Jess Shand Smith

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Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· 9d

@transgenderhistory.bsky.social Went down a bit of a rabbit hole learning about Kutkh the Kamchatkan Raven god and came across this

Wood carving of Kutkh, northeast Asian raven god, made by Koryak artisans of Kamchatka. He is a chubby guy with a big beak and slightly grumpy expression. He is wearing what looks to be a representation of a traditional embroidered Kamchatkan parka-dress. He has little beads on his head.

Text reads:
Religion

In Chukchi religion, every object, whether
animate or inanimate, is assigned a spirit.
This spirit can be either harmful or
benevolent. Some of Chukchi myths reveal a
dualistic cosmology.[12][13] A Chukchi shaman
once explained to the ethnographer Vladimir
Bogoraz that "The lamp walks around. The
walls of the house have voices of their own. ...
Even the shadows on the wall constitute
definite tribes and have their own country
where they live in huts and subsist by
hunting."[11] During Chukchi rituals, shamans
fall into trances (sometimes with the aid of
hallucinogenic mushrooms), communicate
with spirits, allow the spirits to speak through
them, predict the future and cast spells.9

Early Russian ethnographers observed that
Chukchi shamans were said to be called by
spirits, dreams, or omens, and were believed
to be capable of flight, exorcism, and healing,
Some shamans were called by mystical
forces to engage in a form of ritualized
homosexual relations with other men. This
ritual typically involved a gender change
through a religious ceremony that, it was
believed, transformed his genitalia into that of
a female. After the change, he might dress in
women's clothing and behave in feminine
ways. He was then believed to "lose'
masculine traits like hunting skill, and instead
take on "feminine" traits, like healing and
nurturina. Some of these shamans would take
male lovers, and could even marry other men,
and the shaman would take on a "wifely'
role.[14][15]

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· 29d

Genuinely thought this was a reply until I realised it was consecutive timeline posts I thought "why are they being so mean"

Two consecutive posts from the timeline. The first an arty black and white angled shot of city skyline. Taken by Emily Zhou.

The second Black Aziz Anansi posting "Everything used to have a lot more color. What happened?"

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 11

A 1950s looking comic cell with a teenage blond couple dancing. They sure are dressed swell for the hop, her in a blue letterman sweater and grey skirt, and him in a red suit and tie. Musical notes shimmy in the air.

"Let's get high!" She says smiling widely
"And deny Christ!" He replies enthusiastically

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 3

Cover of the original Warhammer 40k rogue traders
Blue armoured space marines (Crimson Fists) firing bolters in all directions in what is presumably a last stand again the barbaric orks

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 1

The classic trans "look what the left has done to our men - 2016 saddest man alive -2023 most beautiful woman you've ever met" meme, but the man is replaced with the bowl cut sporting, grey, dumpy immature secretary Bird, and the woman is replaced with the white feathered, ochre faced long eyelashed adult secretary bird which always looks like it's serving absolute cu..

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 1

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jun 26

Classic @roryisconfused.bsky.social tweet

Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused tweet:

Fascinated by those magazines you see in supermarkets called like Take a Break!' and That's Life!' where thev have these happy bright fonts and 7 headlines that all describe the kind of story that a Doestoevsky character tells another to try to make them stop believing in God

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· May 17

A block printed image of Yuri Gargarin in his helmet and space suit.
The text printed in a stencil font reads on Russian:
ПРОСТИ НАС, ЮРА! МЫ ВСЁ ПРОЕБАЛИ!

This means:
Forgive us Yuri! We lost everything [threw it all away]

(Apologies I don't know who the original artist is)

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· May 9

Patrick Stewart in the 1979 BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy He doesn't speak, he's handcuffed to the desk, and he absolutely dominates a scene where the other actor is Alec Guinness!

4 panel of shoys of Patrick Stewart as karla in the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The first 3 are headsets with a ragged beard and piercing facial expressions. The last is him in an interrogation room handcuffed to the table opposite Alec Guinness's Smiley

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· May 1

Shelf label seen in a charity shop reading:
DIE CUTTING STUFF
and stamping

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Apr 28

Yay more graphs!

Reform uk leaflet this time. Same graph. Same faux handwriting.

