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Queerphobia, transphobia, U.S. Politics 

Over on the bird site Tennessee Representative Gloria Johnson points out that TN Republicans, who have a supermajority at the moment, have taken the opportunity to immediately introduce two bills (both sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson):

1. Senate Bill 1: banning gender-affirming care for children.

Bill here, hosted by WKRN news:
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medical transition stuff, grammar 

Reviewing the appeal letter I just sent Anthem in our ongoing tussle over coverage, discovered I had hyphenated "up-to-date" despite it not being in noun-preceding position, God DAMN it I feel like I let down the whole team

@semidetached Those look like they’d have the power to turn any vista into an opera, if focused just right.

@lexipenia I don’t think I’ve heard Szeryng before and would like to check out more!

@nicole It is so not a commonly reported side effect that I was tempted for a while to file indifference to video games under “not trans enough,” but really I think I was just following too many Twitch streamers on Twitter.

@lexipenia L’écriture est bien sûr sur le mur, as Eliza Doolittle didn’t sing

Changing out the rear wheel on an ebike is a grandmaster challenge and I’m no grandmaster, but I succeeded by dint of wearing an impractical dress

L’écriture est sur le mur, as the French don't say.

Why my homeland Taiwan is cool, part n+1: two friends’ bookstores just won commendations at the inaugural Independent Bookstore Awards. So many great Taiwan #indiebooks #bookshops that they can select the top 40 💚

dushuawards.com
📷: 經典雜誌

First wave emo song and nostalgia 

@robhelpychalk Have there actually been five canonical waves, or is the term more of a gesture?

@jolibourgeois What I love about those stories is they can't possibly all be true and they're all equally funny.

@emilyherring I remember the morning the towers came down, the first thing I did after the news sites wouldn't load was go to radiohead.co.uk. I don't know what I thought would be up there, I just had the idea they'd been getting us ready for this and would be able to explain it somehow.

In the year 2000 I was nine years old and I had already survived one apocalypse...

Here's a piece I really enjoyed writing for Review 31 about turn of the millennium anxiety, growing up knowing the future will be worse than the present, and, of course, #Radiohead, lots of Radiohead
#writing

review31.co.uk/article/view/82

Sometimes, seeing dudes behaving in the world, I remember the awful sorry-not-sorry text to Der zürnenden Diana (oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/3003) and then think, what a bizarre time capsule Schubert was of his moment, absolutely anything that crossed the guy’s desk was at risk of getting immortalized. What were the odds of “Best Biedermeier Erotica 1820” being the thing to hang around?

Going between twitter and mastodon right now is like flipping channels between some insanely trashy reality show and an orientation video for a job at a nonprofit

Almost indescribable how similar Masto is to using Twitter in 2010. Almost the same cast of characters is here?

It’s reminding me of that experiment where they bussed 80-somethings to a summer camp where everyone pretended it was the 1940s and everyone’s dementia immediately vanished.

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myna.social

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.