alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

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

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

scott survey: "Have there been times that you felt that a group of people was plotting to cause you serious harm or injury?"
me: ...
me: ...
me: yossarian.jpg

(there are lots of forms of nonmonogamy people try where you awkwardly avoid your partner having contact with the fact you are hooking up with people and that you like and sometimes fall in love with them, i feel like these are probably doomed to failure)

given that as it scales up poly becomes less of a thing you decide to mutually explore with your partner and more of a phase transition that happens to your community and sucks anybody who's open to it in well, i think this is going to become a Discourse

poly as a legitimate way to do long term relationships is *very* unpopular among mono people: eg
https://ifstudies.org/blog/national-survey-reveals-generational-differences-in-consensual-nonmonogamy-

i find poly activism hammering on this point pretty cheesy but it's worth pointing out that to people who aren't around poly couples it's like ... not obvious at a gut level

worth pointing out that the mainstream view (esp system 1) of poly genuinely is the same way conservatives view gay people (mostly hedonism and without any real emotional depth) and as this perception changes wouldn't be surprised if it became *a lot* more mainstream.