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Cissexist bigots see trans people as failing both binary sex-gender roles, due to not being women assigned female or men assigned male. But importantly, they aren't trying to get us to fit the role of our actual gender either, they prefer to bar us from it entirely.

They want those that they see as transmasculine to fit the female role, and those that they see as transfeminine to fit the male role. We are punished on that basis. I have seen so many people act as though trans men are seen as queer men and trans women as queer women by cis transphobes. I’m truly sorry to tell you this, as I wish it wasn’t the case too, but transphobes generally do not believe we are our actual genders.

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being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

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Happy Halloween everynyan :3

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Could never arrange to meet @argumate in person because what if I see them and I'm disappointed that their plumage isn't as beautiful as I imagine it? Nope gotta keep this purely online.

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*If you were put in a room with Gollum from Lord Of The Rings and told that if you have sex with him there is a 10% chance that this version of Gollum will be your perfect partner (all the traits, money, and emotional intelligence you have ever wanted in a partner) but that there’s a 90% chance that this is just normal canon Gollum and you have to live with that experience for the rest of your life.

For the entirety of the sex he will sound and behave like you would expect canon Gollum to sound and behave (which is, badly). He will reveal to you if he’s the 10% version only after the sex happens, think of it like a fairytale scenario where he’s testing your loyalty.

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It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

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i’m not hot enough to make up for how weird i am

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Kneesvember Day 24

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as was predictable after sleeping so late sunday, last night i didn’t sleep at all. was sensible, didn’t force myself to go to bed at a quote reasonable hour unquote, went at like 4 with an alarm set for 10, would have been fine as no work action till 14. rested some, was comfy, it could have been worse, but when i gave up on sleeping and turned on the light it was 7:10 which about puts the lid on the whole nighttime concept. just one of those things that happens! but i have a tricky pair of client meetings later today and i do not expect to be at my brightest which is Unfortunate

why am i not a functional adult more of the time? why is there always something? enquiring minds want to know

didn’t set an alarm last night and woke up at 14:15 😩

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The Matrix, 1999 dir. Lana Wachowski · Lilly Wachowski

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I don’t think Warrenites are against efficiency gains, particularly. The core appeal of Warren was wonky real-world pragmatism. Not hostile to efficiency, in fact might well have included it as a key performance metric in a plan, just not, like, motivated by it. (Straight-up redistribution was associated with Sanders. Very different branding. Yes, some overlap appeal, but not the same!)

It seems to me that part of the pathology of our moment is that ~everyone conflates everything to their left into a monolith, then caricatures that monolith as the farthest left bogeyman in their personal schema.

The right does this: the smarter with deliberate malice, the dimmer with ignorance. The median voter does it, coached by the right. But Democratic leadership and center left types (of both the righty-in-a-trenchcoat and the actually-moderate stripes) also do it, with vigor and enthusiasm. There’s practically a centrist feeding frenzy at the moment with calls to fix the Dems by “punching wokies” (literally saw that proposed as the solution in Yggy’s comments today. what. please sit down and stop helping)

This happens because the Democratic party establishment is profoundly unwilling or unable to position itself, which means the right gets to position it. But it’s also a lot more complicated than that. Like, the ways in which we think about the broad left are catastrophically incoherent.

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anyway, I’d love to reclaim science, but it’ll be an uphill battle as we spent most of the pandemic systematically dismantling our own cred with overhyped NPI, botched vaccine communications, and a strain of authoritarianism I absolutely did not see coming from our side. I’m solidly left-lib, pro-vaxx, and literally biopharma industry and even I’ve lost a lot of my trust in the institutions. The right grift of RFK is worse, and it’s not close, but yeah. On top of that, there’s a concerted effort by hardcore transphobes under way to redefine “science” as its opposite (“my common-sense-constitutive personal intuitions, which are eternal and can never change”) (see also the supporting initiative to denounce the notion that science evolves, actually, as mere postmodernism) and I sense a nebulous bad future where we have this whole tug of war about who gets custody of science but the prize diminishes into some ghoulish changeling while we’re winning it

so like, first gut reaction hell yeah, more considered reaction I wanna know who and how and on what basis we’re gonna reclaim the mantle of reason, science, and technology before I wholeheartedly endorse the mission

hopefully this rfk jr wellness grifer shit sticks enough that we can pivot to making wellness grifters properly part of the reactionary milieu where they belong, and reclaim like nuclear power and big pharma and oppressive technocracy as leftist signifiers again. i'm sick of this weenie degrowther solarpunk crap. Scientific Socialism used to mean something!

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There's a labyrinth. In the middle of it, a minotaur is making waffles.

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psa: if you live in a part of the globe that just entered The Long Dark Time: don't forget you can make hot cocoa to cope!!!!

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i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

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didn’t set an alarm last night and woke up at 14:15 😩

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).