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Ava Courtney Sylvester
@avasylvester.bsky.social
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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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Sometimes it’s the simple things that give me the greatest joy.
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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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
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A text quote from Fred Rogers that says: “You know, we have pieces of the people that have cared about us all through our lives, and they’re all part of us now. And so we represent, each one of us represents, so many investments from others. No one of us is alone.”
September 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Life goal complete!
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Wait’ll the 60% cuts to Medicare really hit.

Trump’s a fucking death sentence.
Apparently Medicare won’t pay for my feeding tube. It’s remarkable: that means if I had Medicare in 2021, I wouldn’t be alive now.
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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My back’s been cripplingly painful, and I got fed up enough to buy myself a new recliner, a cot, and a mattress. Problem is, the new chair’s even worse than the old one, and there’s no room for the cot. I don’t know how much damage sleeping in a chair has done to me over the past four years, but given my porous bones, it can’t be helping.
August 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Murals on an empty storefront’s windows.
A mural featuring red bird perched on a leafless tree. Colorful flowers are in the fore and backgrounds. Another mural, this one of a red bird standing on top of a flower, with other flowers in the background.
May 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Mind. Blown.
A screenshot of a book that says all the gold ever mined in human history would fit in a 60-foot cube.
May 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A screenshot of my spinal bone density scan.
April 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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.
A screenshot of my evaluation that reveals a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A picture with the text: “No one has ever been unjustifiably afraid, not in their own mind.”
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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A picture of the quote: “The world, full of people who factor not one iota in the calculus of those morning meetings, looks upon this and asks, simply: Beyond self-interest, what do you believe in? And every morning the answer, dressed up in anesthetic euphemism and dependent on our collective capacity for resignation to the lesser of two evils, is: Nothing.”
February 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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A black background with the quite: “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
February 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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“Grounded in resentment and unreason, the new American fascism is more a political pathology than a political program.”
The cover of “Money, Lies, and God,” a book I just started.
February 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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White text on a red background that reads: “You see, the hate they give is senseless. They already got power. Yet they hate those over who they got control, who don’t really pose a threat to them. Their fears aren’t real—just insecurities and inadequacies.”
February 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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A picture with a quote from Mark Rowlands that says: “…today, 96 percent of all mammalian biomass is made up either of humans or the animals that humans farm for food and their products. “A paltry 4 percent of mammalian biomass is left over for all other mammals.”
February 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Happy Valentine’s Day to us. How long does it take to go from “don’t say gay” in Florida to “don’t show gay” in Utah to “don’t be gay” nationwide?
A screenshot from the Independent which describes an Utah law that forbids the Pride flag from being flown in schools but not the Nazi or Confederate flags.
February 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A dark red background with white text for a quote from Proust: “…in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them…”
February 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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A dark red background with white text for a quote from Proust: “…in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them…”
February 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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An older, probably 80-year-old Ford pickup behind a new, electric VW Buzz. At the front of the dealer was a wooden statue of a dog. Toward the back, the merch wall had dog toys and plushies. The receptionist had ceramic figures of VW Buses and a Beetle which she brought from a resort in Mexico.
January 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Reading “Snow Crash” feels eerily prescient.
A plain black background with white text that reads: “We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite—the people who go into the Metaverse, basically—who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.”
January 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM