Specialist_K
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#ND #EDS #Disabled #NB #Millenial #AsianAm #parent #Writer #Author (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, romance+) #AsianDramas 💜💎
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Trans rights are human rights, in the most profound and fundamental way.
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Trans rights are human rights, in the most profound and fundamental way.
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who are these lesbians
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
who are these lesbians
One day instead of “I’m still here” and “proof of life” selfies, I might post something good, something I accomplished, something interesting. But that day is not today. Here I am, tired and without any glamor:
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
One day instead of “I’m still here” and “proof of life” selfies, I might post something good, something I accomplished, something interesting. But that day is not today. Here I am, tired and without any glamor:
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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Posting this again because I've been getting questions: at this moment there is no licensed merch for Murderbot or Sanctuary Moon except what is on Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/... where it's sold for charity fundraising. And they are getting a new t-shirt design soon.
Martha Wells
Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Posting this again because I've been getting questions: at this moment there is no licensed merch for Murderbot or Sanctuary Moon except what is on Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/... where it's sold for charity fundraising. And they are getting a new t-shirt design soon.
#Cdrama #PerfectMatch is so good. I had to take a lot of breaks because I get neurodivergently upset at people making mistakes & having misunderstandings & those tropes happened a lot during the 36 ep. run, BUT it was an amazing ensemble plot. Each sibling got to shine & find their perfect match. ❤️
December 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
#Cdrama #PerfectMatch is so good. I had to take a lot of breaks because I get neurodivergently upset at people making mistakes & having misunderstandings & those tropes happened a lot during the 36 ep. run, BUT it was an amazing ensemble plot. Each sibling got to shine & find their perfect match. ❤️
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December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Friends, my birth certificate is wrong and not in the way that I’m trans nonbinary and want my gender to be amended, but wrong in the way that somebody did data entry wrong when I was born and we had to send the birth certificate away to the government and have them “fix” it for a fee—and what they…
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Friends, my birth certificate is wrong and not in the way that I’m trans nonbinary and want my gender to be amended, but wrong in the way that somebody did data entry wrong when I was born and we had to send the birth certificate away to the government and have them “fix” it for a fee—and what they…
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
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Awards eligibility post! I'm lucky to have 8 stories and 18 poems published in 2025, so here are just a few that I'd be delighted if you found time to read!
I'll also link them below when I get the chance
I'll also link them below when I get the chance
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Awards eligibility post! I'm lucky to have 8 stories and 18 poems published in 2025, so here are just a few that I'd be delighted if you found time to read!
I'll also link them below when I get the chance
I'll also link them below when I get the chance
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You could get all seven seasons of Legends of Tomorrow on Blu-ray for $60 (or $51 with coupon if this is your first order from Gruv, Warner's online store!) The first season is a bit rough but if you make it through there is a wild, fun, and very queer ensemble superhero adventure awaiting you!
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Series (Box Set) [Blu-ray]
"DC's Legends of Tomorrow follows a ragtag group of misfit heroes charged with protecting time itself. This responsibility takes them across history, bringing them up against bizarre threats unlike an...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
You could get all seven seasons of Legends of Tomorrow on Blu-ray for $60 (or $51 with coupon if this is your first order from Gruv, Warner's online store!) The first season is a bit rough but if you make it through there is a wild, fun, and very queer ensemble superhero adventure awaiting you!
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When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
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I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.
F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.
F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
My Favorite #Costume #Cdramas (no order):
1. Blossom
2. Prisoner of Beauty
2a. A Dream Within A Dream*
3. Coroner’s Diary
4. The Double
5. Fated Hearts
6. Love in the Clouds
*aDwiaD was very fun, but I watched it bc of show hangover from PoB. Pacing/plot issues ➡️ honorable mention.
1. Blossom
2. Prisoner of Beauty
2a. A Dream Within A Dream*
3. Coroner’s Diary
4. The Double
5. Fated Hearts
6. Love in the Clouds
*aDwiaD was very fun, but I watched it bc of show hangover from PoB. Pacing/plot issues ➡️ honorable mention.
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Finished watching the #Cdrama #EverlastingLonging, and it was good. It was high medium good, like…decent. I wish the writing was a little tighter, a little more inspired, but I did make it to the end without wanting to quit too intensely. (I often have strong urges to quit watching things.)
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Finished watching the #Cdrama #EverlastingLonging, and it was good. It was high medium good, like…decent. I wish the writing was a little tighter, a little more inspired, but I did make it to the end without wanting to quit too intensely. (I often have strong urges to quit watching things.)
