I got a big video game accomplishment
I got hitless true crown 7-99 in Spelunky 2, which I think is a world first, and I got it on stream, yay
Plus it was on my stream with the charity thingy and we're up to $569 raised, which is past the goal I set
(Hitless true crown cosmic is really difficult)
I like when a game is finished, honestly
Today we got to the $500 goal I put! Yay!
I need to follow more accounts that post cute bunnies so I can have cute bunnies on my timeline
Yesterday I tried the Twitch charity feature for the first time. I didn't know if anyone would donate on my little stream, but we ended up raising $335 for @transempowerment.org and I was really happy!
I was very nervous I might mess something up but it seemed like everything went well!
The story has been picked up by mainstream press.
Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe.
www.politico.eu/article/age-...
A post about The Horrors
A post about making tea
A post about The Horrors
A post about bunnies
I used to like going out to see the snails in the early morning, but it's hard to find them here. It's nice to see the bunnies after the sun rises though
From yesterday, a new WHT ... some brief words on optimism in the face of *gestures at everything bad*
whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-hard-...
My immediate reaction, after reading this list of horrors, is to think, "yeah, AND ..." because the list could keep going ...
I usually just say I'm trans
I think of myself as transsexual, I just got out of the habit of saying "transsexual" around like 2002 because cis people would get so weird about the "sexual" part, and people have only gotten weirder about it since then
But it's always felt like the word for me
You should! I transitioned a long time ago, and over the decades my doctors had me on all sorts of various pills and patches, but now that I'm finally on injections I really wish I had been able to just do this from day one
I hate that fucking meme
Good Law Project still needs a lot of donations to help it keep going in its fight against establishment transphobia. Please donate if you can. And share this.
This is why I say Mazda Mazda3, so maybe I should say CC64
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
Cool cool cool another part of this just comic just happened so that makes 2 of these 3 policies introduced or implemented in one week
This shit sucks, man
I drink tea
I’m so happy ever since I got a kettle with a temperature setting, and started making loose tea in an infuser, and using a timer to make sure I don’t oversteep it
All the little things really make a difference, and my tea is really tasty now yay
I just found out from my bsky timeline that drinking monster is considered a trans stereotype now
The shark plushie is cute but monster is eww
I also found out the word puppygirl a few months ago by someone randomly asking me if I was one
I feel so out of touch lol
Anecdotally I’ve heard a lot of stories of this happening, and I’ve always mentally filed it under “things they say can‘t happen but do anyway” like a LOT of other stuff
(I don’t remember this happening for me but bottom surgery was 23 years ago so it’s possible I just forgot lol)
As a Californian I can confirm this was true, and in fact still is
It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0
It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.
It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.
As a reminder, subscribing to the Jesse Singal Followers Blocklist is the single most effective thing you can do to improve your experience on Bluesky
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The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Gavin Newsom should retire immediately and apologize for his career
I seem to have 300 followers now, at least a few of whom are people rather than bots or such. I don't think the numbers means anything, but on the bright side I can post meows to bsky
Meowwww
