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Entry: 2025-06-17 22:18:46.566684+02 Changing romance by Dan Lyke comments 0

Saw a bunch of links to this article: Vox: What broke teenage romance?, but didn't really follow up because I figured I kinda knew what it said. And, to be fair, I think I did, but I think there's something to take from Elf Sternberg's comment:

This article reminds me of a conversation I had with my kids. They claim that so many kids identify as queer these days not because they want to date their own gender, but because the queer community gives them a vocabulary that's not steeped in patriarchy and misogyny.

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Entry: 2025-06-10 00:12:15.449229+02 clergy sexual abuse in NM by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR), part of the University Libraries, has announced the public release of the first portion of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection. This important digital archive provides public access to previously sealed legal documents related to clergy sexual abuse cases in New Mexico.

CSWR: Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection

Via

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Entry: 2025-05-28 20:13:36.270822+02 Seattle PD shows up. Sometimes. by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Needling: Phew! City Always Has Enough Seattle Police Officers Around to Harass Queer Community

“Can our police respond to every domestic violence call? No. Can they respond to the scene of every shooting with a victim 5 minutes away in less than 20 minutes? Also, no,” said Mayor Harrell. “But I give you my word that there will always suddenly be a phalanx of cops available and quickly on-hand any time a queer person is legally naked at public longtime nude beach, exercising their First Amendment rights at a public park named after a gay legislator in the middle of a gay neighborhood, or asserting they have just as much a right to be at Seattle City Hall as any right-wing, religious nut-job does. Men baring nipples at a gay club? We always have enough cops to shut that shit down too.”

Non-satirically: 8 more arrests at dueling protests, this time at Seattle City Hall

The religious group arrived downtown first, finding a section of Fourth Avenue barricaded. They occupied the space behind the barricade and blocked exits with their private security, backed up by Seattle police officers, controlling the flow of people allowed onto the steps of City Hall.

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Entry: 2025-05-28 01:43:55.720441+02 Utah Youth Trans Care report by Dan Lyke comments 0

Almost as good as when the Meese Commission found out that pornography wasn't in fact all of the evil... Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found

A 1,000-page report by the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah, which found care safe and effective, stands out from others: It’s both independent and an actual review of the evidence.

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Entry: 2025-05-22 17:06:42.119618+02 AI summarization isn't, again, redux by Dan Lyke comments 0

PsyPost: AI chatbots often misrepresent scientific studies — and newer models may be worse

The researchers also found that prompting the models to be more accurate didn’t help—if anything, it made things worse. When models were instructed to “avoid inaccuracies,” they were nearly twice as likely to produce generalized statements compared to when they were simply asked to summarize the text. One explanation for this counterintuitive result may relate to how the models interpret prompts. Much like the human tendency to fixate on a thought when told not to think about it, the models may respond to reminders about accuracy by producing more authoritative-sounding—but misleading—summaries.

Royal Society Open Science: Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research Uwe Peters and Benjamin Chin-Yee https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241776

Notably, newer models tended to perform worse in generalization accuracy than earlier ones. Our results indicate a strong bias in many widely used LLMs towards overgeneralizing scientific conclusions, posing a significant risk of large-scale misinterpretations of research findings.

Via Calishatat @researchbuzz, who also observed:

The emperor is running around nude and the tech media keeps going "Oh what a lovely wardrobe"

And via.

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Entry: 2025-04-29 20:12:01.829272+02 Ancient phallus charm by Dan Lyke comments 0

The History Blog: New Vindolanda dig, new Vindolanda phallus

Spring is in the air, daffodils are in bloom, the new dig season at the Roman fort of Vindolanda has just begun and they’ve already found a phallus. It is very small and made of jet who inky blackness . It is pierced through the testicles so it could be worn as a pendant. The through hole is small, so the cord or chain it hung from was thin and likely broke.

Via.

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Entry: 2025-04-27 00:05:19.560016+02 risks of gender by Dan Lyke comments 0

This conjunction of toots arrived on my stream and I'm going to be processing it all day...

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems

“Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.”

― David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

joelle @joelle@social.joelle.us

Pro-trans satire, mention of sex assault

I’m okay with cis women using the women’s bathroom with me. I recognize they can’t help their biology, and are more likely to be a victim of sexual assault than a victimizer.

