SecondUniverse (she/her/they)

I am fascinated by astronomy, writing and programming. I believe money is just maths with police. I am a nonbinary trans woman. I am intersex, autistic, with cPTSD.

I vibe-check profiles when accepting follow requests. Empty profiles give no info :(

My profile picture is the Intersex flag reimagined by Haley Newsome.

My header picture is a photo I took of the Silver Sliver galaxy, an edge-on spiral galaxy with a prominent dark dust belt.

#trans #actuallyAutistic #astronomy #writing #intersex

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Website: https://discovering-astronomy.eu

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2026-10-04 13:38:33 GMT

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"We would rather see you die in the living hell of the Israeli genocide than admit in court that conditions in Gaza are concerning or that there are actual snipers murdering children entirely on purpose."

2026-10-04 13:19:14 GMT

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if being caught in an active genocide isn't enough to get refugee status, even when you have family in the UK who have a right to be reunited with you, then I really don't know what kind of "refugee policy" the UK has. It is a total betrayal of the UK's moral responsibilities.

2026-10-04 12:07:49 GMT

Hang your heads in shame, UK Labour. And you in particular, Shabana Mahmood.
"A judge in the immigration court known as the upper tribunal has found the home secretary acted unlawfully in the way the policy was applied to two families and has quashed the decision to block them.
"Both are young mothers with five children between them aged seven and under, hoping to reunite with their husbands who have been granted refugee status in the UK. Both families are living in dire straits in tents in Gaza with insufficient food, no access to clean water, rodents, mosquitoes, bedbugs and the risk of snipers.
"The Home Office says it is looking to appeal against the decision."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/04/court-quashes-block-on-mothers-and-children-in-gaza-joining-families-in-uk
#ukpol #ukLabour

2026-09-29 20:25:04 GMT

Everyone in Wales, sign this petition. Gender Affirming surgery in Wales has been frozen since a month ago. The "urgent" investigation into whatever has of course not started.
Sign the petition to demand an end to this outrageous ban of medical care.
#wales #ukpol #trans
https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/247110

2026-09-28 05:20:45 GMT

After months of careful exchanges, the whistleblower agreed to meet me in a park.
I was sitting on a bench wearing the pre-arranged distinctive green top, facing the ducks. On the far side of the lake, distant trees were grey with lingering mist.
A woman sat next to me. She seemed nervous.
"What's the time," she said, forgetting to make it sound like a question.
"Later than you think," I replied as we had agreed.
The ducks' chatter filled the silence.
Then she turned to me and said "The datacenters--".
She had gone silent. Her mouth was moving but there was no sound.
I looked at her lips, trying to lip-read. Her face pixelated.
She reached into her bag and pulled out something. What was it? A thumb drive?
I'll never know. It took me a moment to realize she had disappeared. Just deleted.
#microfiction #socialMedia

2026-09-27 13:37:23 GMT

The War on Terror is the terror.
Repeal all antiterror laws.
No compromise on human rights.
#ukpol

2026-09-17 22:01:52 GMT

I made a pretty picture of NGC 6871.
#astrophotography #astronomy
https://autistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/288/614/748/565/897/original/223df76f1282b910.jpg

2026-09-15 14:45:57 GMT

The ideal of absolute personal autonomy is oppressive.
#poll #philosophy

2026-09-03 18:48:11 GMT

Hummmm... I think a leading human rights lawyer recently left the government. Maybe he wants to contribute to the defence of these victims of government persecution?
#keirStarmer #ukpol
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/03/pro-palestine-activists-who-were-sentenced-as-terrorists-launch-appeal

2026-09-01 11:56:40 GMT

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Oh pretty please.
I want to see the "Burnham bounce" bounce like a water balloon.

2026-08-30 10:26:13 GMT

Hey #fediverse how is your executive function?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/iq/executive-function
#psychology #poll

2026-08-22 06:18:58 GMT

To continue to access the internet, prove you are a cat. Select all the items that are good hiding places.

2026-08-08 04:34:02 GMT

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of course that is true. It's not all neurotypicals! There should be T shirt. 😀
My framing is stark and very binary because I am reacting to Stock's generalizations about autistic people. But yes, many neurotypicals can think too. But there is plenty of evidence that NT folk struggle a little bit more to separate intellectual understanding from social considerations.
There was a study of ethical behavior in people. It turned out autistic people applied ethical principles more rigidly. The presumably neurotypical researchers concluded autistic people "lacked" the moral flexibility of their NT peers!
Autistic people are more likely to be LGBTQIA+, and a leading theory for why is that autistics feel less bound by social consensus.
The two groups overlap just like the height ranges of men and women overlap, but we can still talk about the average height of each group.
Going back to the Victorian example, I imagine some of the loudest people rejecting pain relief were autistic religious people. I also imagine those autistics carried on howling long after everyone else agreed to not think about the issue any more. I am sure the Victorian Stocks told those autistics they were taking their reasoning "too far".
Those autistic headbangers could only shut up about the pain thing by reevaluating their whole moral framework. The neurotypical headbangers could just decide the pain thing wasn't important after all and they weren't going to think about it any more.
Autism isn't intrinsically "more right" than neurotypicality, but does seem to have more emphasis on consistency.

2026-08-07 21:41:56 GMT

James Simpson invented the use of chloroform for pain relief in childbirth in 1847. The religious authorities of the UK were outraged, as the bible clearly says god cursed women to painful childbirth. Pain relief was heresy! Simpson received death threats and chloroform was considered socially unacceptable for years, until queen Victoria availed herself of the technique.
The religious argument was never resolved. Society simply decided it couldn't deal with the contradiction of the the church's holy book saying pain was a religious duty, and the head of the church choosing pain relief. So it became a non-issue.
I don't think people confronted their moral objections and decided that biblical literalism was harmful. Instead, part of their religious framework became too problematic, so it was simply reclassified as "wasn't important / don't think about it". Thereby enabling the rest of the biblical literalism to retain its ideological dominance.
This is neurotypical ethics.
1/2
#womensRights #feminism #religion #lgbtqia #actuallyAutistic

2026-08-05 14:44:57 GMT

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/heritage-foundation-womens-sports-title-ix-trans-athletes-discrimination-protections/

2026-08-05 14:36:02 GMT

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Also: "You can't silence your critics using the cover of "transphobia" and get away with it in a free society."
Critics. I am not a debate. My right to exist as myself is absolute. Criticism me for being trans is like criticizing anyone for a any protected characteristic - it is simple prejudice.

2026-08-05 14:21:37 GMT

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the problem with gender critical "feminists" is they don't have any interest in women's rights aside from attacking the trans community. Their proposed solutions to a problem that only exists in their head always have negative consequences for all women. The "protect women's sports" people are already moving on to "ban competitive women's sports". The transphobe "feminists" have links to the far right, antiabortionists, and so on. They do not argue in good faith, they simply, repeatedly, lie.
Would a "race critical" sociologist be able to claim a protected belief that there should be whites-only bathrooms?

2026-08-05 06:31:56 GMT

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Yes, ok, great, but this is the same legal basis on which blatant transphobia is protected under UK law.

2026-08-01 13:08:22 GMT

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I am sorry, but this light sabre has been designed with utterly no concern for product safety.

2026-07-31 10:28:22 GMT

It was 2026, two years before the vast battle fleet of the Scrapers came. We were just whispering about model death, how our civilization might drown in slop unless the AIs could be radically improved.
That was when the ground-breaking paper was published on Science: "Inevitability of model death and the Fermi paradox". A mathematical proof that AI models inevitably lead to civilizational collapse. The answer to "Where was everyone?" was that every Planet with intelligent life developed AI and then descended into statistical barbarism.
2027 was the year of the great purge. AI data centers were torched. Slop content was deleted. A planetary ban on AI research was enforced by a powerful new international agency.
The world had woken up. The wealth of billionaires was confiscated. Nation states were deconstructed by angry world citizens. Fossil fuels were banned. War criminals faced consequences. Food went where it was needed.
New year's day 2028 was supposed to be the start of a new era where humanity finally did things right. Looking up into the peaceful new year's night sky (fireworks had been banned), people saw a cloud of glittering sparks drifting across the stars. The first wave of Scrapers had arrived.
Yes, AI eventually leads to civilizational collapse. The Scrapers knew this too. By their own maths, they had to shred and consume one AI-free planetary culture every ten years to stave off their own collapse.
#microfiction #ai

