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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · Nov 1

Cane Hill - a piece of me i never let you find
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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 10h

Accidentally stayed up until 3:30am working on my dissertation again. FML. I hate it here. I wanna go home (this is home, I am at home, where my bed is, in which I should have been sleeping starting 3 hours ago, when I wanted to do so, and _literally lost track of time_).

Wrote over 2k words tho.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21h

At the very least, if you think people are genuinely going to think you're bad at everything you and that keeping the fact that you think so to yourself won't help, them make those assholes who want to criticize you work for it. Let them figure out that you have room to grow on their own.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21h

Doing this actually has very little to do with your actual self-confidence. I think I suck at most things and as a person—but I don't want other people to think that's as true as I do, so I don't tell them, and therefore they have to come up with the idea on their own. And mostly they don't!

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21h

I hear a lot of "fake it till you make it" advice, and I've always found it supremely unhelpful. And what I'm trying to say is the opposite: Don't pretend you're competent *for you*, do it for your interlocutor/audience.

You won't be as rhetorically effective if you frame yourself negatively. Ever.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21h

If you want to convince other people that you can do the thing *even when you don't believe it yourself*, you are fighting an uphill battle if give them the idea that you can't. Some might "cut you some slack" but mostly if you say you suck at x, people will believe you that you suck at x.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 21h

I am in a zoom meeting of all time.

Can I offer an unsolicited piece of life advise for, like, basically anyone?

If you _lead_ with uncertainty and a lack of confidence in what you are doing, even if you are the most competent and capable person, you're planting the seed of doubt in your audience.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 1d

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

If the "male loneliness epidemic" were about the negative effects on mental health from how our culture socializes men to never feel or show emotions, to police behaviors seen as too weak/gay/feminine, etc., yes, that would be an important conversation.

But it isn't, it's misogyny in a new hat.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

It is indeed mostly genetic, but even more importantly here, if a group of people eschew all modern medical & psychological intervention, they likely have autistic people in their population, it's just that they have no way of finding out.

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 2d

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

"Autistic people...deserve our support" fuck yeah we do. And much appreciated.

Not only do vaccines (and Tylenol) not cause autism, but also so what? Being autistic is not an inherently bad thing to be.

Living in a society that says I should rather be dead than autistic? That part sucks, though.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 3d

Couldn't agree more with the first four points.

Is that not exactly what "begging the question" means? That it prompts the question to be asked?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 3d

Today, October 13th, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and International Plain Language Day! Take some time today to learn about what these holidays are and why they are important!

Orange, white, and blue gradient textured background. Text reads: What is International Plain Language Day? International Plain Language Day is a holiday that celebrates plain language. Plain language is a way of writing that uses cognitively accessible language.
Cognitively accessible language means that anyone can understand your writing easily. For example, people with different intellectual and developmental disabilities can understand your writing.
International Plain Language Day happens on October 13th each year.
Why is International Plain Language Day important?
Most writing is not cognitively accessible. Many people do not understand why plain language matters. International Plain Language Day is a day to show why plain language is important. One way to celebrate is to share plain language resources.

Orange, white, and blue gradient textured background. Text reads: What is Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday that celebrates Indigenous people and history. Indigenous means people who have ancestors who lived in a place before others took over. For example, Native Americans are indigenous to North America.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is on the second Monday in October each year. This year, the second Monday in October is October 13th. International Plain Language Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day are not always on the same day.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day started as a counter-celebration. A counter-celebration is a type of holiday made to protest another holiday. Indigenous Peoples’ Day was made to protest Columbus Day.

Orange, white, and blue gradient textured background. Text reads: Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October. Christopher Columbus was an European colonizer who lived in the 1400s. Colonizers are people who take land that belongs to other people. Columbus Day celebrates Christopher Columbus "finding" America. But that’s not true. There were already Indigenous people in America before Columbus came. So Columbus did not “find” America. Colonizers like Columbus did a lot of bad things to the Native Americans. They hurt and killed Native Americans.
Some places still celebrate Columbus Day. At ASAN, we do not think Columbus Day is a good thing to celebrate. Autistic and disabled Indigenous people are part of our community. So today we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Happy International Plain Language Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

Well, well, well, if it is the consequence to your own actions

#FuckDavidDraiman #OhWaAhAhAh

DISTURBED's Belgian Show Cancelled Over DAVID DRAIMAN's Photo Signing IDF Missiles - Metal Injection

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

Wake up babe!! New contender for best video on the Internet just dropped!!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8d

doomscroll break

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 7d

FUCK I proofread this so many times 😭😭😭

TL;DR:

Transphobia—like other forms of misinformation—weaponizes a logical structure known as an enthymeme in which they leave out an apparently obvious premise, but they do so because it's untrue and they hope you'll fill it in w bias and fear.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 7d

For it to be true that detransitioners + ___ = trans identity is not innate,

Detransitioners would have to be trans during the period in which they identify as such—meaning transness is real.

This also requires the unstated premise that all detransitioners are cis to be true, and it isn't.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 7d

What about

"the existence of even one detransitioner"

makes it true that

trans identity as an "innate characteristic" is a "central lie"

and also and equally that

transness "should [not] have human rights afforded to it"?

They don't know either, it seems.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 7d

Grifters, haters, and conspiracy theories learn how to properly format a logical syllogism challenge, impossible edition.

Oh, what's that? They rely on enthymemes because including the second premise reveals that their logic is actually very illogical?

It's always the same shit. Sick with me here:

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 9d

Me w literally everything that has happened since the election 🙃

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 10d

"Local communist thinks about home state and gets mad at direct versus representative democracy" would be a great Onion headline

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 10d

Today's hot take is that if Ohio really were a series of networked college towns, the state overall would be much more blue.

If it is just corn everywhere else--and it certainly is not--then that corn is astonishingly, deeply conservative 🤷

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Minerva Victrix @minervavictrix.bsky.social · 11d

Reposting with Alt Text!

An infographic depicting a cartoonified version of Trump on the left and Obama on the right. The text reads "Trump criticized Obama for writing 147 executive orders in one term. Then he wrote 220.
"Trump criticized Obama for playing 113 rounds of golf in one term. He then played 428.
"Trump criticized Obama when 12,000 died from H1N1. Over 400,000 died from COVID on his watch.
"Trump criticized Obama for his expensive family vacations. Then Trump spent almost as much in a month as Obama had spent in a year.
"Trump called Obama the most ignorant president in history. In POTUS rankings, though, Obama has never ranked lower than 15th from the top, Trump's never ranked higher than 4th from the bottom."

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 11d

The 5 Calls app is telling me 4,500 people have called through the app about this specific topic, which doesn't sound like a lot to me.

You can combine this one with general concerns of the shutdown or budget dealings as well—as I suspect many are!

#CallYourReps #Congressors #TransRights #FYME