New study finds "no substantial evidence of any biological advantages for trans women competing in elite women's sport."
"'What threatens women's elite sport, for cis and trans women, is not trans women, but is rather misogyny in the form of underfunding, non-parity in participation and leadership, inequitable sport space allocation/access, and a range of sporting opportunities not afforded to women...in equitable ways.'"
#TransSelfie Eye Contact Jacket
@pauline agrees that this jacket emphasizes the width of my shoulders, but suggests it doesn’t matter because it’s an objectively good jacket.
She’s historically been pretty bad at textiles, but lately there have been signs of nascent aesthetic growth along the relevant vectors. In this case, I even agree with her.
The pin is from https://miraongchua.shop/collections/my-very-first-vampire-blood-drive. I realy need a red hair clip to complete the outfit, but I can’t find one anywhere. 😝
Apple added CGPath boolean operations in iOS 16, macOS 13, etc. Awesome! Why was I not informed???
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/cgpath/3994964-intersection
Documented in the header file, but not in the docset.
it’s really interesting how all of my friends who have been caught up in the tech industry layoffs this week have fit into one or more of three categories:
- over the age of 40
- something other than a cisgender man
- somehow involved in advocacy for inclusive corporate culture
i’m not surprised, just disappointed. and tired.
@futurebird I’m so happy that we have arrived at a time in history when my natural aversion to phone calls is shared by so many. My extroverted friends call me out of the blue and I’m like I love you but why would you choose violence like this.
A powerful #lesson - source unknown.
A teacher tells her students, "I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a #witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade."
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought guilty.
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It's weird, as a librarian, to have to have conversations with yourself about how far you would go. Would I be willing to go to jail for 30 days because I did the right thing and refused to take LGBTQ books off the shelves? Could my family afford me not working for 30 days for doing the right thing? Would I still have a job afterward? Would I be able to maintain my clearances to work with children if I had been to jail for 30 days for not removing allegedly sexually explicit books from shelves?
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.
Good book.
I greatly enjoyed the second half which focuses on how varied and complex relationships can be when sexual desire is absent, or, at the very least, not assigned prominence by all parties.
Yesterday was a long, grueling day, where I felt like I was trying to coerce an ancient steam locomotive up a hill by feeding tea bags into its furnace one at a time. 🚂
Progress was made, and we didn’t slip backwards, but by the time I walked out of my last meeting, I was entirely spent.
My evening was total debauchery as a result: tacos, tater tots, donuts, pizza, and a roulette wheel of multi-cultural television programming: high wuxia fantasies; danish supernatural slavery thrillers; bad, queer cartoon comedies; and a melancholic, long-lipped Korean uploaded-intelligence bullet ballet.
Today: a simple hangover; maybe some licorice cats and weak coffee. I am out of corn tortillas. I am out of fancy American cheese.
🏳️⚧️ Proudly Trans
🌉 Bay Area
Product-Engineering Manager for a software product portfolio; former iOS dev; attorney (CA/IL); large-format photographer; marriage ministress; cinema nut; weeb; lifelong weird girl.
Lover of myths, legends, fairy tales, fantasies, and folklore; 6502 assembly aspirer; book hoarder; gaming nostalgist; gore-adverse, torture-adverse feminist horror film fan; food worshipper; Slack poet; ace-demi-recipro-crier; a total and complete mess.
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