armornick 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@armornick.bsky.social
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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1/3 Philantropist
Any pronouns.
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This. OMG, this.
Manhood and testosterone were an unending nightmare *for me*, but watching my transmasc friends blossom into the fullness of their manhood made me believe in the beauty of masculinity for the first time in my life.
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read The Will to Change.
Manhood and testosterone were an unending nightmare *for me*, but watching my transmasc friends blossom into the fullness of their manhood made me believe in the beauty of masculinity for the first time in my life.
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read The Will to Change.
As someone who hated testosterone, I see too often how people demonize it when all it is is that it just wasn't right for you. I know countless trans men and trans mascs that it has helped, just as estradiol has helped me.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
Still can't get over how fucking cruel this is. Fuck off Devon
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This. OMG, this.
Manhood and testosterone were an unending nightmare *for me*, but watching my transmasc friends blossom into the fullness of their manhood made me believe in the beauty of masculinity for the first time in my life.
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read The Will to Change.
Manhood and testosterone were an unending nightmare *for me*, but watching my transmasc friends blossom into the fullness of their manhood made me believe in the beauty of masculinity for the first time in my life.
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read The Will to Change.
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![Comic. [Top panel: Long-necked dinosaur with red X over it.] [Bottom panel: two smaller dinosaurs the same shape except their neck isn’t long, while in the background there’s an extremely long neck criss-crossing the frame like a snake. Green check mark in center.] [caption] Thanks to modern paleontological reconstructions, we now know that most sauropods had short necks, and all those extra vertebrae belonged to the sauropod colony’s queen.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigjcepbb3hjlvpjzmj6msuydmem6gdakkl5svr4kh4q7qi3c4m2fu@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In addition, I found this nice guide to remove any existing Copilot bloat from Visual Studio Code:
leonidboykov.com/how-to-disab...
leonidboykov.com/how-to-disab...
How to disable all AI stuff in Visual Studio Code
If you have found this article, you already know that Copilot bloatware has been integrated into Visual Studio Code. While we all believe that giant companies waste their money for the sake of humanit...
leonidboykov.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
In addition, I found this nice guide to remove any existing Copilot bloat from Visual Studio Code:
leonidboykov.com/how-to-disab...
leonidboykov.com/how-to-disab...
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Visual Studio Code heads-up! The latest update includes the option to use a bunch of Copilot agents. If you detest that stuff like I do, right click the "Finish Setup" box at the bottom of the window and you can "Hide Copilot Status" which I assume means you'll never actually install the damn slop.
December 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Visual Studio Code heads-up! The latest update includes the option to use a bunch of Copilot agents. If you detest that stuff like I do, right click the "Finish Setup" box at the bottom of the window and you can "Hide Copilot Status" which I assume means you'll never actually install the damn slop.
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.
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Ten thousand fucking percent.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
Most of all, drop that "we're fucked" mindset. Time to leave that doomerism bullshit behind and focus on doing good.
I want 2026 to be the year where we collectively stop rewarding negativity. Stop bringing others down to bring yourself up. Stop bringing attention to genuinely awful people. Stop ignoring people bringing positive changes to the world. We need more kindness and empathy. I’m dead serious
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ten thousand fucking percent.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
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Especially in academia—where everyone’s job is also to teach and, you know, to educate—this „but you‘ll be left behind!“ declaration (sort-of-threat?) is really misplaced and very annoying. Demonstrate how. Explain why. Reason and persuade. Don’t phrase-beat people over the brow.
My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.
So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Especially in academia—where everyone’s job is also to teach and, you know, to educate—this „but you‘ll be left behind!“ declaration (sort-of-threat?) is really misplaced and very annoying. Demonstrate how. Explain why. Reason and persuade. Don’t phrase-beat people over the brow.
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Breathless Winds is 25% off in the Steam Winter Sale! Breathless Winds is a Visual Novel about a trans woman discovering her gender and finding true love in an island-fantasy setting. The game has four unique routes, each full of mystery and romance!
store.steampowered.com/app/2257100
store.steampowered.com/app/2257100
Breathless Winds - LGBT Visual Novel on Steam
After recovering from a painful incident, a closeted trans woman finds herself split between four possible paths - returning to sailing, becoming a healer, helping the resident witch, or joining a pri...
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Breathless Winds is 25% off in the Steam Winter Sale! Breathless Winds is a Visual Novel about a trans woman discovering her gender and finding true love in an island-fantasy setting. The game has four unique routes, each full of mystery and romance!
