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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 10h

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.

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 10h

Does this extend pre-internet? Thinking Dungeons and dragons or rap or violent video games.

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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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?

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 10h

Ok. Some have, yes.

Now you.

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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 17h

Not according to crime statistics? People who were parents then definitely grew up in a safer world though, so it might have been lag.

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h

But in practice, almost everything post birth is hormones.

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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

I vote for the clipper Sea Witch!

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

Pedomorphic? That's the creepiest way of saying 'young looking' I've ever seen.

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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 19h

Lol dude has a thing about furries. Wonder what his 'sona is.

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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 1d

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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Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good indicator? But yeah, 93% owned by the top 10% means it really doesn't matter to standards of living.

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d

Except for excluding trans men from all restrooms?

Lots of people never bothered with GRCs and still passed.

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d

IE, as long as you don't listen to anyone the law impacts?

Nice conspiracy theory tho

Glau @sciathan.bsky.social · 1d

Try offering to pay for someone to get their nuts cut off. Men will punch you, trans women will be happy you are saving them $10k.

Now tell me there's no difference between those two groups.

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