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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 17h

Are the pro-PROC Silicon Valley techbros in the room with us?

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

🧲 We’re seeing the horseshoe event horizon when the lefties cheering on China because they see it as a counterforce against the US align with the Silicon Valley tech titans high on China as an advanced Sino-topian techno-surveillance state.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

(5 obvious ones if you count Raichu, and even more if you count really shaped ones from gen 6 like Slowbro and Abomasnow)

Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone is earnestly speculating on if the new mega Pokemon are shaped like an X or Y, I'd love to see it. So I have to be the shape investigator for now..

Basically, three mons that feel extremely obvious, 11 that I'm pretty sure fit into the trend, and 7 that I want to see analyzed.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

We know this isn't gonna work cuz even the NYT is straight up saying this is all about you.

Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

If you're actually wondering: Sableye has an X on its chest, Kangaskhan I can see being an exception, and the closest thing I can think of to another mega with no shape changes is Ampharos, whose ears get longer to match its neck, making a compelling argument.

Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with this argument is that Mega Pokemon are uniquely *more* X and Y shaped than the non-Megas they are based on.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

Outer Wilds
Dark Souls
Hollow Knight
Metal Gear Solid
Nier Automata
Final Fantasy VII (and probably some others I haven't played)
Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Undertale
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Doom
Earthbound
Portal

And basically any other video game if Bioshock makes the list :p

Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh "escapist slop" is a much smaller category than people like to act

Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he just wants to use it as his retirement home

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 2d

oh.

Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 2d

Omg the kissmate reference

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 2d

The people who enforce the gender binary on society? Absolutely, yes.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d

The scale of it is unimaginable. What they're spending, the sheer amount of effort being put into opposing trans people's human rights, it's a struggle to conceptualise the extent of it.

It's why Elon Musk bought twitter.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d

It's hard to fathom for most people just how much effort and money is being poured into anti-trans shit, but it's billionaires, the entire apparatus of religious right think tanks like ADF, Heritage etc, entire media empires like Rupert Murdoch's, whole political parties and world governments...

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah it's insane. Like the implication that all perisex dongs are "moderate to large" when the cutoff is actually one inch.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

Different person, but found an intersex blogger defending the use of bioessentialism based on ASAB anyway...

Screenshot of long tumblr post, passage reading:

"Terms like "mulleripathian" and "wolffipathian" are really great starts towards language that describes peritypical sex traits without using gendered terms like "male and "female."

Simultaneously- I am intersex. I don't fit neatly in boxes and sometimes I need language that describes sex traits that I share with others while the specific shared traits are unknown. I hate that I am literally being told to lump myself into words invented to replace perisex sex labels in order to express these things. I cannot stress enough that I am neither mulleripathian nor wolffipathian.

In my family there is a clear pattern in who develops bipolar disorder. That is- for at least 4, if not more, generations on my mom's side of family nearly everyone who was AFAB develops bipolar disorder. Not a single person who was AMAB has developed it. Given that the gender & sex demographics for bipolar disorder are approximately half and half this makes no sense. Bipolar disorder is supposed to affect all sexes equally. Evidently, in my family, this is not the case.

I have no specific trait to base this on. No one knows why my family has this pattern. I cannot point fingers and go "It's the hormones/chromosomes/etc." because nobody knows. Nobody even knows if we share those characteristics- certainly no one was looking at my great great grandma's sex chromosomes."

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

You joke but people have speculated on if that meant he was intersex.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

Oh god, it gets worse.

If you have "cis men DNI" in your bio, please consider the fact that we have cis men in our system, and thus by following us you are either misgendering some of us or being pluralphobic. Also consider that putting "cis men DNI" in your bio is excluding non-binary, intersex, altersex, gay, m-spec, and/or a-spec cis men. And you are forcing trans people to out themselves in order to follow you.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's more just the fact that some intersex people are born with a body part that gets read as too big to be a clit and too small to be a dick.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

oh god. I could not find the site when I looked but this sounds worse than I coulda thought

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 3d

Gross. Just gross.

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 4d

I was under the impression that those terms were being encouraged only to describe perisex people's bodies, but they do seem ripe for misuse in the same way AMAB and AFAB were (since they basically do mean "AMAB perisex" and "AFAB perisex" at best).

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no, see Hendrix is anti woke so all their bio says is "ex trans"

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 5d

If only there was a way for someone to specify that in their bio

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Izzy, short for Isabella @izzybread.bsky.social · 5d

Damn he's already back on the grift

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