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We are a low-partitioned system in the head of a #trans woman. We're friendly, curious, geeky, trans, autistic (most probably audhd), and plural. We are, in no particular order:

— The McKenna sisters: Tilly, Maggie, and Rowena
— 'Nellie', 'Jacqueline', 'Olivia', and 'Sam'
— several others who haven't posted yet

(Piccrew is of Tilly, who usually does almost all of the posting. The rest of us explicitly sign our posts.)

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Best movement of “The Planets” by Holst?

mckennas ,
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they're all great, but Jupiter is just so brilliant! 😄

mckennas ,
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We love it, and we'd love it even more if it didn't feel to us like a very clever riff on the Sorcerer's Apprentice! (Which we also love, to be fair.)

Uranus is my favourite, in part because it's underplayed and good fun and a little gremliny, but we get pretty powerful visualisations with Jupiter.

— Maggie

futurebird , to random
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You know the early humans who lived in Europe 25k years ago? The ones with stone tools who carved thicc portable woman statues?

How many do you think there were in all of Europe?

I'm shocked to learn the estimates are only 30,000 people! Hardly even a small town... and spread over so much space. Humans were rare animals. Our shift to numerous is more extreme than I think we realize.

It explains why technology changed so slowly. Not enough people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTn5KdsxZ0E

mckennas ,
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<goose meme>
Endangered by what?
</goose meme>

I wonder what population density is sustainable in the absence of people...

— Maggie

futurebird , to random
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So night terrors, sleep paralysis etc. seem to be a real thing. I've had "bad dreams" but never anything that sounds like these experiences. It sounds like it's scary. Scary like when you are home alone and hear a sound and don't know what it is.

I'm curious if people who can have this are can be aware that it's not real when it's happening.

When I get anxious I can also know "this is just that thing" and I'm sort of detached about it?

Can that happen with fear?

mckennas ,
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We occasionally get sleep paralysis. We understand what it is these days, and manage to avoid panicking, but it is very uncomfortable nevertheless, and distressing that we can't do anything about it for as long as it's going on.

— Nellie

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