Notices by Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org), page 3
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 09:47:33 JST 
Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
@light @flancian I'm not that big into sports either but I imagine it would be demoralizing to women. Also, it still introduces a kind of inequality: Men will consistently be getting medals / first place at the highest leagues that are de facto male only, whereas in the lower leagues that are mixed, women will only be getting first place half the time. So, even as the most talented woman in the world in a certain sport, you'll only be winning 50% of the time. This significantly reduces women's reasons to get into sports in the first place. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 09:46:58 JST
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@light @flancian Female bodies aren't simply "like male bodies but smaller on average." There's a variety of differences relevant to athletic performance, such as the amount of essential body fat (thus affecting how optimal your muscle to total weight ratio can be, rendering weight alone an insufficient metric), bone density, lung size (due to skeletal differences), the "Q angle" and so on and so forth. Here's an often cited infographic. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 06:23:15 JST
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@anemone What demented bullshit did unhinged JKR haters shit out this time? Accusing her of supporting pedophilia is a new low, but somehow not surprising at all. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 02:31:26 JST
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate
I'm pretty sure that nobody who made that software actually thought that midwives would be able to magically know the sexual orientation or gender identity of a newborn.
Sounds like they probably just used a standard "personal data" form that's also used for adults, and neglected to remove the fields that are unnecessary for newborns.
It's pretty standard to reuse components in software, and when the company making it is lazy/incompetent then you get absurd results like this.
No excuse for not having sex on the form. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:49:30 JST
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I've used #BlueSky for about a day or two more than a year ago, and defended feminist views / criticized people slandering JK Rowling. Today, got this email.
It can't be stressed enough just how much of a clown show the whole platform is. Apparently, they consider the expression of feminist opinions to be terrorism and criminal.
I think it's probably based on the fact that I said the nazis did not specifically persecute "trans people" in the way they persecuted gay people or Jews. According to trans activists, that's "Holocaust revisionism," which they accuse JK Rowling of. And from there, I'm guessing, they tell themselves that my posts could be considered to be disseminating content for neo-nazi groups, hence this moderation decision. It's mental gymnastics at Olympic level.
They are living in an alternate reality, and the reason they're perpetually mad is that actual reality won't bend to their will. It's sad. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:34:30 JST
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@r000t @zonk
Is there an archived version somewhere or a sober unbiased analysis of the game? I wonder if this Amelia character in the game actually had legitimate concerns which the game made out to be bigoted, or whether it really was a stereotypical far-right villain who thinks dark-skinned people are yucky and every Muslim is secretly a Jihadist.
It's utterly fucked just how much the actual far right is benefiting from everything under the sun being called far-right. They'll defend a literal Hitler-adoring neo-nazi and when you tell them to hang themselves they'll be like "oooh did I hurt your feelings you woke libtarded cuck?" (My answer would be "no you didn't, I just want you to hang yourself.") -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:09 JST
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@f0x You're way more cringe and dumb than I thought. Unfollowed. No you're not recovering from this don't even try.
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:07 JST
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@f0x You sound like your blood pressure is elevated.
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:05 JST
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@f0x I have a gf. She's apolitical. It's a very NPC move of you to say that she must have something to do with my views.
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:03 JST
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@f0x Absolute brainwashed take but OK.
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 01:56:15 JST
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@bajax @teto @f0x @thatbrickster
One or both reposted it which is how it got to my timeline. (Both liked it.)
