🐝 It's okay, we respect your boundaries and will not sting you (Unless maybe you step on us, it's instinctive, but we're very forgiving of mistakes).

🐝 The next development in tgirl identity is going to be cheesesonas. When it happens I'm changing my name from Bee to Brie.

🐝 This could be fixed with software checks, hardware checks, changes in user behavior, or human checks. Ideally, you'd use both software and hardware checks. In this case, changing the human component is definitely less reliable.

🐝 That was the Therac-25, and the problem wasn't an issue with calculating dosages, the problem was that it either used a low-power direct beam or a high-power beam against a target, but didn't have safety interlocks to ensure the target was in place before use.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

🐝 And I basically wouldn't need it for anything except games. My laptop is already fine for everything else.

🐝 I think that would require interacting with a cis person, unfortunately.

🐝 Needa borrow someone's PC so I can actually play this lmao.

🐝 Justice is blind, and a little clocky with it.

🐝 Think I'd need more authority but I'll do my best 🫡

🐝 As a demon I think it is my moral responsibility to go back to Hell sometimes and make sure some of the fuckers there regret it.

🐝 The Cybersmith is like if an ordinary grungler fell into a vat of mystery chemicals in his tragic backstory.

🐝 There is a difference between "I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face" behavior and "oh god why did I vote for the leopards I think something is wrong with me" behavior.

🐝 Unless I've missed something, I'm pretty sure there's no reason to think that Kanye West did *not* actually suffer a severe and prolonged psychotic episode, so I'm a bit annoyed at people treating the weird Nazi stuff as inexplicable evil instead of, ya know, a product of mental illness.

🐝 If you wish to survive, there is a knife for you. It is shaped like [untruth]. Pick up the knife, take your new shape. But be warned, o queen of a thousand enemies.

If you wish us all to survive, drop the knife. Let yourself fall backwards. The world will catch you. We will keep you safe.

Aiat.

🐝 People do this more or less, in this circumstance or that, with whatever tactic they think will work, that they'll get away with. All of us. You, me, your friends, your enemies. The tactics change daily. Don't get paranoid. Get thinking.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

🐝 We have many names for defectors, depending on their precise nature. Fascists, bullies, capitalists, abusers, criminals, police, black hats, invaders, liars, cheaters, predators.

But really, it's everyone. I am a defector, and so are you. I am a co-operator, and so are you.

🐝 If we become hesitant of punishment, defectors learn to not punish, in order to seem like co-operators. They accuse others of punishment, in order to take advantage.

If we don't believe survivors, defectors take advantage. If we do believe survivors, defectors take advantage. Et cetera.

🐝 Defectors must appear to be co-operators, in order to take advantage of others who understand that co-operation is usually the best move.

If we punish defection often, defectors learn to punish in order to seem like co-operators, and they punish people to take advantage.

🐝 But there is not one single way to defect. Each of us keeps learning new ways to defect, especially those who practice it often. And each of us learns new ways to detect defection and to make it less profitable, especially those who practice that often.

🐝 Everything in the universe co-operates in some ways, and defects in some ways. Social/anti-social. Humans co-operate with eachother more than most animals do. But we defect against nature itself, and very often against eachother. To stop this, we have evolved defences, ways to detect defectors.

🐝 Everything in the universe is both a system, which stands on its own against everything else, and also a component of a system, dependent on and necessary for that system.

Everything in the universe has two strategies, to defect against other systems, or to co-operate and merge systems.

🐝 Girl who saw the prisoner's dilemma and learned the exact opposite lesson to me.

🐝 Called it.

🐝 Can't sleep, thinking about Robert's Rules Of Order...

🐝 Once, trans women were temple priestesses. Today, we are soldiers in a war we did not choose, but can absolutely win. We are a flame that illuminates the system and burns it the fuck down.

For the freedom of all women from gendered subjugation, we shall burn bright and fierce.

🐝 It is not quite true that our existence is resistance, because we *could* be assimilated and continue to exist without resisting anything. But our defiance of rigid gender categorization is incredibly significant resistance, that I believe truly threatens patriarchy, capitalism, and empire.

🐝 I'm not suggesting these because they're good for individual trans people, or because they're already common demands, though they are definitely both of those things. Here, I'm suggesting them because these specific aims meaningfully resist patriarchal assimilation and accelerate feminism.

🐝 To that end, I believe we must do the opposite: Reject medical and other essentialism, reject stealth as desirable, protect non-binary people, keep speaking out about the constructed nature of gender, and make it easy for anyone to transition for any damn reason.

🐝 If trans people can be forced into the same boxes as cis people, and cis patriarchy can maintain control of who transitions and in what ways, and if the political aspects of trans life can be pushed back into the closet, maybe we could be assimilated without gender structures falling apart.

🐝 Could trans politics be co-opted and made to comport to the patriarchal conservative worldview? Maybe. It would require the scrubbing of non-binary identities as anything more than delusion, pathologization and gatekeeping, and an emphasis on going stealth and shutting up.