Absolutely No Gravitas Here

dualist henotheist tgirl: Estrogen and Testosterone are manifestations of two great deities - one benevolent and righteous, one sinister and evil. Breasts and head hair protection are where the righteous Goddess won her struggle with the forces of T. Voice and bone structure are where She tragically lost. It is our duty as tgirls to pray to Her so She may someday win that struggle.

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon. The Apollo 8 mission was the first crewed spacecraft to circumnavigate the Moon.

Mezzanine (Massive Attack)

Ooh Rap I Ya (George Clanton)

Nifty little language game here.

I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty

at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words

at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context

It's the memory loss medication.

It's the make your tits grow wrong medication.

It's the make you more resistant to estrogen medication.

It's the increased visceral fat medication.

It's the benign tumors of the brain medication.

It's the poison medication.

How is this still being prescribed in 2026 when we have several far more selective AAs on the market specifically designed for androgen blockade in AR-positive prostate cancer????

Anecdotally, my fellow cohort of gen-x'ers were convinced this was going to be the solution, the ticket, the fucking way. Inevitably, all we had to do was outlive these old mayonnaise white devils, because that's where the racism was societally stored - like a big racism appendix that would get removed someday.

We thought we knew what was up because we were cool white kids who listened to Public Enemy. And because we thought we were largely inoculated against racism, it was just a long cool slide into the Clinton years and we'd be set.

So we didn't question shit like South Park. We didn't question shitheads like 'ironic' (at the time) racists like Weev in our IRC channel. We had zero fucking awareness of how racism shifted, because the only examples of racism we were ever taught either wore a white robe & burned crosses, or sig-heil'd and lived in misery. We shamefully thought racism = southern*, and since we were alt-goth kids living on the west coast, we were fucking sorted out and safe.

It wasn't on our radar. We weren't ready. We hadn't listened to anyone, because we thought we'd learned enough to not be a problem, and wasn't that enough?

We didn't clock or understand the way racist language shifted into a new economic handwringing. We fell into stupid rhetorical traps that snuck racism into concerns about unhoused people and substance abuse. We refused to recognize and realize our own inherent racist attitudes because of the sunk cost fallacy of wanting to believe we really didn't have to do anything other than be cool and wait it out.

I watched some people absolutely lose their shit when called out on this and flounce directly into the arms of right wing philosophy (always some variation on "left wing politics has gone too far!" when it's pointed out how they're upholding inequality with a cherished attitude or anecdote they've leaned on for years to prop up the mythology of their self-worth).

No one was ready to realize they weren't good just by being alternative. And some of them cracked apart.

Racism has a full time advertising budget ready to repackage and rebadge it minute to minute, and you always have to do the work. It never ever fucking stops. And making sure you're always doing the work has the very valuable side-benefit of keeping you in touch with yourself and what you're about.

You gotta do the work. It never stops.

I know some people loathe the "brain sex" hypothesis of transness, but it doesn't have to imply bioessentialist dogma like "men and women are biologicallyᵗᵐ destined to have roles X, Y, and Z."

It could be as simple as "different genders have different internal body maps," and that's all. Human proprioception expects two arms and two legs; that's why losing a limb in an accident often causes "phantom limb syndrome." The somatosensory cortex stores a four limbed body map, and so the brain can end up hallucinating sensations from the lost limb even as the conscious self is fully aware that the limb is gone.