smh

The cabin of a semi-truck

So (if I read you right) the violence isn't done by those that try to pass to avoid negative consequences, but by those that 1. enforce those negative consequences and those that 2. force IDs to fit into their artificial binary.

That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.

Anecdote that helps me relate to the concept you described: A friend of mine has an extra pinky finger and it used to bother me--like, why hadn't she had a surgical intervention so her hands more closely matched my concept of normal? Then I realized I should be happy that she didn't feel the need to cut off a part of herself to fit in. Like my friend's pinky, trans folk existing isn't hurting anyone.

My mom had all sorts of books on mental health and disability. I remember one on abnormal childhood development (it had neat examples of pictures kids might draw) and multiple with now-outdated but then-clinical terms in their titles. These were textbooks from her attempt at an MS in social work in the 1980s. Didn't keep the neighborhood kids from teasing me that they were my mom's way of coping with having me.

How do you feel about one large pancake melded with two smaller pancakes, to make some sort of cartoonish mouse head shape?

Beg pardon, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Could you please define "this" and "backpassing"?

(I'm not sure if you're calling the parent post bullshit for suggesting ID without gender markings, or saying having to revert ID is bullshit. If the later: I totally agree that having to lie on one's ID for safety is hurtful bullshit.)

Yep. When traveling, I want to be as inconspicuous as possible. No X for me, no matter how affirming it would feel.

I've been having good luck with Kimi K2 for CSS/bootstrap stuff, and boilerplate API calls (example: update x to y, pulling x and y from this .csv). I appreciate that it cites its sources because then I can go read more and hopefully become more self-reliant when looking up documentation.

Closest we had in public school in Kentucky was a form sent home at the beginning of each year that your parents would sign, stating whether or not the school was allowed to use "corporal punishment" (aka spanking or paddling) on you.

But yeah, parents in some (all?) states in the USA have wide latitude over their kids in ways I don't agree with.

Ack, I keep reading that as

We’re being led by officials who no longer [recognize] or [refuse to name] the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

And I'm thinking "wait, which is it? Are you upset the officials no longer recognize the enemy or because they no longer refuse to name the enemy?"

I get what they're trying to say, but it's not clearly stated.

At about that age, I enjoyed putting together dominos runs and knocking them down. I also liked wooden building blocks. Nowadays they have building made out of dense foam which probably hurt less when your baby brother knocks your tower onto your head.

I had a marble run at about 6. It was awesome.

Sidenote: shout-out the Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem, a Polish author.