Tom
@winteryserpent.bsky.social
Tired trans masc nerd who needs a break. Loves reading. Quite possibly a lich.
First post here in months and it's a reblog about endangered giant flightless parrots getting it on with each other. Beautiful.
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
First post here in months and it's a reblog about endangered giant flightless parrots getting it on with each other. Beautiful.
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Really happy to end the year yelling THE PARROTS ARE FUCKING because if you know the deal with Kakapo, then this is the best news for their species.
First mating of the 2026 #kakapo breeding season! True to form, it was Pearl and Boss on Whenua Hou, who mated on the night of 28th Dec. They were also the first two to mate in the last two breeding seasons. We're expecting a bumper year, so follow for updates! #conservation #parrots
December 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Really happy to end the year yelling THE PARROTS ARE FUCKING because if you know the deal with Kakapo, then this is the best news for their species.
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The wizard is having lunch with the librarians. He brought noodles and they brought scallions, guavas and chicken.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The wizard is having lunch with the librarians. He brought noodles and they brought scallions, guavas and chicken.
I've been struggling a lot and am really in need of help ASAP. My internet connection has already been turned off and my phone is probably going to be disconnected in a day or two. You can donate to help me at my gofundme below. #mutual_aid
gofund.me/601e08e4
gofund.me/601e08e4
Donate to Support Thomas in Overcoming Financial Struggles, organized by Tom Zurkan
Hello, my name is Thomas Zurkan and I am currently unemployed and struggli… Tom Zurkan needs your support for Support Thomas in Overcoming Financial Struggles
gofund.me
July 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I've been struggling a lot and am really in need of help ASAP. My internet connection has already been turned off and my phone is probably going to be disconnected in a day or two. You can donate to help me at my gofundme below. #mutual_aid
gofund.me/601e08e4
gofund.me/601e08e4
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People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Amazon's changing the way the Kindle works on Tuesday, so if you want to download and de-DRM your books, you have until the 26th to get it done. I wrote a quick how-to, for anyone who is interested: next.content.town/p/kindle-drm...
The Kindle DRM Deadline is Approaching!
On the 26th, Amazon is disabling a feature that makes backing up your Kindle eBooks easy. You have a couple of days to download them before it’s too late
next.content.town
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Amazon's changing the way the Kindle works on Tuesday, so if you want to download and de-DRM your books, you have until the 26th to get it done. I wrote a quick how-to, for anyone who is interested: next.content.town/p/kindle-drm...
I really need to keep an eye on this event because I'd like to go. I'm not a game designer yet but I do have an interest.
Game designers within a reasonable distances to Harrisburg (that includes NY, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, etc). Harrisburg Board Game Day is looking for designers to join us in July. It's a free event! www.hbgalliance.org/events/harri...
Harrisburg Board Game Day — Harrisburg Board Game Alliance
Discover a new world of tabletop fun at Harrisburg Board Game Day on July 12, hosted by the Harrisburg Board Game Alliance at Strawberry Square in Harrisburg, PA. This free board game event (9 a.m. – ...
www.hbgalliance.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I really need to keep an eye on this event because I'd like to go. I'm not a game designer yet but I do have an interest.
In one of the discord servers I'm in, I am organizing a live read of the play Julius Caesar during March with act three planned for the 15th.
It's even perfectly topical because it's a classics book club discord and there is an intense passion for the late Roman Republic there.
It's even perfectly topical because it's a classics book club discord and there is an intense passion for the late Roman Republic there.
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
In one of the discord servers I'm in, I am organizing a live read of the play Julius Caesar during March with act three planned for the 15th.
It's even perfectly topical because it's a classics book club discord and there is an intense passion for the late Roman Republic there.
It's even perfectly topical because it's a classics book club discord and there is an intense passion for the late Roman Republic there.
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my pride pieces are still available to license with minimal restriction, PWYW min. $5.
make patches, screenprint, take to protests, whatever your heart desires.
ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/sho...
make patches, screenprint, take to protests, whatever your heart desires.
ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/sho...
February 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
my pride pieces are still available to license with minimal restriction, PWYW min. $5.
make patches, screenprint, take to protests, whatever your heart desires.
ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/sho...
make patches, screenprint, take to protests, whatever your heart desires.
ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/sho...
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The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....
www.federalregister.gov
February 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
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Fantastic Fiction: Trans Writers in the 20th Century?: Ask anyone who was the first trans person to win a Hugo Award and they will probably say "Charlie Jane Anders", back in 2012. I think my 2009 win is probably the first by an out trans person, but I wa…
Fantastic Fiction: Trans Writers in the 20th Century?
