【Pinned tweet time! Let's talk follow requests (again again)】
I keep my account locked, meaning I have to approve each new follower. I'm fairly picky about that and I try to curate my followership as much as is possible on here.What makes your follow request more likely to be accepted:
friend of friends (shoot me a DM if we know each other off-site)
queer, neurodivergent, disabled — in other words, like me
visible, outspoken allyship (pronouns in bio is a good start but not enough)
coming from a well-moderated instanceWhat makes your follow request less likely to be accepted:
little or no CWs or alt text
coming from an undermoderated instance (incl. ones with few / no explicit protections for marginalised people: just "don't say anything illegal" isn't enough)
not reading these pinned posts
huge account / influencer / public figureWhat will get your follow request rejected immediately:
empty profile
bot
we have never interacted
coming from an unmoderated instance / right-wing instance / instance that federates with right-wing instances
If I just accepted your follow request: welcome! If I didn't: don't take it personal.
(P.S: "Undermoderated instance" includes the flagships (.social and .online)【Next: A Word About Boosts】
I noticed a lot of people put something like this on their profile and some/many people ask if boosting something is okay, so here's how I handle it for my own posts.
If a post is public (little globe icon), it's okay to boost, and in fact I'm probably encouraging you to boost it. Public posts are ones I want to be seen.
If a post is unlisted (open lock icon), it's probably okay to boost it or at least not a problem if you do, but use your best judgement (for instance, if it's part of a semi-public convo, may expose someone's personal post to a larger audience than intended, doesn't make sense out of context, then maybe don't).
And if it's followers-only then you literally can't boost it so… duh🤷♀️
【Just FYI: If you have a problem with me, I annoy you, I said something hurtful, etc. etc.…】
…please feel free and encouraged to bring that up with me!
Shoot me a DM please, chances are, it wasn't on purpose and we can talk it out.
Same goes if you'd like me to CW something I didn't CW hitherto, just say so and I'll do it.
【List of threads and longform texts】
Aka the post where I gather all my feminism/queer threads, vents, rants, explanations, and such stuff. Thanks to the edit button I can just add new stuff right to this post, so expect it to be edited quite a bit.
In vaguely chronological order:
19 Apr 2022:
gatekeeping an ever-narrowing definition of ‘lesbian’ is pointless and harmful: about cishet normativity and exclusionists (EN, 19 posts)
11 May 2022:
cis women have the upper hand in cis–trans relationships: why being with a cis woman is terrifying when you're a trans woman (EN, 12 posts)
22 Jul 2022:
shit's fucking scary right now: send this to your cis friends if they don't understand how ‘eve of 1933’ the current situation is for us (EN, 1 post á 3 pictures)
15 Aug 2022:
Was ist Geschlecht: über die Zusammenhänge von Geschlecht, Dysphorie, und Frausein (DE, 2 posts)
30 Aug 2022:
everything is mysogyny: why you cannot meaningfully separate transphobia and homophobia from misogyny (EN, 3 posts)
06 Sep 2022:
our liberation necessitates yours but yours not ours: why trans feminism fights for cis women but cis feminism doesn't fight for trans women (EN, 1 post)
27 Sep 2022:
leave no trans men behind: why embracing misandry is anti-feminist and only benefits transphobes (EN, 3 posts)
12 Oct 2022:
Transfeindlichkeit ist faschistisch: Umberto Ecos 14 Merkmale, abgeglichen mit liberaler Transfeindlichkeit (DE, 3 posts)
20 Nov 2022:
Content Warnings are a kindness: why CWs protect our own, not our oppressors (EN, 8 posts)
17 Dec 2022:
Liberal journos suck (not a thread, just my most viral post) (EN, 1 post)
31 Mar 2023:
Social construct != fake: read a book, Candace Owens (EN, 1 post)
2 May 2023:
Dismissing fascist conspiracy theories as bizarre is no longer an option: why nazis are being elected on nonsense platforms (EN, 1 post)
27 July 2023:
Ja willst du denn für den Rest deiner Tage Maske tragen? Über COVID-19 und warum die Maske aufbleibt (DE, 1 post)
28 July 2023:
Don't be moral panic'd: about racism, transmisogyny, fediverse drama and selection bias (EN, 1 post)
13 Aug 2023:
Lars Fischer labert Quark darüber, dass die Pandemie vorbei sei. (DE, 3 posts)
20 Oct 2023:
"In Theory": Watching one of Star Trek TNG's worst episodes, apparently (EN, 52 posts)
26 Dec 2023:
Liberate yourself from doctors: on taking health into your own hands, especially when disabled (EN, 10 posts)
19 Jan 2024:
Food for thought: warum COVID in jeder Hinsicht verheerend ist, weit über Corona hinaus (DE, 4 posts)
1 Mar 2024:
UwU I'm harmless: on belittling yourself for the benefit of others to prevent transmisogynistic violence (EN, 11 posts)
9 April 2024:
Converting cuffs: making button cufflinks and turning off-the-rack convertible cuffs into something presentable (EN, 8 posts)
26 June 2024:
Über die Ungerechtigkeit der Erwerbsminderungsrente und die Abstrusität ihrer Berechnungsgrundlage (DE, 2 posts)
15 August 2024:
294.000 in one week: the public health emergency of universal COVID denial and the next pandemic (EN, reply, 2 posts)
8 November 2024
Polizeimeldungen kritisch lesen, Teil I: Rechte bei Durchsuchungsbeschluss, Aussageverweigerung (DE, more posts before, 1+5 posts)
3 March 2025
Polizeimeldungen kritisch lesen, Teil II: Begründung von Kontrollen, Rechtmäßigkeit von Widerstandshandlungen, Verwertbarkeit von Beweisen (DE, 7 posts)
New stuff will be added as necessary.
The key words "AND MAKE IT FAST", "ABSOLUTELY NOT", and "LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
SCP:
academic or bureaucratic language
there's a bunch that are just jokes
not real, can't hurt you
RFC:
academic or bureaucratic language
there's a bunch that are just jokes
real, can hurt you
The key words "AND MAKE IT FAST", "ABSOLUTELY NOT", and "LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
Kann jemand einen Anbieter für die "Pflegebox" (Kassen-Anspruch auf Pflegemittel im Wert von 42€ für Menschen mit Pflegegrad) empfehlen? Gibt es Unterschiede zwischen den Anbieter oder irgendwelche versteckten Fallen, Überraschungsklauseln in den AGB, usw.?
#Pflege
@xyla@shitpost.trade @piku@blahaj.zone wait no I can do better
@xyla@shitpost.trade @piku@blahaj.zone
@xyla@shitpost.trade @piku@blahaj.zone omg guys its microsoft from fedi
@xyla@shitpost.trade @piku@blahaj.zone wait no I can do better
Mastodon needs a feature to assign visible-only-to-you nicknames to people. Notes aren't enough, I need to put "that one jerk", "bestie", "(subject) knower", "instance xy mod no. 5", and "nasty asshole" labels on people
What the FUCK?!!!?!?!?!
The aforementioned ISO standard symbols have one disadvantage: they are registered trademarks and must be licensed. The copyright lies with the international organization GINETEX, which has 18 member countries with national committees that monitor the use of care symbols in their respective territories.
Fuck ISO!
#Sewing
I just don't get it. The top thread tension was at 4 (out of 9) and the bottom tension is perfectly fine, and yet the fabric puckers and curves to the top as if the top tension were MASSIVELY to high?! I've reduced it to 2 and the problem persists. I don't get it.
This was a nearly straight edge when I cut it, now look at it. What the hell.
#Sewing
I don't believe in gods or spirits, but since every single sewing endeavour I've tried has failed catastrophically in unforeseen and often heretofore-thought-impossible ways, the conclusion that I must be cursed becomes ever more inescapable.
#Sewing
If the fabric weren't so goddamn prone to fraying, I would fucking STAPLE it in place.
I just don't get it. The top thread tension was at 4 (out of 9) and the bottom tension is perfectly fine, and yet the fabric puckers and curves to the top as if the top tension were MASSIVELY to high?! I've reduced it to 2 and the problem persists. I don't get it.
This was a nearly straight edge when I cut it, now look at it. What the hell.
#Sewing
And in true me fashion, because I have never ever had a machine that just worked, the machine has once again started to make suspicious clank-clank-clank noises, get stuck, and the motor cries out horrible when I try to sew.
#Sewing
If the fabric weren't so goddamn prone to fraying, I would fucking STAPLE it in place.
Mx Amber Alex (she/it)