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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · Nov 1

Cane Hill - a piece of me i never let you find
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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 1d

Well, well, well, if it is the consequence to your own actions

#FuckDavidDraiman #OhWaAhAhAh

DISTURBED's Belgian Show Cancelled Over DAVID DRAIMAN's Photo Signing IDF Missiles - Metal Injection

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 1d

Wake up babe!! New contender for best video on the Internet just dropped!!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

FUCK I proofread this so many times 😭😭😭

TL;DR:

Transphobia—like other forms of misinformation—weaponizes a logical structure known as an enthymeme in which they leave out an apparently obvious premise, but they do so because it's untrue and they hope you'll fill it in w bias and fear.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

For it to be true that detransitioners + ___ = trans identity is not innate,

Detransitioners would have to be trans during the period in which they identify as such—meaning transness is real.

This also requires the unstated premise that all detransitioners are cis to be true, and it isn't.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

What about

"the existence of even one detransitioner"

makes it true that

trans identity as an "innate characteristic" is a "central lie"

and also and equally that

transness "should [not] have human rights afforded to it"?

They don't know either, it seems.

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 2d

Grifters, haters, and conspiracy theories learn how to properly format a logical syllogism challenge, impossible edition.

Oh, what's that? They rely on enthymemes because including the second premise reveals that their logic is actually very illogical?

It's always the same shit. Sick with me here:

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 5d

Me w literally everything that has happened since the election 🙃

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

"Local communist thinks about home state and gets mad at direct versus representative democracy" would be a great Onion headline

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

Today's hot take is that if Ohio really were a series of networked college towns, the state overall would be much more blue.

If it is just corn everywhere else--and it certainly is not--then that corn is astonishingly, deeply conservative 🤷

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Minerva Victrix @minervavictrix.bsky.social · 6d

Reposting with Alt Text!

An infographic depicting a cartoonified version of Trump on the left and Obama on the right. The text reads "Trump criticized Obama for writing 147 executive orders in one term. Then he wrote 220.
"Trump criticized Obama for playing 113 rounds of golf in one term. He then played 428.
"Trump criticized Obama when 12,000 died from H1N1. Over 400,000 died from COVID on his watch.
"Trump criticized Obama for his expensive family vacations. Then Trump spent almost as much in a month as Obama had spent in a year.
"Trump called Obama the most ignorant president in history. In POTUS rankings, though, Obama has never ranked lower than 15th from the top, Trump's never ranked higher than 4th from the bottom."

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

The 5 Calls app is telling me 4,500 people have called through the app about this specific topic, which doesn't sound like a lot to me.

You can combine this one with general concerns of the shutdown or budget dealings as well—as I suspect many are!

#CallYourReps #Congressors #TransRights #FYME

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

But remember, you never HAVE to give a reason, just say the thing you want them to do or not do—that's the important part!

So if a shorter call makes it easier, you can keep it simple at "please oppose any federal budget bill that revokes access or funding for trans healthcare"!

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

I added a sentence that a funding ban on trans healthcare "also tells the rest of Americans that our rights might be stripped away as a hot button political issue by the whims of an authoritarian regime at any point in the future as well."

So many prepositional phrases 😵‍💫

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 6d

Thing You Can Do!

Call your reps because you're not a transphobe or a fascist:

Protect Funding and Access to Gender-Affirming Care ⭑ 5 Calls

Updates Oct 2, 2025: The Senate once again voted down the House Republican “clean” CR, resulting in a government shut down. Negotiations now continue …

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly, same old problem with a fresh coat of paint. This one is particularly driven by "autism moms" who see their children's autism, especially if they are multiply disabled, as a personal burden to them (the mom/parent).

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Tommy Okktane @tommyokktane.bsky.social · 7d

Techbros do not deserve to exist in polite society.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

Kancis omfg that's so clever

arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

GOOD NEWS

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

Major victory in Kansas for transgender people.

The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license.

ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers

“I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

"Lower" or not, I will always have support needs. I don't have an issue w that.

Everyone has support/access needs. Could you take the stairs up a skyscraper? Your needs are an elevator. Can't drive in pitch darkness? Your needs are headlights.

Mine are also related to my autism. And so what?

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

Separating "profound" autism as "bad autism" creates a caste system in which "mild" autism is good because it is neurotypical passing.

Neither my value in society nor my relationship to my own autism are defined by adjacency to allism.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

Mild, level 1, Asperger's or whatever you want to call it, us lower-support autistics have support needs, too. And those levels are not fixed.

My mental health has not been the greatest lately, so I've been in need of more social support than usual. Other times other interdependence is useful.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

Per the article:

"Every autistic person qualifies as disabled, so every autistic person needs some kind of support and accommodations—and this is true even if a person is able to talk, go to a mainstream school, or work in a regular job."

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

which is itself problematic enough to take issue with this phenomenon, I'd like to add:

The idea that "level one" autistics (like me) are acceptably good for society but "level 2" and "3" "profound" autistics aren't harms us, too.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

Great read about why "profound autism"-separatists do harm to the autistic community and especially their autistic loved ones.

Without meaning to speak over how harmful the notion of "profound" autism is to those with higher support needs and co-occuring intellectual disabilities,

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 9d

When parents get info about their autistic kids from the autistic and disability communities, they will find people who think that their kids are awesome, and want their parents to feel the same way.

They will NOT find this love via #ProfoundAutism groups.

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A "Profound Autism" Category Is Segregation—Not Progress

RFK Jr. went full "useless eaters" on autistics—& Profound Autism parents are thrilled. Here's why "profound autism" is harmful, not helpful.

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arin says 👏🏻 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE 👏🏻 @iconqueity.bsky.social · 8d

God fucking damn I love Beartooth