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@inthehands I know yeah, but it's still very peculiar to see it written

@inthehands very well played! Less mistakes than I make for sure... I particularly liked the staccato precision on the chords around 3:20 and the tenor voicing at the start of the triplets

@inthehands that really made my morning. Thank you.

@skinnylatte that was eloquent and beautiful. I have no words good enough to respond 💔

@skinnylatte well helloooooo 👀🤤

@skinnylatte what is chilli crispy?

@skinnylatte the article does say "A modern weaver created a replica of the pants to better understand the techniques that produced this piece of fashion history", but it doesn't name them.

@inthehands @Geri huh, I'll agree I misunderstood if that was the meaning... I've never seen it used that way before!

@inthehands @Geri there were just two Nazi salutes at an inauguration ceremony, by the most prominent guest of the incoming president. "On the nose" is therefore ineligible as a criticism of any satire, joke, sketch, lampoon, or any other form of send up, until further notice.

@skinnylatte I know someone whose immigration costs to the UK for their wife were north of $36,000, and that is not by any means an unusual case

@inthehands @jasonkoebler I would like to second, third, fourth, and especially, diminished fifth this

@skinnylatte I went to the opera recently and they had the words up on a display above the stage 😱🤯😍

@inthehands yeah I had a thought earlier, "maybe now that a lot of rich people have been hurt by it, there will be more effort to respond to climate change"

However I'm not enthusiastic about the probability. I wish I could muster more hope but I can't.

@skinnylatte @johncormier some day, eventually, I'll get to have another taco as good as the taco stand in the town where I previously lived had. Every time you post about tacos I think of them.

@skinnylatte black bean paste is truly a food of the gods

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo I honestly don't think we can -properly- deal with the issue until not only have we understood the nuances of how biology influences athletic advantage, but we've -also- had a very frank re-evaluation of how to define fairness in sport, because I think the concept was built on a rotten foundation.

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo someone else in this thread argued that the discussion around trans women in sport (n.b. I see you, transmascs, even though the argument doesn't) is solely a right wing talking point. I don't think that's strictly true, it's a right wing talking point because it's something that doesn't have a simple answer and they tell people "we can give you a simple answer (sotto voce: and fuck the people that get caught in the crossfire)". It's a wedge.

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo ok, being completely real, that's only the later reason, the -original- reason, at least in the modern sense of competitive sport which basically runs from late 19th century, is that it was unseemly for women to compete at all.

But my main point is that "fairness" drives the need for categories, but the definition was created without looking closely at the edges of those groups. Humans are fuzzy. Drawing straight lines will -always- result in places that don't fit.

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo as someone who competes in and organise competitive sporting events, I would say safety isn't the main driving force. The problem is the idea of "fairness", and the cultural perception of sex and gender as binary and fully discrete. We established M/F categories on the grounds that the athletic performance of people labelled "women" was substantially lower than that of those labelled "men", and that putting them together would largely remove any chance of women winning.

@skinnylatte @bouncinglime

They got the video from an Instagram account with a display name of "OnlyFins" 🤣

https://www.instagram.com/evanb_ocean/reel/DCnlVJmxpvP/