Catherine Berry
@isomeme.bsky.social
I'm a 63 year old Thelemite vision-impaired autistic trans woman software engineer. I live in Los Angeles with my wonderful partner Leanne. I celebrate diversity in all its radiant forms.
Banner: Wilson River, Oregon USA (my photo)
Banner: Wilson River, Oregon USA (my photo)
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Catherine Berry
@isomeme.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I am outsourcing my "I'm here!" post to the brilliant and delightfully weird poet Stephen Crane:
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
Thor has to be *so* pissed off right now! He called dibs on slaying Jörmungandr *millennia* ago!
a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Thor has to be *so* pissed off right now! He called dibs on slaying Jörmungandr *millennia* ago!
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If Canada doesn't pay for US military jets (and their high operational costs), the US is threatening to give them military jet coverage entirely free of charge. Dinsdale Piranha would approve. 😁 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US warns it will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal fails
Cost of F-35 advanced fighter jet program has risen by $8 billion in the last three years
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:09 AM
If Canada doesn't pay for US military jets (and their high operational costs), the US is threatening to give them military jet coverage entirely free of charge. Dinsdale Piranha would approve. 😁 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
As I watch so many powerful people and institutions kneel in craven submission to Trump, while the good people of Minnesota and elsewhere resist with everything they have in them, I can't help being reminded of the opening lines of Thomas Paine's essay "The Crisis".
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January 26, 2026 at 5:33 AM
As I watch so many powerful people and institutions kneel in craven submission to Trump, while the good people of Minnesota and elsewhere resist with everything they have in them, I can't help being reminded of the opening lines of Thomas Paine's essay "The Crisis".
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INVOCATION
O Muse, instruct me!
In the rage that I feel
May I find light.
O Muse, inspire me!
In a time of dark fear
May I bring light.
O Muse, transform me!
With my heart and my soul
May I be light.
O Muse, instruct me!
In the rage that I feel
May I find light.
O Muse, inspire me!
In a time of dark fear
May I bring light.
O Muse, transform me!
With my heart and my soul
May I be light.
January 25, 2026 at 9:54 AM
INVOCATION
O Muse, instruct me!
In the rage that I feel
May I find light.
O Muse, inspire me!
In a time of dark fear
May I bring light.
O Muse, transform me!
With my heart and my soul
May I be light.
O Muse, instruct me!
In the rage that I feel
May I find light.
O Muse, inspire me!
In a time of dark fear
May I bring light.
O Muse, transform me!
With my heart and my soul
May I be light.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
You can't score 100% on the colonialism scale without introducing at least once invasive species.
Apart from anything else there are no penguins in Greenland. Unless he’s invading the South Pole too….
January 24, 2026 at 4:32 AM
You can't score 100% on the colonialism scale without introducing at least once invasive species.
Dialog from my Real ID appointment at the DMV, after I handed the clerk a neat stack of all required documents.
Clerk: Wow, everything is here, in the right order!
Me: I'm an autistic software engineer.
Clerk: I'm surprised you're not telling me I'm missing documents.
Me: We're not done yet. 😁
Clerk: Wow, everything is here, in the right order!
Me: I'm an autistic software engineer.
Clerk: I'm surprised you're not telling me I'm missing documents.
Me: We're not done yet. 😁
January 23, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Dialog from my Real ID appointment at the DMV, after I handed the clerk a neat stack of all required documents.
Clerk: Wow, everything is here, in the right order!
Me: I'm an autistic software engineer.
Clerk: I'm surprised you're not telling me I'm missing documents.
Me: We're not done yet. 😁
Clerk: Wow, everything is here, in the right order!
Me: I'm an autistic software engineer.
Clerk: I'm surprised you're not telling me I'm missing documents.
Me: We're not done yet. 😁
Happy 50th birthday to "Station to Station", my favorite David Bowie album. Here's the title track, which still sounds fresh and brilliant after half a century. And you have to admire a song that drops references to both Qabalah and cocaine. 🙃💜🎶
open.spotify.com/track/7cehkX...
open.spotify.com/track/7cehkX...
Station to Station - 2016 Remaster
open.spotify.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Happy 50th birthday to "Station to Station", my favorite David Bowie album. Here's the title track, which still sounds fresh and brilliant after half a century. And you have to admire a song that drops references to both Qabalah and cocaine. 🙃💜🎶
open.spotify.com/track/7cehkX...
open.spotify.com/track/7cehkX...
