Jess of Gerkenwald
@squarewave.lol
She/her
My body is a machine that breaks the machines my body is made of
Failing the Turing test since 1983
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
My body is a machine that breaks the machines my body is made of
Failing the Turing test since 1983
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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oh hey, it’s been almost a year since I painted minis and i built up the will power to try again. continued work on Clubber Laine from gaz minis
i was going to do yellow boots and started with the requisite pink underlayer but might just stick with that and tone it down a smidge
#nerdlings
i was going to do yellow boots and started with the requisite pink underlayer but might just stick with that and tone it down a smidge
#nerdlings
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
oh hey, it’s been almost a year since I painted minis and i built up the will power to try again. continued work on Clubber Laine from gaz minis
i was going to do yellow boots and started with the requisite pink underlayer but might just stick with that and tone it down a smidge
#nerdlings
i was going to do yellow boots and started with the requisite pink underlayer but might just stick with that and tone it down a smidge
#nerdlings
i think maybe it's bad form to invite a trans person to surprise gender reveal :|
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i think maybe it's bad form to invite a trans person to surprise gender reveal :|
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Visited the Ucluelet aquarium where everything is caught, visits the aquarium which is pumped with water directly from the harbour, and released within nine months back to where it was caught from. They release more creatures than they catch because sea life comes in through the pipes and stays.
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Visited the Ucluelet aquarium where everything is caught, visits the aquarium which is pumped with water directly from the harbour, and released within nine months back to where it was caught from. They release more creatures than they catch because sea life comes in through the pipes and stays.
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Take me to church
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Take me to church
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A good portion of the queer folks I’ve interviewed for my thesis cry in pride, excitement, or other positively affiliated emotions and I think that’s gotta be its own finding right there. Our stories and experiences matter.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A good portion of the queer folks I’ve interviewed for my thesis cry in pride, excitement, or other positively affiliated emotions and I think that’s gotta be its own finding right there. Our stories and experiences matter.
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killing objectively evil people until the problems stop
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
killing objectively evil people until the problems stop
ah, the grip of panic sets in again, it's been a while.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
ah, the grip of panic sets in again, it's been a while.
there’s something about the first time in the (pre)fall when the moisture in the air feels cold that is just sensory bliss for me
every few days a little colder and darker . when you can go outside on a clear night and just feel your heat leach off into the void
every few days a little colder and darker . when you can go outside on a clear night and just feel your heat leach off into the void
September 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
there’s something about the first time in the (pre)fall when the moisture in the air feels cold that is just sensory bliss for me
every few days a little colder and darker . when you can go outside on a clear night and just feel your heat leach off into the void
every few days a little colder and darker . when you can go outside on a clear night and just feel your heat leach off into the void
the other beaks has been built. this thing has me fucking giddy. i really wish i had gotten into diy modular ages ago, this scratches every hobby and music related itch i had for years.
So many gleeful self high fives were given tonight
So many gleeful self high fives were given tonight
August 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
the other beaks has been built. this thing has me fucking giddy. i really wish i had gotten into diy modular ages ago, this scratches every hobby and music related itch i had for years.
So many gleeful self high fives were given tonight
So many gleeful self high fives were given tonight
getting this together has made me so damn happy. i now have a generative drum synth where I built every piece in the signal chain myself. serious unbridle joy at this and i still have another module to add in.
August 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
getting this together has made me so damn happy. i now have a generative drum synth where I built every piece in the signal chain myself. serious unbridle joy at this and i still have another module to add in.
wave 2 of my decent into diy modular arrived today. a bunch MI through-hole reworks and some originals from sourcery studios. put together the five channel mixer today.
if i stick to DIY i’m pretty sure this will remain an affordable hobby
i think
maybe
probably not, but i can fool myself for now
if i stick to DIY i’m pretty sure this will remain an affordable hobby
i think
maybe
probably not, but i can fool myself for now
August 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
wave 2 of my decent into diy modular arrived today. a bunch MI through-hole reworks and some originals from sourcery studios. put together the five channel mixer today.
if i stick to DIY i’m pretty sure this will remain an affordable hobby
i think
maybe
probably not, but i can fool myself for now
if i stick to DIY i’m pretty sure this will remain an affordable hobby
i think
maybe
probably not, but i can fool myself for now
ma'am'd again at this costco this weekend. definitive proof that looking haggard with boobs, and bonus yapping teenager, is my pathway to not getting siired to shit.