Listen I flew too close to the sun, binging C-dramas. Now I’m not sure I can watch anything else. The neurodivergent hyperfixation is hyperfixing, that’s for damned sure
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Listen I flew too close to the sun, binging C-dramas. Now I’m not sure I can watch anything else. The neurodivergent hyperfixation is hyperfixing, that’s for damned sure
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#writingcommunity Carina Press/Harlequin dropped the ball for the release of the #HeatedRivalry TV series.
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
a woman is asking a man what he is doing
ALT: a woman is asking a man what he is doing
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December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#writingcommunity Carina Press/Harlequin dropped the ball for the release of the #HeatedRivalry TV series.
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
No new print run ready to go, no new covers to tie into the TV series. The remaining paperbacks sold out online and fans are desperate. They also never released all 6 books as paperback. 🫠
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i never get tired of saying japan has the best PR of any country on earth bc i don't know how you can go from nanjing massacre and comfort women to being widely perceived in the west as the extra cute uwu cherry blossom anime country ✌️🌸
It's also why... IDK how to say this exactly without sounding like a dick. But it also feeds into how the US sees Japan we don't see it as an imperial state that did big war crimes in the way that we still think of Germany.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
i never get tired of saying japan has the best PR of any country on earth bc i don't know how you can go from nanjing massacre and comfort women to being widely perceived in the west as the extra cute uwu cherry blossom anime country ✌️🌸
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it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
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What harm can having the wrong information on your documents actually do? @veraeikon.bsky.social takes a look a 2022 study that investigated just that in this month's Journal Club.
Journal Club: The Real Harm of Incorrect IDs — Assigned
A 2022 study digs into the mental and emotional harm of having official identification that doesn’t match a person’s real identity.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
What harm can having the wrong information on your documents actually do? @veraeikon.bsky.social takes a look a 2022 study that investigated just that in this month's Journal Club.
Just a reminder that several Stranger Things cast members are rabid, unrepentant Zionists, but also that the plot and writing for the show has been declining steadily—so is it really worth compromising your morals to watch it? I don’t like being pissed off when I watch stuff, so it’s a NOPE for me.
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just a reminder that several Stranger Things cast members are rabid, unrepentant Zionists, but also that the plot and writing for the show has been declining steadily—so is it really worth compromising your morals to watch it? I don’t like being pissed off when I watch stuff, so it’s a NOPE for me.
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one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
I WOKE UP, ATE LEFTOVER TURKEY AND TOOK A NAP, ATE LEFTOVER TURKEY FOR LUNCH, TOOK AN INVOLUNTARY NAP, ATE TURKEY AGAIN AND NOW I’M LAYING DOWN ON THE COUCH ABOUT TO—YOU GUESSED IT—TAKE A NAP!
The wonders of Tryptophan!
The wonders of Tryptophan!
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I WOKE UP, ATE LEFTOVER TURKEY AND TOOK A NAP, ATE LEFTOVER TURKEY FOR LUNCH, TOOK AN INVOLUNTARY NAP, ATE TURKEY AGAIN AND NOW I’M LAYING DOWN ON THE COUCH ABOUT TO—YOU GUESSED IT—TAKE A NAP!
The wonders of Tryptophan!
The wonders of Tryptophan!
BY THE WAY, if you keep reptiles, live snakes, are a herpatologist and like #BL #Cdramas, my condolences on #RevengedLove. I am SO sorry. If they’d replaced the snakes with dogs, dog breeding, dog fighting for all those plot points, it would have made so much more sense. I actually have no idea why…
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
BY THE WAY, if you keep reptiles, live snakes, are a herpatologist and like #BL #Cdramas, my condolences on #RevengedLove. I am SO sorry. If they’d replaced the snakes with dogs, dog breeding, dog fighting for all those plot points, it would have made so much more sense. I actually have no idea why…
Dogpile. Every time. I’m doing a leaping elbow drop—any time anyone critiques that whiny mess of a man. Simu Liu is exactly the kind of person who would find this post from me, a nothing account, and crawl into the replies, too—like don’t you have a publicist team to slap your phone out your hand?
"where's asian ryan coogler" i will beat the brakes off of you
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Dogpile. Every time. I’m doing a leaping elbow drop—any time anyone critiques that whiny mess of a man. Simu Liu is exactly the kind of person who would find this post from me, a nothing account, and crawl into the replies, too—like don’t you have a publicist team to slap your phone out your hand?