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Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 13h

but they just appear to not notice that their position on every part of it has changed dramatically, to the point where child abuse investigations are seen as not especially noteworthy or cruel

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 13h

like something Stephen Bush has talked about a lot is the thing in UK politics now where people are going on insanely massive ideological journeys and not noticing that they have - you see that here too, like people's views on it today are galaxies away from what they thought in like, 2021

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 13h

(which I also noticed wasn't reported by the people whose beat includes breathlessly covering every piece of GC research about sky high regret rates or w/e, even though you'd think "major public campaign & recategorization of condition by leading researchers" would make news if you work on that)

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 13h

there's also the campaign to have it recategorized as simply a subtype of disorders around belief/delusion, and not really a thing in its own right that warrants any intervention that isn't Talk Therapy (which cannot cause harm as it is not a compound)

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

I have noticed that the GC sciencey voices are starting to move away from the idea evidence quality/detransition rates are important by framing it as a mistake "both sides" make and instead unquantifiable ethical concerns should be the sole concern (weighted heavily in favor of inaction)

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

also this passage later on

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

I just have a hard time reconciling the idea that the other side of the debate is the one encouraging regressive ideas about gender when I read this. This guy is still really influential! IIRC his clinical partner also tried to frame herself as someone turning on blockers when she'd always opposed

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

I really don't know how to describe this, but it seems very plain that it's a fucked up thing to do. The parents talk about not wanting their kid to feel shame but he reads as very clearly extremely fucked up to me?

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

but also practically there's no information hygiene/discipline in those spaces. as long as what you say takes the right "side", it doesn't matter how sloppy you are with your facts. whereas Gordon Guyatt gets raked over the coals for relatively limited claims going the wrong direction, as it were.

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

I think if you look at what the cutting edge research from genspect et al is (i.e. their posts and groupchats etc.), they moved from "is the detransition rate too high"/"is evidence quality sufficient" to "the risk of harms is so unimaginably great even researching this treatment would be vile"

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

Per the 2008 Atlantic article where he is interviewed, he's pretty explicit that he's doing it and just delineates pre-pubescent kids (who he can successful stop being trans with an insane expansive family social surveillance system) and post-pubescent kids, who are too late to be helped

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

that crowd is so all over the shop with this number, sometimes its 80, I've seen >95% thrown around at times, but also per the economist its 20% now (and can you believe it's that high! we're shocked its so high at 20%! it's time for caution!)

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 14h

yeah they decided to go with "Dems are demanding [specific thing]" and it was so out there as a lie that they are getting fact checked on CNN for it

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 16h

its crazy how johnson is still not a good manager he just has "Trump will magically cancel anything you don't like" to smooth over all issues for now

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 16h

I think the only time Tarantino actually wrote for stage (which became The Hateful Eight) it was his (IMO) weakest film, but I think Reservoir Dogs just has better writing generally than it so it would prob do a lot better

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 17h

If it's cheaper than a cab here absolutely (otherwise probably just once as a novelty)

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 17h

I haven't, they aren't live in Seattle yet and I haven't spent any time in LA/SF in their service areas, always just outside

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 17h

They've been using one of the hotels in Northgate to park them, for what reason I don't know but I see them every couple days now

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think Newsom will either

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 21h

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder how he misspelled Bluesky to avoid being downranked by the algorithm

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 22h

i think something else is that a bunch of right-wing thinkers who Set the Conversation (i.e. nazis on Twitter) have decided conversion therapy just needs to be revisited and with modern knowledge this time it will totes work without issues

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 22h

being from a QB family seems to get you up to a 5-star - Sam Huard and a long time ago Marcus Vick spring to mind

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 1d

I think there’s an assumption that center left and center trust can’t be lost

Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 1d

Would create a fun mini industry of pundits diagnosing the national mood based on what were the top 5 vote getters