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they/them https://youtube.com/QuestingRefuge is where I sometimes make video essays about disability, autism, parenting, politics or whatever usually looking at media

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Trans sisters. I'm pretty sure I was wrong. I
an somy.
I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy.
The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme.
If you admit "trans women don't belong in women's sports" they agree, but call you a man the whole time.
If you admit, "I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading" they scream about free speech.
If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don't have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum.
It's like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They'd throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped.
I want a middle ground on so many of these polices. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it's fun for them.
So, sisters. I genuinely don't know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us.
I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.

Post Brianna Wu O Subscribe Trans sisters. I'm pretty sure I was wrong. I an somy. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit "trans women don't belong in women's sports" they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, "I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading" they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don't have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It's like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They'd throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these polices. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it's fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don't know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.

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2/ I consider my business settled with all trans sisters. If anyone wants to reset things, unblock and move forward, I am happy to do that.
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Post Brianna Wu Subscribe @BriannaWu 2/ I consider my business settled with all trans sisters. If anyone wants to reset things, unblock and move forward, I am happy to do that. 7:16 • 01 Nov 25 • 5,969 Views

Go fuck yourself

01.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 5321    🔁 736    💬 405    📌 479

And I'm glad people put in ANY effort over auto generated captions so this is not to try to raise the bar on everyone. BUT I do think they become a lot more fun when you see them as their own art that is working with everything that is ALSO a tool for accessibility.

01.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or the captions seem antagonistic to the video they are for! This can be something like ruining a joke where part of the line is delivered audibly later with an edit for puncutation, but the caption just shows the entire thing at once

01.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So many people just do captions that technically have the words being said as they are on the screen, but are not actually easy to read as captions. Stuff like sentences that break in weird places or just have fragments of multiple sentences like:

"did a thing. This is why I want"

01.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think the first few Adventure Game videos I started out thinking like how I did them for me and it just didn't -feel- right until I started doing things a bit different. So there are some rules I generally follow, but I've slowly built up different rules for each of us

01.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have always enjoyed the art involved with captions, but nothing has made me appreciate it more than doing both captions for myself and Ian's. My approach is a bit different for his writing and voice and I hope that can be felt for those who use them.

01.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

What a lovely system working efficiently for everyone's benefit 🙃

01.11.2025 14:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Seeking volunteers to write 350 word summaries of current policies and laws that negatively impact the lives of disabled people.

Image is of text "Tory is a feeling" With two people celebrating over a wheelchair that has been kicked over with a person lying on the ground with blood coming out their mouth.

Email us to get involved:
Disabilityarkmedia(at)gmail.com

Seeking volunteers to write 350 word summaries of current policies and laws that negatively impact the lives of disabled people. Image is of text "Tory is a feeling" With two people celebrating over a wheelchair that has been kicked over with a person lying on the ground with blood coming out their mouth. Email us to get involved: Disabilityarkmedia(at)gmail.com

Seeking volunteers to write 350 word summaries of current policies and laws that negatively impact the lives of disabled people.

Email us to get involved:
Disabilityarkmedia(at)gmail.com

01.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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All Puppets Are Bastards: Liberty & Labor In The Age of AI (Ludology Series | Alexander Holmes) All Puppets Are Bastards: Liberty & Labor In The Age of AI (Ludology Series | Alexander Holmes) - Kindle edition by Holmes, Alexander. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading All Puppets Are Bastards: Liberty & Labor In The Age of AI (Ludology Series | Alexander Holmes).

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A comparative analysis of Lies of P #liesofp & SteelRising #steelrising

Their messages, their place in French history, their roles in the gaming landscape.

L'Union Fait La Force!

01.11.2025 12:29 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

29.10.2025 22:55 — 👍 6208    🔁 4840    💬 69    📌 103

israel never ceased firing and is now bombing what's left of gaza again. so, in case you were thinking "glad that's over, now I can buy the new halo", think again.

maybe the reason trump didn't win the nobel peace prize is because everyone knew it wouldn't last.

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28.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 125    🔁 36    💬 4    📌 0
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Innuendo Studios — Adventure Game Tier List 42: Kentucky Route Zero Part 43 of 52

I struggle to find new words about why Kentucky Route Zero is amazing, with partial success. nebula.tv/videos/innue...

27.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 36    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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27.10.2025 00:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.

26.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 2223    🔁 462    💬 26    📌 12
I Wish I Hated Resident Evil 4
YouTube video by Cai's Home for Aspiring Vampires I Wish I Hated Resident Evil 4

BRAND NEW VIDEO OUT NOW!!!!

"I Wish I Hated Resident Evil 4"

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25.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 25    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 2

They also said the chat would refresh to provide feedback which it conveniently never did.

25.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't even feel that negatively about my old name tbh - it's just baffling and weird that a random service clearly is tracking old info for that long.

25.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love cancelling a service and they ask for my full name to confirm before doing so.

Then as the chat agent signs off they say "Thank you, [deadname]!..."

I JUST confirmed with you my name, which was NOT that one.

25.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Such an interesting show! I really wanted more of this one

25.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Still think it's just fear?

If you won't do it for your friends, or for your co-workers, or yourself, then please mask for children at the very least.

You don't know who has kids and who doesn't. You don't know if you're giving COVID to a parent who will pass it to their kid and fuck their life up

17.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 38    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0

friendly reminder that the BDS microsoft boycott is still happening

24.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 2496    🔁 1090    💬 39    📌 14

This is an EXCELLENT video for any type of creator, or frankly, for anyone participating in fan communities.

It’s a deep dive that’s worth every minute.

23.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Thumbnail for chicken run is communist featuring the BFI logo and text reading "now part of British film history"

Thumbnail for chicken run is communist featuring the BFI logo and text reading "now part of British film history"

Big announcement!!! My video on how Chicken Run is communist is now part of Britain's media history

Over the summer the British Film Institute (BFI) got in touch cause they wanted to archive this video as a historically significant piece of media (lol) and it's now been archived

23.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 218    🔁 47    💬 11    📌 7
Still Wakes The Deep - A Workplace Safety Horror
YouTube video by Casey Explosion Still Wakes The Deep - A Workplace Safety Horror

Hey folks, my new video is out now, a review of the 2024 horror game Still Wakes The Deep, set aboard a Scottish oilrig. I'm really proud of this one, and I think it might be my best video yet! Please give it a look, and let me know what you think.

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22.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 316    🔁 156    💬 15    📌 23

I'm just baffled THIS is the thing. This is the most likely skeleton to pop up ever from someone who willingly kept going back to Afghanistan even signing up with Blackwater (only 7 years ago!!!).

What are we doing getting behind someone like that??

23.10.2025 00:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Another stupid thing that both reflects and enables epistemic collapse is the fact that "reporting" no longer seems to have any perceived need to connect to facts. Journalism has given up on the idea that truth is knowable, and simply reports what is said, with zero judgment of truth value. 1/

22.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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New game release

Before you, green steps rise from the salty waves. It is the Temple of Copper, the place rumored to provide oneness with the universe. At last, you have arrived…

chariot-rider.itch.io/temple-of-co...

22.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

PoG is an S-tier video essayist, consistently punching way, 𝘸𝘢𝘺 above his weight class. Consider giving my guy a Patreon sub if you can.

21.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Checkmate by Chariot Rider Available for Windows, macOS

New Game

Checkmate is a visual novel about war and connection

chariot-rider.itch.io/checkmate

21.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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