Elizabeth Kasprzyk
@aphenine.bsky.social
Computer programmer, sci-fi and fantasy nerd and occasional writer.
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
I'm really enjoying reading Lord of Mysteries, a Chinese take on the Cthulu mythos, mixed with isekai and SCP Foundation. I'm in book 3 and it's just a great world setup, with an interesting magic system and Visctorian setup, and there's so much to read that it's meaty and fun.
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I'm really enjoying reading Lord of Mysteries, a Chinese take on the Cthulu mythos, mixed with isekai and SCP Foundation. I'm in book 3 and it's just a great world setup, with an interesting magic system and Visctorian setup, and there's so much to read that it's meaty and fun.
I'm increasingly finding myself telling my boss "Here is some code I'm submitting for code review. I don't know what it does or how it works. I only know it works, has tests and passes all of our linting rules." AI driven coding is increasingly changing what it means to code.
February 5, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I'm increasingly finding myself telling my boss "Here is some code I'm submitting for code review. I don't know what it does or how it works. I only know it works, has tests and passes all of our linting rules." AI driven coding is increasingly changing what it means to code.
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A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Back from another Contingency TTRPG Convention.
I had a really good time and played some great games. Tried Cyberpunk Red, Shadowrun: Anarchy, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, Daggerheart, Era: Friction, Mumchums, Great Martian Tripod Race and Heartbeats in Perfect Sync. Details in thread.
I had a really good time and played some great games. Tried Cyberpunk Red, Shadowrun: Anarchy, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, Daggerheart, Era: Friction, Mumchums, Great Martian Tripod Race and Heartbeats in Perfect Sync. Details in thread.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Back from another Contingency TTRPG Convention.
I had a really good time and played some great games. Tried Cyberpunk Red, Shadowrun: Anarchy, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, Daggerheart, Era: Friction, Mumchums, Great Martian Tripod Race and Heartbeats in Perfect Sync. Details in thread.
I had a really good time and played some great games. Tried Cyberpunk Red, Shadowrun: Anarchy, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, Daggerheart, Era: Friction, Mumchums, Great Martian Tripod Race and Heartbeats in Perfect Sync. Details in thread.
This is really interesting, about floating solar power, which is such a great idea.
medium.com/the-new-clim...
medium.com/the-new-clim...
China Has Scaled Floating Solar PV — Will the World Follow?
Floating solar saves on land costs, cools the panels, reduces water evaporation, and even works at sea — is it now a no-brainer?
medium.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
This is really interesting, about floating solar power, which is such a great idea.
medium.com/the-new-clim...
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Went for an eye appointment and discovered I seem to have conditioned myself to use my left eye for distance and my right for close up work. It's something the optician said he'd never seen for what it's worth.
January 24, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Went for an eye appointment and discovered I seem to have conditioned myself to use my left eye for distance and my right for close up work. It's something the optician said he'd never seen for what it's worth.
So, after I told a DnD friend of mine about a setting I created when I was young and stupid, he said (broadly) "that's cool, if we add these things, then it'll be better".
He was indeed right, and he is the reason we worked together to create a fun setting for my next campaign.
He was indeed right, and he is the reason we worked together to create a fun setting for my next campaign.
January 24, 2026 at 12:43 AM
So, after I told a DnD friend of mine about a setting I created when I was young and stupid, he said (broadly) "that's cool, if we add these things, then it'll be better".
He was indeed right, and he is the reason we worked together to create a fun setting for my next campaign.
He was indeed right, and he is the reason we worked together to create a fun setting for my next campaign.
Today, I specifically had the urge for supermarket pizza. I have now satisfied that urge!
January 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Today, I specifically had the urge for supermarket pizza. I have now satisfied that urge!
There are many things I love about anime, but occasionally it just confuses the hell out of me. One of the most confusing is the undying popularity of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umamusu... which features racehorses anthropomorphised as pretty girls. It's... 🤷♀️
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:07 PM
There are many things I love about anime, but occasionally it just confuses the hell out of me. One of the most confusing is the undying popularity of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umamusu... which features racehorses anthropomorphised as pretty girls. It's... 🤷♀️
Canada's leader saying it like it is:
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
I wish we had such clear eyed leadership.
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
I wish we had such clear eyed leadership.
"We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition"
Remarks by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at World Economic Forum
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Canada's leader saying it like it is:
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
I wish we had such clear eyed leadership.
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
I wish we had such clear eyed leadership.
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Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation.
It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.
Disastrous strategy by Labour.
It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.
Disastrous strategy by Labour.
January 17, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation.
It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.
Disastrous strategy by Labour.
It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.
Disastrous strategy by Labour.
Anne McCaffrey has always been my illness comfort read, and while I've been recovering I picked up Restoree. It's her first book, first published in 1967, and not even remotely her best.
But it is a straightforward kidnapped off Earth pulp sci-fi novel with the gender of the main character swapped.
But it is a straightforward kidnapped off Earth pulp sci-fi novel with the gender of the main character swapped.
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Anne McCaffrey has always been my illness comfort read, and while I've been recovering I picked up Restoree. It's her first book, first published in 1967, and not even remotely her best.
