Renaissance Grrrl
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Researcher and educator in linguistics, mathematics, computer sci., cognitive sci., gender/sexuality, philosophy
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--who will happily listen to infodumps about the special interests of autistic people all day no matter what they are because autistic people are absolutely fucking FANTASTIC at knowing and communicating all the weird details I live for, I could listen to him for HOURS about his tactics
December 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
--who will happily listen to infodumps about the special interests of autistic people all day no matter what they are because autistic people are absolutely fucking FANTASTIC at knowing and communicating all the weird details I live for, I could listen to him for HOURS about his tactics
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If they deny it, have your doctor ask, in writing:
- the name, license number, and board specialty of the doctor who denied care;
- copies of all materials they relied on to justify that denial;
- the rate at which that doctor denies this treatment as compared to all doctors doing medical review
- the name, license number, and board specialty of the doctor who denied care;
- copies of all materials they relied on to justify that denial;
- the rate at which that doctor denies this treatment as compared to all doctors doing medical review
June 21, 2024 at 9:23 AM
If they deny it, have your doctor ask, in writing:
- the name, license number, and board specialty of the doctor who denied care;
- copies of all materials they relied on to justify that denial;
- the rate at which that doctor denies this treatment as compared to all doctors doing medical review
- the name, license number, and board specialty of the doctor who denied care;
- copies of all materials they relied on to justify that denial;
- the rate at which that doctor denies this treatment as compared to all doctors doing medical review
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Remember: Ethical doctors who care about patients and practice competent medicine do not work for insurance companies doing "peer consults", because ethical doctors who practice competent medicine don't actually like denying care. The doctors doing this are the dregs of the dregs.
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Remember: Ethical doctors who care about patients and practice competent medicine do not work for insurance companies doing "peer consults", because ethical doctors who practice competent medicine don't actually like denying care. The doctors doing this are the dregs of the dregs.
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The lessons for heavy DIYers to take from this, btw:
If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.
If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The lessons for heavy DIYers to take from this, btw:
If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.
If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.
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But the gatekeeping assholes keep arguing for requiring lab test confirmation! Except THEY USE THE TESTS WRONG. Mast cell episodes triggered by histamine exposure can be detected by lab testing! FOR TWENTY MINUTES TO TWO HOURS AFTER THE EXPOSURE ONLY.
December 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
But the gatekeeping assholes keep arguing for requiring lab test confirmation! Except THEY USE THE TESTS WRONG. Mast cell episodes triggered by histamine exposure can be detected by lab testing! FOR TWENTY MINUTES TO TWO HOURS AFTER THE EXPOSURE ONLY.
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Joke of a trial filled with portland police getting caught lying, but in the end @cozca.bsky.social was found not guilty on all 6 charges in this political prosecution 🥳 article soon. Live reporting on kolektiva until then
Alissa Azar (@[email protected])
Day 2 of Indigenous community member Tracy Molina, aka Cozca, trial is about to start. Notes from yesterday linked below.
A more in depth (and inshallah much less sloppy) summary will be out later i...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Joke of a trial filled with portland police getting caught lying, but in the end @cozca.bsky.social was found not guilty on all 6 charges in this political prosecution 🥳 article soon. Live reporting on kolektiva until then
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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"artists do art for ~*the process*~"
idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't
idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't
i gotta say the whole ai thing sure has made y'all confident telling people what the universal motivations of all artists are
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
December 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"artists do art for ~*the process*~"
idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't
idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't
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BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
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Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
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"It’s also about the rather wholesome pleasure of seeing murderous bigots put quite literally on blast."
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"It’s also about the rather wholesome pleasure of seeing murderous bigots put quite literally on blast."
Everything in this thread was the motivation behind the GoogleX project i worked on: the idea = applying modern SW principles to HW design, and to do the full stack in a single team (instead of the HW standard of having separate teams for each phase, each one blaming the others whenever things fail)
Love the threads on r/FPGA where software engineers get a peek behind the curtain and have to go 'damn girl, you live like this?' and all the comments are just... 'yup...'
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
From the FPGA community on Reddit
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December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Everything in this thread was the motivation behind the GoogleX project i worked on: the idea = applying modern SW principles to HW design, and to do the full stack in a single team (instead of the HW standard of having separate teams for each phase, each one blaming the others whenever things fail)
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Just a sample of the comments, all which have a hint of either PTSD, Stockholm Syndrome, or some other toolchain-induced trauma.
I sometimes miss FPGA dev but I had to find an off the shelf solution for my quantum project since they were not ready to traverse the 9 levels of FPGA Development Hell
I sometimes miss FPGA dev but I had to find an off the shelf solution for my quantum project since they were not ready to traverse the 9 levels of FPGA Development Hell
December 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just a sample of the comments, all which have a hint of either PTSD, Stockholm Syndrome, or some other toolchain-induced trauma.
I sometimes miss FPGA dev but I had to find an off the shelf solution for my quantum project since they were not ready to traverse the 9 levels of FPGA Development Hell
I sometimes miss FPGA dev but I had to find an off the shelf solution for my quantum project since they were not ready to traverse the 9 levels of FPGA Development Hell
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Love the threads on r/FPGA where software engineers get a peek behind the curtain and have to go 'damn girl, you live like this?' and all the comments are just... 'yup...'
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
From the FPGA community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the FPGA community
www.reddit.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Love the threads on r/FPGA where software engineers get a peek behind the curtain and have to go 'damn girl, you live like this?' and all the comments are just... 'yup...'
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
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Here's another idea: Fears of a demographic crunch are being fanned by those with power and money b/c the don't want to lose their ability to easily keep most of humanity under their control. 5/
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here's another idea: Fears of a demographic crunch are being fanned by those with power and money b/c the don't want to lose their ability to easily keep most of humanity under their control. 5/
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I mean, the column mentions how many sectors from semiconductors to agriculture "now need vastly more researchers and R&D spending just to keep productivity and growth on the same old trend line."
Here's an idea: How about a society where stability instead of constant growth is the goal? 2/
Here's an idea: How about a society where stability instead of constant growth is the goal? 2/
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I mean, the column mentions how many sectors from semiconductors to agriculture "now need vastly more researchers and R&D spending just to keep productivity and growth on the same old trend line."
Here's an idea: How about a society where stability instead of constant growth is the goal? 2/
Here's an idea: How about a society where stability instead of constant growth is the goal? 2/
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Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.
From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.
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In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
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as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
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Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?
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The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
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Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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never miss an opportunity to tell someone who thinks they're being clever quoting "voltaire" that actually, voltaire never said it. it's from a 1993 episode of a nazi radio show & the guy who did say it is quite famously a pedophile who was so weird even the other nazis thought he was creepy.
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
never miss an opportunity to tell someone who thinks they're being clever quoting "voltaire" that actually, voltaire never said it. it's from a 1993 episode of a nazi radio show & the guy who did say it is quite famously a pedophile who was so weird even the other nazis thought he was creepy.
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.