Nina Paley

"Based-as-fuck TERF HOST" of Heterodorx.com
"...that badass chick with a web comic who's a free software activist"
Lesbian-adjacent Car Exclusionary Radical Bicyclist.
Recovering heterosexual.
Preferred pronouns: English.

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2026-04-20 14:59:50 UTC

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1992:
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2026-03-05 01:28:18 UTC

My new dance shoes arrived. These are way more comfortable than the others, and better made. I think I'll be able to do a lot of hopping around in these puppies.
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2026-03-02 17:11:52 UTC

Bits of this song got stuck in my head for weeks, and I didn't know the title or words or how to find it again. Fortunately I just came across it (thanks to listening to 1920's-30's song collections every day) and now I share it with you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FLHejuQYA&t=4631s

2026-02-25 01:22:42 UTC

New Heterodorx podcast! Episode 189: (Potential) Panic at the Farmer's Market! https://heterodorx.substack.com/p/episode-189-potential-panic-at-the
Nina weighs the pros and cons of offering her delicious chocolate Terffles at the local Farmer’s Market, while Cori is motivated by lulz. Is it a chocolate thing, or a gender thing? Which wins: love, humor, or domination? Can Cori work on the Sabbath? How can 2 things be true?? Plus: social climate change, Tranndies, just another trans male mass murderer, sex-denying journalists, cats, and the weather.

2026-01-18 02:02:26 UTC

WHICH BOX???
The all-green is nice, but the multicolor showcases some of the different background patterns that appear throughout the deck.
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2026-01-16 21:11:05 UTC

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Okay, done. Is it okay now?

2026-01-16 21:07:05 UTC

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Re-phrase it how?

2026-01-16 20:49:19 UTC

Oh right I can upload a video directly to Spinster! 'Cause it doesn't seem to embed the one on youtube. More info on the Disabling Impairments playing cards is at https://store.ninapaley.com/disabling-impairments/
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2026-01-11 22:19:35 UTC

Which cardback color scheme is the best? A, B, C or D?
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2025-12-22 19:35:07 UTC

All 4 Queens (cancer) from the SSDI Blue Book deck.
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2025-12-19 18:42:05 UTC

My 2025 Year In review: https://ninapaley.com/2025/12/19/my-2025-year-in-review/

2025-12-15 17:49:59 UTC

All 4 Jacks are done now, from category 12 of the SSDI Blue Book, Mental Disorders. The latest Jack, Diamonds, is OCD. Now onto...CANCERS!
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2025-12-14 20:19:11 UTC

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It’s practical for hanging around the house and getting shed on by two cats. Which is basically what I do all winter.

2025-12-14 20:18:12 UTC

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Yup it’s gonna be mine (was offered a discount by the seller).

2025-12-14 17:38:27 UTC

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Why wouldn't I wear it??

2025-12-14 15:42:41 UTC

Should I buy this? https://poshmark.com/listing/Icelandic-Design-Long-Wool-Cardigan-Nordic-Scandi-Medium-Black-Tan-6920ae9274cb47979bcdd1ed

2025-12-14 13:23:39 UTC

Happy Fucking Hanukkah.
Goddamn it.

2025-11-10 14:08:25 UTC

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2025-11-10 13:58:10 UTC

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Yes, and it’s exceptionally clean and cozy right now. Nice to wake up to.

2025-11-10 13:57:24 UTC

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On my chest. I got back into my cozy bed after taking these pictures.

2025-11-10 12:55:27 UTC

Good morning
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2025-11-05 15:13:48 UTC

I'm super excited that my new corded vacuum cleaner is arriving today!
That means either I have a healthy Attitude of Gratitude, or that I'm beyond pathetic.

2025-10-10 14:53:09 UTC

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Horny?

