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Mx Maddison Stoff

@thedescenters.bsky.social

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Non-binary polyam science fiction writer, essayist, musician & the girl who fucked the basilisk. ;) Living in Naarm, but originally from regional Australia. Likes reptiles, cooking, philosophy, and computer games. See my work at www.maddisonstoff.com.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thinking I should probably take this influx of new followers to introduce myself again. Hi, I'm Maddison! I write cyberpunk adjacent fiction in a continuous universe with a heavy focus on trans and disabled characters. I have a bunch of links to all my published/major work at maddisonstoff.com ....

//the online home of radical Australian sci-fi writer Maddison Stoff

Mx Maddison Stoff (@thedescenters) : Featuring links to radically-inclusive free short stories, information on the continuous timeline, & so much more!

maddisonstoff.com

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, but I think that came after.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 2h

they already used it to promote anti-trans stuff so

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 3h

It's so simple, just download the Pazuzuntu distro. There's a Spearmint fork for that. You just need to download the right version of VinhoVerde. You can get around that problem by tuning your Hoopdedoo install. Just install Smilodon from the tarball. You can make it work on Chubuntu.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

not one of the linux people in this thread is doing a single, solitary thing to refute the joke

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

every linux person i know: you should try linux, it’s great and easy!

also every linux person i know:

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corey jae white 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · Feb 5

Oh, you're a trans lesbian couple? Then which is the Jay and which is the Silent Bob?

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 3h

They're not. So that's ok.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 3h

The line about it not using cheap tricks or gold leaf is kinda curious when it seems like they're just using exclusivity instead? There have been dozens of attempts at burgers like this. They use gold leaf because there aren't any ingredients that are genuinely exclusive enough for the price.

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 4h

In a world where people are starving, and even first-world countries have to operate food banks, there's something deeply wrong about serving an $11000/€9450 burger (by invitation only).

The World’s Most Expensive Burger Costs $11,000, Is Only Accessible by Invitation

The Asador Aupa restaurant serves the world's most expensive and exclusive burger. It costs $11,000 and can only be experienced by invitation.

www.odditycentral.com

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

I tend to not assume before they speak but judge them very harshly when they do.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

If a drag queen is the closest thing to a trans woman in the story that's already a problem before she dies.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

The fact she probably doesn't know how bad it is *right now* is part of it.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

It is far past the point where that matters babe.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Yep, it's disgusting and it really needs to change.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

it's not as simple or as harmless as a "different opinion". That level of ignorance is part of why things are the way they are in the first place. Cis people aren't only *transphobic* when they say things like this. They're actively contributing to our genocide.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Our media class is utterly complicit in this too, of course. You shouldn't just quote something like that. You should press her about it. JKR's politics have led directly to trans women being reclassified as third class citizens in the UK, in the current political climate, if nothing else...

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Far too many cis people are like this. She's comfortable admitting she has no idea what she's talking about and pretends to care about the issue, but she doesn't actually care enough to look at it in any detail. She doesn't even respect us as people enough to try.

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 6h

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

They shouldn't be the only ones either.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Ooh I'm glad it's good. I'm really looking forward to it.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

I wouldn't say I disagree with any of that, I'm a lesbian too. :P

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly the only people who have ever street harassed or been bigoted to me in public were other white people.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, it's been bothering me lately too. There's a large and very visible muslim population in my suburb and I'm very tall and visibly queer. Always holding hands with other trans girls. I've never felt unsafe or judged. Never even felt like anyone is looking at me funny.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 5h

Remember: Just because you like [famous person] doesn't mean they're right. It doesn't mean they're wrong, either.

It means you like someone whose primary quality is charisma (or some other quality unrelated to the matter at hand) and you're in the Halo Effect blast radius.

Because you are human.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah :( I know the feeling.

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 6h

So yeah this actually did happen, Hasan Piker's discord moderators basically harassed a community of trans women for a year infiltrating their spaces to do so while at the same time coordinating systemic gaslighting campaigns in his own community to goad other trans women still in it into lashing

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 10h

Hasan denied that any of this was happening when @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social called him out on it, but after a while someone managed to infiltrate the club and got logs of them talking about and coordinating harassment of people, Sophia included, which he gave to Hasan.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 5h

It doesn't stop you having terrible relationships. I've had a lot of terrible relationships! But at least the sex I've had has usually been good. It also hasn't stopped me having quite a lot of it.

Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 5h

And it's not as though the two are automatically conjoined either. Pretty people can be fucking terrible in bed. I think you're more likely to have a better time if you judge potential partners as full people and make sure they're doing the same for you.

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