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Mi-Spell Slinger

@michellestringer.bsky.social

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Mostly just angry ramblings about the world and trying to find joy where I can 33 - She/Her - 🏳️‍⚧️ What a pretty afternoon...

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · Sep 9

Can't remember if I've posted this, but one of the first times I visited the town in which I now live this was tied with a ribbon to the bridge from the train station.

I still find comfort in reading it occasionally. A beautiful sentiment from a stranger who'll never know how much it meant to me.

Note tied with a ribbon to a railing on a bridge over a road. It reads:

For what it's worth it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life your proud of and if you find that your not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 5h

A lie can travel half way round the world before Mark Twain can get his boots on.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12h

250 years of slavery. 88 years of Jim Crow. But somehow we're all supposed to succeed by pretending we started on equal footing beginning in the mid 1960s. Come the fuck on.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 12h

Walter White forgetting the words while singing Otis Redding: I am sitting by the bay, at the docks

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 12h

walter white takes over as lead singer for The Lonely Island: I am the dick in a box

Baksy (he/they), artist from Cleveland, OH @tokensbybaksy.bsky.social · 12h

Walter White as a cat again:

I am the one who SITS in a box

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 13h

I can't imagine why.

Mental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting says

Mental health charity Mind warns it is important to be "extremely careful" with language around diagnoses.

www.bbc.com

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yeah? You think capitalism is bad? Here are some inventions you can thank capitalism for:

[Tech that was developed through publicly funded research and then packaged as a Product by people who didn't invent it, and gets worse each year to increase profit]

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 14h

I played this but have absolutely no idea how the story ended.

When the gameplay devolves to an extended action QTE I had to focus enough that I have absolutely no idea what was occurring on the rest of the screen.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 14h

Ride to Hell: Retribution

I'd heard it was terrible and saw the Zero Punctuation review but paused it before he revealed the antagonist's motivation so I could play it.

It is hilariously awful. The game is broken and poorly written in a hundred different ways.

Loved playing it though.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, so still evading the question.

Out of interest, can you go ahead and state your definition of "biological woman"?

I'm assuming it's based on either chromosomes or gametes, but it'd be nice to know what flavour of wrong you are.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't claim it was, but nice evasion. It is a trade union primarily made up of doctors.

Do you believe doctors are "not qualified" in biology?

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

How about the members of the BMA calling the Supreme Court 'definition' of woman "scientifically illiterate" and "biologically nonsensical"?

Are these doctors not sufficiently qualified in biology?

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

Only with a narrow and incorrect primary school definition of sex.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

Trans women are biological women and failing to recognise this is transphobic.

Cis men don't need to pretend to be trans to rape women, they just do it. This is another dog whistle.

You have just been consistently engaging in anti-scientific terf talking points while claiming to love trans people.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

Chaser

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 1d

Are we sure the last one isn't that guy that kept raping women, faked his death, then fled to England and pretended to be a disabled Brit?

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 1d

@groundnews.bsky.social So, guys, I gotta ask... Is it policy to now list mass shootings under your "transgender" tag? Because if it is, I'm going to have to discuss this.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Yes. We know. That's the point of what's happened over the last decade and you helped us get here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 3d

Looks beautiful, and exhausting.

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Scary Sion Sweet 🖤🐉 @sionsweetagain.bsky.social · 3d

Briana Mills, LMFT

@theBriana Mills

Therapy helps but let's be clear. You can't CBT your way out of capitalism. You can't mindfulness your way out of racism. You can't self care your way out of oppression. You can't journal your way out of ableism. This isn't about coping, it's about deconstructing the systems.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 4d

At least he didn't try for a high five this time.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 4d

And nothing of value was lost.

My only sympathies lie with the medics whose professionalism meant they had to try and save him.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard not to appreciate the wholehearted support that people like Mamdani give the trans community

In a time where far too many consider it politically expedient to dismiss or disregard us, this really helps me believe that things can get better and that however dark it is now, dawn will come.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 5d

And yet, a participant lying about having had a vasectomy is not. If I understand R v Jason Lawrence.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 5d

More headlines should end with those six words.

Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 5d

The opposing view to trans people is the view of the leadership of the country.

The laws, legal guidance, healthcare access, prison designation, toilet access are all currently dictated by "the opposing pov"

Playing devil's advocate is bringing less than nothing to the conversation.

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Mi-Spell Slinger @michellestringer.bsky.social · 5d

This is a case in the UK. This might surprise you but your local laws don't apply.