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Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

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He/Him. Autistic. 30-years-old. Oregonian. Animal lover, especially snakes. Loves games. Former hospital worker. Trying to reach *maturity*.
All angry posts and most blocked accounts are a result of PTSD. I'm sorry. Working on it.

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Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Quotes from The Hill:

"Even now, living alone is not quite so common in the United States as the data suggest. While nearly 30 percent of households comprise a single person, far fewer than 30 percent of Americans live in them.

Roughly 13 percent of American adults live alone, research shows. Breaking down that figure by age groups, the population of solitaries rises from 4 percent of adults at ages 18-24 to 9 percent at 25-34, dips to 8 percent at 35-44, then rises again, to 12 percent at 45-54, 17 percent at 55-64 and 26 percent at 65 and up."

"Living alone is much more common in large cities. Singles now make up more than 40 percent of households in Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Denver, according to a paper by the British historian Keith Snell. Half of all Manhattan dwellings are one-person residences. Snell identified a Midtown Census tract where 94 percent of households comprised a single person."

November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM

Elijah Nelson

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Obligatory:

A picture of a "Neutral" alien from Futurama, with text at the bottom stating: "I have no strong feelings one way or another."

November 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

This point in particular suggests that trying to court the "Bernie to Trump" crowd would involve some fundamental compromises that, imho, wouldn't be worth it:

Screenshot of a social media post by Brian Schaffner as it appeared in an NPR article that was published August 24, 2017, and which was linked to in the previous post of this thread.
Text reads: "But there does appear to be a racial component to this, as defectors are much more likely to disagree that whites are advantaged in the US 9/n"

Below the text is a bar graph titled "% Disagreeing that white people have advantages among sanders primary voters, based on general election behavior"
Voted Trump: slightly under 50%
Voted Clinton: ~5%
Voted for Other Cand.: slightly under 20%
Did not vote: ~15%

Below the graph reads: "Data from 2016 CCES. Only include individuals who could be validated as primary and general election voters. N = 4,226. Analysis by Brian Schaffner."

The social media post was originally uploaded at 8:22 AM on August 23, 2017.

October 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Yeah, I think I see it.

October 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

2 images. The top image is of someone holding up two pictures: one of Sweet Bernard, and the other of a gray domestic rabbit with subtitles saying, "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture."
The bottom image is of Pam from The Office with subtitles saying, "They're the same picture."

August 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Hey, at least Mamdani's Halloween costume is already picked out. images.halloweencostumes.com/products/575...

Halloween costume of Bane from Dark Knight Rises.

June 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

"Vindicate," no. "Explain," however? Yes.

Image of the last 3 sentences of the article being discussed.
It reads: "Federal politics and funding have complicated the issue: A budget bill passed by the GOP-controlled U.S. House would cut funding to states that provide health care to undocumented people, including Minnesota. It could cost the state $3 billion over the next decade.

And while the federal government pays for some of the cost of MinnesotaCare, it doesn’t contribute any money for undocumented enrollees.

June 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Pardon me, could you say that one more time while holding this?

Picture of a red and white electric megaphone.

June 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

This one's inflatable, but I think this image is illustrative of where the legs tend to go.

Woman wearing an inflatable, adult-sized banana costume.

June 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Fever dream activated:

The title screen of Mario Kart Wii, but with Luigi's face replaced by the face of the fish that was the protagonist of Shark Tale. This character was voiced by Will Smith and is often referred to as "Will Smith fish."

April 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

There's been a breakthrough in political science, and I've never been more optimistic:

A child wearing a lab coat and goggles with their hair wildly fanning out roars in triumph while standing over a table covered in chemistry bottles that're filled various colored liquids. A caption reads: "Progressive American finds the perfect concoction of shame, insults and minimization to make doomers feel hopeful."

April 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

I don't blame every random white person for the horrible things America has done to me and my family, and when I explain those things to you, the last thing I want is for you to feel like you share blame for them. What I want is acknowledgment and a promise to learn and improve, not this:

Screenshot of an exchange on Bluesky between an unnamed account that was replying to the post that this thread was inspired by and a response from the original poster, "rev. howard arson." His original post, not shown in this screenshot, but quote reposted at the start of this thread was: "doomerism and "it was always this bad" are both types of bootlicking submission"
Unnamed account, in reply: "If depends on the color of your skin and/or where you live because "it was always this bad" for millions of people in this country. Now all of us are getting a taste."
rev. howard arson, in reply: "that literally is not true"
In my opinion, it should go without saying that rev. howard arson is wrong, and that the statement by the unnamed account is actually literally true.

March 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Also, I've been sitting on this one for a while, because there's really no nice way to put it: calling people "dork" literally makes you look as mature as a childhood bully in a 90s cartoon. You're literally inviting people to think less of you in your attempt to insult someone.

Kevin from the cartoon Ed, Edd n' Eddy flexing his arm to produce a small bump in his bicep, with a girl named Nazz behind him looking bored/unimpressed.

March 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

TFW you're surrounded by eldritch abominations

Zoom-in of the blue-eyed, cream-colored cat wearing an open-faced steel helmet from the screenshot of Monster Hunter Wilds these posts are in response to.

March 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Just so that it's clear, the guy that hates the idea of veterans having jobs looks like this:

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas, smiling because he's excited that he gets to eat a veteran's newborn child for lunch today.

March 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM

Elijah Nelson

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@btlcat.bsky.social I thought your last statement in this thread was really strong and well-articulated. Not the kind of thing that gets likes most of the time, but something I personally appreciate. 👍

Screenshot of a conversation between 4 people on Bluesky.
-HighTrustSocietyAspirer: "Dawning on me that a fair amount of the masculinity crisis for Gen Z to the degree it exists is basically telling young men hardship/uncertainty shouldn’t exist, when reality those things are a giant factor in your early 20’s and you spend those years developing the skills to deal."
-marseydotes.bsky.social: "Online games are the cuprit"
-Layne, probably: "That canard hasn't been really true every time it gets trotted out every few years.
It's online 'influencers' trying to convince young men that the world sucks/is hard for them because of 'feminism' or 'immigrants' or *insert ragebait here* instead of just joining society."
-marseydotes.bsky.social: "No, it's the mindless games"
-Layne, probably: "Okay. I'll bite. How do "online games" contribute to the 'masculinity crisis' ?"
-Andrew Giulianai's Burner: "I mean there's a straight line from Gamergate to "wokeness is bad""
-Layne, probably: "Gamergate wasn't a symptom of 'playing games'. It was reactionary chuds deciding the gaming space was a place to "make their stand.""

February 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

A thread from Twitter written by Moira Donegan in June of 2023. Contents of the thread are quoted below:

"In addition to serving as a faux-progressive fig leaf for some really violent and evil gender reaction, another reason why TERFs are dangerous is because they delegitimize feminism for the people who most need it."

"When more people are facing laws that enforce that their sexed body at birth must, under penalty of the state, dictate the terms of their lives, I can't think of a more urgent and necessary position to take than as a feminist, committed to the freedom of women—all of them."

"A lot of people don't encounter discussions of women's oppression now outside of how it is used as a buzzword for bigots, and that steers them away (understandably!) from the more careful & serious thinking about gender that can be a foundation for trans liberationist politics."

A tweet by Moira Donegan, written in June of 2023.
Quote: "I’ve seen people make that claim to underscore the ridiculous instability of the trans-exclusive position, and I agree with them that the idea that the category of “woman” is biological, rather than socially formed and imposed, definitely can’t hold up under any scrutiny."

January 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

Image of an astronaut in floating in space and looking at the Earth, with text above their head that says, "Most Americans are idiots?" Another astronaut is floating behind them while pointing a gun at them, with text above their head that says, "Always have been."

December 14, 2024 at 2:47 AM

Elijah Nelson

@sintra4.bsky.social

My favorite object is probably my plush of Clefable being constricted by another plush of a baby rattlesnake, tucked away in the space between my monitors, so that no one learns the truth of what happened.