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Apr 17

incidentally, with the numbers given, the proportions on the tory graph should look like

Corrected version of graph from tory leaflet showing tories much further from SNP and labour (and the others) much closer to tories

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Apr 17

This week in unitless party political leaflet graphs

Three different party political leaflets (labour, lib dems and tory) for Edinburgh central, all basically showing the same unitless graph but with their party second to the snp.
Labour: SCOTLAND NEEDS CHANGE Only labour can beat the SNP here. don't risk giving them a third decade.
Tory: Every PEACH BALLOT for the Scottish Conservatives in Edinburgh and Lothians East helps block the SNP candidates being elected on the party list. Just look at the result last time.
Lib dem: In Edinburgh, the Lib dems are the clear challengers to the SNP. [Then in a script font that frankly looks awful with a cheesy faux marker? painted? arrow to their bar on the graph]: The liberal Democrats are the second biggest party on Edinburgh Council after the SNP

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Apr 14

Sheldon from the "and friends" portion of the hit TV show garfield and friends. He is portrayed as an egg with chicken legs protruding through cracked holes in the lower shell. He stands before a field of flowers.

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Apr 4

Kurt van Houten's boss at his desk, caption reads "I don't recall saying dignity"

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Apr 2

Distorted magazine spread where the misaligned headline appears to read "Who blons a dumb de now?"

Tweet from Glenn Moore (@TheNewsAtGlenn) reads "Who blons a dumb de now, eh? WHO BLONS A DUMB DE NOW?

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Mar 19

Pulpy comic book image of a short haired red headed young woman with pearl cluster earings, a pleated blouse and a feminine bow tie. The comic cell is surrounded by shock lines. Horrified she says "MEN! OH, NO! I COULDN'T---"

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Feb 2

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Dec 16

Roman dodecahedron
It is made of bronze, each face has a different size hole, each corner has a small sphere attached

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Nov 29

Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.

Leader-1 from the Go-bots

Is it Gobots? Go Bots? I dunno

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Nov 27

Послушайте @bloodwork.show

Soviet propaganda poster, red black 2 colour printing technique: a drawing of a young women in a red polka dot top, a dark skirt and a white headscarf with red stripes at end. She stands in front of a silhouette factory-scape and holds out an early 20th century rifle with a bayonet attached.

The text reads: "РАБОТНИЦЫ. БЕРИТЕ ВИНТОВКУ!"

Trans: "WORKERS(feminine). PICK UP YOUR RIFLES!"

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Oct 16

www.shetlanddialect.org.uk/john-j-graha... Skories

A juvenile herring gull standing on a lawn looking grumpy. It is speckled grey and brown with a dark beak

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Sep 21

Still from the classic Scottish health education anti heroin ad "Yer only smoking it"
The still shows the young man poised on the life altering decision that drives the plot, a lit lighter held out to him
The caption has been changed to "Aye! Transphobia. Just a wee tweet. Yer only posting it"

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Aug 3

Sorry I can't remember where I found this or find the original artist

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 29

I already did!

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 27

Less so as the 20th century goes on

Britain in year hare affair, a wee bull with a ring through his nose (not well pictured here) and a union flag on his chest

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 27

A fascinating watch is "Year Hare Affair"* which is a Chinese propaganda-ish cartoon mostly about Chinese history with other countries in the 20th century. The different countries are represented by different animals and America is a little fat bald eagle

The assorted characters from Year Hare Affair, China represented by a little rabbit in a mao hat, America is a wee bald eagle, Russia a bear etc

America / Americans as represented in Year Hare Affair, he is a wee fat bald eagle

China and the Soviet Union as represented in Year Hare Affair, they are a wee rabbit in a mao cap and a bear with a red hammer and sickle on his chest respectively

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jul 8

if you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "star trek", "star wars", "dr who", or "transformers"

Maintenence drone 02 from the sci fi film Silent Running. He is roughly trapezoid with aesthetics that are somehow a cross between an eighties scooter and a flymo. His 2 squat legs extend from the corners of his casing with the grace of a duck on land. His manipulator arm extends from his body and holds 3 playing cards. Poker chips rest on a space-table in front of him.

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jun 29

Even if we adjust our figures to 99% Sensitivity the FPR stays about the same. Add 99% Specificity and your FPR only improves to 67%. That's at 99% accuracy, you're still excluding approx 2 cis women for every trans woman.

The grid now showing:
True positives 495
False negatives 5
False positive 995
True negative 98505
Sensitivity, Specificity and Accuracy 99%
Positive predictive value 33.22%
False positive rate 66.78%

Jess Shand Smith@jdshandsmith· Jun 29

Positive predictive value is how likely a positive test result is to represent a patient with the condition (true positives divided by true positives plus false positives) and in our example that's 475 out of 5450 positive tests which is....oh no....oh shit...8.7%