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Steve 🔥🗡💀 @stevoyah.bsky.social · 11h

Good morning friends and happy Sunday 😊

a man holding a pink heart with a yellow star on it

ALT: a man holding a pink heart with a yellow star on it

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 3h

Remember, our goals in trauma recovery involve permanently changing how our nervous & endocrine systems function, & it's unrealistic to expect that to happen overnight. We're reconditioning ourselves for the long term. We want it to stick.

This is about consistency, not force.

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 5h

same

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 6h

Scream!

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 6h

An exchange which reminded me of this sad but true cartoon.

A four panel cartoon titled "Comics Future" set in a museum with comics art on the walls. It depicts the following exchange.

ADULT: "People used to draw stories in little boxes, and they called them comics. And the people who drew them were called cartoonists. And they had no money. And they were very sad."

CHILD: "What happened to the sad cartoonists?"

ADULT: "They all died. Sad, alone, stupid, and covered in dirt. Every last one of them."

The comic is sighed Sweater1 at the lower right.

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Mengxuan Li @mengxuanli.bsky.social · 16h

🏠

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 5d

new favorite hobby is looking at the letterboxd reviews for horror movies I'm watching and finding the funniest ones

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 20h

and i know that i'm damned if i never get out
and baby i'm damned if i do
but with every other beat i've got left in my heart
you know i'd rather be damned with you

25.10.12 - so what did you do those three days you were dead?

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting in from dystopian Portland

A photo of the PSU farmers market in Portland, Oregon. The trees are turning yellow and orange, leaves are on the ground and the sky is gray

Photo of quince and strawberries at a farmers market

Photo of gourds and mini pumpkins at a farmers market

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 23h

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social · 1d

“many Autistic people are keenly aware of the social expectation that they must forgo their own needs and boundaries for the sake of others. And while many Autistic people learn to do these things in the name of survival, this is…missed entirely by much of the sex ed that is made for them.”

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

What Should Sex Ed for Autistic people look like? Not only in teaching consent & red flags, not just recognizing the sexuality of people with I/DD, but also how we can uplift & normalize the pleasure & autonomy of Autistic people. By Morrigan; CN: Rape/abuse:

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What Should Sex Ed for Autistic People Look Like? — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

Sex ed for Autistic people usually emphasizes compliance with neurotypical expectations, not self-advocacy—which pains me, as a survivor.

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · 1d

So what exactly are autistic needs?

This is probably the most confusing aspect of autism.

I think the reason this confuses so many people (even autistic people) is that autistic needs are literally just human needs.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

While everyone has different support needs,
Infantilizing autistic adults isn’t kindnes it’s control. It denies autonomy, agency, and dignity. We don’t need “parenting,” we need respect 👌🏽

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 1d

Realistic trauma recovery is going to bring us face to face w/ the reality that we can, actually, let ourselves rest, laugh, & experience non-painful things-- even if someone's upset w/ us, even if we're not where we want to be in recovery yet, even if we don't have "permission."

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder from Superman

A DC comics comic panel featuring Superman also known as Clark Kent. He’s looking at the viewer with kind eyes ajd a gentle smile. He says, “Hey. It’s going to be okay.”

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 1d

i am the crisis
i am the bitter end
i'm gonna gun this down
i am divided
i am the razor edge
there is no easy now

25.10.11 - hide my head, i wanna drown my sorrow

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 2d

cityelf on tumblr
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

this is a poem about being nonbinary

There is a werewolf in the town. Is that bad? There is a werewolf in the town. I'll take that as a yes. How do you suggest we resolve this? Well, what exactly is the issue? There is a werewolf ...

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 2d

this poem is about being nonbinary.

[ID:

a long conversation between two speakers (bold and unformatted respectively), formatted in the style of an old text-based adventure game, that reads as follows:

There is a werewolf in the town.
Is that bad?
There is a werewolf in the town.
I'll take that as a yes.
How do you suggest we resolve this?
Well, what exactly is the issue?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, okay, I heard you the first time. Is the problem that he is sometimes a wolf, or that he is sometimes a man?
A werewolf is a werewolf. How do you suggest we resolve this?
Work with me here.
The problem is that there is a werewolf.
What do you expect? Do you want me to un-make him? There are many men in the town, and a good number of domesticated wolves. What is the problem? That he was first a man, or first a wolf? Does that even matter? Why is the werewolf an issue?
He was first a man, and now he is a werewolf. There is a werewolf in the town.
Has he actually done anything wrong?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Was this forced upon him? Or did he choose to become a werewolf?
A werewolf is a werewolf.
I see. I think I understand now.
How do you suggest we resolve this problem?
You do not want there to be a werewolf in your town. As I see it there are three options. You could force him to pick between wolf and man, an agonizing divorce from his true being, simply so you do not have a werewolf in your town. You could force him from the town, which may come to be a blessing in the long run- for him, not you. Or you could allow him to integrate and accept that, in our society of men and wolves, there also live werewolves.
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, there is. Isn't that beautiful?
How do you suggest we resolve this?
I am beginning to believe that the werewolf is not the problem here.
/end ID]

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Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com · 2d

Pretty sure we’re living one

Franny Longbottom @longfran15.bsky.social · 2d

@mikeflanaganfilm.com can we get a George Orwell horror series?

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 2d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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✨gemsky✨ @gemvolsky.bsky.social · 2d

oh the werewolf, the werewolf comes stepping along
he don't even break the branches where he's gone
once i saw him in the moonlight, when the bats were flying
i saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying

25.10.10 - all my teeth were so long

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 3d

Folks who think "cats are not loving" have never been loved by a cat.

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