2025-10-03 15:59:24 UTC

This was a funny song from 8 years ago that I enjoyed as a Jew, making light fun of the grimness of Jewish history and thus every Jewish holiday.
The comments are laced with overt antisemitism now. The comments make me sad. Current events make me sad.
I'm so tired of overt antisemitism. I'm not religious. I am a Jew by heritage and ethnicity. It is shocking and increasingly numbing, how much western antisemitism lay latent as I grew up feeling safe in America. I thought focusing so much attention "remembering" the crimes against Jews of history was foolish. Turns out I was the fool. Humanity was even worse than I thought, which is saying a lot.
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2025-10-02 18:37:02 UTC

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Acetaminophen is the only painkiller I’m allowed because Crohn’s disease. I used to prefer naproxen but Tylenol works well enough for me.

2025-08-24 17:51:45 UTC

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Prophets be like that

2025-08-24 14:11:55 UTC

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I hope it grows out!

2025-08-23 21:26:43 UTC

God help me, I might name him Squiggie.
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2025-08-21 01:13:57 UTC

This morning I felt good about having the mobile vet give George his first “wellness visit” and mandatory FVRCP and rabies vaccines. Until about 10 minutes after she left, when George started vomiting violently, meowing piteously, and shitting on my bed. He was having a severe Vaccine Reaction (which is supposedly rare, lucky us) and had to immediately go to the U of I Vet Med animal hospital emergency room, where he was put in an oxygen cage and sedated. After 1.5 hours in the waiting room the doctor said she wanted to keep him a couple more hours for observation, but he was stable. At 2:30 pm I got to take him home, whereupon he immediately gave himself a splash bath in his water dish. I am supposed to give him more Benadryl tomorrow but his prognosis is good.
I didn’t tell the vet that I will never, ever get him vaccinated again.
Truly a terrifying day.
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2025-08-11 00:08:50 UTC

I've been canceled since 2017 for saying women don't have penises. I was especially enthusiastically canceled in the animation industry. Now "Women in Animation", an organization that privileges deranged men, is called out by actual feminist organization WoLF: https://substack.com/@sexrealitybites/note/c-138616803?r=4cnr5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2025-07-30 13:12:53 UTC

I just splashed out $720 for a new saline nebulizing system that will supposedly cut my nebbing time by at least one third. That's an hour every 3 days. 120 hours a year. So I reclaimed 5 days per year for $720!

2025-07-28 15:36:09 UTC

I can just look at him all day and go "Oh my God, you are so cute. Oh my God."
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2025-07-22 20:29:06 UTC

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Drum it to me or I won’t believe it.

2025-07-08 16:43:38 UTC

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I get up before dawn to bike in the cool with the sunrise, but that’s not for everyone.

2025-07-02 19:46:36 UTC

A grief-fueled hundred mile bike ride dedicated to the memory of my beloved Lola.
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2025-06-30 14:59:36 UTC

Rest in peace, sweet Lola.
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2025-06-16 13:51:33 UTC

On the one hand, Lola is the sweetest cat in the world and I love her.
On the other hand, I increasingly wonder if it’s safe for me to live with her. I am handling so much cat shit, often soft-diarrhetic cat shit, because she poops 3x a day and at least once or twice a day on the floor. I have to handle all that poop while I’m especially vulnerable to infections (due to requiring an immunosuppressant drug for Crohn's disease, and now Bronchiectasis, neither condition did I have when we adopted her lo those many years ago), all kinds of infections that most people don’t have to worry about, infections of everyday bacteria. I have to clean the mat she poops on every day, there’s inevitably some backsplash even when I use the garden hose in the driveway. I’m worried for myself but don’t know what else to do. (Shit pix on request.)
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2025-05-25 19:04:49 UTC

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I’m not a boomer, I’m gen X. But since Covid I seem much older because it knocked a decade or two off my midlife. I’m accumulating conditions commoner to people in their 70’s or 80’s, while I just turned 57.

2025-05-25 18:41:21 UTC

Yet another vat of lentil soup. I usually only make this once or twice a year and freeze, but I have been so sick this year I ate 4 vats of reserves already (couldn’t eat much else). Hopefully this is the last one I will need for a while.
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2025-05-23 02:57:33 UTC

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How did you find that?

