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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 13h

Not really an answer, but I'm just fixated on the idea that attempting to develop a machine intelligence to be able to solve crossword puzzles but only if they're in Sindarin would have the same result regardless of how its usefulness was judged.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 14h

'I always thought it remarkable that Australia, without studying the Fascist political philosophy and methods, so spontaneously developed a form of Fascism peculiarly suited to the needs of the British Empire.'

~ Oswald Mosley, Sunday Times (Perth), March 16, 1933

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 15h

Speaking to somebody the other day, I was reminded of the importance of resisting media & political discourses that attempt to exoticise neo-Nazism (groups like the National Socialist Network) &/or the terrorists in their orbit (like the Christchurch killer).

"Made in Australia." 🫡

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 1d

do i know any trans people who can make websites and stuff btw.

I'm hoping the offline world has calmed down a bit and I can get back to working Writes properly and I've wanted to do a big rejig of the site, move its hosting and have our own ad set up not managed by another company....

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

So not only do NDIS participants have to navigate the NDIS bureaucracy - they also have to navigate the competence of third party contractors accountable to no one.

Oh and managing THEIR DISABILITIES.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

For all the students at the social work uni intensive who told me they now use AI at work to write up case reports:

NDIS participant’s bid for more support failed in part because two physiotherapists used AI to write letters used to back her claim to top up her package

www.afr.com/politics/bid...

Bid to boost $200k NDIS package rejected after AI use found

The National Disability Insurance Agency warned about cut-and-paste medical reports. Throw artificial intelligence in and the results are even worse.

www.afr.com

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥
Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)

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Motherfucker, you brought me here to show the public you care about the gurls and you don't--there's no honesty or transparency in that. And how about let sex workers be sex workers, because whoever's dick they have in their mouth is bound to be a whole lot cleaner than a hidden agenda of some obnoxious gay guy or lesbian who woke up in 2019 and saw a billboard for Pose and thought of calling up their minions: "Maybe we should put a Black person on a float during the Pride parade."

It was really cute when they put Laverne Cox on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, but I can't help but think, what has that done for the average gurl on the street? Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually more to our detriment. The images that the cis people have of the community, they're images that aren't real to the gurls who are barely making a living. It's not real life. It's not keeping us alive. It hasn't slowed the murders, or the abuses.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 1d

You didn't criticise the NT, you said it should secede. There's a difference between the government and all the groups that live there.

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 1d

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 1d

"but they were just doing science!"

Since when did you become incapable of seeing a workplace as a place that can shape you?

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone blames the dogs from the learned helplessness experiment.

Nobody reads the inaction of the scientists to stop torture; their refusal to help; as a learned helplessness.

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 2d

also yeah i 100% can't wait for this guy's name to be made public.

it'll happen eventually and the moment it does i am making "DO NOT FUCK THIS MAN" stickers which I'll sell and the profits can be used to give Ciara some help when she gets out.

Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 2d

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

transwrites.world

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 2d

You should think a bit harder about what it is you're actually saying there

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 2d

NT bans trans women in womens prisons www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 2d

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

transwrites.world

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

The phrase "ensoulced bodymind" is causing me multiple levels of physical pain as a philosophy major 🥲

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, the classic postmodern feminist holy trinity.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 2d

You're a DM - the kind without the dice.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 2d

"The federal government said it has consulted extensively with LGBTIQA+ groups"

Saying this is really just an admission that the fed government despises queer people. Federal Labor claimed the same with the introduction of the tranny scanners in airports years ago.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3d

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 2d

The ABC should FOI the rest of the submissions to the bill that weren't taken into consideration and see what the "consultation" actually consisted of: dire warnings.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 3d

I know scientists love to jump to defend the assumed moral goodness of science, but it's just never been a morally pure thing. Every scientist brings their own morals to the work and propagates those assumptions through their work.

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Obscura @manifoldobscura.bsky.social · 3d

Anti-trans bigotry has been part of science for the entire history of trans care. The two main schools of thought are:
1. Trans people should not be allowed to transition whatsoever (or as few as possible).
2. We should ease their suffering until such time as we can eradicate their kind (eugenics).

Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 3d

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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