You know about Pavlov's bell. Pavlov grabbed some dogs, rang a bell before feeding them, and eventually the dogs started to salivate when the bell rang, regardless of whether they were given food or not. Now, let's say you studied the brain activity of those dogs. 🧵

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Sometimes, when I get sad, I think about how millions of girls permanently wreck their metabolism every day chasing some extreme fad diet. And then I get sadder. Admittedly, it's not the best cheer-up system.

Yesterday one my favorite people and I talked about how our autism has impacted us. He mentioned when he was younger he used to read psychology textbooks to try to understand those around him. I was like babe why do you think I got a psych degree and two master's.

Bad news, gang. I opened IG and it seems Histrionic Personality Disorder is the new Narcissism.

You are also self-selecting for upper-to-middle-class American college students who are happy to spend a few hours of their time being given silly things to do in exchange for a candy bar or Amazon voucher (or whatever students get these days). I don't know how representative they are.

When doing science, always remember to question your underlying assumptions. Record your data as factually unbiased as you can And record your interpretation separately from the data

It sounds like someone should probably tell neuroscientists that learned knowledge and behavior is stored in the brain.

You know about Pavlov's bell. Pavlov grabbed some dogs, rang a bell before feeding them, and eventually the dogs started to salivate when the bell rang, regardless of whether they were given food or not. Now, let's say you studied the brain activity of those dogs. 🧵

I'm on the episode of Game Changer where they have to do a college!Jack Skellington cosplay, aaand let's just say my dyke ass is looking respectfully 👀

It's so funny that there's an entire genre of TikTok vid that is people repeating popular Tumblr posts from 2010 word for word and no one ever calls them out because their audience was 5 when those posts went viral.

I'm trying to workshop a variation of "Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you". Here are my options so far for the first half. "Not lesbian as in..." - matching pastel sweaters - cottagecore - "you can watch" - thespian - leader of the Nazi German party AfD ...it's a work in progress.

I skeet under a pseudonym now, got a lot more political, share stuff that would violate a couple of NDAs (See: Pseudonym), and block rather than engage the trolls.

My plan to improve public transport is to give everyone a roll of wrapping paper you can use to whack people who don't step aside fast enough so you can get off.

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

I wrote a thread about this a while ago. Right-wingers believe that some people are Special, and deserve Special Privileges, and some people aren't. For them, it is Just and Desirable that Inequality and Unfairness exist, because that's how you reward Special People 🧵 bsky.app/profile/ence...

It's so weird that "try-hard" is considered an insult. "You put effort into things!" Oh, I'm sorry, was I supposed to aim for ironic detachment? Pretend I'm not passionate about what I want? Would that make me cool? Would it, Kevin?

Sam Reich, is that you?

My extremely lukewarm, extremely late-to-the-party takes are that: 1) Game Changer is BDSM 2) I want Sam Reich's job

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Sex and the City reboot but nothing changes except that every time they meet for drinks, I'm there eating a taco and occasionally saying "dump him" through a mouthful of cochinita pibil.

¡Gaza, aguanta, Madrid se levanta!

Good evening to all but especially to the doctor I saw today who had a Free Palestine sign at her office.

Today, remembering the Italian anti fascist resistance, whom made sure to look cool and sexy as fuck while overthrowing the Mussolini regime

People are always asking me "Does that make sense?" and I'm like bro. Nothing has made any sense since I was put in this bitch of an Earth.

If I had a nickel for every time I volunteered to accompany a co-worker I barely knew to the emergency room because they didn’t have any family or friends in the country etc

My fitness goals are those of any good dyke: to be strong enough to carry my giggling girlfriend over my shoulder so I can take her to our bedroom to ravish her.

It's time I share one of the best concepts to come out of Tumblr: cis+

Charlie Kirk deserved it and the world is better without him in it.

It’s hilarious how all the comedy bros who said THERES NO SACRED COWS comedy is about TRANSGRESSING are the type to get mad when I say “eat my girl on her period make her squirt like Charlie Kirk” over the radio in Arma Reforger

The world is not ready for the wave of scarecrow-themed himbofication kink that is going to be unleashed by the second part of Wicked.

Quick poll: Think of the last few times you got a cold. After taking your anti-inflammatory med of choice, you felt: - A lot better - Somewhat better - Slightly better - Why the fuck do I even bother, jfc

Re: Getting an official Autism Diagnosis

I found it is easier for me to go abroad and connect to people. I am used in not relate to cultural stuff, so the situation is not to complicated for me. I have to adapt to other new strangeties but they don't seem stranger to me than the ones from my own place.

Afaik it is "looking up and down..." After eye contact, let your gaze go down on that person and then up again Do it fluidly How far you go down signals "intimacy", hearth region for removed, crotch region for close people...

the best example of this i've ever received was from another trans woman: "I know you're supposed to focus on things people have control over when you're giving compliments and not necessarily their bodies, but you're trans so... Nice tits."

This is HUGE for folks, I think! I have been given this advice and my friends have been given this advice by multiple professionals at this point. Unless you _need_ a diagnosis for an accommodation, it is a liability lurking in your medical record.

Un policía que es tan violento en una situación así, lo es también en cualquier otro momento sin necesidad de uniforme.

Each and every one of us has asked ourselves, "What would I have done if I lived during the Holocaust? Would I have stood up for those being genocided?" And we all told ourselves that we would. We lied to ourselves. Only the people of Spain didn't.

Don't be afraid to draw boundaries for yourself when socializing bc you shouldn't have to be miserable to see other people even if it's "supposed" to be fun (i.e., "I don't go to movie theaters or big arcades, but I do enjoy the tabletop game cafe")

Listen more than you speak.

Can confirm that people are nicer to me when I dress like a mom or wear my nerdy t shirts and my dork hat

right? until i met an autistic person in high school, i’m ashamed to say i definitely had the engrained idea, essentially, that autistics are barely human beings “like the rest of us,” or else that they’re deeply weird. now that i identify as autistic myself it is so scary to be on the other end.

You can get away with a lot in a clean white tee and jeans.

You should expect to hear "it's not an excuse" or implications that you lack adulthood, maturity, self-awareness, etc. I do enjoy subverting these expectations as much as I can, but try not to be a showoff about it.

If sports are extremely hard for you to careabout like they are for me, knowing the model of your car and one thing that broke on it or one story about it will get you through as much car small talk as you need. Its also easy to talk about something you know frusterates the other person