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1. Montana’s House has passed an indecent exposure bill that applies only to trans people. It sets out one standard for cis people that requires intent, and another for trans people that does not. Trans Rep. Zephyr delivered scathing remarks. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Slowly making my way through The Knowledge Gene. The discussion of figurines on page 214 and the following discussion of cave art has to be among my favourite segments.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine claiming you have the right to destroy other people's property while they're in your care

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

listen, we gotta live. we have to outlast them. we have to turn their graves into trans inclusive toilets.

submitted 34 days ago • 25 comments

"On a somewhat different issue, it became clear to me that the management I was dealing with didn’t understand the difference between having an opinion and having an informed, factually sourced opinion." ~ Paul Krugman contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky. The song _Turning Wake_ by Ayla Nereo www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKNx... has many interpretations, but: "I'll be dancing with the ones who remind me, we are born of dust and silence, we are made of ancient song". Indeed, "ancient song" made humanity!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Today I was told to take out a line about being a mentor to students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups from my biosketch for a proposal, because it might damage our chances of getting federal funding. How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.

submitted 39 days ago • 44 comments

Every individual banana deserves the freedom to explore its gender identity without any assumptions imposed bsky.app/profile/sean...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

@juliaserano.bsky.social Re Kat's musing on prime numbers in 99 Erics, would she find cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS... illuminating? But it raises more questions. If "Gauss first ... proves the fundamental theorem of arithmetic in 1801" how's it so fundamental? People did arithmetic before 1801.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

How many Sean Carroll's does one universe need? At least two, apparently, since there is both biology and physics out there. Here I am talking with courtesy Sean B. Carroll at @nautil.us magazine. nautil.us/the-sean-car...

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

trans ppl flee’ing twitter to get away from terfs should serve as evidence that we mean it when we say we just wanna be left alone. terfs organising to come over here and harass us should serve as evidence that they are aggressive and predatory abusers.

submitted 105 days ago • 74 comments

Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.

submitted 107 days ago • 25 comments

i hereby endorse EVERYTHING about today's XKCD, but ESPECIALLY the title text xkcd.com/3012/

submitted 109 days ago • 32 comments