Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖

print maker, conservator, researcher, reader, eater. male, white, abled (masculine pronouns, unmasculine affect).

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@thweikantra @TransRadically @graceelavery @KatyMontgomerie Or not even just conform to expected gender stereotypes but perform gender in relation to them. Even when I act against stereotype, the stereotype is context

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@IfBooksPod The argument that people need to have more financial literacy reminds me of the general skepticism towards expertise.

Also, when my grandad (born in the 1920s) looked to his neighbour’s for how to be not poor he took the lesson: go into a stable trade. That worked.

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

You know what we need?

A name for the specific form of complex trauma you develop if you grow up unaware that you’re #actuallyAutistic.

Every person I talk to has the same basic pattern to overcome. It looks like this:

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

Listening to @IfBooksPod on End of History and feeling deeply vindicated and relieved about how alienated and frustrated I felt studying undergrad politics and social theory

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@callapilla Chocolate mousse? My recipe from the Cadbury Chocolate Cookbook doesn't have yolks. Chocolate melted with water and rum, sugar, whipped cream, beaten egg whites

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

I have been waiting for the @yourewrongabout on the Donner Party and it’s here!

Is this enough to bring me back to Twitter? Hopefully not

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@soft_rubbish I am thinking about this now

I am not going to look up Rat in a Hat’s backstory !!

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@SpaceRubble @pseudonymjones I would seriously consider being a cis woman over being a trans man
But I would be a cis man at all

[René Brooks | Black Girl, Lost Keys @blkgirllostkeys]

Self acceptance is not equal to complacency. You can be at peace with who you are right now while striving for better.

Aka - I’m not going to stop rephrasing because y’all need to hear me - hating, resenting, and punishing yourself for your ADHD symptoms is not working.

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@gayTSmcfadden @KathrynBristow They need to know about Patricia and others like her

https://t.co/hEpaEW5ifW

[anna phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social @quatoria]

a lot of people seem to be laboring under the delusion that activism is about who you hate rather than what you build

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@LaurenThemself Best of luck for a speedy recovery

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

I want to go to bed but my cat is sitting on my lap and purring

[should be writing not scrolling @itsjacksonbbz]

I wrote about the devastating impact fatphobia and the outdated BMI metric have on trans people's lives: From being denied gender-affirming surgery, to being pressured into disordered eating. Thank you to all who shared their stories with me.

https://t.co/lZ1afchF8m

[Prof Sandy O'Sullivan @sandyosullivan]

What older person out there who’s had top surgery wants to tell me about how fantastic it was?

Also if you’re an any-aged person and you happen to be in Sydney which wonderful surgeon did you go to? Feel free to answer in DMs if you don’t want to be public!

[Tyrannosaurus Lex 🦖 @abouthalfthree]

@JoshJers @AnaMardoll I have my two main ones, but the others went on to new adventures

[Lauren Carroll Harris @DrLaurenCH]

For today's @smh, I’ve written about what we should be asking of the new government for cultural policy: an artist’s wage scheme to recover from the pandemic and support artists directly to make great art

https://t.co/2iAQb7RgEr

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Mass incarceration is our society’s way of trying to make structural social issues “someone else’s problem.” There is no “someone else”! It’s on all of us. Warehousing human beings out of our sight in prison or jail does nothing to right wrongs or address underlying difficulties.