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They/Them (T. T. Perry)

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Applied and translational sensory scientist. https://ttpphd.com https://mastodon.social/@ttpphd PFP: Sculpture of a distorted face and neck

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 7d

Grab a PDF copy of my GLMA poster:

A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy

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#Trans #Intersex #Circumcision #Autonomy #HealthCare

GLMA25: A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy

Hello! You’ve found a PDF of my poster for the 2025 GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ+ Health. Authors: T. T. Perry, Julia Black, E. M. Campbell, Pallas Lysander-Romberg, Oberyn McCreless, D. W…

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 3h

Remember when Trump tried to kill the Vice President of the United States of America? I remember.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 6h

New, on HEAT DEATH! @saulelbein.bsky.social examines the uses and abuses of "eternal hatred" as a mythic theme in Jewish history, why it resonated at a particular historical moment, and what we lose when we start actually believing it

The Myths of Antisemitism

Is "Jew Hatred" really so eternal?

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 3h

For what it's worth, I co-run a peer support group for intersex, trans, and gender expansive people who have experienced violations of genital autonomy, and literally no one has ever brought up "forced reassignment".

The group: autonomycollective.org

Genital Autonomy Collective

The Genital Autonomy Collective is a peer network of support groups and advocates for intersectional genital autonomy. Our main focus is providing support and community for the intersection of violat...

autonomycollective.org

They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 5h

Do you believe in equal protection or do you believe in "sex based rights"?

They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 5h

FGM laws ensure a "sex based" right to bodily integrity, which is sexist and exclusionary.

The shape of a child's genitals are morally irrelevant to whether a person deserves to participate in decisions about their own bodies.

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GLMA25: A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy

Hello! You’ve found a PDF of my poster for the 2025 GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ+ Health. Authors: T. T. Perry, Julia Black, E. M. Campbell, Pallas Lysander-Romberg, Oberyn McCreless, D. W…

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone needs to be talking non-stop about gerrymandering/VRA because we cannot allow a midterm loss to be viewed as legitimate by the broader public

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 5h

GLMA25: A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy

Hello! You’ve found a PDF of my poster for the 2025 GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ+ Health. Authors: T. T. Perry, Julia Black, E. M. Campbell, Pallas Lysander-Romberg, Oberyn McCreless, D. W…

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 6h

The economy can be used for both good and evil. The law can be used for good or evil. Religion doesn't work any differently in that sense as to whether it is used for good or evil.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 6h

OH RIGHT he's the AI guy. Blocked him a while ago so I kind of forgot about his bullshit.

They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 6h

That's right! No Room For Doom!

No Kings.

No Room For Doom.

Everyone pitches in, even you reading this right now!

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 6h

I don’t think Fair Fight Action fearmongering about Dems losing 19 seats post-VRA is especially responsible because it’s (a) incorrect and (b) gives people an inclination to simply give in and wail about things without realizing that it‘s way more breakable than that.

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Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 6h

We did the math and the net effect of the Supreme Court nerfing the Voting Rights Act, after all the other gerrymandering, is likely that the maps take a consistent, pro-Republican bias roughly matching 2018’s — breakable, but it would be tough. www.theargumentmag.com/p/is-the-sup...

Is the Supreme Court going to doom the Dems? We did the math.

Gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act will make it much harder for Democrats to win the House, but not impossible.

www.theargumentmag.com

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 18h

Hear me out on this one, but maybe this really means that we're not "post-pandemic"

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

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Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

it's because they're entirely going off their standard of limit which is lower than literally anything without basis so that they can say that things are high in lead for clicks

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 7h

i'm not sure why consumer reports chose to use the prop65 standards [which is a labeling threshold for prop65 safe harbor clams (oehha.ca.gov/proposition-...), not a safety one] of 5ug and not the FDA 8.8ug total daily or EU 3 mg/kg for supplements [0.1mh/kf for food]

from th article: There are no broad federal guidelines setting dietary lead limits for the adult population. The FDA has set “interim reference levels”—these are estimates, not regulations or action levels, designed to protect against lead toxicity—for children and women of childbearing age. Those levels are currently 2.2 micrograms and 8.8 micrograms per day, respectively. An FDA spokesperson told CR there is sufficient evidence that the 8.8 micrograms per day benchmark should be applied to all adults.

Regulation (EU) 2023/915 sets maximum levels for lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, and nickel in a wide range of foods. Lead and cadmium levels were last updated in 2021, mercury levels in 2022, and arsenic levels in 2023. Nickel limits were introduced most recently, taking effect in July 2025. Heavy metal content is measured in milligrams per kilogram of the product’s wet weight.

The maximum allowed lead content ranges from 0.01 mg/kg in some baby foods to 3 mg/kg in food supplements. Most meat products, fats, and oils should not contain more than 0.1 mg/kg of lead, while the limits for fruit, vegetables, and fungi vary between 0.1 mg/kg and 0.8 mg/kg.

https://measurlabs.com/blog/eu-regulations-on-food-contaminants/

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 19h

The ethic of resistance!

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · Dec 9

Let's talk about postmodern communication ethics!

Decentering Judgment: Toward a Postmodern Communication Ethic
Martha Cooper, 1998
in Judgment Calls, ed J. Sloop

#philSky #Philosophy #Ethics #Communication

"Figure 3.1 Dynamics of postmodern communication ethics A triangle Top corner: Marginalized Other (Calling). Left side: Discourse ethic (questioning), deliberation, argument, judgment. Right side: Ethic of care (Responding), empathy, narrative, identification. Bottom side: Ethic of resistance (affirming), detachment/connection, ritual celebration, tolerance/empowerment"

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 22h

“We need a movement but not this one” is the motto of people who plan to do absolutely nothing.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 14d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 15d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21h

“The delegation of tasks to “tools & assistants” constitutes a methodological decision (…) Researchers should therefore be required to explain why they are trusting a black box that is neither open nor fair.”
— @altibel.bsky.social & @petertarras.bsky.social

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why...

Why AI transparency is not enough

Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 22h

Kash says he can still pay salaries at the FBI, the head of OMB plans to close an agency, Trump is levying taxes —_ahem, donations_ — to expand the White House: when does the idea that we've entered a post-constitutional period enter the mainstream conversation?

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece.

Every time this discourse rolls around they treat those of us that mask like we’re hypochondriacs.

No we’re the ghosts of infections past.

We plead with you so that you can avoid our fate. In return you mock us.

#MECFS #LongCovid

Screenshot from Beyond All Reason by Julia Doubleday reads: But Long COVID can happen to anyone. We keep saying it. Nobody listens. For convenience I continue to separate "those with Long COVID" who must avoid another infection from those
without- who can afford some mystery number of infections. But it's possible your next infection may disable you too. It is for yourself, as much as for others, that COVID is worth avoiding. The
"unreasonable" of wearing a mask indoors does not compare to the "unreasonable" of Long
COVID plus the "unreasonable" of scrambling to avoid another infection while the still-well-enough people sniff that doing anything to mitigate the virus is simply asking too much of them.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

trying to imagine white media disinvesting from Israeli lies and even now can not find any evidence whatsoever - throughout two straight years of livestreamed genocide and massive peoples movements for Palestinian liberation - that ruling class white solidarity is waning.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 1d

COVID denial is science denial. If something bad has to happen to you personally before you care about it, your ethics are fucked.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the thing is I haven’t really done this since 2021 and nothing bad has happened, and no one I know has done it and nothing bad has happened. I haven’t even heard secondhand of anyone being debilitated like this anytime recently. So at some point it’s really hard to keep up the vigilance

Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

Eventually, we will have standards and codes that get implemented (that's key) for ventilation, filtration, UV to ensure a quantifiable risk level. Until then, personal filter (mask) is prudent esp in crowded spaces & healthcare.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

Trans guys: What are the most annoying things cis people say to you, regularly?

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