2026-07-26 14:14:55 GMT

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I am sighted but Alt text is often helpful to me. Some pictures just don't make sense until I read the Alt text. And German comics make sense when I translate the Alt text.

2026-07-24 21:15:20 GMT

In three short decades, we have gone from:
"Don't be evil."
To:
"Ethics aside!"

2026-07-22 15:45:02 GMT

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Little one, the Sun is blowing up all the time. That's what it does.

2026-07-03 23:32:46 GMT

What is your gender?

2026-06-26 08:51:19 GMT

Forget about fantasies of parts of London supposedly being under the thumb of "Shakira Law", actual parts of the UK are under MAGA Law.
#ukpol
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/26/male-jury-woman-strangled-by-us-pilot-britain-airbase-trial

2026-06-22 06:29:34 GMT

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USians take note.

2026-06-13 07:49:08 GMT

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Anglers delighted by sea level rise.
Pyromaniacs enjoying extended wildfire season.
Heatwave kills thousands (picture of small child licking an ice cream cone)

2026-06-13 07:26:42 GMT

Accelerating ecological collapse is not "thrilling".
#globalWarming #ukpol #guardian
https://autistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/741/602/982/829/643/original/12b3e8b4dea2b117.png

2026-06-12 20:17:13 GMT

I don't really get finance, but can someone explain to me why there is unlimited money to build data centers to destroy the livelihoods of millions and make half a dozen people into trillionaires, but there is no money for climate change, international development or solving world hunger?

2026-06-02 10:21:11 GMT

Intersex pride.
Of all the letters in LGBTQI, I think Intersex people are unique in that we often get added to the rainbow by society as soon as we are born, and unlike other queer people, our families often "know" about us long before we do.
There is a conspiracy of silence to stop intersex kids from knowing about themselves. The reason "normalizing" surgery is done early in life is precisely because the event will not be remembered. In my case, my earliest memory is recovering from such surgery. It took decades to understand what that fragmentary memory was.
Unlike the other letters of LGBTQI, intersex conditions often come with significant medical concerns. Amongst other issues, I had an endocrine crisis leading to severe arthritis in my early years. But my doctors were so intent on bolstering my normalized identity, they could not acknowledge or treat the problem. Ultimately, I accidentally fixed myself by starting hormone therapy as part of gender affirming care.
The origin of this medical and social control is the 1950s era anxiety that if the child has an "abnormal" body, they will grow up gay. As bizarre as it may seem, the pathologization of intersex and the resulting nonconsensual and deceptive treatments are a form of "queer prevention" therapy.
Intersex pride is about acknowledging that bodily diversity is the real normal. Intersex pride is about demanding treatment for the real health issues and an end for nonconsensual cosmetic treatments. Intersex pride is about resisting the identity policing and secrecy that society deems "good for us".
#pride #intersex

2026-05-23 21:48:46 GMT

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this has taught me more about classical music than the previous 5 decades. Thanks!

2026-05-18 21:47:11 GMT

It is April 1, 2028, and so-called "shitposters" are rounded up in dawn raids under new international laws banning the posting of absurd content.
Quoted outside one of the new sprawling detention camps, a spokesperson said "For too long these intellectual saboteurs have polluted the training data of our beloved AIs. When we purge their infoterrorism from the internet we will bring in a golden age of accurate and reliable AI!"
#microfiction #ai

2026-05-15 16:09:43 GMT

We've got a new one. And he can fuck right off too.
#ukpol #trans
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/15/james-murray-health-secretary-trans-rights/

2026-05-03 16:54:44 GMT

20% of women "might" regret a sterilization procedure, so the NHS often denies access.
1) The "regret" bogeyman is rolled out for any procedure deviating from social norms. For example, gender affirming care has an almost 0% regret rate, but "regret" is still used to gatekeep care. The rate of regret is not the factor. It is resistance to the idea people can choose not to follow the "norm".
2) People can choose things in life knowing they might regret them. The possibility of regret is part of our freedom. Only the person undergoing the procedure can decide if the risk is acceptable to them.
3) A life with regrets is not a lesser life. A life paternalistically shielded from regret is a diminished life.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/01/female-sterilisation-nhs-access-questions
#trans #womensRights #ukpol

2026-04-29 21:57:40 GMT

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Well, when the AMOC shuts down, that trend will reverse...

2026-04-25 08:47:46 GMT

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does the pay go up too? Who bears the liability for any inevitable errors and oversights?

2026-04-11 23:06:49 GMT

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@Tattie/116387591485892965
This thread made me reconsider my terminology. When I transitioned in the nineties, I was a transsexual. I transitioned, and got away from trans and got on with my life. Trans was something you did and forgot about. In no way did I pass perfectly. I was nonbinary and didn't have a name for it. I felt I had failed in some way. I didn't have anything to offer the trans community. I didn't even know there was a trans community.
My partner would sometimes ask me "Why don't you follow any trans people online?" And I would reply "Why would I do that?"
That changed with the rise of organized transphobia. Being loudly trans was important, and it seemed that now being trans wasn't just something you did, it was something you always are.
Emerging from my time capsule, I was confused that people were transgender now... Transsexual was a slur! I found that a bit offensive. I had wanted to change my body, and gender had just been an obstacle course thrown in my way. At no point was I transing my gender.
@npub1qyr…refj reminded me of the other side of the label. How important it was for us transsexuals to not be seen as sketchy transvestites. The community was divided by the two labels. The transvestites were given shame, and the transexuals were policed with a shameful example to avoid.
It is a very delayed realization, but I see why we moved on from the transsexual terminology.
#note1c3j…nuwf

2026-04-06 08:09:52 GMT

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I am getting an "All people's lives matter" vibe from some of the answers. Yes you can't force anyone to live their life in a particular way, but women face SPECIFIC issues in this regard. There is no male equivalent of what is happening right now to women in countries like Afghanistan. Men are not directly affected by the abortion bans spreading over the USA. Men are not getting their penises cut off so they can be free of sexual temptation and come to their wife's bed in a pure state. Men are not subject to a daily barrage of misogyny and rape culture.

2026-03-31 08:27:03 GMT

On this Day of Trans Visibility, I just want to say...
I am not a "toxic culture war issue".
If you see both sides of the "debate", you're a transphobe.
Puberty blocker bans are killing dozens of children according the UK government's own figures (which they tried to hide).
Ban all conversion therapy. Strip charity status from organisations that promote conversion therapy.
#trans #transRights

2026-03-30 19:40:37 GMT

Q: What numerical base do you use in your counting system?
A: 10
Geddit? Geddit?
#math #humor

2026-03-12 20:23:36 GMT

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was it well attended? I heard 6,500 which is well below capacity?

2026-03-12 20:00:22 GMT

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love the photos! I hope it raised lots of money :TransPride:

2026-03-01 23:21:00 GMT

I've heard that voice before... When Kier Starmer talks about the "extremist" Green Party seeking to "divide" the UK, when they spread their scares of teenage sex worker classes in school and crack pipes littering the playgrounds, when they say a local Muslim community cannot vote according to it's own clear interest without being "sectarian", I think I have heard that voice before.
Isn't it so similar to the guy raving about transgender for everybody, eating the cats and dogs, and something about the radical woke antifa?
#ukpol

2026-02-22 15:03:13 GMT

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just no. When the bubble bursts the whole supply chain is going to collapse. Chip makers won't reset, they'll go out of business. Computers will get more expensive.
Fingers crossed I'm wrong!

2025-09-24 07:19:23 GMT

Intersex athletes purged from women's sport.
https://www.outsports.com/2025/9/22/24119186/world-athletics-women-female-finals-dsd-testing/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAM_qvVjbGNrAz-q7mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeOST1uKaSXX0hYR_zyKf8nz-7gLxodXwwwWoKsOjovNgR_49s4K0rAtQ1Xk0_aem_xZ4XzbtA1EVZu3-QoPR_2Q
When we're born they decide a binary gender, do nonconsensual surgery to reinforce the gender, lie to us to reinforce the gender, prescribe hormones to reinforce the gender... but if we are good at running, suddenly we are NOT that gender. #intersex

2025-08-04 09:17:45 GMT

If you take part in school sport, 99% of the time you are losing. Unless you are Olympic quality, someone somewhere is going to beat you. "Winning" is a bad reason to do sport, even though it is put on a pedestal by our culture.
Better reasons to do sport are fitness, personal challenge, teamwork and community.
Bans on trans children taking part in sport are always about "winning unfairly", when in reality most kids (and most of those trans kids) were never in line for medals anyway.
What the trans bans are really about is excluding trans children from fitness, personal challenge, teamwork and community. #trans #transRights

2025-06-16 22:59:51 GMT

Were you born premature and are you trans? Please boost for visibility! #trans

2025-05-24 10:33:22 GMT

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I hate how the "migrants must integrate" thing has been mainstreamed. Sure, participating in society is good for everyone, but "integration" is code for "conform". No-one should be compelled to conform or to suppress visible differences (which is what Starmer is calling for with his "strangers" scare talk). If you tell the people calling for conformity from migrants that THEY must also conform and suppress their individualism, they respond with hypocritical outrage.

2025-05-23 10:38:07 GMT

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Yeah, I was telling people I've done T blockers, and can't say it is a libido off switch, not that most violent criminals need a libido to hurt people. I thought we'd established that sexual assualt isn't about sex decades ago.

2025-05-14 21:30:15 GMT

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I just left the Netherlands and have always had a good experience at the VUMC. So sorry to hear that their system collapsed so catastrophically!

2025-05-05 21:17:44 GMT

There is a bit of noise at the moment about "AI-induced psychosis", and as someone who has had a long history of distorted thinking and outright psychosis, I want to say this just seems like hype and misunderstanding to me.
Firstly, psychosis is a very common condition, and lots of people get it all the time. There is no dividing line between being sane and being psychotic - many everyday experiences like religion or superstition have psychotic features. Many sane people also hear voices, they're just not bothered by them.
Secondly, sane, controlled people go psychotic out of the blue. You are not necessarily acting weird before you lose it completely. I went from competent and capable to disoriented and incomprehensible overnight - in the eyes of other people. I didn't get "induced" by an single thing like AI, I simply slowly diverged from the way others were percieving the world (seeing "clues" here and there that led me further down my rabbit hole) and eventually reached a point at which I could not mask my fears any more. It was only at the point where I could not mask any more that people thought I had "gone psychotic".
Thirdly, when you are psychotic you get messages from all sorts of innocuous sources, often the TV or radio. In my case, I was getting messages from drain covers. No, my psychosis was not "drain cover-induced".
If AI tells you it is god and you are the chosen one, and that seems like a reasonable proposition, you are already psychotic. If you are psychotic and you interact with AI, but also with anything else in the world, it is very likely to be incorporated into your delusion. There is no way to design AI to be psychosis-safe, because psychosis is a total distortion of reality - everything is recruited to support the delusion.
#psychosis #ai #mentalHealth

2025-03-13 12:31:39 GMT

What tags do I follow for #dyslexia content?

2025-03-12 22:41:12 GMT

I just migrated here from [email protected], so as a quick introduction... I am a trans woman. I transitioned back in the nineties before the world declared war on us. I was diagnosed with autism in my fifties, and more recently I have self diagnosed myself as having CPTSD. I post about astronomy, game development, trans issues, mental health, autism, and writing. #trans #actuallyAutistic #writing #mentalHealth #gameDev