Maya ☁️➡️🌸

Honestly I thought those were only a Twitter thing. And yet the Bluesky vs Twitter count of this occurring is 1:1 thus far

This is so funny
no mutual follows, no engagement with the material, just endlessly replying to anything mentioning trans people

A bot farm? Or worse, a human that behaves like a bot farm?

not blocking yet for enemy research purposes

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Screenshot of a Substack note on elite takeover One thing we trans people notice in the UK as we look around is that to a large extent we’ve lost a large chunk of people in positions of power, also known as the “elites”. On the other hand Terfs have largely executed their elite takeover well. [...]

Screenshot of a Substack note: In this sense an attempt to regain the elite opinion is a worthwhile goal. While “medical transition makes sex mutable” is a good backstop against the advance, the pro-trans argument has to recentre the values likely to be listened to, like aforementioned autonomy, tolerance, and sympathy. Making people uneasy with confining us to the accident of our birth.

Inaugural note: on elite takeover
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Having decided that I now need the lowest-effort place to publish writing longer than a tweet somewhere, the @ mayaofspring has expanded to substack.com/@mayaofspring

[footnote: funny how I can just say link directly here, unlike on Twitter]

😔

☁️➡️🌸 in my display name was meant to be a part of a seasonal rotation, signifying start of spring around late February or so (it was just ☁️ in January)

but it's August now and I got very used to it and I actually quite like it anyway (in some abstract sense) so it stays 😌

(oestrogen is too silly though. what are you going to say? "I'm on Œ?")

Anyway aubergine and courgette forever 😌

and not even because I'm this much of a purist, I'm too aware how much happenings on another continent influence my thoughts and expression already

besides I first learned English off the internet so it inevitably happens that I use a specifically American phrase if it didn't get overriden here

I think I'm going to keep using British spelling conventions till I die, no matter where I end up in the world (I'm not even natively British)
1. they're prettier (to me)
2. to prove a point (I don't like the Americanisation of everything...)

(very much not as an endorsement of the British state)

:(
(not sure if related but I do have a similar "fantasy" (wrong word perhaps?) as a defendant at a trial where I get to finally Explain It All and make a case for myself.
Maybe coming from a sense of insecurity that I would not be accepted if shown my entirety)

also can do Maimai "10+" songs now 💪

(not >10, as in a difficulty level between 10 and 11)

Photo of drawing board centred on the text "Noise Music and Transsexualism"

Unsure if dragging well-adjusted trans friends to a rhythm game arcade was good (deepening friendships) or bad (do we need more rhythm gamers...) praxis, but it sure was fun!

(we did not write this)

@substack THIS IS NOT HOW YOU SHOULD RUN A PLATFORM FOR PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS

Is it that the Substack mobile app pressured people to share their contact list?

... WHAT

I've been feeling this way for a while about why I get drawn by /tttt/ culture despite everything else and this puts it a lot better than I ever could <3

Digital painting of a sky full of developing, voluminous clouds, a slight yellow tinge to it. There is a veil behind those large clouds, fibres of steam catching the light.

We report while the developing clouds are beginning to conflict with the late afternoon light. The world is bathed in a milky sort of sunshine, the shadows are defined, yet pale and fleeting. The sky looks full. Yet again, we wait for something to happen, some kind of spark.

(most personally, trying to sneakily enact a toilet law)

So I'd watch stuff like the Wikipedia vs UK battle gleefully. My mindset is that I'm here only while I figure out the next best thing for me to do for the sake of my actual people anyway, with this place as the backdrop

this, arrests over speech, continued construction bans-but-in-name, superinjunction stuff, inability to maintain basic order while still collecting high income tax, all with both-main-parties support has almost entirely delegitimised the state for me

[ #politics ]
I hope that Wikipedia blocks the UK instead of complying in the slightest (unlike Discord or Reddit, not like they farm UK users for income...)

I will be watching the carnage very excitedly! I want to see MPs forced to explain the situation in increasingly ridiculous ways!

Also -maxxing

we could explore this together 🥺

realising I really like having a reason to take the tube in the evening. Great atmosphere!

clippy

Reimu fumo in the fridge, labelled with dialogue with a bottle of Polish apple juice "apple drink of the fridge what is your wisdom" "witam" "czy możesz przyznać mi wizę do Gensokyo"

plush Polandball, with yellow and blue fabric in front of it

Heading to a Clippy-themed party I got """invited""" to while leaving my flat to two "coworkers" utilising my sewing-embroidery machine to make a fumo (as I had been spreading the ways) and an Ukraineball (impromptu inspired by my Polandball) respectively

life's not bad?

oh no we missed each other 😭
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and those were our placards!
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you can catch our group of 10-odd cool transes out and about today :)

Westminster is so delenda est ngl
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