Catgirrrrrls are doing it for themselves!

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No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

All fantasy races eventually convergently evolve to be wood elves.

Orc women, goblin women= green wood elves, sometimes with little tusks.

Dark elves shift from pure evil urbanites to morally ambiguous and chaotic adventurers= wood elf.

High elves civilizations break down, scatter, and go mad= wood elves

Beastfolk women eventually become wood elves with fur on their pointed ears

Why do Vampires have pointy ears? The sexiness, eternal life, and pointy ears are due to a bloodborne Wood Elfness diseass

Why are all these humans in this medieval fantasy world lean, and tall, with perfect skin? The Sylvanic Singularity pulls all into its Elvent Horizon

WELL SHIT, bad news, the KIDS Act with all those Scan Your Face To Use The Net bills (Including KOSA and the App Store Accountability Act) got past the House.

But, in a silver lining, they did get less votes in favor of it than expected. And it's gonna have a hard time getting past the Senate because it lacks a lot of things the senate really wants, even the fundie demons like NCOSE hate it!

So, find your senators, and tell them you want this bill gone any way you can, whether via phone, email, or even fax if you're some kind of pervert!

The EFF has a good list of reasons you can give to oppose it, but if you don't think they'll buy it, note specific ways those ID protocols would harm you, like be as directly specific to you as possible.

And if you don't think they'd care about that, bring up the lack of duty of care and how it's a big giveaway to big tech, pit them against each other and make them infight it to death.

And even if you're not in the US, you can still boost this, and not just to here but to other sites as well!

"The law prohibits, currently, on currency, the likeness of any person — not just the president — who is alive," said Jeremy Paul, a professor and former dean at Northeastern University School of Law who specializes in constitutional law.

The Treasury Department argues coins do not apply, citing a law that Congress passed in 2020 authorizing the creation of a special-edition 250th coin.

Paul says the coin question could potentially reach the courts. Either way, he believes, the break with tradition should be cause for concern.

"Regardless of careful parsing of the language of these individual statutes, this plan the president and Secretary Bessent have cooked up is inconsistent with the principles of our country, and it politicizes something that's not supposed to be political," he said.

For example, I've had students ask me (in good faith) how it was possible for international medical bodies to report different counts of COVID-19 cases during the early years of the pandemic. And one of the answers is that you need to first define what you mean by a "COVID-19 case." Do you include self-reported incidences? Waste water data? Geo-fenced social media posts about people complaining about their coronavirus symptoms? Federal estimates? Hospital data? How do you compare countries/territories/substate entities with mandatory reporting mechanisms vs countries/territories/substate entities that rely only on voluntary self-reported cases? And what combination of these do you use? How you construct what you mean by "case" is going to impact the outcomes you report. These different counts of COVID-19 cases can all be true simultaneously, not because numbers are made up, but because they all come out of different methodologies that can be equally valid.

And this is true across all science, not just social science. Bill Clinton said it best lol: "it depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." This feels obvious when you look at scientific research that uses "skull measurements" as their object of analysis - the concept itself is white supremacist, regardless of how "sound" the research is. But even something as apparently self-evident as a COVID-19 case still requires a definition, and how you define your variables is necessarily going to impact how the research goes and what conclusions are drawn.

These definitions are always embedded in political & social assumptions. And again, this does not mean that science is all made up or nonsense or whatever. There is a widespread fetishism of "objective knowledge" that is itself ideological - the idea that knowledge can be divorced from all historical and political contexts, that you can scrub bias from research and simply report the facts. Valuable, well-supported, well-constructed scientific research is always embedded in these contexts. Not just as a result of researcher assumptions, but of the material context it exists in - what research resources are available, how & what research gets funded, the academy's relationship to the state & non-government bodies that both provide data and use that research to inform policy, the historical relationships universities often have with settler-colonialism and imperialism that give them access to "foreign" research subjects, etc etc etc.