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AmandaQuirky
@amandaquirky.bsky.social
Autistic, disabled, mum, wife. Cynical idealist. Love: pets, other autistic people, fiction.

Pic: red-haired white woman (me) 40ish, smiling slightly.

Banner: small blonde terrier mix (Sam) bundled in blankets, staring up into the camera.
One more time
Good grief, what's it been? Weeks? A month? What is time.

I just... forget this app is here.

Also I can't pin anything about "The Biggest Prison on Earth" by Ilan Pappé being free on Audible right now, and that's a shame. I want any people going to my profile to see that reminder.
January 19, 2024 at 9:51 AM
I remembered Bluesky exists again.

Hello.

I'll disappear again soon.
January 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Good grief, what's it been? Weeks? A month? What is time.

I just... forget this app is here.

Also I can't pin anything about "The Biggest Prison on Earth" by Ilan Pappé being free on Audible right now, and that's a shame. I want any people going to my profile to see that reminder.
November 13, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Good grief, what's it been? Weeks? A month? What is time.

I just... forget this app is here.

Also I can't pin anything about "The Biggest Prison on Earth" by Ilan Pappé being free on Audible right now, and that's a shame. I want any people going to my profile to see that reminder.
November 13, 2023 at 4:02 PM
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Elon Musk taken to court by researcher banned for exposing how X has been turned into a churning cesspool of far-right disinformation. www.wired.com/story/x-twit...
X Banned the Account of a Major Critic. Now He’s Taking It to Court
Software developer Travis Brown’s X account was banned after his research alleged far-right influencers were becoming more prominent on the platform. He’s taking X to court in a bid to reverse the...
www.wired.com
October 31, 2023 at 6:11 PM
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I'll Die On This Hill Time: Teenagers are still children, no matter what Riverdale and other modern media might suggest. If a 6'3" kid comes to your door with a mustache and is costumed and polite, they deserve candy and kindness just as much as the kindergartners do.
October 31, 2023 at 6:03 PM
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It is my birthday and I desperately need for someone (or some people) to help me effectively keep Esme out from under my bed with a better solution than I currently have.

It's on my wish list. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

If you'd prefer to send funds, see the next post.
Please, for my birthday, consider helping me keep my tiny destructive dog from peeing under my bed.
I said I would and the best temporary solution I have found is on this wish list:

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
October 31, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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I really am at a loss for words. It is beyond depraved to cheapen the Holocaust and imagery of it, and to do so to justify a genocidal campaign
October 31, 2023 at 2:02 AM
I can't believe it takes me 10 minutes now to write a.... do we call them "skeets" here?... replying to pretty much anyone.

Is this fuzziness and inability to effectively marshal my thoughts just how I am, now?
October 27, 2023 at 7:07 AM
Yes!

Example: This is the 1st account I've noticed using some of their bio space to alt-text their profile pic and banner.

I thought, "What a good idea" and did the same to mine.

Accessibility will happen, if we all do our part.

Conflicting access needs are real...
October 27, 2023 at 5:46 AM
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I would like to make a unique post about this but I’m too sick.

Each of my last to attempts to work led to three weeks of downtime.

Don’t know how you do mutual aid here. Please help me survive cancer and long covid.
Ran out of time. Almost made it with outside donations but even if I add those to the link, too short to avoid late fees.

Please and thank you if you can help.

Patreon.com/Tinu

account.venmo.com/u/TinuWrites

www.Ko-fi.com/TinuWrites
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October 11, 2023 at 6:17 PM
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Using "diverse" to mean "the weirdos" basically just reiterates that there's the "normal" group and then there's the "diversity" group. Which is actually the exact opposite of the entire concept of diversity, which is that variety /is/ normal and homogeneity isn't.
October 24, 2023 at 9:56 PM
If you can’t handle me at my dumpster fire autistic meltdown mess then you don’t deserve me at my manic pixie dream girl mode
October 24, 2023 at 8:04 AM
This site really has been designed to reduce gossip as much as possible, hasn't it?

Ultimately a good thing. Laudable, because all the anti-gossip features are also anti-bullying ones. This site seems so much safer than Twitter.

But.

I still want to know all the lore!

What was Corn Dad???
October 24, 2023 at 8:03 AM
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It frustrates me deeply that folks fail to see how ridiculous and wrong this demand by the Israeli government is.

I think about my family, I think about our friends, and I think about how for so many reasons it is impossible to comply with this order. Even if you wanted to.
October 22, 2023 at 9:07 PM
This.

Watching wave after wave of genocidal hatred should only be about the suffering of innocents, about standing with Gaza, about fighting oppression.

Instead: I'm deeper in my own religious trauma than I've been in years. Waking up at night thinking about The Rapture, ffs.
I've done threads about this as an #exvangelical.
Growing up I was taught not only were we living in the "end of days" but that we had to "befriend the Jews" because they are 1) God's chosen people 2) a critical part of the end times prophecy.

They do not want peace or Palestinian liberation.
Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is apocalyptic accelerationism VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world.

That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.

And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
October 22, 2023 at 9:05 PM
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I'll speak my peace on this & let it be but a popular actor just described Netanyahu as insane saying that only insanity can describe his actions. I'd counter by pointing out that his actions require a degree of lucidity & function most do not possess unless they're very much in their right minds.
October 22, 2023 at 7:40 PM
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On the other site, folks are discussing how Jowling Kowling Rowling actually *didn't* write the 1st best line ever.

2 of my faves:

"True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"My mother was the village whore, and I loved her very much."
September 27, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Look at what’s listed in Production Weekly 👀

#GoodOmens #GoodOmens2 #GoodOmens3

🔗: www.productionweekly.com

If anyone has access to the full content please let us know 😇
Production Weekly
Production Weekly is a premium subscription data-service that delivers news and updates on film and television productions, allowing you to market, network, plan sales campaigns or find your next job....
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September 28, 2023 at 7:10 AM
On the other site, folks are discussing how Jowling Kowling Rowling actually *didn't* write the 1st best line ever.

2 of my faves:

"True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"My mother was the village whore, and I loved her very much."
September 27, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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A simply message to Allies and Friends not yet connected. Please share with and encourage others. We are stronger together.
September 26, 2023 at 3:01 PM