August 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
ma'am'd again at this costco this weekend. definitive proof that looking haggard with boobs, and bonus yapping teenager, is my pathway to not getting siired to shit.
i got ma'am'd for the first time. my increasingly grey hair and my haggard unkept burnout look keep doing the heavy lifting on getting properly gendered by the random normies of the world.
waiting for the day when my last hair turns grey and i ascend to babusya-hood
waiting for the day when my last hair turns grey and i ascend to babusya-hood
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
i got ma'am'd for the first time. my increasingly grey hair and my haggard unkept burnout look keep doing the heavy lifting on getting properly gendered by the random normies of the world.
waiting for the day when my last hair turns grey and i ascend to babusya-hood
waiting for the day when my last hair turns grey and i ascend to babusya-hood
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think before you speak
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
think before you speak
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hey everyone im testing something can you like and repost this thanks
July 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM
hey everyone im testing something can you like and repost this thanks
i have a relatively negative self image - mostly brain worm driven, yes - but the one thing i've always liked is having curly hair, with a minimum amount of work it could look real good
i loved it
and the past tense it will remain 'cuz it's started to straighten out in the last two months
why
i loved it
and the past tense it will remain 'cuz it's started to straighten out in the last two months
why
July 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
i have a relatively negative self image - mostly brain worm driven, yes - but the one thing i've always liked is having curly hair, with a minimum amount of work it could look real good
i loved it
and the past tense it will remain 'cuz it's started to straighten out in the last two months
why
i loved it
and the past tense it will remain 'cuz it's started to straighten out in the last two months
why
What perfect albums came out when you were 16
![The album cover of Chemical Brothers - Surrender
It's a stylized surreal concert in an airplane hanger. With yellow ground in the foreground, a crowd of comprised of a repeated image of several people reclining and the top of the hanger in monochromatic blue. There is a person standing in the front right cover with head thrown back and arms spread in celebration.
A description of the creation of the cover from Wikipedia:
"The album and singles artwork were provided by London-based silkscreen artist and illustrator Kate Gibb, using screen prints of photographs found in the Hulton Picture Library. Gibb also went on to illustrate the Chemical Brothers albums Come with Us, We Are the Night, and Brotherhood. The cover image was a treatment of a photograph called Jesus Amongst the Fans taken by Richard Young at The Great British Music Festival at the Kensington Olympia in 1976. The "Jesus" in question was a music fan called William Jellett, who had adopted the divine moniker and was often seen dancing ecstatically at concerts across the UK from the 1960s to the 1990s. His "miracles" were to give dried fruit and nuts to strangers.[3][4] Ed Simons said of the album cover in Q magazine, "We liked the idea of everyone else sitting down and being chilled out and just one person really getting it, like one of our gigs in the Midwest, actually". The magazine stated, however, in February 1999 the duo were confronted with a novel problem: they had, in Simons' words "about two weeks" to sort out an album cover, plan a live show, and do endless promotional duties in Japan. At one point, the image that was used as the single cover for "Out of Control", released later in 1999, was intended to be the album cover of Surrender."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sqqybtukfkeztajbdoam7wqf/bafkreidsqt36ocgbq63vwh3zlv7m2s4f4fmughfcwqq2vjftpqpmkmdlja@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
What perfect albums came out when you were 16
this is my second year at basscoast and i think im done with festivals. I’ve gone to several in the last few years and there’s never any music i like at the ones that i can get to. it’s just most of a week sitting in a field dying of allergies end capped by doing all of the pack up and tear down.
July 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this is my second year at basscoast and i think im done with festivals. I’ve gone to several in the last few years and there’s never any music i like at the ones that i can get to. it’s just most of a week sitting in a field dying of allergies end capped by doing all of the pack up and tear down.
it’s amazing how much more energy and how much better my mood is when i actually take my hormones on the regular instead of somehow being two months behind my prescription
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
it’s amazing how much more energy and how much better my mood is when i actually take my hormones on the regular instead of somehow being two months behind my prescription
the camera work is janky and i can’t synthesize worth shit but -i- can build simple eurorack modules on my first go. peach and gelato from wgd modular
June 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
the camera work is janky and i can’t synthesize worth shit but -i- can build simple eurorack modules on my first go. peach and gelato from wgd modular
I really wish something wouldn’t go wrong every time single time I try to squeeze a little drop of joy out of life
i’m so fucking tired of this
i’m so fucking tired of this
May 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I really wish something wouldn’t go wrong every time single time I try to squeeze a little drop of joy out of life
i’m so fucking tired of this
i’m so fucking tired of this
i had an appointment with the local trans id clinic to get a lawyer to go over my paper work. no issues, yay.
all i need to to do now is get a background check and i can burst forth from my selfsame chrysalis, in six to eight months, as Jess Hamantha [Redacted]
all i need to to do now is get a background check and i can burst forth from my selfsame chrysalis, in six to eight months, as Jess Hamantha [Redacted]
May 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
i had an appointment with the local trans id clinic to get a lawyer to go over my paper work. no issues, yay.
all i need to to do now is get a background check and i can burst forth from my selfsame chrysalis, in six to eight months, as Jess Hamantha [Redacted]
all i need to to do now is get a background check and i can burst forth from my selfsame chrysalis, in six to eight months, as Jess Hamantha [Redacted]