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e_urq, 5 months ago to trans

Which side of the debate over gender affirming care inherits more from the history of lobotomy after all?

The Daily Wire ran a story today claiming that gender-affirming care is similar to lobotomy and so I asked myself, if we look at this history, where institutions and families prized the procedure because it made patients docile easy to manage, what can we learn?

#trans #transgender #news #journalism

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/lobotomy-and-gender-affirming-care

MissingThePt, 5 months ago to random

Tesla to add recorded “banging” noises to the Cybertruck so that the Coast Guard can more easily locate wreckage.

vreer, 6 months ago to DoctorWho Dutch

Say. That new #DoctorWho episode with the trans girl and her supporting mother. And David Tennant! Which season and episode is that? It screened already, right? Or was it a preview of the Xmas episode?

rahmstorf, 6 months ago to random German

The battle of Homo sapiens to prevent the destruction of our future by the fossil fuel industry has not yet been won. But we can if enough of us stand up against the insanity.
‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ubi, 8 months ago to random

Why do plant based meats only make mock versions of pork, beef and chicken? There is no limit to our creativity, we shouldn't be shackled to common meats. Why can't we have plant based T rex burgers or mammoth steaks?

I'd be all in for artificial Anomalocaris fingers.

davidallengreen, 8 months ago to random

But...

But...

...Net Zero is enshrined in law?!

How could a UK government possibly renege cynically on a target that is enshrined in law?

Oh.

jef, 8 months ago to random

STOP SAVING DAYLIGHT

• CLOCKS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CHANGED TWICE A YEAR

• YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT

• Sunset keeps getting earlier by a few minutes per day, which is sad but we can adjust to it, but then BAM we are all supposed to change the clocks so that it's suddenly A FULL HOUR EARLIER and it's PITCH DARK AFTER WORK what the hell.

"Hello I would like my saved daylight back please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

breadandcircuses, 8 months ago to politics

The heartbreaking, disgusting, and brutally tragic story of how we got to where we are today…

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"Why action on the climate crisis is all hot air"

How did we reach this point of abject failure: where the greater the scientific consensus and real-world evidence, the smaller the impact that consensus has on decision-making?

The astonishing disjunct between threat and response is possible only because the oil lobby has historically shaped, and continues to shape, popular understanding of the gravity of what lies ahead.

Cognitive dissonance reigns.

It is true that the establishment media has, very belatedly, started to diagnose more unpredictable and extreme weather patterns as symptoms of a wider climate crisis. It is hard to deny reality when reality keeps slapping you in the face.

But otherwise, the media has been, and continues to be, the core of the problem. It still plays cover both for the oil lobby and for the global corporations whose bottom line depends on a continuing addiction to over-consumption and “economic growth.”

That should be no surprise, because media corporations, whose job it is to frame our understanding of the world, are themselves deeply embedded in corporate profiteering at the planet’s expense.

Under the capitalist system, the primary duty of oil corporations – like other corporations – is to maintain profitability and guarantee value for investors and stockholders. Ethics never got a look-in.

So the fossil-fuel industry spent part of its vast profits pursuing a twin-track: first, muddying the waters about the climate science, then channeling attention towards largely meaningless, small-scale fixes that fell to the public to implement.

For the critical years when urgent, state-backed action was needed on a massive scale, climate denial, funded by dark money from Big Business, was given regular airtime on influential media channels like the BBC. Ordinary people were left, as they were supposed to be, confused and unsure.

We are still encouraged through advertising to consume as much as possible and throw away items of new technology – from personal computers to phones – every few years through planned obsolescence.

But this individualised, competitive, wasteful way of life is being given a makeover. Cars are now hybrid or electric. Holidays are “carbon offset” somehow. Plastic on our food is described as recyclable. Advertising now explains to us how all the stuff we buy is saving the planet.

Living ever more of our lives online supposedly helps too, because it reduces our carbon footprint. It is a green revolution in which everything stays pretty much the same – including the ability of giant corporations to make massive profits.

Armed with warnings – decades in advance – from their own scientists, the oil industry had enough of a head-start to invent a self-serving narrative. It's one in which ordinary people are encouraged to consume as much as before, while being persuaded either that they are making a difference or that the damage they are causing will be reversed by imminent technologies.

The new watchword is “net zero”. But in truth, it is a giant psy-op, as climate scientists have gradually started to appreciate.

In 2021 a group of three leading academics admitted that for years they had been duped into championing the promises of the Green New Deal. Technological fixes, such as carbon capture, offsetting and geoengineering, were “no more than fairy tales”, they warned. Net zero policies “were and still are driven by a need to protect business as usual, not the climate”.

James Dyke, an expert in global systems at Exeter University, observed: “It’s astonishing how the continual absence of any credible carbon removal technology seems to never affect net zero policies. I've now realised that we have all been subject to a form of gaslighting.”

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There's much more in this brilliant piece by Jonathon Cook, and I hope you will read the whole thing.

