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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Depression is a killer disease. Anyone who doesn't understand that, who minimizes it to the tune of "everybody feels bad sometimes, get over it" isn't going to have anything realistic to offer you in managing or recovering from it. Afford them exactly as much cred as they earn.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Does that make you 'cakefluid'? Cos that's icing right?

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I want to thank everyone I’ve worked with since I’ve been with the channel, you’re all very talented and we’ve told some great stories together. All my best wishes to the team, I’m sure you will go from strength to strength.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Due to significant personal issues I’ve not featured on the channel for a while, or even as a guest on other channels. It's taken months for me to make this decision but I can only make worthy contributions to this project from a place of stability, and I’ve been getting worse, not better.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is not a return to social media just yet, but I’ve just announced this on The Transmissions discord so I felt I should repeat it here: It is with much sadness that I’m announcing my departure from The Transmissions.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Everything is too much. I'll be leaving social media for a few months folks.

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Jolene Khor @jolenekhor.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thank you so much for hosting this lovely talk @jdwasabi.bsky.social And thank you for having me and organising #AirCon25 @lewisthompsound.bsky.social , Greg Lester + the rest of AirWiggles, it has been amazing!!!

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The victim withdraws more and more, allowing the narc justification for their behaviour "well you never told me, how am I supposed to know?" And also control the narrative to the wider audience, by being free to construct their ideal image unchallenged.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A narcissist is vocal and builds an audience around them that isolates a victim. To the victim, everyone appears to be awed by the narc and to admit their own bad feelings or contradict the narc seems foolhardy or dangerous.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

They are not, and they control this through phrasing such as: 'i would like to do this, but I'm happy if you want to do that'. To choose the latter immediately makes that person unreasonable. No one wants to suggest doing the opposite of what the narc has just established they would like to do.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

To acknowledge this sets a precedent for admitting there is a healthy exchange between the parties and this is not a trade the narc is interested in acknowledging. They need people beholden to them, but they will use language that suggests they are open to alternatives.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This assertion is relentless and it's designed to cut off two main things. Firstly the victims problems are insignificant compared to the narcs. Secondly the narc is so 'giving' they are owed everything. It's common for them to not acknowledge anything the victim does.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What is often overlooked is how victims are maligned, not by what is said about them, but by what is omitted and by the careful construction the narcissist builds about their own struggles and the constant reiteration of their great qualities, and what they do for you.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Similar to the saying 'history is written by the winners' is the truth that narcissists control the narrative in abusive relationships. One thing a narcissist likes is the sound of their voice and their favourite subject is themselves, and how great they are.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/06/2025

Labour would never have been elected with their massive majority if they had run on the policies they are now wheeling out and there needs to be some sort of mechanism in a democracy to deal with a government that just lies to get elected. It can't just be 'ah well, have another go in 5 years'.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I experience gaslighting at home, in my former workplace, from the media and even the government. William may have been struggling with the difficulties of his modern world, but the industrial fires of Ironbridge Gorge are reflected in today's fascist landscape and it's still 'hell on earth'. 11/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Understanding mental health and suicide in Williams time was not really a thing and whilst we think things are much better these days, narcissistic abuse is rife and victim blaming is a common occurrence. 10/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

All I would really need in order to improve my mental health is a less hostile environment. A way to access trans healthcare. Not being policed when I need to use a public toilet... I have received no help, but I've also asked for no help because I'm scared of the potential reaction. 9/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Leaving my abuse trauma to one side, my low mental health is not because I'm a trans woman, it's because as a trans woman I have no place in society. If I were to tell a health worker I felt suicidal that would become the sole focus - medication, check ins, again even being sectioned. 8/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Victims are almost always seen as the ones with the problem and are often further victimised by having their jobs taken away, their children removed from them, or even being sectioned. An abuser may be identified, but even under new guidelines rarely gets mandates therapy. 7/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I don't believe William's suicide was due to alcohol alone, the alcohol certainly wouldn't have helped and was likely the cause of 'loosening him up' and causing him to drop the mask that he would usually have worn. He started exhibiting that 'madness' of a victim. 6/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

William (the subject of the article) was most certainly suffering some kind of trauma, hard to say if it was from domestic abuse or something else, but he was showing the hallmarks of victim behaviour. I've mentioned before how victims become withdrawn and/or erratic. 5/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Suicide and suicidal ideation among trans people is well documented, but talking about it has its own pitfalls. Whoever I've spoken to, whether its abuse hotlines, doctors, therapists etc. the first question is always 'have you had suicidal thoughts.' But how safe is it to answer that? 4/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In particular; family curses, repetition of history, Jungian archetypes - i.e. folklore meets mental health. My personal issues stem from abuse-related PTSD and, as a trans woman, the 'modern world' mentioned in @g0blinegg.bsky.social 's is something that resonates even now. 3/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Over the course of the last year my personal situation has eroded my mental health and caused me to withdraw from performance and media work. When I haven't been dissociating I've fallen back on my passion for writing. 2/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is a beautifully written account of a tragic event, and I recommend it to all my writer friends. The subject meets at the crossroads of folklore and mental health, both of which are current obsessions for me. A small tangential🧵 inspired by it. 1/11

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

That's very kind. Happy for you to DM me.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The hostility (or at least perceived hostility) is worse than the waiting times. If you're already having a difficult time the last thing you want to do is put yourself in the way of further potential abuse.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It's not annoying at all. I need to be completely transparent though. I can't give an accurate estimate on how long the NHS procedure has taken because a lot of my wait has been due to my own trauma-linked paralysis and the inability, at times, to even obtain a GP.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I guess I'm trying to say, there's a dissonance between what I know to be true and how I feel, but wording like that doesn't help to lessen how I feel. And thank you, I appreciate it.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Also, as a kind of an aside. It's interesting that Sex Matters want to take the Scottish Government to court again because there has been 'too much focus on toilets and not on prisons etc.' And yet here are gender criticals literally waiting to ambush someone trying to use the toilet.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I need to stress that I've had nothing but support from the people around me, but the self-hatred that accompanies the mental health issues trans people experience is only being heightened by this separation (imo).

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

What led me to understand and adopt my gender is the same as someone who has managed to go through medical procedures to realise theirs, but all the time I'm starting to feel less valid.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

My paralysis and isolation is already preventing me from pushing to get the medical treatment I need. The SC ruling and current state of government has dramatically increased my fear that I never will receive the needed medical treatment.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I'm told by friends that it's understandable why I might have these feelings as long as I realise that I'm 'as trans as anyone else'. Reading translucent's priority-based wording has definitely heightened my fear that I'm somehow lesser, even in my own community.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Over these last 3 years I've struggled a lot more as waiting lists have lengthened and my mental health has declined. Since the Supreme Court ruling I have barely left the house. Whether it's justified or not I've been feeling almost like a non-person.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I have always suffered with dysphoria, but my public experiences were, on the whole positive ones and it didn't matter so much that I was struggling to get hormone treatment (let alone surgery). Then 3 years ago I lost my job and house as I escaped an abusive relationship.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I've publicly presented as my identified gender for about eight years. I am on a GIC waiting list but cannot afford private treatment.

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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Ok I don't normally openly up about my personal situation online, but, who knows, maybe it will help someone.

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Women Of TTRPG @womenofttrpg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

VOD now available! Catch up on our panel with @slovenlytrulls.com from @ukge.bsky.social. The message from our panel was clear: women are in this space, in this industry, and we are changing the game! Thank you to all of our amazing panelists and our fabulous host, Lyssa. youtu.be/wzJtLIxrHKU?...

Graphic showing our panelists for A Seat at the Table: Women in TTRPGs. VOD NOW AVAILABLE.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 14/06/2025

FUCKING GET THEM

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🧵 I generally really like The Mary Sue, but I really really dislike the way this article frames that we should "respect" Nick Frost for acknowledging JK Rowling's transphobia and simply saying we should "sit with the discomfort" for NUMEROUS reasons 1/? www.themarysue.com/they-just-do...

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'They just don’t align in any way, shape or form': Nick Frost opens up about J.K. Rowling's views and his Harry Potter casting | The Mary Sue

If you are benefiting from J.K. Rowling's world, many of us will believe you agree with her unless you tell us otherwise!

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