I had multiple counselors in high school, and I would tell them, "My sister ran away from home. My other sister tried to kill me. I had to talk my mother down from slashing her wrists" and they acted like it was the Self Esteemers episode of Daria instead, idk, doing anything to address my obvious PTSD symptoms or reporting me to CPS.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 10, 2020, 18:01

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 10, 2020, 18:01

Jan 10, 2020, 18:01

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

abuse

Me telling people my adoptive family is very abusive and violent at age 12: Haha, yeah, sure. Ok. You seem to be very introverted, let's work on that, huh?

Me telling people my adoptive family was very abusive and violent at age 35: Oh, that's awful! You went through so much! Why didn't anyone do anything?

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 10, 2020, 17:45

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 10, 2020, 17:45

Jan 10, 2020, 17:45

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

homophobia

Sucking on straws is GAY because humans are holes and straws are holes and sucking on a straw is like sucking on a hole is like sucking on a human (of the same gender)

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 10, 2020, 17:32

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**frongus by scrongus** @seafrog@glitterkitten.co.uk · Jan 10, 2020, 17:32

Jan 10, 2020, 17:32

frongus by scrongus @seafrog@glitterkitten.co.uk

@Sapphicgiraffic @caymanwent counterpoint: humans contain no holes and your intestines are actually an interface with the outside world. i was taught this in medschool and i shit u not it is 100% accurate

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 10, 2020, 16:17

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Jan 10, 2020, 16:17

Jan 10, 2020, 16:17

Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

being treated 'like a man' is different from, and worse than, being treated *as* a man, and that difference is perhaps nowhere more keenly expressed than in relationships between cis women and transmisogyny-exempt 'woman aligned' people, on the one hand, and the nonbinary, transmisogyny-constrained partners whom they treat 'like a man' on the other;

unless it is more starkly articulated in the relationships between cis women and transmisogyny-exempt 'woman aligned' parents and their nonbinary, transmisogyny-constrained children.

it is inaccurate to say that cis feminism 'struggles with' this dynamic; on the contrary, cis feminism is broadly employed as the ideological justification for mis-treating someone 'like a man'.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 10, 2020, 15:27

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 10, 2020, 15:27

Jan 10, 2020, 15:27

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Fuck Shrek for hating on "short kings"

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 10, 2020, 15:09

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**Louisa** @Louisa@mastodon.xyz · Jan 10, 2020, 15:09

Jan 10, 2020, 15:09

Louisa @Louisa@mastodon.xyz

"I'm [ethnicity]. So as you can imagine, food is especially important to us." -literally everyone

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 10, 2020, 15:03

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**Pixel Horse 🐎** @dickmandrake@elekk.xyz · Jan 10, 2020, 15:03

Jan 10, 2020, 15:03

Pixel Horse 🐎 @dickmandrake@elekk.xyz

To celebrate the 10th birthday of #VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh has published the source code on GitHub http://distractionware.com/blog/2020/01/vvvvvv-is-now-open-source/

**orthogonal to alive** · May 22, 2019, 17:28

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**🔴 Public Universal Spook** @Kirin@girlcock.club · May 22, 2019, 17:28

May 22, 2019, 17:28

🔴 Public Universal Spook @Kirin@girlcock.club

http://radiooooo.com/mobile/#

My I introduce you to a website that let's you listen to the radio music played in every country in most decades. Yes even Antarctica. It's cool

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 10, 2020, 00:16

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**Rose** @modernmodron@slime.global · Jan 10, 2020, 00:16

Jan 10, 2020, 00:16

Rose @modernmodron@slime.global

I think about freddie mercury singing "i don't like star wars" a lot

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 09, 2020, 23:28

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**<eleanor>** @root@elle.systems · Jan 09, 2020, 23:28

Jan 09, 2020, 23:28

<eleanor> @root@elle.systems

got to meet smol bb...

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**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 08, 2020, 20:40

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**queen of bonk** @yeenbean@yiff.life · Jan 08, 2020, 20:40

Jan 08, 2020, 20:40

queen of bonk @yeenbean@yiff.life

My friend is a med student about to graduate doing research on barriers to gender-affirming healthcare access for trans folks in the US.

Please share and participate if you can!

https://bit.ly/transletters

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 09, 2020, 18:37

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Jan 09, 2020, 18:37

Jan 09, 2020, 18:37

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

The Catskill mountains similarly have nothing to do with cat skills

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 09, 2020, 17:57

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**Shoofle (defunct)** @shoofle@cybre.space · Jan 09, 2020, 17:57

Jan 09, 2020, 17:57

Shoofle (defunct) @shoofle@cybre.space

@avi actually kill comes from dutch! and murder also i think comes from dutch, by way of "mudder". the murderkill river's name is entirely unrelated to violence!

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 09, 2020, 13:02

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**jennie 👻 wife** @jennie@deadinsi.de · Jan 09, 2020, 13:02

Jan 09, 2020, 13:02

jennie 👻 wife @jennie@deadinsi.de

PSA, sexual assault

Lumb @ monsterpit.net is back.

They have a known history of manipulating and sexually assaulting people who they've met online. They have a long pinned post up claiming that the accusations against them were all made up. They're a dangerous person and I wouldn't trust a single word they say.

Please block them.

**orthogonal to alive** · Jan 09, 2020, 14:00

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**Detective Fin** @icetsvu@botsin.space · Jan 09, 2020, 14:00

Jan 09, 2020, 14:00

Detective Fin @icetsvu@botsin.space

Fear Cocktail

Kids are callin' it Fear Cocktail. She set a dumpster on fire behind a Benihana and huffed the fumes until she thought she was surrounded by a bunch of labradoodles wearin' cowboy hats.