Orion Scribner @frameacloud@dragon.style

Those kawaii dragon planner stickers that some Etsy shops carry apparently came out with some LGBT+ pride designs! (I'm not affiliated with any of this.)

* Rainbow and bisexual pride flags: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1006326110
* A bunch of pride flag designs: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1020268215
* Bisexual: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1020266105
* Lesbian pride: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1006308436
* Queer: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1006297102
* "Not a phase" motto: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1006302960
* Even asexual pride with cake and everything?? https://www.etsy.com/listing/1020305535

@packbat

brb, heading to the corner store for some, ah, some rolls of quilted napkin squares. you know, what the gentle folk call, in hushed voices, personal towel scrolls.

@anthracite @kistaro

That would be a cool chart. I haven't seen one that has a whole bunch of animals' vision together, just one at a time compared with humans.

Here's a chart of the spectrum as seen by just humans and dogs, from a 2016 study that found that-- against the common belief that no mammals can see UV-- dogs can see UV after all.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201604/can-dogs-see-in-ultraviolet

And here's a chart for mantis shrimp vision.

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/artsbrain/2020/03/05/vision-in-mantis-shrimp/

@InternetEh

this is the opposite of miniature golf. big golf.

@packbat I just realized I hadn't seen any posts from you for a long time, so I looked at your profiles, and found out I was only following your old account, and not your new one yet.

@monsterblue

Do they have anything like webrings?

@t54r4n1

That's so cool that she definitely was going down some shoe sizes! That must be such a great source of gender euphoria.

Here's a study that I have *not* found, so if you want to do some all-new science research, this would be a good topic.

Trans-masculine *and* trans-feminine people say that their shoe size changes when they go on hormones, even though they are adults who are done growing. The size of the bones in their feet can't change, but the soft parts like connective tissues and ligaments apparently thicken up or slim down in response to hormones. The book "Trans Bodies, Trans Selves" mentions this phenomenon. Trans men talk about having to go up a shoe size. I had wondered if maybe that was due to aging or something rather than hormones, but it turns out the reverse might happen for trans women. I was just reading a Reddit thread where several trans women shared that they had all gone down *three* sizes after starting hormones.

Measuring shoe sizes over the course of a few months is pretty objective and quantifiable data, so it would be great for a study. (Especially if you're careful to make sure that you're not making errors in the measurements, which was another rationalization for this phenomenon that I've heard.) I don't think anybody has done a study like this yet. It looks like information about this change has just been anecdotal, and it doesn't have to be.

@anthracite

I can see a good use for this. The nice blobbiness you get where the lines join (as seen inside the torso of this figure) looks perfect for the leading in a stained-glass window.

When we see rainbow capitalism and pinkwashing during this Pride, remember that Stonewall was not only a riot against police violence. It was also a riot against businesses that pretend to be queer-friendly in order to take advantage of us for profit.

In the 1960s, the Mafia who owned the Stonewall Inn had been collaborating with the police to control when the raids would happen. The owners didn't care about the safety of the queer people who built their own community in that space, like Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and Stormé DeLarverie. The Inn itself doesn't deserve credit for the community. The owners just wanted to exploit a market that others saw as untouchable. The owners arranged to let the police abuse the people whenever it was the most financially convenient for their business. The riot happened in 1969 partly because the Inn's usual warnings about police raids were not there for that surprise raid. People felt aware of how they were being exploited and not protected, and they'd had enough of that.

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Further reading on Wikipedia:

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_capitalism
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_(LGBT)

A review of some possible transition options for nonbinary people who only want *some* of the effects from hormone therapy. For example, getting muscle mass and a deeper voice, but not growing a beard. Lots of ideas here.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32466485/

Fairy wrens teach their young a password unique to their family (which can be seen as a family name) before they hatch, in order to distinguish them from cuckoo's eggs.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/05/28/257046196/a-little-bird-either-learns-its-name-or-dies

@eredien This is the "Tales of the Gallae" comic I was talking about, an impressively well-researched historical mystery about a temple of trans women priestesses in ancient Rome, written by a Gallae. Content warnings for violence, bloodshed, animal death, and lots of other unsettling stuff that I'm probably forgetting right now, but it's soooo good. Oh, and it looks like the story is finished now! I'll have to read it. I wish there was more, anyway!

http://totg-mirror.thecomicseries.com/about/

@vital876

Pretty wild, right? Turns out it's another one of those bogus sex/gender differences.

Does one gender have a better sense of smell than another? Does hormone therapy change your sense of smell? Here's a study where they tested the senses of smell of cisgender women, cisgender men, trans women, and trans men (testing the trans folks at three different stages in their hormonal transitions) to find out how they compare. Guess what they found out!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31638640/

@yingxera @monsterblue

heck yeah