@lediva@lediva.masto.host
Professional geek, semi-professional performer, amateur human. Part cat, but allergic to them. NYC adjacent. Married (to @beetiger.bsky.social) poly queer trans lady. 40-something. π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπββ¬she/her
"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."
There are these repeated injuries in hadrosaur tails. There were a few theories on this, but one of them stands out. No easy way to say this: some dinosaurs were really into rough sex. π§ͺ
Link: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02000-0β
i will never not be militant about trans rights
cis people: demand nothing less than full, unequivocal rights for trans people and do not accept from anyone the idea that it is naive to demand it
we deserve what you have
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.
My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.
βWickerβ stars Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd as a man made entirely of wicker, complete with a rock-hard wicker dick. But what about splinters? Bacteria? Degradation? Would it be advisable, from a sexual-health perspective, to mount a basket dick? We asked a gynecologist: vulture.visitlink.me/DNQwX5
repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids
puberty blockers are medicine
hormones are medicine
nobody is carving your kids up
children know who they feel like
*flings myself about* I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARRSSSSS plus the loss of Behind the Music-type shows, popular media no longer casually educates the viewer like it used to and we're suffering culturally as a result!!!
Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...
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...
Likely the most important thing I've ever written β if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251
For your retro Halloween ambiance, I made a series of full-length classic horror movies playing on a warped 1969 Sony Trinitron TV on a stormy night: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Happy 55th anniversary to John Stewart, whose resume includes Marine, architect, and Green Lantern. That's already three more qualifications than most of us have, and somehow he still has to deal with the rest of the universe's nonsense.
Fight fascists because they hurt people. Because they're ruinous and corrupt. Being gay and transphobic or fat shaming or whatever new, repulsive, prejudiced attack that makes you feel good while hurting people who should be your allies is making this worse.
Hey, just a humble, respectful request.
For the love of fucking god, stop fucking attacking Donald Trump with blatant and repulsive homophobia. If you think going after fascists by calling them gay or producing AI slop of them in dresses or making out, you're part of the fucking problem.
Gonna do a Nathan Fielder bit where I get an MBA, become an exec at a game company, pitch the idea of selling more copies of a game than it cost to make and then eventually become CEO of all video games.
cis white men and the cis white women who support 'em:
YOU are the reason we have trump and fascism across this country.
YOU are the ones who get to clean up this fucking mess.
Those of us who are members of marginalized communities and minoroties owe you NOTHING.