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This is extremely based. I've accomplished a lot of cool stuff and still sleep snuggling a stuffed animal every night at 38.

What ultimately matters is your ability to get what you need to do done, not performing an aesthetic of adulthood.

YIMBYism in blue states is inherently pro-trans because it makes it more practical for trans people fleeing Draconian laws in red states to move there

The Odyssey (2026)

⛶ Introducing Four Corners ⛶

A word puzzle game inspired by Connections and 4x3!

12 words, 4 categories, 4 words used twice each

The repeated words form the corners of the finished game board. Game #1 out now!

fourcorners.smol.quest

The US Green Party has shown how environmentalism, while extremely important, can easily degrade into woo-woo crankery that makes the world a worse place

"Environmentalists" are why we don't have more nuclear

"Environmentalists" are why we don't have golden rice

I never wanna hear that goddamn "just 57 companies are responsible for 80% of emissions" factoid again

People should read Marx's Fragment on Machines, I'm begging you.

We want a world where people don't need to work to survive. That's the ideal. Focus on reshaping the economy to ensure everyone enjoys the fruits of automation.

a) we've averted the worst case scenarios at this point. no, we are not all going to die, sorry if that upsets your nihilism

b) the planet is cooking because of fossil fuel use, which can and should be ended

A lot of people have interpreted "it's not antisemitic to criticize Israel" (true) to mean "antisemitism is fine if it's in service of criticizing Israel" (bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD)

one of the worst mistakes people make is confusing bad mental health with radicalism

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For years, people talked about "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism"

What did you think that meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

I'm not trying to be "revolutionary" or "subversive" by being trans. I had gender dysphoria, and this is what fixed it.

I wanted to be a girl as long as I remember. I'm way happier now that I can be. I'm not trying to make a political statement about gender by existing.

I will not stand for progressive rock being ignored like this

oh jeez, the algorithm has me pegged way too well

Autistic trans catgirls are a load bearing part of technology, and I'm not even joking

The goal should be hyper-abundant electricity that's too cheap to meter fueled by solar and nuclear

One of the most annoying tendencies on the left is a tendency to basically go, "supply and demand aren't real if I say 'decommodify' enough"

2026 has now surpassed 2025's number of US measles cases despite it only being the middle of the year.

Get your kids vaccinated, goddamn, this is so stupid

We live in an age of ever-increasing medical marvels, plz go make good use of it

I'd rather the government spend more taxpayer money if it means we don't have screwworms in the cattle or worry about getting dysentery from eating a salad, but I'm weird like that

Claude, invent me a time machine, make no mistakes

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social

It was inevitable

It’s very hard to uninvent a technology

However, it’s very practical to democratize and decentralize tech in ways that transform it from a tool of control to one of empowerment

One profoundly noticeable symptom of extremism (both left and right) is an inability to enjoy things anymore.

Everything must be measured up against your ideal worldview, and it is evil if it falls short one iota.

This is a recipe for misery.