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Esme Rylan
@esmerylan.bsky.social
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Trans woman, nursing home social worker, obsessive music nerd, undisputed Jump Showdown champion. She/her
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.bsky.social · Sep 10
My comment on current events: I don't mourn Nazis.
esmerylan.bsky.social
Can people please stop using that one custom status bar font in Doom WADs where the 8's look like 0's? It's massively confusing to me and it never gets any better.
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Thought about having some coffee but the actual thought that went through my head was "Maybe I'll put a cot of poffee on" and that might be a sign I just need to get some sleep.
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
esmerylan.bsky.social
And now it's back on, I have a feeling one of the dogs keeps knocking the router's power out and no one else in this house even notices because apparently I'm the only one actually using the wifi for anything.
esmerylan.bsky.social Esme Rylan @esmerylan.bsky.social · 13h
Back home from work, and the wifi's out again. It was fine from when it came back on around 8 last night through the time I left at close to 8 this morning. I don't understand what's going on here.
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
I did a comic about this three years ago.
The masturbating comedian comeback tour. A Louis CK- like comedian shrugs. We see him masturbating with a fip fip fip. He says "I still hate my daughters." A crowd hollers in amusement saying "He's a genius" "WOOOO" "He's still got it!"
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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cabel.panic.com
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"
an ad for the new series “welcome to derry” with the tagline “go back to where IT all began“, except somehow, they highlighted the word “to“ instead of “it“
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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jazzpomegranate.com
is it bad that i think my biggest problem with this paper is the lack of scholarly rigor?
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 15h
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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uldahstreetrat.bsky.social
so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium

the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Is there any way to look up my own posts from a specific date range? I thought searching for the words I was looking for with "from:me" would do it but apparently I never used those words in the actual posts, so I need a different method.
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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kottke.org
Playwright Tom Stoppard has died at 88. Did you know he ghost-wrote George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stoppard, calle
kottke.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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dly.bsky.social
People will say anything on here. “We used to be a proper country,” no we didn’t. That’s not true.
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong. One of the most radical reinventions of a band's sound ever, as with the departure of lead singer Isaac Wood the rest of the band took over singing and songwriting duties instead of replacing him. And the result is a masterpiece.
Cover art for Black Country, New Road's Forever Howlong. A reddish humanoid sun with sunglasses and a cigarette stands in front of a yellow and white backdrop, with a hand outstretched and an eight-pointed yellow star in its palm.
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Back home from work, and the wifi's out again. It was fine from when it came back on around 8 last night through the time I left at close to 8 this morning. I don't understand what's going on here.
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
I always think I'll be able to catch up on work I couldn't get done during the week when I'm manager on duty but some other shit always happens and I have to deal with that instead. 🙃
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Good morning! It's Saturday, and it's time for coffee and Techmoan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJL...
My new WAVE MOTION Machine
YouTube video by Techmoan
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Writer-painter Josh Hickman, my friend since high school, wrote a powerful book about being his mother's caretaker during her decline from dementia. Reading it healed me after going through a similar experience. I recommend it to all caregivers. We carry it signed by Josh. mzs.press/SIGNED-Forge...
Screenshot of a section of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: She was… difficult," I have caught myself, sighing weakly, in unguarded and honest moment since my mother's passing. In fact, she was probably the most difficult person I've ever known. She was difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and difficult, if not impossible, to please. When I asked about her by those who had never met her, she also remained somewhat difficult to describe. For me – especially the younger version of me – she was a frightening and enigmatic contradiction, only predictable in her unpredictability. She affected a misplaced aristocratic, even snobbish air, such that many, who didn't know her well thought her well educated, or perhaps some sort of blue blood, but she came from a poor, broken Canadian home and never attended college. She strive to appear polished and controlled, though she possessed a virtually unveiled violent temper. She was endlessly critical, overbearing and argumentative. She always acted as if she deserved better, no matter what she was getting. Where did all this come from? At times I still catch myself struggling to figure it out." Excerpt from forgetting, Josh Hickman's memoir about caring for his mother as she declined from dementia: "One evening, she rose from the couch to go to the bathroom, stumbled, wobbled for a long moment, then collapsed in a heap on the carpet. Horrified, I jumped up and examined her, trying to rouse her, but she was unconscious. Panicking, I dragged her by the armpits back onto the couch, noticing she had soiled her underwear. Yanking the underwear off and throwing them in the bathtub, I pulled her sweatpants up and stared into her ashen face. Was she dying? My mind raced as I tried to figure out what to do. For the moment, I handled things myself in lieu of calling 911. Remembering a brief conversation from months carlier, I recalled her vagucly mentioning she had been diagnosed with a heart condition, a diagnosis she had of course brushed off as "bullshit." She had been given a prescription for this which she wasn't taking. The ailment was atrial fibrillation, which can cause sudden tachycardia and subsequent fainting, My mind shot to the incident of her "falling" on the balcony and breaking her wrist. I hurriedly scoured her voluminous medicine closet, found the medication she had shown me, pulled a pill out, then tried to jiggle her awake so I could force it in her mouth. Her eyes finally opened after several tense seconds, widening as she stared blankly at me. As I yelled at her to wake up and take the pill, she gazed at me vacantly, as if she had no idca who I was. Was she having a stroke? My mind raced. I knew strokes were also possible due to blood pooling in the atrium, especially if one..." Excerpt from Josh Hickman's book Forgetting, about caring for his mother during her decline from dementia: "I had barely I finally informed my mother that she had had nearly two months to mentally and physically prepare herself for this last move, and the time had arrived. Still, she claimed that she hadn't understood that we were actually moving to the condo. She said she thought that was just an "idea." Forced to ignore her protests yet again, I told her she could wait on her couch, and I would do my best to have it packed last. I thought it might help her to actually see the boxes and furniture physically leaving the apartment, that it might aid her in comprehending the inevitable was actually happening before her eyes. I figured it might be best to depart the empty apartment together, mysclf, my mother, and Sammy driving last to the new place as it filled up with our belongings." The cover of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: The Trials and Tribulations of Caring for a Difficult Parent with Dementia. The cover on the photo shows the author's mother, a woman with brown hair, wearing a black pullover, holding the author as a toddler. He is reaching out to touch her collar. Behind them is a Texaco station in front of a shopping mall in Dallas in the 1970s.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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baphomet.male.manipulat.org
bits trans women do on reddit: uwu skirt go spinny!
bits trans women do on 4chan: memified ritual self mutilation
bits trans women do on FB: trolling conservatives with family guy memes
bits trans women do on twitter: what if I were blue
bits trans women do on bluesky: I'M FUCKING POL POT BITCH
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
esmerylan.bsky.social
365! That's once a day for a year! 😝
profanity.accountant profanity.accountant @profanity.accountant · 19h
@esmerylan.bsky.social has swears! They've used 1,381 profanities in their last 7,323 posts.

