NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

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wiggles
@wiggles

i will never move back to the suburbs. i will never again live without a corner store. i will die before i detransition and i will die before i airgap myself from society


wiggles
@wiggles

after two and a half decades in the suburbs, i have lived in a city for six months and i feel so much anger that this isn’t the default experience for non-rural people and so much despair with how much of this beautiful land has been paved into homogeneous suburbs


wiggles
@wiggles

so many people like me — who grew up knowing nothing but suburbs, whose parents knew nothing but suburbs — never know there’s anything else and it makes me want to weep


wiggles
@wiggles

the death of third spaces interlocks with this — the only way for me to have access to a machine shop with a lathe is to move to a suburb and put one in my garage, because all the makerspaces died and the state doesn’t think libraries or communal goods are a worthwhile investment. sorry, you can’t have that hobby in the city, you need to dedicate hundreds of square feet of space to it, and our whole society is set up so that you can’t share your tools with anyone. this is like how everyone in the suburbs buys a lawnmower and a chainsaw even if they use them once a year, because sharing/coordination is disincentivized


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in reply to @wiggles's post:

the real tragedy is how many people live their whole lives unaware that you can lead a life where you don’t need to drive to get milk. i feel like i only narrowly avoided it. it’s so deeply sad to me

in reply to @wiggles's post:

literally i relate to this so hard. i have lived in suburbia for the majority of my life, and as someone whose disabilities prevent me from driving, i thought i would have to rely on others for everything my whole life.

it wasn't until i moved to the city for about a year and a half and realized that not everywhere is like suburbia. i didnt NEED a car to get around everywhere, i could take the bus to where i needed to go. or hell even walk! i was able to do so much on my own! fuck, i was even able to get a JOB while i was there!!

but unfortunately due to issues relating to my disability, i had to move back into my parents place. aka suburbia. and ill be honest. its complete hell. having one small taste of freedom, only to have it stripped away from you is an experience i wouldn't wish upon the worst of my enemies.