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One of the assignments that my sociology professor repeatedly gave (despite no one doing them) was to map the different counties of the world based on the natural resources they had in abundance. He wanted us to recollect and relate those names whenever the USA went to war.

The CIA is literally a worldwide enemy of democracy.

After a few conversations, here's my conclusion:
1. There's no AI/ algo here controlling the flow of what people view.
2. Birdsite's AI/ algo (perhaps intentionally?) favors content with high emotion/ confrontation/ anger because it elicits reality-TV reactions
3. My content (like me) is very non-edgy, non-confrontational. I'm happy to be sweet, analytical, funny and soothing.
4. Therefore, I'm invisible on birdsite, and the absence of an algo actually favors #chill #pleasant content here.

The witches in #Discworld are awesome. 😀 It's a lot of how I aspire to live (calling it a "philosophy" is wrong since Granny Weatherwax'd be the first to say "what are you like").

Making robot noises while you walk is #transhumanist praxis

Every trans person experiences gender differently

You might find being trans painful, or something compulsive you couldn’t help but be

But other people may have found being trans more benevolently, by just experimenting and finding what made them the most comfortable

These experiences are not the same, but both are valid. And one is not better than the other, and one does not invalidate the other or say anything about what the other experiences

Land speed records are laughably false. Anyone can tell that land doesn’t move very much at all

hey so we're gonna be taking a flight in a bit under a month. it'll be like, our third time ever flying, and our first since being on estrogen or being an adult, so we know we should probably expect that they will sexually assault us for having a suspiciously not-binary-gender-matching body (if the process isn't wildly different when we use a wheelchair)

so, uh. can we get info on what to expect going through security on this front? ways to keep calm and if not avoid being triggered, at least ride it out and try not to be in too awful of shape?

additional note: we have a passport card with us as "female" and we think we're gonna only show that as our ID everywhere. we think this is a decent idea and should at least be slightly less awful misgenderings?

we were also gonna ask if ppl have experience traveling with a wheelchair but we think we've met like 1 other chair user here so w/e.

please, folks, i am begging you. please look at the replies of a post before you reply and say the same thing 17 other people have said before you

the translator of magical trans

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human being"

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Bear with me" I say, gesturing behind me to an actual bear

Anybody have any good queer crime/mystery books that AREN'T just smut with a little plot sprinkled in??? My wife is agonizingly searching and nothing is coming up :(

I am gay everybody

Big tiddie jock girlfriend

So, I guess it's time for me to request that people please CW Christmas stuff, because as a retail/service industry worker, seeing posts about that compounds existing stress in my life and kinda makes me not want to be here.

I'm not a "Grinch" or a "Scrooge" I'm just stressed the fuck out around this time of year and it'd be nice if folks would respect that. Thank you.

I love trans bodies and I really love being a part of a community that celebrates trans bodies.

This is really the only place where I can find the kind of transgressive joy that comes from posting a nude and instead of being met with awkwardness, revulsion, fetishization or silence, I am met by warmth, love, appreciation and kindness.

And I get to see that experience repeated when people post their nudes again and again and again.

Don’t ever forget how powerful that is.

there is nothing remotely stressful about meeting an autist with a less fluent social mask than me, except that the presence of an allist in the room makes my social-dynamic-compute-o-tron brain subroutine SPIKE in CPU consumption