March

March

@maalchen.bsky.social

Chaotic Neutral queer crone-in-the-making with wordy aspirations. Inordinately fond of social interaction on uncertain terms. Not to be excessively relied uponst. They/them(/she/her).

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Trans women are women, trans men are men, nonbinary ppl are nonbinary, gender is a spectrum, the patriarchy hurts everyone, and I like stating the obvious. Good day.

I love George Frideric Handel's amazing "Hooray For Jesus: The Musical" avant la lettre, The Messiah. I'm here to yell into the void that I love it, I will always love it, it is an S-tier work of art, it is the best in its genre don't at me, and if you say Handel is inferior to Bach I will fight you

(also pretty sure he wrote it as George Frideric, not Georg Friedrich, we don't deadname the GOAT in Baroque composers on this bsky account)

I FEEL LIKE A HUGE DICKHEAD okay well maybe yelling this into the void will help with the disproportionate emotional dysregulation and if it doesn't there's still podcasts and cross-stitchings and doing other stupid things to cover over already-done stupid things so everything will be FINE I'm FINE

muting all but the fun/comforting accounts is better than staying off bsky for three more weeks. This Is Better, Mr Lipvig. This Is Better!

Gonna hide from the internet for the next four weeks because I'ma be extremely busy with choir and stuff kthxbai

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Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

List game! Yes please! Am I capable of? cooking: yes whistle: very yes draw: ish? paint: walls yes, pictures not really swim: yes english: OH yes dance: yes sing: yes drive: no gifting: sometimes write: yes guitar: alas no speaking: all quotes&opinions all day unless infodumping

The way I used to fawn over people in my 300-student school who'd done awesome performance stuff who'd then react like "who dis weirdo ew" really should have prepared me better for how bad an idea parasocial admirationships are... and yet here I am, fawning over podcasters who CAN'T know who I am πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

What if Black Russian but rum instead of vodka? 10/10 cocktail no notes is what, but for the life of me I can't think of a name that wouldn't rightfully get me cancelled. (Also I'm too lazy to look it up.)

tfw you're enjoying a rare sit-down at a train station and a giant reeking pungent ambulant scent cloud with *allegedly* a human being inside sits down right next to you so that your two choices are 1) standing or a) choking #firstworldproblems but seriously people UNDERDO YOUR SCENT

Just saying it was easier to say no to my best friend offering me a drink of Martini Fiero when we were sixteen and our crush was also drinking than it is to stop reading a webcomic I dislike when I'm already late-ish for work now that I'm forty-yep

Faut faire le travail per imparare l'italiano without being distracted door alle andere talen die ich lernen mΓΆchte

I may be a hugger, but if YOU are NOT a hugger, then I do not get to hug YOU. Huggers gonna hug, but nonhuggers are NOT gonna hug. It's not like there's only two of us around! If you're a hugger, hug other huggers! If you insist on hugging nonhuggers, you're a hugger AND a harasser.

Is there a name for the specific type of seasonal affective disorder where you just, mentally and physically, go to frkn pieces around either equinox? Catch the kind of bug that lies you flat for a week or more, along with a massive existential breakdown, every March & September like calendarwork?

I'm still floating on a compliment I got last night that boils down to "your singing voice is enby". πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯° Even if I get zero of the two solos I auditioned for, it was so worth it for hearing that alone.

Okay, who heard the word "medicane" (Mediterranean hurricane) for the first time and made the conscious choice to make that a thing? It's the *stupidest* word I've ever seen. YOU ARE CALLING A STORM A MOBILITY AID, YOU CHATBOTPUSHERS.

Also, IT IS NOT. GOING. TO BE. GOOD. IS IT. Watching this would be contributing to trans people getting their lives ruined for SLOP. If you watch this, you pay for murder and humiliation WITHOUT ENJOYING YOURSELF.