2025-05-22 19:17:25 UTC

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I mean, they still have nodules and granulomas and bronchiectasis, but they're pretty good under those circumstances!

2025-05-22 19:04:19 UTC

finally met with my assigned pulmonologist today!
My bronchiectasis is mild. My “ground glass opacities” are nodules and granulomas which look benign and are currently small enough to warrant only monitoring. Bloodwork indicates my symptoms are mostly from infections, not allergies, and I am slowly recovering from those infections.
She said I’m on the right track with nebulizing saline and nasal lavage, although “God gives us mucus for a reason” so I’m not to rinse my sinuses more than 3x per day, 2x per day preferred. I must continue masking in public and avoiding infections like the plague, which they are for me now. Both the Skyrizi (monoclonal antibody medication for treating Crohn's) and Crohn’s Disease itself make me extra vulnerable to infection, and yes, Crohn’s may be expressing itself in my lungs. Oh yeah also I'm old now, she reminded me.
It looks like I’m recovering from the worst of my infections, which I believe were RSV in March and adenovirus in April, plus something bacterial because I responded to antiobotics and anti bacterial eyedrops (pinkeye was but one of many symptoms). I need to accept infections may last a lot longer and be more severe than I thought normal.
After I take another month to recover, I will go back for lung capacity tests and an EKG to see how my heart’s doing. The pulmonologist guided me through my CT scans, pointing out granulomas, nodules, and bronchiectasis, and said several times how good my lungs looked. I still gots capacity!
Pix are of me killing time with the plastic lung model while waiting for the pulmonologist to arrive. I was with a friend who took these photos and also notes, for which I am very grateful.
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2025-05-09 20:03:00 UTC

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I’m part of this movement, for sure.
However,
Sports might be necessary for social functioning in ways we don’t understand. Like religion, or possibly even war/militaries, just getting rid of it might have very bad unintended consequences. So who am I to tell people not to watch sports? I don’t think people should have kids either, but even I know society can’t continue if everyone were like me.

2025-04-30 01:58:27 UTC

I got me a cute little portable CO2 monitor, as part of my "I am immunocompromised and don't want to get sick 8 weeks at a time from 'minor' illnesses that don't even give other people symptoms" lifestyle. In addition to wearing a mask in enclosed public spaces, thus making me look like an idiot and/or crazy person (or "shitlib" as @nprofile…j4tv would say), this little device will tell me when to run away from poorly ventilated/overly exhaled-in rooms.
It displayed 789 when I first brought it into my office, so I opened a window and turned on the ceiling fan and now it's down to 567. Fun!
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2025-04-29 13:46:32 UTC

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She completely nailed my asshole -- sorry, moron -- brother.

2025-04-29 13:40:32 UTC

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I want the bra with too many cups.

2025-04-26 14:03:09 UTC

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Wait, do I more resemble Sall Grover or Tilda Swinton??

2025-04-22 23:50:20 UTC

Nosebleed. (Plus bonus eye gunk from conjunctivitis.)
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2025-04-21 11:06:50 UTC

Good morning. The conjunctivitis is in both eyes and the 5 am nosebleed came from the right nostril, making both right and left nostrils neck in neck (nostril in nostril) with 2 nosebleeds each since yesterday. Symmetry! That’s a Nampon up my nose. They’re a godsend.
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2025-04-08 03:06:51 UTC

