nicole @nicole@myna.social

Things are extremely scary over on the birdsite, and I don't pretend to have all the answers. But I do know that calling for Apple and Google to outright ban apps used by millions of people for all kinds of important things is ... playing with fire and not in line with global human rights. Pushing for moderate at that level of the stack is not going to lead to more safety for LGBTQ+ people or other marginalized folks. It's gonna get us censored & silenced. Sending love to my ppl. I get it

Some of you may or may not know that I also write #interactivefiction particularly in #twine. I’m a big proponent of all writers learning a system like Twine actually - it really helps sharpen ‘linear’ fiction as well. Anyway it’s a few years old but my most recent big work is A Bathroom Myth, which is an ongoing fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center.

https://adeniro.itch.io/a-bathroom-myth

We take care of each other.

Everything else is commentary.

♥️

Shabbat Shalom.

I've read reviews and comments with variations on #WakandaForever being a love letter to Chadwick Boseman.

It's a tribute and homage to Chadwick, but it's a love letter to Black women, *especially* dark skinned Black women.

I think there's less than 10 minutes where a Black woman wasn't central to the scene, and present on screen.

It's also feels like a deeply respectful acknowledgment of the oppression and trauma we share with Indigenous peoples in this hemisphere.

Passes #BechdelTest, too

I feel terrified lately. The richest person in the world purchased the closest thing we had to a global town square and has started using it to push bigoted conspiracy theories. He's invited back Nazis and transphobes that have incited real world violence. And because Twitter was a company, that could just happen and we the people had no recourse.

So now the public square is owned by a nazi/nazi sympathizer during a dangerous time where right wing conspiracy followers are getting more and more violent. It all feels awful.

I'm almost 29, which I think is quite young still.

Despite this, I've lived through enough culture-war-like events for it to seem obvious when an outgroup is being vilified as sexual perverts attempting to infiltrate the pure ingroup and vile thought-police attempting to prevent any discussion of the Truth about Them.

On the nose over and over again, you'd think more people served this messaging would notice.

I just found this comic on Reddit and almost cried.

The best part is that I'm labeling a beta tape to provide a supporting image for a mini-fic I wrote, which is about VHS tapes.

so since I am here now, allow me to do some SLEEP PROPAGANDA

SLEEP IS GOOD

SLEEP IS IMPORTANT

SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY EDUCATION OR JOB

and the fact that we are forced to compromise on sleep in order to fulfill duties to capitalism is an immense injustice and health risk.

lack of sleep obviously increases stress levels and therefore the risk for all kinds of diseases, but it also damages your brain on a cellular level because SLEEP MAINTAINS THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR BRAIN.

If you're mad about what a billionaire is doing to destroy Twitter, wait until you hear what billionaires are doing to destroy the planet.

To state the obvious, these are the stakes in the debate around gender-affirming care for minors. It's miraculous that surgical technology exists to undo much of the effect of puberty with the wrong hormones; it's still a hell of a thing to go through, compared to just escaping those hormones in the first place.