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Entry: 2025-04-22 18:14:58.393821+02 normalizing men's violence by Dan Lyke comments 0

Talia "Epistemic" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎‬ ‪@taliabhatt.itch.io‬

So I can't help but notice that all this brouhaha about single sex spaces and trans exclusion from them is eliding the axiom underlying the panic.

Namely: taking the normalization of men's violence against women as a given that cannot be meaningfully ameliorated except through sex-segregation.

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Entry: 2025-04-09 18:27:53.256126+02 Border Patrol lying by Dan Lyke comments 0

Cal Matters: Border Patrol said it targeted known criminals in Kern County. But it had no record on 77 of 78 arrestees

Nationwide there are roughly four times more Border Patrol than ICE agents. In El Centro, there are five Border Patrol agents whose job it is to produce videos.

Their latest project is a series of fictionalized videos portraying migrants crossing the border as menaces with a bloodlust to commit crimes. Bovino shared the first video on social media with the caption: “Any town. Any neighborhood. Any family. When heartless criminals, sex offenders, and human traffickers illegally enter the United States and get away, they prey on our children, the most vulnerable members of our communities.”

We know, of course, that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, statistically are less likely to engage in criminal activity than citizens.

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Entry: 2025-04-09 17:17:22.030788+02 forgot that it wasn't allowed by Dan Lyke comments 0

Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io on the defense of Avi Eisenberg who has been convicted in a $110M cryptocurrency scheme and is accused of posession of child pornography:

He’s attempting a rather novel argument for leniency in his sentencing: there’s just so much crime in crypto that he forgot it wasn’t allowed.

This, in light of the news that Trump has ordered the USDOJ's cryptocurrency enforcement unit disbanded.

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Entry: 2025-04-07 18:46:48.647276+02 Curtis Yarvin by Dan Lyke comments 0

Gil Duran writing on The Nerd Reich: Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping

Dark Enlightenment guru sees his desired revolution unraveling under the weight of its own stupidity

Many comparisons of the current regime have been made to Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, and, of course, Hitler. This is about how Yarvin, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher", admired by JD Vance, is more explicit about those comparisons and philosophies as desired actions.

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Entry: 2025-04-07 17:37:14.965549+02 vanilla by Dan Lyke comments 0

alber ‪@captainacab.airbud.website‬

due to the 47% tariffs on madagascar, vanilla sex is discontinued until further notice

‪@brycedahlgren.bsky.social‬

But my freak flag is made in Vietnamese sweat shop! What can I do?

And, inevitably:

‪✨ brit ✨‬ ‪@britculpsapp.bsky.social‬

i’m sorry you can’t fuck the bean

‪LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈‍⬛‬ ‪@lediva.bsky.social‬

Can we still flick it, at least?

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Entry: 2025-03-28 16:43:08.346421+01 Bias in medical imaging models by Dan Lyke comments 0

Today in "who saw that coming?": AI models miss disease in Black and female patients

Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger. When the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them for conditions such as cardiomegaly, or enlargement of the heart. These disparities persisted when the team tested CheXzero using four other public data sets of chest x-rays from other regions, including Spain and Vietnam.

Science Advances: Demographic bias of expert-level vision-language foundation models in medical imaging Yuzhe Yang, Yujia Liu

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Entry: 2025-03-21 16:39:13.911508+01 Raw Ricci Wynne by Dan Lyke comments 0

I'm not sure I need to be noting every MAGAt busted for sex abuse, but it seems like we've got a cluster of 'em recently, and this asshole made his popularity through particularly heinous means to start with: MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest "Raw" Ricci Wynne Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges

The influencer was already being investigated by San Francisco police at the time of his November arrest and was named a suspect in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old, according to The San Francisco Standard. Authorities say they found evidence on Wynne’s cellphones and at his luxury apartment that indicated he was facilitating a sex work operation that spanned multiple cities.

Wynne pleaded not guilty to those charges, according to the</span> San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

On Tuesday, however, a federal grand jury indicted Wynne on two counts of producing child pornography, according to an indictment obtained by HuffPost.

