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itstessinadress.bsky.social
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!
Graphics of a logo with text reading "Blue Sky Nine" overlaid on a circle that is bottom half mercator projection lines and top half a shooting star against a black background 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."
itstessinadress.bsky.social
Still from the movie What Ever Happened To Baby Jane (1962) with Bette Davis as Baby Jane, edited to include a speech bubble so it looks like she's saying the below post
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
"Canberra is a perfectly designed government capitol" then why is Jamberoo Recreation Park, where you control the action, over 200 kilometres outside its borders then, huh? Nerd
itstessinadress.bsky.social Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah it's like Old Sydney Town, but governmental. Like they built an EPCOT that sucks and all the nerds they hired to give it authentic vibes also just actually live there. It's Westworld for people who enjoy reports and spreadsheets and know things about wine
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
It took a dremel, some double sided tape, rifling through a bunch of state government department e-waste for parts, and getting the case back on like closing an overstuffed suitcase, but I might have finally fixed my desktop computer 🥳
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
Had a weekend in Canberra planned with my wife, who never took the mandatory childhood pilgrimage and thus doesn't know what it's like, but they had to postpone due to work commitments, and I'm wondering if I should go alone anyway and make it a Tess Weekend so I can still go to Questacon etc 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
Okay but do you also think they explored each other's bodies?
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species From Galápagos albatrosses to polar bears, chimpanzees to orangutans, certain species appear to kiss. Now researchers suggest Neanderthals did it too – and might even have locked lips with modern humans. It is not the first time scientists have suggested Neanderthals and early modern humans were intimately acquainted. Among previous studies, researchers have found humans and their thick-browed cousins shared the same mouth microbe for hundreds of thousands of years after the two species split, suggesting they swapped saliva. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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jrbolt.bsky.social
GeekNerdFilm.Com Interviewer: We asked Mr. Scorsese, so we thought we'd ask you. What do you think of Marvel movies?

David Lynch: Gee willikers. Well, I think EVERY movie is a marvel
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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junoryleejournalism.com
I NEED $300 as soon as possible please

I have a doctor bill I HAVE to pay, 2 med refills I need , and my therapy appointment is at 4 pm today and my insurance doesn’t cover therapy
junoryleejournalism.com Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d
hi my name is Juno

i am a journalist and all my work is free

nobody wants to hire me right now because im trans lol ive actually had several book publishers tell me they will sign me after politics change again

📝 junoryleejournalism.com
🔗 linktr.ee/junostump
🫙 venmo.com/u/junostump
a picture of my dumb face
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
Stay tuned for Unicorn Riot's upcoming documentary named 18 Days, after the 18 day occupation of the 4th Precinct seeking justice for Jamar Clark in 2015. Clark, 24, was unarmed when fatally shot by Minneapolis Police. The officers were exonerated in March 2016.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
If you're reading that Guardian piece and are in awe of what absolute irredeemable shitcunts Queensland Police are, you may be shocked to learn that they washed out Peter Dutton because he was too reprehensible even for them.
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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helpmeskeletor.bsky.social
Criminalising Nazis salutes is what settler governments do to distance themselves from Nazis while carrying out very Nazi-like things like funding genocides, supporting genocidal regimes and writing fascist laws to brutalise protesters.
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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emotion-engine.bsky.social
Sometime late in the Bush administration we as a country stopped illuminating rooms with a floodlight placed directly behind a slowly rotating industrial fan and our nation has been floundering ever since.
idolismj.yase.world ☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 8h
One of the absolute dogdick shittiest things to be nostalgic for is how I miss big warehouse sets with a fuckin' huge flood light blasting on the windows
Michael Jackson walking up the stairs during the Smooth Criminal music video, a massive warehouse window is to his left blasting him with a soft blue light A man in the Smooth Criminal music video snaps a pool cue over his knee. In the background there is a warehouse window almost radiating with how powerful the soft blue light is
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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halduncan.com
whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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dadtrans.bsky.social
A Trans woman took Epstein to court in 2007! She was a 17 year old kid when sexually abused by him. The case was thrown out as beyond statue of limitations and she was trashed in the press.

