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@futurebird @JenWojcik my favorite excanonical gospel is definitely the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. It describes the misadventures of Jesus as a supernatural child, and it’s so hard for me not to read it as the one-shot religious equivalent to Young Superman Whoopsies.

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Wednesday, a deer walked into a store in Colorado. The shop owner gave her some cookies. After leaving the store, she returned after half an hour with her entire family.

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anytime someone says anything in trochaic trimeter (STRONG-weak STRONG-weak STRONG-weak) i can't help following it up with "I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY"

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There's a housing crisis in many cities. But cars can park free. Why not claim public street-space for those who need it? If you disguise your shelter as a polluting, duly-licensed private vehicle, like artist Michael Rakowitz did...
...the authorities should be fine with it.

More on this thought-provoking art project here:

michaelrakowitz.com/plot-propo

@autismsupsoc Oh gods. Printing this out and handing it to a friend. ❤️

@FabulousLisa @rooster Oh, yes, those moments when leering flips into disapproval are extremely unsettling. It's like, "I'm unhappy about this in two totally different ways right now, but you're a total creep either way."

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@h5e Thank you!!

I think we all get (understandably) a little self-obsessive when transition, so I’m sure this won’t sound _too_ strange, but flipping through my selfie photo album at the end of any given day, I’m always amazed how many different people turn out to just be me from different angles and with different lighting! 😂

So, I have attention problems (coding is actually the only thing I’ve ever been able to focus on for more than 5-10 minutes at a time without chemical assistance), so you’d think I’d be happy switching contexts frequently.

🐖 And usually I am! 🐽

But when there’s as much comms🏓 ping pong going on as there has been at work this week, I can actually get worked up to the point where I physically start shaking, and need to step away. 😵‍💫

Doing that right now. This is that message.

Writing is totally a self-soothing technique for me.

😊 I feel much better now 😁

@h5e This happens to a lot of us. 🥰 It turns out that forcing trans folk to dress against their gender puts a dampener on some of those folks’ enthusiasm for self-decoration.

Glad you’re having more fun on the right side of the funhouse mirror!! 💕

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You know the planets are lined up when falls on .

I'm Pauline (she/her). I spent my youth getting kiln-fired in , , now in the ; used to be an academic in the humanities, now write code during the day and fiction in the off hours, also some songwriting and home recording with guitars, but there's this whole ongoing struggle to get my singing voice repitched.

My most remarkable life stories all involve other people, and one of the most amazing is that my oldest and dearest friend is also a trans woman. It's been something to figure this all out alongside her as an other half to her Gemini.

Fig.1: restaurant washroom selfie, Fig 2: some hot gender-bent flirtation from Twelfth Night (Viola dressed as Cesario is supposed to be a proxy for the Duke; Olivia has other ideas).

Appreciation to all!

@danirabbit @rooster Believe it or not: you did a brave thing. After coming out, transitioning, and surviving holidays with difficult relatives, who'd have thunk? 💓

Keep being brave!

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Hey friends - I am in Antarctica with extremely slow and limited internet and I have a book coming out this year that I'd normally be posting more about because pre-orders are *critical* to a book's success.

Help me get the word out?

OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM AND TV

From black holes to space elevators and extraterrestrial civilizations, this is a rich and beautifully illustrated book for your coffee table. And astronaut Mae Jemison wrote the Foreword!

amzn.to/3GA2HUz

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Promo Codes for Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game

We published this game in 2013 using Unity 4.6. Apple updated MacOS and the game no longer worked. We have a new version that works on recent MacOS versions, but doesn't work on older versions/Macs.

I could use some help finding out exactly which versions of Macs and MacOS's are compatible. Any takers? DM me with your Mac info, and I can send you a promo code.

Just need to know if it runs. apps.apple.com/us/app/rube-wor

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.