🥇 "fucking" (365 times)
🥈 "shit" (225 times)
🥉 "hell" (198 times)
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
@profanity.accountant Sure, let's see what I've got. 😝
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Note how "inclusive" language is used against us here too: "choose how they identify themselves" suggests we're not REALLY women, and framing it as a "choice" then becomes further justification to keep us out of whatever the university defines as "women's spaces".
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."

Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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antlervel.vet
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:

- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
esmerylan.bsky.social
New Jessie J album is okay so far but this spoken-work section on "I Don't Care" isn't something I'll ever need to hear a second time.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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maxutmost.com
This (American) Thanksgiving, @tronknotts.bsky.social is giving thanks for the life and career of Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman, who we tragically lost this month.

maxutmost.com/lets-give-th...
Let’s give thanks for the life and work of Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman
This month, we lost one of the foundational members of the art form. We say good-bye to Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman by taking a look at her life. Not just her career, but the person…
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November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Well, the wifi's working again, and it's showing up under the original network name so I have no idea what was going on with that. 🫤
esmerylan.bsky.social Esme Rylan @esmerylan.bsky.social · 1d
Back on my phone's hotspot because something's screwy with the wifi, network shows up but the name's slightly different for some reason and I can't connect no matter what the signal strength (and right now that signal strength is zero). It was working fine before I left for work this morning.
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
esmerylan.bsky.social
Seeing a lot of speculation that genAI was used in the remastering of Madonna's latest archival release (remixes and demos from Bedtime Stories, or at least alleged demos, some people are skeptical about that), couldn't tell much from the one track I heard but also I'm listening on a laptop...
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM