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and falun gong’s propaganda rags technically don’t count as reputable sources although it doesn’t mean that reputable sources won’t report on it like it is. the media can be a mess.

en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

eh i probably shouldn’t have said rigorous, it’s still wikipedia. low quality stuff has slipped through the cracks.

regardless, the only reason those articles exist is because enough reputable news sources and public figures published work on the topic, even if it’s propaganda.

i consider myself to be detrans-ish, my gender shifted back towards my AGAB but other than stopping HRT and changing my name back, i still live as a trans man in most situations as I don’t really want to reverse the effects of T (hair removal, voice training) or dress fem

In Memory of Eden Knight 🔆 Memorial page and details on the life of Eden Knight.

Two years ago today, trans woman Eden Knight died at 23 after being trafficked out of the US and forcibly detransitioned in Saudi Arabia by her father Dr. Fahad Ibrahim Alshathri. In her final message, Eden named the individuals responsible for luring and capturing her: trans.cx/in-memory-ed...

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"... I have nothing to offer but this: so long as transition is reviled, so long as the transsexual are persecuted in any manner at all, there is no freedom of sex and there is no neutrality. Insofar as this pertains to detransition: so long as the transsexual are persecuted, hated, and forced into obscurity, we are likewise bound to their persecution, hatred, and abandonment. So long as that holds, voluntary detransition can never be free."

Don't have much energy to post for Detrans Awareness Day, in part because it's instrumentalisation by the Right is very tiresome. So I come back to this passage from my essay 'Detrans/Uncis':

Detrans/Uncis (Part 2) On the place of detransitioners within sex/gender, and what that entails.

Here's the full essay: tinyurl.com/5ey9m9xp

with that article in particular, it’s just summarizing the report and how/why it came together, one can edit the article to address more of the complaints about it if you have reliable refs (from reputable news agencies, govt agencies etc).

I wasn’t trying to prove anyone wrong, i was just answering the question to make it clear that i do recognize that you cant take an article at face value but you can probably trust a highly rated article more than others.

the only detrans ppl that matter are the ones they can use to push their agenda. not the ones who still associate with the trans community, the ones who are still obnoxiously queer or who reverse their social/medical transition but identify as nonbinary, the ones who are progressive etc…

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

oh god i remember when it was made, the russians kept trying to unsuccessfully take this one airport like 12 times and got destroyed each time, and they did drop a bunch of VDV troops in the Black Sea. there were so many memes.

so much for states rights lol

Giving the same sentence the Boston marathon guy got to a dude that shat on a cybertruck is so fucking funny.

Fascism, but make it incredibly more stupid and whiner.

source: my autism brain decided that editing wikipedia was gonna be it’s new hyperfixation a few months ago

a lot of publicly available discussions and eval histories that can help with determining whether or not to trust the article’s content or the editors who contributed to it. (4 i think, gah i hate char limits)

if you click “learn more about this page” or whatever it is on the desktop version, there are links to various evals the article had and like 9 pages of archived talk page discussions. there’s no reliability guarantee but high rated articles on controversial subjects tend to have (3)

check the article’s talk page for discussion and evaluation archives to get a good idea of how editors were approaching it and if concerns were brought up and addressed (or not). this article’s talk page was pretty busy prior to 2015 (2)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ki...

people can and have requested reevaluations of featured and good articles, there’s no guarantee that a good article will stay good. It has been 10 years since the GA designation so it’s best to look through the edit history since, and (1)

obviously take any wikipedia article with a grain of salt due to the nature of the project, but there are internal processes of evaluating the quality of articles and sources, and ways to tell what articles are considered reliable by the editor/wikipedian community (which is pretty diverse).

yeah the kilgore report article is GA class so it had to go through a pretty rigorous peer and source review process at some point

Images and words forming a collage of a woman's face. Text says: Face the facts: all of the knowledge on Wikipedia comes from Humans. Like her.

Meet Abigaïl, a volunteer from Benin who has made over 9,000 contributions across Wikimedia projects – including creating 270 new articles on French Wikipedia. She is driven by the role that gender and language diversity play in improving the quality and relevance of articles. (2/4)

A ‘Three Pistols’ guitar tutorial by PL

i spelled antisemitic wrong oof

israelites: we’re in the middle of the desert, should we look for water or something?

moses: $$$

(i feel like this is borderline antisemetic lmao)

yeah it’s obvious he’s just peddling out his sperm to create some musk army lol

he has three other daughters, two with grimes, who supposedly had to beg him for a girl, and one with an executive at one of his companies who was born around the same time as the first daughter with grimes.

is there a link to that somewhere?

i guess i just still see charismatic narcissists gaining loads of power and control in that future even without the incentives inherent in the market based system. idk i wish i could listen to someone talk about their conception of that future place tbh.