Adam Onishi

I've been quiet here on the work front, and never made an announcement

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But this year I joined Yoto!

It's an audio player for children that aims to entertain without the need for screens.

Why does an audio player need a developer advocate? You'll find out soon 😄

"I'm just playing devil's advocate" ugh, just fucking listen and stop trying to justify bullshit 😩

I have a feeling the fairly substantial codebase I'm starting to contribute to might be a bit too old for that so soon...

Back to working with Sass again after many years away, feels comforting 🫶

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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.

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Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity. A reasonable conclusion. Fast forward 50 years... and it was found that some men had 47 chromosomes, including 2 X's and a Y, while some women had 45, including only one X. Still no problem with the "Y chromosome defines masculinity" idea. Then... it was found that fully 1 in 300 men weren't 46,XY. Some women were. Oops. After DNA was discovered in the 50s, it was found that the SrY gene, usually found on the Y chromosome, sometimes was missing. And sometimes had been translocated to another chromosome, hence 46,XX men and 46,XY women. So SrY defined masculinity. Then.. it was found out that some men didn’t have an SrY chromosome, not anywhere. Some women did. Other genes were involved. Worse, other factors, such as Androgen Insensitivity made 46,XY people female, and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia masculinised 46,XX people. Then in the 70s, other syndromes, such as 5alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were identified, which caused babies to look like one sex at birth, then the other at puberty. Worse, in some places 1 in 50 infants had this natural sex change, it was not rare there.

Science 1974 Dec 27; 186 (4170): 1213-5 In an isolated village of the southwestern Dominican Republic, 2% of the live births were in the 1970's, guevedoces....These children appeared to be girls at birth, but at puberty these 'girls' sprout muscles, testes, and a penis. For the rest of their lives they are men in nearly all respects. In the 90s, it was found that hormonal hiccups in the womb caused some parts of the body to develop as one sex, othersbas the other, regardless of genetics. Male–to–female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus. Kruiver et al J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2000) 85:2034–2041 The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions Sometimes a boy is born looking like a girl, sometimes a girl is born looking like a boy, regardless of chromosomes. We don't teach the Theory of General Relativity in grade school, Newtonian physics or at most Special Relativity (far simpler) is enough. Similary, "XX is female, XY is male" is good enough unless you do medicine or biology in college. It's only really relevant when talking about Trans or Intersex people, just as Relativistic effects only become relevant in the domain of the very big, very small, or very very fast, close to 186,000 miles a second. People do *not* need psychiatric help when they think that things get heavier, more massive, as they go faster... while lengths contract. People do *not* need help when they think their sex is something different from their genetics. Intersex people exist. Trans people exist. They are unusual, so trying to apply the usual approximations is as silly as trying to apply Newtonian physics to things moving close to or at light speed. Legislating such things is as insane as legally ruling that Pi=3... as has been done in the past.

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If you find yourself arguing with people who want to talk about XX and XY, penises and vaginas.. They won't read this but refer them to this anyway.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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A partially complete Lego Mercedes F1 car

So far completed stage 4/12 and we have the front and rear axels and rear wing!

The manual for a Lego Mercedes F1 car

Finally time to start on the birthday present before Xmas comes…

Stuck on a train because of a tree on the track with no information and a bunch of drunks shouting over all the announcements. How’s your Saturday night 🤦🏻‍♂️😭

Time to go back to coding and focusing on what I enjoy about work instead of trying to force myself to grow into something different when it's not working.

Not planning on changing company just yet, which I guess is a fortunate situation to be in... [2/2]

I think I'm coming to the end of my foray into engineering management for now. It's been a tough 6-8 months trying it out and not really succeeding. It's been nice in some ways but have had a lot of challenges dealing with the top down expectations. [1/2]

We’re still doing this right?

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My garden and houses around covered in snow

Back from holiday in Australia for 3 days, and now… #uksnow

a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the word adam written in white Alt: a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs shouting with the word adam written in white

Could be worse...

Thanks for this Stu, and thanks for including me in the list too, I’ll try to share some more design system stuff soon 😂

Noticing a lot more followers coming over since switching. Hopefully people I know. If you’re new here and I don’t follow you yet say hi and I’ll correct that :)

Been putting it off for too long but will be completely switching over to Bluesky now. Don’t post on that other place so just need to switch it off for good

So, another social media network, another account and another tab... let's see how this one goes