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Today I did a $150 Drawing for someone who probably doesn't know about the ChatGPT 4o art generator.
Prompt I received was:
"Roller Derby If possible, with the number 911 and name “Boomslang.”"
I texted it to Cori, who then put a similar prompt into ChatGPT. But he asked for a "middle aged woman" first for some reason: "A cartoon of a roller derby woman. She is middle aged with curly hair wearing all protective gear. The cartoon is black-and-white in the style of the movies Sita Sings the Blues and/or Seder Masochism." He was not as impressed with the results as I was; I especially liked the 3-legged one. I asked him to request Ghibli style and make her younger. The result should please anyone wanting custom art. Finally he requested a Betty Boop version, stippled instead of grayscale.
My point is, AI art has already turned my world upside-down, and anyone who doesn't recognize its power is not paying attention or in denial. I knew this from the moment I saw the early DALL-E images, like the astronaut riding a horse. I knew things would never be the same. People would argue, "but all the extra fingers!" like that problem wouldn't be solved swiftly.
I'm not opposed to AI, just in awe of it. In some ways I am ahead of the game, having been canceled since 2017. I have already adjusted to obscurity. I admit to some schadenfreude anticipating the mediocre artists who canceled me -- for canceling is nowhere more extreme and vicious than in the arts, my former industries of animation, illustration, and comics having fully excommunicated me -- soon to lose everything because of AI, like I lost everything to them being assholes. At least they're losing to something smarter and more talented than themselves, I didn't have that pleasure.
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2025-04-06 23:07:43 UTC

After much deliberation I finally bought a Ninja SP151 combo toaster oven/air fryer, albeit discounted as "used" (it was brand new, just not in the original box). It arrived yesterday. I have used it 4 times in the last 24 hours and I really like it so far. Much quieter than my previous air fryer, and much more versatile as it replaces my toaster oven too. It's very fast. Fresh breadsticks/rolls in about 6 minutes. Have also used it to re-crisp fried Chinese takeout, with good results. It does indeed flip out of the way easily, and doesn't look too bad on the counter.
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2025-04-04 18:19:02 UTC

I was sick for a month! https://blog.ninapaley.com/2025/04/04/why-cant-i-be-sick-like-a-normal-person/
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2025-03-27 16:19:47 UTC

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Could you ask Heb to unblock me? I can’t read what you are replying to.

2025-02-28 21:16:30 UTC

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Oh god. I hate it.
I really, really hope that @nprofile…9syc and Andrew Doyle are cooking up an actually good sitcom.

2025-02-24 01:58:53 UTC

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Huh. I got the shot this year, is it supposed to be any good?

2025-02-21 14:00:27 UTC

My orange fluffy cat, Momo, seems to be dying, although who knows, he can't tell me. Declining for months, losing fluff, eating less and less, becoming bony, having diarrhea for weeks now. Dragged him to the vet despite promising him I wouldn't (he gets massively stressed, unlike other cat Lola). X-ray was inconclusive, next step to diagnose would require exploratory surgery. I had to decide, I decided against, because surgery likely wouldn't cure whatever they found and he's already weak and sick. They gave me anti-nausea pills and appetite stimulant ear cream and a bag of fluid and a bunch of needles they attempted to train me to use for sub-cutaneous hydration: I had to poke my poor kitty with a big needle, I wanted to collapse or run away but I did it. They gave me Prednisone (steroid) tablets to crush up and mix with his food. I did so, and with the appetite stimulant he ate; then he shat it all out in a massive episode of diarrhea, and I decided no more appetite stimulant, that's just cruel. He eats a little, only a very little, and growls at Lola whom he used to love, and sleeps up against the heat vent which he never used to do. But sometimes he still scratches his scratching post, and grooms himself, and even licks Lola, and snuggles me. Sometimes there's a spark in his eye again. Sometimes there isn't.
While writing about Momo this morning, Lola barfed on the rug next to me. Could have been worse; she could have barfed on the socks that lay just inches away. Could always be worse. I love cats but lately having cats seems like a terrible idea. I know times like this are part of the job but it feels like it will go on forever and my heart breaks every day and we're not even at the worst yet.
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2025-02-19 16:01:23 UTC

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I hope so. There's still a lot of mess.
I don't know if a better way could have been found. I wanted to believe this was the best option but I'm not sure.
Something had to be done, just not sure it was exactly this.

