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Old trans chick from Cascadia. Ex-t.b, ex-soc.motss, ex-programmer, admitted bicycle framebuilder, actual socialist. she/her
The goddamn KCS "Belle" paint scheme, which makes everything look like a kid went wild in a candy shop, then vomited over everything.

They dumped their beautiful white & billboard lettering paint for THIS? Jesus wept.
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Not nearly as hot, but yeah my crazy brings all the boys to the yard.

(65% hot, 71.25% crazy)
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I am suddenly unsure of just what a bottom is:
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you see this (and wish to), post four female characters you love
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Looking east up the Columbia River gorge at almost the golden hour this afternoon:
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ah. So not only are you unfamiliar with how egalitarian tackiness is in the USA, you are also unfamiliar with dictator chic.
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Unfiltered, but cropped to minimize the background.

I'm 65, at e+3 years. I'm gonna have to start wearing a kerchef on my head because my almost transparent hair and a hair thinning puts my natural hairline about 7 feet above me eyes :-)
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
A new look for an ancient Alco. Not here on earth prime (they've long since gone to the breakers, goddam it) but on the earth that contains the Parsons Vale Line.

It's an old CPR paint scheme for a reborn Dominion Atlantic Railway.
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
It is *still* winter squash pie season!
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
And, apropos of nothing in particular, the railroad has a strong presence in the maritime provinces and when the Duchy of Irving (NB) and Nova Scotia started inching towards anti-trans bigotry it responded by a not-even-subtle special paint scheme on one of its locomotives:
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Since transitioning, I have started experiencing day to day pleasures much more intensely than before.

This was a good day; a short walk in the sun, food cart lunch, and sitting in a coffeehouse drinking coffee & reading nonsense on social media :-)

#wartornportland
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I did the thing!

(Still stoned, but edited. :-)
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
IT'S TIME TO RRRRUMBLE! #thebigyeet
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The only true Mastodon:
October 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
+∞

Now is always a good time to transition.

(65 now, finally fell off the ledge @ ~60)
October 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yeah, you and me both. This is the closest I'll ever be to that redheaded girl who never was:
October 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
*cough* *cough*

Ahem.

It's winter squash pie season, motherf*ckers!
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Scenes from the warzone #WarRavagedPortland
September 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A stand-in for this week's fruit pie. Sadly, the fruit season is running down in a hurry and I'm going to have to switch to squash pies (until the squash supply runs out and I have to dig the bags of frozen pie filling out from the basement freezer.)
September 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fedora(ish) hat posse!
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's hard to pull back from the catastrophic detail you're fixated on to see that the dollar store reich is shaking itself apart like a badly assembled bicycle.

But while it's doing that, have an album cover with cats:
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
BE NOT AFRAID (2)

Cc: @golikehellmachine.com, @nora.zone
September 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Quote post an unfiltered pic and say your age:

65

(I was pudgier last winter, so the optical illusion of my chin being longer than my face is not *completely* accurate:-)
September 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Tri-Met is in the throes of retiring all of their o.g. Type 1 interurban cars, but a few of them are still holding on providing service on the east-west (blue) and airport(red) lines.
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM