ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

The culture war over gender affirming Healthcare so frequently ignores the fact that only a small percentage of gender affirming care is actually for trans people. The majority is for cis people who are accessing it for the exact same reasons as trans people, feeling more comfortable in their gender identity.

I was prescribed spiranolactone because my body makes more testosterone than I want it to, and as a girl I do not like having excessive facial hair. Easy easy, doctor tested my blood and wrote the prescription. I didn't have to prove anything other than I wanted less facial hair, and because I'm cis everyone involved trusted that my personal preferences and discomfort were enough to give me what I needed to solve the problem.

Most top surgeries are performed on cis men (to treat gynecomastia and create a more masculine chest) and cis women (to create a more feminine chest). Most hormone therapy is given to cis people to help them comfortable in their gender.

As God is my waitress, I did not think this story was real:

She is a MONSTER =>

https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/112521356743522963

air horn levels are currently at 38% but fluctuating wildly

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Who is your commander rn?

Please pay attention. Because copitalism is killing people NOW, hurting people NOW, traumatizing people NOW. And if you think your money and housing will keep you safe from the killers, please remember that they're just using the unhoused as a training ground where repercussions don't apply. We are not safe until all of us are safe.

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@cdarwin @panamared27401

#KochNetwork has worked very hard to make public corruption, fraud, and bribery legal.
https://www.citizen.org/news/twelve-years-since-citizens-united-big-money-corruption-keeps-getting-worse/

At a minimum, they've made enforcement of existing laws against bribery nearly impossible.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-signals-another-corruption-law-to-be-pared-back

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/supreme-court-anti-corruption-snyder

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-anti-corruption-snyder-case-rcna147929

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_public_corruption_in_the_United_States

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/these-criminal-prosecutions-show-what-citizens-united-got-wrong-about-corruption/

#history #workingclass #capitalism #politics #billionaires #labor #eattherich #union #comic #comics #cartoon #cartoons #art

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

Nothing says innocence like having Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz show up to your criminal trial in solidarity.

Fake studies have flooded publishers of top #scientific #journals leading to thousands of #retractions, M of $ in lost revenue. Biggest hit has come to #Wiley 217-year-old #publisher based in Hoboken NJ which announced it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research #fraud. Wiley has reportedly had to retract more than 11,300 papers recently “that appeared compromised” as #generativeAI makes it easier for paper mills to peddle fake research. https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

@jalefkowit Hoo boy they buried the lede at the end of the article:

“Ad Age says the ad was created in-house by Apple, rather than by an outside agency.”

Don Draper, lighting a cigarette and taking a drag in his Eames chair:

“They fucked around, and now they’re finding out: If the question is ‘how hard can it be’ the answer is always going to be ‘harder than you think’.”

Today I learned that if your server suspends another server then you just silently unfollow everyone on it and receive no other notification aside from eventually wondering why everything is so quiet now.

Cool, great, love it.