alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

in that like a decent chunk of the pro-hell faction is like 'hey it's important that people are able to choose to reject god because of Free Will' and the anti-hell people are like '??? but why'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism
i didnt realise this was a thing apparently christianity is less terrible than i thought

looking through people's debates on these things i feel like they need to talk to more atheists

"queering the randos in my dms asking for nudes/ randos in my dms asking for math advice binary" was enough of a banger it's now my bio

but given we've built the most elaborate honeytrap imaginable to catch people who'd try this sort of thing and have had very few bad experiences (mostly people pushed too early it seems) i am not inclined to handwring too hard

well ok, most of us aren't suggesting it as an idea
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RT @Aella_Girl
probably there are some people who aren't "trans" in the sense they don't have the gender identity corresponding to the opposite sex, but still might want to transition because it would improve their life, and if this is true then I think they should go for it
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1610375166147575808

these people ... seem well in the middle of the bell curve as eggs go?

is it better or worse to suggest this explicitly or put enough similar/relevant ideas into the cultural water supply so that it becomes really obvious and then quietly pretend it isn't happening

lol. lmao
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RT @unherd
"'Transmaxxing' is a subculture of young men who embrace trans identities not because they believe they were ‘born in the wrong body’ but simply because they can" | @moveincircles https://unherd.com/thepost/why-are-incels-turning-themselves-into-girls/
https://twitter.com/unherd/status/1610946760926437376

im a bad person for this

my tongue is firmly in cheek here but i find the logic oddly compelling

how useful is 'would date a trans woman' as a cishet dating shit test?
i'm not expecting this to be a selling point but if your friend is a hotdog seller who tells his friends how gross hotdogs are it does not seem strange that you should doubt the quality of the hotdogs he sells

@w7voa
can confirm

using seifa data to get something similar in spirit (looks like the abs e.g. tries to adjust for retirees perhaps not being as poor as their income says on paper)
we clearly had a blue wall but it was nothing on this scale and well... not anymore

some pretty heavy cost of living adjustment here presumably otherwise im confused where London is

the british labor party just kind of sucks at winning in areas that are upper middle/upper income

after 2022 the coalition holds less that a quarter of seats in the top income quintile, completely different world

(source)
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RT @undertheraedar
While I'm waiting for the next round of election results, I decided to update my UK-wide 'deprivation/constituency' chart using new data.

It's up to date following the Hartlepool result, and has constituency names on the graphic this time.
https://twitter.com/undertheraedar/status/1390632762105806856

ok i hadn't quite gathered that this really does substantively affect political outcomes:
like most of australias poorest electorates are rural and are glued onto the coalition

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2022/apr/28/in-2019-inequality-was-a-big-federal-election-issue-now-its-off-the-radar
vs
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
playing around with population weighted density data in order to kill the "Australia is more ur…
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1516863903560519687

looks like he's done some shosty too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9Mbu8oVbk

turns out electric guitars can make many kinds of sound

i am unreasonably pleased that this arrangement exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFG70gFbvOg&t=0s

it's like yes stravinsky wanted to write this for metal band but they didn't exist yet so he had to settle for orchestra instead