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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~
Joined Jun 2017
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uhhh coming out day or something
i came out in 2013 but the only coming out you do once is to yourself. beyond that, you come out all the time, because "coming out" is about defying the defaults that cis/hets presume. if not for cissupremacy, if not for the kyriarchy, no one would ever need to come out.
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Birdsite link, ongoing natural disaster
So, hey. Lots of folks are way worse off than I am thanks to the wine country fires. If you've got any cash to spare, my credit union's started a fund.
https://twitter.com/CountyofSonoma/status/918092179322544129
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I love that the physically-largest species of skate is called the "big skate".
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Hi! I was displaced by wildfires and am raising a little money to cover a breathing mask + necessities. Help out and get some art!
Anything extra I raise will be used to help other people in my community effected by the wildfires. :)
https://awoo.space/media/8l1iqw0FELRIoBn4YRU
the crows are gathering in our strip of woodland again. the volume (in both sound and amount) of their caws is gradually increasing.
earworm music
I have had the song "Saint Elmo's Fire" stuck in my head for the last couple of days, which is kind of annoying because I kind of loathe it.
food
okay, this protein bar doesn't taste like ass. it's not *good*, but it's edible. :|
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Your friends don’t understand you.
https://files.botsin.space/media_attachments/files/000/152/369/original/2397f7822f8eda5a.jpe
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here we see a feline in their natural state: a vaguely circular blob of fur with protruding claws
oh hey it's mental health day. so um. I have a depressive disorder. fortunately I found medication that helps a lot, and it's currently mostly in remission, but I do have occasional flareups. it has affected my life profoundly, immeasurably. I'm still learning who I am and what I can do when I'm not chained to that massive boulder. anxiety is a strong secondary disorder, but it's also mostly under control.
so... that's me. /wave
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Hey guess what, my work on #Mastodon is only possible thanks to crowdfunding through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
Here are the patrons: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors
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if anyone is looking for some decent, basic shared hosting, Namecheap has a coupon right now HOST4ABUCK will get you a year of their "value" hosting for $1 for the first year.
been using them for a couple years now and they're solid. nothing fancy. this isn't for VPS stuff, but if you want domain emails, and a place to stick a web presence this is a decent deal. renewal is $39, so even that's not bad.
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Here comes your new life motto.
https://files.botsin.space/media_attachments/files/000/152/064/original/ef0fdb5cbd6aa1c8.jpe
Birbhell meme:
What five films would you tell a potential significant other to watch to know what kind of person you are?
my answers:
1. Jurassic Park
2. Lilo & Stitch
3. Only Lovers Left Alive
4. Jupiter Ascending
5. Evil Dead 2
(bonus TV series: Walking With Dinosaurs)
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This seems weird to modern sensibilities, but audiences at the time could tell "Hello! Ma Baby" was about telephones simply by the presence of "hello" in the title. The word was used more as a cry of surprise or a call for attention than as a greeting.
It was Edison who popularized "hello" as a telephone greeting, and the word was so strongly associated with phones that switchboard operators were called "hello girls". It wasn't until the 30s and 40s that "hello" caught on as a general greeting.
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Fun fact: "Hello! Ma Baby", today best known as the song Michigan J. Frog sings in the classic short "One Froggy Evening", was written as a "coon song" - a racist parody of black people. It's about a man who's never met his sweetheart and only talks to her on the telephone.
The song sent up black people's perceived "backwardness" and "promiscuity" - because it's implied the sweetheart is sleeping around, and because it was considered laughable that a black person would know how to use a phone.
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https://boingboing.net/2017/10/06/eric-holders-legacy.html
A lawsuit against JP Morgan-Chase -- the nation's largest bank -- asserts that the institution paid off the $4,200,000,000 in mortgage forgiveness that it agreed to as a settlement for widescale mortgage and foreclosure fraud by committing a lot more mortgage fraud, in which homeowners, ethical lenders, and American cities were stuck with the bill.
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US Pol, an ask for some armchair activism
hey folks if you got a moment and are comfortable doing so join me in filling in some info to tell Starbucks not to sponsor a Betsy DeVos fundraiser - they can't court billionaires who are homophobic and transphobic and also claim to host a safe space for LGBT+ folks
http://act.fusewashington.org/letter/StarbucksDevosWPC2017/?source=FuseFacebook
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california fires
hey if anyone's down there in the Napa Valley/Santa Rosa area (I know at least one awoo user is immediately affected by this) please gtfo and stay safe
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/us/california-fires/index.html
---
pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
...
aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~
Joined Jun 2017
