@tamsynelle
Writer of words, sometimes correctly spelled. Reflections on pop culture and life from a girl who will soon exist (trans, de-closeting IRL This Summer) Follows are not endorsements. De-escalate all conflict that isn't with the enemy.
The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.
And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.
They're slavers.
Twat dooming Reform? (4,7)
not that long ago (late 2010s), I had a single file on my computer called "bathroom bills" chronicling a handful of US states that forwarded anti-trans legislation. today, the file is renamed "anti-trans-LGBTQ legislation & politics" & it has 900 items in it. it only covers the tip of the iceberg...
If Reform win this by-election Labour are gonna get so much worse. If the Greens win Labour are gonna get so much worse. If Labour win, Labour are gonna get so much worse
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
being trans online is like [posts a silly joke] [sees news abt government trying to exterminate us] [like funny post by trans friend] [more news about gov wanting us dead] [repost funny joke] [trans friend shares horrible news about insurance issues/sexual violence/abusive family] [sees funny post]
CW: transphobia.
See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤
This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.
But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.
In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.
Paragraph 175 and 183.
Ways in which being trans fem and a vampire overlap:
1. I'm simultaneously seen as alluring and repulsive
2. I possess the weariness of many decades yet am also perpetually childlike
3. People are absolutely terrified that I will make more of me
Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oh absolutely she did, yeah. That bit and the chapter about doctors diagnosing us with their boners might be the single most important parts of Whipping Girl to me.
The AI personal assistant as a kind of digital Downton Abbey fantasy.
I increasingly think that some of the fervour about having a big group of "AI agents" who act on your behalf stems from a desire on the part of AI techbros to hark back to an era where you could have servants and it was okay to order them around and have them dress you and stuff
Which is to say, I'm endlessly grateful for them and for you.
I cite it and the couple others in this series about once every two weeks in trans communities I am in. It's such an important resource, and dose of levity, to people in a very frustrating set of situations that recur forever amongst those like us.
yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests
All credits to @dannymlavery.bsky.social who is both a gorgeous chronicler of the human condition in prose and one of the world's sweetest human beings to boot
"followed by eighteen months of wearing lavender and smiling wanly at box socials. "
(This last part in particular always comes to mind whenever someone's relatives seem to express how hard transition is on them; I giggle to myself about the New Pronoun Remembering Mines.)
"It does not take a great deal of work to wrap one’s head around, does not require months of relentless mental training in the New Pronoun Remembering Mines, does not require a year of full mourning followed by two years of half-mourning....
"Treating transition as a loss is entirely optional, and therein lies the great truth that all these glacial-pacers are frantic to avoid: Transition is fine, and does not actually require much in the way of adjustment.
"...or upon a pregnancy announcement, “Ah, remember the days when you could eat soft cheeses in unlimited amounts? That was your truest and most beloved self, to me.” "
" These types never say upon someone else’s engagement, “Congratulations! I hope you have many happy years together, but please excuse me. I must go to the seaside and shut myself away in a grief-cottage until I can release the shade of your single self,” (...) "
“It is only because I love you so profoundly that I must go to the hills to mourn the name you used when you were six, the outfits you wore when you were twenty-two, the lockers you were required to use before and after gym class when you were fourteen.”
"Nor is it true that reacting to the news of someone else’s transition must necessarily involve mourning, grief, a sense of loss, painful adjustment, etc; very often someone who is close to a would-be transitioner attempts to spin this doom-and-delay response as evidence of a great love: (...)
No take on this I like better than that of Danny Lavery in this peerless article: www.thechatner.com/p/let-me-sav...
I'll have to pull the key quotes in a thread after this due to character limits, but they're great, so do look.
fake Tom Cruise in a fight with fake Brad Pitt, green screen stuntmen in inset
Seedance’s AI Cruise-Pitt ‘generated’ demo: green screen, face swap
Aron Peterson debunks the hits for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12P-... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260218-see... - podcast
time: 6 min 16 sec
Occasionally doctors talk about formalising some sort of expert patient status and NGL I really wish they'd do it
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
Obviously "Continvoucly morged into develop" is the standout here but definite honorable mention for the "Tinn" axis which goes backwards in time
If you dig through the thread it eventually emerges that this Kellogg person is using AI agents to... Build more AI agents. It's a Kafkaesque vision of perfect busywork, a machine for making the appearance of useful work.