I follow them both so I shared my thoughts on it. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 21:21:03 JST
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 20:19:46 JST
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@fluffy @teto @f0x @Humpleupagus @SilverDeth @thatbrickster
I have the elephant guy and the skull guy muted for being insufferable idiots, FYI. Tell me if they said anything worth replying to. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 19:44:58 JST
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@teto @f0x @thatbrickster
Y'all kinda ignored the part where he's a member of a neo-nazi organization, expressed adoration of Adolf Hitler, and took part in rallies expressing hatred against ethnic groups.
https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/national-socialist-network-leaders-thomas-sewell-joel-davis-to-form-neonazi-political-party/news-story/afd51b3cf7b0198a039211da3f8779e9
inb4 you tell me to care because "first they came for the neo-nazis" :blobcat-joy: -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 19:44:57 JST
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@thatbrickster @teto @f0x The line between non-hate speech and hate speech is blurry, but it exists. If someone brandishes nazi flags, and banners stating "Jews hate freedom," then it's clear enough which side of the line they're on. I definitely disagree with overly broad hate speech laws, but banning nazi symbols is fine by me. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 19:44:54 JST
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@thatbrickster @teto @f0x It can be decided on a case-by-case basis by a judge and/or jury. Laws can't always be crystal clear because reality is messy.
Interestingly enough, this line of thought is similar to: "There is no absolutely clear line between what makes a person female or male, therefore the distinction is arbitrary and we should not have any policies that depend on making the distinction." Which as you know I also disagree with.
(Examples of the blurriness between female and male in humans: XY CAIS individuals like Eden Atwood who are born with unambiguously female external anatomy despite internal testes; individuals with Swyer syndrome who have XY chromosomes but can go through a successful pregnancy after embryonic transplant because they sometimes have a functional uterus.) -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 08:23:47 JST
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@bartholin Flat galaxy theory. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 14:00:22 JST
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Wow, I just learned that "Tivoization" applies to Tesla cars as well. They ship a custom OS using Linux in their cars, and don't have to provide you with a way of installing your own OS on it thanks to Linux being GPLv2-only.
So, if the FSC were to succeed in their lawsuit that argues that the GPLv2 actually *is* supposed to prevent "Tivoization" then I suppose Tesla could also end up being forced to officially support custom software installations in their cars.
Imagine if Linux were GPLv3... -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 08:13:11 JST
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@teto Don't see a problem, except if many are "desperation abortions" due to poverty, the pregnancy arising from assault, etc. But you don't seem to care about that.
> Taking medications at home, known as telemedicine, was the most common procedure, accounting for 61% of all abortions in 2022.
Imagine being angry that women take a pill that prevents some tissue in them from eventually growing into a baby. Couldn't be me. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 08:16:13 JST
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@nicholas
The correct translation into coin flips would be:
Someone did a pair of coin flips 100 times, and made a list of the results: HT, HH, HT, TH, HT, TT, ...
They tell you: "I've picked an entry from the list, and I will tell you that one of the results is H. Guess the other."
If you pick T as your guess every time you are told *those exact words* then you will be correct 66% of the time.
You can also generalize this:
If you always guess the other result (you guess T if they say "one of them is H" and you guess H if they say "one of them is T") then you will be correct 66% of the time.
This is based on the fact that, if both results are T, they cannot possibly say "one of them is H" and if both of them are H, they cannot possibly say "one of them is T."
Or, to focus on the special case where they say "one of them is H": This tells you they could not possibly have chosen one of the TT results, meaning that only 75% of the entries in the list are valid choices, and 2/3 of those have a T.
It's crucial that they aren't telling you *which* flip was an H or T, only that *one* was an H or T. For example, if they always say *the first* was an H, and ask you to guess the other, you can't be right more than 50% of the time. Because this time only 50% of the list entries are valid choices (those starting with an H) and only 1/2 of those have a T.
Perhaps this is where the common human mis-intuition of thinking coin flips are related comes from. If someone says "I've been flipping a coin and it came up heads ten times in a row now! What are the chances the next one will be heads as well?" Then it seems intuitive, at least to an uneducated person, to say that there's a high chance it will be tails this time.
Perhaps maths education has over-corrected in the opposite direction, so now our intuition tells us it's incredulous that you could increase your chances of guessing correctly over 50% when you're given incomplete information about some outcomes of a series of 50% events. But you're given more information than you realize: When you're told *either* result was H, it means you can rule out the TT result but all three other results are possible.
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