"The finding that ‘‘homosexual’’ and ‘‘nonhomosexual’’ subgroups differed in psychological functioning could not be replicated..." This was published in 2009, this won the argument pretty conclusively when the DSM-V was written. There's like a whole fucking paper around this.

I cannot overstate that Blanchardism is almost 100% dead in the only field where it ever mattered, and has been for almost as long as I've been out (the DSMV committee was the coup de grace) yet it's still somehow alive in queer studies, with terfs and among self loathing 4tran spaces

Related I have literally never considered Jasbir Puar to be anything other than a hack ever since I saw the paper that put her on the map

"He worked for the British and Canadian tories and was a central banker, doesn't that fill you with confidence?"

Taking away the expression "theory of mind" until someone explains what the Chinese room has to do with primary elections

Thiel owns guys like Carney and Newsom just as much as he does guys like Vance.

Thinking of the part where I almost submitted the fake work name I used as an escort for my name change because I was distracted when I filled the paperwork.

So somewhat famously it's been a thing since at least the early 2000s that a lot of women use ambiguous handles specifically because being identifiably a woman on, say, old tech pages the names of which escape me sucked tremendously.

It's funny to think I managed to find transition resources in HS in the early 2000s through the relatively heavy handed controls my school had in place but I'm sure they'll somehow be able to keep clever 15 year olds away from that.

Thankfully we didn't get a tory minority government.

I recently realized that the abomination that is craftworld Kaelor was CS Goto lore and not actually FFG's fault and honestly that tracks

I still see unironic Blanchardians and atp I'm just going to assume none of them have ever read anything by anyone outside that circle because Cohen-Kettnis basically dismantled the whole thing in the DSMV papers.

"Carney was a central banker, this is good to me" continues to be the one thing I think about when I need to be reminded that the PLC is a party of morons.

Greek diasporoids larping as POC should frankly be an embarrassment but it's very funny to see groups that would have been considered fully white under Jim Crow doing this when it doesn't carry the penalties of segregation.

Fascism basically ruins soft power and Italy is like patient 0 on this, Italy as a country would have negative soft power if it wasn't for italian immigrants abroad.

The diaspora memoir as a genre is so funny to me. "The most interesting thing about me is that my parents immigrated and I intend to make the identity crisis I should have outgrown by adulthood the world's problem."

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Owlcat take notes, I want an Augmenticist/Admech themed expansion for RT!

It's funny to watch centrists defend Spanberger's vetoes as if this was a political savvy move to ensure her reelection, as though she wasn't already sacrificing any hypothetical second term she might have had to sign a gun ban so broad it basically bans anything invented after 1895

The Trump regime has released their 2026 counter-terrorism strategy, declaring their focus will be on "identifying and neutralizing pro-transgender groups", comparing them (us) to cartels and Islamic terrorists, in order to "defend the homeland".

Love to read an academic law paper that tries to do some "think of the vulnerable populations" shit to justify keeping Canada's more restrictive self defense laws and one of the examples given is basically lamenting that a DV survivor didn't get life for shooting her abusive husband.

Cinema's future if the gaffer shortage gets worse

One of my best friends is in dire need gofund.me/5c8ef2ef1

azure #mermay

A bunch of liberal guys on this app have gotten very bold about implying that they're somehow more victims of misogyny as liberal guys than leftist women.

If the NDP actually runs on overturning our shitty self defense laws I might actually go back to voting.

Finding out that girly Beretta Bond had was marketed as the Minx (it was one of the Beretta cat pistols) and honestly I knew the ads for it would basically be overplaying how it's "suitable for weak women" and also it's such an accidentally Bond name for a gun.

Since GITS is back there's something funny about the fact that the main Seburo pistol is a 5.45x18 - a lot of US-tinged Cyberpunk is basically fudd central while Shirow was like "so there's this soviet pocket caliber that accidentally turned out to be a ridiculously good penetrator"

Some girls prefer May Day to Maid Day once they understand the shackles of their classist society.

It's sort of funny to me that the one person I know here who is very single issue anti gun control is a cis woman (she's admittedly from a semi-rural area).

Just found out that the WHCD guy was packing a 1911 in .38 ACP and this is an absolutely hipster piece to carry holy shit and somehow more respect for Browning's intended design for the 1911 than every "two world wars" Fudd has ever had

I'll admit it is kinda funny that Avarosis tried to "evolve" but Barney Frank is still the same doddering transphobe he was 20 or 30 years ago.

Saw someone use her as their pfp, ngl made my day.

Barney Frank is one of the three men most responsible for the bathroom panic btw

Everytime I see something really fucking stupid in 5e VtM, it's usually something I can tell is a rule the larpers in charge pulled from LARP-exclusive rules.

Bloodlines 2 finally adding proper weapons is funny. I don't know how most tables run, frankly, but not needing to feed after every fight and not turning every fight into a masquerade violation always seemed like the smart play (and it's not like the elder you play is older than guns)

Love to not have rent money on time because I mistakenly assumed I'd have a cheque already cleared today

Looks like the ATF is going after trans gun owners.

A mod to make the Dying Night look less shit has me convinced at this point that CDPR designed it around strapping a bunch of crap on a Five Seven.

A propos of nothing do not trust fudd opinions on guns like glocks and the Five Seven, they do not actually bypass metal detectors.

Is looting public assets supposed to be how they fund that fake sovereign wealth fund lmao?

I do hope the lib shooter was either a false flag or spontaneous because Naruto-running past half the secret service as a deliberate plan is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

A presidential assassination attempt so bad it doesn't even rank the comic relief numbers the two Ford shooters got in the musical.

The entire plan here is to shovel even more money into PPPs, somewhat predictably, but Canadian liberals will never admit to themselves they voted for a tory.

It's sort of funny that the 80s had this massive moral panic about cheap .32 pistols (it's the reason for the ATF's point system!) but nowadays fuddlore makes it out to be about as effective as shooting BBs. Hell some fudds might be more likely to volunteer to be shot by a .32 than by a bb gun.

I think I've figured out how to keep house rules for Cyberpunk Red to just enough to make me happy without going over a full page of text - I only borrowed like 3 rules from other systems (2 from SR)

I think people could probably defuse a lot of the soft abolitionism if they focused on reducing carceralism (reduction/abolition of victimless crimes, ending minimum sentences especially when it's well known that some are intrinsically racist) instead of on shoveling more money at PDs for "training"

Besides looking very cool I wonder if it will affect some of the bullshit moves people do to game the right of way rules.