Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

To whoever needs to hear this:

Your blog is better without an image than with an AI-generated one. I came here to read your words — let them stand for themselves!

If you *must* use an image, and some soulless AI mockery would suffice, do this instead:

Step outside, and take a photo of wherever you are.

Include a lot of sky, if you can.

This implicit "here's where I am" is a better reflection of your work than whatever midjourney or stable diffusion would splort out.

And now I have done one for myself!

A new corked up tooth brought to life!
Can't wait to share more! #fursuit #furry

Your belated reminder, in the aftermath of the xz backdoor, that open source maintainers owe you nothing: https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/

Not only do they owe you nothing but: if they are running a large open source project at scale and have been doing so for a while: in almost every case they know vastly more about doing so than almost anyone else in the world does.

Open source users and contributors: show some more gratitude and, frankly, deference to the maintainers who keep OSS alive.

"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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first draft available here: https://github.com/AndrewMontagne/PyQTDiary

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As the media is running the findings of gender identity and youth by Dr Cass today, I would like to point out dozens of studies regarding puberty blockers and HRT were not considered by Cass as they were not blinded or did not have a control group.

While this is usually good practice, where the effectiveness of, say, cancer drugs, is tested by the genuine drug versus a placebo, it cannot apply here as the effects of puberty blockers and HRT are so apparent and obvious, test subjects would easily know if they are in the genuine group or the placebo group.

As such, this research cannot be done blind or with control groups, so by disregarding it, as Cass has, has created an end result biased against the findings in those studies, presenting a more one dimensional perspective.

I would argue that a more rigorous piece of research would have included these studies to present a more comprehensive picture of gender identity and youth, with an explanation as to why they are included despite not being blinded or in a control group. The fact this was not done, makes me devalue the work and question biases and perspectives of Cass.

Lastly, and as a bit of an aside, academia, at least as when I was being taught, knows people hold biases and how this affects the research and work presented. Rather than pretend these don't exist or that research and work will be done without bias, which is impossible as these biased affect how we behave even unconsciously, we should be open and disclose our biases. This way, the reader is fully aware of what informed the research.

The problem is less that Cass has personal opinions, we all have them, it's more that due to a lack of disclosure, seeing the studies on puberty blockers and HRT removed for bad reasoning makes me, as a reader, assume the worst intentions of Cass.

Because, why else were these studies not included? Not being blind or in a control group is not a good enough reason when you spend more than ten seconds thinking about it.

「Xenia Linux - Æ」

It's #UNICORNDAY! 🦄 Pleeeeease show us your unicorn characters? 🥺 We would love to make more unicorn fursuits!

#fursuit #fursuitmaker #furryfandom #furry

Playing around with the VTuber avatar and this lined up with the music pretty well 👀

HOLY FUCK SHE LOOKS AWESOME

If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.

For alternatives, see: https://fedipact.veganism.social

And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonSocial #mastodonGGMBH #mastodon #fediverse #threads #facebook #meta

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I ran @RLabibov's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9GqqZ #bbcbasic

I'm a week late for #TransDayOfVisibility, but I wanted to finish this piece anyway. Featuring Nikki (she/her) and Austin (he/they) 💜 #furry #furryart #pride