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agenderfox

@agenderfox@babka.social

call me: fox or Yonah (my Hebrew name) 💜 they/them or fae/faer 💜 nonbinary changeling 💜 Jewitch 💜 disabled 💜 trans, bi, aroace-ish, solo polyam 💜 fat-positive 💜 I play video games 💜 casual profanity 💜 communist

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agenderfox, to Ds9
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#DS9 S4E24 The Quickening

Bashir: how did you get her to take us to the hospital? these aren't exactly the friendliest people

Dax: I gave her my hair clip

cut to a woman fussing with her hair and possibly looking into a mirror

I didn't notice it the first time I watched DS9, but it's more "women be vain" 🙃

#AllTrekWatch #StarTrek #DeepSpace9

agenderfox,
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S2E26 Basics part 1

damn, I did not expect them to admit that white colonists raped Native women

agenderfox,
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S4E25 Body Parts

Bashir, explaining why Nerys is now carrying Keiko's fetus: "I had to find another womb for the baby and the only two people available were Major Kira ... and me."

idky this didn't pop out for me the first time I watched DS9, but ... if he's an available person, then he's got a womb. so Bashir is but he couldn't operate on himself, so that's why Nerys got the fetus 🤷🏻

agenderfox,
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I love the weird #polycule of Kira and the O'Briens

I'm not a fan of Miles at all, but I'm so desperate for poly representation, I guess I'll take him 🤷🏻

agenderfox,
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S3E1 Basics part 2

okay, I know that the Kazon stripped them of all their technology, but surely they didn't stop to dig out the subdermal universal translators from some 150 odd crew members???

so how come they can't understand these particular aliens???

agenderfox,
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S3E2 Flashback

I don't understand why Tuvok has to make his meditation block-structure with his eyes closed? it doesn't seem like that's a great way to build a balanced structure?

agenderfox,
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CAPTAIN SULU!!! I'm so happy to see him!!!

fullfathomfive, to art
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THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK

For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).

Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.

She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.

Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was a “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.

The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.

Fucking love this artist 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/09/mona-ordered-to-allow-people-who-do-not-identify-as-ladies-into-ladies-lounge-exhibit

agenderfox,
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@fullfathomfive I'd love to know how many people who don't normally identify as women claimed to do so in order to view this exhibit. bc transphobes are screaming that this happens constantly, and this seems like the lowest-stakes "ID as a woman to access women's spaces" scenario out there

like, it's ridiculous to think that a serious man athlete would take hormones to permanently alter his body and then spend months/years being referred to as the wrong name and pronouns simply to compete in women's sports but that a random Australian man wouldn't walk up to an exhibit and say "I identify as a lady" to look at some art and then never see any of the ladies/butlers who had been there again

#trans #transgender

agenderfox, to bookstodon
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currently reading "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon (co-host of #MaintenancePhase), which states:

"In 2004, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published 'Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000,' the study that first trumpeted that some four hundred thousand Americans died each year simply from being fat."

I already have some idea of how this story will go, from listening to Maintenance Phase's episode on The French Paradox*, and my little goblin brain wants to publish a study of Actual Causes of Death that proves that some millions of Americans die each year "under mysterious circumstances"

  • the TL;DR version is: "cause of death is very hard to actually determine and is influenced to a great degree by policies and how forms are designed"

for the whole story, check the episode out:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79PcksGTHF5qIhqjNEftLm

#FatPositivity @bookstodon

agenderfox, to bookstodon
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"mountain was probably an exaggeration, but the hills in this land had ambitions"
-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength, book two of The Saint of Steel

probably the best description of topography I've ever read

@bookstodon #bookstodon

agenderfox,
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"god damn sexy evergreens"

  • also T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength, book two of The Saint of Steel

this book is killing me

@bookstodon #bookstodon

agenderfox,
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"sophisticated canoodling"

  • also T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength, book two of The Saint of Steel

oh my GOD

@bookstodon #bookstodon

agenderfox, to VintageOSes
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#TOS S2E24 The Ultimate Computer

ooh, can't wait to discover what the 60s thought the ultimate computer would be like 🤣

#AllTrekWatch #TheOriginalSeries #StarTrek

agenderfox,
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"you've got a great job, Jim. just sit back and let the machine do the work"

okay, I have an idea of how this episode is going to go 🤣

it's like that episode of #TNG where they proved that going above like warp 6 was damaging the fabric of space ... like, it was an interesting idea for an episode, but necessarily they needed to ignore the restriction later on

agenderfox,
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@shekinahcancook yeah, exactly

agenderfox, to StarTrek
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my very first* #StarTrek was not #DS9, as I've said here before, but #WrathOfKhan

back a million years ago, a local theater was playing Wrath of Khan, and some friends talked me into going with them. since I'd never watched Star Trek before, I have retained exactly zero of this movie

I still feel a little silly for not having realized earlier than, like, season 4 of #TNG that Noonien Soongh is a different person than Khan Noonien-Singh. another issue with having started out of order ... when I started my TNG watch, all I knew about Khan (besides that there was a movie about him) was what was in #StrangeNewWorlds. I also didn't have a very good grasp on the timeline of the different series (including the 100-year gap)

