Oxahath (He/Him)

@oxahath

Programmer | Pro-Science | Left Wing America has no kings If a politician will sacrifice trans people for political expediency, they'll sacrifice you too some day.

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Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 15

I love that this is the anecdote he opens with and then concludes "we are in a civil war" because a lady had the most middle-of-the-road boundary. Like, she's not even against all Republicans! What are you doing, man?

An excerpt from an op-ed from an old Republican complaining he can't get laid because of politics. The quote reads as follows:

“I never asked you about your political views. I have no problem with Republicans, but if you are a MAGA Republican, it would be difficult for us to develop a friendship."

Wow. That comment threw me for a loop, but it made me reflect on the bitter divisions within the country. It is literally a civil war.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 15

The profile gets even better.

A post from ladyamelia1.bsky.social supporting AI Datacenters. The post reads as follows:

"Ai isn’t hurting anyone and the existence of ai datacenters isn’t harmful, no one is being harmed by ai or datacenters just like how data centers don’t 'steal' land the people who build them bought the land they are built on legally"

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 14

There is a tiresome back-and-forth you can look up if you want to. But I think this attitude is an example of what's wrong with dem messaging. Those people who feel strongly that trans kids shouldn't be in sports? Yeah, they're never voting for you. Stop chasing them. They are not "gettable"

A quote-post with participant names redacted. The first post reads "Aren't trans girl athletes basically a 'glonzo situation,' in the parlance of our times? It's a phenomenon that barely exists yet a bizarre number of Americans have been convinced it's a problem. And per glonzo thinking, politicians should go along, yes?"

The second post is a quote-post of the first and reads "You're not going to educate the 19% of Americans who haven't made up their minds or the 66% who disagree with you by pretending AB Hernandez & Lia Thomas don't exist."

The second post also includes a picture of a trans athletes who won some stuff as well as a graph showing that pew research surveys show many people are opposed to trans children playing in the correct leagues.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 14

This is a non-issue being brought up by bad-faith actors looking to use it as an entry-point into their larger quest to ban trans healthcare and trans social acceptance on all levels. Even treating their concerns as reasonable gives them a credibility they don't deserve.

An excerpt from an article from freedomforallamericans.org about trans participation in sports. The text reads as follows:

"
An evidence-based answer looks like this:

There is no comprehensive count of transgender athletes across all sports and levels

In the NCAA, leadership has described fewer than 10 known transgender athletes among roughly 510,000 participants

At the high school level, 3.3% of students identify as transgender, but athlete participation cannot be directly inferred

Research suggests transgender people participate in sport and fitness at lower rates than the general population in at least some contexts

In elite sport, participation is rare and highly dependent on federation-specific rules

Any claim beyond that requires estimation, inference, or advocacy framing. Clear labeling matters.
"

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 14

I've pulled out some relevant passages from the article you clearly didn't read. On one hand you have some anecdotes about a vanishingly small number of people in one US state. On the other hand, we have peer-reviewed scientific studies. Who can say who has better evidence, really?

An excerpt from a Forbes article about how trans girls in sports have no advantage. The text reads as follows:

"
Significant Findings:

Transgender women performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lower-body strength.

Transgender women performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lung function.

Transgender women had a higher percentage of fat mass, lower fat-free mass, and weaker handgrip strength compared to cisgender men.

Transgender women’s bone density was found to be equivalent to that of cisgender women, which is linked to muscle strength.

There were no meaningful differences found between the two groups’ hemoglobin profiles. Hemoglobin (Hb) plays a crucial role in athletic performance by facilitating improved oxygen delivery to muscles. Elite endurance athletes may exhibit up to a 40% higher level of Hb compared to untrained individuals. Moreover, heightened levels of Hb typically correlate with enhanced aerobic performance.

Similar findings have been echoed in previous reporting. According to a recent report that generated an in-depth review of all English-language scientific literature (published between 2011-2021) about transgender (trans) women athlete participation in elite sport, several key conclusions coincide with findings from the IOC funded study, including:"

The second part of an excerpt from a Forbes article about how trans girls in sports have no advantage. The text reads as follows:

"
Similar findings have been echoed in previous reporting. According to a recent report that generated an in-depth review of all English-language scientific literature (published between 2011-2021) about transgender (trans) women athlete participation in elite sport, several key conclusions coincide with findings from the IOC funded study, including:

Biomedical factors such as lung size, bone density, and hip-to-knee joint angle (q-angle) are not indicative of athletic prowess.

