Naomi 📚🏳️‍🌈🧶 @gannet@wandering.shop

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/06/12/1 "Hey, You Left Something Out"

On the reply/comment pattern that goes (playfully or dismissively): "you did not mention the thing that I think should be mentioned. Therefore, something is wrong." What it's aiming at & what it misses.

@RomanticAcademic hi! i'm ebeth and i love making friends on mastodon. what are your hobbies/interests? a good way to start is to look through some hashtags and just start replying to people there. personally i like #gameing (/#gaming), #knitting, #sports, #reading, and #cats

also don't be afraid to follow people! sometimes when things start to get too quiet i go to #introductions and just start adding anyone who looks cool

Oh, I think y'all would like the early Slonczewski novel I just finished reading--The Wall around Eden. It's one of her clearest, in terms of message/theme/ideas. #sffbookclub #amreading

(She's a Quaker biologist scifi author, which is a viewpoint you don't read into often!)

do not disturb this perfect princess housecat

pls try to say something nice to someone today!

the someone can be you :3

One of my favorite things is that Fluffers is so fluffy that when he lays upside down and you call his name he lifts his head and can barely see over his fluff. #Fluffers

"Some adults go through life accumulating an alphabet soup of diagnoses: ADHD, OCD, GAD, SAD, BPD . . . when, in fact, a single correct autism diagnosis would better account for most of their symptoms.

If a clinician views a comorbid disorder as the primary reason that a patient is seeking help, they might simply stop there, missing other symptoms of autism. Women in particular may be vulnerable to misdiagnosis because autism is assumed to be less common in females. When a clinician subscribes to the myth that autism is an unlikely explanation for a female patient’s difficulties, he or she may reflexively look to other conditions first for a more likely answer."

(Note that none of this necessarily contradicts the validity of co-morbid diagnoses, just the importance of not misdiagnosing. My assumption is that this is likely true for trans and non-binary Autistics because of related biases (especially in relation to race, cisnormativity and class) and Autistics of color in general as well, but there's even less research in that regard, than there is for Autistic women in general).

3/3

good genderless names for your as-of-yet unborn child:

- Kimothy
- Timberly
- Willian
- Jilliam
- Alexathan
- Johnaxandria

An incredibly detailed lifesize octopus cut from one sheet of paper by artist Masayo Fukuda - "At first glance, the beautiful artwork looks as though it was rendered using fine-tipped pens, but Fukuda carefully cut every detail from one sheet of paper."

https://mymodernmet.com/kirie-paper-cutting-art-octopus-masayo-fukuda/

gender-neutral clothing? More like nonbinary finery

Hello everyone! I just wanted to thank @phildini for offering to host us!

We're Luna Station Quarterly, now in our TENTH year of publishing emerging women-identified scifi/fantasy authors and their amazing short fiction.

We've got a blog that publishes most of the week as well and here and other places we post about those things as well as inspirational quotes from awesome women.

Happy to be on the fediverse at last!

Penumbra cat

@gretchenmcc (on Twitter): Is it Ao3 or AO3?

@Canageek (standing behind me): Why isn't it just AoOO?

Me: don't_awoo.gif