We are VERY close to 29,000 responses now. :) If the gender binary doesn't know what to do with you, please click here: survey.gendercensus.com The survey closes on 30th August.

Gender census time - us old pharts (in internet years) are always underrepresented so come be measured 💚

There are no NPCs in real life, just people who accepted a different set of quests than you.

Everybody needs a best friend who will buy you Japanese musicals for your birthday! Yay!! #MHA #BNHA #UltraStage

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

with a bunch of ableist screenshots being shared around, a reminder of what people with an intellectual disability think about the r-word. They call this hate speech, just to be REALLY clear. www.spreadtheword.global/our-words

Super important thread on why constantly exposing yourself to horrible-to-you stuff is Very Bad and will damage you in meaningful ways. This includes doing "awareness raising" stuff. Read all of it and pay attention (This person has slept on my floor. They know what they are talking about)

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

Okay, I'm in a nice and cranky mood today, so let's go with the blunt truths #BadActorBingo thread I've been meaning to write for a while so I have something to point people to when they whine at me: why "but they're a good person" doesn't, and *can't*, mean shit in T&S.

Anyone who's ever loved OK Go (band who did that treadmill music video back before YouTube was even really a thing, remember?), they're doing a series of "things you never knew about…" for all their music videos and they're really cool. You totally want to watch them www.youtube.com/channel/UC19...

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Bumping the threadstarter to repeat the plea again: PLEASE stop using follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1k, #NoDemUnder5k, #BlueCrew, #FBR, #FBPE, etc -- any "use this hashtag/like this post/repost this post/reply to this post/etc to get followers". You are providing cover for bad actors.

I see there are a ton of new folk on here this week, so this is probably overdue: My life has changed massively this year. This thread is to tell you about it If the method pisses you, please show yourself the door because I am too busy living my best life to deal with that

What I've learned over the last seven months is the importance of planning. Planning for maintenance, morale, community, work, and/or rest. Make a plan for today which considers your needs and within your capacity. Finishing that plan will make you feel better than doomscrolling, I promise.

Y’all know the RULES

anyhow, not to be a party pooper, jokes are fine, I just want to say that the joy or sense of justice you might feel may not be anti-abolitionist. it may be the opposite: longing for an abolitionist world in which people like trump aren't empowered by institutions to harm with impunity. that's all.

There have now been over 40,000 participants, in just two weeks. You can see some participation statistics here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... You can take part here: survey.gendercensus.com

35,000 responses as of 2 days ago! It's especially helpful to share among LGBTQ+ groups who are: - Age 25 or older - Outside of the USA - Not white Only 18% of respondents are over 31, and over half are in the USA, so it really helps to get the word out to as many different places as possible.

The 11th annual international Gender Census 2024 is now open until at least 13th June 2024! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Why do chocolate block makers persist in having nutrition labels stating impossible portion sizes? My current chocolate block is 100g, it contains 12 squares so each square is 8.5g The stated portion size is 20g WTF?

If you haven't heard yet, there's an indie sale going on all weekend (and Monday!) It has ~300 indie authors with discounted books, and the sale's site has a few handy filters to help you find what you want! I have CITY OF STRIFE discounted in it, at 99c. indiebook.sale

As someone who writes books about a time period before STD blood tests, I’m begging you all to never believe that you can tell who has an STD by visual inspection.

"Due to high demand during our busiest time of year we are experiencing higher than normal volume of requests, resulting in longer delays to arrange booking" Yeah, nah I know summer is late, but I'm not buying that the 1st month of autumn is your busiest time of year, air conditioner repair place

If you're unsure what to say - stick to telling us you like our hair, the set, our outfit in a polite way. I promise, those are the best ways to go if you're new to interacting with us.

Every new right-wing publication is named The Daily Constitution and pays a dozen writers mid-six-figure salaries thanks to backing by the CEO of fascism. Every new left-wing publication is named Lazer Sword & pays fifty contributors $300 a month, funded by laid-off journalists donated buyout pay.

Today's disability support worker fucked up cooking to the point that I'm wondering if it has actual soap in it or something Have abandoned cooked meal for dry biscuits with butter on 🤷 sometimes it's better not to try #NEISVoid

The trouble with realising you can make your own guided meditations is that then you realise you can *improve* upon them I am now up to version 5 This may never end … (it's fun though!)

PSA: If you are using Findaway Voices to distribute your audiobooks, you should know that their new terms of service have significant problems. The new TOS contains this section: Source: 4b here: my.findawayvoices.co... 1/6

My friend the activist says that by wearing a mask she is engaging in prefigurative politics: embodying a desired future through actions in the present. I ask if she desires a future where everyone is masked. She says no, she desires a future in which we take care of each other.

Don't kill the part of yourself that is cringe, kill the part of yourself that cringes.

Chasing down actual references for medical stuff is INFURIATING Book's table caption: chronic inflammatory diseases to which zonulin has been linked as a biomarker of gut permeability Table includes ME/CFS Table cites a specific scientific paper, beautiful! #NEISVoid #MECFS #Nutrition

Reminder as we go into peak wellness industry messaging in January that REST is one of the best things you can do during/following a COVID infection (think 6 weeks), so if you were positive in December, please don’t dive into a workout regime in January.

Doc confirmed today that the 2 small wounds from the moles he removed are now larger than on removal day 3 weeks ago. They should be totally healed over by now He was v upbeat, "you just need diff dressings, they'll be healed in 2 weeks" Want to believe him but that's what he said 3 weeks ago… 🤷

“Small Child Becomes Leading Voice Of Climate Movement” is not an inspirational story. It falls into the same trap as “Office Workers Donate Vacation Days To Pregnant Colleague So She Can Have Maternity Leave.” Each is indicative of the world's total systemic failure to protect children.

Thought for the day: At least for me, pacing at a level required to avoid acute symptom exacerbation is a very different thing from pacing at a level required to avoid chronic symptom worsening I need FAR more rest/less activity to stop getting worse #NEISVoid #MECFS #SevereMECFS

Happy to announce that I'll be teaching a class for @clarionwest.bsky.social! WRITING DISABLED CHARACTERS is a standalone class about making better disabled representation, from sociology to plotting to research. Come join us on March 12th! More info here: johnwiswell.substack.com/p/new-class-...

Hi, here we are again giving the kindest of reminders that paying sex workers does not give you the right to be disrespectful. You don't get to pay us off so you can say things that make us uncomfortable. ESPECIALLY in regards to OUR bodies. We are people and we deserve to be treated as such.

ok where are my science friends, I have a question how does the human body "turn off" enzymatic reactions? for example, for digestive enzymes like Trypsin, I'm assuming there's some sort of "ok there's nothing else to digest, you can stop now" switch what is the name of that process?

not-yet-disabled people don't understand that good health can vanish almost overnight into a medium- or long-term state of struggling to walk to the bathroom, and this can happen to anyone

I’m not at all used to this platform yet but is there ANY point to the “popular with friends” tab? It just contains a subset of my main feed as far as I can tell …

At the request of an Israeli friend, I've written a guide for people on how to avoid seeing traumatizing content on social media *and* how to minimize the long-term impact on you if your job or volunteer service is suddenly requiring you to scrutinize it. synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

The problem is not that Aboriginal ppl disagree, the problem is that white Australia knows so little about us that some sincerely expect 800,000+ individuals across 250+ nations to have achieved universal consensus on a sensitive and complicated political issue for the convenience of white ppl.