Kora 🏳️⚧️
@koragendum.bsky.social
stopping by this profile page / you’ve stopped to read a verse / i hope it brings a small delight / despite the fact it’s terse
(and should you stay a moment more / in hopes of killing time / i wrote this stanza just for you / and even made it rhyme)
(and should you stay a moment more / in hopes of killing time / i wrote this stanza just for you / and even made it rhyme)
...accountant”) because... why would we bother? [I realize “identifies as” is used because there is contention whether sex or gender are inherent, immutable, chosen, or self-chosen; my point is that the phrase is unsubtly the expression of an opinion on the ultimate issue.]
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
...accountant”) because... why would we bother? [I realize “identifies as” is used because there is contention whether sex or gender are inherent, immutable, chosen, or self-chosen; my point is that the phrase is unsubtly the expression of an opinion on the ultimate issue.]
...delegitimizing. We don’t say things like “they identify as (blood) type AB+”; we simply say “they are type AB+” because it is true, and we accept report of it on good faith. We don’t even say “identifies as” for obviously self-chosen identities (who on earth says “they identify as an...
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
...delegitimizing. We don’t say things like “they identify as (blood) type AB+”; we simply say “they are type AB+” because it is true, and we accept report of it on good faith. We don’t even say “identifies as” for obviously self-chosen identities (who on earth says “they identify as an...
...biologically categorized female rather than male by all reasonable standards. (Frankly, this ought to be neither here nor there; there are so few aspects of life where sexually dimorphic biology actually warrants differentiated treatment.) And “identifies as” is overtly patronizing and...
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
...biologically categorized female rather than male by all reasonable standards. (Frankly, this ought to be neither here nor there; there are so few aspects of life where sexually dimorphic biology actually warrants differentiated treatment.) And “identifies as” is overtly patronizing and...
thank you, annette!
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
thank you, annette!
hm “pierogies” is probably a better spelling
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 AM
hm “pierogies” is probably a better spelling
To clarify, this was when I was a child, not when my mother was a child.
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
To clarify, this was when I was a child, not when my mother was a child.
TIL “pierogi” is plural! As a child, my mother would say, “we’re having pierogis for dinner”.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
TIL “pierogi” is plural! As a child, my mother would say, “we’re having pierogis for dinner”.
I am mildly (but genuinely) devastated to hear this. About a third of my lookups are to confirm hyphenation points!
(will I buy a copy nonetheless? well, yeah, but...)
(will I buy a copy nonetheless? well, yeah, but...)
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I am mildly (but genuinely) devastated to hear this. About a third of my lookups are to confirm hyphenation points!
(will I buy a copy nonetheless? well, yeah, but...)
(will I buy a copy nonetheless? well, yeah, but...)
This is incidentally the syntax I use in my personal notes!
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is incidentally the syntax I use in my personal notes!
(The older sense is surprising and interesting and I’m always tempted to share it, but anyone who’d be similarly interested already knows about it, and I’ve never actually seen use of the phrase cause confusion, myself.)
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
(The older sense is surprising and interesting and I’m always tempted to share it, but anyone who’d be similarly interested already knows about it, and I’ve never actually seen use of the phrase cause confusion, myself.)
I’ve taken to avoiding the phrase altogether and saying either “implicity (or indirectly) assuming the conclusion” for the older sense and “raises (or invites) the question” for the newer sense. I’m not sure whether the latter works as well as “begs the question” for most people, though.
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve taken to avoiding the phrase altogether and saying either “implicity (or indirectly) assuming the conclusion” for the older sense and “raises (or invites) the question” for the newer sense. I’m not sure whether the latter works as well as “begs the question” for most people, though.
I know the intended meaning of this is “80% of people at hackerspaces are cool trans people” but I’m tickled by the idea of an “80%-cool person”, which... sounds pretty high actually. (That only leaves 20% for everything else!)
