3 Cats and an AI in a Trenchcoat

alysa liu!!!

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 22
Pooling 94 studies of 65k ppl, Johns Hopkins paper finds two-thirds (64%) of trans people worldwide are survivors physical or sexual violence with most of those (60%) experiencing some form of violence it recently.

Is the recipient in the same time zone as you? The first explanation that comes to mind is that they are in MST and it will be 4pm for them. Second expansion is a bug related to timezones.

"Treatment Resistant Depression" is a lie created by Big Cis to stop you from trying HRT

Twitter post from @rifflexielian: "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.

Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

Remote Working + Decent Pay = mobility to flee hostile environments

That just means that the only toilet trans women area allowed to use is always occupied, so it supports no one.

The terms that pollsters use *matters* because whether trans people are "issues" (or an "ideology") or whether we're ... people, this is the essence of the fight itself.

There's no scientific basis for this argument; this is like all "reasonable concerns" completely predicated upon your peasant-minded prejudices and not any actual logical basis. Again why "just asking questions" is crypto bigotry.

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She's a good girl

Did the AMA Release a Statement Cooling Support for Trans Youth Surgeries? — Assigned Leading Off: The New York Times and NPR release contradictory American Medical Association statements, and California AG Rob Bonta sues a children’s hospital for ending gender affirming care.

A strange and confusing tale from the bowels of (where else) the New York Times.

Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.

Judge Alexakis is on the bench.

Martinez's attorneys are here to present her motion to make certain materials from her case available to the public.

If readers appreciate my work as an indie jouro, I'd appreciate, in turn, any support you may want to offer.

Your support helps me keep reporting for you, in and out of the courtroom.

TRAN GIRLISMO: THE REAL PODCAST SIMULATOR (in the style of a certain playstation game)

hello I am launching my very own podcast with @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay where we (mostly casually!) chat about car culture in the decline of the American empire, auto racing, and industry news interspersed with tales of our former auto journo careers. we call it TRAN GIRLISMO

We've talked about podcasting together for 3 years and I'm so happy to do it now. It all crumbles; but I get to talk about things I love with one of my favorite people

ICE's evil and local PDs' only differ by degree.

As a wise man once said "...those who work forces are the same who burn crossed"
Same as it ever was.

Or the airport scene

It's like the prelude to the best CoD games: the ones where you kill Nazis.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

It was an execution

it can't be a tranny who does the things

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

How does the language of contempt shape the public’s understanding of ppl and issues they, understandably, know little about?

It starts w polemicists like this site and works its way into receptive minds at big media who are more interested in adopting political narratives than in covering the news

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Why did you transition, wrong answers only?

To become the woke mind virus

Pluribus really speaks to me as a transsexual Bluesky user because it's about being stuck in an abusive lesbian relationship with an entire planet

Translation AI is much smaller and more efficient, though. I'd put it in the class of SLMs: Small Language Models.