The Bird

Thank you dear Quark Amaya McFluffers for being my kitty buddy for 16 years. I miss you.

I live alone in a city, and like to #write, compose music, and make art.

My goal is to live a life of love. Am on a lifelong quest to keep unlearning oppressive behaviors, #LandBack, and building #equitable, just, #antiracist, sustainable, consensual #community.

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2026-05-08 21:54:56 UTC

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@nprofile…awd8 @nprofile…9pr4 I personally read first Babel and the Poppy Wars. Yellowface is a good contender too. I think Babel is very heavy handed in its story-telling, which made sense world-building-wise in that its an institution, but Yellowface and Poppy Wars are more approachable I think.

2026-05-08 20:59:50 UTC

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@nprofile…awd8 @nprofile…9pr4 I'm... baffled by this controversy. I've read her novels. They are very obviously anti-colonialist and anti-imperialism. Making these accusations just because a character is Israeli is... bad faith reading at best. Depiction isn't endorsement.
Hopefully folks will read her works to see this for themselves. Babel in particular is literally a revolution starting at a university.

2026-05-06 09:34:32 UTC

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@nprofile…awd8
@nprofile…xkhm @nprofile…ugpy
This is the archived version of the article or do you mean pluralistic's post itself?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260505172051/https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/

2026-05-01 22:54:26 UTC

Lately, discourse on trans, race, disability, immigrant, and queer issues is exhausting. We lay out facts of what is happening and make calls for action, but I don't solidarity see actions or much fighting back.
I feel I'm yelling into the void, but not even the void is listening.
I watch as rights are stripped away from marginalized communities in USA, and barely anyone in USA speaks of it. Instead, we're caught up in a war of not-reality versus actual reality. It's disturbing to witness.

2026-04-30 12:20:01 UTC

Please boycott JK Rowling and read way better novels by way better authors. Stop wasting energy on defending this franchise and join us in boycotting her so she has less money and visibility to destroy the lives of trans folks life me. If you need a better series to read and enjoy, let me know and I'll make a list.
#nevent1q…dgar

2026-04-11 02:30:22 UTC

A reminder Artemis II was a relic of Obama's term and this mission was a success in spite of trump, who defunded and harmed the success of NASA his entire time in office.
Kudos to NASA and especially the Artemis crew who focused on the wonder and curiosity of the human spirit, on sharing feelings of what it's like to see the moon's dark side, and reminding us that love and hope are still possible even in this increasingly scary and fascist world.
#Artemis #spaceflight

2026-03-26 08:24:11 UTC

Note to cis people:
If you watch and support Harry Potter series, you are funding the anti-trans crusade that is killing people like me and stripping away our rights. Experts have warned that in the US and UK the steps toward genocide against trans people are accelerating.
I ask:
Do you care more about nostalgia of fictional people?
or
Do you care about actual people like myself and our right to exist in society like you?
This isn't a trick question. Do the right thing please. #trans

2023-08-18 23:10:14 UTC

So I've been referred by my general care doctor to be tested for Ehler's Danos Syndrome. Which would explain a lot of my joint issues actually, and how easily I bruise. So we'll see how that goes.
Two of my sisters have even more joint issues, dislocations, and easy bruising than me, so it is indeed a thing in my family.
We'll see how it goes I guess?
#NEISvoid