autumn
@autumnyte.myatproto.social
Autumn or JL. They/Them. My Hellaverse fandom account is @helluvanautumn.myatproto.social
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It's almost the end of the year and it looks like I won't hit my subscriber goal for the year, but from now until the ball drop, you can get 40% off your first month/year off a monthly or annual membership to my Patreon by using code WB2026 at checkout.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It's almost the end of the year and it looks like I won't hit my subscriber goal for the year, but from now until the ball drop, you can get 40% off your first month/year off a monthly or annual membership to my Patreon by using code WB2026 at checkout.
patreon.com/katelynburns
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Bring back the idea that there's stuff it's rude to ask people about and none of your business (why are you masking, why aren't you drinking, etc.)
Also, never ask someone why they're wearing a mask! Just don't! You're not entitled to people's health info!
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Bring back the idea that there's stuff it's rude to ask people about and none of your business (why are you masking, why aren't you drinking, etc.)
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Sniggering at people with fragile health. Pathetic. If you roll your eyes when you see someone masking, share a little joke with your buddies, please just stop a DAMN SECOND and wonder what it's like to be health-compromised in year 7 of an airborne pandemic. Then keep your take to your damn self.
Jon Stewart has some absolute fucking NERVE to be making fun of Long COVID survivors and people still masking on his piece of shit podcast when he’s seen UP CLOSE the government deny healthcare and resources for 9/11 survivors who breathed in toxic air and are suffering decades later.
What a psycho
What a psycho
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Sniggering at people with fragile health. Pathetic. If you roll your eyes when you see someone masking, share a little joke with your buddies, please just stop a DAMN SECOND and wonder what it's like to be health-compromised in year 7 of an airborne pandemic. Then keep your take to your damn self.
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2025 was relentless for many, including transgender people and our families. I wrote a year-end reflection on what it might take to be optimistic about 2026 and beyond
The Year of the Common Movement
2025 brought increasing threats to transgender people's health care, freedom, and safety--so what needs to change?
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
2025 was relentless for many, including transgender people and our families. I wrote a year-end reflection on what it might take to be optimistic about 2026 and beyond
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It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
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Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
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Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.
December Was Deadliest Month in Deadliest Year in ICE Custody Deaths
There has been an alarming spike in immigrants dying while in ICE detention during the Trump administration.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.
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the uncs were all chopped by the chimney with care
December 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
the uncs were all chopped by the chimney with care
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six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED I AM ON A PLANE WITH A BABY WHO SAYS “HI” TO EVERYONE AS HE GOES DOWN THE AISLE
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
IT FINALLY HAPPENED I AM ON A PLANE WITH A BABY WHO SAYS “HI” TO EVERYONE AS HE GOES DOWN THE AISLE
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Nah. I've been no contact with my father for 30 years and it remains one of the best decisions of my life.
(Also, of course it's a fucking TERF.)
(Also, of course it's a fucking TERF.)
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nah. I've been no contact with my father for 30 years and it remains one of the best decisions of my life.
(Also, of course it's a fucking TERF.)
(Also, of course it's a fucking TERF.)
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ive been getting word that some people are giving their hearts away to someone on christmas, only for that person to give it away the very next day. stay safe out there, guys 🙏
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
ive been getting word that some people are giving their hearts away to someone on christmas, only for that person to give it away the very next day. stay safe out there, guys 🙏
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Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible
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Leak: 60 Minutes CECOT Piece | Matthew Cortland
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December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible
www.patreon.com/posts/146475...
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Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
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Have read all of these, and it's an honor to be part of such a great shortlist. They are all worth your time!!
Four books. One grand prize. Five days left until voting ends.
2025 was the year of the transfeminine contemporary novel, and the four novels shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Fiction are leading the charge.
If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. Voting closes Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST 🩷
2025 was the year of the transfeminine contemporary novel, and the four novels shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Fiction are leading the charge.
If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. Voting closes Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST 🩷
The 2025 Shortlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards)
Four books. One grand prize. Vote now in the 2025 TFR Awards, open until Dec. 26 at 11:59pm EST.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Have read all of these, and it's an honor to be part of such a great shortlist. They are all worth your time!!
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Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now