Notices by Joscelyn Transpiring (joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw)

Today’s my birthday! Now I’m curious: how old do my friends here think I am? 🤭

Here’s a recent picture of me absconding with a TARDIS for reference

It still gives me so much joy every time my mom sends me a message like this 🥰🥰🥰

So far, everyone is guessing me younger than I am…and I’m giggling,

For the record, I am officially 38 years old somehow! Hard to fathom, but going to celebrate every year I claw back from this world.

IT developers: If your website or portal setup makes me want to stab you or smash all your servers with a large hammer, you have fucked up.

I propose a new cardinal rule for IT infrastructure design: your website should not inspire the end user to want to commit felonies.

If you have ever had a social psychology experiment told you as a poignant story that illustrated a theory or idea, it has probably been debunked.

In the last 5 - 10 years, almost every famous 20th century social psychology experiment has been revealed to have been not reproducible, misrepresented, misinterpreted, or straight up wrong. This list includes:
-The Standford Prison Experiment
-The Milgram Experiment
-When Prophecy Fails

@RickiTarr the other day I said to my wife, “you talk a lot about stabbing people, but you’ve never actually stabbed anyone.” Her reply with a look of contempt, “that you know of.”

What is the most bisexual werewolf / lycanthrope in computer / video games?

Qualifiers:
1) Out of games that one could find on steam or for a console
2) does not have to be explicitly bisexual, but must at least be extremely bisexually coded
3) can be a visual novel or dating sim, but preferably not just a porn game

Okay, at this point, can people just tell me all games they can think of with werewolves? Maybe I need to play them and rate them for bisexuality 🤭

The only ones that come to mind up front are:
1) Skyrim and Morrowind (but not Oblivion, right?!)
2) The Wolf Among Us
3) Ravenswatch
4) Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 (NPC monster only)
5) Neverwinter Nights (NPC monster only)

Where are my lycanthrope games at?!

@twipped it’s good analysis…but that weird pot shot at leftists at the beginning is annoying.

Small rant: A bunch of people did show up with the math and demonstrated it more than a decade ago. Literally one of the biggest books in economics in the last decade was an analysis of the fundamental disconnect between wages and capital, and what that meant. And a bunch of folks had very workable solutions they fought for. Like…dude, you just refused to listen if you believe people weren’t doing the math or showing up with workable solutions.

Okay, all that aside, it was a really great breakdown and illustration of what is actually going on and why working people experience a completely different economy from what is assumed. And bringing it back to the poverty line is a really useful way to make it clear and message on it.

Trans siblings and cousins, thinking of all of you and grateful to have each and every one of you still in this world. Each of us brings our light to this community, and together we glow against the darkness. Sending love and care wherever you are 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

And if you can today, please bring some love to others in the community, especially those that others rarely check on or who don’t have a lot of folks in their corner.

This should be setting off alarm bells. People on visas in the US are having them revoked explicitly because of what they said about Charlie Kirk after his death.

Of course, earlier this year, we saw this begin with people being detained and visas revoked over anti-genocide and free Palestine activism. This is a further extension. The former misused existing policies about anti-semitism and anti-terrorism to try to justify their actions. This extends that beyond what reasonably falls under legal understandings of terrorism in the US to their new effort to brand all anti-conservative speech as supporting terrorism.

This is going to get a lot worse very quickly. If you know anyone left of center who is not a US citizen, know they are having to make new calculations about what they can do within their safety needs. And be ready to defend and support those that will be targeted.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-charlie-kirk-visas-revoked-455f43467c0c50e84d3857c1e9c81458

We lost a beautiful light today that has been an important leader in our community for so long. Thinking of Miss Major tonight, hoping some day we can all honor her life and legacy by making the world she fought for a reality.

https://www.them.us/story/miss-major-griffin-gracy-obituary-dies-78-stonewall-trans-activist

Transphobia often gets discussed as personal attitudes or explicit anti-trans policies, but the wider cis world often doesn’t see or understand the structural transphobia that impacts our lives. A big one that is impacting me again: discontinuities.