But it is a straightforward kidnapped off Earth pulp sci-fi novel with the gender of the main character swapped.
But it is a straightforward kidnapped off Earth pulp sci-fi novel with the gender of the main character swapped.
Reposted by Elizabeth Kasprzyk
In a screeching u-turn from its Manifesto the Government now backs conversion therapy for trans people. That is what 'supporting' trans youth but denying them the medicine they need to physically transition means.
Government 'moving away' from puberty blockers, minister says
The Government is reportedly 'moving away' from medical interventions for trans people such as puberty blockers, a health minister has said.
www.thepinknews.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
In a screeching u-turn from its Manifesto the Government now backs conversion therapy for trans people. That is what 'supporting' trans youth but denying them the medicine they need to physically transition means.
I'm done with this winter. I'm ill and off work for the third time and this time it's hitting me really hard.
January 12, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I'm done with this winter. I'm ill and off work for the third time and this time it's hitting me really hard.
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I was puzzled for a moment about why DHS would release the phone footage from the murderer's point of view, since it clearly shows that the murderer was in no danger from the victim.
January 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I was puzzled for a moment about why DHS would release the phone footage from the murderer's point of view, since it clearly shows that the murderer was in no danger from the victim.
I watched the first episode of an anime called Shiboyugi yesterday. It was well told, well animated and well plotted but holy hell was it fucked up. Nope. Just nope. It's SAW the anime and what is wrong with you people...
January 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I watched the first episode of an anime called Shiboyugi yesterday. It was well told, well animated and well plotted but holy hell was it fucked up. Nope. Just nope. It's SAW the anime and what is wrong with you people...
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If you build world-class public transport, people will use it.
Six of the UK’s most used railway stations are on the Elizabeth line, and all 10 are in London.
Six of the UK’s most used railway stations are on the Elizabeth line, and all 10 are in London.
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
If you build world-class public transport, people will use it.
Six of the UK’s most used railway stations are on the Elizabeth line, and all 10 are in London.
Six of the UK’s most used railway stations are on the Elizabeth line, and all 10 are in London.
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crowdsourcing: looking for online articles/essays that provide a comprehensive account of how the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated & well-funded effort. I have lots of examples that tell part(s) of the story, but none that lay the whole thing out. pls share any you can think of. thanks!
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
crowdsourcing: looking for online articles/essays that provide a comprehensive account of how the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated & well-funded effort. I have lots of examples that tell part(s) of the story, but none that lay the whole thing out. pls share any you can think of. thanks!
Just watched the first episode of "Sentenced to be a Hero" and THAT is the way to open an anime season. If the rest of it brings even part of that energy it's going to be good.
January 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Just watched the first episode of "Sentenced to be a Hero" and THAT is the way to open an anime season. If the rest of it brings even part of that energy it's going to be good.
Ah Pulumi...
I come back after the holidays expecting to run a command that goes "no changes", and it goes "you need to recreate everything, and delete all your S3 buckets and recreate them"
Why, Pulumi, why?
I come back after the holidays expecting to run a command that goes "no changes", and it goes "you need to recreate everything, and delete all your S3 buckets and recreate them"
Why, Pulumi, why?
January 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Ah Pulumi...
I come back after the holidays expecting to run a command that goes "no changes", and it goes "you need to recreate everything, and delete all your S3 buckets and recreate them"
Why, Pulumi, why?
I come back after the holidays expecting to run a command that goes "no changes", and it goes "you need to recreate everything, and delete all your S3 buckets and recreate them"
Why, Pulumi, why?
This is just amazing. A historical piece set in the Star Wars universe analysing the Empire/Republic conflict as we would with real history.
mobunited.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/t...
mobunited.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/t...
The Dark Side of Capital: Economics, Ideology and Palpatine’s Empire
Popular history casts the Fourth Sith Empire as a 30-year historical aberration triggered by Sheev Palpatine’s conspiracy to undermine Ruusanian Republic institutions. The following analysis is an …
mobunited.wordpress.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
This is just amazing. A historical piece set in the Star Wars universe analysing the Empire/Republic conflict as we would with real history.
mobunited.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/t...
mobunited.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/t...
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2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code.
Every developer can relate.
#solodev #indiedev #development
Every developer can relate.
#solodev #indiedev #development
January 5, 2026 at 6:22 AM
2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code.
Every developer can relate.
#solodev #indiedev #development
Every developer can relate.
#solodev #indiedev #development
I just went to change some bedding before bed and didn't realise just how wrong that simple thing could go. But, I have lost bedding mysteriously and smashed crockery and I'm just grateful the bed is still standing to right now.
January 6, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I just went to change some bedding before bed and didn't realise just how wrong that simple thing could go. But, I have lost bedding mysteriously and smashed crockery and I'm just grateful the bed is still standing to right now.
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the US possesses the ability to turn our economy off and then back on again.
I am sure after recent events in Venezuela this causes you no concern.
Carry on.
I am sure after recent events in Venezuela this causes you no concern.
Carry on.
January 5, 2026 at 12:24 PM
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the US possesses the ability to turn our economy off and then back on again.
I am sure after recent events in Venezuela this causes you no concern.
Carry on.
I am sure after recent events in Venezuela this causes you no concern.
Carry on.