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Podcaster, Writer, Game Designer & Streamer. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 AuDHD, PTSD, RSD, black cat (Illegal) lesbian. linktr.ee/sequaia

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

Everything is too much. I'll be leaving social media for a few months folks.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · Jul 27

Depression is a killer disease. Anyone who doesn't understand that, who minimizes it to the tune of "everybody feels bad sometimes, get over it" isn't going to have anything realistic to offer you in managing or recovering from it.

Afford them exactly as much cred as they earn.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jul 12

🫣 thank you Ella

Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jul 6

The character Unique, from the highschool musical show - Glee, telling Finn "I don't feel right in the men's locker room, but I can't go into the girls."

Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 28

Does that make you 'cakefluid'? Cos that's icing right?

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 27

I want to thank everyone I’ve worked with since I’ve been with the channel, you’re all very talented and we’ve told some great stories together. All my best wishes to the team, I’m sure you will go from strength to strength.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 27

Due to significant personal issues I’ve not featured on the channel for a while, or even as a guest on other channels. It's taken months for me to make this decision but I can only make worthy contributions to this project from a place of stability, and I’ve been getting worse, not better.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is not a return to social media just yet, but I’ve just announced this on The Transmissions discord so I felt I should repeat it here:

It is with much sadness that I’m announcing my departure from The Transmissions.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

Everything is too much. I'll be leaving social media for a few months folks.

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Jolene Khor @jolenekhor.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you so much for hosting this lovely talk @jdwasabi.bsky.social
And thank you for having me and organising #AirCon25 @lewisthompsound.bsky.social , Greg Lester + the rest of AirWiggles, it has been amazing!!!

林明玉 Jade (JDWasaboo 👻) 🔜 Gamescom Asia 🇹🇭 @jdwasabi.bsky.social · Jun 12

Another talk in the bag! Thanks for having us as part of #AirCon25 🙏💪

Huge thanks @jolenekhor.bsky.social for co-hosting and @lewisthompsound.bsky.social , Greg Lester + the rest of the AirWiggles team for organising! 💚🙏 #gameaudio #gamemusic #gamedev #indiedev

Screenshot of Jade and Jolene hosting a talk “Composing for Tabletop Games” with slides featuring the music Theme of Altheya by Jolene Khor!

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

The victim withdraws more and more, allowing the narc justification for their behaviour "well you never told me, how am I supposed to know?" And also control the narrative to the wider audience, by being free to construct their ideal image unchallenged.

Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

A narcissist is vocal and builds an audience around them that isolates a victim. To the victim, everyone appears to be awed by the narc and to admit their own bad feelings or contradict the narc seems foolhardy or dangerous.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

They are not, and they control this through phrasing such as: 'i would like to do this, but I'm happy if you want to do that'. To choose the latter immediately makes that person unreasonable. No one wants to suggest doing the opposite of what the narc has just established they would like to do.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

To acknowledge this sets a precedent for admitting there is a healthy exchange between the parties and this is not a trade the narc is interested in acknowledging. They need people beholden to them, but they will use language that suggests they are open to alternatives.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

This assertion is relentless and it's designed to cut off two main things. Firstly the victims problems are insignificant compared to the narcs. Secondly the narc is so 'giving' they are owed everything. It's common for them to not acknowledge anything the victim does.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

What is often overlooked is how victims are maligned, not by what is said about them, but by what is omitted and by the careful construction the narcissist builds about their own struggles and the constant reiteration of their great qualities, and what they do for you.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

Similar to the saying 'history is written by the winners' is the truth that narcissists control the narrative in abusive relationships.

One thing a narcissist likes is the sound of their voice and their favourite subject is themselves, and how great they are.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Jun 18

Labour would never have been elected with their massive majority if they had run on the policies they are now wheeling out and there needs to be some sort of mechanism in a democracy to deal with a government that just lies to get elected. It can't just be 'ah well, have another go in 5 years'.

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · Jun 17

Update from @@transactualuk.bsky.social‬ on yesterday's farce:

transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/06...

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

I experience gaslighting at home, in my former workplace, from the media and even the government. William may have been struggling with the difficulties of his modern world, but the industrial fires of Ironbridge Gorge are reflected in today's fascist landscape and it's still 'hell on earth'.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

Understanding mental health and suicide in Williams time was not really a thing and whilst we think things are much better these days, narcissistic abuse is rife and victim blaming is a common occurrence.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

All I would really need in order to improve my mental health is a less hostile environment. A way to access trans healthcare. Not being policed when I need to use a public toilet... I have received no help, but I've also asked for no help because I'm scared of the potential reaction.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

Leaving my abuse trauma to one side, my low mental health is not because I'm a trans woman, it's because as a trans woman I have no place in society. If I were to tell a health worker I felt suicidal that would become the sole focus - medication, check ins, again even being sectioned.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

Victims are almost always seen as the ones with the problem and are often further victimised by having their jobs taken away, their children removed from them, or even being sectioned. An abuser may be identified, but even under new guidelines rarely gets mandates therapy.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

I don't believe William's suicide was due to alcohol alone, the alcohol certainly wouldn't have helped and was likely the cause of 'loosening him up' and causing him to drop the mask that he would usually have worn. He started exhibiting that 'madness' of a victim.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · Jun 16

William (the subject of the article) was most certainly suffering some kind of trauma, hard to say if it was from domestic abuse or something else, but he was showing the hallmarks of victim behaviour. I've mentioned before how victims become withdrawn and/or erratic.

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