I was not expecting this result for myself

Uncut Femmes@juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 5d ago

were there ever any straight julia believers

Technology has gone way too far because I am setting up a new TV and what the fuck do you mean the mute button is gone because of AI

The most radicalizing thing about this era is listening to the most powerful people in the world speak about any subject whatsoever. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ec...

Aside from being misgendered this is reasonably accurate and I —

nines LP@bladeeburger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

got my ass

I don’t usually say watch videos but the payoff is worth it.

Kail@vivotranquil0.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just when you thought you'd seen it all

On the other site today’s main character is a person who put up a PR (not even merged!) and used that as a way of saying “I now work at Google deep mind and folks from my country should aim bigger” Like.. I get the sentiment, that type of story was very motivating for me in the past, and I fell …

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 7mo ago

Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

new set of quotes from "to my trans sisters" that are hitting tonight: > 1. Prepare to clear out your life. You never know what will go away. I was lucky that most of what I lost was a marriage, a house, and a bunch of money, but even there, we had a pretty amicable divorce (Jessica Mink)

Lots of quotes from today's reading of "To my trans sisters": > Being trans does not make you special, it just makes you trans. ... When you’re undeniably great at something, being trans will be about as important to others as being left-handed. (Jen Richards)

Reading Uncomfortable Labels by @laurakbuzz.bsky.social and like there is *so much* in this book I want to quote. The book feels like it was written *for me*, and when I shared a few quotes with someone I trusted they concurred. I'll leave with just this one for now:

may turn this into a books/reading/quotes account since I can't uh do that on my main (given deadnames) and most of my reading has switched over to trans/audhd stuff lately. time to engage in some spammy behaviors and toss stuff out to the wind.

I just read Hijab Butch Blues by @lamyah and goddamn if it wasn’t a book written for exactly what I needed in this moment. Highly recommend it as a place to understand the experience of brown/immigrant queer people. So much to unpack for me, like I had to cry myself to sleep last night

I’m visiting family so I have to sneak into bed now to sleep (kids sleeping in the same room) and .. I misplaced my shorts so now I have to sleep in warmer PJs and be hot all night ugh

I feel like this is an interesting argument and a great rebuttal to all those types that are “number on chart goes up, economy is ok, you are lying!!” types This also how I learned how the poverty line is calculated and .. makes sense why things are so fucked www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

yesigiveafig.com

This accepts monad but not monoid and I feel cheated

Reading this article as someone in the closet and as a parent and.. so many feels. I’m not crying. You’re crying.

Who My Child Was and Would Be

When Nat transitioned, I learned that when someone you love changes, you change, too.

newyorker.com

The good: work had a legit Caesar salad The bad: it wasn’t the cheap shit, so they put a good amount of anchovies, and I finally had that trigger my allergies. Shit

This paragraph is a lottery of things I hate: AI, NIMBYs, Islamophobia “Kent residents Hannah and Paul George designed the system after estimating they spent hundreds of hours attempting to navigate the planning process when they opposed plans to convert a building near their home into a mosque.”

AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn

Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans

theguardian.com

Me: of course I’m not trans, there are no signs. The world, sending me a sign as I do laundry (found this new shirt):

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Just read this one (sorry! Saw it in the feed this morning and can’t remember who shared it) and it was right in the goddamn feels

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist

"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Came across this paper that talks about evaluating ChatGPT for fairness in its recommendations and I — arxiv.org/abs/2305.07609

In today’s edition of “thoughts to ponder”: why the fuck do <desis from my background> have such a resistance to asking for help and admitting mental health issues are a thing?

If you told me three months ago that I’d be talking about / explaining what pleasure means for a trans woman and a cis woman together (or just t4t or traditional cis-femme couples) I would have checked you into a psych ward..

I thought being terminally online would mean I’d be able to relate to kids and their trends these days but this makes me officially feel old because what the fuck why is this on sale at Costco

Me: I’m not trans I’m not trans, please don’t put it in the paper that I’m trans Also me: puts on some dresses and finally is able to look at myself in the mirror since like, I dunno

Today’s edition of “what do I ask my therapist next?” Am I trans or do I have profound dissociative/depersonalization disorder? Both? Who the heck knows

Today’s intrusive thought slash realization: a lot of the impostor syndrome I have both at work and personally can go away if I accept that I’m trans and also that trans women are fucking amazing and smart and cool and it’s ok for me to be one of them

I always joked about how one of the hardest problems in computer science was naming things and so I just relied on other people to pick names I did not realize this would come back to bite the fuck out of me as I have no idea how to choose my own name now <insert sowing/reaping meme>