Mackenzie (he/his/him)
@catmetamackenzie.bsky.social
Metadata librarian & games enthusiast. Ever learning & growing, views are mine but sometimes I'm wrong.
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transition care is miraculous it is literally such a good idea
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
transition care is miraculous it is literally such a good idea
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Dropout Improv will be at Just For Laughs Vancouver for a live show on February 19, 2026!
Join Kurt Maloney, Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, Jeremy Culhane, Scott Passarella, and Kimia Behpoornia at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for an evening of improv shenanigans!
Join Kurt Maloney, Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, Jeremy Culhane, Scott Passarella, and Kimia Behpoornia at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for an evening of improv shenanigans!
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Dropout Improv will be at Just For Laughs Vancouver for a live show on February 19, 2026!
Join Kurt Maloney, Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, Jeremy Culhane, Scott Passarella, and Kimia Behpoornia at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for an evening of improv shenanigans!
Join Kurt Maloney, Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, Jeremy Culhane, Scott Passarella, and Kimia Behpoornia at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for an evening of improv shenanigans!
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A bad day for Canada, and therefore the world.
Ontario (population 16 million, 40% of the country) has passed new legislation prohibiting bike lanes that take a lane from cars.
An escalation from Bill 212, which required municipalities to get approval.
Ontario (population 16 million, 40% of the country) has passed new legislation prohibiting bike lanes that take a lane from cars.
An escalation from Bill 212, which required municipalities to get approval.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A bad day for Canada, and therefore the world.
Ontario (population 16 million, 40% of the country) has passed new legislation prohibiting bike lanes that take a lane from cars.
An escalation from Bill 212, which required municipalities to get approval.
Ontario (population 16 million, 40% of the country) has passed new legislation prohibiting bike lanes that take a lane from cars.
An escalation from Bill 212, which required municipalities to get approval.
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Protecting The Future Of Open Data: Building Resilient Repositories In Times Of Crisis - ESIP https://www.esipfed.org/protecting-the-future-of-open-data-building-resilient-repositories-in-times-of-crisis/
Protecting The Future Of Open Data: Building Resilient Repositories In Times Of Crisis - ESIP
The security and accessibility of U.S. federal data repositories have never been more important or more at risk. These collections of open datasets power
www.esipfed.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Protecting The Future Of Open Data: Building Resilient Repositories In Times Of Crisis - ESIP https://www.esipfed.org/protecting-the-future-of-open-data-building-resilient-repositories-in-times-of-crisis/
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tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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::screams in librarian::
LLMs can censor materials from the library systems if deemed “sensitive” and also currently being sold as getting rid of “sensitive content” from local library collections.
Of course this shit is being manipulated. For the benefit of who is the bigger question.
LLMs can censor materials from the library systems if deemed “sensitive” and also currently being sold as getting rid of “sensitive content” from local library collections.
Of course this shit is being manipulated. For the benefit of who is the bigger question.
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
::screams in librarian::
LLMs can censor materials from the library systems if deemed “sensitive” and also currently being sold as getting rid of “sensitive content” from local library collections.
Of course this shit is being manipulated. For the benefit of who is the bigger question.
LLMs can censor materials from the library systems if deemed “sensitive” and also currently being sold as getting rid of “sensitive content” from local library collections.
Of course this shit is being manipulated. For the benefit of who is the bigger question.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site
Me: Australia's social media ban for under 16s is a deeply terrible idea and is going to make a lot of problems much worse
Also me: we should ban Roblox for all ages
Also me: we should ban Roblox for all ages
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site
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"But the deeper problem is the cultural break; the idea that Canadians don't think of Americans as their friends and neighbours, but as adversaries."
That is sort of what happens when your president jokes about annexing our country.
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
That is sort of what happens when your president jokes about annexing our country.
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Cultural break': U.S. senators say relations with Canadian neighbours are suffering | CBC News
The tariffs imposed on Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump have clearly caused economic pain for Canada, but a U.S. senator from Maine says he's more worried about how Canadians are reacting on a pe...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"But the deeper problem is the cultural break; the idea that Canadians don't think of Americans as their friends and neighbours, but as adversaries."
That is sort of what happens when your president jokes about annexing our country.
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
That is sort of what happens when your president jokes about annexing our country.
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
The Space Exploration Logo Archive
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only
kottke.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
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In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
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I really don't like anything about D&D's alignment system, but I appreciate its power as a shorthand, and I'd love to do something that could work similarly, and this is a swing at that.
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
Oops, All Heroes
Caveat before all of this begins – the material I’m about to use is sourced from a psychology paper on values which were used as the source for the diagram in a Common Cause article. I …
walkingmind.evilhat.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I really don't like anything about D&D's alignment system, but I appreciate its power as a shorthand, and I'd love to do something that could work similarly, and this is a swing at that.
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
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they should do this to you if you pick too many fights on a microblogging platform in a single day
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
they should do this to you if you pick too many fights on a microblogging platform in a single day
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The entire capital city of Tehran may soon be abandoned for lack of water. If y'all think refugee crises were bad last century, you have no idea what's coming.
Climate change is and will remain the #1 most urgent problem facing humanity.
Climate change is and will remain the #1 most urgent problem facing humanity.
In Canada, water is a precious resource we sell to companies for cents in the dollar to bottle and sell at a huge markup.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Iran facing 'water bankruptcy' after years of overuse exacerbated by drought
As Iran suffers through a drought and the president warns the capital could be evacuated, millions are worried about what the future will hold.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The entire capital city of Tehran may soon be abandoned for lack of water. If y'all think refugee crises were bad last century, you have no idea what's coming.
Climate change is and will remain the #1 most urgent problem facing humanity.
Climate change is and will remain the #1 most urgent problem facing humanity.
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I think the reason experts aren’t chiming in anymore is because people on the internet are often terrible, there’s no incentive for them to spend their time that way when they’ll be disbelieved and bullied anyway, and the rest are too busy looking for jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I think the reason experts aren’t chiming in anymore is because people on the internet are often terrible, there’s no incentive for them to spend their time that way when they’ll be disbelieved and bullied anyway, and the rest are too busy looking for jobs.
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This. To say nothing of the destroyed careers and livelihoods, the abandoned research, and the probably irreparable trust defect for anyone who *might* have been contemplating a career in public service. Please, stop with the DOGE failure narratives.
DOGE did everything they were supposed to do and have already killed almost 700,000 people including 430,000 children, as intended. DOGE is one of the most successful anti-democracy, mass-murder campaigns we've ever seen, and we will be dealing with the consequences of their success for generations.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This. To say nothing of the destroyed careers and livelihoods, the abandoned research, and the probably irreparable trust defect for anyone who *might* have been contemplating a career in public service. Please, stop with the DOGE failure narratives.
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call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report
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I finished the entire BLOPS 7 campaign, asked for a refund and Valve granted it to me.
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I finished the entire BLOPS 7 campaign, asked for a refund and Valve granted it to me.
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
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Every so often this man communicates that women ain’t shit. This man comes from a world with very few women at the top levels and therefore assumes we don’t need to be there
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says
Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Every so often this man communicates that women ain’t shit. This man comes from a world with very few women at the top levels and therefore assumes we don’t need to be there
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Every cut. Is a theft. EVERY CUT OF FUNDING IS THEFT.
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Every cut. Is a theft. EVERY CUT OF FUNDING IS THEFT.
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Economists define “good” VERY differently from the rest of life on earth
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Economists define “good” VERY differently from the rest of life on earth