Gender-affirming policymaking
25.11.2025 14:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@joesimons.bsky.social
Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.
Gender-affirming policymaking
25.11.2025 14:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Definitely has a Hegelian ring to it. What is the self but a dauerbaustelle?
19.11.2025 14:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Five and seven are also available
19.11.2025 07:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You don't have to embarrass our guest. It's not like he's Zelenskyy.
19.11.2025 07:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh really? I'm quite enjoying all the usual roles getting shaken up
19.11.2025 04:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Suspicious foreign-sounding names like "Saxe-Coburg" and "Farage", for example
18.11.2025 14:54 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Just going to leave this here
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They should stick to travelling via large green pipes, as is tradition
18.11.2025 09:11 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Yeted < yeeted < yeeeted
18.11.2025 08:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(p < .05)
18.11.2025 08:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Once you go idiographic you never go bathic
18.11.2025 08:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The War on The
18.11.2025 07:58 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Once I ran to you.
Now I run from you.
This demonstrates the dangers of extrapolating past observations into the future"
"The set of properties ascribable to both you (denoted p) and a summers day (denoted s) is non-empty"
18.11.2025 07:52 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This is what happens when analytic philosophers try and write lyrics
18.11.2025 07:51 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0H. P. Lovecraft: "Huge and inhuman, you say? Might they also be coldly indifferent?"
19.10.2025 01:00 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Psychologists when n > 10k
17.11.2025 05:49 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1One of Jer Clifton's findings (as part of the Primal World Beliefs project) is that conservate political leanings are far more associated with seeing the world as hierarchical than as seeing it as threatening / dangerous
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Yeah, but I think there is also a version of that drive-to-transgression which is much more orientated towards solidarity and attenuation of hierarchical relationships
16.11.2025 07:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lol my first connection was "Huh. Birthday greetings seem a little off-brand for Denver's leading doom metal outfit. And what's that photo got to do with it?"
15.11.2025 08:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And you definitely shouldn't trust them if they switch to using a marker. The plot has thickened.
15.11.2025 08:16 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Starmers of Silence
13.11.2025 07:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Someone came up with the idea at Barrelfest 1239CE, to help manage the crowd of 20,000 guys called Cooper
13.11.2025 07:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Guilds. Given surnames were derived from professions, labour organizing was really hard without personal names.
13.11.2025 07:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I don't know about fanfics but my bet is that he mains Rebel Grots
12.11.2025 15:35 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Never Mind the Pollock
12.11.2025 15:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't know why you are making such heavy weather of this, Julia:
"Please imagine the following scenario. Take a moment to concretely visualize what it would be like if this were the case:
[Cond 1] You are able to speak and read two languages
[Cond 2] You are able to speak and read one language"
Age of Sigmar taking quite a turn in the latest edition
11.11.2025 04:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What youβre witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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"Poot poot" mumbled Mr Toad, accumulating yet another point of Stress
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