To hold eternity in an hour

Navigating gender dysphoria? Be heard and be counted in the science.

(Information above from PFLAG National)

Bailey has spent the last 20+ years of his professional career attacking the Trans community — he has been accused of misconduct MULTIPLE times around not getting informed consent for the research he does.

https://www.transvitae.com/why-trans-communities-are-urging-caution-on-ayagdos-research/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2026/03/29/northwestern-university-study-trans-gender-affirming-care-dysphoria-michael-bailey

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-same-dark-money-behind-project

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/25/features/nu-prof-michael-bailey-faces-backlash-over-retracted-gender-dysphoria-study/

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

I ain’t that stupid there scam bot.

Like I said, the museum was a pretty snotty institution. It’s got a LOT of objects it’s way famous for possessing, but nobody knew about the absolutely massive collection of Moche erotic pottery it had because the curators were totally embarrassed by this stuff.

Some examples:

Pretty hot shit, right? They never, ever put any of this stuff on public view or published it in any catalogues but - we legit had like several hundred pieces of Moche ceramics in the “dirty pots” category. Anyway, I was left alone to just do my job with regard to the database for several years, ok? And I figured, well, these’re accessioned objects in the museum’s collection - better get down to bidness. 

I catalogued every goddamn bestiality, necrophiliac, cocksucking, buttfucking, detached penis, and giant vulva drinking cup in that collection. I’d be like, 

A drinking vessel in form of a standing man wearing a tunic and cap. He holds an oversized erection in his hands and stares into the distance (note I did not say “like he’s hella-constipated”). The vessel has a hole at both the tip of the penis as well as around the rim of the figure’s head, thus forcing the drinker to drink only from the penis or risk spilling wine all over themselves from the top of the vessel. Red and orange slip covers the surface of the piece.

Pretty straightforward, right? Apparently the deep seated fear of these objects that the curators exhibited was meant to spread to me as well, but - no one ever gave me that memo, because I guess Midwesterners reproduce asexually. When the curators understood that I had catalogued all of these objects in addition to the other, non-sexy pieces in the collection, they were apparently livid, but knew they had no legs to stand on in terms of getting pissed at me for it. 

I visited the museum’s online public access database a few years back and - every single description I wrote of these pieces has been totally neutered to say something like Male figural vase. 

To date, Australia has been one of the few western nations not to suffer the indignancy of legislation designed to make life for trans people a living hell. In the US, and in the UK, the introduction of laws that have cracked down on the right of existence of trans people, restricted our ability to use public facilities, and made us liable to discrimination and brutality on a scale that has not been seen for eighty years.

This week, in the Australian senate, a private member’s bill was introduced by a member of the Nationals Party. This bill aims to introduce a binary definition of sex, and to exclude transgender Australians from using bathrooms that align with their gender, from competing in gendered sports, and open us up to harassment by excluding us from the protection of the Sex Discrimination Act.

This act has been met so far with a resounding lack of effective defence by our elected officials who would otherwise support us. Labour and our progressive independent parties have been floundering and refusing to take action while right wing fascists like Senator Mikalea Cash have been able to walk right over them by spouting familiar rhetoric like “define a woman” and “biological males are not woman”.

It is vital that we fight back, and that transphobia is not allowed a new footing in yet another nation.

If you see this post in your dashboard, I ask that you help spread the word by reblogging, by liking, and by engaging. I also ask that you sign the following petition by Equality Australia, and encourage other people in your social circle to do so.

She's leaving.

Oh child, just offering this spares you. . .

The goddess turns to the food with her nose twitching - coming to a stop and stand nearby while vegetation blooming, light starting to shine from the wolf's fur.

"Yes, thank you. . . It is sad that no-one believes in me anymore and not come to give me offerings." Amaterasu lets out a sigh before taking the offerings with her mouth.

She's leaving.