neville park @nev@social.coop

Wasabi was very interested in the raccoon that ambled through the underbrush out back just now. I wonder if she thinks it is a cat, or what. She can probably smell that it isn't.

[…] psychological findings that highlight the similarities between men and women; psychological research on transgender and nonbinary individuals’ identities and experiences; and developmental research suggesting that the tendency to view gender/sex as a meaningful, binary category is culturally determined and malleable." 🐘

"This review describes 5 sets of empirical findings, spanning multiple disciplines, that fundamentally undermine the gender binary. These sources of evidence include neuroscience findings that refute sexual dimorphism of the human brain; behavioral neuroendocrinology findings that challenge the notion of genetically fixed, nonoverlapping, sexually dimorphic hormonal systems; […] 🐘

a nice paper i just read

"The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary." PDF: https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/daphnajoel/files/2018/07/AmPsych-Gender-Binary-2018.pdf // https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/amp0000307

Getting a LOT of spam follows from the instance weedis.life, highly recommend blocking

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🎶 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one
But the union makes us strong 🎶

Every baby skunk in #Parkdale is out tonight #dlws

the spotted lanternfly is invasive in the US but so beautiful

#MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #ArtWithPublicDomain 🐘

Ahhhhh! I found one! I found one! #CicadaWatch2019 🐘

update: I found the fork (it was in my stars, lmao) but i dont know code so i dont know how to like merge…things…or whatever…never mind i'll wait for the dev to address it

It is a weird boomerang effect where before, I felt like I had to be as MASCULINE AS POSSIBLE to be perceived as anything but, you know, this cute small girl, and now I am learning to bounce back and have longer hair if I want to and get into florals again.

Like the difference between using Google Translate and just speaking the language. Sort of.

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I have noticed I like the sound of my current voice better when I speak "higher" - it has more colour to it - but after years of unconsciously speaking lower in my old voice, it doesn't come naturally. I will just have to retrain myself, again