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nicole

@h5e in so many ways, transitioning can feel like learning a new trade. It’s like you’re becoming a stage magician, with all the study, equipment, and energy that it requires. Illusions and banter, illusions and banter. Only, with time, the magic becomes real, and you come out the other side as m***** f******* sorceress—which is just so much cooler. 💃

(And you get to keep all the rabbits you pulled from the hat too)

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nicole

@h5e Excite!

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TheJen

Finished my book.

They all died.

It's Russian history, whaddya want?

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cain

scope creep is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face my desire to replace my if-else block with an event system. i will permit it to pass over me and through me

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nicole

@tillybridges 😳 Whoah. This is an incredible act of public good. What a collection! What work!

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🙌 - [ please, take! ]

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nicole

@chrmi @rooster Not sure we even need an adjective. 🥺 But also: yes, absolutely, this. 🥲

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jessica by the bay

Cute trans girls telling other cute trans girls that they’re cute but not believing that they are too

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Black Intellect

Arizona’s New Governor Katie Hobbs Issued LGBTQ+ Protections on Her First Day in Office 

them.us/story/katie-hobbs-ariz

#uspolitics
#AZpolitics
#LGBTQmastodon
#BlackMastodon

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nicole

#GenderEuphoria 

Every morning, I roll out of bed, and look in the mirror.

Increasingly, I see a middle-aged woman looking back at me.

I couldn’t be happier about that if I tried. 🥰

Miss Puffy Eyes with Your Brow Furrows, Smile Lines, and Hair in Total Disarray, … I‘m so happy to see you today. Let’s crack some eggs and make some coffee. 😘

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nicole

My hobby is going to expensive restaurants, ordering their popovers, and leaving them leaving a note with the bill, just to let them know that if they warm the milk before they mix in the rest of the ingredients, it might actually work.

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myrmepropagandist

Confession time:

I was a free speeches absolutist teen. I think many young people latch on to this, but I couldn't conceive of anyone doing anything that would protect me-- had a lot of experience being shut down & told to be quiet.

That's kind of where my heart has always been. Even on twitter I hardly ever blocked anyone. Ever. But, part of growing up is recognizing it's just not practical or reasonable.

I'm a reluctant fan of moderation and I came here kicking and screaming. 🧵

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nicole

@futurebird Same. Still wrestling with this internally, and have been for a number of years.

Law school led me away from absolutism. Unfortunately, once you accept that absolutism isn’t a solution, the problem is so much harder to reason about.

I think that’s probably why the most-visible free speech absolutists we see today are small children and adults behaving like small children.

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Thom
@JamesGleick ChatGPT has absolutely no concept of objective reality, and without that, there is no truth. That is to say, it's not capable of actively creating truth or lies, it's just stringing words together based on a very large dataset it has been fed. That dataset is almost certainly full of stuff that many / most would consider 'not true', so I'm inclined to go with 'inevitable'. (For what it's worth, I'm pretty firmly in the 'parlor trick' camp when it comes to my impression of ChatGPT.)
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nicole

food thread 

@Fawn@ohai.social Thank you for sharing!

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nicole

@JenWojcik @futurebird 💯 Absolutely the funniest. 😂

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nicole

@futurebird @JenWojcik Forgot to add the link. 🙄 Whoopsie!!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanc

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nicole

@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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Lynn Keller

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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nerdybutcute :pansexual_flag:

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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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

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

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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.

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