Testosterone levels do not predict athletic performance or overall athleticism.

Conversely, social elements such as nutrition, training regimen, and equipment accessibility significantly influence an athlete's performance, but are frequently disregarded in policy formulation.

It's imperative to integrate both biomedical and social scientific insights into policy-making processes. However, there's a tendency to prioritize biomedical research excessively, which can compromise the overall well-being of athletes.
"

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 11

Just for posterity, a couple minutes after posting this guy came around to lecture us all on popularity and who even cares about a dumb Nazi tattoo anyway? He didn't appreciate the lack of respect his copy/pasted arguments were getting, apparently. fyi: I don't care how popular the nazi rapist is

A rant from a user named justignoreme3.bsky.social about how, actually, Platner was popular and what even is a Totenkopf anyway?

His two posts read as follows:

"What the tattoo-outrage crowd doesn't get is he was wildly popular in Maine. He connected very well with voters. He held 80+ town halls, screened no questions & answered them all plainly. No one wins anything with 70% of the vote but he won the

primary with 72% and with the highest turnout in history. He was a fucking unicorn but instead of trying to harness that energy you'd rather insult them. Blue no matter who unless it's someone with a tattoo you don't understand. It's pathetic."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 10

Do you find Cornell a compelling source? www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation

A section of the Cornell law article on the tort of defamation, of which slander and liable are both parts. It reads as follows:
"To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 10

Arguing with someone about Platner and this person seriously offered this as a defense. What are we even doing here? Yes, I would expect someone to know what that is. I would *especially* expect someone running for *national office* to at least figure it out beforehand.

A redacted post that a Platner defender made in response to me. The text reads as follows:

"Do you really consider that Death's Head to be something the average 20-something in the 1990s knows as a Nazi symbol? I don't. If he did, that's worse, of course. But he was also drunk and with PTSD. I am willing to believe people can change."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 10

"I'm just having fun watching you idiots" - a statement made by people who definitely are not having fun but want to pretend otherwise.

A tweet from @dril. It is commonly referenced to indicate that the poster does not believe someone's protestations of being "totally not bothered." It reads as follows:

""im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob"

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jul 7

I think there's no better way to understand what's happening to games right now than via @edzitron.com 's concept of the "Rot Economy." www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ... Microsoft gobbled up half the industry with no plan, vision, or even understanding of the market. This is the result.

The first two paragraphs from an article titled "The Rot Economy" published by Ed Zitron on Feb 9, 2023. The text reads as follows:

"At the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private investors, along with the markets themselves, have become entirely decoupled from the concept of what “good” business truly is, focusing on one metric — one truly noxious metric — over all else: growth.

“Growth” in this case is not necessarily about being “bigger” or “better,” it is simply “more.” It means that the company is generating more revenue, higher valuations, gaining more market share, and then finding more ways to generate these things. Businesses are expected to be - and rewarded for being - eternal burning engines of capital that create more and more shareholder value while, hopefully, providing a service to a customer in the process. In the public markets, that means that companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft were rewarded for having unfocused, capital-intensive businesses that required mass layoffs when times got tough, because the market loved the idea that they’d found a way to save money. They weren’t punished for their poor planning, their stagnating products, their mismanagement of human capital, or their general lack of any real innovation because the numbers kept going up."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· May 27

People like Will have to pretend not to understand how losing your job, even a very good job, can leave you broke in record time in America because if they admitted this is the case they'd have to deal with the fact that it can't be blamed entirely on MAGA.

A post from Will Stancil quoting a user explaining how having a large paycheck (comparatively) doesn't remove feelings of anxiety and depression. The text of the post reads:

"There's no nice way to say this but this is something closer to a mental health crisis than an actual economic or political outlook. Someone who is admittedly doing well for themselves, in the wealthiest generation in history, and experiencing this kind of garment-rending despair and resentment"

There are a lot more posts after this in the thread but it's all stupid so I will not elaborate here.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Apr 21

Not to deny that the American electorate is fucked up. But it always amazes *me* how establishment dems seem to think that someone can be the face of the party for four+ years and not have any particular responsibility for that party's electoral outcomes.

A screenshot of a bluesky post whose authorship has been obscured. It reads as follows.

"Online idiots changing 'Biden had one job -- to stop a second Trump term.'

No, that was the voters' job. Amazes me how any citizen of a democracy can deny the whole premise of democracy. Opportunists exploit this rejection of responsibility. Hence the market for authoritarians on left and right."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Apr 9

I can't say I know "the other side" of this in detail, but I recognize the pattern. Once they convince themselves that someone is sufficiently evil they just start throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. It's sociopathic and also classic MAGA behavior.

A picture of a character with a crazed look in their eyes in front of a stereotypical "conspiracy board" with papers and strings and writing everywhere.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Apr 2

One of my favorite posts (which I can't find right now) was just this picture with the caption "Marcus Aurelius had freed you of your need to have a Take."

A quote from the book "The Meditations" by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It reads as follows.

"You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Mar 9

Democrats seriously have the worst political instincts imaginable. Your enemy makes a mistake? Better jump in there and help him brainstorm a solution. It's just the neighborly thing to do.

A screen capture of CNN's live feed for the current war with Iran. The headline is "Top Senate Democrat calls on Trump to tap US strategic oil reserve to lower prices"

The article is by Piper Hudspeth Blackburn

The article is headed by an image of Democrat Chuck Schumer. The caption of the image is: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 24.
Annabelle Gordon/Reuters"

Only the first paragraph of the article is shown and reads " Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on President Donald Trump to tap into the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world’s largest stockpile of emergency oil, in an effort to lower energy prices amid the war in Iran."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Mar 8

Just posting for posterity because it's hilarious. I guess the posts about Zuck's Pervert Goggles hit a nerve.

A picture of the previous exchange prior to blocking. The quoted post is from Mike Jones at BrainFizz Labs (moike.brainfizz.net) and reads as follows.

"Come at me. Reach for them on my face while I'm wearing the Ray Bans or Vanguards. I wish a motherfucker would.

"You'll quickly find out I'm a Sociopath with total emotional disconnect who enjoys teachable moments.

"Everybody owns a smartphone with a camera. And this gets the kneejerk reaction."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Mar 5

This is typical of AI maximalists. They are super impressed with the abilities of AI but, if you listen to them talk, they reveal that they're actually just kind of incompetent. An abstract is not a difficult concept to grasp and a good abstract *should* be intelligible to a bright middle schooler

I picture of a post whose author I have chosen to redact as I'm not looking to pick a fight with them personally. The post reads:

"Today I did an interview about AI rejection among creatives with a girl studying it in 6th grade. She read my pre-print abstract. I didn't know what an abstract was until I was like 38. I still don't really"

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Mar 5

ChatGPT is 3 years old. No one was still talking about Smart Phones like this in 2010. The Internet itself grew more slowly, but, still, you didn't see this sort of defensive ranting about it in the early 90s. If a product is useful, you do not have to do this. A good product stands on its own.

A picture of a post from a user calling themselves "Why" with the handle "why.bsky.team." They are a core developer of the bluesky app.

The post reads as follows:

"Oh interesting, people who don't know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute.

Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink."

The post ends.

Notably, comments have been disabled because despite how deeply this individual feels about the topic, he is clearly too emotionally-delicate to discuss it with detractors. I'm sure this has no implications for the quality of his arguments though, so don't worry about it.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 26

A meme by u/DistressedPuppy on Reddit

The picture of a meme. It shows three pictures of the same young man who I think is famous but I'm old and tired so leave me alone about it. The young man is holding his hands out near waist level in a very nonchalant manner. There are four lines of text which are as follows.

1: You are "afraid for your life" while at work?

2: You chose to be a nazi for a job

3: I don't care about your life

4: Eat shit

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 25

The bots over on r/conservative show what the marching orders are now. He was arming himself to "interfere"with ICE agents. That the ICE agents approached *him* rather than the other way around is irrelevant. But even in the comments there are people going "I dunno about this..."

A picture of a post on r/conservative. It says a lot of stupid horseshit but to sum up: ICE is just poor babies trying to do their job getting rid of the dirty immigrants and the mean old VA nurse deliberately interfered with them.

This is wrong, of course. But that's never stopped conservatives before and it's not going to stop them now.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 24

Want to see what "the establishment" wants to happen? Take a look at bots like this one. Fresh accounts fedposting in popular threads about how peaceful protest is useless and reposting the most emotional takes from around the site. This is how you try to start a riot in the digital age.

Picture of someone fedposting about peaceful protest not working in a reply to Will Stancil. The two posts are as follows.

Will Stancil: "All MN Protesters. Absolutely nothing could be worse for our casue than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it."

theonlygoodbug.bsky.social: "Peaceful protest does not and has never worked. Its clearly done nothing in Minnesota considering ICE is murdering citizens in broad daylight now with no repercussions."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 23

Bundle up, Minneapolis. We'll outlast the bastards but for that you'll need to watch your health.

