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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026

Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.

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What's the matter with trans panic media?

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 01/10/2026

Slightly weirded out by targeted advertising for laser…

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 28/09/2026

New girl problem: caught my hair in the car door.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 27/09/2026

maybe she's born with it; maybe it's spironolactone

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 27/09/2026

"That's like saying, 'Well, someone's gonna break my leg sooner or later, so I might as well break it myself now'." "No, it's like saying, 'I might as well *get paid to* break it myself now'."

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 26/09/2026

Kludged together a yellow curry dish that might be the tastiest thing I've had all week.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 26/09/2026

I saw a *really* dumb Quora question in my email and couldn't resist.

Question: I claimed to be a transgender woman to avoid military service, and now I'm being asked for proof. What should I do?

Answer: I believe the next step is to repeatedly double down on convincing them: buying clothes, choosing a new name, learning makeup, getting a new haircut, training your voice, getting facial hair removal, starting hormones, etc. Along the way, you might also meet an attractive man or woman (depending on your preferences, which might surprise you) who falls in love with the new you, not knowing that it’s all a ruse; you feel intensely guilty about playing along, but you‘re too into them to turn them down. Eventually you realize that you didn’t really do it to avoid military service—it was the truth all along, and now you get to live as a woman for real and become the attractive man or woman’s wife.

At least, that’s how it goes in the trans fiction I’ve read. I’m sure real life works the same way!

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 26/09/2026

"There's still time for them to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Though not much time—it's the bottom of the ninth." "I believe in them—they've pulled it off before." "Never underestimate the Angels."

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 25/09/2026

When I was growing up, my family was in the habit of putting items that needed to be taken upstairs on the bottom stair so we would remember to do it later. That was just a collective ADHD hack, wasn't it?

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Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · 24/09/2026

Swift Testing was updated to support Embedded Swift on `main` so of course you know what that means

A Game Boy Advance displaying the console output from a Swift Testing example test suite

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Sarah Colonthree, unmoderated @sarah.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

I went to a cis wedding and the only person making out with the bride was the groom? ?? Can someone explain

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 22/09/2026

She probably won't thank me for posting this, but if you love Danielle she needs to hear that from you today.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 22/09/2026

Today marks five years since I started HRT. Sometimes science works like fucking magic. Still the best decision I've ever made.

Becca, a woman with curly brown/gray hair with a few red locks, wearing a lacy black top and a trans pride necklace, smiles in front of red umbrellas under a dark sky.

Becca leans against a white wall and smiles at the camera.

Becca leans against a white wall, a lace-gloved hand in her hair and a smirk on her lips that suggests she knows something you don’t.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 21/09/2026

finally, a technology that marries a computer's lack of common sense with a human's unreliability

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 21/09/2026

Feel like I've spent my entire adult life asymptotically approaching becoming a full-blown prison abolitionist.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 20/09/2026

when all the fielders congregate on the pitchers mound is that a standup meeting

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 19/09/2026

Royal flush playing Omaha with my family. I think this is the first time I've gotten that in over thirty years of poker.

A poker table from overhead with nine cards visible.

Hand: 2 of Diamonds, 9 of Spades, Queen of Hearts, Ace of Hearts.

Flop: Jack of Hearts, 10 of Hearts, Jack of Spades.

Turn: King of Hearts.

River: 6 of Hearts.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 18/09/2026

Snatched victory from the jaws of defeat at trivia night thanks to the last three questions happening to be about stuff I knew: • Ancient Greek inventors • Back To The Future • Weird national flags, for some reason?

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 17/09/2026

She would be very impressed by the job, but absolutely astonished by the gender.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 17/09/2026

OpenAI Announces That Maybe They Shouldn't Have Skipped Over That Alignment Research Thing After All

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 16/09/2026

Explain AuDHD to me Ok

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 15/09/2026

One thing I didn't anticipate about joining the Swift team was that I would become incapable of writing Swift code for more than a few hours, or spending more than a few days using my phone on vacation, without finding something I ought to file a radar about.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 13/09/2026

Grabbed a copy of *Much Ado About Nothing* for Reasons and holy shit, Beatrice is a banger factory.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 13/09/2026

🎶 Well, my wife broke down 🎶 And my dog left me 🎶 And I had to put down my truck

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 12/09/2026

ffxiv is polyphobic because i can only have one of my msq girlfriends follow me around at a time

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 12/09/2026

I've never met a human who's as fond of the sound of their own voice as Claude is.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 12/09/2026

My girlfriend is being mean and accusing me of being British :(

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, right about now, I emailed in my first contribution to the Parrot VM (since I didn't have CVS access yet) and fell into bed. Fortunately, nothing else of any significance happened that day.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 11/09/2026

Listening to "Lost In The Deep" from FFXIV and remembering that I've never had a video game reveal hit me quite as perfectly as entering the last chamber of Skydeep Cenote. It even hit the perfect point in the music to match what I was feeling.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 05/09/2026

TIL that you can pass two log files to `tail` and it'll print both with a separator.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 03/09/2026

If you make a drawing that's half ASCII art, half emoji characters, is that mixed media?

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 31/08/2026

I believe in America. I believe in our ability to provide government-funded health care through about sixty separate agencies that are impossible for any party to coherently control. Because that’s how we roll in the Land of the Free, baby. 🫡🇺🇸

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A software engineer takes a mind-altering drug on a work night.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 28/08/2026

"Oh my god, it's like everyone is living with a splinter in their toe and you offer to take the splinter out but they refuse!" "Yes, that is an apt metaphor for the C ecosystem." "Whyyyyyyy"

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 26/08/2026

My brother-in-law mentioned an account called Obvious Plant and I think it's just Nanoraptor for straight people

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 24/08/2026

Really like the little bit of added dimensionality to the controls in the 27 betas.

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 23/08/2026

Remembered tonight that eight or nine years ago, when I was still an indie and was thinking about moving my server-side work to Swift, I considered creating a rough Swift equivalent to Ruby's ERB by adding exactly one language feature to the ones I had already designed:

$func makeSignInForm(offeringSignUp: Bool) -> HTML = """ <form method="post" action="\(attr: signInURL)"> <label for="email">Email:</label> <input type="email" name="email"> <label for="password">Password:</label> <input type="password" name="password"> <input type="submit" value="Sign in"> \(offeringSignUp ? #"<a href="\#(signUpURL)">Sign up</a>"# : "") </form> """$

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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Writer: the cup is knocked off the table when the protagonist is trying to sneak around

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground... They are following children in parks and gymnasiums, and we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend."

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