Corrin (they/them)
@phonoirlex.bsky.social
They/them. Nonbinary. Queer. Polytheist. Autistic. Disabled. Fannish (Wheel of Time, Star Trek, Supernatural, Wynonna Earp, and Doctor Who, among others).
The sun has risen. The Solstice has dawned. May your shortest day yet be bright. Happy Solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The sun has risen. The Solstice has dawned. May your shortest day yet be bright. Happy Solstice!
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if you are prone to UTIs, this thread of advice from my wife and her finicky vulva may be useful
Note, I'm including some bullet points about sexual health because for a lot of folks who may also be reading, penetrative vaginal sexual intercourse (of any kind!) is a primary trigger, please adapt or discard as applicable for whatever your sexual activity level and choice of partner (if any) is!
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
if you are prone to UTIs, this thread of advice from my wife and her finicky vulva may be useful
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And the Hanukah Sharks are finished. Closest I could find to a Hanukah Jeff the Land Shark. #CrossStitch
December 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
And the Hanukah Sharks are finished. Closest I could find to a Hanukah Jeff the Land Shark. #CrossStitch
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I want to do a family feud style thing. Please reply with the first Greek God that you think of.
Please reskeet for increased sample size.
Please reskeet for increased sample size.
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I want to do a family feud style thing. Please reply with the first Greek God that you think of.
Please reskeet for increased sample size.
Please reskeet for increased sample size.
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2. After race after race was called, Dems won by wide margins in contests where anti-trans rhetoric dominated. For all the centrist consultants urging Democrats to “moderate” or sacrifice trans people, the results suggest the opposite: conviction, is what wins.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
2. After race after race was called, Dems won by wide margins in contests where anti-trans rhetoric dominated. For all the centrist consultants urging Democrats to “moderate” or sacrifice trans people, the results suggest the opposite: conviction, is what wins.
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The crabs, they rave.
a bunch of red crabs are crawling on the sand on a beach
ALT: a bunch of red crabs are crawling on the sand on a beach
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The crabs, they rave.
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Which is why we've REALLY got to let go and let kids explore and search and find and pick up what they vibe with, whether or not it's stuff we think is IMPORTANT.
Fuck important, what will become a part of them?
Fuck important, what will become a part of them?
August 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Which is why we've REALLY got to let go and let kids explore and search and find and pick up what they vibe with, whether or not it's stuff we think is IMPORTANT.
Fuck important, what will become a part of them?
Fuck important, what will become a part of them?
I had Stephen King's "Night Shift" read to me when I was four or five.
That was maybe a bit too young.
But I started seeking out similar things on my own just a few years later.
That was maybe a bit too young.
But I started seeking out similar things on my own just a few years later.
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
I've 2 options: Sidney Sheldon's been justifying my anxiety since I was like 11,
But also I read the Xanth books and we are ALL too young for that shit, which I figured out, by overthinking, at the time.
I've 2 options: Sidney Sheldon's been justifying my anxiety since I was like 11,
But also I read the Xanth books and we are ALL too young for that shit, which I figured out, by overthinking, at the time.
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I had Stephen King's "Night Shift" read to me when I was four or five.
That was maybe a bit too young.
But I started seeking out similar things on my own just a few years later.
That was maybe a bit too young.
But I started seeking out similar things on my own just a few years later.
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Oh I love this terrifying thing.
Elephant seal, wtf are you even doing?
Elephant seal, wtf are you even doing?
August 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Oh I love this terrifying thing.
Elephant seal, wtf are you even doing?
Elephant seal, wtf are you even doing?
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July 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.
There's nothing quite like the smell of the first drops of rain hitting hot asphalt on a sweltering day.
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
There's nothing quite like the smell of the first drops of rain hitting hot asphalt on a sweltering day.
Fountain pen horror story:
Forgot the pen was inked.
With Organics Studio Aldous Huxley.
In a CON-40.
Don't mind me. I'll just be over here cleaning my converter. For the next ten years.
(That, or I'll give up and decide that the next ink can just be blue. No matter what color it actually is.)
Forgot the pen was inked.
With Organics Studio Aldous Huxley.
In a CON-40.
Don't mind me. I'll just be over here cleaning my converter. For the next ten years.
(That, or I'll give up and decide that the next ink can just be blue. No matter what color it actually is.)
