Kit Stubbs, Ph.D. (they/them)
@kitstubbsphd.bsky.social
Boston-area non-binary/transgender/queer nerd
Past co-chair, WisCon (wiscon.net), the world's first feminist SFF con
Founder, The Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity (effing.org)
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Past co-chair, WisCon (wiscon.net), the world's first feminist SFF con
Founder, The Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity (effing.org)
Avatar by @reelrollsweat on tumblr, https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2069970
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Not everyone is born trans; for some people, being trans is an expressive, deeply personal choice. Being trans is like being Jewish. Whether or not you're born that way or choose to become that way, it's a basic sacred freedom and human right.
Having regrets about being born trans is about as useful as having regrets about being born with red hair. You can dye your hair black, but you will always still be a redhead. And you can “detrans,” but you will always still be trans. We are born this way.
Yes! Thank you for this! I was a girl, and then a young woman, and then after a while, "woman" just didn't feel right. And "man" didn't feel right either. And I refused to cram myself into either box. So, ten years ago I came out as trans & non-binary. (Yep, I'm one of the dreaded "they/thems".) 1/6
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While we're talking about squishy Senate Democrats unfit for the moment, I wanted to highlight an excellent Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts who understands the situation.
Check out @rikleen.bsky.social: badfaithtimes.com/this-u-s-sen...
Check out @rikleen.bsky.social: badfaithtimes.com/this-u-s-sen...
This U.S. Senate Candidate Wants To Fix The Rogue Supreme Court
"Democrats who promise policy initiatives but don’t discuss court reform are living in a land of make believe."
badfaithtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
While we're talking about squishy Senate Democrats unfit for the moment, I wanted to highlight an excellent Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts who understands the situation.
Check out @rikleen.bsky.social: badfaithtimes.com/this-u-s-sen...
Check out @rikleen.bsky.social: badfaithtimes.com/this-u-s-sen...
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I've seen the same thing happen with weird and wonderful things in nature. Yes, sometimes rivers are strange colours and animals have utterly mind bending adaptations – AI is making it so hard to communicate the baffling joy and absurdity of the universe
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I've seen the same thing happen with weird and wonderful things in nature. Yes, sometimes rivers are strange colours and animals have utterly mind bending adaptations – AI is making it so hard to communicate the baffling joy and absurdity of the universe
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Oh thank FUCK
(Does it mean that they won't on another case? Not necessarily. But every day it's safe is a day it's safe, and every flimsy pretext they deny is reassuring for the rule of law in the land.)
(Does it mean that they won't on another case? Not necessarily. But every day it's safe is a day it's safe, and every flimsy pretext they deny is reassuring for the rule of law in the land.)
#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Oh thank FUCK
(Does it mean that they won't on another case? Not necessarily. But every day it's safe is a day it's safe, and every flimsy pretext they deny is reassuring for the rule of law in the land.)
(Does it mean that they won't on another case? Not necessarily. But every day it's safe is a day it's safe, and every flimsy pretext they deny is reassuring for the rule of law in the land.)
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
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Example number 1 gajillion of how, even in the most clear-cut of cases, cops are not your friend and can't be trusted.
If you know a MA criminal defense attorney please reach out.
If you know a MA criminal defense attorney please reach out.
anyone know good criminal defense attorneys in the Somerville MA area? a local acquaintance's bike was run over by a car a few weeks ago, and they're being charged with a felony by SPD for the resulting scratch on the assailant's car
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Example number 1 gajillion of how, even in the most clear-cut of cases, cops are not your friend and can't be trusted.
If you know a MA criminal defense attorney please reach out.
If you know a MA criminal defense attorney please reach out.
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"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
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a huge problem with the Senate being a lifetime Millionaire (mostly) Boys Club is that they all identify with each other — and the wealthy donors they socialize with — far more strongly than with their constituents. Their loyalty is not to us.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
a huge problem with the Senate being a lifetime Millionaire (mostly) Boys Club is that they all identify with each other — and the wealthy donors they socialize with — far more strongly than with their constituents. Their loyalty is not to us.
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Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
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narrator: It was in fact super negotiable
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
narrator: It was in fact super negotiable
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Japanese women photographers — like their counterparts around the world — share a long tradition of being ignored. A recent anthology and several exhibitions are trying to change that.
What we see when Japanese women photographers shoot back
Women in photography have been less visible than their male counterparts. An anthology of 25 photographers and three exhibitions this autumn are turning the tides.
ebx.sh
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Japanese women photographers — like their counterparts around the world — share a long tradition of being ignored. A recent anthology and several exhibitions are trying to change that.
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All
Congresspeople
Are
Bastards
Congresspeople
Are
Bastards
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
All
Congresspeople
Are
Bastards
Congresspeople
Are
Bastards
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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i did another one from the book
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i did another one from the book
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Rich people are complaining about their taxes going up and like, can't you just make more money? I swear, rich people these days just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy and entitled. Like pull yourself up by your gold plated bootstraps, rich people, don't you always say that's so easy?
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Rich people are complaining about their taxes going up and like, can't you just make more money? I swear, rich people these days just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy and entitled. Like pull yourself up by your gold plated bootstraps, rich people, don't you always say that's so easy?
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Don't know what to caption this but isn't Ricky looking so good? What a cat 💕
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Don't know what to caption this but isn't Ricky looking so good? What a cat 💕
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Watson was not some unique genius. He happened to be in the right place at the right time
Science is a communal effort. The structure of DNA would have been discovered eventually
What actually slows scientific progress is institutional barriers that stop women and POC from becoming scientists
Science is a communal effort. The structure of DNA would have been discovered eventually
What actually slows scientific progress is institutional barriers that stop women and POC from becoming scientists
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Watson was not some unique genius. He happened to be in the right place at the right time
Science is a communal effort. The structure of DNA would have been discovered eventually
What actually slows scientific progress is institutional barriers that stop women and POC from becoming scientists
Science is a communal effort. The structure of DNA would have been discovered eventually
What actually slows scientific progress is institutional barriers that stop women and POC from becoming scientists
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The largest mass media- NYT, CNN, CBS, etc- are owned by billionaires. They own media not to make money, but to control the information space to be friendly to class interests.
Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.
Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.
After a week in which Dems exceeded expectations in elections, Trump's popularity continues to tank, the GOP largely abandoned the task of governing (just as Thanksgiving travel approaches), I'm a bit surprised to see many more stories highlighting weakness in the Dem than in the GOP coalition.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The largest mass media- NYT, CNN, CBS, etc- are owned by billionaires. They own media not to make money, but to control the information space to be friendly to class interests.
Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.
Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.
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Also, scream this shit from the rooftops:
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Also, scream this shit from the rooftops:
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with alt text
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
with alt text
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Mamdani is gonna implement charcuterie law. Every meal must consist of sliced meats, cheeses, small pieces of bread, and fruit.
Mamdani is gonna implement Shar Pei law. One wrinkle dog per household.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Mamdani is gonna implement charcuterie law. Every meal must consist of sliced meats, cheeses, small pieces of bread, and fruit.
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The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.
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@caffeinated-spoon.bsky.social and I are proud to announce a cross-server initiative this month called ‘Smut for SNAP’, where you can ask participating writers to write you a piece of smut in exchange for a charitable donation to a food bank, blood bank, or volunteer hours.
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@caffeinated-spoon.bsky.social and I are proud to announce a cross-server initiative this month called ‘Smut for SNAP’, where you can ask participating writers to write you a piece of smut in exchange for a charitable donation to a food bank, blood bank, or volunteer hours.