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homotoptheory.bsky.social
Helen
@homotoptheory.bsky.social
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Mathematician and podcaster. she/it. my views represent those of your employer.

Podcast: @odiumsymposium.bsky.social
Blog: https://bananasinwartime.ghost.io/
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so that's what this book is about
cover of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Comic where the first panel is a girl with headphones listening to music and someone thinking “that girl is so cute, I wonder what she’s listening to” and the second panel reveals the lyrics “I am gonna claw out your eyes, and drown you to death” which is the song Scylla sings in the boss fight in Hades 2.
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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will have to make do with this pineapple hot sauce instead
“Rude Mama Pineapple” hot sauce
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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hot honey gets a lot of hate, but it has its uses. for example, drizzled on these halloumi fries, some hot honey would be perfect
deep fried halloumi cheese
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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i’m generally a big fan of pretentious tasting notes but “the early 2000’s” is crazy
photo of a bag of coffee with tasting notes “reese’s chocolate, salted butter caramel & the early 2000s”
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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screenshot from disco elysium with rfk superimposed over harry dubois
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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from Grace Lavery:
I BEGAN TO TAKE feminizing hormones in January 2018, after many, many years of delay. The day that I took my first dose of spironolactone, to suppress my testosterone, and estradiol, which supplemented my endocrine system with estrogens, I did not believe that doing so would help me-indeed, I believed that I was ruling something out, and that I would shortly thereafter be able to put aside, if not the drive to transition, then at least the notion that anything might be accomplished in real life that might manifest that drive. Instead, what I learned was that altering the levels of my estrogen and testosterone profoundly, overwhelmingly, and completely transformed my experience of the world and of myself. The central fact, which my experience has ratified over and again in the years since I began hormone replacement therapy, is that it has been possible for someone who merely wanted to have been a woman, to indeed become one—a metamorphosis from present perfect to present con-tinuous, as utterly fantastical as an Ovidian fabliau. That transformation has reshaped my intellectual and political commit-ments. How could it not? I began to question why, indeed, this transformation had seemed so impossible, despite the evidence of trans people writing about their experience for over a century-though, of course, the introduction of the hormone as the major vehicle of somatic change was a more recent phe-nomenon. How had I, who had read widely and enthusiastically in queer theory, failed to take seriously the fundamental ontology upon which my own life was being refounded? What I came to realize was that a lot of the work I had read, while written by queer critics and activists unquestionably supportive of trans people as a verifiable social fact—indeed, as trans people's only allies in a world implacably committed to our eradication—was nonetheless stridently hostile to the claims trans people tended to make about ourselves.
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I can't be the only one here
screenshot of discord: Helen — 11:49 AM omg ill admit it im super jealous i wish i could be paid big money to go around and write whatever articles fuck a bunch of idiot guys it sounds like a good life sure id be the object of widespread public disdain, but im already a trans woman SarahCBunny — 11:50 AM the fact that she has this charmed life and uses it to fuck a guy who looks acts and thinks like rfk is so wild Helen — 11:50 AM i respect it SarahCBunny — 11:51 AM helen: "I have nothing but respect for olivia nuzzi" Helen — 11:51 AM i didn't say "nothing but"
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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yea
my tank top, which has some drawings of skulls on it and says “the self is a relation which relates to itself or that in the relation which is its relating to itself”
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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having my third coffee of the day hoping this will be the one to wake me up
selfie of me holding a mug of coffee
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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nearly done unpacking my books
4 ikea bookshelves almost full of books
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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madeleine celeste with a speech bubble
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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i would make such a good tradwife
bowl of pasta with meat sauce
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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been following your thread in horror, so I did a little digging and found that she also wrote these two books. The second one is also around listed with the alternate subtitle "why a sex change will ruin your life." Labelled the covers as graphic media because they're somewhat upsetting.
Cover art for a book called "Transgender Killers; the monsters that walk among us" by Rene Jax. The art is a close up on the blade of a knife covered in what looks like fake blood. Cover for a book called "Don't Get on the Plane; Reasons to Reconsider Your Sex Change by Rene Jax" the cover art is an ominous looking photo of a plane with the world "trans world airlines" on it
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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rate my iliad fancast:
achilles is nic cage patroclus is robert pattinson willem dafoe is agammemnon stephen merchant is paris david mitchell is zeus patti harrison is aphrodite
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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measurehead with a speech bubble
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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it snowed today which calls for stew
a bowl of beef stew
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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well the rest of us are
zohran sign font “Facing Consequences for Libbing Out”
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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got coffee earlier on my way to a zine fair
me holding coffee
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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no this isn't funny but i was proud of myself that i wrote this from memory
zoran sign generator but it's the first several lines of hamlet's to be or not to be speech
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Viva Generalissimo Mamdani!
NYTimes article: Zohran Mamdani drops the mask The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors. Today at 3:00 a.m. PT • 4 min A new era of class warfare has begun in New York, and no one is more excited than Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani. Witness the mayor-elect's change of character since his Tuesday election victory.
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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i’m back on my bullshit
photo of a book (Positions by Jacques Derrida) next to a flat white and an empty glass
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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this is a masterpiece.
New York Post front page with headline “The Red Apple” full of soviet and communist iconography to do red scare stuff about Mamdani’s victory
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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that would suck so bad if this kind of guy was vindicated
XKCD comic 774 stick figure saying: “PERSONALLY, I FIND ATHEISTS JUST AS ANNOYING AS FUNDAMENTAUST CHRISTIANS.” stick figure with hair responds: “WELL, THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU'VE FOUND A WAY TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO BOTH.”
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM