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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️

@kfadams.bsky.social
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Parent | Wife | PhD | Oregonian | Trans | Computer Scientist | Systems | Early 40s. TL a mess of tech, science, politics, defense, humor, trans stuff, and games. I’m awkward AF. she/her. Posts not endorsed or representative of my employer(s).

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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 9h
Apparently this is not the appropriate response to bad code. Or finding a spider in the bathroom.
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Sygourney Weaver: Nuke From Orbit
ALT: Sygourney Weaver: Nuke From Orbit
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 10h
Try estrogen.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 15h
Things are shitty, we are losing rights. This is not up for debate. But we’ve got to stop shitting on progress and ignoring quiet victories.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never cease to be amazed at how few cis people know, even in passing, another trans person. I live in a place where we’re quite common and when I came out publicly I’d say I was the first trans person most of my cis acquaintances had ever knowingly met.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Back on my nonsense
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What the flying fuck? Why the fuck would “when” automatically complete to “Wehrmacht”?!?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The murder hornets invade Ireland. Stop fucking things up, you little assholes.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me to fan artwork of hot characters in games and franchises I don't play
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah I’ve got one of those PhD thingies too. In computer science, no less. This guy is rightfully being dragged. Writing is vitally important for learning how to articulate and communicate thoughts. That he’s a professor and sharting out this stuff should be humiliating and career ending.
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Archaeologist here and someone who just wrote an entire book chapter ln the history of communication. Maybe if dude had spoken to a linguist or an anthropologist he would not have shown his taint to the entire universe. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t even know where to start with this absolute insanity.
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why are you trans? Wrong answers only. Needed to have more career opportunities and dominate women’s darts.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So my own perspective. I helped mentor a number of stem grad students. The most successful ones had blended liberal arts, often entirely non-stem backgrounds. Hardcore engineering ones? Much more likely to struggle with independent research and open ended questions.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Or there’s a lot of shitty fucking parents. Like growing up, kids my age would compare notes on how their parents beat them. Paddles, belts, and the like.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been genuinely wondering if we’re going to see a resurgence of print and physical media. Cost and friction in the publication space in the past meant at least a modicum of fact checking and authenticity was desirable so the publishers weren’t considered completely junk….
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
feminize a band name The Alana Parsons Project
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hi. Computer scientist here. like not just a bachelors and then went to a coding job I did R&D for a decade after my doctorate. Anyways, no they can’t. It’s a statistical model that barfs out a mechanical response based on what data is most likely to satisfy a given query.
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erratrix @chiptune.gay · 26/09/2026
it's my birthday! I'm at least 40. if you want to do something for me, share my music around. the new one is kinda popular, but I think the older one is better erratrix.bandcamp.com/music
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I want worse sounds, at a lower bitrate, with less polyphony tracked by queerer people, paid more to write less and I'm not kidding.
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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve seen 8 of the top 100. Only one of the top 10. I don’t know what that says about me, but it says something?
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fury Road. Every one of those cars and trucks actually fucking _worked_
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We live in the stupidest timeline…..
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hate when i accidentally wind up on the discover feed and like a few posts from the same person and i look like an insane creep as its 3 posts spread 5 days apart.
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shanley @shanley.com · 19/05/2026
Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:
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Cassidy Dark 🎃 Clouds🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔞 @cassidycloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can just be whoever you want
Dead guyEdm girlie
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple is an anomaly being a tech firm that’s actually good at consumer product marketing. Most are indifferent to actively bad at it and rely on momentum and market dominance to stay alive. I don’t see this particular poison getting past the toxic waste reputation it justifiably has anytime soon.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So most of the data the source study used predates Covid, and the source study actually calls it out as causing a general increase in mortality. The point missed here is that accounting for COVID a narrow demographic still seems to have higher mortality They’re not maliciously ignoring COVID.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can just be whoever you want
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To all the late transitioners: You didn't just change your own lives. You expanded the horizon of possibilities for everyone witnessing your journey. Thank you for being the role models we so desperately need and are so lucky to have.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel like I spilled over onto the normie side of Bluesky on accident the last couple days. Woops. Well, see how long til I irritate them.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That cover. Stick it to ‘em.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Realize I used this for a bit of a throw away gag but Eddie/Suzie Izzard as the first really positive representation of GNC I ever saw as a teen in the 90s and early 2000s. Prior to that was just always the punchline of a joke, or worse.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Resilient ad-hoc distributed systems designs for rebel cruisers.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jeeze bunch of new followers. Hi! Hello! Um… do any of you like…. Cheese? Or uh…. <frantically checks notecards and drops them on the floor>… Oh no….
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The deeply misogynistic and sexist faith based on some dude using magic glasses to read nonexistent gold plates in a hat is struggling with retention?
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This. And this is why I have a firewall around my kids as regards social media. No photos, names rarely if ever mentioned, no schools or parks where we frequent posted in any public or semi public space.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After I transitioned I got my first negative review in a decade. Was laid off shortly after that. Purely coincidental, I suppose.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So (pre transition) I dated a lot in grad school. I was a capital N Nerd. 6 feet. Bad posture. 135lbs soaking wet. Not being a creep, asking questions, and just listening took me far and with people ostensibly waaaaaayyyy outta my league.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So on the meeting one: A bizzare happenstance is that I had this behavior routinely occur to me before I transitioned. My wife even pointed out “huh, they’re treating you like a woman…” Note: I am 6 feet tall and had a giant beard at the time. Also it sucks and dudes really are often this shitty
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 21/09/2026
Many people are saying so.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Short answer: yes, but it’s not often the big shinies when they’re new.
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Spacey Kacey @kaceyisspacey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One annoying pill ive had to deal with thanks the combo of being in ED therapy/care and trans community spaces is that no dysphoria/dysmorphia exists in a vaccum and talking about your body issues and what you think needs to be fixed is not always a neutral act
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The entire point of the complaints about Jeffries meeting with Kushner was that he had no official role and there was no official reason for meeting with him. But Trump is actually the president. That's a significant difference that should be visible to the naked eye if you're not insane.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well?
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The other issue is that a hand-wavey "all old movies are sexist/racist, etc" erases a lot of talent AND erases the line between, say, a bad throwaway gag in one scene and BIRTH OF A NATION. This is all on a spectrum and there are a lot of people muddying the waters.
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Dr. KNFA 🏳️‍⚧️ @kfadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also fuck RFK. He should be launched into the sun.
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