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14 Nov

I think a lot of misconception around my sex work and audience comes from the fact I keep my SFW and NSFW worlds pretty separate; people see this twitter and associated links and assume *this* must be the audience I'm marketing to.
But no; yall fucks are not my target consumer.

When I'm working regularly I heavily advertise in large-traffic areas that aren't selected for much really beyond "horny, porn-friendly men". They're not rationalists, or particularly nerdy, or libertarian or whatever, and my advertising is also not nerdy/libertarian or whatever

The kind of niche I advertise is "I am a down to earth, genuine, silly girl who doesn't take herself too seriously and is having fun with her life and is organically, constantly aroused." That's *way* more marketable to a broader audience.

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@Aella_Girl

31 Oct

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I ate poop! With the help of @sentientist I ate 23 pills of poo from a donor with a "stomach of steel" (who was also kind enough to poop into a blender). I had no negative effects or nausea. This was a DIY fecal transplant to hopefully help my really persistent stomach issues. 1/

I'm not sure how long it'll take to see if it works, I'm guessing anywhere from 48 hours to 3 months.
I'm curious to see if it'll have any impact on a few other things which I suspect might be tied to microbiome. In addition to really bad IBS, 2/

I'm curious to see if it helps with anxiety. I get occasional "physical" anxiety - random anxiety feelings with no cause that I suspect is tied to the gut (e.g., drinking kombucha makes me feel panicky). 3/

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

21 Oct

I used to have this attitude of... medical professionals have trained a huge amount, and are very experienced, and it's a bit silly to think I, a rando with access to google, could make better decisions than they could.
One of the key events that made me change my mind-

was when I happened to end up going to two doctors back-to-back, and I asked them about the same issue - can I take birth control with estrogen if I get aural migraines?
They both gave me strong, clear, confident answers - one yes, one no. I was so confused. 2/

Realizing (for the first time in my life) I couldn't trust one of these doctor's opinions, I did my own research, digging deep into the... actually pretty spares literature about how dangerous it is.
Evidence suggested yea it is more dangerous, but not a lot? 3/

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@Aella_Girl

14 Oct

After Zoes article, I see lots of confusion over how Leverage Research related to rationalists, and some people describing them as in the same bucket. Here's a thread explaining!

Leverage drew a lot of people from the rationalist and EA communities, but also drew from others; Zoe was unaffiliated with rationalists before joining leverage, for example.
Geoff apparently worked with some standard rat institutions like CFAR early on.

Rationalists outside of Leverage had no idea what was going on inside of Leverage, it was very secretive. One of my other friends who I knew before she joined Leverage (she was also not a rat), would tell me almost nothing about what was going on in her life now.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

4 Oct

The problem with cults is that almost all of the cult isn't bad. People don't join cults because they're stupid, they join because the cult provides them something immensely valuable, something that could be valuable to us too, something that heals and helps them. 1/

It's just, a little part of the cult *is* poison, and then that bleeds into everything, and is seeps into your bloodstream far more effectively because it piggybacks on the good things you readily accept. You're starving, and it's a delicious meal laced with arsenic. 2/

And for those inside, it makes it hard to conceive of it as a cult. Cults are 'bad' things, right? How could this be a cult when there's so much here I value and people I love? Leaving and declaring 'this is a cult' means turning my back on the things I find beautiful. 3/

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@Aella_Girl

30 Sep

I genuinely do not understand the moral outrage that people express at some of my lines of questioning. It's a bit novel each time, and to some extent I'm drawn to figuring out which kinds of question that trigger the outrage. But it seems so inconsistent!

Some qs I predict people would get upset about, but they don't at all. Others seem extremely innocuous or basic questions I assume everyone asks and then I get slapped upside the head with surprise anger. I've learned ppl are touchy about trans, pedos, bestiality, and autists.

and like, it is intuitive to me that those questions are more charged, but not intuitive to me that they're anger inducing. I've sort of assumed the charged areas are the most interesting places to ask qs and some part of me
doesn't get why everyone else doesn't feel the same

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