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@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."

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1h

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

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

he just heard about the collapse of Yogoslavia

Screenshot of a stop motion gorilla known as the Yogorilla holding a corded landline telephone to his ear in a mid 90s Australian commercial for a product called YoGo

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 6h

I'm honestly thinking about dismantling it for this

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 6h

You could make all the decor and vibe North Hollywood themed. People could call it Noho Mo's, for short

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 6h

Race them!

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 6h

Oh my god I want your thoughts on all of it

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 6h

You should open a bar, Mo. You could call it "Mo's Tavern"

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 7h

What's the point of even having these incredible goddamn legs if they hurt 😠

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 7h

I don't get to see my favourite crush for their birthday because I can no longer do 8.5 hours of construction followed by a gig on a Friday night and I'm mad at both capitalism and my body about it

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 8h

A new level beyond super saiyan...

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 8h

(innocent whistling)

esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 8h

homewrecker as left accelerationist praxis

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Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · 15h

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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dr mo 🇵🇸 @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 13h

if you put all the genAI money into materially supporting actual artists it would completely change the world. it would bring about the new renaissance. instead we're cooking the planet so billionaires can smugly tell us they hate all artists and can't wait for us to be bulldozed by a computer

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Elly @invalidhandlebunny.bsky.social · 2d

$10 for some groceries can really help if anyone can give me a little boost please. my deepest apologies for asking so often lately. I just can’t keep my head above the water this year. I’m doing my best
www.paypal.me/mtfvicky

Pay EJ Burg Art using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/mtfvicky and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 1d

Plenty of disabled people can work and do work but you can't achieve that end through punishment or force. Our governments have tried that path for decades. To actually reform the system, you need to accept somebody saying "I can't work" or "I don't want to work" and support them anyway.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

im tired of ppl treating disability as a universal thing.

just saw someone who was like 'work set me free!'.

oh, okay, good for you. that doesn't mean it's a good idea for the government to stick employment nags in gp offices and at the heart of mental health services.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 20h

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 15h

Happy tranniversary! 🥳 I'm so glad you're with us 🧡

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 15h

Name changed to protect the innocent, I will never reveal the true identity of Pedro Parker aka Spider-man. FUCK

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 15h

My tiny Colombian coworker couldn't get a sitter so today I am working with Pedro, who is five, and has spent the last half hour laying on his back trying to push a rod of scrap acrylic up his nose. He is my favourite coworker I have ever had

Photo of an industrial environment full of pallet racking and raw plastics, with a child's leg peeking out from a nook the child has discovered

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 1d

Do not ask me to pick between Led Zeppard or Def Lepellin, they are both very important to my musical soundscape growing up.

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Lumpen Space Proletariat @julesfurious.bsky.social · 1d

I miss when a regular tv show was 22 episodes a season and a fancy one was 13 episodes a season

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Peta (Getting hyped for Gay Christmas 🎃) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ptchronic.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of this system is not to get people into work, it's to punish people out of work so harshly that it acts as a deterrent for anyone who might be in shitty working conditions doesn't enter the system. It doesn't give a fuck who it has to break in order to maintain that deterrence

Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1d

With your eyes, mo. With your eyes.