July 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Fountain pen horror story:
Forgot the pen was inked.
With Organics Studio Aldous Huxley.
In a CON-40.
Don't mind me. I'll just be over here cleaning my converter. For the next ten years.
(That, or I'll give up and decide that the next ink can just be blue. No matter what color it actually is.)
Forgot the pen was inked.
With Organics Studio Aldous Huxley.
In a CON-40.
Don't mind me. I'll just be over here cleaning my converter. For the next ten years.
(That, or I'll give up and decide that the next ink can just be blue. No matter what color it actually is.)
When I was little (kindergarten age), we didn't have a phone. If someone wanted to contact us, they had to drive to the house and hope we were there.
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
When I was little (kindergarten age), we didn't have a phone. If someone wanted to contact us, they had to drive to the house and hope we were there.
Today I made it out to my first Pride since COVID.
I had forgotten how good it feels to be surrounded by a sea of visibly queer people.
Community.
I had forgotten how good it feels to be surrounded by a sea of visibly queer people.
Community.
June 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Today I made it out to my first Pride since COVID.
I had forgotten how good it feels to be surrounded by a sea of visibly queer people.
Community.
I had forgotten how good it feels to be surrounded by a sea of visibly queer people.
Community.
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This is 1/1000th of the Rubin telescope's field of view. How many galaxies do you see? There are three really obvious ones. Looking more closely, you could find a dozen more that are recognizably galaxy-ish. But really? It's likely that EVERY LITTLE DOT AND SMUDGE is a distant galaxy. All of them. 🤯
June 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is 1/1000th of the Rubin telescope's field of view. How many galaxies do you see? There are three really obvious ones. Looking more closely, you could find a dozen more that are recognizably galaxy-ish. But really? It's likely that EVERY LITTLE DOT AND SMUDGE is a distant galaxy. All of them. 🤯
I just stuck a syringe in my bottle of California Teal and pulled out a giant blob monster.
Apparently the thing that causes it to clog up fountain pens if you let it dry out can also cause it to congeal in the bottle.
(I don't think it's mold; there's no smell, no floating, no particles. ...
Apparently the thing that causes it to clog up fountain pens if you let it dry out can also cause it to congeal in the bottle.
(I don't think it's mold; there's no smell, no floating, no particles. ...
June 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I just stuck a syringe in my bottle of California Teal and pulled out a giant blob monster.
Apparently the thing that causes it to clog up fountain pens if you let it dry out can also cause it to congeal in the bottle.
(I don't think it's mold; there's no smell, no floating, no particles. ...
Apparently the thing that causes it to clog up fountain pens if you let it dry out can also cause it to congeal in the bottle.
(I don't think it's mold; there's no smell, no floating, no particles. ...
I was convinced that when people died, they went to live in my grandmother's basement.
When I was very small, I was looking into the reflection in the basement window and thought I saw a face in the leaves. So I ran to tell my mom that there was someone in the tree.
She said something like ...
When I was very small, I was looking into the reflection in the basement window and thought I saw a face in the leaves. So I ran to tell my mom that there was someone in the tree.
She said something like ...
“Bizarre things you firmly believed when a kid” is one of my favorite genres and I firmly believe we all have excellent examples if we can remember them
May 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I was convinced that when people died, they went to live in my grandmother's basement.
When I was very small, I was looking into the reflection in the basement window and thought I saw a face in the leaves. So I ran to tell my mom that there was someone in the tree.
She said something like ...
When I was very small, I was looking into the reflection in the basement window and thought I saw a face in the leaves. So I ran to tell my mom that there was someone in the tree.
She said something like ...
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I fight people on this one all the time because the thing is, even when the AI gets all the details right, which is not something you can assume, what it will never ever have is context. And without that, there is no way to convey what specifically this image is doing here.
I just hate having to explain over and over and over why AI alt text is not "the potential one good use of these AI tools".
Folks wanting to outsource their not-even-bare-minimum accessibility efforts to machines is... really frustrating.
Folks wanting to outsource their not-even-bare-minimum accessibility efforts to machines is... really frustrating.
May 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I fight people on this one all the time because the thing is, even when the AI gets all the details right, which is not something you can assume, what it will never ever have is context. And without that, there is no way to convey what specifically this image is doing here.