store.steampowered.com/app/2257100
store.steampowered.com/app/2257100
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Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
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#OpenWeb
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
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WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world
no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaB... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wor... - podcast
time: 9 min 03 sec
no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaB... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wor... - podcast
time: 9 min 03 sec
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world
no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaB... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wor... - podcast
time: 9 min 03 sec
no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaB... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wor... - podcast
time: 9 min 03 sec
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![Comic. [Two people one one side of a pile of seven apples, next to person with long hair next to five apples.] PERSON: Okay, with my seven apples added to your five, we have… let’s se… twelve apples! PERSON 2 [with hands raised]: Incredible! Perfect agreement with the theory! [caption] Experimental Mathematicians](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifgv5skm72kzcxgexs4hbpex45met5vxhb6kf2aqshmktmo37nl5a@jpeg)
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Every once in a while I am reminded that not everyone here understands that "detach quote" is a thing here
Also if I detach a quote from something you've posted, that's just my way of saying that you have a right to say whatever you like but I choose not to be a part of it, thanks anyway
Also if I detach a quote from something you've posted, that's just my way of saying that you have a right to say whatever you like but I choose not to be a part of it, thanks anyway
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Every once in a while I am reminded that not everyone here understands that "detach quote" is a thing here
Also if I detach a quote from something you've posted, that's just my way of saying that you have a right to say whatever you like but I choose not to be a part of it, thanks anyway
Also if I detach a quote from something you've posted, that's just my way of saying that you have a right to say whatever you like but I choose not to be a part of it, thanks anyway
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THEY DID THE MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
December 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
THEY DID THE MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
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this of course puts JKR and her fellow anti-trans crowd into the same category as the Creationists. They simultaneously want us to believe the evidence is on *their* side, and that *we're* the irrational ones. But if they had evidence, they wouldn't need to lie and make shit up.
I mean, that's no different from any other scientific position, really. Would we reevaluate evolution if we found evidence against it? Of course! Is that likely to ever happen? Nope. The evidence is *strongly* in favor of trans healthcare.
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
this of course puts JKR and her fellow anti-trans crowd into the same category as the Creationists. They simultaneously want us to believe the evidence is on *their* side, and that *we're* the irrational ones. But if they had evidence, they wouldn't need to lie and make shit up.
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"It's just for kids"
When I was a kid we had the NeverEnding Story teach us about how depression can lead us to very dark places through the delightfully traumatizing scene of a horse drowning in a mud pit
When I was a kid we had the NeverEnding Story teach us about how depression can lead us to very dark places through the delightfully traumatizing scene of a horse drowning in a mud pit
People who argue "who cares it's just for kids" all I can say is fuck right off. Kids deserve thoughtful, well-made movies that challenge them just as much as adults do. Kids aren't stupid, and they remember how movies affect them basically forever.
December 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"It's just for kids"
When I was a kid we had the NeverEnding Story teach us about how depression can lead us to very dark places through the delightfully traumatizing scene of a horse drowning in a mud pit
When I was a kid we had the NeverEnding Story teach us about how depression can lead us to very dark places through the delightfully traumatizing scene of a horse drowning in a mud pit
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”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
"Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders [...] is demonic and severely harms American youth."
Well said, TP USA. I too support a unary gender society.
(jk)
Well said, TP USA. I too support a unary gender society.
(jk)
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders [...] is demonic and severely harms American youth."
Well said, TP USA. I too support a unary gender society.
(jk)
Well said, TP USA. I too support a unary gender society.
(jk)
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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ENSHITTIFICATION in action 💥
Cory Doctorow on the Future Knowledge #podcast tells how a few firms captured the inkjet market & kept raising prices until ink became the most expensive fluid you can buy at $10,000 a gallon. 🐎
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
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Cory Doctorow on the Future Knowledge #podcast tells how a few firms captured the inkjet market & kept raising prices until ink became the most expensive fluid you can buy at $10,000 a gallon. 🐎
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ens...
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ENSHITTIFICATION in action 💥
Cory Doctorow on the Future Knowledge #podcast tells how a few firms captured the inkjet market & kept raising prices until ink became the most expensive fluid you can buy at $10,000 a gallon. 🐎
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ens...
Cory Doctorow on the Future Knowledge #podcast tells how a few firms captured the inkjet market & kept raising prices until ink became the most expensive fluid you can buy at $10,000 a gallon. 🐎
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ens...
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If you hang out in gender questioning spaces for long enough, you'll see a surprising number of people pop in, wondering if they have Trans OCD. This week on Stained Glass Woman, we dive in, to see what that is.
And, especially, what it isn't.
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/compulsion
And, especially, what it isn't.
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/compulsion
Compulsion
Understanding the difference between intrusive thoughts and trans OCD
stainedglasswoman.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you hang out in gender questioning spaces for long enough, you'll see a surprising number of people pop in, wondering if they have Trans OCD. This week on Stained Glass Woman, we dive in, to see what that is.
And, especially, what it isn't.
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/compulsion
And, especially, what it isn't.
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/compulsion
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one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
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Anyway: If this year has taught you anything, I hope it's that white supremacy is fake as hell, fails without support, and requires extensive enforcement and blatant acts of favoritism and exclusion to survive.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Anyway: If this year has taught you anything, I hope it's that white supremacy is fake as hell, fails without support, and requires extensive enforcement and blatant acts of favoritism and exclusion to survive.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.
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Fake video games, vast settings and rule sets underlying games you can’t plug a controller into and play, can be just as rich and rewarding as real games — sometimes more so. @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social, who just wrote a book about them, explains:
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Fake video games, vast settings and rule sets underlying games you can’t plug a controller into and play, can be just as rich and rewarding as real games — sometimes more so. @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social, who just wrote a book about them, explains: