Emma MacFarlane (she/her)
@scotsdragon.bsky.social
SFF Addict. White trans gal with a case of the 'tism and an anarchist streak. Minors probably shouldn't follow.
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I did a ton of research on behaviors and adaptation in persons who lost their vision as adults for the Rachel Peng books, and the cues you learn when you're sighted continue. Their eyes move towards sounds and speakers. They'll close their eyes while trying to concentrate. They're permanent habits.
Also even if I can't see your face, I can look at you. And that's one of the triggers for people who get mad and act like people who are blind are faking it. Why do your eyes track. Well my dood I can see an outline, I know where you are. Most people who've had sight then lost it will 'look at you'
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I did a ton of research on behaviors and adaptation in persons who lost their vision as adults for the Rachel Peng books, and the cues you learn when you're sighted continue. Their eyes move towards sounds and speakers. They'll close their eyes while trying to concentrate. They're permanent habits.
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Give us our roses while we're still alive.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Give us our roses while we're still alive.
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every trans suicide is a murder
every trans murder is a policy consequence
and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction”
sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction
every trans murder is a policy consequence
and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction”
sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
every trans suicide is a murder
every trans murder is a policy consequence
and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction”
sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction
every trans murder is a policy consequence
and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction”
sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction
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I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.
The system presents us with options that both kill a whole lot of innocent people, and this is a call to action in the direction of resisting that system. There are more political options than red, blue, and yellow on a map.
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The system presents us with options that both kill a whole lot of innocent people, and this is a call to action in the direction of resisting that system. There are more political options than red, blue, and yellow on a map.
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Today is 'post platitudes day' and they're just filling me with a blind, furious rage.
I should go to bed, but it's hard.
Because of all the rage, you see.
I should go to bed, but it's hard.
Because of all the rage, you see.
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Today is 'post platitudes day' and they're just filling me with a blind, furious rage.
I should go to bed, but it's hard.
Because of all the rage, you see.
I should go to bed, but it's hard.
Because of all the rage, you see.
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I would like a day where I am not terrified for myself or my friends.
I don't think it is healthy that I don't get days like that any more.
I don't think it is healthy that I don't get days like that any more.
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I would like a day where I am not terrified for myself or my friends.
I don't think it is healthy that I don't get days like that any more.
I don't think it is healthy that I don't get days like that any more.
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farage must address his past racist behaviour. and his current racist behaviour. and his planned future racist behaviour
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
farage must address his past racist behaviour. and his current racist behaviour. and his planned future racist behaviour
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That headline keeps going around that says trans people may be excluded from single-sex spaces but kiddos you need to understand that the "trans" in that headline is superfluous; the guidance fundamentally establishes looking insufficiently feminine, IN AND OF ITSELF, as grounds for exclusion
Gender Critical have reversed women's rights back decades. A woman who dresses "too masculine" may face being barred from single-sex female spaces.
We warned you.
We warned you.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
That headline keeps going around that says trans people may be excluded from single-sex spaces but kiddos you need to understand that the "trans" in that headline is superfluous; the guidance fundamentally establishes looking insufficiently feminine, IN AND OF ITSELF, as grounds for exclusion
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right so that means I can't piss
not that I can't piss in the men's
but just straight up
cannot piss
I'm warning you labour, there's only so many graves of margaret thatcher on this blasted island
not that I can't piss in the men's
but just straight up
cannot piss
I'm warning you labour, there's only so many graves of margaret thatcher on this blasted island
That headline keeps going around that says trans people may be excluded from single-sex spaces but kiddos you need to understand that the "trans" in that headline is superfluous; the guidance fundamentally establishes looking insufficiently feminine, IN AND OF ITSELF, as grounds for exclusion
Gender Critical have reversed women's rights back decades. A woman who dresses "too masculine" may face being barred from single-sex female spaces.
We warned you.
We warned you.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
right so that means I can't piss
not that I can't piss in the men's
but just straight up
cannot piss
I'm warning you labour, there's only so many graves of margaret thatcher on this blasted island
not that I can't piss in the men's
but just straight up
cannot piss
I'm warning you labour, there's only so many graves of margaret thatcher on this blasted island
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When I was private I was paying around £50/month and that was a very expensive rate from clearchemist rather than DIY. That's still 1/3rd of this 'service'. Jesus christ don't be bilked.
For the first year fees of £1800 ($2353 USD) for F1NN5TER'S HRT service, you could buy about a 30-year supply of DIY estradiol enanthate.
The £200 ($261 USD) "startup fee" could buy around you around 2.5 to 3 years of DIY estradiol enanthate.
Please do not use that service.
The £200 ($261 USD) "startup fee" could buy around you around 2.5 to 3 years of DIY estradiol enanthate.
Please do not use that service.
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When I was private I was paying around £50/month and that was a very expensive rate from clearchemist rather than DIY. That's still 1/3rd of this 'service'. Jesus christ don't be bilked.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
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Excuse to post a classic?
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Excuse to post a classic?
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If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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The problem with SNAP “fraud” and “abuse” is that we’ve made a system where when people ask for help with food we don’t just give it to them.
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The problem with SNAP “fraud” and “abuse” is that we’ve made a system where when people ask for help with food we don’t just give it to them.
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
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And every time we look into how much we save with means-testing methods of all kinds, we're always spending millions to save thousands. It would be cheaper by far to just give people money.
The problem with SNAP “fraud” and “abuse” is that we’ve made a system where when people ask for help with food we don’t just give it to them.
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
And every time we look into how much we save with means-testing methods of all kinds, we're always spending millions to save thousands. It would be cheaper by far to just give people money.
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
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The trailer for #StarTrekOnline 's 15th Anniversary Classic Film Bundle was animated and rendered in Blender (EEVEE, and in 4.0) 😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GG...
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The trailer for #StarTrekOnline 's 15th Anniversary Classic Film Bundle was animated and rendered in Blender (EEVEE, and in 4.0) 😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GG...
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A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
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In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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rough out there for queer folks. even rougher if you're looking for queer disability rep (or disability rep in general, certainly). good news is: over half of the 489 queer chars were poc, which is GREAT, and (not to say it's all necessarily GOOD rep, but) better than ever before in my lifetime!
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
rough out there for queer folks. even rougher if you're looking for queer disability rep (or disability rep in general, certainly). good news is: over half of the 489 queer chars were poc, which is GREAT, and (not to say it's all necessarily GOOD rep, but) better than ever before in my lifetime!
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the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
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Why the fuck did you think this was an ok thing to post?!?
People need to stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo. At least the Gestapo accepted it when you showed them your papers.
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Why the fuck did you think this was an ok thing to post?!?