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Owen in I saw the tv glow

Transgender awareness week is over, you are unaware that you are transgender

I also read all of Narnia without catching the Christian undertones, so I might just be dense.

I think it's obvious IF you are at least somewhat aware of the message, and especially if you're in the particular intersection of millennial transfems who came out as adults. But I could easily see missing the allegory if you're not primed for it.

Ah, but you're assuming it doesn't further the goal of gender conformity. The same bullshit is happening in the USA, and I already know one (cis) woman who was physically attacked in the bathroom because she's a butch lesbian. It's not the tradwife-looking bigots being attacked.

It's the Jurassic Park problem: tech bros are so preoccupied with whether they can, they don't stop to think if they should.

I've used neural nets for actual research. They're great when used correctly and based on models trained for a specific purpose instead of generalized crap.

I'm currently out of work (guess who was funded by an NIH grant that got cut!) and as much as it sucks, it's the first time in forever that I've had energy to actually work on my mental health and just generally exist. It's been eye-opening realizing just how drained I was all the time.

It's such an astounding experience. Most of my years are still before coming out, but so much of my actual existence has occurred since. I have close friends who I'd swear I've known for decades, but I know I met them after coming out, so within about the past 4 years myself.

As a childless millennial, do I lose "real woman" points for only cooking for my girlfriend? Do I need to kidnap someone's kids to drive them around? Does my mom living independently hit me for further points? I have so many questions, all of which are "WTF is wrong with terfs?"

Pathetic and factually wrong, so exactly what I'd expect out of this regime.

Bold of you to assume I could stand to look in the mirror without feeling like a Lovecraftian horror.

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

Descending into madness while screaming "waffles!" at everyone.

Oh gee what an inconvenience to not be able to use a bathroom

What could that possibly feel like

I'm not surprised in the least. We saw this in MI with Tudor Dixon in 2022 ranting about trans people. She looked unhinged to everyone but conservatives, and helped hand the Democrats a solid win. Here's hoping we see the same thing again (and that other Democrats pay attention).

He's already working on his next pseudodocumentary, "What is a substantiation?"

You'd think extremism about gender would refer to the people attempting to violently enforce normative gender expression, not the ones with the position of "express gender however you want" 🤔

really tired of having to keep tabs on what the most miserable, petty, small-minded people on this planet are doing because rather than address their own deficiencies they've decided to endanger everyone else

"You have to show kindness to the people who voted for the leopards because they only thought YOUR face would be eaten." No, fuck that. These people heard the attacks on minority groups and voted for them, and now the democrats are further abandoning trans folks to support those fickle bigoted shits

I imagine a lot of it comes down to an illusion of control. A parasite is an external thing with a clear fix (kill/remove it). Finding out your own cells are betraying you (autoimmune disorders, cancers, etc) can be far scarier for some people because there's nothing outside them to easily blame.

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

I just watched it myself. Absolutely wonderful, and yes. You need to watch The Owl House.

I'm with you there. And given the creators and cast, I can't imagine they're altogether unintentional. I really hope they're able to do a full series!

BTW, did you catch Guinevere's VA? It's Eden Riegel playing an android in a story about the nature of sentience again!

Being called a terrorist for growing tits is some wild shit. Boobs are powerful, but mine definitely aren't THAT impressive.

They do at least let you turn off all the AI crap easily, and have the url noai.duckduckgo.com to have it off by default.

You knew at least one for certain, but neither of us knew it yet.

These guys are claiming Kirk as a nazi.

I'm curious, from the right's perspective, is this unacceptable criticism, of the type that's getting liberals fired from their jobs, or is this honoring his legacy?

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13