Friday Ephemera
“Equitable Vaseline.” || Lost and found (or, Your Mother Must Never Hear Of This). || She’s explaining who she is, you see. || Nipping of note. || Oddly, it didn’t catch on. || And this beast from the 80s also failed to find a market. || Hell’s kitchen. || Conflict resolution. || I laughed and I’m not sorry. || Hers is bigger than yours. || Getting rid of the body is always the tricky part. || I’ll need a keyboard and some mashed potato. || A project for the weekend. || Shopping mall scenes. || The jeans of Joan Collins, 1981. || Jupiter rotating in real time. || And it ain’t a reward either. || How to tie a scarf. || Question asked. || Neighbours not welcome. || What ‘activists’ do. || Crime-fighting crisis. || And finally, how to impress your friends with interacting vortices.
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“I curse cuz I’m grown”
Doubtful.
To save anyone who cares the time listening to the entire podcast, here is the relevant segment where the interviewer, Alex Blumberg, asks the trans man subject, Griffin Hansbury, about the effects of getting testosterone injections:
Alex Blumberg:
Are there other ways– other than the visual and other than the libidinal[covered previously in the segment], are there other ways that you feel like testosterone has altered the way you feel or perceive?
Griffin Hansbury
Something that happened after I started taking testosterone, I became interested in science. I was never interested in science before.
Alex Blumberg
No way. Come on. Are you serious?
Griffin Hansbury
I’m serious. I’m serious.
Alex Blumberg
You’re just setting us back a hundred years, sir.
Griffin Hansbury
I know I am. I know. Again– and I have to have this caveat in here– I cannot say it was the testosterone. All I can say is that this interest happened after T. There’s BT and AT, and this was definitely after T. And I became interested in science. I found myself understanding physics in a way I never had before.
(Transcript is here. Page search on [act two])
P.S. How does one get out of comment Preview? Entire hecatombs are filled with those who have gooned up html. I don’t want to be one of them. However, unless I am missing something, the only way out of preview is previous page, which loses the comment. Thankfully, I copied before backing out. But that doesn’t keep html.
It’s almost as if you like filling hecatombs.
Jeff: after previewing your comment, you should have two buttons under it, Post and Edit. (Same way as before you preview, you have Post and Preview.) You don’t have those?
Jeff: after previewing your comment, you should have two buttons under it, Post and Edit.
It sounds like Jeff ran into the same problem that I saw recently: When a comment is long enough, the Post and Preview buttons disappear. My solution in that situation was to study the Preview to see if everything looked good. Then I would Refresh the page, which would return me to the Edit dialog. Then I could click Post, confident that the comment would look right.
It’s also possible that the problem can be avoided by using browser’s Zoom feature to shrink down to, say, 50%, but I’m not confident of that at all.
Also: “when a comment is long enough” seems to have to do with vertical space, both number of lines of text and vertical space occupied by images.
Also: I am not seeing that problem right now. It’s possible that this is because I cold-booted and started my browser without restoring a saved set of tabs, but I have no confidence that this is the reason.