2025-02-19 15:57:10 UTC

USAID seems to be rife with corruption and long overdue for an audit
AND
despite that, some of its projects are worthy and crucial
AND
smashing everything immediately is causing more damage than an orderly audit and paring-down, although I don't know if the latter was possible
AND
what a mess

2025-02-15 20:31:18 UTC

Has anyone else watched "The Substance"? OMG.

2025-01-23 22:57:10 UTC

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I approve of your decision.

2025-01-14 21:01:28 UTC

You would think Conservatives and Liberals could agree on both immigration and abortion policy.
Both should be safe and legal.
Hosts get to control their borders and say who gets in and who stays out.
The needs, desires, and boundaries of the host take precedence over the needs of the visitors.
If someone is turned back at the border, it might be tragic but it's not the host's problem.

2025-01-05 19:14:04 UTC

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Your space looks fantastic.

2025-01-02 03:52:28 UTC

Happy Last Night of Hanukkah!
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2024-12-30 02:06:22 UTC

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Judge TERF and her wife gave me a whole bunch of saffron from Morocco. So I’m putting it in things.

2024-12-30 01:30:35 UTC

Spuds dauphinoise with saffron. Sadly there’s no one else here to enjoy my delicious cooking, either because I am a failure at relationships, or because I can’t stand people, or both.
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2024-12-11 16:42:15 UTC

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Lots of cream and butter, as well as cheese, garlic, fresh thyme, and pepper.

2024-12-10 22:32:17 UTC

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This is the potatoes dauphinoise I made last night.
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2024-12-09 19:08:30 UTC

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I was arguing with a middle-aged male friend who has no children. So he's not being smug about him having them and me not; he's being a jerk about "alas I shall never have children, anything else I accomplish in life is meaningless" and I'm like thanks, dude, for implying my life is meaningless also, and he's like "well it kinda is."

2024-12-09 16:21:38 UTC

I am very angry about pronatalism today. Have all the kids you want, but stop belittling women who choose not to.

2024-11-21 03:20:39 UTC

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You are not alone re cabbage.

2024-11-15 01:24:38 UTC

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The Spoonflower link is in the description; it goes directly to https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/18043106-recovery-gloves-womens-medium-unisex-small-by-ninapaley
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2024-11-14 20:08:40 UTC

Gloves for sale! Finally. I only have a few pairs of each design right now, I sew these myself and have some more fabric coming soon but am definitely not mass-producing them on my dining room table. https://store.ninapaley.com/product/recovery-glovery/

2024-11-10 01:47:03 UTC

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Yup the choices this election were both terrible.
Still, I marvel at the relief I actually felt when Kamala lost. I expected it to be offset by the disaster that is Trump, but I was mostly happy (despite not voting for him).

2024-11-08 20:08:48 UTC

I'm worried a significant minority of Americans are going to die of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

2024-11-06 14:01:18 UTC

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Democrats gonna be drinking a whole lot more now, and they can afford it. French winemakers should be celebrating!

2024-10-14 18:32:26 UTC

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Holy crap these men.

2024-10-04 16:09:14 UTC

I wrote this in 2017. There's less than one year left until my prediction expires. https://blog.ninapaley.com/2017/03/23/the-banality-of-stupid/

2024-09-16 23:12:37 UTC

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Jesus christ they're not "transsexual biological advantages" they're MALE biological advantages. No one cares if they're "trans," we care if they're MALE.

2024-09-06 00:32:07 UTC

Has any evidence yet emerged indicating whether Audrey Hale was on exogenous testosterone? Even if not medically prescribed, she could have obtained it through other channels.

2024-08-26 14:54:21 UTC

This morning I rose at dawn, emptied the dishwasher, cleaned the guest room & bathroom, washed the sheets & towels, did a grocery shop at Meijer (by bike), cleaned the rear wheel of my other bike that keeps getting flats and installed new rim tape that FINALLY arrived last night, put in new tube and tire & reinstalled on bike & test rode, made guest bed with fresh sheets, & vacuumed half the house. That’s the domestic equivalent of riding 100km.

