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β€œThe plight of the siren is no one believes her.” ♾️ AuDHD 🍁 settler in Tkaronto 🧢 crochet artist ♿️ disabled

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The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

13.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 842    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 11

The waiter: And what would you like today young man?

My two year old:

13.02.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3299    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 5

I was gonna log out for the day but I have to share my dark secret with the world: I really enjoy watching sparkly twinks leap about on the ice, and the men's figure skating final is on at the Olympics

13.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 905    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 10

See? More of this, please

13.02.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 903    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess if someone wants to say I write too on here ok. Fine. Maybe I do. Do I really care? I don’t know. This is my main lifeline to something resembling a world beyond my home. Should I feel guilty for that? I don’t know. It’s hard not to feel guilty about anything that makes me feel like me.

13.02.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know I’m being paranoid, and I personally don’t feel like I have anything to hide. But I’m realizing that the type of anxiety that comes with neurodivergence can make one paranoid about being misperceived & misunderstood bc it’s been a constant battle & caused me harm throughout my life.

13.02.2026 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to figure out what the purpose of this account is for me & doing a cost/benefit analysis wrt my mental health & potential complications of ppl w ill intent using my content here in ways that may materially harm me / cause more stress / suffering in my life.

13.02.2026 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know anymore. I don’t even care to find out anymore, to be honest. I feel very much done trying to play by others’ rules wrt human rights, & since I’ve never managed to figure it out I’ve kind of given up & am redirecting my energy to simply reaffirming what I believe to be right & just.

13.02.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

13.02.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3514    πŸ” 836    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 45

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

13.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5052    πŸ” 1365    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 27
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I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

13.02.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1498    πŸ” 271    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 83

so about the relationship between the state and capital

13.02.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

I truly don’t know what the point is for us to keep saying it despite the massive personal risks we take on by doing so, except that I hope even if adult minds can’t be changed, some kid out there sees this & feels affirmed in who they know in their hearts they truly are. Solidarity πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈβš§οΈ

13.02.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking at it now as someone w some expertise in adolescent child development, it makes sense to me that knowing these things as I was going thru puberty would likely have prevented all sorts of mental & physical health issues. That’s all I want for future generations. Health & wellbeing.

13.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know that this is exactly what those opposed to our existence are afraid of: that knowledge = identity shifts. But the thing ppl keep failing to realize is this: my identity never changed. I just gained the framework to express & accept it, & am much happier & healthier for it. +

13.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

It didn’t occur to me until I was having to do all sorts of physical & mental health work after becoming very sick & disabled that all of these things I’d been carrying with me my whole life had only gotten heavier, not lighter. It didn’t occur to me that my empathy was due to my own identity. +

13.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I used to think everyone was secretly like me bc so much of who I was was a secret. I also learned very quickly that it was a bad thing for ppl to think you’re a boy if you’re a girl, & later that to admit attraction to girls/women meant being strictly gay, which wasn’t quite right for me, either. +

13.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🧡 Nothing has changed for me internally since I was a small child & thought I might have secretly been born a boy, or at least not exactly a girl. I got better at performing β€œgirl” as a teen / young adult & then got better at being myself in this body only after learning about nonbinary identity.

13.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Something I didn't get into in this thread, but that I've given a lot of thought to, is how even a transition that goes incredibly well requires a major social adjustment, one that is quite a bit harder the older you are when you start it.

13.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

13.02.2026 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5693    πŸ” 1491    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 69
A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

13.02.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6117    πŸ” 1429    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 95

I know non-white folks are most at risk but I also fear this will be weaponized against folks from all kinds of places deemed adversaries of the USA, not least of all the huge number of Canadians who’ve fully emigrated.

13.02.2026 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

13.02.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5968    πŸ” 1247    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 35

They looks fabulous though!

13.02.2026 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another fun thing from that time is if some dude was leering, my dad would go up to them & say, β€œshe’s much stronger than she looks… just like her dad” & then smile. That was literally the last time I felt remotely safe working out at a regular gym.

13.02.2026 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For a brief time in my 20s I went to the same gym as my dad, so I did get a kick out of going, β€œhey dad, this guy says I’m doing this wrong”, when some creepazoid started bothering me, just to see the look on the guy’s face as my very tall, muscular father walked over to have a chat πŸ˜‚

13.02.2026 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Shit like this is why I stopped going to gyms with cishet male patrons. I’m the child of 80s fitness freak gym rats. Started lifting at 13. I’m a trained performer. My form was fucking fabulous, & I always programmed w a trainer. Got so much intrusive advice that was just dead wrong / dangerous.

13.02.2026 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes her death feels like a fact of everyday life. Sometimes it still feels impossible. There are still moments that feel like a nightmare I’m waiting to wake from. I know grief is like this. I’m told the surreal feeling may never go away, but that it becomes more familiar. I’m just very tired.

13.02.2026 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s really weird for anyone, but especially mothers, to want anything else for their sons. I want him to be with someone who is not bound to him in any way. I want him to have real, authentic relationships. To experience love as mutual vulnerability & respect, not a transaction. 2/2

12.02.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I think about the possibility of my son becoming a man & falling in love with a woman, my wish is for the woman who loves him back to be a wild woman, untamed & unbound & completely free. Not someone who needs him for survival, but someone who wants to be with him for love only. 1/2

12.02.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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