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The Creatively Maladjusted

@tyrotcm.bsky.social

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They/them ONLY. Seattle area. Bi nonbinary transbian, solidarity cheerleader, white intersectional feminist, social justice bard. Multiply disabled activist.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · Dec 8

"But maybe you touch one life
And the world becomes a better place to be
Maybe you give their dreams another day
Another chance to be free"

That's why I keep going, right there. My symptom profile is high octane nightmare fuel, but as long as I can make a difference, I have something to fight for.

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · Dec 8

This song hits me hard. It's about living your life to the fullest before you get old, & I essentially entered old my senior years in my early 30s.

Various health issues have massively shortened my life expectancy & given me a bunch of symptoms commonly associated with old age.

The Crüxshadows – Birthday

Roll out of bed, look in the mirror / And wonder who you are / Another year has come and gone / Today is your birthday / But it might be the last day of your life / What will you

genius.com

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 5h

Huh. Did the re-release of 7 reignited interest?

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 6h

Is Aerith cosplay still popular, or is that picture from a long time ago?

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Decolonise EVERYTHING 💜 #StrikeForMutualAid @hoydenspark.bsky.social · 3d

Come on folks, let's go!!

Every interaction makes a difference.

Share & reply to increase visibility to this situation and uplift this urgent survival need!

The more engagement on the above post, the easier it will be seen & supported: it all helps #KeepFolksAlive

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 5d

Azine wants me to start raising for a boat back to Morocco, but that's about 2 grand and we don't have long.

I need help making it happen beyond reshares alone if we're to have a good chance of success. I'm dangerously close to full burnout.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 16d

Azine's informal free housing arrangement is about to end abruptly. We don't know when; it could be at any time. We need to raise money to get her into an Airbnb as quickly as we can manage.

We don't have the resources for long-term solutions, so I'm just keeping her alive as long as I can.

ID: A pond with a duck trailing ducklings on the water & a fox on the shore. Surrounding the lake is a forest of evergreen trees and a snowy landscape. The words are in white with black borders.

Transcript: Azine's Story
Azine travels the world to meet people dear to her. That is her reason for living, as she doesnt know how much time she has left. This goes for everyone, especially with how the world is today. Goes extra for her because of heart-lung disease from birth + a series of embolisms in 2016.

Embolisms are kept at bay by medication, due to having had more than one. Dystonia and seizures, were made worse by Lyme disease (tick bite 2009). MCAS, probably from birth, is made a lot worse by environmental toxins. She takes 4 antihistamines including compounded ketotifen (expensive) in very high doses to keep her skin from peeling off & to keep limited food down.
"I dont have access to health insurance, even though that is mandatory where I was born.Because people with Lyme and ME/CFS are routinely denied healthcare, persecuted, and jailed in psychiatric hospitals. That is why I became a traveler/refugee. That is why my mom, who still lives there, is deep in debt. Because there was never gov. support or funding for me, not even welfare."

I've done all I can out of my own resources. We need your help. Please, boost & share her story, & if you can afford to, donate any amount* you can spare to her mom's PayPal: MadeleineWedemeijer@gmail.com
*Literally $1 helps. Fundraisers with more activity, regardless of the size of the donations, are more successful overall as it motivates people to pitch in. And if you include an encouraging message in the memo line, you'll help to lift the severely flagging spirits of all those involved.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 6h

Swipe phone keyboards come to mind

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 6h

Seconded

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 7h

Nibs, our resident bog witch, put ethically sourced (from owl pellets) mouse bones in resin and turned them into rings. $17.60

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Nibs' Macabre Minutiae I | Peculiarity Shop

I love the notes our crafters leave sometimes. Nibs: "Fun trivia: the mouse bones were recovered from owl pellets (not by me)." I mean, she's our resident bogwitch. It's entirely plausible. Components...

www.peculiarityshop.com

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 7h

Really cool stuff

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 7h

Our release for @peculiarityshop.bsky.social was a wild success. Half the items were gone by day one. I still have three weeks to Halloween and spooky stuff I'd love to move.

20% off.

LGBTQIA+ staffed and owned!

www.peculiarityshop.com/halloween2025
www.peculiarityshop.com/nightborne

HALLOWEEN 2025 PECULIARITY SHOP

General Halloween goodness fromThe Peculiarity Shop.

www.peculiarityshop.com

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 8h

LOVE IS REAL!!!

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 9h

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 9h

Could have changed. I've been banned from Twitter since shortly after Elon bought the place.

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 10h

I've personally seen it in action on Twitter and Facebook.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

Plz note that NOTHING in here or their website when you click on it says "we are taking you to a third party website, and that third party is going to use chatbots and also train their robot on your data."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

Cigna: hi you have access to a FREE health coachservice, Thrive!
Me: what are you?
Thrive: a wellness coach! just for you!
Me *squints*: are you an LLM?
Thrive (blushes): why yes, yes I am
Me: *blocks*

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

Especially then, but not just then

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

truthout.org/articles/den...

Denial Isn’t an Effective Health Care Strategy, Say People With Long COVID

Gaslighting and disbelief make long COVID worse for people living with long-term effects from the virus.

truthout.org

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

I really appreciate your share.

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

Rough choice. Pro ana or black and white recovery paradigm 💔

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

I twitched involuntarily

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment.

But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way:

Are we more unified than we were before?
Are we bigger than we were before?
Are our tactics proliferating?
Is the regime’s popularity falling?

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

In the information age, research skills are a superpower.

Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Started reading THAT LIBRARIAN by Amanda Jones (@librarianjones.com) yesterday in honor of Banned Book Week.

Librarians and library workers have been on the front lines of the modern fight for intellectual freedom for decades. Follow them, read them, listen to what they have to say.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

In the information age, research skills are a superpower.

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

How epic do you think his reaction will be?

PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 1d

Three more days until he doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 1d

As you're able. Sometimes it's the only way to get vital equipment, I recognize that. I've taken advantage of it myself.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

As Prime Days kicks off on Amazon, please remember the power of voting with your dollar.

Bezos is a billionaire oligarch who has repeatedly bent a knee to Trump.

Amazon is known for abusing their employees and having appalling business practices.