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I've been thinking about this for a while after a friend of mine, who presents quite "preppy", was sharing with a group of his friends, a photo of himself in which he felt very euphoric about how well he passes. He has gone through hell to transition, and was understandably overjoyed at his appearance.

His friends say: "you look like you would hate crime me."

The fact he's a very masculine arab man is not lost on me. It's quite usual in cis-society that white-masculinity is viewed as less-threatening than non-white-masculinity ... and here we go again, in queer groups, where gender-essentialism should really not be so concretely maintained, but still is, and ends up maintaining the racism linked into it.

Google Translate making up more weird stuff with the wrong language input

First rule of modern software engineering: A computer program must never admit defeat. It's better to return garbled, random or incorrect output than throw an error.

death valley national park, february 2024.

the only time light pollution is good is when sodium vapor streetlamps reflect off the snow making the cold world glow a warm orange. 3 am sounds of snowplows in the distance but they have not come down the main road yet. walk right down the middle where the dotted lines would be. everything is still despite the storm. sit a minute. hear what the ghosts in the trees have to say. in this moment you are the only living thing amongst the dead. you are an interloper but you are not unwelcome. quite the opposite