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hello!
everyone go follow and support her!! she’s an amazing pixel artist n is new to tumblr 💙
HOLY CROW
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YOU CANNOT SELF-FLAGELLATE YOUR WAY INTO EXCELLENCE
SHOCKINGLY, SCORN AND PUNISHMENT MAKE FOR WEAK MOTIVATORS. PRACTICE IS A HABIT HARD TO FORM WHEN ERRING'S MET WITH BLOOD.
BEYOND ALL THAT, REMEMBER: YOU WILL NEED MORE THAN LITTLE TREATS IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. BUT YOU DO NEED THE TREATS
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just so we're clear if you're calling trans women pedophiles you're actively getting us killed. you're literally furthering the genocide against us. I don't give a shit about what she ships or what she calls her girlfriend. I don't care if you think reminding people that trans women can be pedophiles means you're just "holding individual trans women responsible". there is no fucking excuse. if the ongoing genocide against us which is predicated on the assumption that we're all sexual degenerate child groomers doesn't bother you enough to make you put that shit aside then it's clear to me that you think trans women being executed by the state is a good thing and that you're the actual danger to the queer community. when this is all over just know that you're going to have to live with blood on your hands for the rest of your life.
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microwave mimic that just eats the food instead of cooking it
tags written by microwave mimic. "oh just reach in the moment the food is 1 second from ready. yeah your whole arm."
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say what u want about the manscaped ads I know they are shit, all of them but the “evil, sinister, malcontent, balls” one puts me into fucking hysterics actually
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please this is SO funny
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HUH?!
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funnytwittertweets
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UC or ER?
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me: *puts disc in xbox*
xbox: installing from network (13.07 GB)
me: oh so the disc is just for fun, huh? just for show? a little placebo to make me feel better? am i a joke to you
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The Roomba That Screams When it Bumps Into Stuff
This is legitimately one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever seen.
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Finally listened to all music! My favorite song was an untitled file called “ssssddsdrt66677888.ogg” that I found on a flash drive that I found in a landfill in Tunisia
In case anyone is actually into this there are 3 volumes of these:
Ok so at first I was like “oh haha funny meme” then I was actually impressed by this cellphone music thing??
I looked it up and just listening to the first volume I am blown away like transcended a new level of music creators/Saharan culture blown away guys pLEASe listen to this itissogood
Humans are REALLY INTO MAKING AND SHARING MUSIC, guys.
If you like this you might also like
which is, well, what it says on the tin. Some stuff is free to download, some stuff is available to purchase, some stuff is both.
Just on the first page, we have:
Arthur — Vuvuzela Dance Remixes Vol. 3 — S’Bamu [South Africa]
Khalifa Gueye — Ruba [Senegal]
The site started as just a guy digitizing music from cassette tapes that you couldn’t find anywhere outside street markets in various African cities, and now it’s an actual record label that works with African musicians… and also a guy digitizing tapes.
It’s amazing cultural anthropology as well as great music.
there’s also nyege nyege tapes in uganda which holds a festival every year with a lineup of electronic artists from around the continent & the diaspora
then there’s c-drik who runs the syrphe database where he has spent decades working with musicians in africa & asia to give them a presence online & a means of communication with each other & the rest of the world.
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🍁 Autumn will bring prosperity.
🎃 Autumn will bring release.
🦉 Autumn will bring wisdom.
🔮 Autumn will bring peace.
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Anonymous asked:
Hello. Aren't most studies just "proving" transgender brains are "resembling" the "desired sex" as an effect of hormones? If so it is not a innate characteristic, or are there studies that focus on pre-hormone transgenders and how reliant and representative are they?
Most of the research I focus on is on pre-HRT trans people, specifically for the reason that sceptics can easily find reasons to disregard significant neurological findings as a product of HRT if it’s a confounding factor. Rest assured, there is plenty of evidence that pre-transition trans people have unique neurology that separates them from cis people, there is evidence of such differences present from childhood, and most are thought to be connected to innate biological factors.
Transgenderism is, technically, an effect of hormones -- but pre-natal hormone exposure, not HRT. The most-cited theory (and the one that makes the most sense) suggests that abnormal levels of pre-natal hormones are responsible for the structural and functional differences we see in trans people’s brains and are a determining factor in their gender identity, making it an innate neurobiological feature. Besides the research being done on trans brains, there is also research on the gender identities of intersex people with hormone-related DSDs, and non-neurological research on trans people implicating hormone-related polymorphisms, that support this explanation.
As far as transgender brains “resembling their desired sex” goes, I’ve already addressed that in a couple other answers so I’m just going to link them to avoid repeating myself [1] [2]. TLDR, any claims of trans people having the brain of their desired sex is an oversimplification of and disservice to the research that just invites unnecessary scepticism. When making broad statements about the whole brain, it’s far more accurate and helpful to explain that trans people’s brains are atypical for their birth sex, not that they are completely sex-reversed.
My scholarly sources spreadsheet has a ton of studies on pre-HRT trans people and comparing pre-HRT with hormone-treated trans people, if you want to peruse. Just a few that I know meet that criteria:
- Biological origins of sexual orientation and gender identity: Impact on health (O’Hanlan, et al., 2018) [full text] - Review article summarizing relevant research for doctors outside of the field. Covers several ways pre-treatment trans people have shown to differ from cis controls. Surface-level but very accessible read.
- Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus (Kruijver, et al. 2000) [open access] - Outdated now, but significant as some of the first research demonstrating sex-atypical traits in trans people’s brains. Finds that hormone use is not a factor to the differences described.
- White Matter Microstructure in Transsexuals and Controls Investigated by Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Kranz, et al., 2014) [open access] - Controls for individual estradiol, testosterone, & progesterone levels and excludes participants who have received hormone treatment. Finds that trans people occupy a middle ground between cis male & female controls. Similar scope & results to this pair of studies from 2011 [1] [2].
- Neuroimaging Differences in Spatial Cognition Between Men and Male-To-Female Transsexuals Before and During Hormone Therapy (Schöning, et al. 2010) [full text] - Tests both pre- & post-HRT trans women. Finds functional differences from cis male controls in both groups.
- Structural connections in the brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation (Burke, et al., 2017) [open access] - Controls for sexual orientation and excludes participants who have received hormone treatment. Finds that the area of the brain mediating self-perception is sex-atypical in trans people.
- Brain structure and function in gender dysphoria (Bakker, 2018) [abstract only] - Participants are all pre-puberty. Preliminary findings show grey matter volumes are sex-atypical in gender dysphoric children.
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