Trans kids so often the canary in the goldmine, more likely to be hurt, less likely to be heard or believed
sheg7.bsky.social She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 17h
Yet another thing people should have taken notice of, but dismissed because their bigotry surrounding trans people and foreigners is greater than their desire to hold sex criminals accountable.

1/3
Newspaper cuttings from articles about one of the first sexual offences epstein was accused of: a trans woman filing proceedings against him.
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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raniaodayoday.bsky.social
🚨🚨🥶I urgently need at least $200 to buy tent tarpaulins. We are now homeless and without a tent. All our belongings are ruined. Please help us in any way you can. 🥶🌧

gofund.me/d0cc0587

@mommunism.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
Get in loser, we're going lesbian.
Barbie Dream camper with two flannel wearing Barbie dolls looking at you out the window. Very gay coded.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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caspiamarina.bsky.social
TV executives complaining: people don't want to watch interesting original content, that's why TV is crap

Some dude on YT: Please enjoy my channel where I hook mushrooms up to synths and let their electric signals make music
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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tcparker.bsky.social
Another reason to be extremely sceptical of the new Dorsey venture

This isn't a man given to making a principled stand

(And given the % of online content that's now slop, & the inevitability of model collapse... does feel a bit like he's readying the land for a fresh crop of training data)
edithcharles.bsky.social Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 22h
Banning AI content is a great way to create a space where there's fresh, unadulterated content from humans which they can steal and sell off for new AI to be trained on.

Everything I know about Jack Dorsey suggests this AI-free Vine reboot is just a venture capitalist abattoir for human creativity.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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jackalpants.bsky.social
This is SO EASY to use seriously if you've ever written anything go check if you're owed money
mollycrabapple.bsky.social Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 1d
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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riotlinguist.bsky.social
people will be like "young men are being turned away from the left by MEAN comments on the internet like women saying they don't like being groped or transgenders saying they want rights, we surely must think of the poor uwu babies facing such a harsh and cruel online experience"
juliet-turner.bsky.social Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 1d
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
It is transgender awareness week which means you are now being transgender manually
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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onorah.bsky.social
If you have reach in Australia, I’d really appreciate a repost! 🙏 I’m nowhere near the numbers I need and will need to extend the prize draw if I don’t get more participants.

Also, if you’re willing (and allowed) to pop up a physical flyer near you, DM me and I can post it to you/send the PDF :)
onorah.bsky.social Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · Sep 30
Are you autistic and living in Australia? If so, please consider completing my research survey. It takes 45-60min and will help us understand the experience and impacts of autism identification, to try improve access to autism identification. tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 #autismresearch #psychresearch
Flyer image with a QR code linking to the same URL that the post link redirects to, and the following text: What changes after autism identification? We are seeking both Autistic and non-Autistic adults living in Australia to complete a 45-60 minute online survey regarding your life, outlook, and experiences. Eligibility criteria: - Australian resident - 18 years or older Participant benefits: Participants who complete the survey will be eligible for entry to a prize draw to win one of eight gift vouchers (1x $100 + 2x $50 + 5x $20) Take the survey: https://tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 The project has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Canberra (HREC = #14359). Questions? Send them to nikki.watson@canberra.edu.au
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
Trip report on finally meeting one's sister is apparently I'm like a completely different person (uhh 🤭), very obviously much happier, and somehow "at least five to ten years younger" (yeah I'll take it ☺️). I guess being from the UK he's probably never met a trans woman with access to HRT before 😕😬
Photo of a Polaroid of an incredibly happy Tess holding an extremely large baby and posing with a bearded man she kind of looks related to
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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amiyatzin.bsky.social
CPTSD stands for Cutie Pie/Too Silly Disorder
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
itstessinadress.bsky.social
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Photo of a Polaroid of Tess smiling and holding an enormous baby
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM