1 YEAR SURGERYVERSARY/CYBORGIFICATION ANNIVERSARY

I LIVED BITCHES

On that note where are all my cyborgs at this wonderful Disabilty Pride Month? I'm talking about those of us with brain shunts, with insulin pumps, with prosthetics that need charging, bionic eyes, implants that control seizures, pace makers, anything that makes Luddite philosophers and eugenicists and those who scream about the natural order of things AFRAID when they realize these kinds of things aren't in some futuristic sci-fi transhumanist horror story that's a metaphor for "natural" human resilience but something that is happening RIGHT NOW to REAL LIVING PEOPLE and we are alive and THRIVING by this wonderful technology yet constantly afraid of this technology we're dependent on no longer being supported by the for-profit companies that make it or the technology being damaged or medical or tech infrastructure going down in the supposed revolution because not even the leftists think about us.

Anyway, here's on for us! 🤖

[Image Description: a close-up photo of a pale neck with a tiny, mostly healed pale pink neck incision scar. Being held up near the scar is a medical alert necklace pendant of a classic, boxy robot with a red star with the Rod of Asclepius on it. End I.D.]

Idly mulling over going from they/them to it/its now that I'm a transhumanist horror story cyborg, but like that is a lot of hassle to deal with from other people

Captioning those x-ray photos I just assumed everything was metal because I was thinking only metal devices show up on x-rays and it's only just now that I realized the bit of technology in my brain is mostly plastic and I know for a fact the tubing at least is visible on an x-ray so...