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"Probably the only person who could make a scooter cool"

About ready to start an aesthetic movement around looking old and respectable. No stickers. Nothing looks like a fisher price toy. This planner has more plans in it than decoration. You can't call it girl dinner, it's crudités now

Reading a novel set in the late 1800s and a character casually mentions "French cocaine wine" which 1. I thought they made up and 2. Finding out it was real sent me down a rabbit hole that lasted half the day. The POPE endorsing French cocaine wine literally *mind blown*

Double featured Spın̈al Tap and the sequel yesterday and it's incredibly charming how by the time of the second one, they have become The Muppets. Every big name cameo scene has the energy of an Oscar winner being clearly over the moon to share the screen with Kermit.

For the first time I can remember, I've been able to go to bed at a reasonable hour for like three weeks in a row, and now I'm experiencing two days in a row of shitty sleep like a normal person, and I'm like "Wow this SUCKS"

I know I say this every time something like this happens, but it is so frustrating to watch people prop up this kind of bigotry on a theory of biology that requires them to pretend that intersex people do not exist

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3mo ago

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).