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Emily Fox

@abstractcow.bsky.social

Teaching CS theory and algorithms at UIUC. Formerly UTD. Wife and mother. Huge math and programming languages nerd. I play RPGs, metroidvanias, and puzzle games. She/they. πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ. AuDHD.

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I will never not repost this

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05.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4286    πŸ” 2060    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 73
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03.10.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law β€œthe most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”

One legal expert called SB 8 β€œthe most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history, It tries to shut down the basic right of every citizen to seek relief in our courts, which is one of the basic principles of American democracy."

06.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

Oh yes. Sometimes I have to take one last semester of high school or college for a diploma or B.S. while fully aware I already have a Ph.D.

06.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I still end up appearing in a high school play without knowing any of my lines.

06.10.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An image from a WikiHow article "How to impress single mothers" with the heading "making a good first impression" and a man with anime eyes asking a woman with anime eyes "how old is your son?"

An image from a WikiHow article "How to impress single mothers" with the heading "making a good first impression" and a man with anime eyes asking a woman with anime eyes "how old is your son?"

My greatest fear is that AI will replace WikiHow artists

27.09.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I got hit by an ATV and broke my leg. I don’t think I saw the bones directly, but I remembering there being a large bulge under the skin.

17.09.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just let it be. I’m sure she can slice the trolley in half with her many knives.

17.09.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No thanks I was already scared of my furby talking to me back in the day

16.09.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems thematically appropriate.

16.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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September 16 2002, Animal Crossing debuted on the GameCube in the Americas!

The game was originally released a year prior on the N64 as Dōbutsu no Mori (Animal Forest) and was so popular that it was enhanced and translated for worldwide release on the GameCube!

16.09.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

This is a really important idea. I started questioning my gender in my 30's to come out at 34, and started E at 36. I have spent a lot of time trying to find clues, compare other people's stories to mine, reviewing history, and maybe I just don't need to. Maybe I can just answer, "It's complicated"

15.09.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Story is probably the biggest part of why I didn't figure out I was trans until I was 34.

15.09.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Concradolences. 🫀

15.09.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i understand this is hard to believe and i don't mean to diminish the headwinds we are all facing right now but you have to remember that using shock and awe to make bigotry look more popular than it is is fascism 101. most people did not just forget that trans people are normal in the past 8 months

15.09.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 556    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Seymour, the house is on fire!

No, Mother. It’s just the yearly furnace check.

15.09.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The right enby in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

15.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least Link can get some wings on the way.

15.09.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The entrance to Key cavern in Link's Awakening X consisting of statues along the bottom with a keyhole you need to use to open the dungeon, but also blocking off the dungeon entrance forcing you to go all the way around after using the key

The entrance to Key cavern in Link's Awakening X consisting of statues along the bottom with a keyhole you need to use to open the dungeon, but also blocking off the dungeon entrance forcing you to go all the way around after using the key

Twitter post saying "Florida is literally hell" showing that it takes a full hour to wind around complicated bridges to cross a river to a location that's very close to where you start. The smart and handsome Khayyaam makes an apt comparison by saying "Florida got that gameboy Legend of Zelda overworld design"

Twitter post saying "Florida is literally hell" showing that it takes a full hour to wind around complicated bridges to cross a river to a location that's very close to where you start. The smart and handsome Khayyaam makes an apt comparison by saying "Florida got that gameboy Legend of Zelda overworld design"

Playing Link's Awakening DX again and heavily feeling this old post of mine

14.09.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania

11.07.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9717    πŸ” 2612    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 49

Yes! There were, in hindsight, a couple β€œsigns” but it was more light desires to do things atypical of a man. Maybe that counts as dysphoria, but it only really approached what most people think of in my thirties when I realized what I was missing.

15.09.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish there were RPG modding scenes with the energy of SMW hacking. I want to play a Final Fantasy V hack that starts you with all jobs mastered and puts you against a sequence of ridiculously hard custom bosses and I want it to be called "bartz goes to the store and buys a dozen eggs"

14.09.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

technically Silksong boss nerfs are actually just bug fixes

09.09.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 956    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6
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Duality of Hornet (and i love her for that)

I love how serious and cool hornet is most of the time and then when she does the parachute she's like just hanging out there lol. Its so adorable. #silksong

11.09.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2092    πŸ” 421    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 3

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15.09.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a trans professor in the United States, I’m terrified. I think the last three days have aged me ten years.

15.09.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

14.09.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 29736    πŸ” 5885    πŸ’¬ 1631    πŸ“Œ 353
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Fenneko’s Halloween Costume

15.09.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6272    πŸ” 1511    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 11

And to clarify, informed consent anywhere is relatively new in the grand scheme of things.

15.09.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many doctors will let you do informed consent without seeing a therapist at all, and the idea of requiring somebody to put themselves out there without the option of medical help feels very wrong to me.

I’ll admit, though, that I thought this was more universal within the US than it apparently is.

15.09.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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