and then when you look at the history of any given sport- genuibely, any of them, throw a dart at a board- you will find that a few novelty all-womens teams existed but were not institutionalized until a female athlete started playing well enough men felt humiliated and banned women from the league
kind of wild that decades of feminist theorists shouting "it's to control women!" for basically everything has somehow led to a society in which an obvious tool of gendered control and oppression- sex segregated sports leagues- becomes accepted as natural enough to treat as beyond critique
Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.
in fact it's so flagrant, so vile, that basically every municipal government willing to fast track them is going to get unseated. the money must either be good enough to justify that, or opposing the popular will must simply be an ideological pillar of governance. not a great sign either way
We are a little late to this party given the excellent studies already reported this year by @komanderlab.bsky.social and @felixrandow.bsky.social, but here we corroborate their findings that unbranched #glycogen is ubiquitylated at the endogenous level
#ubiquitin#glycotimedoi.org/10.1016/j.bb...
all the really odd women and gay men on here seem to have access to an alternate version of monogatari that's really low-res and every episode is about araragi posing like this
found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this
the idea that you're allowed to play a game entirely determined by hitboxes, frame data, move properties, etc. and experience the interplay of those with your senses, but you are NOT allowed to document them with numbers and images, is fucking crazy and stupid. get the fuck outta here Capcom
the total failure of every negative policy the british government implements is always, always evidence for doing that policy even harder. then it fails again. then we just do it harder again. rinse and repeat til everything is banned
uploader.jp, a file hosting service, will be terminating its services on november 25 23:59.
this is going to threaten every free japanese doujin game on there. download and preserve them if you can fxtwitter.com/uploader_jp/...
A lot of people are pointing out this usage of "elite" as anti-semitic, but I'd like to point out it's specifically anti-intellectual, too.
Billionaire aristocrats like Rowling consider scientists and academics to be their social inferiors who should defer to them.
Billionaire living in a castle calls minority group she is paying hundreds of thousands of pounds of her own money to legislate out of existence ‘elitist’
A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.
With all the deserved uproar over AI-created deep-fake images, I found this story about deep-fake plant species created by Herbarium collectors in the 1800s a fun parallel 🧪
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
Experienced the opposite of this with a doctor going "woohoo! all the results that came indicate that you are completely healthy!" and I was sitting there with intense internal bleeding of unknown etiology and unknown treatment like —__—"""
Resharing this because it's such a formative memory... To most people BioWare means Mass Effect / Dragon Age, but NWN was revolutionary - the "Western RPG Maker".
It's the only entry on the CRPG Book with 4 pages, because 2 are just about its Aurora Toolset. Hell, we have The Witcher because of it!
For a *slightly* older one, I must have watched the original Neverwinter Nights trailer a hundred times: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ekO...
This came with the Baldur's Gate II CDs, it was mindblowing to imagine BG2 in 3D with new ruleset PLUS AN EDITOR!
Comparative performance of "diamond" some guy sold to me in Belgrade with water-graphite cooling vs piece of pavement I found outside with no cooling in tungsten electrode cutting. Same amount of time.
One of the really fascinating things about Charlie Kirk is that his own people’s response to his death was so nakedly opportunistic that it’s like oh, ok, this guy is fair game for literally anything, he’s an object, and now his soul is trapped inside Grok for eternity.
Our preprint now peer-reviewed and published 🌾🔬🧬
Grasses have a signature short-long leaf epidermal pattern: small stomata & hair cells spaced by long pavement cells, but how is it built? Premitotic BdPL1 sets cell-size asymmetry; postmitotic BdBRX-solo/BdYDA1 enforces fate. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
"After everything you've done, why should we trust you now?"
"Because I have a pathological need to make sure things are done correctly even to my own detriment, and you're fucking this up so badly I'm in physical pain."