julia 🦄

it was much better than i was expecting given stone's take on it, tho at core i think her critique is solid

oh lol. tho i guess conundrum is in part about castration

hmm, i think there's an argument to put stone butch blues in this genre

it's less a thing now—if you want to know what it's like to be trans you can sumply hop on bluesky—but there were quite a few famous transition memoirs in the twentieth century. jorgensen wrote one, for example

picked it up because it's a classic of its genre. while it failed to sway me away from thinking that genre shouldn't exist, there's much that's interesting and relevant even half a century later. shame a lot of it requires reading between the lines.

just so long as i get to be one of the balancers

yes

fun fact, if you search this guy's posting history you can find him talking about how sometimes trans women shouldn't be allowed to play sports

assistant professor of us history in bio

swedish meatballs over egg noodle with pickled cucumber and lingonberry preserves

mom can we have ikea?
we have ikea at home
the ikea at home:

of course he married a simplot

yinz are missing out

i have discovered a new type of academic—guy who puts that he's a veteran in his email signature

the Kinsey scale is funny because it's so social scientist-brained to be like "i know how to measure sexuality—a seven point scale!"

ummm if men can't be butches then how do you explain this????

i'm trying my best

what if instead of will stancil it was whale stancil and instead of seeing him repeatedly on my timeline he was a majestic & beautiful oceanic leviathan

this one was really more of suggestions for the girls, yes

i'm a dyke :3

good names for trans men:
john, dave, jake, dirk
good names for trans women:
rose, jade, jane, roxy

if you look at the vanguard of this movement and what they are doing with executive orders and policy, it's not women who are the primary immediate target. though they do often invoke "protecting women and girls"! any serious person would make at least token mention of whom they're coming for first

it's a funny—let's use that word—choice to respond to a document whose key takeaway 1 is a thinly coded "we need to overturn Obergefell", and not once mention how queer people are targeted by this agenda.

i forget what it's called, but one curve people thought was a geodesiac was passing through lines of latitude at a constant angle. it's a pretty good approximation for naval navigation in practice—it breaks down badly near the poles, but if you stay in warmer climes it's pretty good

historically speaking it did take a long time for people to figure that out

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a sunfish in a dress is in front of a bedroom mirror on a dresses. She says to another sunfish out of frame, “please don’t tell me you forgot our date night.” Panel 2: the other sunfish stares at her blankly with a gigantic chunk missing from its head.

is that obvious? if you think line means line of latiitude, they don't meet. imo it's reasonably sophisticated to realize line on a sphere means great circle

"A revolution is like a dinner party 😊" V. I. Lenin probably idk i don't know how to read

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/bard-leon-botstein-jeffrey-epstein-relationship.html

this insufferable man 🙄

https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/bard-students-react-botstein-epstein-21342826.php

if you're a university president it's normal to invite your billionaire pedophile sex trafficker friend to visit your high school for precocious teens