Thommy

"Okay students, which number is greater, 1 or -2? Write what you think on your board."

*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*

*cracks whip*
I’m going to force feminize this workplace

Ofc sometimes ephemerality is a good thing. This is one of the problems with AI transcribers being in every meeting now. In-person with all electronics far away is often the best way for activists to have meetings.

But you get the worst of both worlds with corporate IRC clones. Authorities can […]

I also saw a 20-something trans girl talk about a cool old website about androgyny this morning and I had to bask in the irony that she's able to talk about that discourse because it was put up on a website that has been maintained, whereas her videos' continued availability are at the mercy of […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115533541290508750

I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]

I'm teaching Sonic Pi in a music tech class, and because we were using the TB-303 synth in class, I felt compelled to modify what we did to make the Charli XCX “365” bassline:

#SonicPi #Ruby #Algorave #CharliXCX

[trans healthcare advice (US-specific)]

PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]

@kevincarson1.bsky.social we have artificial scarcity of information and illusory abundance of natural resources.

Most of the waste and distortion of capitalism results from artificial abundance of material resources, and artificial scarcity of immaterial resources.

@katelynburns.com why aren't people yelling "Do. Not. Split." at Schumer?

What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

Okay it was obnoxious of me to use unicode characters in my screen name and few people actually call me tjw these days anyway. Might as well use the space to ramp up what I'm going to start going by, Thommy or Tommy.

Not changing my legal name and I kinda recommend against it in most cases.

@gwensnyder.bsky.social any narrative that suggests it's Israel that controls the US not only promotes antisemitism, it absolves all the domestic politics reasons our politicians are pro-Israel. And it weirdly help AIPAC by making them look way more powerful than they are.

#uspol
Davis' petition overturning gay marriage in the supreme court was extremely unlikely. Anti-trans stuff ending up in the budget is fairly unlikely. It's irresponsible to talk about all disastrous possibilities as though they were equally probable but it's also irresponsible to pretend rare […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115526055374759833

Just give it a decade and it may come back. Over strange aeons even death may die.

What Was the Point of the Shutdown? Democrats asked voters to weather short term pain from the shutdown to get long term gains in extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. Then they threw it all away. So, what was the point of all ...

I wrote about the fecklessness of the Democrats ending this shutdown for my newsletter this morning. www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...

@gwensnyder.bsky.social there needs to be a lot more recognition that US politicians are anti-Palestinian simply because that's their sincere, terrible belief. No one needed to bribe them to be like that.

Everyone seems to hate you. You’re blamed for shit you couldn’t possibly have been responsible for. People make up conspiracies about you and your friends constantly, say the most heinous shit about you with impunity. In many places, someone freaking out so bad they kill you is a legal defense.

The filibuster is anti-majoritarian but so is the body it happens in, the US Senate. A minority of senators, representing a majority of the population, can stop a majority of senators, representing a minority of the population, from passing something by ceaseless yapping or threatening to do so […]

Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations are fall themed. Christmas decorations are winter themed. Western Christmas is early Winter in northern hemisphere. Therefore it makes more sense for xmas decorations to go up shortly before xmas and stay up until way after instead of going up way before […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lzg/115521435198238044

The people who make mistakes programmers make about names think they know what you want and what's good for you.

Watson's racism & sexism were infamous. but this obituary sheds light onto something else: he was essentially an earlier rendition of what's happening now with tech CEOs & pundits who are convinced they're always the smartest person in the room & how this inevitably leads to anti-"PC/woke" brain rot

Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better. "Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."

For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

My attempt at doing tsukemen birria (but veganized, so shiitake and tofu instead of beef and veggie broth base) was a success. I was worried my family would be lukewarm about it, but they actually liked it, even my wife who doesn't like Mexican food. The only thing is I'd definitely use ramen […]

My vision of transhumanism is more fantasy than sci-fi. Faeries aren't real? Like hell they're not, I'll make them real and make myself one. I don't want to be further away from nature, I want to lounge on a flower. Aphids the size of my fist.

TIL "-ila" as a suffix is diminutive in Gothic meaning that Wulfila is like "little Wolf" and therefore Attila was a nickname basically meaning "lil' daddy" grammatically like papacito (Spanish) or papatje (Dutch). So very much gangster vibes where Romans are scared shitless of papatje coming to […]

@mattblaze and they're both unable to handle the idea that their own politics might not be the majority (no one's is).

[USPol, NYT both-sidesism]

“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”

https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/115510452161239697

I like heirloom varieties (and so does Sarah, see the thread) and agree with this.

My main response when I see goons romanticizing a mythical past of workplaces that are just a huddle of indistinguishable men in suits smoking their cigarettes, no women in sight, is that this person is evil, ignorant and fucking booooring. But I also sincerely feel sorry for people like this […]