julia @julia@efdn.club

I keep seeing a lot of apologies for not being interesting or funny or positive, and I just wanna say:

You are a person, not a brand. You do not need to be consistently anything but yourself. If you need to take a break, that's OK. We're all people, we'll understand.

My advice to gamedevs right now: Loudly, proudly, and visibly come out in undeniable support of trans and non-binary identities, recognition and condemnation of all forms of racism, and show an understanding of ableism, because we're all getting pretty sick of risking support.

The Dayton shooter didnt have a sister, they had a brother https://redd.it/cr2hb7

Look at how much money they set on fire propping Uber up to destroy union work. VCs and the tech industry are full of fucking space vampires and social engineering is a *huge* part of how they decide to spend money. Look at how Twitter treats trans people versus aggressive, demonstrably-damaging transphobes. Look at how Patreon and payment processors throw money away periodically stamping on porn producers.

I'm viewing the Tumblr thing as less "wasting $997 million" and more "$997 million was the cost of destroying a huge cluster of communities of queer people and sex workers." Maybe not a deliberate conspiracy across multiple corporations, but certainly a gestalt decision. That's... pocket change to destroy something like that.

fun fact: i can id as trans and not do anything to my physical appearance (whether bc of choice or situation, both are valid) and still be a valid trans person who's worthy of respect

also I'm probably going to be less active on here in future so if you want to chat discord is probably the best place

hey yall, just to say if u want to get in touch with me feel free to add me on discord at julia#7502, and also my DMs here are always open! I'm trying to be there more for my pals, and attentive of people & trying not to be as socially withdrawn so feel free to message :)

Given that's a near universal experience, wouldn't the first thought be there might be some relationship with higher rates of suicidality?

But no. It's because our brains work differently.

Aaarrgghhh!

Seriously? The first thing that occurs to people is some sort of neurobiological difference causing higher rates of suicidality?

It seems like the first thing anyone should explore is how we're treated and what our experience of the world around us is like.

I have yet to hear any autistic person who hasn't faced rejection, hostility, isolation, abuse, or outright assault because we don't present and respond as others expect.

"Billionaire" isn't a qualification.

It's the description of a person who is hoarding more resources than they could use in 100 lifetimes, while other people are starving.

It's the name for a human dragon sleeping on its pile of rubies and gold.

-- @Shakestweetz (?)

It’s gotten to the point where I just assume that every girl I interact with on fedi is trans and I’m like low-key shocked when someone turns out to be cis.

Like, oh wow, you’re cisgendered? But you’re like so pretty tho I never would have guessed...

let weak people be weak it's not wrong to be weak wtf