Max

not quite yet still 6 hours and a bus ride before I'm home 😭

back in the US after 101 days in the UK and offshore

Intersectionality is NOT a tool for power rankings! You’re not trying to prove who is “more oppressed” This is ridiculous Stop doing it Why do you need to know who has S+ tier oppression, stop You’re missing the point

From today's lecture deck:

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easily one of the coolest ships ever made if not the coolest

Adding progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy improves breast growth for transgender people The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy.

a study showing the efficacy of progesterone for breast growth has finally come out perhaps some people can stop falsely accusing the rest of us of spreading medical misinformation just because they downplay the value of anecdotal evidence in the absence of such studies

lolll there was a red herring but it wasn't that one 😉

Connections – Puzzle -OZXpjY8O6_LNCQzxlvn Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

I made a connections puzzle today! I think it turned out easier than I was aiming for

connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OZXpjY...

Intentionally annoying comic nerds by spotting a DC character and going 'oh, it's the guy from the anime Isekai Suicide Squad!'

I was reading his posts and the style was so distinct i immediately suspected it was the same guy 😭 I'm glad there's not two of them

that was my first thought extremely similar posting style

that was my first thought extremely similar posting style

This is, and I am not joking, literally a story in 'Irreversible Damage'.

Shrier and Gender-Conservatives of her ilk consider trans people existing in public to be an affront to them and their cissexist sensibilities.

Sapphic Ink Sapphic Authors who Publish Their Books Directly

If you are a SFFH author whose books primarily feature f/f or f/NBi pairings and you have set up a direct store, I am making a directory of Sapphic SFFH direct stores!

Submit your pen name, bio, and up to 3 books with links to your direct store to be listed.

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So fun how every hip cool pop culture site has a mandatory "shitty to the trannies" columnist.

Wow, Gita, it sounds like your husband isn't a trans woman who just DONT FUCKING GET HIRED because our very existence is considered pornographic. I'm so glad he has readily available options we don't.

This is a good question. Why didn't Aftermath just pay me to do an article with them instead of taking a victory lap?

it's not about taking any excuse to chastise and blame a trans woman it's about ethics in game journalism!!!!

Honestly I'm not going to be shamed by a writer who decided a New York Times byline was more important than solidarity with their fellow trans journalists

I think there's something to be said about how post-layoff independent games journo revival companies have failed to involve the trans women who gave the same practices life and energy. and now they're coming at those same trans women for daring to not starve

This is such a core sentence, honestly. I want everyone to sit with it. Really sit. Listen to what it does to you. Yes even if you deeply agree. Cause that is not the reality being created right now. If you stay silent and comfortable this is not the world we will live in.

I agree. Blaming a trans woman on the verge of homelessness while you brag about how you can afford to be picky about your rates because you AREN'T ON THE VERGE OF HOMELESSNESS is such a shitty thing to do. You got a problem with the rates, take it up with the companies paying them.

Unironically true, the entire reason he did this is because he got caught in a server full of misogynists sharing revenge porn against women and transmascs they beefed with and worse, the shit they said they'd do to Puck when he was in a coma was vile.

Furthermore, you need to get it through your head that there is nothing inherently wrong with trans women winning sometimes. "Fair" is not a system in which trans women are only ever allowed to lose. We can and should be the best sometimes, and that's perfectly fine.

The actual truth is that in every sport trans women have ever been allowed to compete in (Did you know we've been allowed to compete in the Olympics for 25 years?) we have tended to underperform and be underrepresented relative to cis women.

transphobic liberals in 2025: "I just think there are conversations that need to be had about the trans sport issue."

No you do not. You just use the pretense of "there needing to be a conversation" so you can avoid ever actually having one or engaging with the actual science or with trans people.

what an absolute ghoul I'm sorry ana 🙁

Fuck this blatant transmisogynistic victim blaming. Ana has been trying to do the right thing at every fucking opportunity and people are ready to dispose of her because that's what people do with trans women. It's fucking shameful and horrific.

‪it's gita time‬ ‪@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social‬ · 18m If you accept an extremely low rate as a freelancer you are saying to your editor that’s how much you think your work is worth. Your editor is also learning that they can severely underpay people and they’ll take the rate. ‪it's gita time‬ ‪@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social‬ · 16m I understand that it’s hard out here for writers and I am in a unique position where I can pay myself mostly what I need to survive. However, you have to have some dignity. $30 is just too low. Do the math—how much would you have to write to earn a living wage? ‪it's gita time‬ ‪@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social‬ · 15m I don’t know the answer to this problem but it cannot be “accepting $30 as a standard rate.” If that’s where we’re at then it’s all over.

GITA I WAS GOING TO BE HOMELESS
THIS IS INSANE
I LITERALLY TWEETED ABOUT HAVING SUICIDAL IDEATION !!!!