A friend is having surgery at the same hospital I was in almost three years ago. It's bringing back so many happy memories, of daft things and frets, of little surprises and joys.
When trans women make ourselves more truly who we are, we do amazing things. Ain't no power in the 'verse can stop us.
I am listening on Radio 4 to Labour handing the next general election to Reform. It’s scary just how stupid they are that they don’t see that this is what they are doing.
Also, for far too many people, fucking terrifying.
This is not good: Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying. The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
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Do I know any psychologists on here? I'm wondering if there's been significant study of the variety of ways trans people relate to and think/feel about their pretransition selves. If that's even psychology!
(I could just go diving in, looking for papers, but that often fails in subjects I know little about because I lack the terminology to know what I'm looking for.)
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@Zumbador I think I agree. I think there are a lot of great counsellors in this space with kind of "meso" scale experience, things they've learnt from many patients, etc. I think this and support groups etc is probably the best place to look.
But psychology in the paper-mill" "Professor of Brainiology, OBE, CBE, bar, bar, sense at the University of Old", I'd be very skeptical about.
Throughout history, as a profession they always seem to be playing catch up with reality and enabling lots of horrible things done by states. It seem like quite a foetid hunting ground.
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I don't like to be abstract political, so here's a concrete example from a paper on Autism.
There was an experiment which showed that autistic people were more consistent in applying professed beliefs in private (a faked experiment where subjects were asked to eat taboo-animal meet in exchange for money, in company and alone).
This increased consistency was pathologised as autistic people failing to adapt to social situations by not being hypocritical in private. They did brain scans and stuff to show the hypocrisy nexus and suggested interventions to fire it up in autistic people.
I suspect this is very likely how that kind of psychology works in the trans space too.
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My therapist introduced me to the concept of RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria) last week and it is a very powerful match for a lot of what’s in my head.
It makes sense in this context that I appreciate my strength training sessions because I only ever get positive feedback and encouragement.
Signs you may be working with mathematicians...
my $default_quota='9.8G'; # Based on 1st Feigenbaum constant
Talk to me about lipstick, my combined soshul masses!
In particular, how the hell do you apply the stuff when you don't really have any lips to speak of? I either end up with the barely perceptible impression I might have drunk some red wine or JACKSON POLLOCK CRAYON EDITION.
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Can't comment on lips (lots of women use filler these days ofc), but if it helps as a general outline, this is pretty much my normal routine, and it's 5-10 minutes
I use different products (a dark brown mascara, a more neutral lippie) but same basic principles
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"What the banker saw. The farce of constructive notice in undue influence cases".
Not a paper that actually exists or that I am equipped to write but nevertheless one I would totally read if it did.
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No big deal just Linux running in a PDF.
GitHub - ading2210/linuxpdf: Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdfGitHub
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Cis male friend sent me this, which is interesting. Most of the "low confidence" stuff I can take or leave but occasionally switching around formulations of allegedly the same dose of E seems very plausible; friends have switched from valerate to hemihydrate and had a bit of a growth spurt.
wordsmith.social/elilla/i-grew…
I grew big breasts on HRT by doing this 👈 😮 (it might be all placebo tho)
I started HRT at 34; I'm now just 41. This is how my breasts look after 6½ years of transition: In a well-fitted bra Nude, front P...elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing
Issue: Small sheep goes into trance mode if cuddled.
Steps to reproduce: Embrace small sheep. Apply skritching to neck and breastbone. Observe behaviour of small sheep.
Frequency: 100% (although if biscuits are present there may be an override condition).
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Gets sent something helpful from therapist.
Read read read
Argh “reign in” irrational twitch grumble sassenfrassen
Brain loses all information, goes to rant on soshul, starts painstaking research on this mondegreen…
Today I heard:
"however, the truth was much stranger than reality".
I have questions!
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Strange the way anti-hype works just like hype. From the results I've seen,
DeepSeek's answers are far worse than, say ChatGPTs. They're much vaguer and more rambling, often largely unrelated to the question asked. Not only do they read like an undergrad essay, they read like the student was drunk.
Also, when there are export restrictions on stuff you're buying from another country and you report that you came in just under the magic number, well, surprise, surprise.
Sure, there's no reason Chinese researchers couldn't do this stuff just as well as the US or better. And, yeah, the AI bubble bursting is a real popcorn moment for us all, all the same.
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Whether there's mist or fog
Or a driving rain you can barely move through
Or snow piled deep at the door.
Warm refuge or cold trap, or
Just another thing, put the tea on, shrug?
I blink the lamp, light the fire, wave the flags, wait
For a whether worn woman in an uncharted state.
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This is what a long furby egg looks like. 😬
I had a friend once who said working gastro is a lot like working in a sexshop. There are a lot of things that make you think "this is genious" and "this is fucked up" at the same time 😂
Crime scene ice-cream:
- Take recipe for strawberry ripple ice-cream;
- Convert from strawberry to raspberry but get some things wrong so sauce ends up runny and a bit gloopy;
- Also, far, far too much sauce;
- Be really bad at the actual rippling so it's a mixture of inhomogenous pinkishness and pools of red;
- forget to even out ice cream after last stir when already nearly frozen.
Result: bloody gelatinous mass ice cream.
Tasty!
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This is a bit of a crawling horror. If you're like me and use a different email address for every website you create an account on (so you can ditch the leakers) you won't ever be able to verify your age.
verifymy.io/age-verification-a…
I wonder whether the "online fingerprint" they talk about is entirely in accordance with the data protection policies of other sites I've provided data.
I also wonder whether it's discrimination against trans people on the grounds of gender reassignment, since we are more likely to have changed our name and email address, and may thus not be able to prove our age.
Email address age estimation FAQs - Verifymy
FAQs on email age estimation cover its process, privacy protection, certification, accuracy, and differences from age verification methods.Verifymy Limited
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EDIT2: aka @YesBut as per comments below.
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Doing some slightly distressing diary archaeology for therapy. I was however occasionally kind to myself as a future reader:
"(As a reference point, this was the week John Archer died.)"
This is fascinating. The Arabic words for minute (as in 1/60 hr) and second (as in 1/60 min) are the same as the words for minute (as in very small) and second (ordinal number 2). And English, it seems, got it from the Arabs via Medieval Latin.
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Got my OU assignment back from the ersatz tutor (since mine was ill). Thought @d a t green would be amused by this particular comment:
"Good, but a paragraph should be more than a single sentence."
It is more than a single sentence, much, much more. It is a gateway to another world: an abstract world of symbols and relationships. It is a single thread of Inrda's net, interfused with reflecting jewels, containing within it ripples of the whole history of symbolic thought.
Nay! [always a good word in situations like this]. Verily! [even better] I put it to you, [forgot this was a law assignment for a moment] your worships and honours, taking into account the principle of totality [adjusts headgear] that indeed, no sentence can ever be singular.
I rest.
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#buyanewspaper #buyapaper #pressfreedom #journalism #TomorrowsPapersToday
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