Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@inscrutablejoy.bsky.social

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She/her, grumpy sometimes, safe to talk to unless you're shitty

Met Office science manager Amy Doherty said: “We’re only halfway through summer, yet 2026 has already delivered more days above 30C than the whole of 1976 and become the first year on record to reach 35C in May, June and July.
Text only logo for the US version of Wimpy's Burgers and Fries
Screenshot of email notice that the account is no longer scheduled for disconnection
Screenshot of disconnect notice email showing $233.03 due 28 May
The bullet-riddled airplane diagram from the Wikipedia entry on survivorship bias
Fluffy black and white cat with a pink nose and very long whiskers, staring intensely into the camera
Noir detective wearing a fedora, having a conversation with a young woman, with no in-image captions
Woman turns from a condescending conversation and stares directly into the camera, breaking the fourth wall
Photograph of busy intersection with over a dozen street signs cluttered to the point that it would be impossible to read them all while driving, captioned "there were no signs"
Settlers of Catan
Zillow listing for a house that looks very haunted, it's the archetypal "spooky old house," with tall looming architecture, a tower on one side, and a somewhat run-down appearance. This 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house of 2000 square feet in Cairo Illinois is listed at only $7500.
Detail of a "legacy web" screenshot featuring a link to COGIATI, an extremely flawed, outdated, stereotyping and brainwormed gender quiz that takes itself entirely too seriously
Guy in a suit large enough to fit three of him
Circular badge with the text "Union strong, Union proud" and the sunset lesbian flag as a circular inset in the middle
Photo of eccentric Memphis personality Prince Mongo wearing a long blonde wig, steampunk goggles, some sort of beaded tiara, and a red satin jacket, captioned "don't blame me I voted for Prince Mongo"
Round patch in the style of US gun culture, a modified version of a skull and crossed pistols logo that originally said "When guns are outlawed I will be an outlaw" but now says "when estradiol is outlawed I will be an outlaw" with crossed syringes in place of the pistols
Extremely low-effort edit of a photo of a package of Johnsonville homestyle meatballs, where the word Johnsonville has been replaced with the word Peckinville
A guy wearing an egg costume, looking pensively through an open closet door.
Stick figure drawing of a transition timeline, on the left is a sad stick figure with an emoji head labeled "0 months" and on the right is a much happier emoji headed stick figure wearing a pink skirt but her head emoji is tilted appropriately 45 degrees from upright
Detail of screenshot from the Discord app, showing 26 positive reactions to a repost of the photos of the mug; it's a niche channel on a niche server so that's significantly more interaction than the typical post
Film poster for Fucking Åmål (1998), released in English as Show Me Love
Popup email notification from Eye Buy Direct: ICYMI: Transitions are for everyone! 🌟
Victorian-era Newspaper ad for The Princess Bust Developer And Bust Cream Or Food, which sounds like it's somehow SEO optimized 100 years before that was a thing I personally wonder how many Victorian trans women tried this product, and whether they had any kind of positive results
Worst Person You Know meme guy, but wearing a powdered wig
Quote from WTOP article about Virginia governor election results Earle-Sears Drew attention to transgender students in public schools and reducing the cost of living.
Two photos of Vinnie Vincent, on the left in full Kiss stage makeup as the Wizard circa 1983, and on the left in 2024 as that one cool lesbian aunt who stays mildly buzzed through holiday dinners, tells stories of adventures on her motorcycle and gives the teenagers gifts that raise the parents' blood pressure
Meme from the film the incredibles Syndrome's big villain speech, with the text "when everyone's lesbian, no one will be"
Hand holding three boxed medicine vials, the packaging is holographic and borderline pornographic
DVD cover for the film Tuck Everlasting, 2002
Gru staring worriedly at a blank whiteboard
Strip mall featuring a Sears and a Radio Shack, both of which are still open for business
Screenshot from an online shopping site of a jar lid wrench on sale for US $6.09
Screenshot of my tweet from September 16 2021 One look at a bottle of injectable estradiol valerate with a handful of typos and a goth anime girl on the label and for some reason my endo is extremely eager to please
Duolingo example sentence for translation I leave in the morning with the boy and I return with the girl.
