i don’t exercise to be hot i exercise to be stronger so i can talk more shit

people who frame stuff they wanna criticize like "ah well god wouldn't do that..." my man, god has never taken a shit and i gotta do that occasionally or i'll die

cishet ppl be like “what pronouns do i use for someone if i dont know their gender???” u just did it babe congrats u pass 5th grade english class

Kids today: "you mean the 'save' button represents some kind of physical storage disk? OMG"

Me today: "you mean 'upper case' and 'lower case' refer to the physical cases where printers kept their letters? OMG"

Cis people have several genres about how painful and dehumanizing it would be to not recognize your body as part of "you" (body horror, cyberpunk, werewolf stories, etc.) but then turn around and act like gender affirmative care for trans people is frivolous and unnecessary

I collect examples like this for use in research papers- please send them whenever you see them! twitter.com/BillyArmagh/st…

@mollywoodstock CWs that show/hide content are the absolute best feature of mastodon

I wish all platforms would adopt the implementation mastodon uses!

@mollywoodstock how does one successfully do content warnings on Twitter?

like, at the beginning of a tweet won’t prevent someone from skimming the rest? and in a thread won’t keep the rest of the thread off a feed?

@ThatKarasu evergreen cat feels / comic

A good friend+ally here, and yeah - it's well established that cross sex hormones given to cis people literally makes them suicidally depressed.

And the wrong hormones produced by our own bodies? There's a reason the suicide+depression rates are high in trans people. twitter.com/JadedPhilosoph…

The fucked up thing is in Mental health professions we don't even use Trigger/triggered in front of clients anymore. Assholes ruined the term and so people who actually needed it feel like you're making fun of them if you use it as it was clinically intended.

Like fuck y'all.

For those who attended the Human Augmentation Code of Ethics workshop at #PleaseTryThis19 (& those who didn't!), here's the link to provide feedback on the code! - futuregrind.org/human-augmenta…

#PleaseTryThis19 is officially underway in #Pittsburgh! Here's @ramymik discussing @CountrCultrLabs & @OpenInsulin with a packed house. The event continues today and tommorow. Hope to see you here! #Biohacking

Tanya McDowell serving 12 years for sending her child to school in a better district and Felicity Huffman getting 14 days for scamming a university is proof the justice system works for the people it's designed to work for.

2fa

scoundrels: you get upset about everything

also scoundrels when they learn a buckaroo goes by them: I AM RILED

Sam Smith: My pronouns are they/them

Associated Press:

Please Try This at Home starts tomorrow! TOMORROW! Are you ready? Are WE ready? I guess we'll find out...

Doors open 10am at the PERSAD Center: 5301 Butler St. Can't wait to see yinz. #pleasetrythis19 #Pittsburgh #queer #trans #transhumanism #biohacking #biotech

There are pros and cons to biohacking.

Pros: feeling empowered to make healthy choices

Cons: Feeling like every aspect of health is under individual control

instagram.com/p/B2Wl3i2FVPs/…

Transhumanists who don't support transgender people are not in fact transhumanists.

Although transition is not augmentation, it's still an example of morphological freedom and bodily autonomy. Things that are at the core of transhumanist ideals.

Someone terrified of more permissive and inclusive cultural changes around pronouns/gender is completely unqualified to handle the disruption involved in people gaining more capacity to hack their own bodies.

"Oh no pronouns" is someone afraid of changes in cultural technology.

This should be a given, but in light of recent circumstances, we have to make this abundantly clear.

Spent too much time on this but tbh it's cathartic to take the time to dunk on shitbrains

@biohackinfo We need less than $1,500 to meet our funding goal by this weekend. Can you help us out?

Every dollar you donate goes directly to making #pleasetrythis19 more accessible to people that @biohackinfo would probably like to see dead. 🏳️‍🌈♿️✊🏽🏴✨

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This is an absolutely unbelievably good explainer of how to deal with internet assholes. Everyone left-leaning user on twitter needs to read this.

I've more or less intuited these ideas over time, but some of us don't intuit it very readily. This helps.

cornichaun.tumblr.com/post/185990171…

Go donate to help make the @pleasetryathome biohacking and bodily autonomy conference in PGH this weekend more accessible to all!

BE GAY
DO CRIMES
AGAINST NATURE

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I have thought of another explanation

R/Relationship het posts be like:

Guy: "My girl don't hand feed me anymore. Should I dump her?"

Girl: "I'm pretty sure he's a murderer. Am I overreacting?"

meanwhile:

Lesbian: "I like this girl but I don't know if she knows I exist."
Update: "Turns out we are married!"

HE TRIED TO WARN US

hey cis people trying to be inclusive while making surveys: “transgender” is not its own gender apart from male/female. please actually ask trans people what good options would be. if you have male & female, a separate “transgender” option feels insulting.

@BethSkw isn't synesthesia just any senses being triggered by other senses? I guess technically holding something in liminal space in your brain/computer isn't a sense... but why not?

@BethSkw you have other synesthesia too, right? maybe related?

Data,

I have followed your instructions. However, your animal has produced a strange wet object on the carpet in my quarters. I have sent the object to Dr. Crusher for analysis. I will notify you when she has made her diagnosis.

Worf

Lepht Anonym is already in Pittsburgh, and is giving a talk. Highly recommend: facebook.com/events/5709431…

@jarndillinger when considering hires I’ve always paid way more attention to cover letters. I just skim the resumes; everyone lies on tech resumes anyway.

Sorry in advance for starting a fight, all opinions are valid............

Hey nonbinary folks, how do you feel about the word “enby” as it relates to yourself?

Bela Lugosi, dad:

if you want to be my friend I need you to yell “I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND” while shaking my shoulders and looking me directly in the eyes because otherwise I will be certain that you secretly hate me and gossip about me with the cooler more famous people who have talent

@gains_tweets when you put it like that it makes more sense that Night Vale does this so much

The existence of the words boyfriend, girlfriend, & best friend imply that the three genders are boy, girl, & best.

goddammit, @BethSkw, now I’m literally planning a testosterone tattoo twitter.com/leahvelleman/s…

“you cannot reason someone out of something they did not reason themselves into” - Lindsay Ellis
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
#xoxofest

Quick punctuation lesson:

Hyphen (-): connects two words
En-dash (–): indicates a range, e.g. 2–8
Em-dash (—): Ahhh, you seek to understand its ways, weary traveler. Nay, behold! This dash provides to you whichever function you most require. You need only listen as it whispers…

@skyesidhe thank you! I was just stood up for a group bike ride, so it could have been worse. on the other hand, I got up at 6am for nothing!!

countries where mother 3 has been localized

it me, yer atypically early-rising, biking, stood up, enby fren 😢 #xoxofest instagram.com/p/B2Ew5cjh7K5/…

be gay do crime
be lesbian commit murder
be bisexual steal a car
be trans commit arson
be ace rob a bank
be pansexual commit tax fraud
be non-binary betray your country

The corollary to this is:

"In This House: Black Lives Matter, Refugees Are Welcome Here, No Human Is Illegal, Love is Love, But Please Don't Do Anything To Lower My Property Values Like Have Bad Schools or the Homeless Nearby"

Nonbinary people aren't Women Lite, and inviting women and nonbinary people who feel "inspired" is pretty much just inviting "cis women and nonbinary people I think are women." It's not subtle.

MAN NEEDS MORE PROTEIN: ow.ly/zlpK50vWNsm

The coolest, most revolutionary thing you can do right now is try to be less stupid and mean

This is the best summary of psychology and human neuroscience that I have ever seen. twitter.com/jonrosenberg/s…

Never eat twitter.com/business/statu…

If Congress was like this, C-SPAN would be the most watched cable channel twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status…

was thinking that instead of doing same day delivery amazon should just have a huge public facing warehouse where you can pick stuff up yourself and then I realized I had simply reverse engineered the concept of “costco”

Marie Kondo your fuckin gender transition folks. Instead of focusing on what you feel like you have to do in order to pass/ be taken seriously, do what sparks joy for you. Fuck what everyone else thinks, it's your life, do whatever the hell makes you happy.

Happy September everyone!

I just found out that sea urchins are called sea urchins because hedgehogs used to be called urchins until about the 15th century.

Sea urchins are ocean hedgehogs.

This has been your reminder that the world, while mostly garbage, is remarkable.

apparently russia has this meme where they @ elon musk in pictures of super stupid bootleggy lifehacky "inventions" captioned "and how do you like this, elon musk?" so as it turns out, no one is better at memes than the russians

Hong Kong protesters are grabbing the CS Gas grenades fired at them by Chinese state enforcers and rendering them useless in liquid nitrogen canisters. This is what happens when you have chemistry grads fighting against tyranny.

I took a few days off lower body exercises during PAX because my legs were constantly exhausted from powerlifting and biking and holy wow today I felt like I had superpowers while biking

it turns out REST is a thing?!?!

I misread "anthropology department" as "apology department"; how you doin'?

@TuckyAalto EMOJI ROLL CALL FOR #xoxofest!
What you do, for work: 💻🌎💨
What you do, for yourself: 🧲🚲🎮🏋️🏻‍♂️
Something you’d like to do/try: 🥋🥁
How you heard about XOXO: 💻👾📺
First time?: ❌
Most excited for: 👬
Most nervous about: 👕👖🍛🍔
Best fest advice: 🗣😶💭
XOXO goal: 🎉

3 boring facts about me:

1. I once wrote a 70 page fanfiction for FFIV

2. when I was a kid I volunteered at a stable, working for free because I liked horses that much

3. I used to have a recurring dream where a rabid squirrel attacked my ankles twitter.com/BethSkw/status…

@akh13 I find spite to be one of the best, most effective motivators

@akh13 the one thing the cis don't have a monopoly of

True. twitter.com/OfficiaIV/stat…

was done with #pax and just want to go home and see my cat so I checked out of my hotel and walked to the train station

Seattle is a much prettier city than Portland, but I still think I wouldn't want to live here instagram.com/p/B1646i_h_MG/…

there should be an olympics where athletes can take as many drugs as they want. Like fuck it, let’s see how high humans can really jump