ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]

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Cake day: April 16th, 2025

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  • Shutting down DIA honestly sounds like a plus to me, genuinely my least favorite airport fuck that place.

    It’s a nightmare to navigate, finding your gate takes forever and finding the exit is impossible.

    It’s obvious the place was built pre-TSA because TSA is set up in a big like, lobby area that was very obviously intended to be an open space with no barricades. It’s been over 20 years and it still looks like they just temporarily set up in there for an event.

    Driving into it sucks. Driving out of it sucks. The signage is terrible and the roads are confusing.

    It’s surprisingly far from Denver, it takes like 45 minutes to drive to the city from there, plus people frequently fly there to go to any other city on the east side of Colorado because the flights are way cheaper than to COS which is the only other major airport, but DIA is on the north east side of Denver making it super annoying to go anywhere else. If you look at a map it’s almost like the city of Denver is holding the airport away from the other cities on I-25 and going “Nuh-uh it’s mine you can’t have it”

    The stupid giant blue horse statue with glowing red eyes as you drive in

    (TSA falling apart is very bad, I just wanted to rant about the Denver airport)







  • Here’s a hot take: Every death in any sort of detention center is homicide, and has someone who can and should be blamed and have charges filed against them. Every single one. If you can’t find someone directly responsible, the warden is responsible.

    If someone dies of a heart attack in prison at age 80, why did you still have a sick 80 year old in the prison? Who made that decision? The warden? The parole board? They killed that man.

    If someone slips and falls down the stairs and cracks their head, who designed the staircase? Who’s in charge of maintenance? Why weren’t there covers to block sharp corners? Why was the floor made of concrete that can kill you instantly instead of carpet? Whoever made those choices killed that man, finding those people might be hard though so I’d just shift the blame to the warden.

    Someone dying of any medical condition in prison is by definition murder by medical neglect. Like, even in the most generous case, like let’s say Jeffrey Dahmer lived to 90 and was dying of cancer, by the time they’re close to death they should be moved to hospice care, a hospital, or house arrest, because what is someone who’s weeks away from dying of cancer going to do to anyone?

    Obviously if a guard beats someone to death that’s the guard who should be charged. But let’s say someone’s stabbed by a fellow inmate? That’s the warden’s fault again. Why did they have something to do a stabbing with, and more importantly why did they feel the need to stab someone? If you’re taking care of your prisoners needs properly they won’t be stabbing each other.

    I cannot think of a death inside a prison or other type of detention facility that should not be prosecuted as murder. Maybe a sudden brain aneurism? Maybe?






  • https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30581-4/fulltext https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7656150/

    I looked at these two papers, one in the Journal of Adolescent Health and one in Journal of Medical Ethics. I also only realized halfway through writing this that they’re written by the same researchers.

    They’re mostly discussing the ethics of granting the requests of non-binary adults to continue puberty blockers, I mostly looked through for the potential physical effects, which are as follows:

    Reduced bone density is the biggest worry, testosterone or estrogen are needed for proper bone density, which is why post-menopausal women get osteoporosis.

    You’d get taller than would otherwise be expected, because the growth plates wouldn’t fuse as normal.

    Impaired sexual functioning, in particular if you have a vagina it could start to atrophy which doesn’t sound great.

    You’re correct that you wouldn’t need to shave.

    They never really describe what would happen appearance-wise aside from saying it could “impact chances of finding a romantic partner” which along with the other things so this is my interpretation based on what they said and what I already know:

    Low muscle mass, more “child-like” fat distribution, rounder face, no facial hair and little body hair, thinner hair, narrower shoulders, and obviously no secondary sexual characteristics like prominent Adam’s Apple or breasts or things of that nature.