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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 27/09/2026

Texas Georg, a bot that streams an obscure song 10000 times per second, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 25/09/2026

Friendly reminder/PSA approaching spooky food season: activated charcoal has gotten popular as a black dye and interferes with a TON of medications. The worst documented interaction is with mycophenolate, an anti-rejection med many transplant patients (like me) take. But there are many dozens more.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 21/09/2026

He has concepts of a plan, you see

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 14/09/2026

Finally, the elusive premise for the Muppet Show!

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 13/09/2026

Also, some of us _cannot_ get the MMR vaccine because of immunosuppression. Our only protection is from the people around us getting vaccinated.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 13/09/2026

"The other side is worse and we're trying to be more like them" like is that really their selling point here?

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/09/2026

We've seen this enough times already. Adopting anti-trans positions doesn't let you absorb center-right voters. It lets the Republican party absorb you.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/09/2026

"The Republicans are totally right about the one manufactured issue they're actually talking about" isn't a compelling argument for *anyone* to vote for a Democrat. If you were leaning R because of this one issue, it just confirms your choice; if you disagree with it, it risks losing your vote.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/09/2026

Really disheartening to see so many Democrats loudly declaring their intention to lose in the midterms. (Obviously even worse to be seeing it from under this bus.)

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just have concerns about girls sports

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 09/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when that was supposed to be one of the selling points for iOS as a developer!

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 29/08/2026

(But thanks WSJ for the reminder to pause and drink more water!)

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 29/08/2026

"'Too much' precisely means that quantity which is excessive, that's what it means. Could you ever say 'too much water is good for you'? I mean if it's too much it's too much. Too much of anything is too much. Obviously. Jesus." —Stephen Fry in "Doctor Tobacco", A Bit of Fry and Laurie

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 28/08/2026

In other news, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that straight men are actually unaware that glass storefronts are reflective

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 28/08/2026

I think I’ve reached the transition milestone where being gawked at by men on the street is _just_ gross, without that weird little bit of complicated gender affirmation problematically layered on top.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026

😻😻😻

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 10/08/2026

I settled on a picture of myself and updated my artist bio like a real person, please clap

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey yeah time to dust off those 2020 tweets about how PEOPLE WITH UNDERLYING HEALTH ISSUES DESERVE TO LIVE TOO, YOU ABSOLUTE GHOULS.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 03/08/2026

Nooooo that's a load-bearing cardboard box!!!

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 26/07/2026

The disembodied parent/narrator voice from Sarah & Duck

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 24/07/2026

Anyway, PSA to any healthcare providers who need to hear it: the sex field on lab orders actually changes the report. It isn't just for ID, and wouldn't be a place to get creative even if it were.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 24/07/2026

("Trans-friendly" is underselling the importance, of course. It makes the difference between in-range and out-of-range for a lot of tests, and can throw values off entirely for things like eGFR.)

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 24/07/2026

I decided to try out Tia for primary care, since they present themselves as being trans-friendly. Just got my first set of labs back, and everything's listed with ... male reference ranges. Great.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 17/07/2026

<blush> the thing is, I was feeling pretty until the camera interjected (But was she also right that I look like a pilgrim? That was when the conversation got awkward)

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 17/07/2026

Random stranger: you have the most beautiful face, you look like a portrait of a woman from the 17th century Front-facing camera five minutes later: please allow me to accentuate the color of decay around your eyes, you absolute gargoyle Dysphoria: welp, photographic evidence 🤷‍♀️

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 05/07/2026

"Preroll? Who needs preroll?" seems like the way these people would roll

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

there are three kinds of people: 1) “five minutes!” “thank you, five!” 2) “five minutes!” “heard!” 3) everyone else

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Los Angeles Gender Expansive Creatives Collective @wearelagecc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out for last Sunday's LAGECC Dad Rock tribute! It was incredible to launch LAGECC with so much fun and joy among fantastic family, friends, and community. <3

Still of the full cast of LAGECC performers at the Dad Rock concert. From left to right, Azalea on inflatable microphone, Kami on real microphone, Church on inflatable banjo, Lisa-Skye on inflatable saxophone, Dar on inflatable electric guitar, and Siobhán on upright piano

Still of the full cast of LAGECC performers at the Dad Rock concert. From left to right, Azalea holds an inflatable microphone, Kami holds a real microphone, Lisa-Skye attempts to eat an inflatable saxophone,Church smashes an inflatable banjo in punk rock fashion, and Dar and Siobhán look on approvingly.

On stage, Lisa-Skye takes a very important phone call on a prop telephone between numbers at the LAGECC Dad Rock show. The phone is an old-school wired black bakelite model. Lisa-Skye is standing between the drum set and the piano, and in his signature style rocking green hair, black fingerless gloves, a blue and black flannel shirt, a white and black plaid skirt, and a pink and black necktie. He appears dramatically shocked by what he has learned from this phone call.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 25/06/2026

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 20/06/2026

Come see me at the piano and the mic tomorrow!

