Neo-Jacobin
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Science proves the obvious yet again
Nearly 97 percent of transgender people who received hormone therapy as teenagers did not regret it five years later, a study found.
Though some patients did regret medically transitioning, those rates are relatively low compared to other medical interventions. wapo.st/4C44lZp
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The Washington supreme court is gonna generalize the will and it's gonna be beautiful
TransFamilies, the Washington Education Association and the ACLU are suing, calling the law "discriminatory." king5.com/article/news/polit…
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Being the ~only trans mountaineer I know is annoying bc there's nobody to ask about what to expect about high elevation on HRT
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Girl who goes vegetarian and gets into endurance sports to induce a gender affirming iron deficiency
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Ναταλία Πουτζδε🐗🌲⏹️🔰🏞️🖍️⚛️⛰️ retweeted
The asset limit for both food stamps and disability is like 2-3k in total assets.
How are we supposed to bring people out of poverty if we directly disincentivize people saving any amount of money to do so?
If I could press a button permanently setting ai capabilities to 2020 levels with no chance they'd ever improve beyond that, I wouldn't have to think twice about it and I'm frankly suspicious of anyone who feels otherwise
It's honestly kinda surprising Baker isn't a part of North Cascades NP.
Places that congress should designate as national parks:
1. Mt. St. Helens
2. Bend Volcanoes
3. Steens Mountain
4. Misty Fjords
5. Umnak Island
As national preserves:
1. Bears Ears
2. Grand Staircase
3. Wind River Range
4. Sattitla Highlands
5. Mt Baker / Glacier Peak / Pasayten
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It's not so much America has no culture, it's just the culture we do have is dogshit. No wonder half of us try to larp as something else.
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tbh in 2014 I felt like the opposite was the zeitgeist. Like it was more of the "patriarchy says femininity is bad therefore embracing any and all display of femininity [including patriarchal gender roles] is inherently feminist"
also this artist is a gigaterf lmao
Got around to seeing that new Everest documentary. Strongly recommended, Jimmy Chin never disappoints.
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would you like to travel to a temperate rainforest or subalpine parkland with an autistic woman in her early 30s who infodumps the entire time?
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This is probably true for DSAers in general. If you ask members to describe their ideology you'll probably get a bunch of bespoke answers like "anarcho-trotskyist with Chilean cybernetic characteristics"
Idk if I'd even identify myself as a "democratic socialist" on a poll like this and I'm literally a DSA member
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This is a pleasant surprise. The last call went out two years ago. They haven't been that frequent since the height of the shuttle era, since 2000 it's been every 4 years.
NASA is now accepting applications for its next generation of astronauts 👨🚀
• Could eventually live and work at a proposed Moon base
• Salary is $164K+
• Training includes lunar operations, spacewalks & robotics
• The new class will help 'lay the groundwork for the first crewed missions to Mars'
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