hey, it's a thing I worked on! existing in the real world!

The Clue app that you use as an example is actually very good about avoiding language that assumes all its users are women! It's a little jarring to see those assumptions in your description.

as a kid who ice skated and did spelling bees, I remember being perplexed when this word was on a spelling list with a pronunciation completely different from the one I knew

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Never forget the reason for the season (Earth tilting on axis)

"AFK" is an old chatroom acronym for "away from keyboard", describing stepping away from the virtual to attend to the real
but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones,
which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym!
🐦🐦🐦

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

First 5(!) episodes out now! www.youtube.com/@FeltSideUp/...

omg yes I just found your crossword

Welcome to Felt Side Up! YouTube video by Felt Side Up

hello if there are Blood on the Clocktower fans here check out my friends' new channel, Felt Side Up! Trailer and first short out now, full episodes coming soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH9i...

"flipping a house" means something different from "flipping the House" means the same as "flipping seats" means something different from "flipping chairs"; language is wonderful

but also: if you're saying "the", you're borrowing the phrase into English and don't necessarily have to stick to Hebrew grammar rules?

Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it.

paradox, you say

a hazard of being Jewish is that it doubles the amount of time each year you spend taking psychic damage from year numbers (what do you mean it's almost 5786 already)

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Fuck It I'm A Flower YouTube video by Crying Day Care Choir - Topic

I have found my new personal anthem thanks to @esmanning.bsky.social, this is EXCELLENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucc...

his example of an *offline* consequence is getting kicked out of a groupchat?

there are skulls/skeleton heads, they're just inside of skin. as they usually are

iOS versions of the 'woman elf', 'elf', and 'man elf' emojis. The woman elf has long wavy hair, the man elf has long straight hair, and the ungendered elf has straight not-quite-chin-length hair.

discovered today that iOS emojis are so devoted to a Specific Hair Length as the signifier of gender neutrality that they use it for the gender neutral elf even though the man elf has long hair

AI alignment papers be like…. learning from human preferences is important for language models to match human needs and to align with human and social values. in this paper, we *generate synthetic data and use fancy simulations* to align LLMs with human values

I just did this! I hate making phone calls but it was nice to be able to leave a "thank you more of this please" message

especially when it's a screenshot of text that you could just copy-paste in! I can understand why people are sometimes unsure of how to describe photos well but when it's just text it's so easy

happy trans day of I just did my taxes please clap

AI

reminder that tomorrow (march 31st) is trans day of snack. if you are cis, your job is to feed a nearby trans person. if you are trans, you are invited to post your cash sharing application links and handles in order to facilitate this #tdov

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector

openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist

it’s not an accident

I've had so much practice over the last couple years exercising restraint and not yelling at every internet stranger posting generated slop but the 'ghibli' images are REALLY testing me

A black and white cat, lying on a bed sorta curled up, with her belly showing, back legs bent forward, front paws curled at her chest. She's looking up at the camera and looking incredibly cute.

hello internet please enjoy my new favorite petunia photo