When we transition, our life course, narratives, and social network experience many different discontinuities. An area where this can have big material consequences is in a professional or academic career.

When applying to a job or a university, there is an assumption that a person can list the places with their relevant experience and then those people can be contacted and asked about the person. Well, if your name has changed, as well as your gender identity and presentation, there’s a whole host of problems this introduces. For example, I can list one of the places I worked or went to school before transition, but then I also have to out myself as trans and give my deadname to the place I’m applying to if they might reach out to check if I worked or graduated from there. Additionally, that then outs me to those people from the past as trans, who may be transphobic and give me a bad reference.

Additionally, a lot of us face transphobia after coming out and may be more likely to be laid off or fired as a result. So then one of our only potential references that knows us by our current name and identity may be much less likely to give us a good recommendation. We’re basically put at the whims of those that employ us in ways that creates extra layers of intimidation and pressure, and may lead to us putting up with transphobia or worse due to that precarity.

In my experience, I went from having a stellar resume that demonstrated 15+ years of experience with lots of recommendations and references to my resume looking either a lot like someone who only has 1 or 2 years of experience or I have to out myself and also share the ways I’ve been mistreated since transition. All of which makes a potential employer hesitant to hire us.

There is a reason why there is a trans wage gap that is bigger than most other wage gaps, and why a fuck ton of us have to turn to sex work to pay the bills.

I wish my adhd butt could actually buy and eat fresh vegetables before they go bad. 😅😅😅

I love red leaf lettuce and spinach…but I usually don’t remember to eat even half of it before it goes bad. Fresh tomatoes, literally one of my favorite foods in the world, but half of what I buy will probably go bad (yes, if I buy 10, 5 will go bad and if I buy 2, 1 will go bad). Any vegetable that requires cooking - I’m going to buy you with big ambitions and plans, but you’re going to be nasty and brown before I remember to cook you.

I’ve switched to mostly frozen and canned veggies now in my cooking, because it’s the only way I can manage to avoid wasting food and actually have vegetables available when I get around to cooking with them. Such is adhd life.

This week revealed something important: who is ready to collaborate with fascism.

Between the firings of people for not being mournful of the death of a fascist to soooo many politicians, media outlets, and institutions sanitizing Kirk's legacy, they are showing who is ready to, not just be complicit, but actively collaborate with Trump and Fascism. Up until now, some institutions, like some universities' leadership or Democratic politicians were willing to just be complicit - not really standing in the way, but also not getting out of the way or helping the fascists along. But presenting someone as "engaging in civil discourse" who has called for and helped facilitate violence against people of color, university faculty, LGBTQIA+ people, and all of his political opponents is such a clear demonstration of collaboration.

This is important, because it is making clear who is on our side as things escalate and who is going to betray us. There is a reason the French Resistance and other fascist resistance efforts in Europe kept track of who non-nazi and non-fascist collaborators were. Fascism cannot do what it does without these people actively helping them....and A LOT of people have decided they are ready to help fascism. This is a thermometer that's worth taking note of, and let's keep track of the collaborators.

And let's keep track of who isn't collaborating yet. Let's keep track of who is still speaking up and where one can do that. Let's celebrate resistance in every corner we find it.

"A Christian...A man who calls out through his deeds: 'Come to me, I shall redeem you!' ... A divine element works in him. making him the man he is and causing him to act in this way and no other. One man must set an example and offer himself up as a sacrifice!"

Does this sound like what people are saying about Charlie Kirk? Well, that was Goebbels eulogizing their own assassinated martyr, Horst Wessel. Wessel was a Nazi SA member who was assassinated by communist party members in 1930. Wessel was propagandized into a martyr and his death was used to pull in sympathy for Nazis.

Today would be a good time to get familiar with what happened after Wessel died because they are using the exact same playbook here right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel

To all the trans folks feeling like they are awful, unloveable, and/or undesirable tonight, I am sending offers of virtual hugs and metaphorical hot cocoa. You deserve care and the kind of attention that would feel good for you 🫂🫂🫂🫂☕️☕️☕️☕️