AJ Ellis

they/them. An autistic aspiring writer who finds it very difficult to keep my Twitter focused.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

I'm pretty sure there's a large number of people who were told as kids 'if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all'

And they resented it so much, they heard about the 1st amendment and all they could think was 'Ha! I can say mean things now, you can't stop me!'

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@shandra_mcjeql But not much of one. Harm reduction and picking someone who wants to do something is granting diminishing returns.

Acknowledging that is not because of frustration over not getting everything. It is not impatience or fatigue.

Our reality is that voting is no longer enough.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@UROCKlive1 As someone who noticed this phenomenon when I voted in 2008 and had to fight like hell to get prop 8 repealed, I understand what you're getting at.

But we lost Roe v. Wade and anti discrimination for protected classes. Like... what did we 'get' this time?

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@Aidendi016 This feels more like saying 'I hate people who like waffles',
someone says 'maybe you shouldn't judge people by what they eat because you can't tell what's going on there'
then you reply 'stop saying I hate pancakes'.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@CKnightWrites Now I'm thinking about how that could actually be a fun application. 'Hey my character has a high int. If I roll a sixteen or higher can I look up some chess strategies?'

*my phone is now the embodiment of bardic knowledge*

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@BlackDumpling57 I don't know why I'm doing this, but let's go.

What makes the penis so fricken almighty that not wanting one is some terrible atrocious crime?

I have removed body parts (an organ even!) just because my throat hurt every couple of months. What's the big deal?

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@Jontys_Corner I'm starting to feel like you didn't understand my last post and I'm sorry but I am not the person to walk beginners through basic concepts.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@One4all2022 If you say anything (Literally anything) that bothers someone, and you persist after they ask you to stop, that is a crossed boundary. Do it enough times and aggressively enough and yes. It is harassment. This isn't complicated.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@One4all2022 You can 100% state objective truth in a way that counts as harassment. People often do.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@WeaklingGoblin @RealGatorHours @mirxclealigner I just moved to South Dakota! We ended up with -28C this year. So. That was fun.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@phil_rack I absolutely expect a surgeon to do it, if that's what I'm there for. And them refusing because they don't like my gender or religion or haircut is definitely a problem. A doctor noping out because of a difference in opinion is...

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@autismsupsoc I... may have both? Which sounds weird but it's like I have two different processes. When recalling from memory (aka what does your mom look like?) I can get pretty close to realistic images. But when trying to create (aka 'picture an apple') I can't see anything.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@phil_rack This 'doctor's can choose' thing is not about any/every surgery. It's about a group of people. A breast augmentation on a cis woman, for example, is not part of it. But it would be under this legislation for a trans person. If the same surgery has different laws...

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@RIDICULO_pathy The mom probably should reflect as well about her own gender expectations. The kid stumbled on a contradiction, which kids are great at. And if it's not ironed out, this sort of conflict will continue. Because the kid can't understand the rules if the adult doesn't.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@RIDICULO_pathy Obedience without clarity or consistency can create the kind of rebellion you're worried about in children. Why obey if you never know why someone tells you to do something? If you always feel powerless to the whims of an adult?

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@logi_con Does that make you wrong? Not necessarily. But neither does it make you right. Without more information I'd say these numbers don't really say much at all. Except maybe that sexual assault is pretty low in general in this setting.

[AJ Ellis @AngryJumprope]

@logi_con 1. Six. The seventh it's hard to tell what's going on.

2. We have to remember spiders George. Most likely many of those 97 assaults were by repeat offenders. Similar for the 6.

3. Small Ns always have large percentage problems. Known statistics issue.