Just played my 12" of this album (I finally started trying my vinyl setup through my newer monitors yesterday). 80s Japanese deathrock. Or at least goth rock that came from the same glam roots as deathrock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQaMYr3byTE

I’m hung up on this because it shows there is literally no situation, up to and including SIMPLE ARITHMETIC, in which Trump’s toadies will not tie themselves in pretzels defending an obvious and indisputable falsehood once Trump has uttered it. We are literally in 2+2=5 territory.

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/116455199353139761 I need to keep reminding myself this heh

A lot of things remind me of the difference between a campground and Disneyland. A campground is a much simpler thing. It might not have as much fun built into it, but what it lacks opens up a whole world of possibility. Disneyland is fun but it's expensive and there are so many rules. Don't […]

Artichokes and avocados are wonderful and I love them and I also wouldn't blame someone for not liking either if they only ever had bad specimens. Knowing the sheer gap between good and bad, I'll never judge a fruit or vegetable that doesn't grow near me by what I've had. If a tropical fruit […]

TERFdom may have taken over the island of Britain, but trans people have existed there for far longer. And on Wednesday, April 22nd at 11 am EST, I'll prove it. youtu.be/TgbJjtQdqvA

I'm non-binary and also a nerd who likes explaining things, so if you're any kind of trans person who has non-cisnormative transition goals or a cis person who wants to modify their body in ways that overlap, or you're just curious, AMA

Car culture meets murderous transphobia. Trans woman who has experienced a rise in hostility compared to the 90s a victim of a gyaku-gire road rage incident from a Mercedes driver mad that she was mad that he blocked the sidewalk. As a cherry on top, the DA statement misgendered her […]

Netto-uyo (Japanese equivalent of alt-right) spread rumors that the man who probably murdered his 11 year old stepson in Kyoto prefecture was Chinese. It wouldn't mean anything about Chinese immigrants even if that were true because he's an individual human but it was bullshit anyway - he's […]

I caught a reddit ban "because you promoted identity-based hate or attacks" I answered the question "What started the hateful & false stereotype about Trans being gr00mers/p*dos?" by saying it's because groomers and pedos are trying to distract from their own activities lol

$30 is all that stands between my friends and another meal. For some of you, that's a light lunch at your favorite workday spot. Please choose kindness and mercy with your wallet 💜🫂

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I swear to god the people who want to be cops but don’t become cops are worse than cops What a horrible story and poor woman. (Billionaire owner of the Knicks was obsessed with a trans fan in Madison Square Garden and carried out incredibly invasive surveillance of her) […]

When I just shaved my face as close as I can and am not wearing clothes, I like what I see in the mirror - an absolutely colossal transdyke. Nice! But within an hour of shaving, the stubble and shadow creep in. It's slowly getting better from sparse (because money) electro sessions. I'm hoping […]

Many of the small towns in the US that I, an American, love will die a slow death this century that wouldn't have if the massive anti-immigrant freakout in US politics didn't happen. Towns don't have a right to life - only persons do. And in the long run, ghost towns are humanity's future. But […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116439906652401788 The first book that I decided to actually read on my own accord was The Naked Ape, when I was 12. I was always inspired by the fact that he lead a double life as both a science communicator and scientist and also... an abstract artist! RIP

lgbt domains are expensive. So I'm going to get rid of these: genderqueer.lgbt genderfluid.lgbt If anyone on the fediverse who seems reputable to me, I'll sell it at huge discount or even free, depending on what you will doing with it. The only catch is your registrar will probably charge you […]

With Amazon abandoning support for older Kindles, don't forget that you can abandon them back by jailbreaking your device and leaving the Amazon ecosystem. https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/

preparing to give another Trans People & "Biological Sex" talk, so I though I'd re-up this – it's an in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

Peter Thiel is funding a service that will help people like him avoid accountability in the press, which of course he had to sell by saying it's actually the press that isn't facing accountability. It's always projection with these people. There are people and entire groups that the press lies […]

I was tempted to get one of those Instax printers, but seeing that it seems to require a proprietary app to run reminds me of all the past times a piece of tech has been rendered useless by its app losing support. So this reminded me of the more old-fashioned way to print digital files to film […]

There are places in Japan that will do your costume and makeup for you to do a photoshoot, and some that specialize in 女装 (josō) or crossplay. And my wife suggested doing one of those next time we're in Japan (she's thinking it'll help with dysphoria but also seems kinda fun). So I'm trying to […]

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already […] [Original post on scholar.social]

When samples in drum machines started being CD quality sometime in the late 80s...

