Mystery Babylon

@erosdiscordia@onycha.monster
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transmasculine 💫 cutting the other edge 💫 alt publishing 💫 computer misbehavior 💫 privacy 💫 auDHD 💫 internet old 💫 OTPs: WangXian; Patsy & Edina

Currently exploring Daoism and Mesopotamian religion; self-hosting GoToSocial; miniature painting, monoprinting, and oil painting; houseplants; lesser-known anime

(If you're a US citizen, please only follow-request if you voted for Harris. No third-party, no protest non-voting. I'm out of fucks to give. 🙏)

"It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that determines whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art."
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

American | Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (thru May '25)

Mastodon Class of 2018
Toots lifespan: 2 weeks

ve/vem/ves glitter manhttps://en.pronouns.page/@erosdiscordia
writing alt@erosdiscordia on Mementomori.social
queer scifihttps://archiveofourown.org/series/4300372
Mystery Babylon4h ago
Earthshine6h ago
“You see this goblet? For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”
--Achaan Chaa
Mystery Babylon4h ago
Kim Possible10h ago
The reason you should speak up for Trans people is simple: because you should. Not just because they'll come for you, too, eventually, but because we should care about Trans folks, full stop.
Mystery Babylon4h ago
Teri Kanefield10h ago

I just realized that it's April 23.

That means it's the anniversary of the Farmville, Virginia Motion High School student strike.

What? You don't know about that?

Well, in 1951, Barbara Johns was fed up with the deplorable conditions in her segregated school, so she organized a strike. She was inspired by labor strikes.

After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down, she called in the NAACP.

1/

Mystery Babylon11h ago
Goodnight, folks.
Mystery Babylon12h ago
Show threaddor13h ago
@moss I've gotten some use out of verbalizing the feelings. Even so much as a "This is what it feels like to be anxious" can help me focus on the physical sensation in my body and help me not spiral.
Mystery Babylon12h ago
Daisy Leigh Brenecki1d ago

If you're trans or gender diverse, and you've started gender-affirming HRT in Australia in the last 18 months, you could help out with research that could improve the quality of care for trans people in the future! (And if that's not you, boosts for reach are appreciated <3)

The lead researcher is themselves trans, and is someone I can personally attest is a good'un, so you'll be in safe hands :)

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Mystery Babylon12h ago
Show threadSimon I Groove13h ago
@moss We have this hanging on our refrigerator just for such events.
Mystery Babylon12h ago
Aram Sinnreich15h ago

Like a lot of Gen Xers, I had insufficient MMR vaccination as a baby. I did a blood test a few weeks ago and found out I'm not immune to measles. So I got a booster today.

My fellow middle agers: let's make it to old age together. Get tested. Get boosted. 💉

Mystery Babylon13h ago
Tarnport13h ago
Sensitive to blue.
Mystery Babylon13h ago
eri13h ago
ugh uncw'ed politics posts