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Entry: 2025-03-18 20:34:40.441259+01 Keep kids away from the GOP by Dan Lyke comments 0

Another predator: GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl

For context: Minnesota Republicans' bill to define "Trump derangement syndrome" as mental illness provokes backlash. Eichorn, of course, is one of the sponsors.

The bill's authors define, in the bill's wording, the syndrome as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump," and go further to argue that it "produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump's behavior."

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Entry: 2025-03-14 00:48:39.053601+01 Robert Morris indicted by Dan Lyke comments 0

I dunno, is it even news when yet another evangelical Christian goes down for sexual abuse of children? Megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of "lewd acts" with a child

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Entry: 2025-03-12 16:41:17.280275+01 Another pastor convicted by Dan Lyke comments 0

Sigh. Another one. It's almost like it's baked into the ideology or something. Long Island Pastor Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of a Child

“The defendant not only admitted to sexually abusing young children, but also discussed his church and his congregants as targets of additional abuse. His sustained exploitation of children—in person and online—is clear, and this plea is a step forward on the road to justice for his victims. Children are among the most vulnerable in our communities, and the FBI will stop at nothing to make sure they are protected and the monsters who would do them harm are put behind bars,” stated FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge Backschies.

Via

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Entry: 2025-03-12 16:34:31.471925+01 MRIs of transgender women by Dan Lyke comments 0

Journal of Clinical Medicine: Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity Florian Kurth, Christian Gaser, Francisco J Sánchez, Eileen Luders

The brains of transgender women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (p = 0.016 and p < 0.001, respectively). These findings add support to the notion that the underlying brain anatomy in transgender people is shifted away from their biological sex towards their gender identity.

Via.

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Entry: 2025-03-07 18:39:31.157177+01 UW sexual harassment by Dan Lyke comments 0

Irene Y. Zhang: University of Washington Sexual Harassment and Bullying Investigation

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Entry: 2025-03-06 17:53:00.824905+01 Whale Sex by Dan Lyke comments 0

These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males

Via Adrianna Tan, who brings the puns.

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Entry: 2025-02-27 18:37:33.623925+01 Alibaba porn generation by Dan Lyke comments 0

If porn is at the root of technological innovation, maybe there is something to this GenAI craze after all? 404 Media: Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine

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Entry: 2025-02-25 00:59:24.545606+01 Sky Daddy by Dan Lyke comments 0

Objectophilia is hitting the mainstream via Random House: ‘Sky Daddy’ Takes Airplane Fetishization to New Heights

I'm intrigued, though with cash flow being what it is, and culture being what it is, I think I'd rather get further ahead of the trend with Tinglers.

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Entry: 2025-02-03 16:49:33.733685+01 New Orleans Saints covering for pedophiles by Dan Lyke comments 0

As if there weren't already a lot of reasons to find American football problematic... NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis. I was looking for a pull quote, but this whole thing just got worse and worse the further down I read.

Via

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Entry: 2025-01-20 21:08:28.119069+01 With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes... by Dan Lyke comments 0

BBC: The pointy-shoed corruption of medieval London

According to the London Museum, young men would "stand on street corners wiggling their shoes suggestively" at people walking by.

If that shoe-wiggler had bells sewn to the ends of the points, it indicated that the wearer was available for sexual frolics.

And now shoes with a reasonable toe box are completely unfashionable, when you can get them.

Via MeFi.

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Entry: 2024-12-29 22:53:09.723646+01 MAGA broke heterosexuality by Dan Lyke comments 0

In response to Amanda Marcotte linking to Tradwives, incels and cat ladies: The year MAGA broke heterosexuality, GhostOnTheHalfShell @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote

Sociopaths like Nick Fuentes or Jordan Peterson first tell boys to become monsters, and to be repellent, and then tell them they should be angry that nobody wants to be around them.

And I think the creepiest and saddest thing about this that even if they get sex, they’ll never be well laid by their own acts.

In a recent Fediverse exchange about some fash indoctrination nofap YouTube video, agatha wrote

re: masturbation

@dysfun @kescher @danlyke “i could’ve done something more productive with my time, like nothing…”

And... I think this is related to that whole Elf Sternberg thing about how straight men resent sex, and ties in to how the traditional masculinity roles have become so perversely awful that nobody really wants to perform them, the people who do are so desperate to fit in, and so susceptible to being told to get in line, that they think "if only I do more of this" when it doesn't work for them.