Flynn Ryder surrounded by swords pointed at his throat
"oh no baby what is you doing" meme
Shannon Hoon on stage at Woodstock 94 on August 14 1994, wearing a dress, makeup and hair clips and looking more alive and free than in any other publicly available performance
Snowy trees in the background behind a meadow with sparse grasses poking through a 6 inch layer of white fluffy snow. In a tiny gap in the trees a two lane rural highway is visible, covered in a completely undisturbed blanket of powder, as the people who live around and beyond our little hamlet do their best to stay cozy and warm at home. When the snows come the mountain people here turn inward, do what we need to do on our own homesteads, and hold our families close.
Screenshot from The Princess Bride where Wesley tells Buttercup that both cups were poisoned but he spent years building up an immunity to iocane powder.
Flight of the Concords meme First man says I'm all for ending this oppressive system but only if we do it without violence. Second man replies So... By magic?
Photo of a non-operational cyber truck surrounded by farm animals who are definitely going to damage the finish. Photo caption in image: A cybertruck owner visiting his in-laws at a farm in West Virginia says he found himself in a unique situation when he learned it would take 6 days for his cybertruck to charge enough to be able to make it to the nearest supercharger.
Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt promotional photo from the 1990s Honestly? This would fix me
Screenshot from @katastrophe1312.bsky.social And doomerism is compliance in advance
San Francisco Gay Men's Choir, with the seven members who survived the Reagan Administration's policies dressed in white while several times more are dressed in black to represent each member who didn't
A resurfaced photo on social media shows the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the world’s first openly gay choir and one of the world’s largest male choruses, and its harrowing history with the AIDS epidemic. In the now-viral portrait, the majority of the men are dressed in black, some in white. The singers in white represent the remaining living members of the original choir, while those in black represent those lost to AIDS. Dr Stan Hill, the choir’s conductor from 1989 to 2000, calls the epidemic era “the world of times”, and says he spent every Wednesday and Sunday visiting sick members in hospital. Members who died of AIDS, and other causes, became known as the choir’s ‘Fifth Section’. One choir member, Michael Jay Stauffer Joyce, commented on a recent Facebook share of the photo, which was originally taken in 1993. “I am a member of SFGMC and so is my husband,” Joyce said. He explained that in the spring of 2018, the choir did a recreation of the photo (see below). “There are now 305 members in our fifth section. A few fifth section members I have known and miss them dearly.” The AIDS virus was first clearly identified in San Francisco in the early 1980s. According to the Foundation for AIDS Research, the virus had killed more than 234,000 people in the US by the end of 1993. Since the beginning of the epidemic, an estimated 700,000 people have died of HIV/AIDS in the US, and nearly 13,000 people in the US die of AIDS every year. A powerful caption above the photo of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus on Facebook, reads: “Remember this when people say the gay community survived the epidemic. We had to start over because we lost a whole generation.” Source: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/san-francisco-gay-mens-chorus-aids-epidemic/
Image of the 10,000 year nuclear hazard deterrent sculpture
Deadname "I do not see it" meme, originally about PayPal, but edited with the Cash App logo; two smiley emojis with their eyes closed as one hands the other some money.
Screenshot of a skeet from aspen's pinned thread: AT THIS POINT I'M READING TBC IF YOU GIVE ME SPOILERS I WILL EAT YOU
A young Joni Mitchell playing Appalachian dulcimer
Album art for the Elton John album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Screenshot of account "more bubbles" @poppedpe.bsky.social
Duolingo app icon with a shattered mirror effect
Avengers "that's my secret, Cap" meme with the trans flag superimposed over Bruce Banner's face
A large, sturdy reusable syringe made for injecting ground meat into sausage casing. There are three different nozzles ranging from 1.5 cm to 2.3 cm diameter. When assembled the unit is over 40 cm long.