Leaf 🍁(they/them)🏳️⚧️
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A forest dweller, artist, and constant reader. Friend to cats Cinnamonopteryx and Hazelnutmegadon. Writes about birds, bugs, whatever I'm reading at the moment and my general wanderings. Jewish, nonbinary, autistic.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Genuinely horrific to wake up to news of an antisemitic attack in Bondi Beach, but still moving to know that a Muslim man heroically wrestled a gun off of one of the shooters
December 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Genuinely horrific to wake up to news of an antisemitic attack in Bondi Beach, but still moving to know that a Muslim man heroically wrestled a gun off of one of the shooters
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I’ll never forgive the rabid Jew-haters for making a world where rabbis and Jewish educators have to conjure up some explanation that’s somehow appropriate for Jewish children to explain why Jews get killed.
Zecher tzaddik livrachah. “The memory of the righteous is for a blessing.” (Proverbs 10:7)
Zecher tzaddik livrachah. “The memory of the righteous is for a blessing.” (Proverbs 10:7)
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’ll never forgive the rabid Jew-haters for making a world where rabbis and Jewish educators have to conjure up some explanation that’s somehow appropriate for Jewish children to explain why Jews get killed.
Zecher tzaddik livrachah. “The memory of the righteous is for a blessing.” (Proverbs 10:7)
Zecher tzaddik livrachah. “The memory of the righteous is for a blessing.” (Proverbs 10:7)
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
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Oh! In case it whiffed by, BR had ANNE RICE blurb their French naval surplus cape in dark blue.
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Oh! In case it whiffed by, BR had ANNE RICE blurb their French naval surplus cape in dark blue.
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*kicks down the door like Big Bird in that one gif*
VISIT YOUR LIBRARY
WE'VE GOT DVDS
WE'VE GOT CDS
WE'VE GOT BOOKS ON CD
WE'VE GOT THAT TONIES THING FOR YOUR KID
YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK
VISIT YOUR LIBRARY
WE'VE GOT DVDS
WE'VE GOT CDS
WE'VE GOT BOOKS ON CD
WE'VE GOT THAT TONIES THING FOR YOUR KID
YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
*kicks down the door like Big Bird in that one gif*
VISIT YOUR LIBRARY
WE'VE GOT DVDS
WE'VE GOT CDS
WE'VE GOT BOOKS ON CD
WE'VE GOT THAT TONIES THING FOR YOUR KID
YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK
VISIT YOUR LIBRARY
WE'VE GOT DVDS
WE'VE GOT CDS
WE'VE GOT BOOKS ON CD
WE'VE GOT THAT TONIES THING FOR YOUR KID
YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK
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absolute bullshit that we have to work at all December->January instead of sleeping and playing pokemon like our ancestors intended
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
absolute bullshit that we have to work at all December->January instead of sleeping and playing pokemon like our ancestors intended
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i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
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or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
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or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
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November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I will never forget the coworker, a mother of an autistic child, who asked me in all seriousness if I REALLY thought that being autistic was a different experience than being an autistic kid's parent. If I really thought she didn't fully understand her kid's experience.
I recently read a thread by @erinbiba.bsky.social about abled parents of disabled children being ableist. I don't know if you all understand the ways in which you fundamentally don't get your children's disability experiences. Not your fault, but also, know your place. 1/
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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a beautiful microcosm of the Jewish American experience
i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
a beautiful microcosm of the Jewish American experience
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Drew up a poster for what was probably my favorite movie at age 6: the Rankin-Bass/Topcraft animated feature FLIGHT OF DRAGONS
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Drew up a poster for what was probably my favorite movie at age 6: the Rankin-Bass/Topcraft animated feature FLIGHT OF DRAGONS
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Happy Hallowe'en, all!
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Happy Hallowe'en, all!
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I just finished this up in a SmArtSchool mentorship class with Sam Weber. 😊 The assignment was to create an illustration with an original character, and I went with my current D&D character 😅
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I just finished this up in a SmArtSchool mentorship class with Sam Weber. 😊 The assignment was to create an illustration with an original character, and I went with my current D&D character 😅
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I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
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Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Oddity, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Starve Acre, Ganja & Hess.
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Oddity, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Starve Acre, Ganja & Hess.
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Mt. Washington. Ruth Street - South Hills Retirement Residence. Caller is in a care facility and said that someone's grandson snuck some pot in and is smoking up with grandma.
September 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Mt. Washington. Ruth Street - South Hills Retirement Residence. Caller is in a care facility and said that someone's grandson snuck some pot in and is smoking up with grandma.
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Autumn and the Relics Of A Dead Summer
September 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Autumn and the Relics Of A Dead Summer
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It's not a matter of autistic people being the only people who need things, while you are a bastion of calm independence. Your needs get met as a matter of course because the system is designed for you. I am asking for a fraction of that energy.
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's not a matter of autistic people being the only people who need things, while you are a bastion of calm independence. Your needs get met as a matter of course because the system is designed for you. I am asking for a fraction of that energy.
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YOU need things explained to you a certain way. YOU need your feelings managed. YOU need people to make eye contact with you when they talk, or you feel uncomfortable. YOU need people to read subtext so you don't have to say the quiet part. Those are YOUR needs and I try to meet them every day.
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
YOU need things explained to you a certain way. YOU need your feelings managed. YOU need people to make eye contact with you when they talk, or you feel uncomfortable. YOU need people to read subtext so you don't have to say the quiet part. Those are YOUR needs and I try to meet them every day.
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If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.