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@jdzed.bsky.social
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Scruffy Aussie Lefty Ratbag. Social Justice Cleric. Swears like a soldier. Unashamed nerd. AuDHD He/They Living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land
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jdzed.bsky.social
An excellent, considered and coherent refutation of those that argue against the existence of any art or fiction that contains aspects they find problematic or 'icky'.

Posted particularly for @foxhall.bsky.social , who I know has had trouble with these arrogant and self-absorbed fools.
A screen-capture of a text post with two replies from tumblr. evilwriter37 Saying "this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone" is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information that contained gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I'm not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go the the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that's because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction. lynati And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man's trigger is another man's catharsis. randomslasher AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eathing things that could potentioally harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
If you insist.

"You're a radical!"
Against a blue background there is a stylised image of a generic dinosaur riding a skateboard while wearing board shorts and a sideways cap. At the top and bottom of the image is the text: "There's nothing RADICAL about trans exclusion."
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
jdzed.bsky.social
A white coffee mug with bold, black block print on the side facing the camera/viewer. The text reads "WELL IF IT ISN'T MY OLD NEMESIS THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY OWN ACTIONS"
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Mx Smashy especially would like to be a large part of that discussion as well.
Mx Smashy, large home-made mallet lies diagonally across a set of bathroom scales. The mallet is made of a short length of steel rebar, the head of a short section of steel pipe with steel plate welded over the ends, and the head filled with something very heavy. (Lead, very possibly.) The whole thing was once painted a bright blue, but has since ~50% flaked off. The scales read somewhere between four and five kilograms.
September 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
jdzed.bsky.social
How very dare they grow so much taller, especially at only 14!

😅
On a slightly off-white background, resembling the cheap paper of pulp magazines and comics there is a strongly inked artwork of and angry looking tabby-cat with heavy, bold capitalised text reading "HOW DARE" Close inspection shows a watermark in the upper-right margin reading @rebaccasalinasart, whilst the lower margin shows "NO TALK ME AM ANGY" in light pencil
September 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
jdzed.bsky.social
The left side shows two images of a grizzled Klingon looking at the camera. The right side shows two white fields with a line of black text each. The top text reads: Mispronounced words are hono(u)rable The lower text reads: It means you read it in a book somewhere.
August 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
No more so than many other cats.

I mean, yes, she's a totally ridiculous beast, but so are many others.

Including both of my current beasts.
Sumi tiny!cat, a black and white long-haired moggy lies on her side in her bed, on top of the electric heatpad. Her ears, expression and the way her paws are all laid out makes it very clear that she Has A Comfy Mouse plush!puss, a black and white medium-haired moggy lies in her green bed, her back legs splayed out, her suuuper-plush belly exposed and her right paw over her right ear, folding it towards the camera as she looks at the viewer with her left eye open and the other closed. She is truly A Ridiculous Beast.
August 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Can I be real for a minute
A numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) stands on a fallen log looking towards the camera. The numbat is a small, distinctively-striped animal between 35 and 45 centimetres (14 and 18 in) long, including the tail, with a finely pointed muzzle and a prominent, bushy tail about the same length as its body. It's colouring ranges from soft grey on the head to reddish-brown across the shoulders and upper back, and with a conspicuous black stripe running from the tip of the muzzle through the eye to the base of the small, round-tipped ear. A number of white stripes cross the animal's hindquarters, which gradually become fainter towards the midback. The underside is cream or light grey, while the tail is covered with long, grey hair flecked with white.
July 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Screenshot of a tumblr post user bcvitalwrites posted: I like punk because it says there's still something to fight for. I like goth because it says even when things get dark, beauty can exist within it. I like Appalachian bluegras because it says pick up your banjo and hit a politician with it.
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
🤦 🤣
Image shows a grizzled and scarred Klingon with an eyepatch against a dark background. White text at the top and bottom of the image reads: I SEE HALF OF WHAT YOU DID THERE...
June 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
[Content Warning] Text contains extreme levels of PUNishment.
> Be me, playing new DnD campaign. > DM is fed up with our silliness. > Says he wants a gritty and serious adventure for once. ‘ > *| am Ohms Wattson”, a Storm Sorcerer. > DM cringes and say | better not push it any further. > Convince DM I'm up to his dark campaign with my back story. Madir, my wife, was kidnapped and cursed by an evil wizard. Turned into a fire elemental. > Mid campaign, | multiclass to Warlock. > The whole table sighs assuming I'm going for a cheap Eldritch Blast strategy. > Table is completely silent after | sell my soul to the devil in exchange for information about my wife. > Edgelord DM is drooling over it. | find the evil wizard lair and rescue my wife. DM says the curse is irreversible > Immediately get arrested by the king's knights. > King says I'm the evil wizard who summoned an efreet and destroyed his crops. > "It wasn't us, your Majesty. And | can prove it". > "Not only do you deny it but says you can prove it. Who are you, you insolent peasant?” I'm Sorlock Ohms and this is Elemental Madir Wattson.
June 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
That looks remarkably like the 7-day forecast for here, except we're at the exact opposite places in the cycle of seasons.
A screenshot of the latest 7 day forecast for Perth, Western Australia as of the date and time posted.
May 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
jdzed.bsky.social
There you go! A digital Mx Smashy for a digital 'discussion'. ;)
Mx Smashy, large home-made mallet lies diagonally across a set of bathroom scales. The mallet is made of a short length of steel rebar, the head of a short section of steel pipe with steel plate welded over the ends, and the head filled with something very heavy. (Lead, very possibly.) The whole thing was once painted a bright blue, but has since ~50% flaked off. The scales read somewhere between four and five kilograms.
May 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
(Referring to image's text): Or off of the internet, instead. Book or website, it's all the same.

Text almost never supplies a pronunciation guide, after all.
The left side shows two images of a grizzled Klingon looking at the camera. The right side shows two white fields with a line of black text each. The top text reads: Mispronounced words are hono(u)rable The lower text reads: In means you read it in a book somewhere.
April 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Hey, @cemurphy.bsky.social, look what I found today while trying to consolidate some of the Stuff In Cardboard Boxes into larger and sealable plastic tubs instead?
A photograph of the front cover of the novel Truth Seeker by C. E. Murphy. It shows a blonde woman wearing dark jeans and a dark tank-top holding a leaf-bladed sword in one hand and looking back over her shoulder with a determined expression on her face.
February 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Image shows a grizzled and scarred Klingon with an eyepatch against a dark background. White text at the top and bottom of the image reads: I SEE HALF OF WHAT YOU DID THERE...
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
jdzed.bsky.social
Right then.

*goes to get a few LARGE tubs of lemon juice to pour over their useless fucking heads, then turns the wood-chipper speed even lower*

Good to see rate-payer funds going to equally worthless misuse as the state taxes, hey?

D'you wanna borrow Mx Smashy at all?
Mx Smashy, large home-made mallet lies diagonally across a set of bathroom scales. The mallet is made of a short length of steel rebar, the head of a short section of steel pipe with steel plate welded over the ends, and the head filled with something very heavy. (Lead, very possibly.) The whole thing was once painted a bright blue, but has since ~50% flaked off. The scales read somewhere between four and five kilograms.
January 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
On a slightly off-white background, resembling the cheap paper of pulp magazines and comics there is a strongly inked artwork of and angry looking tabby-cat with heavy, bold capitalised text reading "HOW DARE" Close inspection shows a watermark in the upper-right margin reading @rebaccasalinasart, whilst the lower margin shows "NO TALK ME AM ANGY" in light pencil
January 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
On a slightly off-white background, resembling the cheap paper of pulp magazines and comics there is a strongly inked artwork of and angry looking tabby-cat with heavy, bold capitalised text reading "HOW DARE" Close inspection shows a watermark in the upper-right margin reading @rebaccasalinasart, whilst the lower margin shows "NO TALK ME AM ANGY" in light pencil
January 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
An image of Ambassador Londo Molari from the show Babylon 5 looking directly towards the viewer, wearing an ornate jacket in brown, bronze and gold, highly reminiscent of noble styles in Napoleonic-period Europe. In black bars above and below the image is the text: "Your Meme has been taken" and "For the Glory of the Centauri Republic"
December 25, 2024 at 11:34 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
🤣

This one is my other take on this theme:
On a background of bright yellow, there is black text on the left side and an antique style ink drawing of a somewhat portly man wearing an old-fashioned checked suit, a while vest and smoking a cigar with his hands in his pants pockets. The text reads: "Hey, you there Fuck Off. And when you get there, fuck off from there too. Then fuck off some more. Keep on fucking off until you get back here. Then fuck off again."
December 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Here, have the perfect meme for this moment!
A photo of a hilly landscape, mostly in shadow and covered with verdant vegetation. Over the image in white text reads: Fuck Off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come upon a gate with a sign saying "You Can't Fuck Off Past Here." Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
December 25, 2024 at 10:45 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short strike a dramatic pose in a deserted street, wearing red sashes at their waists and completely blinged up black jackets and pants as well as utterly ludicrous black sequined sombreros in a scene from the movie The Three Amigos.
December 24, 2024 at 4:47 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
Hmm. It seems I haven't taken any pictures of them since September, I should remember to get some new ones.
Mouse plush!puss (a mostly white with black bits floofy tuxedo), lounging in the green cat bed in front of the bedroom window, her fuzzy belly exposed. Sumi tiny!cat is curled up in the far corner of the square bed from the viewer, which goes some way to highlighting the size difference between the two of them. Sumi tiny!cat ( long-haired, mostly black with some white bits tuxedo) contentedly and adorably curled up tightly on top of my blue blanket-covered feet, which are raised up on the chair I put under my desk precisely for the putting-up-of-my-feet, but is generally Filled By Cat whenever it is that I go to do so. Because OF COURSE it is. ;)
December 23, 2024 at 2:06 AM
jdzed.bsky.social
A screenshot from the 1942 movie Casablanca, showing Humphrey Bogart's nightclub owner Rick Blaine facing Claude Rains' Louis Renault, Captain of the French Gendarmarie in Casablanca. Louis has just damaged their epic bromance by shutting down the nightclub on being told to do so by the Germans, using the excuse "I am shocked-shocked-to find that gambling is going on in here!"
November 21, 2024 at 3:38 AM