Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️⚧️
@snapdragoness.itch.io
She/her.
📚 Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University
🎮 Researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly)
🌟 STA Superstar of STEM
🐉 Ancient D&D nerd
🎶 Metalhead
I like dragons. Opinions are my own.
📚 Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University
🎮 Researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly)
🌟 STA Superstar of STEM
🐉 Ancient D&D nerd
🎶 Metalhead
I like dragons. Opinions are my own.
"Girls will be girls" I say while tracing arcane runes into the fabric of reality to cast *magic missile*.
“Girls will be girls” I say while drenching my stilleto in lethal amounts of venom
“Girls will be girls” I say while loading my crossbow
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"Girls will be girls" I say while tracing arcane runes into the fabric of reality to cast *magic missile*.
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Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔
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This is a #mood!
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
Remembering that time I was celebrating my formal diagnosis of ADHD and someone came tried to shame me for "glorifying a disability" and I was all MOTHERFUCKER I AM CELEBRATING THAT I FINALLY HAVE A NAME FOR WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY BRAIN CAN YOU AND YOUR MORALIZING BULLSHIT KINDLY FUCK OFF INTO THE SUN
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is a #mood!
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
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Blaming artists because they post their work on the internet so it's ok to steal from them is so twisted and disgusting.
Stealing all the artwork without any consent and not paying any artist at all, and then feeding it to the plagiarizing machine is disgusting.
Stealing all the artwork without any consent and not paying any artist at all, and then feeding it to the plagiarizing machine is disgusting.
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Blaming artists because they post their work on the internet so it's ok to steal from them is so twisted and disgusting.
Stealing all the artwork without any consent and not paying any artist at all, and then feeding it to the plagiarizing machine is disgusting.
Stealing all the artwork without any consent and not paying any artist at all, and then feeding it to the plagiarizing machine is disgusting.
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"who radicalized you"
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"who radicalized you"
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
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reminder that trans people have the boot of genocide on our necks right now and it's damn hard to manage on a day to day basis
please fight for us, support us, or at the very least be kind to us and offer us care
please fight for us, support us, or at the very least be kind to us and offer us care
NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
reminder that trans people have the boot of genocide on our necks right now and it's damn hard to manage on a day to day basis
please fight for us, support us, or at the very least be kind to us and offer us care
please fight for us, support us, or at the very least be kind to us and offer us care
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Studio Ghibli should be allowed to use Sam Altman's bones to feed their employees
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Studio Ghibli should be allowed to use Sam Altman's bones to feed their employees
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I find metroidvanias to be cozy and calm... so I really dislike how Metroid made a pattern out of trying to finish them fast. 😭
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I find metroidvanias to be cozy and calm... so I really dislike how Metroid made a pattern out of trying to finish them fast. 😭
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One summer-like day today... then we're back to winter! 🤣
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
One summer-like day today... then we're back to winter! 🤣
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
American horrors persist. 😩
Trans youth and their families deserve the freedom to make their own health care decisions without political interference.
Trump looks to stop gender-affirming care for America's transgender youth: report
New proposals by the Department of Health and Human Services could restrict gender-affirming care even more for young trans people.
www.advocate.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
American horrors persist. 😩
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?
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"Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data"
N Stevens, AL Doğan - Big Data & Society, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, trans activists use data and data activism to advocate for and to protect our communities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
N Stevens, AL Doğan - Big Data & Society, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, trans activists use data and data activism to advocate for and to protect our communities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data"
N Stevens, AL Doğan - Big Data & Society, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, trans activists use data and data activism to advocate for and to protect our communities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
N Stevens, AL Doğan - Big Data & Society, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, trans activists use data and data activism to advocate for and to protect our communities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
Y'know, YouTube, if you didn't make the ads so loud, I'd just let them ride. Instead I have to mute my TV and ignore them. Which seems counter productive for you.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Y'know, YouTube, if you didn't make the ads so loud, I'd just let them ride. Instead I have to mute my TV and ignore them. Which seems counter productive for you.
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a former NCAA swimmer who was no longer allowed to compete killed herself *last week*
fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth
fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
a former NCAA swimmer who was no longer allowed to compete killed herself *last week*
fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth
fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth
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the people blocking academic women and people of colour over us explaining what it means to steal stuff, what plagiarism is, IS one of the core problems of AI: they want to steal your labour, especially of less privileged people
The grift is selling oneself as an expert and making a bunch of coin off it?
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
the people blocking academic women and people of colour over us explaining what it means to steal stuff, what plagiarism is, IS one of the core problems of AI: they want to steal your labour, especially of less privileged people
I suppose it's a form of leadership to shout that "that's just a form of critical washing" at the panel on AI in the faculty meeting?
I'm going to hide under a rock now. At least I've stopped shaking.
I'm going to hide under a rock now. At least I've stopped shaking.
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I suppose it's a form of leadership to shout that "that's just a form of critical washing" at the panel on AI in the faculty meeting?
I'm going to hide under a rock now. At least I've stopped shaking.
I'm going to hide under a rock now. At least I've stopped shaking.
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Cass is not even peer reviewed. CASS is what the Qld bans rely on
An 🇦🇺 report published in the Med Journal of 🇦🇺 evaluated the Cass Review. It recommended that CASS should NOT be used as a guide of any kind in regards to the care of young trans people
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
An 🇦🇺 report published in the Med Journal of 🇦🇺 evaluated the Cass Review. It recommended that CASS should NOT be used as a guide of any kind in regards to the care of young trans people
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people
Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...
www.mja.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Cass is not even peer reviewed. CASS is what the Qld bans rely on
An 🇦🇺 report published in the Med Journal of 🇦🇺 evaluated the Cass Review. It recommended that CASS should NOT be used as a guide of any kind in regards to the care of young trans people
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
An 🇦🇺 report published in the Med Journal of 🇦🇺 evaluated the Cass Review. It recommended that CASS should NOT be used as a guide of any kind in regards to the care of young trans people
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
I will follow Emma Thompson to hell and back. 💖💖💖
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I will follow Emma Thompson to hell and back. 💖💖💖
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.