zinā' warrior princess

guy who enters "07734" on his calculator turns it upside down and immediately has a personal epistemic crisis about the nature and meaning of consciousness

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

had my first interview in months where the hiring manager just spoke to me like a human being and we had a nice and thoughtful conversation about academic publishing for an hour rather than, like, "recite an epic poem about a time you took initiative while spinning plates on sticks"

she's a camininomenon

it's a scenic route for sure, like, it's a femininity approached from the negative via the unmasculine or sexually immature quality of boyishness

boyish girls have a femininity all of their own tbh

lord farquaad school of international relations

now why is tayyip in it

ramadan is about making a Huge Thing of lentil soup

there's something so female about eating a papaya while there's snow on the ground

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

archive.ph/4NboB

ML Buch should invent a girl you can hold online

put away your sadness it is a mantle of work ☝️

thinking about the frontman from future islands

i love men tbh they're very sexy when they're fully committed to an artistic practice

that outcome is baked into this policy, and is waiting for any incarcerated trans woman serving a sufficiently long sentence who's had SRS or orchidectomy. US BOP is declaring a positive intent to torture a subset of transgender prisoners, not merely neglect them.

we are eventually going to learn about a small but nonzero number of cases in which trans women in federal prisons were injected with testosterone under duress and without consent to preserve their "health"

it's all just assignment and correlations. sometimes those correlations are better than others, e.g. answering yes to "do you get a period" almost certainly means you have a uterus. but they're not all like that.

an uncomfortable truth here is that there's just not a 1:1 relationship between patient histories and, like, medical status. if someone asks you whether you have a prostate, the correct answer is "i don't know" unless you've had imaging done or palpated it yourself for some reason...

...is that an intake person looks at the forms, looks at the patient, and makes a judgement call about whether they need more information or just enters whatever they think is correct into epic. it's assigned sex the entire way down.

if i were a betting woman—which i'm not—i'd bet the above describes ten times more people than the number of transgender patients you're going to see in your average surgery.

the average person knows "i'm a he" or "i'm a she", and that's obviously not medical information. what really happens...

asking patients questions like "do you have a prostate/uterus" is also of limited utility, insofar as more patients than you think don't know those words or what kinds of people have those organs, let alone whether they do. there's plain language like "urinate (pee)" on UK medical forms for a reason

I think people think we're exaggerating when we say the widespread use of the term "biological sex" as a term itself isn't organic. This data isn't anomalous, it comports with everything we've seen about the specific use of the term.

better it should be the fire in this life too but trust the lord is going to settle those accounts

what keeps me going is faith in god and the assurance that trump and netanyahu are old men who inshallah within a few years will find themselves being dragged by their ankles into hellfire

good morning. death to america

work environment bad question mark ?

crazy stuff! i was the only person who took the initiative to find a way to use our contacts, i designed all our marketing materials, i organized analyzed and reported on our first in-house campaigns... and they made an external hire who started speaking to me like i was her direct report

dawning on me in real time that my old employer's entire digital marketing department owes its existence to me, personally, and to my work, and i was not offered a promotion or indeed any role at all on the team :D