost that took off years ago by trans person gets poorly remixed for an internet show for two cis het guys to go "WHAT WAS HE THINKING???" at'

frood 🔨 @frood.bsky.social · 9h

fuck my stupid life

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DivineJasper @divinejasper.bsky.social · 5h

Part of building community is putting your money into projects that... well... build community!

Conjured Ink is making a space where if paypros wanna shut them down, they'll have to do it stall by stall. Who wants to cut down a tree by pulling off every leaf?

Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · 1d

Conjured Ink is now accepting both one time and recurring donations!

Head to this link to learn more about our finances, or pledge your support:

opencollective.com/c...

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 11h

No! I heard they have a new album? Tell us more!

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 13h

They must have been bootleg because I don't think the Yogorilla could ever harm one of us. He has free will otherwise, but something binds him from hurting a human, especially a child, or allowing one to be harmed

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 13h

he just heard about the collapse of Yogoslavia