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@ophelirawr
"you're biased in favor of trans women" yes. i am. and i'm entirely right for it.
bringing this back because it's pride month and people are saying i'm trying to "divide the community." motherfucker everyone in the queer and trans communities shit on transfems all the time and you want me to act like there isn't already a division? no one gets to pretend like everything's okay when the people who are supposed to be our allies are transmisogynists. everyone is already biased against us. do you know how sickening it is to see random people in my fucking community so easily and readily go along with any accusation against transfems, no matter how absurd or unsubstantiated? do you know how sickening it is that the people i'm supposed to lean on are the ones painting us as predators and monsters and threats for no other reason than "the vibes were off"?
i'll stop being biased for transfems when there's no longer a need. i'll stop when people actually treat us like people and not some fucking underclass they unfortunately have to include. hell, it would be a leap forward for aspiring allies to even so much as acknowledge that we're treated this way, instead of living in a fantasy that we're doing just as well or unwell as anyone else. so long as the status quo continues, the community is already divided. try working with us instead of pretending we're making shit up if you want me to stop being a bitch about it.
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
Edited down a long tweet. (x)
[runs hands down face]
Okay this is the problem with sharing pop science stuff online and content aggregation accounts
The study is real, it's very easy to find by searching up the author's name + study. Give it a read yourself. It's written in a pretty accessible way imo.
Note that it does not put forward any explanations for why this effect happens, only that it does. In the conclusion it posits many possible reasons for why, and that it's most likely nothing to do with the specific action of walking, merely any semi automatic repetitive activity. They also acknowledge the study did not account for the social company the walkers were in, which is a pretty massive factor imo. Considering the conclusion brings up MANY alternative explanations and future experiment possibilities, it's decidedly not "killed every alternative explanation" like the tweet says. The actual paper ends like most scientific papers, listing alternative possible explanations, these are preliminary results, more research is needed, wider demographics of people need to be included, etc.
Another thing is the phrasing of these tweets are like red flags flapping in the wind to me. Any short form social media content that's 1. Pop science 2. Conveys absolute certainty 3. Ends with self improvement biohacking adjacent advice, should set off alarm bells.
Look at the implications that if the tweets were true, it would mean wheelchair users and people with mobility issues would be inherently worse at creative tasks.
So who is this person that's tweeting this, rephrasing this paper in a "helpful" way that is sure to get shares from people who really value being creative and are looking for any way to become more creative in their -
OFC ITS AN AI BRO
You wanna see what his recent articles look like?
CAN WE STOP GETTING BAITED INTO PLATFORMING GRIFTERS
Thank you! There were so many red flags in the first post's language. The original paper straight up says that the mechanisms weren't isolated! Also there is no single part of the brain responsible for creative idea generation, it involves communication between multiple brain networks.
Glad I wasn't the only person who looked at this and thought that it was weird to say this study is SO perfect when the way it's framed here directly implies that people who can't walk are inherently less capable of being creative than people who can.
I can't leave a reply but to the disabled people in the notes who now genuinely seem to believe their mobility issues have robbed them of their ability to be creative pls don't think that! That's not what this study said! You're dealing with ableist misinformation from an AI bro, the study did not make these claims. I encourage everyone who's shared the version without the corrections to take them down, this misinfo is hurting already clearly hurting disabled people and should not be spread.
Need to hunt someone through a dark forest and fuck them when I catch them. For my mental health.

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some days i feel overwhelming grief for the fact that i never got to be a teenaged girl
i should have been an awkward tomboy slowly figuring out she's a lesbain and crushing on my best friend but instead i was crushed into nothing by feelings i couldn't even point to
it's so fucking unfair
i cannot forget that everything led to where i am now, im happy now, im who im meant to be.
but every day i mourn the girl that never got to live, she deserved more.
Yeah well idk. I just find "he/him" pronouns pretty dehumanising¹ so I'm not really comfortable calling you that. I'm just gonna use she/her or it/its for you instead. Please respect my boundaries ok?
¹men aren't humans
mocking her for how wet my violence makes her
@ophelirawr
awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
i love trans women i hope they all know that i want them to know that

