Lava monster
@lavamonster.bsky.social
Science (sometimes fiction) nerd • Outdoor adventure obsessive • One of those transgenders you're hearing about in the news • she/they
This is blood money, to be completely clear.
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is blood money, to be completely clear.
And the easiest way to neutralize that leverage? Release everything.
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
And the easiest way to neutralize that leverage? Release everything.
It’s all right, I get it. It’s a general flaw in the asylum process, in that it’s fundamentally reactive and doesn’t kick into gear until it’s definitely too late for lots of people. It becomes “you have to let me stay here because my neighbors are already dead and I’d be next.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It’s all right, I get it. It’s a general flaw in the asylum process, in that it’s fundamentally reactive and doesn’t kick into gear until it’s definitely too late for lots of people. It becomes “you have to let me stay here because my neighbors are already dead and I’d be next.”
Right now there’s basically zero chance of an asylum claim on the basis of being trans in the US being accepted anywhere. That won’t change either unless the US government starts openly murdering trans people for being trans, and of course we’re not there at this point.
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Right now there’s basically zero chance of an asylum claim on the basis of being trans in the US being accepted anywhere. That won’t change either unless the US government starts openly murdering trans people for being trans, and of course we’re not there at this point.
They’d probably have to forge the date to be close to date of birth.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
They’d probably have to forge the date to be close to date of birth.
Also in my grad student union the econ department had the lowest rates of union membership outside of the business school, at least while I was there. A political reason for that seems almost certain.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Also in my grad student union the econ department had the lowest rates of union membership outside of the business school, at least while I was there. A political reason for that seems almost certain.
Yeah I was really just thinking about the A-plot. You can fit several TV episodes’ worth of ideas into one novel, of course.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yeah I was really just thinking about the A-plot. You can fit several TV episodes’ worth of ideas into one novel, of course.
So much of this is people preferring the mediocrity they know over taking a risk on a new person. A lot of people in power are so novelty-averse they’ll keep backing an aging horse until they start losing serious money.
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So much of this is people preferring the mediocrity they know over taking a risk on a new person. A lot of people in power are so novelty-averse they’ll keep backing an aging horse until they start losing serious money.
This book to me feels like a novel version of TNG’s “The Inner Light” set in the Children of Time universe. I mean this as a compliment.
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This book to me feels like a novel version of TNG’s “The Inner Light” set in the Children of Time universe. I mean this as a compliment.
*he not we, I don’t live anywhere near NYC, purely observing here
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
*he not we, I don’t live anywhere near NYC, purely observing here
In a weird way Jeffries’s endorsement might have trapped Mamdani more than it helped, because now Zohran probably feels like he needs to at least appear grateful. Without the endorsement we would have won anyway and now Jeffries gets to divide his opposition.
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In a weird way Jeffries’s endorsement might have trapped Mamdani more than it helped, because now Zohran probably feels like he needs to at least appear grateful. Without the endorsement we would have won anyway and now Jeffries gets to divide his opposition.
It’s actually the rule that the millisecond an HRT needle punctures your skin you lose your nonbinary card.
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s actually the rule that the millisecond an HRT needle punctures your skin you lose your nonbinary card.
Just admit that you, personally, wish the Democratic candidates you vote for all sound and look like Bill Maher.
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just admit that you, personally, wish the Democratic candidates you vote for all sound and look like Bill Maher.
No one could have predicted that having no red lines whatsoever would lead to this.
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
No one could have predicted that having no red lines whatsoever would lead to this.
The ship sank because the rats had the plague and the crew was too sick to steer it. You don’t want those rats.
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The ship sank because the rats had the plague and the crew was too sick to steer it. You don’t want those rats.
Haha IDK if you realize but you’re responding to the woman who literally wrote a whole book arguing this (The Shock Doctrine).
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Haha IDK if you realize but you’re responding to the woman who literally wrote a whole book arguing this (The Shock Doctrine).
You know it’s an authentic trans flag because it’s wrinkly and not ironed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 AM
You know it’s an authentic trans flag because it’s wrinkly and not ironed.
Reposted by Lava monster
“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Lizard spit literally gave us Ozempic.
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Lizard spit literally gave us Ozempic.
Yeah this just concedes the actually antisemitic framing of what anti-Zionism is, even if ironic/sarcastic.
At least rhetorically, it’s like conservatives saying “all right then, I guess I AM a fascist if you keep saying so.” There’s no non-sussy way to make that argument.
At least rhetorically, it’s like conservatives saying “all right then, I guess I AM a fascist if you keep saying so.” There’s no non-sussy way to make that argument.
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yeah this just concedes the actually antisemitic framing of what anti-Zionism is, even if ironic/sarcastic.
At least rhetorically, it’s like conservatives saying “all right then, I guess I AM a fascist if you keep saying so.” There’s no non-sussy way to make that argument.
At least rhetorically, it’s like conservatives saying “all right then, I guess I AM a fascist if you keep saying so.” There’s no non-sussy way to make that argument.
They know what’s up in the PNW.
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
They know what’s up in the PNW.
Another huge benefit of playing slightly old games is the bugs are all fixed and the DLC is often bundled in for free.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Another huge benefit of playing slightly old games is the bugs are all fixed and the DLC is often bundled in for free.
Right there with you, I just finished NieR Automata last night.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Right there with you, I just finished NieR Automata last night.
The Castlevania series strikes me as a recent notable exception, though it very deliberately mimics Asian animation styles, is based on Japanese video games, and the actual animation was outsourced to South Korea, so the exception probably proves the rule.
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Castlevania series strikes me as a recent notable exception, though it very deliberately mimics Asian animation styles, is based on Japanese video games, and the actual animation was outsourced to South Korea, so the exception probably proves the rule.
Christian Zionism.
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Christian Zionism.