BexM
@bexm.bsky.social
Confused, earnest, tired, trans. They/she. ייִדיש לערנער
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BexM
@bexm.bsky.social
· Mar 20
11 years! Feels like to mark the occasion I should add one more item to the thread and it’s going to be:
Prayer for Transformation by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
“Cursed be the one who announced to my father:
‘It’s a boy!…’”
opensiddur.org/prayers/civi...
Prayer for Transformation by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
“Cursed be the one who announced to my father:
‘It’s a boy!…’”
opensiddur.org/prayers/civi...
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Supergirl is trending? Well, I’m not too good to jump on a trend. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Supergirl is trending? Well, I’m not too good to jump on a trend. 🧵
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I am gonna preempt the annual "Hanukkah is just a minor holiday" discourse, with my annual:
Actually, some communities have made a huge deal of it for centuries.
Here is one:
"Hanukkah is the main end of the High Holidays."
- 18th century rebbe, quoting 16th century writings.
1/4
Actually, some communities have made a huge deal of it for centuries.
Here is one:
"Hanukkah is the main end of the High Holidays."
- 18th century rebbe, quoting 16th century writings.
1/4
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I am gonna preempt the annual "Hanukkah is just a minor holiday" discourse, with my annual:
Actually, some communities have made a huge deal of it for centuries.
Here is one:
"Hanukkah is the main end of the High Holidays."
- 18th century rebbe, quoting 16th century writings.
1/4
Actually, some communities have made a huge deal of it for centuries.
Here is one:
"Hanukkah is the main end of the High Holidays."
- 18th century rebbe, quoting 16th century writings.
1/4
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I became eligible to apply for naturalization during the first Trump admin, and decided to wait with my application until a Dem admin is back in power (I applied and became a citizen during the Biden Admin). I was afraid of exactly this sort of thing. People told me I was being paranoid.
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I became eligible to apply for naturalization during the first Trump admin, and decided to wait with my application until a Dem admin is back in power (I applied and became a citizen during the Biden Admin). I was afraid of exactly this sort of thing. People told me I was being paranoid.
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I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
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Babe wake up new official Farcille art dropped
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Babe wake up new official Farcille art dropped
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this whole battle of the sexes stunt is repulsive in every way, Osaka's agency sponsoring it is also... fucking gross
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
this whole battle of the sexes stunt is repulsive in every way, Osaka's agency sponsoring it is also... fucking gross
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It's hard to talk about this without buying-in to stigmatizing trans bodies, but there's a really cruel part hiding here: The effects of dual puberty (what you force by banning blockers) are the exact elements of trans bodies that cis people later use to justify discrimination against trans folks.
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's hard to talk about this without buying-in to stigmatizing trans bodies, but there's a really cruel part hiding here: The effects of dual puberty (what you force by banning blockers) are the exact elements of trans bodies that cis people later use to justify discrimination against trans folks.
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Cis people, I really need you to understand what's happening when "ban puberty blockers" happens. Puberty blockers were a compromise. A *cruel* compromise. What a transitioning person wants is to go through the correct puberty. Ideally you'd do it at the normal time for a body to go through puberty…
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Cis people, I really need you to understand what's happening when "ban puberty blockers" happens. Puberty blockers were a compromise. A *cruel* compromise. What a transitioning person wants is to go through the correct puberty. Ideally you'd do it at the normal time for a body to go through puberty…
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Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
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Writers now: what a rich period of borrowing from Norman French into English!
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Writers now: what a rich period of borrowing from Norman French into English!
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
1440, Bokenham hating on the youth:
"They barbarize them both and speak neither good French nor good English"
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1502816...
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The set of three laws will police names and pronouns in school, ban transgender girls from participating in amateur female sports, and restrict gender-affirming health care for youth under 16. Because gov't used the notwithstanding clause, they can't be challenged in court
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta Legislature passes bill invoking Charter override for 4th time | CBC News
Alberta's governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that marks the fourth time in under two months they have used the Charter's notwith...
www.cbc.ca
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The set of three laws will police names and pronouns in school, ban transgender girls from participating in amateur female sports, and restrict gender-affirming health care for youth under 16. Because gov't used the notwithstanding clause, they can't be challenged in court
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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balance of power, game over screen, msx (1988) mobygames.com/game/259/bal...
September 4, 2023 at 12:45 AM
balance of power, game over screen, msx (1988) mobygames.com/game/259/bal...
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I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events.
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events.
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initially thought this was a fair and normal reply given the context then i realized it’s a bot thats replying to every asian on this site
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
initially thought this was a fair and normal reply given the context then i realized it’s a bot thats replying to every asian on this site
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The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
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Unless you live in Toronto, in which case this is actually smug, depressing research
Important, exciting research — air pollution dropped 22% in NYC's congestion relief zone within the first 6 months of #CongestionPricing (with reductions in the surrounding neighborhoods, too)
Cleaner air, better transit, great data — all thanks to #CongestionPricing!
Cleaner air, better transit, great data — all thanks to #CongestionPricing!
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Unless you live in Toronto, in which case this is actually smug, depressing research
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this is why I made the death generator
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
this is why I made the death generator
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my take on fonts is that using either Times New Roman or Calibri as the official font for government documents is insane. you should have a government font that the government commissions and thus places in the public domain. it's like if every government memo was stamped with a Microsoft watermark.
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
my take on fonts is that using either Times New Roman or Calibri as the official font for government documents is insane. you should have a government font that the government commissions and thus places in the public domain. it's like if every government memo was stamped with a Microsoft watermark.
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They found a way to make the J6 Pipe bomber trans.
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
They found a way to make the J6 Pipe bomber trans.
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sam tunick is an activist in the atlanta jewish community
New from 404 Media: a man has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." Man is described as an activist online
www.404media.co/man-charged-...
www.404media.co/man-charged-...
Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
sam tunick is an activist in the atlanta jewish community
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"... it has been happening for a long time, and we know why, and we understand it, and we can make credible projections.”
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true » Yale Climate Connections
Even without today’s advanced modeling tools, scientists made a ‘remarkably’ accurate estimate.
yaleclimateconnections.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"... it has been happening for a long time, and we know why, and we understand it, and we can make credible projections.”
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
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For the next installment of American Science, Shattered, I talked to early-career queer researchers about how they're navigating federal attacks on both their work and their personhood.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/09/h...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/09/h...
Early-career trans researchers reconsider their futures amid lost funding and fear
The chaos created by the freezing and termination of billions of dollars of research grants has left trans academics especially vulnerable.
www.statnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
For the next installment of American Science, Shattered, I talked to early-career queer researchers about how they're navigating federal attacks on both their work and their personhood.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/09/h...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/09/h...
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“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”