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  hello fedi it's time for a gender linguistics survey! here is a scenario: a person who was assigned female at birth comes out as trans, calls himself a man, adopts a male name with he/him pronouns, takes testosterone for a few years, experiences significant masculinization, stops for reasons unspecified, starts using a female name with she/her pronouns, calls herself a woman, and begins taking concrete steps to refeminize in your understanding, this person is:

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  RE: https://zeroes.ca/@croissant/116961045434819905 a transgender person is someone whose gender identity does not match the gender they were assigned at birth. conversely a cisgender person is someone who identifies with the gender assigned to them at birth. someone who was assigned female and identifies as such is cisgender, specifically cisfeminine. that is the correct answer to the question posed in the quoted post. there is no nuance. this person is most certainly not (and could never pos...

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  covid advocates are doing themselves a disservice by making outlandish claims like "covid isn't over" or "catching covid makes you sick" or "long covid is bad" or "doctors have a long history of motivated denial of airborne transmission" or "vaccines help" or "masks work" or "clean air is healthy" or "viruses are real"

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  it's airborne btw

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  UNMASKED IDIOTS GAWKING AT MY ELASTOMERIC AS IF THAT'S THE MOST REMARKABLE THING THEY'VE SEEN TODAY AND NOT THE BLANKET OF SMOKE SO THICK IT SMELLS LIKE YOU'RE STANDING RIGHT ABOVE A CHARCOAL BARBECUE COOKING A DELICIOUS MEAL

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  if encouraging people to wear masks isn't working, maybe we should discourage them instead? "you can't handle an N95. it's too powerful for you." "i haven't been sick since 2019. it's not for the faint of heart." "i keep having to pick up slack for my sick colleagues. it's unenviable." "you couldn't handle doing something that others disapprove of. turn back before it&#3...

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  The Ontario SARS Commission's Final Report should be required reading for anyone with the misfortune of living somewhere where Bonnie Henry is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

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  Are you a COVID cautious person looking to hire a software developer (or someone for a similar role) in Canada? Because I'm looking to #GetFediHired for exactly that, and I know #CovidIsNotOver. Are you SICK AND TIRED of watching your colleagues constantly get SICK while progressively getting more TIRED from it? What about those careless mistakes that keep piling up? Not a problem for me because I don't mess with airborne viruses, especially not those which cause brain damage! I...

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  "SARS is not airborne." — Bonnie Henry, 2003 "Unlike SARS, COVID-19 is not airborne." — Bonnie Henry, 2020 "Unlike COVID-19, Hantavirus is not airborne." — Bonnie Henry, 2026

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  Them: COVID is here to stay! Me: Gotcha, assume it's omnipresent given rates of asymptomatic spread while I continue steadfastly refusing to join the nihilists. [Later…] Them: AI is here to stay! Me: Gotcha, assume that everyone around me is happily faking everything they do while I continue steadfastly refusing to join the nihilists.

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  God forbid someone doesn't want to get sick.

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  Everyone in 2022: Now that we've been vaccinated, let's return to the same socioeconomic conditions that allowed COVID to become widespread in the first place! Everyone in 2024: Why is everyone suddenly so sick all the time? Everyone in 2026: My doctor says it's normal for kids to be sick more often than not. We're building our immune systems! I had my third heart attack after my 37th birthday party last month.