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Entry: 2024-12-24 07:20:01.967154+01 Oh damn One of the ugliest things to by Dan Lyke comments 0

Oh damn: " One of the ugliest things to point out about American white supremacist culture is that it’s not viewed as rape until the victim is old enough (18+) to give consent." Metafilter user Callisto Prime on media using "underage sex" vs "statutory rape" in talking about the Gaetz report.

https://www.metafilter.com/206...Laws-and-Violates-Ethics#8664934

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Entry: 2024-12-20 21:17:14.004917+01 Gisèle Pelicot by Dan Lyke comments 0

I had closed several tabs on this without posting them on Flutterby because it's... awful and if you have any sorts of issues around non-consensual sexual attacks triggering as hell, and please don't feel compelled to follow any of these links, but...

BBC: New name, no photos: Gisèle Pelicot removes all trace of her husband

NBC: Dozens of men found guilty in Gisèle Pelicot mass rape trial that shocked France

...the reason I'm now posting these is reading through the Disabled Ginger on how this exposes medical misogyny (among a whole bunch of other effects), and how the husband was recruiting people for this horror on some sort of online messaging system, and nobody stepped in. Nobody said "holy shit, this is awful".

And there's probably some strong vetting to get access to those forums. It's not something that one is likely to just stumble across. And even, unlike the early days of say, alt.sex.stories on Usenet, you're not gonna run across NC fantasizing of this sort and maybe be able to tie pieces together.

But there's clearly a branch of "masculinity" where it's a stepping stone from one place to another, and long before legal lines get crossed there are moral lines where we need to be saying "oh fuck no, that's hella not acceptable".

Maybe knowing that this evil is out there will help us all say that sooner.

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Entry: 2024-12-18 00:25:03.12225+01 When I saw that the latest episode of by Dan Lyke comments 0

When I saw that the latest episode of Today's Lucky Winner was titled "Rita's Holiday Special: A Christmas Carol", I was like "Oh great, another Dickens rework", but on my drive home from voice lessons yesterday I was laughing out loud.

And, no, it's not a 3 ghosts take. And I'm not sure how much it needs the background of the rest of the podcast story. But if juvenile sex and scatological jokes are your thing (they're apparently mine), yeah. I LOLed.

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Entry: 2024-11-22 20:42:09.732756+01 lesbian escort agencies in Japan by Dan Lyke comments 0

‘For the very first time I really enjoyed sex!’ − how lesbian escort agencies became a form of self-care in Japan. Little weird that the agency profiled was started by a man, but interesting both for the history and evolution of sex laws in Japan, and that there's a lot about how we approach sex that can be improved.

Via

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Entry: 2024-11-14 23:26:26.461145+01 Gaetz statutory rape by Dan Lyke comments 0

I'm not the first to observe that in Matt Gaetz we're about to have an Attorney General who has first-hand experience with sex trafficking: ABC News: Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources

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Entry: 2024-11-07 23:15:02.61273+01 Crap by Dan Lyke comments 0

Crap, why didn't my image upload? Trying again: "Organic Erotic... Furniture"? Some sort of JD Vance reference?

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Entry: 2024-11-07 21:30:02.798434+01 "Organic Erotic by Dan Lyke comments 0

"Organic Erotic ... furniture"? Is this some sort of JD Vance reference?

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Entry: 2024-10-16 00:02:54.929255+02 Muah uh oh by Dan Lyke comments 0

Reminder that when you hook up with a computer, you're hooking up with every computer that that computer might ever hook up with... AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen:

A hacker has stolen a massive database of users’ interactions with their sexual partner chatbots, according to 404 Media.

The breached service, Muah.ai, describes itself as a platform that lets people engage in AI-powered companion NSFW chat, exchange photos, and even have voice chats.