Ask anyone who was the first trans person to win a Hugo Award and they will probably say "Charlie Jane Anders", back in 2012. I think my 2009 win is probably the first by an out trans person, but I wasn't...
buff.ly
February 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Fantastic Fiction: Trans Writers in the 20th Century?: Ask anyone who was the first trans person to win a Hugo Award and they will probably say "Charlie Jane Anders", back in 2012. I think my 2009 win is probably the first by an out trans person, but I wa…
Somehow slept through Valentine's Day because of depression not caused by my lack of a partner to celebrate with but by something else. A win I guess?
February 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Somehow slept through Valentine's Day because of depression not caused by my lack of a partner to celebrate with but by something else. A win I guess?
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I've done so much research on Mari Lwyd in the last week that I got the pwnco tune stuck in my head
December 11, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I've done so much research on Mari Lwyd in the last week that I got the pwnco tune stuck in my head
I posted about the weirdest RPF community I ever witnessed in response to a skeet* last night and I think I may have caused some flashbacks related to the internet trenches in some people. I may be dying of laughter.
*i am not sure how comfortable I am with "skeet" as a term.
*i am not sure how comfortable I am with "skeet" as a term.
February 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I posted about the weirdest RPF community I ever witnessed in response to a skeet* last night and I think I may have caused some flashbacks related to the internet trenches in some people. I may be dying of laughter.
*i am not sure how comfortable I am with "skeet" as a term.
*i am not sure how comfortable I am with "skeet" as a term.
Tonight I also learned how to post a gif that was saved on my phone to Bluesky after several failed attempts.
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Tonight I also learned how to post a gif that was saved on my phone to Bluesky after several failed attempts.
Congrats to Philly on their Superbowl win, love you all and the chaos you commit.
(Can Swoop stop implying he would eat the mascot for the Baltimore Ravens now? Or is the tail pulling a bit too much still?)
(Can Swoop stop implying he would eat the mascot for the Baltimore Ravens now? Or is the tail pulling a bit too much still?)
February 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Congrats to Philly on their Superbowl win, love you all and the chaos you commit.
(Can Swoop stop implying he would eat the mascot for the Baltimore Ravens now? Or is the tail pulling a bit too much still?)
(Can Swoop stop implying he would eat the mascot for the Baltimore Ravens now? Or is the tail pulling a bit too much still?)
Also like we say "eat the rich" but whenever I mention that I want to each a specific rich person everyone tells me that they would taste gross or not be nutritious or make me sick.
Like why can't you just commit to the bit and speculate on what kind of sauce would best go with them?
Like why can't you just commit to the bit and speculate on what kind of sauce would best go with them?
January 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Also like we say "eat the rich" but whenever I mention that I want to each a specific rich person everyone tells me that they would taste gross or not be nutritious or make me sick.
Like why can't you just commit to the bit and speculate on what kind of sauce would best go with them?
Like why can't you just commit to the bit and speculate on what kind of sauce would best go with them?
I hate rich people so much because they could help people so much but they don't because they're selfish fucks who just want the rest of us to suffer just so they can get more money.
Like give me a tiny fraction of your fucking money so I can actually recover from being burnt out.
Like give me a tiny fraction of your fucking money so I can actually recover from being burnt out.
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I hate rich people so much because they could help people so much but they don't because they're selfish fucks who just want the rest of us to suffer just so they can get more money.
Like give me a tiny fraction of your fucking money so I can actually recover from being burnt out.
Like give me a tiny fraction of your fucking money so I can actually recover from being burnt out.
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Gritty continues to be a real one
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gritty continues to be a real one
Re: last reblog, someone should just offer me a job. Being trans and unemployed right now makes me really worried about getting a job now that the new administration is in power.
January 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Re: last reblog, someone should just offer me a job. Being trans and unemployed right now makes me really worried about getting a job now that the new administration is in power.
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alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
Telling people to create more and weirder is fine, but no one is going to give the creatives actual money to live on while they create. Instead we get burnt out by soul sucking jobs and despair that we're not strong enough to create under these conditions.
January 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Telling people to create more and weirder is fine, but no one is going to give the creatives actual money to live on while they create. Instead we get burnt out by soul sucking jobs and despair that we're not strong enough to create under these conditions.
This is a magical thing I need.
So hey, let’s start off 2025 maybe making somebody’s life better in a small tangible way. What is a small practical thing—object, lifehack, whatever—that solved a small annoyance for you?
For me, did you know you can buy clips with elastic specifically to hold the corner of your fitted sheet on?
For me, did you know you can buy clips with elastic specifically to hold the corner of your fitted sheet on?
January 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is a magical thing I need.