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Let's see.. you first mentioned it last November but at the time you didn't specifically want to get another one done. Then in May you expressed wanting to get another one. Then again in June I look forward to seeing your dexa results in November 😘

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Such a big boy!! 💜 I'm sure your daughter doesn't lack for stickers 🤭

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just saying -- you've been in the contemplating phase of this one for more than a few months 🤭

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is not the first time that you've expressed this 🤭 Maybe it's time to go and get one

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

They've been taking pointers from mine 😉

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Way to go babe 💜 I can't wait to get back to running myself but that's a long way off 😅

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Cirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026

New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel

papers.ssrn.com

The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women

This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm so sorry Cal - this must have been such a difficult decision to make. I wish all of the best for you, your daughter, and your family in Australia 💜

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always love those little signs that you only really pick up on after the fact

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

(pre-empting the "oh yeah and you're not at all in 2026") Ok but we're still going to say it 🤭

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hard to believe that surgery is tomorrow!! I am ready though 😊

Alyson in a green dress with her hair down standing in front of two hotel room beds

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The point Allison Keats made in @powermapmag.com with fuller context:

Text from the article reading: "This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated. Even now, I encounter people who claim it was a disqualifying error that Bernie Sanders spoke in terms of a 99% and 1% instead of workers and capitalists. DSA has built a socialist movement because we have never excluded people who wanted to build with us for having the wrong reasoning. In doing so, we’ve also recognized that political education is something that is best built in the practice of organizing; someone can come to an issue with the wrong framing and become aligned from our framing of the solutions. People come to DSA concerned about their cost of living, become exposed to the interconnectedness of all the issues we care about, and become socialists in the process."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah in this one you look particularly fem (well, butch 🤭)

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crushed my all-time best in today's 5k (set earlier this week!) by 48 seconds! 😤 This is my last run of the season so sub-35 will have to wait for next year but I am in the best shape of my life nonetheless 💪

Best Efforts for Alyson's 5K today

400m - 2:27 6:08/km

1/2 mile - 5:06 6:20/km

1K - 6:22 6:22/km

1 mile - 10:21 6:26/km New best of all-time! 25s improvement

2 mile - 22:03 6:51/km New best of all-time! 1m Improvement

5K - 35:47 7:09/km New best of all-time! 48s improvement

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🎃 Emily 🎃 @emmy.baby · 26/09/2026

5k race time!

Emily and Alyson in the starting corral for the 5k they're doing today

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not pictured: the damn wasp that stung me twice 😭

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very nice -- your hard work is paying off 💜

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

7 years of HRT today!! Estrogen has transformed my life in ways I never expected back when I started, and it's also given me a body that I actually feel comfortable in. Transition is one of the most incredible experiences a person can go through. And it's also 10 days to bottom surgery 😊

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't get it - I barely touch 200$ a month and I use it pretty heavily for work. I feel like it's gotta be a case of "even though you CAN automate this thing, SHOULD it be automated?" that's being skipped over in favour of "token bot go brrrrr"

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

How does the head of Trust and Safety here not understand the point of rules??

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

If users change their behaviour to avoid enforcement great! They're complying with the rule.

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

What do you think the point of rules is if not to shape the behaviour of the people using the platform? When we see an undesirable behaviour repeated enough on my discord server we make a rule against the behaviour so that we can action violators accordingly.

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

The administration of this site makes me long for Reddit's administration. Do they understand how bad they have to be to make Reddit's admins look good?

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

And they've never even given her an award 😔

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Alyson 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @alyson.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

My sweet little Tomtom crossed the rainbow bridge tonight. He passed away in my wife's arms as we were whisking him to the animal hospital not long after this extremely bright rainbow appeared behind our house. Rest in peace my precious boy - you were such a loving and sweet cat 😭💔

A bright rainbow streaks across the sky above trees and houses

Tommen the white cat sits atop his throne with his arms hanging over the side

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james @james.claims · 12/09/2026

I was told by a Labour MP this week that this couldn’t happen and I was wilfully ignorant. Damn, I guess she was wrong. I guess I do know what I’m talking about after all.

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