Mastodawn

RE: https://norden.social/@Sagesse/116409497560854022

I'll toot this in english, too, bc I love it so much:

I've got a new favourite answer to the question:
"Why are there so many new people diagnosed with ADHD/autism nowadays?"

"For the same reason why, after the invention of the telescope, there were so many more stars."
(found on youtube)

#autism #actuallyautistic #adhd

Current feels.

Columnist: I'm standing up for what I believe in! Protecting women's sport! And I'll keep standing up for it, no matter how much those snowflakes try to silence me and my right to free speech!

Citizen: That's fantastic! You know, female athletes have to put up with so much vicious misogyny and abuse, especially on social media. Some men really can be snowflakes when it comes to women's sport.

Columnist: No! I'm raising the big issue in women's sport, and I'm being /attacked/ for it!

Citizen: Really?! People are attacking you for saying female athletes deserve equal pay for equal work?

Columnist: Not that one! I'm talking about something far more serious, affecting the health and wellbeing of female athletes. And even the very integrity of women's sport itself!

Citizen: Do you mean how sports science focuses almost exclusively on male athletes, leading to women suffering anterior cruciate ligament injuries at six times the rate of men (citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/magazine/acl-tear-women-girl-sports.html )?

Citizen: Or do you mean how elite women's sport is routinely relegated to worse venues and TV coverage, with less sponsorship and promotion?

Columnist: No! I'm talking about protecting women's sport from the scourge of men transitioning for the sole purpose of winning at women's sport!

Citizen: Why would a professional male athlete who's not trans want to go through all the challenges and discrimination of transitioning for less pay, less TV coverage, fewer sponsorships, smaller crowds, less promotion, higher injury risk, worse venue, online abuse, and rampant misogyny, just to win at women's sport?

Columnist: Because *winning*!

Citizen: Can you give an example of where this has actually happened?

Columnist: ...

Citizen: And what do you propose to do about it?

Columnist: Totally dismantle democracy, install a totalitarian dictatorship, arrest or kill anyone who disagrees with said despot, and deport ethnic minorities en masse. Also we'll use it to justify rolling back all healthcare and civil rights to trans people, establishing that human rights exist at the arbitrary will of our overload, which the despot will use arbitrarily against all women and any other individuals or groups he disagrees with.

Citizen: That seems a bit... extreme.

Columnist: It's all to protect women's sport.

Citizen: And what will you do about the other issues I raised?

Columnist: Well, if any of them, such as research into sports medicine for women or facilities for women's sport, require public funding, then we'll cut the funding and give the money back to rich supporters of our despot as a tax cut.

Citizen: I see. Say, just out of curiosity, who do you think will win the grand final in the AFLW this year?

Columnist: I honestly don't care. I'm not into women's sport, sorry.

#AFLW #womenssport #transrights #auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics #feminism #terf #terfs #trans

Why Are So Many Teen Girls Still Tearing Their A.C.L.s?

For years, ligament tears have been a crisis among young athletes — even though a few simple exercises can prevent them.

The New York Times

Brath Apr 8

Petra Brandström Apr 8

New art: Overslept

I started this while we still had a lot of snow this winter. The long time it took me to finish and the subject both reflect my mental and physical state lately; tired af. 😅

Digital painting made in #krita

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Sorry for lack of art lately, my creativity and arm strength (needed for drawing) have taken a dive, but I'm slowly chugging along through illness (Graves disease) and under-researched medical treatments. And tbh, the state of the world.

#noAI #MastoArt #tired

Brath Apr 4

Eliza Apr 3

Time for a new #Introduction post!

Hi everyone!
I'm Eliza, a lesbian OC artist from Belgium. I mainly do illustrations and comics of my babies Celdervinn and Mihoko.

You can also hire me for your very own commission ✨ https://vgen.co/artbyeliza (or email)

I'd be grateful for your repost ❤️

#NewHere #Lesbian #OC #OriginalCharacter #OriginalArt #Illustration #Commission #CommissionsOpen #FediArt #MastoArt #Painting #Sapphic #Yuri #GL #Medieval #SwordLesbian #Knights #Fantasy #FantasyArt

Brath Apr 3

Izzy Apr 3

Reminder for those who may not be aware that those "fancy/custom text" things using special unicode characters that bypass ASCII fonts to make your name look cool or fancy or whatever ruin accessibility, like hard.

They break screen readers hard, since most, if not all, don't know how to handle them properly and end up pronouncing something like "Special character S" or whatever. They're also significantly harder to read than a user's chosen font, or the default fonts on any reasonable operating system or website, especially for neurodivergent and in particular dyslexic people.

Please stop using them, and maybe nudge your friends to stop using them.

Boosts appreciated for awareness

#Accessibility #FancyFonts #Neurodivergent #Boostswelcome

Brath Apr 1

Djamila Knopf @Dokomi 3G35 Apr 1

Until 9 April, 4 PM CEST (Berlin time), fine art prints of my paintings “Viridian” and “Morning Fog” are available at https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store (US shipping still unavailable, sorry)

Brath Mar 11

me Mar 11

Hi everyone,

If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.

#LikeThisExample

Not #likethisexample

Why?

A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.

B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.

Thanks you

#TheForkiverse

Brath Mar 5

JustDude 🙋🏻‍♂️🫶🏼🕊️Mar 2

Students or anyone who is the need for a free Linux Laptop?

We as Laptop Revive can provide one free of charge, no background checks. Just a friendly face and some basic agreements on paper and then we hand it over somewhere in the Netherlands.

Sounds like a miracle? No fact is that we already handed out more than 100 of them ! 🙂👍

See https://laptoprevive.nl for the details

#laptop #free #LaptopRevive #student

#Boosts are welcome

Brath Feb 27