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Bronwyn Douwsma
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43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS. Mostly human at times. AuDHD. My posts do not represent my employer. Pronouns: they/them. MDNI. http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots
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Reintroduction time: I'm Bronwyn (they/them), a 43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS.

Looking to connect with fellow queerdos, local folk, exvangelicals, bald ladies and theydies, AuDHDers, and SNL nerds.
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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growing up in Houston, one of my favorite parts of the commute to school was looking at the Mary’s murals and window art. My favorite was always the Easter displays. I loved hearing my mom tell stories about her coworkers who performed at Mary’s.

texas has always been queer as fuck and always will
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When you’re alone with a blank page, there’s nobody to rescue you with a charitable interpretation.

Your argument either holds together or it doesn’t.

Writing is thinking with the training wheels off.

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-s...
Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)
Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off
www.joanwestenberg.com
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In the last three months, we've had two new "centrist" think tanks and a propaganda outlet (The Argument), and the Third Way advocating abandoning minorities to win fascism, or something.

Y'all's consent is being manufactured right before your eyes.
They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant.

Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
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2016 demonstrated this for me very clearly: voters chose the Worst Man rather than the most qualified woman to show how much they resent women. Everything has been Gender ever since.
i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
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There has never been a time where seemingly thousands of people have disappeared and the explanation didn’t involve horrific crimes against humanity. This won’t be, either.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
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If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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This is the best Halloween safety messaging I’ve seen in years!:
Plan to leave your car at home on Halloween Night (this Friday night) between 5.00 pm and 9.00 pm, and if you do need to drive, take it slowly and carefully to help keep children safe on the most dangerous night of the year for child pedestrians.
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This is how I feel too, as does literally every other trans person I've talked to about this
despite all the fear mongering about trans people and the attempts to abandon and actively harm us from both political parties in the US, transitioning is still the greatest decision i’ve ever made, only regret i have is not doing it younger, and that it has only made my life infinitely better
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just keeping score here: poisoning our water and air is free speech, speaking out against genocide is terrorism
Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.”

Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.
Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations
Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
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I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?"

Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
San Francisco Chronicle: 'RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness'

'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'

By Effie Seiberg

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness
OPINION: “According to research published by the CDC, 3 in 4 Americans have a chronic illness. That’s nearly 200 million people, and Kennedy is helping none of us,” Effie Seiberg writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
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This is a good thread about how carefully to assess this info. I also suspect that, if anything, they are downplaying the numbers because when have techbros ever done anything but soft pedal their fuck ups?

TLDR this is BAD bad.
OpenAI put out a press release today addressing mental health concerns. I have many issues with it, but something super troubling:

They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.
Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations
We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care, and guide people toward real-world support–reducing responses that fall...
openai.com
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Our community has lost another sister. Her own college hosted a discussion around "The Trans Question" last winter, which only redoubled Lia's efforts to fight for her friends and community. You will be missed more than you could ever know, Lia.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
Lia Smith, Missing 21-Year-Old Trans Student, Found Dead in Vermont
The Middlebury College student was a double major in computer science and statistics.
www.them.us
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I grew up hearing "churches should take care of that" whenever something bad came up, and when I said "then why don't we run a food pantry big enough for everybody on food assistance and fund it with tithing instead of shitty sandwiches once a week" it sure was not well received.
i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will
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As a reporter whose main beat is called "public safety," I have learned that I can write about a wide assortment of topics not in any way limited to the criminal legal system.

I also learned early that you can't have public safety without adequate housing. The two go together.
I was intimately involved in structural assessments of another city-owned building when Pier 58 collapsed.

There are systemic issues at play in how "public safety" is interpreted and prioritized by the city. Pumping and basting money into cops, while infrastructure crumbles.
Three demolition workers who fell into the water amid concrete debris accused the city of neglecting the downtown pier and rushing to raze it unsafely.
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The "now that they're suffering too, right wing voters will learn and we must reach out to them" rhetoric is starting and I need people to be so fucking for real
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i made a helpful reference
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Feed the people.
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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Just a note that menstrual products are the most requested / least donated items in food pantries so if you have the means to pick up supplies perhaps consider it
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ATTN: the recent wave of new bluesky accounts. if you use the word “illegals” to refer to undocumented people I’m going to hit you with my car
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I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.
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Marjorie Taylor Green is literally the Jewish space lasers lady

She’s an anti-semite!

That’s why she opposes Israel, not because she supports human rights

Do not fucking circulate her saying “oh she’s being reasonable” jfc