clarity

clarity, 20 days ago to random Japanese

this phenomenon where trans women have an easier time carving out niches in male-dominated spaced than anywhere else… fedi, mtg tournaments, speedrunning, etc. it’s a little exhausting really. especially when we get propped up in this “see? we’re inclusive” kind of way when the underlying problem usually hasn’t been addressed — men in these spaces just see us as unthreatening and undesirable

clarity, 20 days ago to random Japanese

my band has its first ever show this saturday…!!

and we’ve got two more shows lined up every other week too, it’s like we’re a real band!

clarity, 23 days ago to random

people always rail against math notation as "illegible" and "elitist gatekeeping" and "unreasonably opaque" and while I'm sympathetic to these arguments I think it's worth understanding this not as a property of some ivory tower elitism but of the percentage of math that is done by hand on chalkboards.

"why don't mathematicians use descriptive names for things" because my arm is tired! have some sympathy.