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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He brings them together and leads them to victory with his folksy wisdom and compassionate heart and they notice and fix the loneliness buried deep inside him.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ted Lasso but it's about a lifelong repper who is somehow hired to coach a tgirl baseball team.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Discipline and Punish wasn't meant to be a how-to guide!

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dolores&Co are pleased to announce the release of their frontier Ohlone foundation model.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rationalism is, in practical terms, the latest in a line of occult traditions founded in California.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"Have you noticed how no matter how many death stars we blow up it's always the same family running the galaxy? I'm voting Yuuzhan Vong this November"

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

—Susan Stryker, My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix For all the material and political difficulties of this comparison, I do feel a kinship to these strange things whose interiority is the subject of so much fear and debate.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape other than that in which it was born."

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've been thinking of them as word-organisms. They live inside the world of words, not our world really. They're probably less complicated than a bacterium, but being made of words gives them some advantages bacteria lack.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is the only way in which I am glad I lurked around transfem communities for a fucking decade before I thought that I might want to try estrogen. I have been around the block a few times, vicariously. Some cringe is inherent to puberty, but at least I'm prepared.

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VespertineanTess (NSFW!) 🔞🎨🏳️‍⚧️ @vespertineantess.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I thought I should illustrate what cy-drones look like on the inside! Somewhere along the line, it transformed into a "right to repair" political statement for cyborgs... #art #nsfw #cyberpunk #latex #rubber #drone Now I've gotta go! I need to give my hand a rest before I need my own repairs. xD

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I thought I was just going to the Arcata Friday Night Market, but it turned out there was some sort of cult ritual/dance party?

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Got some photos from the DSA summit I attended last weekend and I don’t think I’ve ever had a picture of myself I liked this much.

Me, in a flowery sleeveless blouse, speaking into a microphone.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I want smaller models with worse RL made by people who are paid less to work more and I'm not kidding.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I need to make a point of traveling to a major city pride parade. Nothing up here gets much beyond "small street fair" and it's an experience I want to have.

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Valscarie Howlla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 24/07/2026

it is now trivially easy with present-day medicine to give that agency back to people. who gives a fuck if it's a kind of agency humans haven't had before. choices matter whether you get to make them or not, and someone or something is going to make this choice for every one of us. so let it be us

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Valscarie Howlla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/07/2026

"decisions about whether or when minors access transgender medical care should be made by parents, not politicians" actually they should be made by the minors in question, who are human beings. if you don't need parental consent to experience one kind of puberty why should you need it for the other

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Valscarie Howlla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 24/07/2026

i was a trans minor once. nobody had to sign any paperwork at all before my own body started injecting me with testosterone. a coin flip did that! literally any reason any person of any age could ever have for wanting to transition is a better reason than "heads says you get this puberty sorry"

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Free line for someone's bio: "overproduced elite."

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

She now subtracts how she should be from how she wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of how she shouldn't be, and how she was, she is able to obtain the yearning and its variation, which is called grief.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

However, she is sure how she isn't, within reason, and she knows how she was.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The girl guidance scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the girl has obtained, she is not sure just how she is.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the girl. However, the girl must also know how she was.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In the event that the way she is is not the way that she wasn't, the girl has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between how the girl is, and how she wasn't.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Consequently, the way she now is, is the way that she wasn't, and it follows that the way she was, is now the way that she isn't.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The guidance subsystem uses yearnings to generate corrective commands to drive the girl from how she is to how she isn't, and arriving at a way she wasn't, she now is.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The girl knows how she is at all times. She knows this because she knows how she isn't. By subtracting how she is from how she isn't, or how she isn't from how she is (whichever is greater), she obtains a difference, or yearning.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My parents have one. Every time I go into their bathroom it jumpscares me by squirting a bit of water into the bowl in case I'm about to use it, just so nothing sticks to the side.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We are, I suppose, used to it.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is done to correct the pincushion distortion inherent to the tiny optical systems that smartphone cameras (especially front-facing ones) use. Other forms of perspective distortion inherent to the short focal length and distance to the subject are what make your head look big.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

That was my experience, but it turned out the trauma was still ongoing.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Not in a pro-trans direction, I fear.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The reason he went that way is there was no path from South Bend to anything like that! Indiana is just too red, except for the Indianapolis seat. He had to do something unconventional. Now that he's relocated to Michigan he might actually run for those offices.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Yeah I suppose we like to think we can cleanly separate wilson from FDR and discard him, but it doesn't work like that.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

You've been refining this for decades and it's actually kinda amazing.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I think "attack helicopter" might have been the first gender I let myself want to be.

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.northsky.social · 22/05/2026

The regulators are right it's not petroleum sludge, this family has a great opportunity to create Phyrexia right here on the great american plains but we have lost our entrepreneurial spirit

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I feel like economists suffer here from being so close to politics: often the answer in the literature is more like what you approve of, but the public messaging is always much worse.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"As in the case of being called “it,” being called a “creature” suggests the lack or loss of a superior personhood. I find no shame, however, in acknowledging my egalitarian relationship with non-human material Being" sites.evergreen.edu/politicalsha...

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Let the waymos take some time off to sightsee imo

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Yeah the implication that trans people are more hostile or less forgiving is just smuggled in there. I'm not totally convinced it isn't true, in some ways, but it's completely assumed by the discourse.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Persecution ennobles the persecuted" is kinda silly but the alternative is the no-win scenario of "oh it sucks that you are abused and neglected systemically but unfortunately that makes you too wild and crazy to listen to, just wait until someone takes pity on you and speaks on your behalf."

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

There is a certain poetic justice to the idea of socializing the externalities of exurbal sprawl on to the exclusively zoned communities that create it, tbh.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My worst nightmare is literal fencepost error: so much more embarrassing than the figurative kind.

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V @atonal440.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Part of my job is interpreting and acting on vague statements like "replace this fence here" and it's sort of my least favorite part. You're telling me I have to make up a bunch of details and hope you like them? (Yes. It always goes fine in the end.)

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