Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels
A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.
And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".
~ Stephen J. Gould
Would be nice if more people knew this quote and spent some extended time thinking about it on every level.
Is there any #amputee in #London looking for left-handed gloves? I have a lot of these from over the years of buying gloves and needing only the right sides.
Definitely interested if you also happen to have right-handed gloves for me 😁
#AmputeeExchange #CripShare #Disability @disability
In 1951 a tiny piece of tumour was taken, without knowledge or consent, from Henrietta Lacks. The extraordinarily malignant cancer killed her, but in the lab the cells, known as HeLa, continued to live and divide, becoming the first ever functionally immortal human cell line. HeLa was used for numerous scientific advances and her cells are traded around the world for serious money; it is estimated they collectively weigh more than 50 million tons... (1/2) @bookstodon #Bookstodon #RebeccaSkloot
Based on new data, I've changed my mind about the belief that "People don't change their minds based on new data."🙂🙃
My previous belief was based on the great research on the "backfire effect," done by Brendan Nyhan in 2010. But in 2020, Brendan did new research, showing that he was wrong about people not changing their minds.🙃🙂
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912440117
He showed that presenting the right data the right way, does cause people to change their minds. This was the right data and way for me.
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We're hearing increasing reports of GPs refusing to prescribe HRT for trans people, even when they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic.
If this happens to you or has happened to you in the past year:
1. Let us know: https://tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT
2. Check out our 'My GP is refusing to prescribe' resource: https://transactual.org.uk/medical-transition/my-gp-is-refusing-to-prescribe-my-hrt-what-can-i-do/
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Transition #NHS #HRT #Testosterone #Oestrogen
Valve: "We love our fans! We even let them use our IP!"
Microsoft: "We love our customers! Just don't use our IP please."
Sony: "We like you as long as you don't try to reverse engineer anything."
Nintendo: "I swear to fucking Christ if you so much as doodle an M in red crayon I will come to your house, kill your family, and strangle you with your own intestines"
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The Marriage Equality Bill has received royal endorsement and was published in the Royal Gazette, officially making #Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to officially recognize same-sex marriage! It takes 120 days for laws to process here. In case you didn't know, I live in Thailand, my wife is Thai, and in 120 days we will be able to legally marry in Thailand, along with millions of other queer people who have waited SO LONG for this day. Love wins!! #LGBTQ
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