A picture of weather.gov's extended forecast for Minneapolis MN covering the current moment through Friday night.

From when the picture was taken (approximately 11:55pm CST Jan 22) there is an extreme cold warning through 12:00 PM Jan 23. The low on Jan 22 is -19 degrees Fahrenheit. 12:00pm through 12:00am CST on Jan 23 there is a cold weather advisory. For Jan 23, the high is predicted at -9 degrees Fahrenheit and the low at -13 degrees Fahrenheit.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 23

I wonder when the Federal investigation into how these family's religious observances are being obstructed will start. www.reddit.com/r/daddit/com...

A selection from a reddit post where a man describes his interaction with children in hiding from ICE. The quoted text is as follows.

" They told me ICE was watching their church. They can't go to church in person anymore and are instead doing their confirmation classes and "attending" church services online.

They and their siblings haven't been outside in two weeks.

They shared with me that this is the norm among their friends. Middle schoolers should be having fun and should be being socially awkward together. Instead, they are hiding in dark apartments listening to shouting, sirens, and whistles wondering who is being taken and if they will be back. Wondering if their mom is going to get home from work safely. Wondering if their friends are going to disappear.

They also shared they believe in the USA and that they don't think this situation will last. The 12 year old, in spite of all that happened to them, was still positive about how things were going to turn out. They were amazing. "

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 22

I love bluesky. You just need to post that you'd really appreciate even a symbolic stand against ICE and some of the dimmest bulbs in the liberal firmament will show up and get mad at you about it. This exchange was kind of funny (to me, ymmv). I did, indeed, get blocked for this response.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 21

So, this is all unimaginably stupid. But I do love the detail that someone has clearly told him that Norway doesn't control the Nobel Prize and ol'pudding-brain over here is just, like, "nuh-uh." This has to be the stupidest way an Empire has come to an end.

A picture of an X post by Conservative publication The Bulwark. The tweet reads "trump: 'I lost a lot of respect for Norway, and I believe very strongly that Norway controls the Nobel Prize. You have to understand I settled eight wars. No president has probably ever settled one war.'"

Below the text is a thumbnail preview of a short video of Trump speaking. As usual, Trump looks like a corpse left out in the sun that someone sprayed orange makeup on. Somewhat notable in that this picture it kind of looks like he's also in the process of picking his nose. Not really the more important part of this whole thing, but I found it funny. The fucker would hate to know there's a bad picture of him going around.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 16

I know you are either a bot or a bored sociopath and don't care. But for anyone looking for evidence that being pro-ICE is political and social poison:

A nationwide poll of registered voters from navigator research that shows the feelings towards ICE. For the sake of bevity I will be listing the "favorable" opinion only, but the "don't know" band is between 3 and 10 for all of them.

Overall: 37% Favorable
Democrats: 8% Favorable
Independents: 28% Favorable
Republicans: 70% Favorable

Black: 16% Favorable
Hispanic: 28% Favorable
White: 43% Favorable
Asians and Pacific Islanders: 33% Favorable.

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 16

Look, is this person a bot? Almost certainly. Was I ever going to change their mind? Nope. But sometimes it feels good to express the contempt I have for people who think this way. They were born as a member of a free people but yearn for the lash of the whip.

A picture of a dialog between Oxahath (me) and someone who is probably just a bot but you never know, calling themselves vaporcatalyst.

Oxahath: "But more broadly, ICE isn't acting as law enforcement. It's grabbing people at random, refusing to check their papers, and even selling their possessions while they're in custody. This is to say nothing of their murder of Good and throwing a flash-bang into a passing car."

vaporcatalyst.bsky.social: "I appreciate the dialog. I was never being obtuse on purpose. I was trying to hint that if they perform something illegal they lose the immunity. I am a software engineer and all this has taught me is to join ICE in that capacity."

Oxahath: "Then you're a moral monster. I live here. I see what they're doing. They're violent, poorly-trained clowns. Assuming you aren't a bot and actually do join ICE I just want to take the opportunity to say that you're a contemptible and servile person and unworthy of the freedoms given to you."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Jan 14

A meme of the characters Gimli and Legolas from Lord of the Rings.

Gimli: "I never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with Will Stancil"

Legolas: "What about with a neighbor?"

Gimli: "Aye. I could do that."

Oxahath (He/Him)@oxahath· Sep 13

Believe it or not, he had some thoughts on Muslims too.