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Los Angeles Gender Expansive Creatives Collective @wearelagecc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Our first ever event is at 1:30 pm TOMORROW! Join us at Scribble in Highland Park for an afternoon of music and entertainment as we present an all-trans tribute to dad rock 🤘 lagecc.org/events/2026-...

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LAGECC Début: An All-Trans Tribute to Dad Rock

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

oh shit it's Loving Day hooray for Loving v. Virginia, my marriage, and inclusive constitutionalism, and fuck originalism forever tinyurl.com/originalismt...

screenshot of an excerpt from The Originalism Trap reading as follows:

Virginia defended the legality of its anti-miscegenation law on
originalist grounds. The o-word was still not in common usage, but
the analysis is unmistakable: the state argued at length that the
meaning of the Constitution is fixed at the time of adoption and
courts must give effect to the intent of the Framers and the people
who adopted it. If one accepts that premise, they continued, there’s
no constitutional problem with criminalizing interracial marriage.

screenshotted excerpt from The Originalism Trap reading as follows:

North Carolina submitted an amicus brief that echoed Virginia’s
claim that courts cannot deviate from the Constitution’s original understanding and expressed skepticism about the Court’s authority
to disrupt historical legal bigotry: “Unless, therefore, the Fourteenth
Amendment is construed as a grand commission which constitutes
the federal courts as a species of judicial privateers to sink every
state ship in sight if they do not like the cut of its sails, then the historic position asserted by Virginia is clearly sound.” We should pay
no attention, apparently, to the fact that the “sail” in question was a
giant, billowing Confederate flag.

screenshotted excerpt of The Originalism Trap reading as follows:

The Supreme Court’s decision in Loving should be read as clear
and compelling guidance for constitutional interpretation: the substance of due process is bound up with the values of equality and
antisubordination, and the originalist notion that a case could or
should be resolved based on an identifiable original understanding is
infinitely less instructive than the Fourteenth Amendment’s command to the government to confront America’s caste systems—
chiefly, white supremacy.

photo of me and The Husband on our wedding day! we are walking down a tree-lined NYC street, complete with a yellow taxi cab in the background. I am wearing my wedding dress -- a strapless ivory gown that's form fitting up top but then expands into a massive train of tulle -- and The Husband is wearing a great navy blue suit with a pink tie. He's holding my vibrant bouquet in one hand, and holding my hand with the other

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/06/2026

I can't be there for this event, but some of my incredibly lovely friends will be there, and I'm excited to be part of launching this fabulous group!

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Los Angeles Gender Expansive Creatives Collective @wearelagecc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hello, world! We are LAGECC, a new organization of artists, performers, crafters, and creators from across Southern California's trans* community. We bring our diverse backgrounds together to support and uplift each other, in the act of creation and in the spreading of trans joy.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 02/06/2026

It's okay if you aren't ready yet—and it's okay if you are ready but the world around you isn't.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 27/05/2026

I love that you worded this as though there were not a causal relationship between the two facts

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 27/05/2026

I grew up in SoCal and say "ope" all the time! I just say it more subconsciously and with less emphasis than the many Minnesotans I know and love.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 25/05/2026

There already wioll haven on-been one

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 08/05/2026

And I still don't understand why a paper in Wisconsin published a story from Missouri about someone dying in Mississippi who had claimed without substantiation to have done something interesting in New York. Slow news day, I guess? But it's still fun lore!

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 08/05/2026

Addendum: Sadly this illustrates why ideas alone are useless as IP! Turns out someone had patented a design a year before she arrived in New York, and then lost their patent because others were starting to manufacture them—it was just an obvious idea. I'm sure she thought of it, but wasn't first.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 07/05/2026

My great-great-grandmother ✏️

ERASERS BRING HER FAME
Mrs. Houston, Originator of Rubber Pencil Tips, Brought to St. Louis for Burial
St. Louis, Mo.—The body of Mrs. Mary E. Houston, reputed to be the originator of rubber eraser tips on lead pencils, was brought to St. Louis for burial. Mrs. Houston, who was 85 years old, died at Greenwood, Miss., of apoplexy.
In 1859, Mrs. Houston said, she entered a stationery store in New York city to purchase a pencil. She asked the clerk why rubber tips could not be placed on the pencils. The clerk called several officials of the firm and explained her suggestion. Before she left New York, Mrs. Houston said, lead pencils with rubbers attached were advertised there for the first time. The stationery house refused to admit it was indebted to her for the suggestion.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 04/05/2026

This shop (which never carries anything by JKR) explicitly specializes in underrepresented voices and authors, so they decided not to restock HR given its clear mainstream success. That was apparently enough to break someone's grasp of reality.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 04/05/2026

The very queer/trans indie bookstore in my town recently got hate from Heated Rivalry fans calling them "hateful and transphobic". Turns out someone thought this tiny store was responsible for everything sold on bookshop.org, so blamed them for the existence of Harry Potter 🙄

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 02/05/2026

I feel like it has to be hard-coded to boost “engagement”, right? It’s the most deterministic part of how these models behave, and it’s definitely not coming from Stack Overflow comments or whatever

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