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Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Groundbreaking study in journal Pediatrics found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 (1.6%) discontinuing treatment only 4 of whom re-identified as cisgender.

Could satellite-beaming planes and airships make SpaceX's Starlink obsolete? "When the Stratomast is flying, all these old satellites are going to be in museums."

Robert Charles Wilson called it 20 years ago

www.space.com/space-explor...

Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...

Every day this government is more of a disappointment thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

And thank you, Terrie Smith furry Xena 🫶⚔️

When we get a guest house built out west in the tiny home park, you'd be welcome to visit... for more fashion tips, obviously! 🙂

Ask me for fashion tips! You'll soon be dressed like a boringly conservative version of "Generic *Country* Lady fresh from a bake sale" ... ! 😅

"Millers blouses, stock-standard skater skirts, and a nice sun hat complete this classic (practically geriatric) look!" 👵👒

Think we might both officially be old fogeys 😅

(Although I think I prefer the term "silver vixen" for myself 🦊)

No idea, sorry!

I *am* a fogey, so Glock 17C makes sense for me. I'm at least a bit Mall Katana Gay too, as I see myself as a sword lesbian ⚔️

I'd prefer two (Lara Croft style) silver USP Matches *and* a katana *and* an Anti-Materiel Rifle.

But, beggars can't be choosers, or some other poverty-justifying nonsense.

Image of a burning candle in front of a Trans Pride flag commemorating the victims of Transphobia

Outline of an AR-15 Rifle in thr colors of the Trans Pride Flag. The caption reads "Respect Existence or Expect Resistance"

Greetings Friends and esteemed Comrades.

Today is Trans Day of Rememberance.

It might look bleak at the Moment but remember: The night is darkest just before Dawn.

Mourn our Dead.
Fight like Hell for the Living.
No Surrender ✊
#TransDayOfRememberance
#TDOR 2025

Good to know! I am starting to see why the "run your own search engine frontend" kind of web apps exist.

Getting these kinds of filters running on anything other than desktop would be *hell*

Sadly, it's gotten very bad for many tech topics now. Beyond the LLM "answers" at the top of the results?

The first few pages are LLM-made "link spam" now. While reputable sources are not even in the first page of results.

So I just go to trusted sites now, and hope I can find what I want there.

I agree, but I'm not sure there's much choice left. Even alternative search engines like DDG put LLM "answers" in their results now.

Even if they weren't? Search algorithms don't work when a thousand LLM-written sites all link to each other. The factual signal is drowned by the made-up LLM noise.

Time to go back to our roots to counter the disinfo spread by LLMs, I suppose.

Curated lists of useful sites. As we had in the '90s. (I say in my best old lady voice 👵😅)

Use Wikipedia for your search engine. And only trust references linked from the most relevant article.

Hundreds of Queensland babies may have missed vital blood screening tests The ABC can reveal that in July last year, Queensland Health department became aware of "inconsistencies" in records of the newborn blood spot screening program.

QLD Health doesn't know if parents consented or even if procedure was done for over 1,000 minors! It has life long consequences!!

LNP knew since they came into power last year. Where's the immediate pause until an inquiry is done and considered? Do they care more about trans kids than babies?? /s

oh... no wonder everything is so damn hard

Sadly, yes.

Puberty blockers are still accessible in Queensland for private patients, with this care funded by Project 491. But there's no such workaround for the brutality inflicted on trans prisoners.

We need to make sure we're looking after *all* of us. Not just the most photogenic causes.

#AusPol #QLDPol

It's not even that dire here in Queensland.

Private patients can still access puberty blockers, and Project 491 can fund that for them.

I am sure the ban will progress to a complete one, but even then? There are workarounds.

There aren't for the issues you've highlighted. These deserve attention.

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative.

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Tasmanian’s groundbreaking financial redress scheme for victims of our former laws against homosexuality and cross-dressing have unanimously passed parliament. It’s a great day for victim survivors, for the LGBTIQA community and for cooperative politics.

More details are here: ymlp.com/zHjIww

Peak education bodies including the Tasmanian Association of State School Organisations and the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Education Union support schools that are inclusive of trans and gender diverse students. See comments for more.

reminder everyone that subscribing to @pronouns.diy not only lets you set your pronouns but more importantly lets you see other people's so you can, for example, correctly gender the people you're telling to fuck off

Ian McDiarmid's delivery of the Death Star II speech is delightful. [extremely overegged mock concern] "Oh ... I'm afraid the deflector shield will be *quite* *operational* when your friends arrive."

I can't help but think part of this is due to the right-wing fantasy of the professional protestor on welfare. You know all those spurious charges cops place on marginalized protestors? Yeah.

Note the framing "fugitives on the run" "serious crimes" "sexual offences" - to spin removing the presumption of innocence & giving police powers to penalise people without a trial. As if that extra judicial power would be reasonable. #auspol

Simpsons screengrab meme. Krusty enthusiastically announces: Cheney’s dead!

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I wouldn't know, I'm nano 4 nano 😏