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Entry: 2024-10-10 16:28:44.473559+02 Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Medi by Dan Lyke comments 0

Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes

Abstract: Non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) inflicts significant harm. Currently, victim-survivors can use two mechanisms to report NCIM—as a non-consensual nudity violation or as copyright in- fringement. We conducted an audit study of takedown speed of NCIM reported to X (formerly Twitter) of both mechanisms. We uploaded 50 AI-generated nude images and reported half under X’s “non-consensual nudity” reporting mechanism and half under its “copyright infringement” mechanism. The copyright condition resulted in successful image removal within 25 hours for all images (100% removal rate), while non-consensual nudity reports resulted in no image removal for over three weeks (0% removal rate). We stress the need for targeted legislation to regulate NCIM removal online. We also discuss ethical considerations for auditing NCIM on social platforms.

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Entry: 2024-08-28 17:20:54.195605+02 Friendly Fun Shuttlecocks by Dan Lyke comments 0

Okay, loving this: BBC: Why badminton has become code for teen sex in Hong Kong.

In teaching materials it released last week, a <!-- -->module titled adolescents and intimate relationships for Secondary Year 3, suggested that teenagers who wanted to have sex with each other could "go out to play badminton together" instead.

Via Angela Glansbury 🚽 @floppyplopper@todon.nl who noted:

parents, are your children talking about BADMINTON?!? 🙀

FWB: friends with badminton
LGBT: Lets go, badminton time
FFS: friendly fun shuttlecocks
LOL: lots of lobs
BDSM: badminton day shuttlecock maniacs

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Entry: 2024-08-27 19:55:22.143364+02 Sex Books and education by Dan Lyke comments 0

Asking for a Sex Book Will Not Get You Out of Reading

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Entry: 2024-08-22 20:10:37.557675+02 Casting Couch by Dan Lyke comments 0

Kentucky State Fair removes winning miniature depicting pornography set

Last week, Shepherdsville native Preston Poling won third place in the Kentucky State Fair’s miniature contest. Poling said the white ribbon-winning piece was “a simple design.” The miniature scene was a room with white walls, a black leather couch in the corner, a wooden office desk, a computer and a desk chair. The simple design Poling created was a smaller version of “The Casting Couch,” a popular pornography set.

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Entry: 2024-08-19 19:09:37.030298+02 It's all a grift by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Seattle City Council Says Cracking Down on Sex Workers Will Create Services, Stop Sex Trafficking, and End Gun Violence. Don’t Believe Them.

After this lurid display, Moore introduced a panel to speak in favor of her proposal—a group that included Kirkland real estate broker Kristine Moreland, who runs a controversial group called The More We Love. PubliCola has written extensively about The More We Love and Moreland, who originally performed private encampments sweeps at a rate of $515 for each person removed and now holds the sole contract for all homeless outreach in Burien. Moreland didn’t bring up her work in Burien, instead describing The More We Love as “an anti-sex trafficking organization” and talking about the need for more funding for supportive services for victims of trafficking.

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Entry: 2024-08-19 17:49:30.22265+02 Tested podcast by Dan Lyke comments 0

I forget which FB friend turned me on to this, but it is fantastic. It's a look at what gender means in sport, and how we demand that women use modern medicine to conform to very narrow definitions of female in order to compete, while those competing as men get every advantage of their biology.

I'm assuming that they're gonna get into some of the examples of when women's categories were created as soon as women started beating men, but haven't gotten there yet. Anyway, recommended.

Introducing Tested from NPR and CBC

Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women's category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. As the Olympics approach, they face hard choices: take drugs to lower their natural testosterone levels, give up their sport entirely, or fight. To understand how we got here, we trace the surprising, 100-year history of sex testing.

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Entry: 2024-08-14 17:34:35.710296+02 Codeberg by Dan Lyke comments 0

Today I learned about Codeberg, "... a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects".

And I also learned that back on April Fools day they advertised themselves as "Github but for lesbians", adding

Also, the tagline is an April Fools' joke. Codeberg welcomes all LGBTQIA* folk, but doesn't offer any additional features yet.

Referencing XKCD 624: Branding.

Unrelated and yet also related, the Vagina Museum informed us that

9th century Arab physicians believed that lesbianism was caused by the labia being too hot, but this heat could be relieved by rubbing them against another woman's vulva. Al-Kindi explained: "When friction and orgasm take place, the heat turns into coldness because the liquid that a woman ejaculates in lesbian intercourse is cold whereas the same liquid that results from sexual union with men is hot."

Which strongly suggests that medicine has gone backwards.

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