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Shameful to see the College Board cave to the demands of DeSantis and white supremacists, especially as we kick off Black History Month. Just shameful.

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I’m scheduled for Orchiectomy next week and I’m super excited, but I just got my cost estimate and it’s going to be $8,500 😱

So if you want to help a trans girl out, I have my Venmo and Cash App on Link.tree linktr.ee/danirabbit 💕

Anything helps. Thank you!

Oh, gods, this table read. 🥰

kottke.org/23/01/a-table-read-

Back in the Before Time, I was an occasional camera operator at the Community Cable Corporation. The control room and headset chatter in these videos gave me flashbacks.

That’s something I haven’t thought about in 30 years. Good feels. 😊

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Of all the vermin that have menaced our vegetable garden over the years, this one is the most infuriatingly cute.

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Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders was released 33 years ago today.

Even the AI is not yet capable of creating such strange images.

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when someone has many guns, that's polyarmory
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Seeing a *lot* of laid off/position eliminated posts lately, and it's just... it's disgusting. What kind of logic is it to see a recession looming, so you cut people, who then have to scramble to find a new income, try to keep their housing and necessities going, do you think they've got any money left to pump into the economy to satisfy the 'endless growth' fantasy of corporations?

You can't fix a house fire by pouring gasoline on it, and you can't fix a recession by gutting jobs en masse either.

Where are the news articles about the executive class taking cuts to their pay and bonuses?

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A right-wing Australian politician seems to be getting in on the MAGA act by calling for straight people to get their own flag and parade. Why, you ask? For "preventing human extinction." 🙄

Yes, because heterosexuals are the true victims.

comicsands.com/latham-heterose

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"If femininity hadn’t been so maligned, would we care if boys embraced it?"

My Son Asked For Minnie Mouse Underwear And I Realized We Have A Big Problem
huffpost.com/entry/minnie-mous

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Almost had a second cup of coffee immediately after the first. Rookie mistake. 😝

Plucked from the archives.

I had just come out to my closest friends a week or two earlier on this same trip, so the male/female split of the standee was of the standee was what caught my eye.

We had to walk back to the car for my equipment, because hauling 30 pounds of gear on my back wasn’t how we did our evening ambles. Worth it.

I remember it was well dark, and getting the movements right to have both the castle and the standee in focus took some work.

The negative was processed semi-stand in Rodinal at 1/100 dilution for an hour.

The castle is just barely overexposed. I shot two sheets, and were it possible for me to keep things better organized while traveling, I could have processed the two independently and let the second sheet soak for less time. Then again, highlights are the first to clear. 🤷‍♀️

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"Why be openly trans if you pass well enough that people can't tell?"

Because there's nothing wrong with being trans. Being seen is a way of fighting against the bigots who don't want us to be seen or heard.

Because others like me see that they aren't alone.

Because I lost so much time due to a false image of what trans was. Scared and confused by media portrayals, stuck thinking that I'd just be 'an ugly man in a dress'

I needed to see and hear real trans people to see myself.

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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.