The Verge@theverge.com

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

I'm not transgender, I'm postgender. Wait no. That sounds unforgivably pretentious and as if I'm still in Uni which is stolen valour. Exgender? Aftergender? Fuck it. I'm March and my pronouns are they/them.

TIL the word "lexile" and my internet-ridden brain simply cannot accept that it doesn't mean "the state of being banned from reading anything whatsoever"

goddammit, I thought trying to engage with a thing that I like and then feeling so thoroughly alienated by the reality of engaging with the thing that it turns into rejection sensitivity dysphoria and a clouded opinion of the thing was a primary and secondary school and Uni thing ONLY but NOOO

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Wow, I should've realized before that BBC Sherlock is specifically fanfic of *this* Sherlock Holmes movie only. And yes, I agree, Guy Ritchie, put dong on main

TIL what "the game is afoot" actually MEANS and that's another tick on the Things BBC Sherlock Gets Laughably Wrong (saying "the game is on" when not even sprawling in front of a tv or anything because they wanted to bE mOdErN aBoUt It)

looking forward to work tomorrow because being a friendly neighbourhood office drone is 1,000 times easier than being a person at the moment

If you're a TERF, you hate women. If you hate women, your brain is doing something wrong and you need to get that looked at. I'm just going to keep saying it, you know.

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The categories are: "men" and "women". The category "men" is the favoured one. You don't have to take my word for this; evidence is abundant and omnipresent. In fact, you probably *became* a TERF because you *feel unfavoured by society because you are a woman*. HOWEVER!

TERFism basically equals patriarchy. If you see the problem with the gender binary opposition, if you feel that this system of putting women down is wrong, and seeing&feeling this make you hate trans people for existing... You are on the side of the wrongdoer and blaming the victim. Stop it. Ta.

If you're a TERF, you hate women. If you hate women, your brain is doing something wrong and you need to get that looked at. I'm just going to keep saying it, you know.

"hOw Is bEiNg a TERF hAtInG wOmEn" Glad you asked! I can explain that really easily! Ready? TERFs think trans women aren't women and trans men aren't men. They think this based on criteria that severely limit *all people's* scope of identity, *for no discernible practical reason*. These criteria...

...are essential parts of the system we call Patriarchy, which is in place to ensure that 1) people are divided into two categories and A) one of these categories is favoured over the other one in all cases. Again, there is no discernible practical benefit to this system for *anybody*.

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Replying to @smolrobots.bsky.social

That's how it starts. With the admission that real cases do exist, but they're rare and don't need to be accounted for in mainstream society because we have special places for r-words, and special jobs for t-words that decent people don't have to think about.

In the sentence "Amazon destroys old books for AI training", why is everyone so much more up in arms about the 'destroys old books' part? every place in the world that produces and/or stores books, destroys them all the time. I'm entirely on the side of "destroy LLMs, not books", but pulping=trad.

Nooooooooo please not yet it's too soon for having to wear socks and tracksuits in the house nooooooooooo my summerrrrr 😭πŸ₯Ά

I think this may be my favourite part about solar eclipses. Also that, in a bit, we're going to see it go *brighter* as the sun goes down.

think I need to take my soci(et)al engagement all the way offline. This way of communicating is seriously fucking with my brain, and reasons to suck that up and push on are dwindling fast. Not gonna unsubscribe from any patreons or anything, but... the real world is where I wanna be. Best to y'all.πŸ’–

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolutely mandatory item it must include? A small container, like a tobacco or mints tin, filled with many-currency coins (preferably obsolete). Bonus points if it originally belonged to an elderly relative.

Captain Awkward@captainawkward.bsky.social

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? Faded & food-stained instruction manual for a household appliance you no longer use…or even own

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need a shrink to tell me why, short of monastic solitude, my ideal writing environment emotionally requires invisible ink. if you so much as glance over my shoulder at my first draft, my brain WILL scream at me to self-immolate in front of you, and i'd very much like it to stop doing that