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📚 Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University 🎮 Researching trans gaming and disaster response (unrelatedly) 🌟 STA Superstar of STEM 🐉 Ancient D&D nerd 🎶 Metalhead I like dragons and corvids. Opinions are my own.
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In "Trans Technologies," Dr. @haimson.bsky.social describes what happens when transgender users, who are often excluded or marginalized by mainstream technologies, take technology design into their own hands. Join him for a conversation & book signing at @redemmas.org on March 4th! Link to register:

I’m crying… one of my kids found a daddy long legs and named it Legolas… 🤣😂🤣 #lotr

My story is privileged, but my graduate studies were funded by the US DoE (GAANN) and NSF (SGER, IIS Core). I wouldn’t be here otherwise.

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

0 errors on the LaTeX console change the template, recompile 101 errors on the LaTeX console copy into the official template, recompile 733 errors on the LaTeX console...

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

Yeah I did this a while back. The results are generally what I would have expected from Google but there’s no AI garbage.

ABC’s headline is really clear there.

We highly recommend y’all crack open a copy of the U.S. Constitution before you break anymore laws…

It's just so childish. It's disgusting and cruel, but it also makes the Republicans look just so *childish.*

I know cruelty is the point but… man this one is just especially ghoulish. They say they’re doing this to “protect the kids” but it’s always been so painfully obvious what the truth is. The want trans kids to die, to disappear, to be erased.

Too many cis people see trans right as a luxury for decadent times and are far too eager to surrender us when times get tough

Exactly how much does transphobia have to have rotted your thinking before you write a column celebrating Donald Trump as preserving women's rights. How much do you have to hate trans people to even believe that for a second? What is wrong with these people?

There is no treatment for gender dysphoria other than transition. Trust me, I tried all of the experimental ones. I loved my family and my girlfriend, and didn’t want to lose them. But at the end of the day I couldn’t keep living as a shell. I had to be a person.

Wild few weeks of academic success… we were notified that our analysis of distributed cognition in Jubensha was accepted to ACM Games! #tabletop #games With @codingcrafter.bsky.social and others not on here yet.

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

1000% this! I'm talking a lot about civil disobedience right now because it is necessary. But we need a broad coalition of people resisting together, and it's the white cishet folks who need to be at the front of that crowd. Us trannies are targets no matter what, so our risk calculus is different.

I just completed a marketing survey asking if I was interested in "AI" grading tools. No, I'm not. But it felt like the inevitable finite loop of ignorance approaches where students turn in AI-generated assignments to be evaluated by AI graders.

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social

hey I actually think that they want to kill all trans people. I mean, I think they really want to do it. I think they're devoted enough to try it. It won't work, but THEY WANT THIS.

It's often not realised that the term "Anti-Semitism" was originally coined by antisemites, who wanted to insist that they weren't opposed to *Jews*, but to "Semitism" or "Jewish ideology". It's a well-trodden fake distinction.

Trump is torching the economy, whilst dismantling federal agencies and purging all dissenters. The world’s richest man has been given full access to the federal treasury, which controls trillions in payments & holds sensitive personal data on millions. This is happening. This is a state coup.

This all continues to make me sick.

They can erase the term from the CDC documentation. They can erase the term from the travel websites. They can even erase stories. They cannot erase our lived experiences. They cannot erase us.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Abandoning trans rights means abandoning ALL rights. They are inseperable. Abandoning trans people is to abandon all people, and indeed our very humanity. Think about what the fascist asks for, and then think of the totality of its cost. And then say no. To all of it.

one small, sincere thing I'd like to say about what's happening now is: every trans person who's paying attention is going to be deeply affected by the way we're being targeted. even if they're not showing it to you. be patient and kind with us.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Well I guess we just entered “auto-aggro-ethnography” into the scholarly record. You’re welcome! My first (and last?) alt.CHI paper was accepted to #CHI2025 Mobile Maps Continue to Fail Pedestrians: Synthesised Reflective Auto-Aggro-Ethnographies of Walking

In his third order in eight days focused singularly on attacking trans people, Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday attempting to block the availability of gender-affirming medical care for transgender children and teenagers across America. Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...