I don't really know how to categorize myself racially bc America is a fucked-up country. I'm the grandchild of a stolen indigenous child and have zero cultural connection outside of the fever swamp of American monoculture. The upshot of this is I belong nowhere I find discourses which tend towards standpoint alienating. I find discourses which encourage universal disclosure and particularization of perspective alienating. I'm a dim, distant mirror. I don't have a voice in any conversation, a dog in any fight

Zoom out: bodily etiologies for chronic illnesses that have been widely blamed on maladaptive psychology have been discovered in the last 2-20 years, but the power system clearly wants to ration care and keep poorer disabled people unable to work or self-care consistently

https://twitter.com/edgar_a_bitch/status/1569286839575388163

We are probably about 5-10 years of well-funded research away from curing or treating most of the prominent features of long covid but that would be disruptive to the profits of an industry whose bottom line depends on death and the immutability of disability

As an autist of long standing I'm allowed to make jokes about running a train on autistic girls. I just thought you should know. Apparently that's a new rule they just invented, and now I'm allowed to. I mean I was already doing it but now I can joke about it if I want If I'm breathing I'm out there crushing autistic pussy, and call me Rain Man the way I make it count

terrible way to make a living, i'm going to be completely real. With 5k-ish followers, if I really needed to I could pay maybe a third of my rent by begging full-time, returns on anything you do besides art or porn vs. begging are marginal, and people sometimes try and kill you

https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1569077478655938560

The more followers you have the more serious they are about it. If I was not a cripple with zero non-obsolete work history I would not be doing this

pretty much the moment the second plane hit, cheney & his neocon cronies in the shadow white house were trying to figure out how to steal iraq's oil and get away with it. They figured it out, they did, and all their friends got rich. No justice

https://twitter.com/ExileGrimm/status/1436340435954327578

Everyone was so hopped up on manufactured consent in the 2000s. The truth was so obvious a child could immediately intuit it: we were going to war with Iraq entirely by choice and it was almost completely about oil. Holding this extremely true position marked you out as a dum-dum

the best way i could describe my writing style is like if a dickgirl who grew up on AOL in Las Vegas independently invented whatever it was Donald Bartheleme did from the same pool of influences and interests It is truly weird to read something from the 60s which is exactly what you would have written if someone plopped you down in front of a keyboard 20 years before Usenet existed

People keep saying "the trans community" isn't a thing now. I have been saying this for years and the sudden urge by everyone to say it convinces me I was wrong. There is a trans community, apparently If a thousand motherfuckers on here started saying that Santa Claus wasn't real all at once I'd start budgeting for milk and cookies in late December, I'll tell you that much

i'll save you a click: brain fog is apparently related to microglial activity, the brain's immune response, which is often left in a permanent state of activation by viruses and toxins that cross the blood-brain barrier. this suggests potential treatments

https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1562108762818859008

unfortunately, all of the off-the-shelf options are *incredibly* risky, and would leave the body pretty full-spectrum immunocompromised. it's likely more selective and gentle microglial suppressants will exist soon, which is fantastic news for people with brain fog

It's really fun how one party does the bare minimum because they live in mortal fear of being called socialists, despite that third rail being basically dead in American politics, and the other party understands this and constantly uses it to live rent-free in their heads

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1562472313903165441

Joe Biden could take a shit in an orphan's mouth on live TV and McConnell would call him Bernie Sanders and that'd still somehow make Biden and his staffers scream and cry because they're addicted to cable news the way boomer housewives w. empty nest syndrome are addicted to QVC

"Do you need dysphoria to be trans/transition/etc" is a funny question. It was very active around 2012 too - ten years, how time flies! And not everyone said "yes", but in the average room, the ayes had it. It was pretty much conventional wisdom that trying trans-related things was dangerous when I was growing up, in the 90s and 00s. Especially among trans people. They knew how rough it was being perceived as one of them, and maybe didn't want that for people who were just playing

Super wish I had written and released Custom of the Sea yet. I should talk about it in broad strokes because I'm not actually sure I ever will You are the ship's surgeon on the HMS Polyphemus, a (fictional) warship, a third-rate, launched in 1804. It is 1845 and the Polyphemus is assigned to the West Africa Squadron, where an unseasonable storm capsizes it, breaing apart the masts and leaving most of the crew dead.

indie games are a nightmare world because the term equally describes "passion project made by a single dev in their spare time" and "hideously exploitative entertainment business with a capitalization south of 50-ish million dollars" every time people start talking about how a "team" put their heart and soul into an "indie game", that's certainly true, in that their boss attempted to sacrifice them on an altar shaped like a cd-rom

anyone remember the proposal to break up California into smaller states? The truth is the opposite. California is a million parallel states existing in superposition. California is superreality manifest. Every living thing there knows it. It's why it keeps trying to catch fire Every time a Californian becomes nationally prominent we all become stupider and more fractious. They can navigate the channels of parallel reality like a man swimming in a familiar river. We whose feet are planted on terra firma experience it as pure chaos

ME: hey, my car broke down. what saint should i pray to for help
TRADCATH WEIRDO: Uhhhhhh the virgin mary. Saint God
ACTUAL CATHOLIC: Idk man St. Christopher if the motor turns over and St. Frances of Rome if it doesn't, good luck I was raised exactly Catholic enough to know that there is supposed to be someone in Heaven beloved of God who has personal experience with my problems and if I ask for their help they're more likely to give it to me than just begging the big man for attention directly

sorry to all you johnny-come-latelys but "T4T literature" peaked with a 2012 BDSM text game about a starship that performed surgery on you sexually The thing to understand about "T4T literature" here is not about "literature" but about "t4t". Some trans people tend to live lives defined by intimacy with other trans people. But there's a world of difference between those who live in that world and those who vacation there

LRT: Americans were more like that too when college was cheap or free. The siloing of literary life into an elite class signifier is an attempt by that elite to delimit basic humanity around themselves Subscribing to trade journals etc. also used to be way cheaper, in general the cost of being well-informed about culture has skyrocketed as a way to make producing it for mass consumption cheaper and easier

making my peace with the latest AI gizmo this is so much worse than what i had in mind

Every time I go to make art I stop short. Every time I go to talk to friends, to friendly people, I stop short. My skull feels too small for my brain feels too small for my soul. Nothing makes sense and one of the few people I'd talk to to make sense of it is dead She'd walked out of my life before, and I out of hers, and that always resolved itself. Big part of me didn't take it too seriously. I've never felt more like a death was some kind of cruel joke and I was going to wake up and find out she was alive and laughing about it

nah, only scientists who have to learn statistics to read papers do that

https://twitter.com/EdzraR/status/1532820239787995137

if all you know about the casino is the house edges, you can reasonably come up with dozens of winning gambling strategies, some of which aren't even remotely cheating. Depending on the casino and the era, they would then either demand you leave or break your hands

The older I get the more convinced I get that the binary genders are marketing categories more than anything these days and anyone trying to sell you a gender-exclusive space is mostly trying to do it to sell you something else Being a woman in America is about having special vitamins and skincare products made by scientific experts with your needs in mind that are totally not just the same mass-produced crap they sell to men with a different label. This is worth defending to the death for some reason

transitioning "early" or "late" are, if they're to be considered privileges, not especially influential ones compared to race or class from anything i've ever observed it might surprise you to learn that four years ago the bien-pensants of twitter were pretty much in lockstep that transitioning later in life represented a privileged position because it supposedly meant you got a chance to have a "cis" career etc