It's unfortunate that the term "digital" has come to mean streaming or possibly files iff the word "download" is appended. CDs, DATs and SACDs are digital. Laserdiscs sometimes have digital audio tracks (as do most film prints of movies). This fact is relevant because the problem of bitrot […]

the "right-wing authoritarianism construct" is great because it involves asking questions like "do you think that a guy dressed as darth vader should be blindly followed while the imperial march plays" and people will respond with "strongly agree"

If you program, you should read this piece. "Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly […]

Choir Boy is back! With a delightfully corny music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5t0ow5uwAM

Every time I cover E2E verifiable voting in my election technology course, I talk myself out of them a little bit more. Very neat in principle, but I think inherently vulnerable in practice to disinformation, at least until more intuitive and simpler schemes are developed. (E2E verifiable […]

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Charli XCX should make doom metal. I know she wants to do it.

As suspected, the "missing" 11yo boy in rural Kyoto prefecture was murdered by his stepdad. Whatever he was trying to do, he sucks at hiding his tracks. My wife has been closely watching this story, which seemed very suspicious from the beginning. The family he married into is wealthy so he […]

I just found out Afrika Bambaataa died last week. Important in music history, but terrible human.

My kid, who’s mad at the possibility of losing all the Roblox-based games she likes, on the absurdity of fighting pedophiles by essentially telling them where all the kids are: “why hello yes, I would like a plate of child”

I never understood how the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame thing works but I was very obsessed with Joy Division and its successor, New Order in my late teens. When my old band (The Happy Buttons) practiced, among the songs we'd always do was She's Lost Control. Very fun to play on drums!

George Washington Carver, best known for his scientific innovations, was also an artist who experimented with natural pigments since childhood. These paint swatches at the GW Carver Museum at Tuskegee show the color palettes he developed using natural #clay […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sometimes I worry that I'm making music that's too derivative (even though it's often pretty weird). But I never feel like this when I'm cooking. I don't feel it when I'm faithfully following a recipe in a cookbook I like or making something I've made a hundred times already or making a recipe […]

Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. And I have an easily accessible hayfield to rage-scream in!! (Also maybe baby goats, I'll check for those too #babygoatcountdown)

FediForum Connect looks like a cool site covering open social web applications (both atproto and ActivityPub from the looks of it). connect.fediforum.org

Contrary to seemingly popular belief, FediMod FIRES and the protocol I created for it is so much more than just "blocklist synchronisation" It's designed to give moderation teams choice in what they pull from providers and how that's applied to their server. It's designed to give finer-grained […]

There are two pop songs named "I Kissed a Girl" by different bisexual women. Sadly, the world only remembers the second one, by sexual predator Katy Perry and not the first one, by the late Jill Sobule. That second song belittles queerness instead of celebrating it. The album it came from […]

Until I got my current job, I was a part-time sub at the local school district and my wife still subs some days. We always would get advice from people to avoid certain "bad" schools in poorer areas, but both of us have the same experience of those schools having the nicest students, and the […]

This Sunday I gave a talk at a conference and someone came to me afterwards telling me that my posts played a part in radicalizing and politicizing them. Still thinking about that. A lot of the time it feels like one is just yelling at the clouds but we can sometimes make a difference in each […]

Earthquake! In Northern Nevada. 5.6 near Silver Springs (smaller ghost town just south of Virginia City).

Just strategically speaking, saying "God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war" is a pretty good idea if you're the head of a religion. It's obvious that Trump's actions are going to bite him and the US in the ass. I want people to turn to the more obvious, non-supernatural […]

Fan: yooooo I want to advertise your brand for free by slapping it directly on my expensive laptop Musicians/bands: free? Not good enough! You will pay ME $8 for this privilege! (I will give you stickers/buttons for free, I will even pay postage hmu)

Me and my wife (then girlfriend) went to Coachella once over a decade and a half ago. They had two legendary acts I've always been obsessed with (The Cure and Throbbing Gristle), the price was a tiny fraction of what it is now, and I *still* thought it was a ripoff and that the festival format […]

Swalwell of course maintains innocence but we all know he had to end his campaign because enough people finally got around to believing women when it’s enough women to be a problem. Imagine how much trouble could have been avoided - and how many women saved - if more were ready to just believe a […]