t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized)

matt. 25, he/him, transgender and disabled.

[t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized) @Decaf_Matthew]

sometimes im like wow i truly didnt give myself a cool name and then i remember i named myself after daredevil bc charlie cox sexy and then im like oh right im a himbo

[t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized) @Decaf_Matthew]

Me & my partner have been entertaining ourselves immensely by picking movies to follow our watch of @CoyoteACMEMovie . First was Erin Brockavich, then All The President’s Men, and we considered Gasland, but agreed it would dilute the clarity of the trio. We’re enjoying ourselves.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

YOU BLOCKED THE DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION

[t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized) @Decaf_Matthew]

@badinfinity2 thank you!! ❤️

ur a genius btw - the argumentation in this is bonkers effective and gorgeously dense, my neurons are rewiring page by page

[t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized) @Decaf_Matthew]

@Jan_Ham @badinfinity2 it’s already promised to another trans early modern history friend!! i’m enjoying telling absolutely everyone i can about this book

[t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized) @Decaf_Matthew]

@badinfinity2 i guess i preordered it twice??😅

[Rob DenBleyker @RobDenBleyker]

we went from "stop eating avocados" to "stop eating"

[Lake Eater @lakeeater]

every single day, every single day for the past 5 months, a new headline describing another crime so obscene, sadistic, and piggish—and yet also so petty, blind, hollow—that it once again alters my whole picture of the world permanently

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

The pneumonia outbreak in China has led some of the usual suspects to wheel out the 'immunity debt' nonsense. We need a new story for the immune system. Here's one about snakes🧵

[Karla Monterroso @karlitaliliana]

I can’t tell you how deeply I believe this moment in time is what it is because we are trying to build multiracial, multiethnic, multi-religious, multicultural society w/ the same systems, skills, and norms of homogeneous society. Here are some skills I think we need get good at:

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:

- In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited.

- Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.

- This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc.

- We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes).

- The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up.

- We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation.

- The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us.

- Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face.

- Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok.

- Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies.

- They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.

- The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.

- He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.

- In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:

- Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.

- It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.

- Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.

- Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.

- Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”

- And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

[t4t (traumatized 4 traumatized) @Decaf_Matthew]

cannot stop thinking about planescape and @WorldsBeyondPod ‘s witch class, truly obsessed with the idea of a Bleak Cabal witch, of the Bleak Cabal as a faction of witches.

[Alan Baxter ♛ @AlanBixter]

I had an GP appointment today. At the end of it, he asked me what I thought that we were experiencing outbreaks of unusual infections - his example was adults with childhood infections, mine was infections normally restricted to those immunocompromised, like monkey pox. /2

[@roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social @RoomofOnesOwn]

It is so rare to find photos of queer, especially Trans, elders joyful -- playing! Uninhibited. Not fighting or stern or posed or dead or --

Today I found these pics of Leslie Feinberg in a water balloon fight and promptly cried. Happy belated birthday, Leslie. 🎂🎈❤️‍🔥

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

This is the end result of all the fearmongering. All the unscientific nonsense. All the slandering of LGBTQ+ people as groomers. Dehumanizing people to the point of killing someone over symbols.

The victim wasn't even queer. They were an ally standing up for civil rights.

[Socially Distant Ryan 🇺🇦 @ryan_hassett]

It's still incredible to me that Uber set up what were obviously illegal taxi operations, called it something else and eventually got virtually every city in North America to roll over, say "okay!" and either tear down taxi regulations or set up two parallel regulatory regimes.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Let’s talk about the people who own disabled people through conservatorships: