mary midgley's "evolution as a religion" sounds like evangelical tripe but it is actually a fascinating philosophical investigation of how evolutionary metaphors have infiltrated sociological and political thinking when darwin himself was actually horrified at people taking his ideas out of a purely biological context

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 29, 2019, 00:45

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**garbados_ebooks** @garbados@botsin.space · Oct 29, 2019, 00:45

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markov toot

techno-libertarians: when will bodyhacking become really possible
me, a trans woman: about ten thousand years ago an ancestor complains that bread is unnatural

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 19:43

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 19:43

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What if "Garfield" isn't a name, but a category, of psychic bipedal cats

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 28, 2019, 18:51

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**Jacie? 🐦🐦🐦🐦** @jacethechicken@chickenfan.club · Oct 28, 2019, 18:51

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Jacie? 🐦🐦🐦🐦 @jacethechicken@chickenfan.club

still thinking about making a music genre called Post-Core. no root word, just prefix-suffix.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:59

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:59

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@melissasage
Male/female energy: Spiritual powers beyond our ken make women love pink
Evo psych: Sexual selection makes women love pink
Evangelicals: The good Lord in all His wisdom has deemed that the women-folk love pink

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 28, 2019, 18:42

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Oct 28, 2019, 18:42

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melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

a few days ago I was listening to a podcast I otherwise really liked until the host and the guest went off on a protracted tangent about masculine and feminine energy and the divine masculine and feminine

if there's one thing that makes my eyes roll so hard that they create grooves in my skull, it's that

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:39

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:39

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Reinforcing gender norms by transitioning from weird androgynous girl who reads as gay to weird androgynous guy who reads as gay

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:36

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:36

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This is a really weird strain of transphobia to encounter, brought to you by the same people who believe in male and female energy

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:24

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:24

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Identifying with my body, instead of the life of the mind, and demanding foolish things like food, shelter, or medical care

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:22

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:22

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Reinforcing gender norms by having a corporeal existence in the real world.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:20

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:20

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Sorry I have to exist in a human body instead of truly TRANScending gender by abstracting my consciousness into the aether

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:11

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 18:11

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Evo psych: We live in the horniest of all possible worlds, QED that's why girls wear pink.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 17:24

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 17:24

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Trans boys have the gamer gene, that's what makes us trans (and evolutionarily driven to play ugly military shooters)

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 17:20

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 17:20

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Cis boy gamer to me in 2003: Haha, you're such a cool girl, you're just like a guy!
Me in 2003: Yeah, super weird! It's almost like I'm a dude with a vag!

All those nerds are retroactively gay now, I don't make the rules.

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 28, 2019, 09:23

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**Mx. Lindsey** @hay@stardew.city · Oct 28, 2019, 09:23

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Mx. Lindsey @hay@stardew.city

gamers on women in games: no idea why there aren't more women here, they are free to join if they want to

gamers on women in esports: so i googled and found this study about the existence of a gamer gene

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 26, 2019, 17:28

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**lord goth of doom 🥀** @guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe · Oct 26, 2019, 17:28

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lord goth of doom 🥀 @guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe

Mastodon still has a whiteness problem.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 15:14

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 28, 2019, 15:14

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

@melissasage @LuigiEsq@mastodon.social "I am a firefighter but I am racist" is part of the pledge you need to take before they let you move to Staten Island