Ava Courtney Sylvester
@avasylvester.bsky.social
Recovering anorexic, voracious reader, and aspiring author
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She/her, bisexual, disabled, liberal
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No idea what I’m doing here
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She/her, bisexual, disabled, liberal
🏳️🌈
No idea what I’m doing here
Sometimes it’s the simple things that give me the greatest joy.
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Sometimes it’s the simple things that give me the greatest joy.
“Bottom line upfront: they intend to remove your freedom of speech, they have openly sworn now that they will dismantle the Democratic Party and delegitimize it, and they have decided to use the powers of the war on terrorism against the American public that disagrees with them.”
DANGER! Trump Has Declared War on You!
Charlie Kirk's Death is Trump's mini-Reichstag Fire and it may destroy all of your rights.
malcolmnance.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Bottom line upfront: they intend to remove your freedom of speech, they have openly sworn now that they will dismantle the Democratic Party and delegitimize it, and they have decided to use the powers of the war on terrorism against the American public that disagrees with them.”
How can we connect or communicate with one another if we can’t come to a shared understanding of reality?
September 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
How can we connect or communicate with one another if we can’t come to a shared understanding of reality?
Life goal complete!
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Life goal complete!
Wait’ll the 60% cuts to Medicare really hit.
Trump’s a fucking death sentence.
Trump’s a fucking death sentence.
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wait’ll the 60% cuts to Medicare really hit.
Trump’s a fucking death sentence.
Trump’s a fucking death sentence.
This latest executive order can force involuntary institutionalization for people with mental health disorders, people with substance use disorders, and people who are unhoused.
So yeah. People like me.
So yeah. People like me.
Trump signs order allowing forced hospitalization for homeless people
Critics say the policy historically disproportionately targets minorities and LGBTQ people
www.axios.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This latest executive order can force involuntary institutionalization for people with mental health disorders, people with substance use disorders, and people who are unhoused.
So yeah. People like me.
So yeah. People like me.
“Freedom is impossible when we are too ill to conceive of happiness and too weak to pursue it.”
-Timothy Snyder
-Timothy Snyder
May 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Freedom is impossible when we are too ill to conceive of happiness and too weak to pursue it.”
-Timothy Snyder
-Timothy Snyder
Murals on an empty storefront’s windows.
May 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Murals on an empty storefront’s windows.
“When superstition is needed to promote tyranny, free thought is likely to cause revolution.”
-Bertrand Russell
-Bertrand Russell
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“When superstition is needed to promote tyranny, free thought is likely to cause revolution.”
-Bertrand Russell
-Bertrand Russell
“And having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind.”
-Proust
-Proust
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“And having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind.”
-Proust
-Proust
Reposted by Ava Courtney Sylvester
With alt text.
March 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
With alt text.
“The habit of thinking sometimes prevents us from experiencing reality, inoculates us against it and makes it seem no more than yet another thought.”
-Marcel
Proust
-Marcel
Proust
March 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
“The habit of thinking sometimes prevents us from experiencing reality, inoculates us against it and makes it seem no more than yet another thought.”
-Marcel
Proust
-Marcel
Proust
Now do you see why they want to make college less affordable?
March 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Now do you see why they want to make college less affordable?
Still processing this.
The psychological evaluation was supposed to be three sessions for 3.5 hours, but mine was five sessions for 5.5 hours.
I guess I was thoroughly head shrunk.
The psychological evaluation was supposed to be three sessions for 3.5 hours, but mine was five sessions for 5.5 hours.
I guess I was thoroughly head shrunk.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Still processing this.
The psychological evaluation was supposed to be three sessions for 3.5 hours, but mine was five sessions for 5.5 hours.
I guess I was thoroughly head shrunk.
The psychological evaluation was supposed to be three sessions for 3.5 hours, but mine was five sessions for 5.5 hours.
I guess I was thoroughly head shrunk.
Reposted by Ava Courtney Sylvester
If you’re using Flashes, are you creating a new account or using your Bluesky one?
March 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you’re using Flashes, are you creating a new account or using your Bluesky one?
“The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”
-Stephen King
-Stephen King
February 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”
-Stephen King
-Stephen King
Reposted by Ava Courtney Sylvester
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.