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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
Indie sci-fi and fantasy author, green witch, multiply disabled, and former a11y expert.

Cover: A comic of lemmings jumping off a cliff making fun of sheep wearing masks.

Photo: A white femme wearing a pink sunscreen hoodie and black shades
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If you have money to give but don’t know who to give it to because there are too many people in need, try asking my bot for a random suggestion this way people who need it don’t have to work so hard and you know your money is getting spread as fairly as possible

So many are desperately in need now
January 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yup!! Of course, that $3k doesn't include my IV ketamine, testosterone, or low-dose naltrexone. But I know someone who had a $10k family deductible 🙃 I'm very, very lucky.
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
OK...it's actually not as bad as I thought. I only paid $3000. Also, with it ending in $0.99, clearly my insurance didn't get the memo about the pennies lol.
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh gosh...I'm afraid to look this up. But I'm going to have to because I am way too curious for my own good.
December 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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“Vaccines used to contain mercury!”
😮‍💨 Yes and no…
In an ideal world, everyone would get a demonstration that
•Sodium (Na) burns in water
•Chlorine (Cl) is corrosive
•Salt (NaCl) is needed to live
And so learn that chemistry is wonderfully complex.
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I've been thinking about the need for this a while! I'm all for it 👏🏻
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Long Covid may worse preexisting mental health conditions & cause new mental health conditions. If you're an advocate for mental health & kids but ignore this, you're missing an elephant in the room
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Me reading the first half: I love hugs and will probably struggle to understand this article.
Me after reading "steal a hug" and "where's my huggy-huggy": Yeah. I would not hug those people. My alarm bells are going off.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It was something related to how it booted up. Out of nowhere it defaulted to a static channel (because we don't have cable) and it'd basically trigger my auditory sensory defensiveness every time 🫠 There was a way to switch to a different start and it'd never save 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My TV is only 3 years old and they won't support it anymore. That's just wild to me 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'll admit I'm a bit more extreme here. We really need to stop creating hardware that's obsolete in a year (whether real or fake "obsolete"). We need more stuff like Framework laptops, where you can upgrade parts as you need.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Or maybe we can have a less wasteful economy 🙄 People used to hang on way longer to devices.
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The fact there are so many people this could be says everything lol.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My only beef with this is that it's health care and should be covered by default. Though I'll cede that not covered and available is better than covered and gatekept 🫠
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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As of 2015, the entire city of Atlanta was projected to have a water footprint of ~327 billion gallons per year by 2050 (👇🏾)

Current "AI" trends project an industry-wide water footprint of ~489 bgal/year by 2030.

Yes some other stuff uses more. That's bad too. But we're talking about this right now
Natural Resources - Impact and Updates - ARC
Securing a Sustainable Future for Metro Atlanta As metro Atlanta’s population continues to grow, protecting our natural environment becomes even more important to securing a healthy and sustainable fu...
atlantaregional.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Once, my spouse tried to relate to me using "spoons" language. So he was trying to explain how bad his day was and said "my spoons were on fire." Sweetie, no. That's not a thing 😅
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That's great! Not all professors are like that. And some are actually working behind the scenes with instructional designers. There's a lot of work taken for granted in education (which was the actual point I was making, albeit ridiculously roundabout lol).
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM