Transvitae plagiarizes Erin Reed’s articles using AI. Please stop posting links to that site.

Your source is a decade old. The situation has deteriorated in practice after the 2022 protests, with the regime seeing trans people as connecting with the broader Western lgbtq+ movement and so “importing harmful ideas”. Source from last year: https://uprdoc.ohchr.org/uprweb/downloadfile.aspx?filename=13540&file=EnglishTranslation

In general, it’s not that Iran recognizes “trans people”. There is no (officially allowed) trans identity. Medical and surgical transition is allowed as a way to “smooth a flaw” and assimilate into cishet-normative society. It is often applied as a way of state-sponsored conversion therapy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/middleeast/iran-transgender-surgery.html

Shin Godzilla. The atmosphere in the scientists’ room and their attitudes when one of them makes a breakthrough are almost identical to the most intense days at my job.

I switched from Spotify to Qobuz and I’ve only missed two artists in my regular mix of ~30. And for one of them only their old albums are missing, the new ones are uploaded. They probably changed labels.

Being trans correlates with being autistic, and autistic people generally appreciate directness.

The trans woman is named Lord Fanny and her focus chapter, fucking She-Man 😭

The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin.

Several disputed genocides have not made it into that list, either. Among them: the wilful lack of response against the AIDS crisis, and the current efforts to erase trans people in the US..

Political groups and LGBTQ+ identities are particularly vulnerable to having extermination efforts against us denied the description of genocide, and thus, minimized. Take a guess as to why.

This one closed a few years ago, thankfully.

Because a law is only as effective as the authorities’ will to enforce it. With police being what it usually is and a judicial body with a heavy Opus Dei presence, the ban on francoist symbols is largely unenforced.

The Jews said “never again” and the allies nodded while they transferred the queer people in concentration camps to their own prisons. Hell, according to the 1948 definition of genocide, queer people can’t suffer a genocide unless you define queer identity as a religious ideology (which is exactly what the bigots want).

Where did this pic of Pynchon come from? I was only aware of the one from his time in the military.

It’s a reference to “100 Years of Solitude”. >!When the patriarch José Arcadio Buendía dies, yellow flowers rain all over the streets of his town!<

Do you have a neighbor named Aureliano? If so, check on his family

It’s fucking everywhere in Spanish language sites. “Pay to reject cookies” is apparently legal because you have a clear way to reject the cookies, even if not free. And since they’re not in English, sometimes they’re not in the archives. I hope someone builds a strong legal case against this soon.

The way I saw it, Brolin’s subconscious was telling him that the kids had been transformed into objects at that time. The gun imagery, in-universe, comes from Brolin’s character’s toxic masculinity. Out-of-universe it reinforces the school shooting allegory.

Superman (2025). The only movie in recent years that has made me feel genuine hope towards humanity and the world.

Username checks out.

As for Weapons, when I finished it I thought, “okay movie”. Then the more I thought about it and the symbolism started clicking, the more amazed I was. I need to rewatch it with everything in mind.

The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

It looks amazing on you!