#AllTrekWatch #TOS #TheOriginalSeries #TheNextGeneration

*not counting the last 5-10 minutes of whatever rerun was playing before #Sliders every week

agenderfox,
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@forgottrek not yet. I'm currently in the middle of season 2 of TOS, and once I'm done with TOS, I'll watch the movies

agenderfox, to ADHD
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morning, Mastodonians 💜 I'm tired as shit 🙃 but I've got RITALIN again for the first time in months, and I really need to get some shit done, so it's time for a #LifeStuff post!

for those who aren't familiar, it's a list of things I want to get done today, and then I post at least once more, updating my progress

so:
✓ make bed

  • breakfast
  • continue laundry (fold and put away dry stuff, start the next batch)
  • restock cat food cans (from the pantry/chewy.com packages to the kitchen)
  • open all recent packages, break down boxes
  • finally finish putting my Hanukkah decorations away so I can stow the box somewhere (ditto my new seder plate)
  • gather recyclables, start taking them out, also grab my mail/packages from the mailbox

okay, I'm going to end here and make some breakfast. there's more stuff, but I'll figure it out after I've done some of this. thanks for being a kind of virtual body double, friends 💜

#ADHD @adhd

agenderfox,
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"midday" update:
✓ make bed
✓ breakfast

  • continue laundry (ALMOST DONE, just one more dryer load to wait for and then fold and put away)
  • restock cat food cans (from the pantry/chewy.com packages to the kitchen)
  • open all recent packages, break down boxes
    ✓ finally finish putting my Hanukkah decorations away so I can stow the box somewhere (ditto my new seder plate)
  • gather recyclables, start taking them out, also grab my mail/packages from the mailbox

my friend came over and I'm folding laundry while we talk about how gender is fake

#LifeStuff #ADHD @adhd

agenderfox,
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"midday" update:

  • finish laundry (folding the last of it now)
    ✓ restock cat food cans
    ✓ open all recent packages, break down boxes
    ✓ finally finish putting my Hanukkah decorations away so I can stow the box somewhere (ditto my new seder plate)
    ✓ gather recyclables, start taking them out, also grab my mail/packages from the mailbox

#LifeStuff #ADHD @adhd

evacide, to random
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I don't understand why brick and mortal clothing stores are dying. Am I the only person who wants to try things on before I buy them? Sizing for women's clothing is crafted entirely from lies. I just bought a size 8 top from a brand, which fit perfectly, and had to return a pair of size 2 pants from them because they were too big.

agenderfox,
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@evacide @danmcd me and my friends are now fantasizing about a store run by Fae or, like, Owl House-type witches and it's just full of human junk

@comicsbyxan @ninsiana0

airadam, to ai
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This is an interesting read, there are some scary ideas behind the push for AI in everything, being propagated by the nightmare crew that brought you most of the other terrible stuff to come out of Silicon Valley...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/

#AI #generativeAI #BlackMastodon

agenderfox,
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@airadam a horrifying read

“We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.”

I felt sick to my stomach reading this article, but I am glad I read it

opening the article, I thought, "I bet it doesn't even talk about using AI for Union busting":

labornotes.org/blogs/2023/05/union-busting-chatbot-eating-disorders-nonprofit-puts-ai-retaliation

and then reading the article, I kept being reminded of weight loss public health stuff: specific, actual harms being outweighed by vague, potential benefits (for examples, I offer Maintenance Phase, a podcast about junk science relating to wellness, weight loss and health ... specifically check out the episodes about The President's Physical Fitness Test, Calorie Menu Labeling (two parter) and the Worm Wars)

open.spotify.com/show/3rDR8CfpIEMpITG2UC3w5W

mekkaokereke, to random
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Valuable lessons were learned, but not the ones that the mother thought would be learned.🤷🏿‍♂️

  • She learned that millions of Black people haven't been "making it all up" about police mistreatment
  • She learned why US Black folk almost never call the police, for any reason
  • Her son learned that his own mom is not safe. Her lack of understanding of US racism makes her dangerous
  • She's probably going to learn that this does not meet the definition of police misconduct

https://apnews.com/article/black-teen-lawsuit-excessive-force-vermont-disabilities-7b638ed26c299c7f07033968274e8f37

agenderfox,
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@mekkaokereke @jshirley it's interesting to me that all the white examples are diabetic; is anti-fat bias part of the equation? there have to be skinny white ppl who had a concussion or something and weren't assaulted by police for being slow to follow instructions

autism101, to actuallyautistic
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Did you get labeled as a “picky eater” when you were growing up?

@actuallyautistic

agenderfox,
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@autism101 @actuallyautistic not really, but I ate ham sandwiches nearly every school lunch of my K-12 existence, and my friends told me I would get tired of them but I never did

my sister recently told me that the smell of oranges and popcorn always reminds her of me, bc when I got home from school, I would always snack on one or the other (still do!)

I'm guessing I might have been called picky if my parents had insisted on me eating different/more varied foods, but 🤷🏻

agenderfox, to bookstodon
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just finished A Psalm for the Wild-Built by , which made me cry 😭

I'm not good at writing reviews, but this book made me feel so seen. Dex is me; I too have a wandering heart; I too feel a constant war between needing to throw away everything I've built to seek a new purpose and dreading starting over, again

I love the religion in the book; I love the God of Small Comforts. I love the tea ceremony. I LOVE Mosscap so much. and I fucking love that the entire book is basically two people: one who uses they pronouns, and the other who uses it pronouns.

anyway, you should probably read it. I'm going to start A Prayer for the Crown-Shy now

@bookstodon

agenderfox,
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just finished book two: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

didn't make me cry, but it was still lovely

@bookstodon

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