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raphaelmorgan

@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

Any neo-pronouns or he/him if you must.
Not new, I've just had bad luck with main instance picking.
Boosts are seldom a reflection of what I think of the person posting (because I don't check unless I see red flags), but usually a reflection of what I think of the post itself.
I block random people who tag me out of nowhere (but replies are usually fine).

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raphaelmorgan, to random
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My upper back ๐Ÿค my lower back
Never feeling stretched enough until I can figure out how to clip my extremities into my torso

raphaelmorgan, to random
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It's us, that butch couple that the neighbors think are MLM

chombo, to random
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it's such a shame that the Democrats decided to lose the election

raphaelmorgan,
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@chombo in 2020 I thought it was ridiculous when people were posting conspiracy theories of Biden only being there to do such a shit job that Trump wins again in 2024 despite how much the general public hated him while in office. I'd like to apologize to anyone who posted that theory because it's seeming more and more plausible over time

lunastation, to random
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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

raphaelmorgan,
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@frog_reborn @lunastation I guess I don't have a frame of reference for having money and no libraries, but libraries were a big deal for my family when we were homeless and the quote tracks to me ๐Ÿคท I think we were "actually poor" when we had to eat at salvation army lol

raphaelmorgan,
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@frog_reborn @lunastation it's fair to say that you would trade books for better material conditions. It's not fair to say that if someone says libraries help get people through hard times, they must have never had them. I'm also currently under the poverty line and would probably trade libraries for the ability to pay for both food and rent, but I'm not going to diminish the experiences of others over it

raphaelmorgan,
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@frog_reborn @lunastation I figured you only were talking about the poor part. Do you know from experience what it's like to live with money in a world without libraries? If so, I'll gladly take your word for it
But sometimes poor people care about libraries and I will die on the hill that my experiences happened

raphaelmorgan,
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@frog_reborn @lunastation we don't need to keep arguing. My point was essentially that's fair, I only mentioned you in the first place because you said the person quoted must have never been poor. If you don't stand by that statement and are willing to accept that poor people's experiences are diverse, then we're in agreement. I think it's totally fine that the quote doesn't fit your experiences, and I'm sorry if I seemed to be demanding that it does. That wasn't my intention

18+ raphaelmorgan, to random
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Humans will say shit like "I can't wait till we find aliens so we can meet other 'intelligent life'" but humans also decided all of the other sentient and sapient creatures on our planet don't count as "intelligent life" just cuz they're not us so like... Good luck with that?

raphaelmorgan,
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Oh, you want to talk to someone who has complicated vocal languages that can express many different things? How about whales?
Oh they also have to use tools? Meet crows.
But buildings and civilizations are a must! Soo beavers? Ants even?
There are so many amazing beings on this one planet that we can interact with, we don't need to go find aliens. Maybe we should just, I dunno, keep this planet habitable?

raphaelmorgan, to random
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My nephew, referring to my cat: where'd he go?
Me: I dunno! Probably to his room--I mean, our room
My sister: No you don't mean that.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Dear thin people giving me looks at the gym: are you sad you can't lift what I carry around all day? Don't worry, you'll get there! Have you tried eating more?

puppygirlhornypost, to random
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you know what i haven't seen on fedi that actually makes me a bit sad

raphaelmorgan,
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@puppygirlhornypost perisex trans people (especially nonbinary people) owe intersex people so much more solidarity than most of us give them. They're not just a pawn for arguments of our validity, and I really hope that I come across as someone safe to have community with. I think a lot of the time we can trust that intersex people are probably not transphobic like we can with other trans people, and I wish that also worked vice versa but from what I've seen it really doesn't

troublewithwords, to random
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Today I learned that the endocrine system, CAN bus, and old time pagers work roughly the same way, pumping the system with messages that can be seen my everyone but are supposed to only be picked up by the addressee.

This is not a useful analogy for anyone but me.

raphaelmorgan,
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@troublewithwords I mean it's useful to me because I already knew how the endocrine system works but now I know a fun fact about pagers and whatever a CAN bus is

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

raphaelmorgan,
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@quantumg @Rayston @RickiTarr yeah no. When I was homeless I would regularly think I wanted to go home, but I could never pinpoint a location. Wanna know why? Because I was fucking homeless! And because I grew up in poverty and my entire life has been moving frantically trying to find a permanent place to stay and never, to this day, finding one. But I've always wanted a home. I have a feeling this is more common than people who decided they don't want one.

lifewithtrees, to random
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If you were to overhear another professional stating they are โ€œanti-woke,โ€ what would that mean to you?

What assumptions might be made?

#AskFedi

raphaelmorgan,
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@lifewithtrees I'd assume they're racist, transphobic, or both (probably both)

mekkaokereke, to random
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Is Trump ahead in the polls, because Biden is losing support amongst one of his key demographics: Black men? Or are the polls all a lie?