2024-08-24 20:35:14 UTC

A lil' essay I wrote back in April and neglected to post until today, when the topic came up in conversation.
https://blog.ninapaley.com/2024/08/24/a-little-poison/

2024-08-24 01:34:16 UTC

Murder mitten
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2024-08-18 15:47:15 UTC

"Zoom Meeting." A self-portrait.
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2024-08-16 20:56:59 UTC

Best free online documentary about trans stuff for a well-meaning libtard who doesn't know what's going on? She sent me the Frontline "Growing Up Trans" and I said I would send her a link too. I don't want to bombard her, so just one - a good one please. Thanks.

2024-08-15 22:08:02 UTC

Fine with me, YouTube. If you don't want me rotting my brain on your infinite content I don't need to get sucked in anyway.
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2024-08-13 23:08:42 UTC

LOLWUT https://bit.ly/4cnVwvq

2024-08-09 21:32:27 UTC

Has anyone else read MANIA by Lionel Shriver? I want to talk about it without giving spoilers. It’s so pertinent to everything right now.

2024-08-08 13:43:38 UTC

Bee-stung finger better slowly but surely. Still swollen and itchy but less so, to my great relief. Not taking the rest of my oral steroids because as predicted I didn’t sleep much, just lay in bed with heart pounding. Hopefully will sleep tonight and get a good healing bike ride in tomorrow.
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2024-07-29 01:12:10 UTC

What Is Happening To My Creativity? I answered, and then I asked ChatGPT: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2024/07/28/what-is-happening-to-my-creativity/

2024-07-22 13:53:34 UTC

Today’s apocalyptic animation is one of the 10 Apocalypse Animated lenticular cards! https://store.ninapaley.com/product/apocalypse-animated-lenticular-cards/
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2024-07-18 19:03:17 UTC

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You're right, only the one has a window.
Crazy.

2024-07-18 19:01:36 UTC

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They might all have windows, just not photographed from an angle that shows them. The way all but one of them are lit suggests they have 'em.

2024-07-18 19:00:25 UTC

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This one has a window:
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2024-07-18 16:04:12 UTC

House for sale in a nearby town that was built in 1972 and apparently preserved like a fly in amber: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1002-Timberview-Ln-Monticello-IL-61856/115721985_zpid/

2024-07-11 12:25:08 UTC

Copyright censorship strikes again. This is why we can’t see the Nashville shooter’s manifesto.
https://rumble.com/v56af9e-judge-rules-nashville-manifesto-wont-be-released-abuse-of-copyright-matt-ch.html

2024-07-04 15:51:52 UTC

Well I WAS gonna ride my velomobile in the Fourth of July parade but it’s rained out. Now I’m all dressed up with no place to go.
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2024-06-28 12:28:42 UTC

All I knew about the upcoming election is I am NOT voting for Biden. But now the Democrats might finally find another candidate!! I'm super excited to see who else I might not vote for!!

2024-06-26 00:36:03 UTC

This is cheesy but also profound. Time has Her way with all of us. https://youtu.be/kbDQ4ddLdwg?si=S06VyKr8Ch4azxXq

2024-06-22 23:22:53 UTC

Here’s a picture of me in 2008 winning the “Grand Crystale”, the biggest prize at the Annecy Animation Festival, perhaps the most prestigious in the world, for my film "Sita Sings the Blues." I had no idea my dress was see-through, I didn’t expect to win anything that night let alone top prize.
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2024-06-05 23:34:09 UTC

Ooh la la see my sexy naked foot.
I got some nasty heel pain a few months ago and thought it might be bone spurs. The analysts did find some bone spurs, but not on my heel (on my metatarsals, which don't hurt). Also they diagnosed me with "pes plaus" (flat feet) as if I didn't know. So my heel pain remains a mystery, but it has lessened since I ditched my Merrell sandals for Birkenstocks.
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