When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:

Shortly after I came out as trans, @katta.bsky.social introduced me to the concept of Epistemic Exploitation, and it has haunted me ever since. "Epistemic exploitation occurs when privileged persons compel marginalized persons to educate them about the nature of their oppression." A🧵

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Settings|General|Keyboards|Text Replacements I use a leading ‘!’ to get a symbol or phrase, e.g. : ‘!deg’ -> ‘º’, ‘!degc’ -> ‘℃’, ‘!mu’ -> ‘µ’, ‘!ss’ -> ‘’ABC Radio National Science Show’

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Pydantic can do what? www.bitecode.dev/p/pydantic-c... I honestly imported Pydantic more than requests during the last 2 years.

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See also algorithmic feeds, ig reels, tiktoks, gacha - every aspect of our culture is gamified and this gamification is turning into gamblification really fast

Every roguelike is essentially a slot machine gambling algorithm but instead of your money you spend your time, it’s undignified, I hate it

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it. In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.

Babies are born worshiping unknown gods

wait for her 😍 IG:emmakeys836

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

My dream is that Megyn Kelly tries to interview and debate her on air but Eloise declines, saying she was taught to avoid sexual predators

Hobbes is real and this is genius at work.

No one should be asking that question. Rape is wrong to start with, but asking "why is it wrong to rape children" should be an immediate hard drive check, visit from Chris Hansen and deportation to Epstein's Island to starve.

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Because, sadly, there are. bsky.app/profile/shel...

Keep Trying #art

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Name a Film that made your Jaw Drop.

easiest way to nerd snipe me, apparently, is to go "hey what if vimes was in this situation" at which point i just start writing discworld fanfiction off the cuff On today's docket: what if lord of the rings but discworld?

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

@aijiang.bsky.social ... perfectly odd timing for this to pop up in my feed 😂 imgur.com/gallery/have...

Nae King, Nae Quin, Nae laird, Nae master, We willnae be fooled again! #NaeKings

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🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

TIL that there is an art gallery called Army of Frogs Studio www.armyoffrogsstudio.com

The most important political thread of our time.

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents. And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family. This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions. Subscribe to support our journalism.

pro-tip for anyone who ever visits: the most elite meal you can get in charlottesville is half a chicken, cilantro rice and charro beans from al carbon

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends. Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

a better explanation of the cultural context behind it www.goldenkronehotel.com/wp/2020/01/1...

whole lot of npm packages have been compromised today interesting times

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe