queer joy is when you grab a hammer and you

I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

off to pussyville i go

smell ya later losers

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.

canceledpeople.org

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

lacan's graph of sexuation

A woman is a process which doesn't exist in the Symbolic order because she's too busy becoming everything it can't capture.

Wisdom? I barely meet her, nowadays...

one butthole after another

more than 4 i ignore, too many letters from bed wetters

polymath (2025): a self-description seen as positive by some indicating that the often wealthy individual with limited education and hands-on experience will share their unearned opinion as the source of truth

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

THEY'RE CALLED TWINKS, COOP. REALLY PRETTY BOYS. SOMETIMES WITH VERY STRONG MUSCLES. I SEE 'EM ALL THE TIME AT THE BAR. THEY'RE MOSTLY INTERESTED IN OLDER MEN WITH BIGGER BODIES. IT'S A CONTRAST THING

handsome

microsoft skews more male and hierarchical. if the manager doesn't like him then he'd be gone in 2-3 cycles. i'm pretty sure microsoft hr would just side w/ manager

not saying tech trannies are god's most deserving matyrs but its not like transitioning is without severe career consequences for us.

Transgender WIN: Just experienced bizarre misogyny at work (Client asked me to judge whether he should defrost his freezer because "women know things like that")

Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

ok ok, but euler's formula is a cool lower back tattoo

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

The highly paid employees of the skinner box manufacturers are examples of narrow definitions of success.

The cover of Data and Reality third edition by William Kent

Try to make your concepts robust to changes in the construction of reality and you'll realize how nutty the world is.

Connecting dots implies a causal understanding of the effects of intervening or concocting counterfactual scenarios based on ampliative inferences. Maybe one day, but its hard to say if hidden markov models will get us there or if it will happen in our lifetime.