FULL ESSAY -- https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-action-on-the-climate-crisis

#Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

JoscelynTransient, 9 months ago to random

I'm finally putting together a master list for all my #TransMusicMonday posts since it can be hard to dig them all up.

Here's the posts in order, starting with the first on January 30th:

Dorian Electra
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109762044718859597

Mykki Blanco
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109778963651696549

Jackie Shane
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109821065977580571

Ezra Furman
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109859029873000018

Beverly "Glenn" Glenn-Copeland
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109897713223690979

Shae Diamond
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109943623738361709

Ataru Nakamura
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/109977311146882415

Rachel Underspoon
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110016574410336403

Molly Noise
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110141924675130034

Evan Greer
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110175945741432384

Joe Stevens (Coyote Grace)
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110255259953547918

Lucas Silveira (The Cliks)
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110296108639353941

Ezra Furman, "Suck the Blood from My Wound"
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110334069347789114

Janelle Monae
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110374024399142603

Ezra Furman, "Twelve Nudes"
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110616656066731785

yeule
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110652556783626252

Avery Tucker (Girlpool)
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/110690800242784362

autoerot1ca, 9 months ago to trans

BREAKING: the world jigsaw authority have banned trans women from doing jigsaws with cis women citing their "biologically immutable advantage at connecting bits of cardboard together."

More as we have it.
#trans

Popehat, 9 months ago to random

He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times

taylorlorenz, 9 months ago to mentalhealth

I totally disagree w/ this piece. Trigger warnings simply provide context on pieces of information so ppl can knowingly opt in to consuming it

Saying TWs are making ppl soft (as this piece argues) is like saying rating some movies as “R” is making everyone more scared, or saying parental advisory stickers made ppl unable to endure cursing.

Curious to hear ppl’s thoughts https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/trigger-warnings-feminism-teen-girls-mental-health/674759/ #mentalhealth

theconversationau, 9 months ago to random

"Australia, too, is fast becoming a continent of more uncontrolled fire,"

🔥 The Maui tragedy is a glimpse of the intense fires we can expect in a warmer world – but there is much Australia can do to adapt to fire, writes David Bowman (@UTAS_). https://theconversation.com/australia-is-sleepwalking-a-bushfire-scientist-explains-what-the-hawaii-tragedy-means-for-our-flammable-continent-211364?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1691708899-1

Chrishallbeck, 10 months ago to random

Gonna start a creepy snack food brand called “Edgar Allan Poetato Chips” with flavors like “Raven Ranch”, “A Descent into Barbecue”, and “The Cask of Sour Cream and Onion”.

breadandcircuses, 10 months ago to Arizona

A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —

"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"

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You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).

Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”

I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.

It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.

And we’re being told we can adapt.

I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.

It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.

It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/if-a-cactus-cant-survive-this-neither

#Arizona #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Sheril, 10 months ago to art

About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America. https://www.wired.com/2013/10/absurd-creature-of-the-week-spork-elephant/ #Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science

transactualuk, 10 months ago to random

This month we're pondering the concept of aging.

If you're trans & 60+: What do you want younger trans people to know about getting older?

If you're trans & under 60: How do you feel about the concept of aging?

Let us know in the comments and/or complete our form if you'd like your answer to feature on one of our graphics: https://form.typeform.com/to/ptEKACZp

(Accessibility: Question of the month. How do you feel about getting older? Illustration of an older person.)

Radical_EgoCom, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Left out an important part: "... during world-record heat waves"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/sag-aftra-strike-universal-la-trees/index.html

davidallengreen, 10 months ago to random

Yesterday I asked followers to to "like" a post so that could gauge how many are seeing/reading my Mastodon posts.

This was because, although nominally I have 41k followers on here, I thought the figure artificially inflated because of how many came over last November and then went away again.

The result was 1.2k likes (and 83 boosts).

The boosts may have led to likes from non-followers.

So: in a 20-hour period, a post had an engagement rate of about 3%.

A data point, if not an anecdote.

helenczerski, 10 months ago to climate

Has anyone done the sums on what renewables capacity £20 billion would buy you? “Grant Shapps earmarks £20bn for new fleet of nuclear reactors in UK”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/18/grant-shapps-earmarks-20bn-for-new-fleet-of-nuclear-reactors-in-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #climate #renewables

JoscelynTransient, 10 months ago to trans

While I've found trans musical artists in almost every genre, there is still one I have yet to find someone whose music I can get easier access to: Rockabilly/Psychobilly.

It is one of my favorite genres and given the affinity so many trans folks have for camp and horror, I'm kinda mystified there aren't more. It's even more confusing because Lux Interior, of the Cramps, was gender non-conforming as heck and basically pioneered the sound with his wife, Poison Ivy.

#Trans #Rockabilly #Music

goatsarah, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random en-gb

David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!

ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.

alan, 11 months ago to random

Via @decolonialatlas "Each 8th of July, at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world's population is experiencing daylight. This day should have a name, and it should be a holiday." Original source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight