Rabbit Cohen

Autistic, transgender, ADHD. Nonbinary queer. Chronically ill. Mental health, disability, and trans activist. Jewish.

English pronouns: they/them
Spanish pronouns: él
location: Uruguay

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2026-08-15 03:18:01 GMT

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I sometimes succumb to the urge to be a hater of a movie that I saw 20 years ago and nobody talks about anymore.

2026-07-31 01:50:06 GMT

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My city doesn't, but the nation of Uruguay does! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivito_(sandwich)

2026-06-29 11:55:04 GMT

Access to scientific journals should be free.

2026-06-11 20:00:12 GMT

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This is simultaneously a really funny and kind of beautiful way to view it, to me. I feel changed.

2026-06-07 15:31:23 GMT

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OHH ok, with that context, I'm able to find resources about it. No idea if we have a movement about that in Uruguay, though, so I won't vote in this one.

2026-05-20 15:18:32 GMT

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If "Big Pharma" were a single entity pursuing profit with no regard for human life or suffering, it wouldn't be in their best interest to, say, develop effective vaccines. But it's more complicated than that.

2026-05-20 15:16:38 GMT

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I don't think it's that simple, though. Remember that the pharmaceutical industry isn't a single entity, it's a complex system made up of loads of different people with different motives. The people in power are primarily profit driven, but they're also competing against each other. I don't think the "Big Pharma just wants to treat people for life, not cure or prevent disease" model holds up to scrutiny if you look more closely at how the industry behaves.

2026-05-19 15:03:08 GMT

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I think that as a general rule, horror media that focuses on parasites does so because people find parasites particularly unnerving, not because the creators are particularly interested in parasitology as a topic. This is bad news to me, a person who is autistic about parasites.

2026-05-19 14:59:51 GMT

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Parasites like cordyceps evolve alongside their hosts for millions of years, and their host manipulation is a result of highly specialised natural selection. You're not gonna get something that manipulates an ant nervous system suddenly manipulating a human one.

2026-05-19 14:57:39 GMT

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(I can't watch it because of PTSD, not because of snobbery, to clarify.)

2026-05-19 14:56:33 GMT

I've heard that The Last Of Us (game and show) is good. I can't watch it. But I'm begging people to understand that it's soft scifi, and cordyceps fungi are not in any way a realistic threat to humans.

2026-02-03 12:33:10 GMT

Derek found some work, at least in the short term! We're gonna have INCOME!

2026-02-02 16:11:55 GMT

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This implies that if you take the integral of a noun, you get some sort of unknowable supernoun.

2026-01-23 20:17:47 GMT

We are not going to see the Antarctica documentary because my mom is nursing a hummingbird back to health.

2026-01-20 18:36:21 GMT

Am I going to vomit, or am I fine? A memoir.

2026-01-20 15:06:45 GMT

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I've read that the Spanish translation of Persona 5 is so intensely Spain centered in its slang that it's actually hard for people from Latin America to understand, which is kind of surprising to me, because Spain has so much cultural dominance.

2026-01-16 14:51:18 GMT

The thing with Shinigami Eyes is that outsourcing your first impressions of others to a group of people who have little to no accountability has always been a bad idea.

2026-01-15 12:22:23 GMT

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BUT WAIT
Fig 2:
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2026-01-15 12:19:34 GMT

Is my truck in this game making weird noises, or was the song I'm listening to produced by Trent Reznor? An investigation.

2026-01-15 09:43:38 GMT

I've never actually been there, but I do have a Truck Simulator borne bone to pick with Europe, which is that putting traffic lights on the near side of the intersection instead of the far side is stupid.

2026-01-05 13:50:54 GMT

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Update: he got outside, but he was apprehended when he walked right by the glass door, bold as brass, alerting me that he was out. He loves doing crimes, but that doesn't mean he's good at them.

2026-01-05 13:09:25 GMT

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It probably won't surprise you to learn that my answer to this over the past ten years and my answer to this over the last few months are very different.

2026-01-05 10:56:19 GMT

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I wasn't even alive in 1985, but I've seen enough movies to know more or less what the state of the art for hair care and styling was at the time, and friends, it was not good.

2026-01-05 10:48:40 GMT

I'm like those people who spot costume inaccuracies in historical dramas, but for hairstyles in movies and shows set before like 2005. Girl, they did NOT have the technology for those perfect beachy curls in 1985.

2026-01-05 10:42:43 GMT

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It legit does have like Cold War era anticommunist propaganda energy, doesn't it? Except that Sherwin Williams is pro covering the Earth.

2026-01-05 10:41:36 GMT

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They made a lot of choices here. The imagery as a whole is sinister enough, but also, they could've chosen any colour. They chose red.

2026-01-05 10:40:45 GMT

Why'd they make the Sherwin Williams paint company logo so meglomaniacally evil?
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2026-01-05 10:37:20 GMT

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She projects that at the current rate, when she finishes the dictionary, she will have indexed 35 Uruguay specific words for "reprimand".

2026-01-05 10:35:54 GMT

My sister is going through an entire Uruguayan slang dictionary and turning it into an Anki deck so we can learn it, and like. What's going on here, Uruguay?
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2026-01-05 10:25:46 GMT

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Thanks 💜

2026-01-05 10:25:32 GMT

ummmm kitty cat
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2026-01-05 10:20:16 GMT

Guau, it's gonna be my birthday in 4 days!

2026-01-05 10:18:00 GMT

Love when a word that means something fairly abstract in most of the Spanish speaking world means a totally different abstract thing in Uruguay, where I now live. It's great and not confusing.

2026-01-05 10:07:34 GMT

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When I suggested that perhaps incels posting incel shit is not the same as a transfem person giving Isabelle Animal Crossing totally clothed boobs in a mod, I got harassed and misgendered by OP's followers. So that's great.

2026-01-05 10:05:30 GMT

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This is someone with a massive platform, btw, and she called out the person who made the mod she was talking about specifically. So now that person, who is transfem, is also getting harassed. It's a mess.

2026-01-05 10:03:40 GMT

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Then she posted a picture of someone with a gun in their mouth as a reaction to how people were treating her. And that's never ok.

2026-01-05 10:02:49 GMT

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She got dogpiled for the beginning of the thread, which sucks, especially because it was relatively mild. But then she doubled down and started saying making furry edits of characters is the same as incels making racist, misogynistic edits of female characters and then insisting that that's how all women should be in video games.

2026-01-05 09:59:51 GMT

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I gave her a second chance because the suicide baiting thing was years ago, it seemed like she'd made amends, and she has done a lot of good activism since then. But she's not acting like a safe person right now.

2026-01-05 09:53:58 GMT

So surprising that someone who graphically told another trans woman to kill herself (and how to do it) in the past has now done a weird anti-furry rant. Believe people are who they say the first time, I guess.

2026-01-05 00:46:48 GMT

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It's the old trouble with being trans, isn't it? We're whatever gender is convenient to people who want to hurt us.

2026-01-05 00:42:38 GMT

It seems like literally the only time I get treated as a man online is when people try to use it against me. I'm not a man, but I look enough like one in my selfies and some of my pfps that people assume I am. Only when it sucks for them to do that, though.

2026-01-05 00:28:56 GMT

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I played the DEAD LETTER DEPT. demo and I really want the game now.

2026-01-05 00:27:54 GMT

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Nope, what's Epistory?

2026-01-05 00:22:30 GMT

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I think the MUD I used to play as a teenager finally bit the dust.

2026-01-05 00:19:23 GMT

I want more games where I type a lot on my beautiful mechanical keyboard. 😌

2026-01-04 23:23:26 GMT

I have learned today that the more purple sweet potatoes we have here shouldn't be cooked as long as the orange ones (boniatos vs boniatos zanahorias), as they don't seem to hold as much moisture. So they came out a little dry today.

2026-01-04 23:16:01 GMT

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Fair enough!

2026-01-04 23:02:20 GMT

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I'm not saying you necessarily don't want a dog! It just seems like a lot of people do not consider cats when maybe they should.

2026-01-04 23:02:05 GMT

Listen, people who want dogs: is that what you really want, with all the training and daily walks and whatnot? Or do you want a low maintenance little guy who hangs out in your house, loves you, and cuddles you? Because if it's the latter, you want a cat.

2026-01-04 17:27:58 GMT

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I'm ok, it's not too deep or anything, which is pretty lucky. Some people get got BAD doing that.

2026-01-04 17:27:31 GMT

PSA: You know that thing where you wedge the knife into the pit of an avocado to pull it out? Don't do that while holding the avocado.

2026-01-04 17:14:24 GMT

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2026-01-04 16:57:28 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BathysphereHat/115837515086818446
You can use this post to remember the order of operations btw.
#note1c9e…nxep

2026-01-04 15:24:39 GMT

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Not a single gorm, this man.

2026-01-04 15:23:28 GMT

Please observe my gormless wretch.
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2026-01-04 14:22:47 GMT

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Like, I get that it's bacteria. But it's so specific and consistent.

2026-01-04 14:22:25 GMT

What is it about kitchen sponge that makes it develop a smell that nothing else has?

2026-01-04 14:18:46 GMT

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Meanwhile, my Catholic friends were lying to clergy out of obligation and poor memory.

2026-01-04 14:09:40 GMT

When I was a kid, I was kind of jealous of the Catholic kids I knew who did confession, because I really wanted to lie recreationally to clergy for some reason.

2026-01-04 14:02:23 GMT

So are Catholic confessionals always intensely psychosexual, or is it just that one painting?
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2026-01-04 13:11:17 GMT

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Who are you protecting, SpanishDict? I'm the one who searched your website for the word "cunt", here. I didn't do that by accident.

2026-01-04 12:52:20 GMT

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And like, even when it refers to anatomy specifically, what is the tone here? Is it a word you're likely to hear in a sexual context? Is it more comedic? These are things I want the dictionary to tell me.

2026-01-04 12:36:06 GMT

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Like, I can't tell if this word, for example, is used as an insult or just as a vulgar way to refer to a vagina. And SpanishDict isn't telling.

2026-01-04 12:33:52 GMT

I hate how a lot of Spanish to English dictionaries (this one is spanishdict.com) give examples for vulgar words. Like, this is not remotely helpful. Show me how it's actually used.
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2026-01-04 12:23:24 GMT

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The good news about that is that if I'm correct, it's not a dangerous scorpion. It can sting, but the stings are comparable to a bee sting.

2026-01-04 12:22:09 GMT

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Ok, so I'm not a scorpion scientist, but my best guess is that this little guy is a juvenile Bothriurus bonariensis.

2026-01-04 11:50:30 GMT

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Before I contained it with the glass, it kept running directly towards me, which seems 1) strange and 2) impolite.

2026-01-04 11:46:46 GMT

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I was just looking at that same document, haha, but thanks! I think the end of this little guy's stinger might have been missing or damaged or something, it's really small though so it's hard to see. Still, I made sure not to make any actual skin-to-scorpion contact.

2026-01-04 11:37:46 GMT

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I got the scorpion out of my house! I don't think I hurt it?

2026-01-04 11:37:14 GMT

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I've done it! Thank you, old medical paper and glass.

2026-01-04 11:31:53 GMT

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It is cute! But I would like to get it out of my house in some way that does not harm it, if possible.

2026-01-04 11:25:13 GMT

We've got a slight situation here.
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2026-01-03 20:57:29 GMT

One of my abusive exes had such an impact on me that I no longer trust people who use Sonic the Hedgehog as their icons online, sorry.

2026-01-03 20:05:10 GMT

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From the same game. Why'd they make it sound so sad?
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2026-01-03 19:38:02 GMT

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This is the same game in which one of my zois (that's what they call their sims) was in a happy relationship with her girlfriend, and she suddenly got the desire to break up because it would provide inspiration for her art. The reward for completing the goal was listed as "become sad".

2026-01-03 19:35:59 GMT

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"I'll get more hyped the louder it gets" is a sentiment about arcades that I absolutely cannot, as an autistic person, relate to. I like arcades, but I like them despite the auditory hellscape.

2026-01-03 19:29:59 GMT

Absolutely insane thing to say about an arcade, lifesim game inZOI.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/832/819/785/462/321/original/82f7fa56bd0ab57b.png

2026-01-03 18:00:27 GMT

We got a new bluetooth speaker just to listen to music and stuff for relatively little money, and like, BBB by How To Destroy Angels comes on, right? And I'm like "wow, I never noticed there's this sound kind of like a distant dog barking with the beat in this song, Trent Reznor is truly always putting the wildest shit in his music." Friends, it was just an actual dog.

2026-01-03 17:39:21 GMT

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I understand the frustration with AI being shoved into everything at every turn. I feel it too. But I feel like rooting for another recession or depression is not compassionate or reasonable.

2026-01-03 17:38:28 GMT

You guys get that if the AI bubble suddenly pops, the people who are hurt the most will be middle and lower class people, not rich people, right?

2026-01-03 16:51:17 GMT

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(The book is "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" by Greer Stothers, if you're interested.)

2026-01-03 16:49:10 GMT

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There's an author with a popular tumblr account who's written a book about a beautiful himbo twunk boning down with just the nastiest, most ancient evil sorcerer you can imagine, and the general consensus among their followers is "What does the sorcerer see in him?"

2026-01-03 16:46:50 GMT

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People on most social media: "Ew, people with wrinkles are gross."
People on tumblr: "I am down bad for Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue, and I'm going to make 20 posts about it in a row."

2026-01-03 16:43:04 GMT

I wish people were horny about normal/ugly/weird looking people on social media more. It's very common on tumblr.

2026-01-03 16:39:23 GMT

I have once again been bamboozled into thinking Spanish is harder than it is by a post that turned out to be in Portuguese.

2026-01-03 16:36:19 GMT

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Like, Donald Trump is the US president and Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. You can't tell me those guys are in those positions because they're better than other people.

2026-01-03 16:33:46 GMT

One of the many stupid and bad things about Social Darwinism is that who gets on top in capitalism is largely a product of privilege and luck, not anything that could meaningfully be described as "fitness".

2026-01-03 16:31:31 GMT

I wish I had a way to learn Spanish vocab that was a sprint instead of a marathon.

2026-01-03 16:22:27 GMT

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The dogs came back for a while, and Moon Rover did NOT like it.

2026-01-03 15:55:48 GMT

They're looking for oil of the coast of Uruguay, and I really, really hope they don't find it.

2026-01-03 15:54:18 GMT

So uhhh that's fucked up huh?

2026-01-03 15:08:35 GMT

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I mean, it seems like the precedent now.

2026-01-03 14:00:11 GMT

She is thinking about doing crimes. #cats
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2026-01-03 13:53:33 GMT

Whoa, Mary Shelley was close friends with a trans man writer named Walter Sholto Douglas, who I just learned about! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sholto_Douglas

2026-01-03 13:44:33 GMT

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OH MY
Welcome, little tiny child cats!

2026-01-03 13:43:15 GMT

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I need to see a therapist who speaks English well, though. Therapy is made up of like the hardest kinds of conversations to have with my Spanish at its current level.

2026-01-03 13:40:59 GMT

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I'm ok with having a psychiatrist who doesn't speak much English as long as I don't need to make changes to my meds, but I need them to be patient with me and my bad Spanish.

2026-01-03 13:39:05 GMT

I think I'm not going to see the last psychiatrist I saw again if I can help it. She got me my medication fine, but she didn't want me to use my phone to look up how to say something in Spanish while I was there. Also, she tried to get me to get a therapist who doesn't speak English because I need to learn, and I know I need to learn, but NOT DURING THERAPY.

2026-01-03 13:37:06 GMT

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And then there's a sort of inverse effect that results from those habits, where I don't trust myself to understand things because doing so has messed me up so much in the past. So I get to fixated on trying to translate or just panic.

2026-01-03 13:35:51 GMT

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The thing is, it's not just an outward reaction. It's also part of how I work internally. I'll listen to what someone's saying, and while it's processing, I assume it'll turn out to be comprehensible to me. But that's not always the case in a second language.