Trump ahead in polls?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

Biden camp doesn't believe the polls?
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election

Either way, the most important thing to do, is to ignore, insult, argue with, and generally disrespect, Black men online! ๐Ÿคก Find a Black man, and yell "Trump is worse!" in his face as hard as you can! Swear at him, and threaten him with violence!

1/N

raphaelmorgan,
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@Aviva_Gary @mekkaokereke the people who have great lives under Democratic mini-fascism are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure they never have to experience what marginalized people do, so they want to make sure we stay under Democrats. But once their needs are met, they don't really give a shit about the rest of us, so they're content with just repeating the same cycle every 4 years while never fighting for the rights of those who are already oppressed no matter who's in office

raphaelmorgan,
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@thepoliticalcat @Aviva_Gary @mekkaokereke people with marginalized kids don't have "great lives" while their kids are at a high risk of medical malpractice or police brutality, unless they live in denial. Those who do live in denial about it are often no exception to what I said, and those who are constantly terrified for their kids' safety were never included in the first place.

As far as generalizations, I'm sure there are exceptions to my blanket statement, and yk what? They'll live.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Remember that part of freeing Palestine is fostering safety for Jewish people outside of Israel. There's a reason so many were able to be convinced to move there, and it's not that they're all genocidal. If you claim to care about the genocide going on right now against Palestinians but are also being anti-Semitic (and I'm not using that as a synonym for anti-Zionist) towards your Jewish neighbors and powering the same machine that created Israel in the first place, I don't think I believe you.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Happy mother's day to all the trans moms and nonbinary or transmasc parents who celebrate it! Cis moms too I guess

rachaelspooky, to random
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whenever anyone uses the phrase "for the time being" i like to capitalize it in my head.

"ive done all i can for the Time Being"

"for the Time Being, these are the available options"

"this is the situation for the Time Being"

all hail the Time Being

raphaelmorgan,
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@rachaelspooky when Doctor Who finally gives us a nonbinary Doctor or Master

micchiato, to Palestine
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Over 100 people were arrested yesterday during pro- in . But a very good thing happened too.

raphaelmorgan,
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@micchiato maybe cops CAN do good sometimes ๐Ÿ˜‚

edwardchampion, to mastodon
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At present, I am a Mastodon gypsy. Can anyone recommend an instance with the following qualities:

  • 1,000 character limit (sorry, but I'm one of those peculiar people who need 1,000 characters or else I come across as a lunatic)
  • The ability to upload video (I'll happily chip in on hosting costs)
  • Friendly to progressives and journalists
  • No alt-right moderators
  • Admins and mods sympathetic to creative eccentrics like me

Thanks in advance!

raphaelmorgan,
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@edwardchampion you seem to have good intentions, so I hope this is interpreted as a good-faith attempt at education, but one of the words you used is actually a slur for the Romani people. Might I suggest "nomad" as an alternative?
https://www.latimes.com/podcasts/story/2023-04-11/foretold-podcast-fortunetelling-romani-american-g-word
I'm not comfortable boosting your post with a racial slur in it (including in the hashtags), but if you do decide to change it feel free to let me know so I can boost!

raphaelmorgan,
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@edwardchampion heads up you missed it in the hashtags ๐Ÿ˜… but thank you for being responsive!

Alice, to random
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I like when people tell me they unfollowed me as if Iโ€™m a subscription service that's somehow losing money as a result.

raphaelmorgan,
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@CoachMark @Alice I think the implication was those people who reply to her posts to explicitly inform her that they have unfollowed. She doesn't have to check bc they @ her about it

Alice, to random
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I lost some followers and Iโ€™m not sure if it's because they didn't like my weak photo of the aurora borealis or didn't appreciate my question about how much teeth they like with their BJs. Probably a little bit of both.

raphaelmorgan,
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@Alice I've made a commitment to only following people if they post top-notch photos of everything they see. I just don't have space in my life for anyone who isn't a winner /s

raphaelmorgan, to random
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LB anti-maskers at the beginning of the pandemic: bodily autonomy!!! You can't tell me what to do! Everyone should have free choice over what we put on our faces!
Anti-maskers now, when most immunocompromised people have given up on trying to get others not to kill us and simply avoid people and wear masks if we have to go out in public: no not like that

raphaelmorgan,
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Like, I can understand the appeal to bodily autonomy re: not wearing face masks. I don't like it, and people refusing to wear masks in high-risk situations are being careless with other people's lives, but I at least can understand it.
But trying to make it illegal for immunocompromised people to protect ourselves in a way that harms no one? Stripping away our bodily autonomy by not letting us decide what goes on our own faces? Quite literally mask off in their ableism/eugenics

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