August 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I know the intended meaning of this is “80% of people at hackerspaces are cool trans people” but I’m tickled by the idea of an “80%-cool person”, which... sounds pretty high actually. (That only leaves 20% for everything else!)
fuck that’s ABCB not ABAB
June 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
fuck that’s ABCB not ABAB
Fav’rite note place: in the margin
Fav’rite dash: most often en
Fav’rite glyph: the reference symbol (※)
Implement of choice: a pen
Fav’rite dash: most often en
Fav’rite glyph: the reference symbol (※)
Implement of choice: a pen
June 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Fav’rite note place: in the margin
Fav’rite dash: most often en
Fav’rite glyph: the reference symbol (※)
Implement of choice: a pen
Fav’rite dash: most often en
Fav’rite glyph: the reference symbol (※)
Implement of choice: a pen
...in which case you can’t have one without the other – but I doubt we’ll ever be confronted with that question (it only exists in the limit, as it were). Put another way, I don’t think wanting contradictory things is contradictory, which for the longest time was my automatic, unconscious judgment.)
May 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
...in which case you can’t have one without the other – but I doubt we’ll ever be confronted with that question (it only exists in the limit, as it were). Put another way, I don’t think wanting contradictory things is contradictory, which for the longest time was my automatic, unconscious judgment.)
...but exist side by side in spite of each other. We can embrace and cultivate some aspects of our nature while trying to eliminate others, and although there may be some ultimate dilemma – if they come both part and parcel, then the ultimate and only question is existence versus nonexistence, ...
May 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
...but exist side by side in spite of each other. We can embrace and cultivate some aspects of our nature while trying to eliminate others, and although there may be some ultimate dilemma – if they come both part and parcel, then the ultimate and only question is existence versus nonexistence, ...
(And I think this extends pretty naturally to other aspects of the human condition. Can we cherish our humanity, cultivate our humanity, while also wanting to kill our humanity? I somehow think this is possible. Good things and evil things, eudaimonoa and suffering, don’t cancel each other out, ...
May 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
(And I think this extends pretty naturally to other aspects of the human condition. Can we cherish our humanity, cultivate our humanity, while also wanting to kill our humanity? I somehow think this is possible. Good things and evil things, eudaimonoa and suffering, don’t cancel each other out, ...
(After rereading what I just wrote, I realize I left the linking idea unspoken – what prompted the comment about acceptance and disavowal was the reality of death. Can we both love it and hate it, fear it and embrace it, attempt to overcome it without running from it?)
May 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
(After rereading what I just wrote, I realize I left the linking idea unspoken – what prompted the comment about acceptance and disavowal was the reality of death. Can we both love it and hate it, fear it and embrace it, attempt to overcome it without running from it?)
I’m not really sure where the right place to end up is, if there even is one.
May 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I’m not really sure where the right place to end up is, if there even is one.
You can both adore and defend the quality of being human and acknowledge the circumstances of our existence while also fighting against them, insistent that the universe bend to the consciousness that inhabits it.
May 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
You can both adore and defend the quality of being human and acknowledge the circumstances of our existence while also fighting against them, insistent that the universe bend to the consciousness that inhabits it.
About many things in life, I’m beginning to simultaneously feel both acceptance (or at least realize the foundational importance of acceptance) and disavowal, both appreciation and indignation or aspiration, which ought to be contradictory but in fact coëxist complimentarily.
May 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
About many things in life, I’m beginning to simultaneously feel both acceptance (or at least realize the foundational importance of acceptance) and disavowal, both appreciation and indignation or aspiration, which ought to be contradictory but in fact coëxist complimentarily.
“I will sacrifice some length of my days to add depth to another person’s experience of the rest of theirs. Many did this for me. The work is slow. Its results often go unseen for years. But it is no gimmick.”
– hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
– hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“I will sacrifice some length of my days to add depth to another person’s experience of the rest of theirs. Many did this for me. The work is slow. Its results often go unseen for years. But it is no gimmick.”
– hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
– hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
[2/2] “It is to help them learn, together, to defend how they want to live, precisely because they, too, unlike a machine, will one day die.”
May 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
[2/2] “It is to help them learn, together, to defend how they want to live, precisely because they, too, unlike a machine, will one day die.”