Got dragged to an escape room by @pauline and her queers. We escaped, but only because of some accidental sequence breaking at the very end.

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There is so much GamerGate energy in American politics and culture today. I’d never have guessed that was going to be the blueprint for what living in America would be like in 2025.

In my experience, men generally, do not have the toolkit to process meaningful deviation from a norm. They’re the cultural/social equivalent of the picky eater: grilled cheese and coca cola for every meal.

As the girls say, “they simply haven’t done the work.”

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I went to a wedding in Chicago!

How did the midwestern football set handle the west coast Doll?

Mostly avoidance! A lot of fleeting eye contact. Zero acknowledgement of the change except for one guy who declared himself “too busy” to bother with my pronouns. 🤣

I’m not upset: this was done for science. (But I am amused)

Just finished Cassandra Khaw’s The Library at Hellebore. Hyper-violent dark academia lovingly complicated by its non-linear unspooling. It’s a bit of a mess (See Also, Every Character Depicted Therein), but I loved the heck out of it.

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If you work for a company owned by an evil and horrible company, you work for an evil and horrible company. Stop deluding yourself.

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@BioWD Ehhhh, it's more complicated than that. Gotta remember that this genders based oppression is almost exclusively Western in origin, and largely became A Thing worldwide (in Europe too, tbh) in the great colonial push of the 16-1700s.

And that gender diversity was used as the pretextual justification for the racist colonial subjugation of the global South.

A loooooot of the worldwide reaction against trans people these days is a very understandable cultural memory/terror of what white Europeans did to their ancestors, and why.

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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.