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Glau
@sciathan.bsky.social
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Traveler, now in Chicago. Trans. Gigantic reader of politics and trashy fiction. Nerd. Professional.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 12m
Ceasefire? What ceasefire?
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 13m
Determined how? That sounds like a label to slap on anyone.

But if you want to take the security minister's position that there are no innocents and no civilians in Gaza, please say so now.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 54m
That didn't take long. Must disappoint the folks who armed and sheltered those gangs in an attempt to create a counterweight to Hamas.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 5h
Which means we agree that there's more than 100x more hostages taken and held by the side that doesn't call them hostages.

With a likely similar ratio of killed civilians.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h
How do you educate someone who doesn't care what you have to say?

There's a need for leverage to make them care first, and what that leverage can legitimately be seems to be where the argument is.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h
Does this extend pre-internet? Thinking Dungeons and dragons or rap or violent video games.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h
Process only matters to the degree it improves outcomes.

As soon as you sacrifice outcomes to process, you lose legitimacy, and there's a limited amount of that you can lose before the whole system is regarded as tyranny rather than ally.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h
IE, shame ceased to be useful as a tool of social control because tech enabled it to be used against the powerful as well as the powerless, and so it was quickly devalued?
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h
Ok. Some have, yes.

Now you.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 19h
So you will admit that at least the several thousand people who have been picked up and held without being charged with anything are hostages.

I'll note that many of these people have testified to being tortured while they were held.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 23h
Kanye and Elon got increasingly mask off as time went on. If you are right, time will show that you are very conclusively.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 23h
That's definitely true, and overlaps a lot with the idea that being trans is just being hyper gay, because gay guys get that sort of reaction as well.
Calls back to the older bottoming=woman topping=man gender understandings?
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
Not according to crime statistics? People who were parents then definitely grew up in a safer world though, so it might have been lag.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
But in practice, almost everything post birth is hormones.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
Not the Y chromosome, a specific gene that is usually on the y chromosome, but sometimes isn't and sometimes is on an X.
However, chimerism is also a thing, and there's evidence that brain development pathways are different from body development paths, and they can differ. So, yeah, complicated.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
I vote for the clipper Sea Witch!
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
Transition is definitely a threat to patriarchy: if men are superior to women as patriarchy states, but men can be made into women, then there's no actual guarantee of status for men in it and so no safety in embracing it.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
I'd love a public norm that says you wear a mask when you are sick or think you are getting sick, like in east asia. Clamp down on the spread by blocking sources, not receptors.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
Pedomorphic? That's the creepiest way of saying 'young looking' I've ever seen.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
Lol dude has a thing about furries. Wonder what his 'sona is.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
He was trying to call them all furries?
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
And there's always been people with good morals. But almost never in power. Which is possibly why it looks like ethics were different back then? It was the same empowered assholes shouting loudly that they did nothing wrong, but the accusations they were responding to didn't get written down.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
I read substack sometimes, and the degree to which the conservatives there believe the exact opposite is staggering. They are all like 'we are good, kind people and the liberals want to kill us' and it's like, dude, mirror.
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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d
Good instincts, but orchis are cheap compared to face or full reassignment options... Google says $5-$12k out of pocket in the US?
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d
Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like www.openculture.com/2025/10/what...
Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like
As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.
www.openculture.com
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