Notices by 𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social), page 2

It appears threads.net has my Akkoma instance blocked. I need to investigate if I'm doing something wrong (did someone sign up and start spamming a threads.net account?) or some forms I need to fill out... #fediverse #threads

People are just bad at thinking probabilistically. If a pollster was saying Harris had a 48% of winning a few days ago and now says she has a 52% chance, that doesn't mean they were predicting a Trump win before and a Harris win now. These are both coin flip odds. I personally think Harris is going to win but it ain't over.

@left_adjoint the other feedback loop is my adhd makes me keep forgetting to call them and figure out what the hold up is

@fakertarians funny, I have kids and I'd be very scared for them if our country slid in an authoritarian direction like that. No one wants to consider the possibility of their kids getting addicted to drugs and I'll do whatever I can to prevent that. But you REALLY don't want your kids to get addicted to drugs then murdered by the state.

The corrupt org that previously said those women failed their "gender test" won't even disclose what the metric is. Someone from the org previously said that they were XY but their current position is that it's not based on having high T but some other "recognized" metric.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0731/1462837-explained-the-gender-controversy-miring-womens-olympic-boxing/

@bcham he's a disciple of Moldbug, who blamed Protestantism for what he ironically calls The Cathedral. I wonder what normie American conservatives would think about that ideology influencing Vance as well...

@ryanhoulihan the extremely online always talk about revolution specifically because they know it’s not going to happen and it frees them from having to do anything else.

@ryanhoulihan I haven't read this yet but I plan on attending the book signing, but a trans man local to me (Salem Lynn Thornton) wrote a gothic young adult trilogy, with the first installment out now, Something so Lovely.

A few that might be on those lists because them being trans is mentioned in the books' about sections. Might not be your cup of tea though:
- Happy As Pirates by Jemma Topaz
- Sundered Moon by Fae'Rynn

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@ryanhoulihan okay I wrote a check I can't cash by committing to 3 whole toots so I'll just use something that I, a trans, wrote as filler for the last one:

It's a short story expressing my anger about sanitized history. It's about how past atrocities can distort one's sense of reality. Fun!

https://thomaswebb.net/stories/great-tree/

Also available as a printable zine:

https://thomaswebb.net/files/Great%20Tree-zine.pdf
(I also snail mail these for free)

I'm working on a second short story right now using dragons as a trans metaphor.

@ryanhoulihan I get that. I think part of the difficulty in making those lists is that many trans writers don't want to be pigeonholed. It can be bad for one's career or self-esteem. So while they're not in the closet, they don't put that info in the press releases, where those bloggers would be looking. I'll list a few authors I can think of off the top of my head

My friend Aran and her late wife wrote a cool sci-fi series, Sol: Legacy. She also makes awesome music https://aranmaybe.bandcamp.com/album/charades

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@ryanhoulihan it's never occurred to me to consume art just because it's made by a trans person. I just hunt out art that I like. And it just happens that so much of what speaks to me would turn out to be made by a trans person but it simply wasn't marketed as such.

This might be kind of like "Christian music" - if it's any good, it won't be called that.

One of the most ideologically appealing forms of pseudoscience started with the idea of vaccines causing autism. A parent's guilt that they don't really love their child can be intense. Telling them that their child isn't really autistic, that their real child is hiding in there somewhere waiting to be cured and that the autism was something done to them by external factors, is quite appealing.

Yes, it shouldn't matter if it's due to external causes but this is the appeal of the idea.

And this is the cursed vein that "social contagion" comes from. You don't really hate your trans child. You love your child who only caught the trans from the environment. There is no moral obligation on your part to love your child as they really are as you're seeing surface manifestation of peer-pressure and anxiety. The real child, your fantasy of what they were supposed to be, is hiding in there somewhere.

And as I've noted before, in this way the bigoted parents are also victims of a scam.

@fakertarians Even from a consistent right-libertarian perspective, a libertarian *should* be to the left of Democrats on abortions, trans rights and immigration (just like from that same perspective, libertarians should be to the right of Republicans on gun rights and taxes). These "libertarians" are mad at him specifically for libertarian positions.

@ryanhoulihan oh no I don't know if I can take Duolingo enshittifying

@dansup it seems like lemmy can be that with the right skin. We also really need a federated alternative to github. Gitea is partway there but thinking also about how github is sort of a linkedin for programmers.

@lanodan many of the fancy rice cookers are capable of some pressure cooking because that apparently makes for really good brown rice but I haven’t noticed many large standalone pressure cookers (caveat I don’t live in Japan but I spend about a month there every year and maybe the rural part of Japan I’m usually in doesn’t have as good of an appliance selection).

@ryanhoulihan Apple Music has better audio quality anyway

@ryanhoulihan god dammit. This was against trans children needs to stop. TERF island is a failed state.

@ryanhoulihan one of the main pieces of advice I give to people from other countries visiting the US or planning on moving here is to basically not pay medical bills, or at least negotiate/drag feet/etc. At least people from other high income countries will freak out and act like it's a real bill.