Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔

This is a #mood! Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.

Blaming artists because they post their work on the internet so it's ok to steal from them is so twisted and disgusting. Stealing all the artwork without any consent and not paying any artist at all, and then feeding it to the plagiarizing machine is disgusting.

"who radicalized you" Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.

reminder that trans people have the boot of genocide on our necks right now and it's damn hard to manage on a day to day basis please fight for us, support us, or at the very least be kind to us and offer us care

Studio Ghibli should be allowed to use Sam Altman's bones to feed their employees

I find metroidvanias to be cozy and calm... so I really dislike how Metroid made a pattern out of trying to finish them fast. 😭

Once again:

One summer-like day today... then we're back to winter! 🤣

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

American horrors persist. 😩

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Halloween!

If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?

"Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data" N Stevens, AL Doğan - Big Data & Society, 2025 Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, trans activists use data and data activism to advocate for and to protect our communities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Y'know, YouTube, if you didn't make the ads so loud, I'd just let them ride. Instead I have to mute my TV and ignore them. Which seems counter productive for you.

a former NCAA swimmer who was no longer allowed to compete killed herself *last week* fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth

the people blocking academic women and people of colour over us explaining what it means to steal stuff, what plagiarism is, IS one of the core problems of AI: they want to steal your labour, especially of less privileged people

I suppose it's a form of leadership to shout that "that's just a form of critical washing" at the panel on AI in the faculty meeting? I'm going to hide under a rock now. At least I've stopped shaking.

Cass is not even peer reviewed. CASS is what the Qld bans rely on An 🇦🇺 report published in the Med Journal of 🇦🇺 evaluated the Cass Review. It recommended that CASS should NOT be used as a guide of any kind in regards to the care of young trans people www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

I will follow Emma Thompson to hell and back. 💖💖💖

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

The Queensland government has it in for trans kids. They want us to die. FFS.

One thing that's nice about being at a well-resourced institution is that I'm just going to start doing what I keep proposing to do. Can't be stopped by something so trivial as not having grant funding. 😝

Some lovely happy news. I hope the separate discrimination trial leads to proper consequences for the hateful people behind the original ban.

"While OpenAI appears to have succeeded in making ChatGPT safer, the data it shared has significant limitations. The company designed its own benchmarks, and it's unclear how these metrics translate into real-world outcomes."

Not funded. But in the top 10% of those not funded this time.

My grant proposal to study (trans) gender euphoria, exercise, and play will be decided in a few hours. I skipped eye makeup – I'll probably cry regardless of the outcome.

Exactly how the patriarchy continues its work to unmake anyone not in its image.

I would pay Discord a reasonable amount of money to have it literally never pop up anything anywhere ever again. I don't want to know about features. I don't want to know what I could pay for. I don't want cute holiday events. I just want to chat to friends. Full stop.

Promising assertions that the Australian federal government will do something to protect artists from generative "AI". www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

If #Halloween #Discord sounds are irritating you, too, and you've noticed that they get reset when you log in, despite turning them off... you can delete: Applications/Discord.app/Contents/Resources/discord_halloween_message1.m4a Then you won't have a sound but it's better than the alternative!

Puberty blockers are ‘safe, effective and reversible’, finds independent research which was commissioned by the New South Wales government in Australia. www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/10/p...

Dumb things I now have to do: check the references lists in papers to make sure they aren't fabricated.

Good.

For anyone else who has been anxiously refreshing emails... you can stop until tomorrow morning sometime.

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

this is going to cause even more types of problems than the obvious kind

Assembling IKEA furniture... screws 1–94 are Phillips or flat head, screws 95, 96 require the included allen wrench for no apparent reason. But I guess if you don't need the included allen wrench, it's not IKEA furniture.

shocked.

I do love Australia.

Also.

Hormone Therapy For Trans Women Shifts Dozens Of Proteins To Align With Their Gender Identity. It's an absolute miracle. Best thing I ever did. Read more: www.iflscience.com/hormone-ther...

🚨 Joint Statement This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social Together they have reported the EHRC to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)

I highly recommend this. It's an accessible and eye-opening read.

Oh side note, my partner asserts that my confident response about Mario Kart was extremely sassy. 🤣

I've had grammar check turned off for awhile. Spell check may have to go soon too.

I was a keynote speaker for a state STEAM conference today for Y4+. My talk covered games, research, and my transgender identity. Some key questions: - When did I discover I was transgender? - Do I play Roblox? - Were my parents supportive of me coming out? - Am I any good at Mario Kart? 💖💖💖