Ami (Bixie) Zelkova
@amizelkova.bsky.social
Writer, fandom trash, probably not a furry. She/they.
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The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is:
"No, make me."
They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.
"No, make me."
They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.
January 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is:
"No, make me."
They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.
"No, make me."
They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.
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lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!"
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!"
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
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What happens if you subscribe to a block list but then you get added to that block list? Does it block you from yourself?
Tbh some days I’d block myself if it were possible
Tbh some days I’d block myself if it were possible
January 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What happens if you subscribe to a block list but then you get added to that block list? Does it block you from yourself?
Tbh some days I’d block myself if it were possible
Tbh some days I’d block myself if it were possible
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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
January 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
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This is a pretty foundational moment
January 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is a pretty foundational moment
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A reminder:
Donald Trump launched this whole TikTok ban as far back as August 2020 when he issued an Executive Order highlighting his concerns about TikTok specifically.
He then ordered ByteDance (TikTok’s parent co) to divest its interest in the operation of the app in the US.
Trump’s no hero.
Donald Trump launched this whole TikTok ban as far back as August 2020 when he issued an Executive Order highlighting his concerns about TikTok specifically.
He then ordered ByteDance (TikTok’s parent co) to divest its interest in the operation of the app in the US.
Trump’s no hero.
JUST HITTING THE SCOTUS DOCKET:
In a per curiam opinion, SCOTUS rules that the TikTok ban does not violate the First Amendment.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
In a per curiam opinion, SCOTUS rules that the TikTok ban does not violate the First Amendment.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
January 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A reminder:
Donald Trump launched this whole TikTok ban as far back as August 2020 when he issued an Executive Order highlighting his concerns about TikTok specifically.
He then ordered ByteDance (TikTok’s parent co) to divest its interest in the operation of the app in the US.
Trump’s no hero.
Donald Trump launched this whole TikTok ban as far back as August 2020 when he issued an Executive Order highlighting his concerns about TikTok specifically.
He then ordered ByteDance (TikTok’s parent co) to divest its interest in the operation of the app in the US.
Trump’s no hero.
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Honestly, this traffic sign having a panic attack should been 2025's Official Mascot.
January 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Honestly, this traffic sign having a panic attack should been 2025's Official Mascot.
I fucking hate how uncertain everything is all the time, I want a 12 week/6mo/1yr/5yr plan, color coded and written in my favorite Japanese pens.
January 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I fucking hate how uncertain everything is all the time, I want a 12 week/6mo/1yr/5yr plan, color coded and written in my favorite Japanese pens.
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(guy who just remembered recency bias) that's probably recency bias
June 22, 2024 at 9:57 PM
(guy who just remembered recency bias) that's probably recency bias
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Prosthetic limbs are usually custom made for one specific person. Repossessing a used prosthetic that only fits one specific person has no financial justification. It is just cruelty.
December 22, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Prosthetic limbs are usually custom made for one specific person. Repossessing a used prosthetic that only fits one specific person has no financial justification. It is just cruelty.
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Shout out to my fellow neurodivergent parents and caregivers for surviving the holiday season so far. It can be an amazing, magical time of the year, but also incredibly stressful and overwhelming.
December 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Shout out to my fellow neurodivergent parents and caregivers for surviving the holiday season so far. It can be an amazing, magical time of the year, but also incredibly stressful and overwhelming.
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OH, GOOD.
More people calling out the recycled Suppressed Memory/Satanic Panic bullshit known as The Body Keeps the Score.
Let’s do this more. A lot. It’s a trash book that retraumatizes victims, victim blames, and valorizes violence against women and children.
And he’s a sexual harasser.
More people calling out the recycled Suppressed Memory/Satanic Panic bullshit known as The Body Keeps the Score.
Let’s do this more. A lot. It’s a trash book that retraumatizes victims, victim blames, and valorizes violence against women and children.
And he’s a sexual harasser.
What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong
People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.
www.motherjones.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:11 PM
OH, GOOD.
More people calling out the recycled Suppressed Memory/Satanic Panic bullshit known as The Body Keeps the Score.
Let’s do this more. A lot. It’s a trash book that retraumatizes victims, victim blames, and valorizes violence against women and children.
And he’s a sexual harasser.
More people calling out the recycled Suppressed Memory/Satanic Panic bullshit known as The Body Keeps the Score.
Let’s do this more. A lot. It’s a trash book that retraumatizes victims, victim blames, and valorizes violence against women and children.
And he’s a sexual harasser.
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Since I started tracking the stats, the Telegraph have published more than one article per day about trans people except in the month before and month after the election. But they followed those two lowest months up with their worst, almost hitting a 2-per-day average.
December 22, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Since I started tracking the stats, the Telegraph have published more than one article per day about trans people except in the month before and month after the election. But they followed those two lowest months up with their worst, almost hitting a 2-per-day average.
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When people say "common sense" they really mean slavish thoughtlessness and conformity or maybe "perfunctory submission."
December 21, 2024 at 4:21 PM
When people say "common sense" they really mean slavish thoughtlessness and conformity or maybe "perfunctory submission."
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It’s funny to me that no one can just be conservative anymore, no one can just be Edmund Burke or George Will. It’s always been a current on the Right but post-Bush it’s a full blown pathology and every time someone comes out as Republican they have to let everyone know they are Actually A Rebel.
December 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM
It’s funny to me that no one can just be conservative anymore, no one can just be Edmund Burke or George Will. It’s always been a current on the Right but post-Bush it’s a full blown pathology and every time someone comes out as Republican they have to let everyone know they are Actually A Rebel.
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Yep. Which is why I get so pissed when these people act like being a boring selfish “contrarian” is somehow enough.
December 22, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Yep. Which is why I get so pissed when these people act like being a boring selfish “contrarian” is somehow enough.
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I decry gatekeeping in any scene, but there are still fucking bare-minimum standards that need to be met, and unless you’re a Johnny Ramone or Billy Zoom getting grandfathered in by circumstance, no, no you aren’t punk if you’re a republican.
December 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM
I decry gatekeeping in any scene, but there are still fucking bare-minimum standards that need to be met, and unless you’re a Johnny Ramone or Billy Zoom getting grandfathered in by circumstance, no, no you aren’t punk if you’re a republican.
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Me masking: “oh god have to feign elaborate excuse for why I’m done talking.”
Me to my mum: “I’m going to go now. Bye.”
Me to my mum: “I’m going to go now. Bye.”
December 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Me masking: “oh god have to feign elaborate excuse for why I’m done talking.”
Me to my mum: “I’m going to go now. Bye.”
Me to my mum: “I’m going to go now. Bye.”
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I exclusively say “I don’t know who needs to hear this” when I know exactly who needs to hear it
December 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
I exclusively say “I don’t know who needs to hear this” when I know exactly who needs to hear it
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I think a tonne of it comes down to a resistance to contextualizing neurodivergence (among other things) as something *experienced by* a person as opposed to something they’re *doing to* everyone around them.
December 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM
I think a tonne of it comes down to a resistance to contextualizing neurodivergence (among other things) as something *experienced by* a person as opposed to something they’re *doing to* everyone around them.