Exit Condition
On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
— Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1]
I. The Loop
In computer science, there ...
I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.
www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...
11.03.2026 16:21
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XD I found out I’d been spelling my middle name wrong when I was like 22.
11.03.2026 17:40
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@aclu.org
11.03.2026 17:35
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It will. Trans people have been saying this all along. Protect us or we all fall and the community has chosen to largely throw us under the bus.
11.03.2026 17:34
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4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans
They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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11.03.2026 16:41
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It’s okay to ship any fictional being with other fictional beings because they’re not real. If a ship makes you uncomfortable in any way, then don’t like, don’t read/look. You are responsible for your own online experience.
11.03.2026 17:28
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I get the same thing from nicotine patches. But I’ll be EXTREMELY itchy for about an hour after putting one on. I just kinda deal with it though XD
11.03.2026 17:26
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Hell's newest arrival!! #voxhazbinhotel
11.03.2026 09:38
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worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
10.03.2026 15:40
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Do something about housing costs so I can move back.
11.03.2026 01:40
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Oh wow, flashback induced. XD I had completely forgotten this exists.
09.03.2026 01:37
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New Hampshire House Passes Trans Public Bathroom Ban That Bans "Asserting" Ones Identity
The bill is more extreme than a recent one vetoed by the governor.
1. The New Hampshire House has passed a public building bathroom ban that says it is a violation of the state civil rights act for a trans person to "assert" their identity gives them access to a bathroom.
It bans them from public bathrooms across the state.
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06.03.2026 22:11
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It’s okay, I got clapbacks for people who think they’re intelligent. XD
06.03.2026 22:14
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I don’t read manga and I’ve never seen a poster. Also, no one asked you. So feel free to collapse your gastrovascular cavity, you mono-orifficed amoeba.
06.03.2026 22:07
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We didn't even have a computer in the home until I was 17, the year we finally got dial up to our VERY rural house (1997). But my grandpa lived in the Cities and was a computer programmer since computers.
06.03.2026 07:38
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Awesome, Imma watch it this weekend
06.03.2026 07:30
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wait what?? I thought Beastars was done!
06.03.2026 04:43
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I am generally happy with my hands--but I struggle with drawing hands that have less than five fingers. For some stupid reason. XD
06.03.2026 04:40
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Big hairy guy! Not enough fat transman rep out there (I say, as a fat transman)
06.03.2026 00:38
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That would be the dream, honestly.
05.03.2026 23:09
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HELLO!? I need this in my life now
05.03.2026 17:45
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I was 32……………..
04.03.2026 21:04
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Yeah, she didn't die in service to our nation. She died because Trump wanted to play toy soldiers in the sandbox. Nothing was protected. A pure and evil waste of life.
04.03.2026 03:44
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listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!
03.03.2026 15:04
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This man has made BILLIONS of dollars for corporations and now he’s wasting away penniless while they still profit. It disgusts me. We have to do what we can to help
03.03.2026 00:26
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An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.
Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.
The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.
(📸 Middle East Observer)
02.03.2026 18:58
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Yesss Shin!
02.03.2026 04:46
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He's gonna punch straight through the universe! XD
02.03.2026 02:08
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His tail is sooo flufffy!
02.03.2026 02:07
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