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#ActuallyAutistic. Hobbyist composer with sensory hypersensitivity who sometimes writes accordingly and sometimes feels too anxious to write the sounds that don't set this off. He/him Profile pic: an iridescent-winged bat suncatcher
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 335 days ago • 80 comments

As a trans researcher, educator, and writer, I've only ever seen the word 'chestfeeding' ONCE in the wild, used by a trans mutual who was a new dad. Every single other time I've heard it, it's been from a cis person telling me that THEY (nebulous, omnipresent) are forcing EVERYONE to say it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Whats fun is that so many trans folk dress like theyre in a video game. What's sad is that every trans person is trapped in a survival horror game.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

See what's so amazing about this is...it's literally all true. You don't need to treat people like fools you must bamboozle, this is literally 100% exactly what is happening.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical." Yet that is exactly what the UK is doing with trans healthcare for kids

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

The replies and quotes are a quite staggering display of nihilism and frankly I can't argue with it at this point

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It only took the Trump administration four weeks to destroy 80 years worth of Pax Americana. That part was indeed efficient.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

A5: That it's your process for your body and brain, whatever that might look like for you (including but not limited to "there isn't one"). #AutChat

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A4: I don't remember coming across them and the relationship I now have has had its intimacy carved on its own terms through our shared sensory preferences... But I love the idea of these resources existing! #AutChat

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A2: Inexorably, to the point of me sometimes using "neuroqueer" rather than ace as a descriptor. Funnily enough, sensory issues dramatically shape my relationship with an intense multi-sensory experience 😂 #AutChat

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A1: I feel like "sexuality" is an incredibly confusing concept and honestly I sense that in how allo NTs talk about it 😂 But I guess love is... Honestly the same...? #AutChat

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A0: David, has identified as ace since before there was a flag for it, whilst also questioning it from time to time because that's how my ANALYSE ALL THE THINGS brand of autism works 😂 #AutChat

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Well, it has been three weeks since I got rid of Microsoft Office (which raised its price behind my back because they were giving me the added value of AI-- which would train on my writing) and started using LibreOffice. Works great, I am happy, $69/year back in my pocket! www.libreoffice.org

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

The column was written by Arwa Mahdawi, one of The Guardian's most vocally pro-trans voices. As she's a Guardian US writer, I've often wondered how she feels about the Genuine Concerns batshittery of her UK colleagues. I guess now we know.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It is within the realms of possibility that we have not yet had the deadliest pandemic of the 2020s.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments