So a lot of people like TV and sports. A lot of people actually like conforming to their assigned gender. A lot of people want kids. A lot of people are straights. A lot of people are right-leaning-moderates. MUCH fewer people are actually gender conforming and straight and right-leaning-moderates who want kids and like TV and sports?

But this 25% is so is made out to seem like 98% of everyone, and it feels worse when you're a kid and not conforming is hours of isolation and persecution. Years.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:57

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:57

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As recently as the 1970s it was considered daring for women to wear pants. No wonder this country is having a crisis over where trans people can go peepee

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:50

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:50

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Sometimes the transphobia on social media feels like increasingly more elaborate ways for transphobes to avoid sounding like a 1960s square ranting about how they long for the days when girls were girls and men were men

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:46

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:46

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Americans back then just about lost their damn minds over men having slightly longer hair than a crewcut

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:43

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 16:43

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That great 60s tune by the Barbarians, "Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl"

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 01, 2019, 04:26

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**dankwraith** @dankwraith@monads.online · Dec 01, 2019, 04:26

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non mathematicians: i hate math because i hate numbers

me, a mathematician: what the frick is a number

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 04:13

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 04:13

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Considering that it's off of an album called The Hurting, do you need to make it more depressing?

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 04:04

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 01, 2019, 04:04

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Food

Ahhhhh we got this Christmas catalog in the mail, you can buy rotary phones and bad strawberry candy. There are 200 dollar hair brushes and Snoopy bath robes. This is where grandmothers get their powers.

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 26, 2019, 20:03

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**william maggos** @wjmaggos@fedi.culturewar.us · Nov 26, 2019, 20:03

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william maggos @wjmaggos@fedi.culturewar.us

RT @sannewman@twitter.com

THE SEVEN SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghost writer
7. Journalists who ask, "What's your secret?" and uncritically publish the answer

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 01, 2019, 02:44

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**dankwraith** @dankwraith@monads.online · Dec 01, 2019, 02:44

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dankwraith @dankwraith@monads.online

hot take: logarithms are not that complicated and only seem that way because contemporary math education is obsessed with arithmetic and not the core essence of math which is understanding the relations between operations

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 01, 2019, 01:43

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**dankwraith** @dankwraith@monads.online · Dec 01, 2019, 01:43

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dankwraith @dankwraith@monads.online

humans think we are the most spiritually advanced species but its bears

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 01, 2019, 00:10

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Em @em@cybre.space · Dec 01, 2019, 00:10

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Em @em@cybre.space

please look at this

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 30, 2019, 22:56

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 30, 2019, 22:56

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Trans putting on makeup montage except it's me dressing up like Robert Smith

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 30, 2019, 22:26

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 30, 2019, 22:26

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

When are we going to have ethical monogamy tho

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 30, 2019, 22:05

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**rockabilly babey** @SunSaint@radical.town · Nov 30, 2019, 22:05

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rockabilly babey @SunSaint@radical.town

Anime character: *a strong, musclebound character who got their skills through years of training that loves their friends and is dedicated to justice throughout the universe*
Person who uses it as their avatar online: *rejected from the local planet fitness due to their obsessive sniffing of women's towels*