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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

Trans people have been warning y'all for years that they were perfecting tactics on us to use on everyone else. The reporter of this piece, Christina Jewett, contributed to that too. She helped fuel the moral panic over puberty blockers in trans youth. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"–a genius of a robot, I am given to understand, capable of an artistic expression that can be matched nowhere. What more could you do if you were free?” “Perhaps no more than I do now, Your Honor, but with greater joy." from "Bicentennial Man", Asimov

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Why do you want to be free, Andrew? In what way will this matter to you?” Andrew said, “Would you wish to be a slave, Your Honor?” “But you are not a slave. You are a perfectly good robot—

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seriously. Most of medicine, as a field of practice, has no concept of a professional duty for what we might term psychological responsibility – a duty to get on top of one's kneejerk reactions – the way we do in psychotherapy and more broadly in psychiatry. And it badly needs one.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jesus. I guess we can assume it isn't trained on siloed data. 😬

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes and no. People have been finding it a problem that you can't have music without musicians (and, worse, have to – horrors! – *pay* the musicians) for centuries. Probably millennia, but I only have receipts back to the Middle Ages.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's this perennial touching faith that health insurance companies, because they are businesses, must be responsive to financial incentives, and will respond rationally to information to maximize revenues. Apparently not.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Speaking as a medical professional in the US, I am perpetually amazed at the extent to which insurance companies relentlessly demonstrate an inability to figure out just which side their bread is buttered on.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I kinda feel like if you make someone listen to Choosing Texas, you are morally obligated to also introduce them to at least one country song that doesn't suck.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I told my spouse about the Choosing Texas controversy, and he'd never heard of it either. So we fired up YT and listened to it. So then to make it up to him, I played him Bryan Andrew's "Yeehaw". I can now hear faint occasional YEEHAWs lofting up from the kitchen. youtu.be/yTZahJfAMds

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Bryan Andrews - Yeehaw

YouTube video by BryanAndrewsVEVO

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is like the perfect example of something people would naturally think, "oh God could an AI just do this for me? That would be swell." Turns out: no, actually, you can't trust an AI to do this. As understandable as it is that you might wish that you could.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I entirely agree that one shouldn't take the risk. But let's not minimize the almighty hassle listing something for sale online can be. Dumb questions, insulting offers, weird behaviors, getting ghosted, and just the tedium of trying to schedule pick-ups.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Heh, I was about to say, "Maybe Ford doesn't, but Toyota absolutely does. And that would explain how Toyota kicked sand in Ford's face and stole its lunch money." youtu.be/xmLUY-4xJb0?...

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This American Life #561 - NUMMI 2018

YouTube video by Leon Karter

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fascists are entirely invested in the idea that suffering is not bad, causing suffering is not bad, and the right response to suffering is "suck it up". Psychotherapy's basic premise is that suffering is a problem to be solved, and psychotherapists keep running around telling people that.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A fundamental core to the fascist belief system is that individuals have no intrinsic worth and should/get to be subordinated to the state like livestock. A fundamental principle psychotherapy is that the individual has intrinsic worth and value just for being a human being.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is absolutely true. Another, complementary, reason is that conservatives are also authoritarians, and authoritarians have been (correctly) identifying the liberatory potential of psychotherapy as inimical to their project of domination.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Case in point: nobody needed to do research on *men* to be convinced that when *men* scream, puke, or pass out in response to medically caused tissue damage it's bc they're actually feeling actual pain, and that their pain is itself a medical problem in need of treatment.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's certainly true, and also a huge problem. But you don't need to *research* to provide adequate analgesia to women, you just have to think they're people.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was pointing out the irony of how you expressed yourself.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I get the impression – from Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina first and foremost – the hospitals don't plan for disasters happening to themselves.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm guessing the mass casualty disaster drills your facility runs are the kind where the mass casualty disaster happens somewhere else, and the patients are transported to you. Not the kind where the mass casualty happens at your facility and you have to transport the patients somewhere else.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unquestionably, but I suspect that practical considerations had nothing to do with the decision, and that security details are being used as a status symbol allocated to the loyal, so they can have an armed entourage for show. Fauci, remember, had to pay for his own.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(This should not be construed as suggesting HVAC in non-residential buildings *isn't* stupid. I just have a particular interest in residential construction.)

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyways, I've been grumbling about Why Is HVAC* So Stupid In Residential Buildings for years now. * Expressly including passive forms. Am also salty how the term "HVAC" has come to mean exclusive *mechanical* systems.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And then there's Europe, which apparently doesn't do AC at all.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even large multifamily dwellings, unless they are quite recent construction, don't necessarily have centralized AC. Any older apartment building with steam heat or electric baseboard heat, is unlikely to have any duct work at all, much less exterior air intakes.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(Hence my recent excitement to discover the world of HRVs and ERVs, esp for single family and small unit multifamily.)

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That thread is super interesting to me but also initially confusing. When you say "typical building" you mean "typical *industrial/office* building with *central AC*". AFAIK, the vast majority of *residential* bldgs in CA & US *don't even have an exterior air intake*.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pretty sure that person wasn't disagreeing with your point that the Israelis are terrible, just that you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Your heart seems to be in the right place, but your head could do with some relocating. Anyways, muting you now.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Right?! Qv Fetterman, Platner. It's like what the DNC is doing is going, "We have to appeal to blue collar voters. Hmmm, what do they like? Oh I know! Bigotry and crime! Who do we have who is a very naughty boy?"

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Usually fascist governments try to lock their populace inside their countries, e.g. the Iron Curtain. Not turn them out. Because fascist governments usually see their populace as livestock, and value them as such.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You may have not picked up on the implication of Netanyahu's threat: to revoke someone's citizenship is to leave them *stateless*. That is a big, big, big fucking deal. It is also unusual.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think what you're trying to say is "you can tell that this is bad because it's something that Putin does". That is weak sauce that badly understates the case.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeeeah, no. It's the fucking with citizenship thing which is catastrophic. It is something so beyond, even Putin doesn't do it. For ANY state to do this is a VERY big deal. But within the context of Jewish culture and religion, this is like a nuclear bomb going off.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is something more profound than merely ironic. I can only speak for myself, of course, but as an American Jew with no intention of ever pursuing Israeli citizenship, reading that made my breath catch. That is some shattering-the-Dark-Crystal type stuff. If they do that, Israel is no longer Zion.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Amen. I was just thinking I needed to re-read that.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honestly? When this happens, I assume the problem is that they are DINOs, only running as Dems because they think there's some logistical advantage in it, and otherwise would just be GOPs.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hmmm, seems to me less like folding to external pressure and more like going mask off to reveal her internal nature.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

> MAGA is brainwashed. Young'uns keep saying this. Brainwashing is something done nonconsensually to a resisting victim. I'm pretty sure MAGA did this to themselves.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ah. That's a bummer. This is my surprised face the dude stumping on "Christian but liberal" turns out to not be down with trans rights.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm out of the loop. Who are we talking about?

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

States that want to engage in voter suppression get the natural consequence of having fewer Reps in the House.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This all is reminding me this loophole is still there. If we ever get it together as a country, we should consider amending the Constitution to make seats in the House depend not on total population but on the voting population.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So long as seats in the House were allocated by total population, slaver states could, grotesquely, simply breed themselves more Representatives – and by that means take over Congress. A phenomenon abolitionists called Slave Power.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It may have had knock-on effects, but insisting the enslaved do not count towards how many seats in the House a state gets was an attempt to limit the efficacy of force-breeding humans as a kind of gerrymander.

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