Tim B

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Stunningly beautiful old baby <3.

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Thank you. This really encapsulates what reading this felt like.

ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"

We've posted an addendum FAQ to our original blog post about NSFW content. You can read it here: itch.io/updates/upda...

Thank you for your patience as we navigate through this. We're upset too. We're doing what we can but there are still many unknowns at this point.

Credit Card Companies Are Hurting the Future of Video Games By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”

I talked to @halfrobot.com about what credit card companies have been doing to Itch and the impact that could have on the future of games www.404media.co/credit-card-...

The fact we've been able to trust them to do the right thing for so long doesn't make this an indictment of Itch, but instead a sign of how absolutely dire the situation is.

Club soda (homemade by less unethical means or store bought) very gently mixed with soda syrup and flavour still works great!

What an absolutely cursed set of options.

Awww man. I’m sorry ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you. Family is all here and it’ll be a process but we’re good and we will treasure our time with him always.

Truly one of the special creatures of all time.

At about 3pm today, surrounded by his family, Chat Jahan peacefully returned to the strange cosmos from whence he came. For just over nine years I was blessed by his presence. I will miss him immeasurably.

*when societal problems start affecting me* man, society has really developed problems recently

I suspect that they could just download into the game install folder (that’s the Addressables default IIRC) but that may also cause Steam’s “verify my installation” function to wipe them out.

Super common among games that are mobile-first and keep the app install small but then immediately download tons of asset bundles.

Tremendous

when you’ve lived in vancouver for decades and that summer rain hits

The last round of Liberal austerity brought us a nation-wide housing crisis and the introduction of homelessness as a normal part of Canadian society. I wonder if the many people I know who parked their vote on Carney were voting for this?

No! Or means or! If you crap, you can stay on the pot forever.

There was some weird scandal with him posting some wild stuff several months ago IIRC

Isn't the Proton CEO a fascist?

A photo from a math book: a chain of two over lapping triangles where one triangle is also overlapping a line. These are simplicial complexes (triangle = 2-simplex, line = 1-simplex). reads: the sort of intersections that are not (italicized) allowed.

Thinking about forbidden intersections

Skytrain!

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

Why not?

"And for one brief, beautiful moment... it was."

Good, but not _that_ good.