My mom turned 90 yesterday. She's in ridiculously good shape and all there mentally as well. Her aunt died at 102 after starting to decline physically (but not mentally) in her late 90s. My two reactions to this:
1. I hope I got those genes!
2. I'm uncomfortably close to finding out.
1. I hope I got those genes!
2. I'm uncomfortably close to finding out.
January 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM
My mom turned 90 yesterday. She's in ridiculously good shape and all there mentally as well. Her aunt died at 102 after starting to decline physically (but not mentally) in her late 90s. My two reactions to this:
1. I hope I got those genes!
2. I'm uncomfortably close to finding out.
1. I hope I got those genes!
2. I'm uncomfortably close to finding out.
Playing music is one of the best forms of self-care I know. For me it's the piano. It's sheer magic that I can coax beautiful chords into existence just by wiggling my fingers. And also some very not-beautiful chords, but I never said I was a *good* pianist. 😁🎹🎵
I remember why I wanted to play guitar in the first place. The frequencies are soothing.
January 22, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Playing music is one of the best forms of self-care I know. For me it's the piano. It's sheer magic that I can coax beautiful chords into existence just by wiggling my fingers. And also some very not-beautiful chords, but I never said I was a *good* pianist. 😁🎹🎵
I'm making a Blue Apron dinner tonight that has "smashed falafel" in the recipe name. I'm intentionally not reading the recipe this afternoon to prolong my delight at imagining what that might mean. 🙂
January 18, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I'm making a Blue Apron dinner tonight that has "smashed falafel" in the recipe name. I'm intentionally not reading the recipe this afternoon to prolong my delight at imagining what that might mean. 🙂
I'm trying to create, connecting with friends, reading amazing books, exploring new and fascinating music...and still I can't escape the dread of what our world has become, nor the dark fear of what it is becoming. I had such hope for us. I don't know how to live like this.
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I'm trying to create, connecting with friends, reading amazing books, exploring new and fascinating music...and still I can't escape the dread of what our world has become, nor the dark fear of what it is becoming. I had such hope for us. I don't know how to live like this.
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I wonder if we could get people to believe that the em dash was named that in honor of Emily Dickinson? 😁
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I wonder if we could get people to believe that the em dash was named that in honor of Emily Dickinson? 😁
January 17, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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“No one really dies, they just drop their physical body, and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad, but it’s not devastating if you think like that. It’s a continuum, and we’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.”
~ David Lynch - January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025
#filmsky
~ David Lynch - January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025
#filmsky
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
“No one really dies, they just drop their physical body, and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad, but it’s not devastating if you think like that. It’s a continuum, and we’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.”
~ David Lynch - January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025
#filmsky
~ David Lynch - January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025
#filmsky
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Emily Dickinson: The only entity with a greater fondness for em dashes than AI.
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Emily Dickinson: The only entity with a greater fondness for em dashes than AI.
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Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
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here's a thing to understand for cis people
we voted how you wanted. the actual voting data for trans people shows this.
we got a special extreme anti-trans-flavored fascism anyway.
and now we're supposed to accept that the transphobia is here to stay.
no, fuck you
we voted how you wanted. the actual voting data for trans people shows this.
we got a special extreme anti-trans-flavored fascism anyway.
and now we're supposed to accept that the transphobia is here to stay.
no, fuck you
Liberals: I need you to understand that if you nominate this man, we will NOT vote for him. Period.
You've got three years. Reject him. Because if he's your standard bearer, you lose.
Polite fascism is not an acceptable alternative to fascism.
You've got three years. Reject him. Because if he's your standard bearer, you lose.
Polite fascism is not an acceptable alternative to fascism.
January 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
here's a thing to understand for cis people
we voted how you wanted. the actual voting data for trans people shows this.
we got a special extreme anti-trans-flavored fascism anyway.
and now we're supposed to accept that the transphobia is here to stay.
no, fuck you
we voted how you wanted. the actual voting data for trans people shows this.
we got a special extreme anti-trans-flavored fascism anyway.
and now we're supposed to accept that the transphobia is here to stay.
no, fuck you
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Liberals: I need you to understand that if you nominate this man, we will NOT vote for him. Period.
You've got three years. Reject him. Because if he's your standard bearer, you lose.
Polite fascism is not an acceptable alternative to fascism.
You've got three years. Reject him. Because if he's your standard bearer, you lose.
Polite fascism is not an acceptable alternative to fascism.
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Liberals: I need you to understand that if you nominate this man, we will NOT vote for him. Period.
You've got three years. Reject him. Because if he's your standard bearer, you lose.
Polite fascism is not an acceptable alternative to fascism.
You've got three years. Reject him. Because if he's your standard bearer, you lose.
Polite fascism is not an acceptable alternative to fascism.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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I love the bold protest move of defiantly continuing to generate revenue for Musk. 🙄
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I love the bold protest move of defiantly continuing to generate revenue for Musk. 🙄
It's very subtle, but if you look carefully, you can tell that my partner is happy with how she looks today. 🙂💜
January 13, 2026 at 1:17 AM
It's very subtle, but if you look carefully, you can tell that my partner is happy with how she looks today. 🙂💜