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@sig Haha, ok, that was not short. Bloody typical of me. :D

@sig Quicky reply since it's a busy workday and I gotta bunch of packing and chore for my holiday trip...

Yeah, you basically got it with your description of the coworker. Once upon a time I might have been enough of a centrist jerkass to actually _engage_ someone like that, but today it's more like... I just don't want that energy right now.

I think it's another one of those things left over from the whole process of building up an immunity to Christianity and conservatism when I was a teenager. I mostly agree with you about the social power argument—transphobia is a MUCH MUCH MUCH more realistic problem than cisphobia—I think I'm always going to be wary of people who are really comfortable about making broad judgements about who's worth "canceling" (their term, and I kinda hate it?) based purely on an accident of demographics.

I would've been 120% OK with it and probably leaping in on their side if they'd said "all transphobes are hereby canceled forever." But I just know too damn many cispeople—includng, um, arguably me?—who would lay down their lives for the transpeople in their circles.

And I'm always a little skeptical of the "prejudice only matters if it's along dominant lines of social power" argument—'cause the political is still personal, and watching someone torch a whole group of people purely over demographics kinda sucks regardless of the power imbalance between them.

Still, I agree with what you said about these folks mostly being scared trans kids with a lot to be afraid of right now. I've gotten better at blowing that stuff off and chalking it up to a very valid need to blow off steam—the same way I'll talk very loosely about conservatives and Christians, even though I KNOW there are exceptions. Because, like this poor kid on Twitter probably is, I'm real tired atm of waiting for them to actually *appear*.

But this kid was talking in terms that negated the humanity of... a whole lot of people, and that's always gonna raise warning flags for me. Just... bad energy, you know?

They seemed so damn confident that they'd drawn the dividing lines exactly right and anybody who believed otherwise could fuck off—and like I said recently, I'm just getting real tired of people who are that confident they're not committing the same old cognitive sins. I just don't have time for people who don't show ANY self-awareness or humility when they go off and make a dictum at the world like that. Historically, I don't think people like that have brought much joy to the world. :|

But yeah. My honest hope for them is that the world gets better for transfolk and the pressure is taken off of them. It's the thought process, at worst, that I see as evil—not the kid in question, who's basically just a host. As are we all. :<

Anyhow, thanks as usual for standing up to me and keeping me honest. :D Hope you're having a good week!

I think my litmus test for whether I can get along with somebody is whether they can tell the functional difference between "reality" and "realism."

(HINT: The first one doesn't magically change along with your worldview...)

@kistaro You've also gotten me thinking that this is the next bit of "political" reading I should do, because those Murphy's Law books had a huge influence on me becoming an anarchosocialist type, with a huge distrust in big unwieldy systems yet a lingering faith that there *is* a good praxis for taming them...

@kistaro Ooh, I've always wanted to read that. I was a huge fan of the quotes in the Murphy's Law collections.

*blocks someone RT'ed on Birdsite, for being rabidly cisphobic with a passion that even transcends my lax moral boundaries, and sings all 57 verses of the "I Don't Like My Friends' Friends" song*

give all your best stuff to raccoons

we're gonna get it eventually anyhow

The real danger is from the white, white, white young businesspeople sitting next to me, who are doing me 1d4 of SAN and MP damage every time they use a word like "proactive" or "impactful," and 1d10 every time they talk shit about a coworker behind their backs.

(Or think about how much less money I make, for doing something that's based on facts and evidence, _not_ airy social manipulation bullshit.)

It's not a matter at this point of whether I bite them and give them a disease at this point. It's just selecting the perfect one.

=(>).(<)=

Today, Coffee Science is full of large, loud, short-haired men in uniforms, all speaking Russian. If you don't hear from me again... that's probably why.

However, so far they seem like pretty nice guys, so it'll probably be because I'm doing nastoiki shots with them in somebody's basement.

Also... um don't eat supermarket chicken raw, even if you're a raccoon. It's so gross. =(O)_(O)=

I miss the Seattle farmer's market. Real bad.

This is one of those days I really wish I weren't mostly a rationalist, so I could draw on my Raccoon Powers to keep from getting sick from that bit of raw turkey I accidentally at the other night.

On the other hand... *snaps goggles over eyes* I, Jennifer James Kirsch, am a raccoon second and a SCIENTIST first! *cackles and summons lightning SFX*

I did some research and found out that barely one in seven samples of supermarket turkey had camphylobacter, salmonella, or E. coli in the first place. So I'm probably fine.

SCIENCE, MOTHERFUCKERS! HAHAAHAAHAAA!

#TheyCalledMeSaneAtTheInstitute
#WhichIsWhyINeverGotMyPhD

@spacewastrel@snouts.online I know advice like this can feel like a presumptuous imposition or soft-pedaling, but...

Something that's really helped me immensely is keeping an anxiety journal in Evernote. It probably wouldn't work for everybody, but having pages and pages of unfulfilled or passed worries I can page through can be really reassuring.

Case in point: I'm still terrified that bit of undercooked turkey I eat earlier is gonna wreck my Xmas trip home next week. What happens will happen... but in the meantime, I can page through my journal and look at all the OTHER things I ate that were "gonna kill me for sure." It's really helped me steer back to baseline when it gets bad.

@spacewastrel@snouts.online I'm right there with you, hun. Peg makes fun of me for needing a media stream almost constantly—in the shower, when I shave, on walks alone—but that's what happens when I don't. Reality, or "reality," intrudes constantly.

Anything from "your good eye is gonna rot out too one of these days" or "your elderly mom's days are numbered" to "your health insurance subsidy probably won't exist in two years" and "what on earth are you gonna do if your job dries up someday?" Or maybe "huh, when's that heart palpitation gonna turn into something REALLY serious and leave Peggy alone and heartbroken?"

Every. Fucking. Day. since I was 12 years old. It's just how it is. So... yeah. You're not alone. *hug*

Hey, today went entirely too well! Let's accidentally eat some raw turkey a week before a big holiday trip, just to mix things up a little!

(It was mostly cooked, just a little "rare" in the middle, I'll probably be fine...)

Oh, hey, looks like our @parallax account is getting some attention already! I've thrown up some background and thoughts about the Vek-10—many thanks to @001zlnv for the inspiration!

@001zlnv Yeah, I'm kinda hoping that's the majority opinion here. n.n It really _doesn't_ lend itself well to webcomic daily-trickle format, and I guess I should be kinda proud of that... n.n;

@hystericempress I miss the hell out of you, sis. Maybe, mmmmaybe this February for a visit if I can get my spending habits under control...

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#SheDidTheMath

What's this? Oh... nothing. (>)__(>)

*looks embarrassed and crumples up a piece of paper with 74 tallymarks and some pawprints on it*