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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This just unlocked one of my weirdest childhood memories. I played fastpitch softball as a kid, and at one away game the school’s softball field was next to a pasture. During warmups and the first several innings, we watched a guy dig a hole in the pasture. In the second inning or so, we hear a gunshot off in the distance, and the third has a truck dragging a horse corpse to the big hole. The man shoved the horse corpse into the grave, and takes three innings to bury the horse.

    At the team huddle after the game, one of my teammates said an eulogy for the horse.










  • I’m the one who posted the Lynn Conway article in Technology and, as a trans person, the pronoun use in the article immediately stuck out to me as archaic, but at the time of posting there were few other news articles about her passing available. I was hoping that by acknowledging that the pronoun use in the article (for at least somewhat justifiable reasons in this case) not being in line with modern reporting that we could move past that and keep the comments more on topic for the community it was posted in. No luck. But, of the comments I saw, even the ones that had bad takes, none seemed actively transphobic - they just lacked an understanding of how respectful and not confusing reporting on trans people could be done.

    It’s the Lia Thomas discussions that turned into a dumpster fire and in some cases had to be locked. :/