Jan 2026
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What Eunuchs Were Built to Fix
People like to talk about eunuchs as symbols. We’re metaphors for lack, or purity, or sacrifice,…
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How to read an autistic person
I stumbled across the image below while scrolling through Reddit (see, it is good for something)…
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Things You Shouldn’t Say Out Loud in an Interview
One of the software developers on my team is leaving today, creating a big hole that…
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Just a Nice Evening
It had been a busy day. A 5k run, then a call to my old dad,…
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Rope, Trust, and Lunch
As I got out of the car, Funiculosus was as the door waiting. I ran towards…
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When the Garden Starts to Smell Like Defeat
Drains. Not good news. The chaps came today in the pouring rain, dug a hole, removed…
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Patrick Stewart: The Captain and the Queen
If my early childhood was dominated by Star Wars, my teenage years were dominated by Star…
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How Video Calls Fracture Focus
The last couple of days I’ve had back to back video meetings. And it’s doing my…
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Grief Doesn’t Check Relationship Status
After the relaxing and fun time with Funiculosus, I spent the evening wit my husband. I’d…
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A Quiet Kind of Kink
My Rope Master, Funiculosus, had an unexpected break in his calendar, so drove down to see…
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Words We Don’t Have
I’ve been thinking about the kinds of experiences we don’t have neutral, everyday words for. Not…
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A Blockage, a Bill, and an Unexpected Fitness Plan
A couple of weeks ago I discovered that the sewer from my house wasn’t just slow,…
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Bodies That Don’t Reproduce the State
(on why trans existence is always treated as political) In a previous post, I argued that…
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Soul Wars – Episode 4: The Men Who Drain Me
The Hot–Cold Problem Some people “blow hot and cold” as mum would have said. They can…
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Book Review: The Eunuch of Stamboul (Dennis Wheatley)
I found this book by accident in a charity shop and picked it up simply because…