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Woman who hasn't been held in a decade: oh I'm pretty low maintenance, yeah honestly I think I'd find that overwhelming or something, can I just hold your hand instead? If that's okay of course?
Woman who feels ill at the notion of taking up space: yeah I can stand. Yeah honestly it's no biggie I like standing. Do you mind if I lean here? It's okay to say no.
Woman who would rather die than be considered selfish: I'm really sorry to ask I'm probably just being annoying but could I ask for another pillow? Yeah there isn't one in the room. Yeah no worries I can just bunch up some towels if needed.
Woman who's most outlandish and fantastical fantasies are a coffee date and seeing a movie with someone: oh I don't get out much. Yeah I don't really like being around people. I'm pretty much an introvert. Or something like that yeah.
Woman who would break down screaming and crying if someone showed even a hint of affection in person, who would fall apart at the seams if you held her still and asked her if she was okay, woman who if allowed too would wrap herself around you and sob and weep until she became severely dehydrated: oh yeah sorry I spaced out for a second there. Yeah I'm doing alright.
girl on grindr asked if i fucked my sister and blocked me for saying yes lmao rip loser
ask game for aging tumblr population
what's your favourite kitchen appliance?
do you have a collection of anything?
what's the best job you've ever had?
what's the worst job you've ever had?
what's your favourite piece of furniture and where did you get it?
what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?
are you married or do you intend to get married?
do you have kids? do you want them?
are you on good terms with your parents?
do you have siblings? do you hang out with them?
do you vote?
what's the biggest purchase you've ever made?
what are your hobbies?
what's a hobby you'd like to get into?
do you collect anything?
how long have you known your oldest friend?
are you a member of any clubs or associations?
have you ever changed fields in your career or education?
how many wisdom teeth do you have and have you had any removed?
what's your favourite beverage?
do you have any living grandparents?
do you have nieces/nephews/godchildren/other kids in your life that aren't yours?
what's the coolest place you've visited?
what's your most recent degree and has it been useful to you?
would you rather own a dishwasher or a laundry machine if you could only have one or the other?
do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?
what's your favourite household chore?
what chore do you hate the most?
do you have houseplants and how are you at keeping them alive?
what's your living arrangement? (who do you live with, in what kind of building, do you own or rent or other?)
tbh think if ur gonna give the like button a trans flag animation you should like stop banning trans women en masse, among other things. like as a requirement.

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it is kind of crazy that so many things are specifically designed for right-handedness in a way that does not account for the possibility of left-handedness. its a minor issue most of the time but i have encountered real problems in situations due to being left-handed and there not being a real solution to the problem, because there's no way around the very intentional structures based entirely on right-handedness being not only the default but assumed to be such a majority that left-handedness need not even be a consideration. i think the most notable part is how entirely invisible it is to 90% of people.
i get weird looks when I am handed a pair of scissors and asked to cut something with them, because i have to explain that right-handed scissors do not work properly if used left-handedly because a) i cant see what im cutting and b) the paper will just do that awful fuckin folding thing instead of cutting because its not made to be used in that orientation. people just *assume* that scissors are not chiral and "just work". dont believe me? go grab a pair of scissors and use them with your left hand. try to cut a piece of paper into a circle. even better, find some left-handed scissors and use them with your right hand.
and on that note LEFT-HANDED THINGS SHOULD NOT BE MORE EXPENSIVE. this one proper pisses me off. left handed scissors and other office supplies shouldnt be sold at a premium. left-handed instruments should not be considered rare, and *definitely* should not be custom-order-only items.
yeah the tags i wrote are important enough to put on the post actually. also this was *supposed* to just be a "man being left-handed sucks in the stupidest and least significant ways BUT IT DOES SUCK NONETHELESS like whys the DS stylus on the right hand side its like 10x more finicky to use cuz im left-handed >:(" kinda post.
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Clueless white guy SHOCKS civil war reenactment enthusiasts by shooting his gun in perfect Chinese