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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 12m

Approaching my fifth birthday since transition. Still waiting for the good part tbh

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 41m

[WARFRAME]

I'm not even sure I like Kaya Velasco but if any harm came to her I would kill everybody in Höllvania Central Mall and then myself

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GayFesh🖖 @gayfesh.com · 2h

Bezos didn't buy WaPo to make money just like Musk didn't buy Twitter to make money. It's about controlling the narrative.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

P.S. I *might* be denied residency because I'm autistic or because I have ADHD, both conditions which famously make it hard to immigrate. Or because I'm a tranny, and the UK famously doesn't like my kind. But my language proficiency would never come up. /fin

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

Of course, since I’m white, it wouldn’t be. That’s not what it’s for. /2

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

I have severe cluttering and extreme difficulty speaking English fluently in any kind of conversational context due to my poorly managed ADHD and chronic illness that affects my general cognition. I would fail this test if it were applied to me. /1

children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 4h

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

“Lolcow” is a label assigned by emotionally detached sadists to the victims of the torture they inflict because it’s the only way they can feel anything any more. You do not deserve that label. Nobody does.

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

Oh yeah I just use the idealised Original (TOS) and Modified (TNG) Cochrane Unit scales mentioned further down the page lol

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

In TOS canon, Khan was launched circa 1996, and Cochrane still invented warp drive sometime around the same time he did in current canon (no earlier than 2032, the year of his birth) so Khan got remarkably far considering he was moving at sublight

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1h

Yeah but one in five???

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

if it helps: that is the version of thinking about it that eugenicists and segregationists would strongly prefer and they are working overtime to make sure it's the easiest way of thinking about social hierarchy

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

jokes aside, racism and other forms of bigotry are actually further mystified by pretending that these forms of discrimination did/do not exist. you start making anti-Black racism sound more natural and primordial as opposed to the outcome of political processes

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 5h

You can easily say that descendants of Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants to America today face radically less levels of systemic discrimination than their ancestors did in the 1800’s without being like “and actually that discrimination never even existed”. Erasing that history is genuinely insane

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2h

I think this is a sickness of patriarchy. That sickness must be abolished. However, you breaking yourself on the wheel will not achieve that. You seem decent and good. Nothing would be achieved and no one would be made safer by your destruction

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2h

For the record, I'm fairly far over in the "willing to be uncharitable to men" areas, and I don't think this is what "being a man" means. It can't be

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 4h

Me, googling: crohn's and ocd

Results, immediately: Active inflammatory bowel disease has been linked to the onset of (any of a dozen other mental illnesses) and, (in every case), OCD

Well, that's refreshingly unambiguous

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ForcefemStalin69 @chasershibari.com · 4h

Ari Drennen literally makes her living from saying stupid shit that annoys people, just block her and stop screenshotting for the love of God

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J O Y ❥ ✊🏾 @kraehenherz.bsky.social · 5h

Trans women are famously the group of people who are so decadent they need to do crowdfunding for the bare necessities every month.

If women’s autonomy over their own bodies is the first thing you attack, maybe goddamn sit with your feelings. Quietly.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 5h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Alice In Wunderland @aliceinwunderl3.bsky.social · 5h

There quite literally is a *free* designer vagina under communism.

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Violet Velvet @violet-velvet.bsky.social · 4h

There's a harmful idea in society that trans women are wealthy, which is fundamentally untrue. I have never made more than 10k a year in my life, and a lot of trans people I know are in a similar boat.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 5h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 4h

"bourgeois, the product of... the freedom of the individual"

See, this is part of why I dislike how people talk about 'liberal individualism,' people get weird ideas like 'freedom and autonomy to choose how you live your life are bourgeois'

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 5h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 5h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 6h

YA is inherently bad for media literacy and literary culture because while it's meant to be the scaffolding between childhood books and adult books it offers all the appeal and benefits of "adult" literature without the sophistication or, crucially, the challenge

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction) @markguyer.bsky.social · 6h

Plotting and pantsing are actually the same thing.

A plot outline is, in essence, a minuscule first draft to be expanded on.

A completed first draft (with little/no prep) is, in essence, a bloated plot outline.

#writingcommunity #writing #fiction #art #adhd

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 6h

I have two.

1. I would rather read the cringiest purpliest prose to ever gild a lily than wallflower text that gets the job done ably enough but is afraid of looking stupid.

2. No one who works in this industry has any fucking idea what they are doing & once you accept that things get easier.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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