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[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Always reblog I love my sisters this is big news

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Always reblog I love my sisters this is big news

[beepathan]

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Hey guys! Check out this block of pure sodium that I got!

[boudicca]

if you want to actually help people affected by the attacks in belfast but aren't from the area, these are some organizations that support refugees and immigrants in belfast & northern ireland who will be needing increased resources in the coming weeks

BOMOKO NI (Northern Ireland Refugees and Asylum Seekers Women Association)

City of Sanctuary Belfast [donate here]

Embrace NI

Migrant Centre NI

Starling Collective

Anaka Women's Collective are running a Chuffed fundraiser:

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[dumnslut]

[saltoncity]

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[ororium-z]

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[dandelionsresilience]

There’s also a subreddit

[queerpersonwhodosentknow]

holy fuck. please people spread the word.

moot- @pansexual-frog-offical

and some blogs im following- @satan-offical @pukicho @laciffo-natas @sapphic-offical @homosexuality-offical

[narinder-offical]

SHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT

@len-the-antagonist @7-eleven-offical @did-someone-say-divorce @unstable-bird @life-wife-stealer-gen @chickfila-offical @ena-the-eepy @satan-offical @pukicho @pokemonheritageposts @pokemon

[unstable-bird]

PLS SPREAD AWARENESS OF THIS

@dying-pen-offical @satan-offical plus @narinder-offical’s tags

[dying-pen-offical]

Woah WHAT the FFUUU—*gets run over*

@sacabambaspis-offical @ashelf66 @amnesia-offical @death-offical @grisha-offical @da-police-offical @britishtea-again @transmasc-offical @genderqueer-offical @unlabelled-offical @unshipper-offical @confused-cookie-blog @toaster-waffle-offical @satan-offical (sorry for tagging you again) @star-offical @evilpineapple-offical @no-one-offical @homosexuality-offical @herobrine-offical @somebody-offical uhm random people go!!!!

[britishtea-again-deactivated202]

this genuinely pisses me off

I get some people in this world are homophobic but do they really have to go this far but disrespecting their rights? OUR AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STATES, FUCKING STATES, that EVERY yes EVERY SINGLE PERSON STANDING ON AMERICAN SOIL, must be treated with equality, additionally being provided with inalienable rights. This applies to trans people too. They are human, not an object to be throwing and putting labels on.

Why do the conservatives have to deny every queer thing? Like come fucking on, I get it that majority of you are respecting your religion but do you know the phrase “be yourself?” If a person isnt what they believe they are, let them modify into someone they think is them. God fucking dammit give me a break

uhm tags…?

@nefariouslittleschemer @paranoia-offical @s0l4rb4llsf4n @mtx-art @da-police-offical @moonjellyfisho @laciffo-natas @satan-offical (sorry again to u satan 😭) @no-one-offical @heterosexuality-official

[snurphlee]

please please please at least reblog this even if you don't live in the us!! i am so fucking pissed that this is happening as a trans teen. not only will it make it harder to be accepted in my red state of texas, it will put a target on my head even if my parents give permission for me to be marked as male. genuinely fuck the government.

@theloverislost @dandelion-cryptid @extra-extra-unhinged @youllstealannuduh @burnininhell @xxmichaelplayer1xx @gaysfordionysus @sunnfl0w3rr @b33brained @newsiesiswhyimhere @iheartgaymusicals @whimsy-creature @a-literal-tornado @newsiesforever1899 @specss-missing-shoe @frankenspade @crunchie-morris @viscupcakecait @crunchie-morris @eldest-daughter-syndrome @crazymadeline @atthispointeverythingischaos @daisygaiaz

[silly-blue-gosling]

keep trans kids safe

spread the word, even if you dont live in the U.S.

@boatemholes @itshamwich @aroace-ryland-grace @mostlyvoid-partiallyturtles @liamthesnail @echora-aura @spenchag @originalsphererook @twohourstoolong @llamasocks-lou @lessthcn3 @dino-the-raptor @bl00dlungs @theenickknack @thefourthnorn @xergogyl @xiomara-voidtree25

[echora-aura]

“If all you old men were hares on the mountain / how many young girls would take guns and go huntin’?” (Magnanimity by Rabbitology)

I saw this earlier this week. God I’m so tired of this goddamn administration. Keep trans kids alive and creeps away from our fucking bodies.

Tagging mutuals as always, thank you @silly-blue-gosling for the tag

@liamthesnail @sir-froggs @swagerly @lynx-of-clouds (Ik the rule but I’m breaking it bc this is important ^^) @hyperfixatedmythosgirl @stankycheez @ruginabug @buymyfinepies @randomperson3071 @crypticraccoon96 @m0thwithaflashlight @kounelisbrunch @sothis39

@hashediedyet pls make a post abt this if you can 🩵

[hashediedyet]

an important distinction is that this bill appears to apply to elementary and middle school aged students only. Still important!

[devinellekurtz]

Can I even catch this in a Pokeball?

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[aughtpunk]

So it's been a really bad fucking month for me.

It started with a horrific stomach bug, which led to an UTI that almost hospitalized me, to then the flu which did hospitalize me, and now I'm suffering from a gastric infection most likely caused by the super strong antibiotics they gave me for the UTI. May has really, really sucked.

And with these illnesses have come a lot of expenses. I couldn't eat any of the groceries I had or anything from the food banks this week because I've been on a very restricted diet, so there's been more grocery expenses than normal. I had to pay for ubers because I've been too weak/dizzy to drive myself anywhere. I had to buy various medicines and medical devices which finally wiped me out.

To help get my account back in the positive I'm having a sale on my ko-fi to help raise some much needed funds. Click here for a discount link or use code SICK at check out for 10% off until the end of May.

If you haven't already, why not pick up a copy of my novel Echo of the Larkspur? It's diverse, queer, and features a paranoid scientist failing in love with a snarky robot!

There's also my Midwife Fables novellas! Featuring the Midwife dealing with the aftermath of The Little Mermaid, The Midwife trying to solve the murder of Little Red Riding Hood, or you can read the first Midwife short story for free!

If you want to help out but don't want anything in return you can also donate to my Ko-fi directly! Even a single ko-fi helps!

And if you don't have the money then you can help by reblogging this post and sharing it with others! I need at least $200 to help cover my Internet and power bill at the end of the month, so please spread this along!

Thank you so much for everything, really. Now I'm going to go back to bed and try to get some sleep until my digestive system turns inside out again.

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me