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R.O. Kwon 권오경

okay here's a first non-logistical toot: independent bookstores make a third of their sales between Thanksgiving & the end of the year 💛

pls consider getting holiday gifts from local bookstores, most of which ship nationwide

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Philipp Stehr

A magic moment of socialist pedagogy

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Mixter Kit O'Connell

Just out: my photo essay, in collab with photographer Jesse Freidin, who documents the lives of young #trans kids. He shared 7 powerful portraits of young #transgender Texans.

Jesse told me: “I want to tell those stories before they disappear, before these families leave the country or state, before these families have to go underground.”

This story is incredibly important to me, and all of us at Texas Observer too. This was published in the November/December issue of our magazine, and now available online in time for Trans Awareness Week: texasobserver.org/trans-kids-y

#LGBTQIA #Texas #children

(I'm concealing the photos because they contain eye contact, but I really hope you will look if you can, these are powerful photos of young people being themselves, and part of me wishes I didn't have to CW them)

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transition, surgery 

To state the obvious, these are the stakes in the debate around gender-affirming care for minors. It's miraculous that surgical technology exists to undo much of the effect of puberty with the wrong hormones; it's still a hell of a thing to go through, compared to just escaping those hormones in the first place.

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transition, surgery 

Made it through surgery, results currently hidden under swelling + mummy bandages but doc says it went well. I had like five nurses on different shifts and all of them were incredible - all praise and material support to nurses! That said, the overnight hospital experience was still painful and frightening enough that I wouldn't recommend it to tourists.

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12 hours till

He imagined that this was an ability he shared with most other people
They had also molded their faces according to some ideal
Maybe they imagined their new face
Would better suit their personality
Or maybe they imagined that their personality
Would be forced to change to fit the new appearance
This is why first impressions are often correct

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMrhANw

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adamtooze

RT @DannyDutch@twitter.com

If tea spread to your country by sea you call it tea, if it spread by land you call it chai. This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation "te", whereas Mandarin uses "chá"

🐦🔗: twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/

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Joey S. Kim (she/her)

RT @LaurenKGurley@twitter.com

BREAKING: 48K University of Calfornia TAs, postdocs & other student workers just walked off the job.

It's the largest strike in the US since 2019.

Many UC workers earn < $24k/yr. A PhD student I spoke to said they donate blood plasma to make ends meet.
washingtonpost.com/business/20

🐦🔗: twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/stat

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Trans awareness 0: repair people come to the house, I'm "he" and "sir" despite having changed clothes and stuff

Trans awareness 1: hair gets longer, I do the voice work, I'm now "ma'am" and "miss" but the repair people also address me like I don't understand the functioning of my own house

Trans awareness n+1: something shifts and the repair people revert to addressing me like I know what I'm doing, which baffles me until I remember we just put up the pride flag

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Vicki Boykis

I am dead, I can’t believe this AI intro text I just got. If you thumb through it, there are all the usual suspects like breadth-first search and probability.

Then you open the first chapter and it goes HARD on the current state of things.

Then it’s back to mathematical notation like nothing happened.

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Conrad 🍍

Anti-Trans Legislation in Ohio USA 

Ohio is attempting to ban gender-affirming care for minors, just 3 days after the midterm elections, in the session's lame duck status. If you are able to speak out against HB454, or some to the hearing (I hope to do so), please do what you can.
mailchi.mp/honestyforohioeduca

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What happens when a collision of crisis cascades, what happens when a casket of cholera goes critical, brekekekex koax koax

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36 hours out and God just punted on one of His last best chances to avert this

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transition, gallows humor from mom 

Mom says: "When you started this transition I was worried that someone was going to smash your face in, and now you're doing it to yourself!"

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So I'm Pauline. I've written a couple volumes of , the last a counterfactual starring a not-dead-at-25 in Italy. My diss at (where I persist in a job doing things to computers) was about the novel (, , ) as lyric, with help from and such.

I live with my excellent family in the and mess with .

Also bound to post stuff, including freakouts about the facial surgery I'm having in, um, two days, behind CWs if alarming or gross.

( to ease those awkward moments at the water cooler)

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Jesse Vincent

RT @bgsprung
mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

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Jenniferplusplus

Testosterone implies the existence of stagingtosterone and productiontosterone

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schratze

You ever come across a sticker that looks like it was made for you?

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Eleanor Courtemanche

Importing a lovely poem from the bird site by Robinson Meyer, who claims that the Long 2010s ended last Tuesday

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david roberts

New report from InfluenceMap: The 25 most influential companies blocking climate policy action globally

1. Chevron
2. Exxon-Mobil
3. BASF
4. ConocoPhillips
5. Sempra
6. American Electric Power
7. Southern Co.
8. Nippon Steel
9. Gazprom
10. Toyota

influencemap.org/EN/report/Cor

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