They call it a switch 2, because when you turn it on you turn 360 and walk away.
XiaCobolt
joined 3 years ago
What is to be done?
Finished or just reading?
I’m almost finished Ex Libris by Simon Groth. It’s like a YA update of Fahrenheit 451. It has this gimmick that 12 chapters are randomly shuffled, like background vignettes on the 4 main characters so every copy is unique. Neat in concept but overall the book is okay, fun at times but not great.
Before that I finished Everything for Everyone : an Oral History of the New York Commune. It’s a speculative fiction post a successful 21st century communist revolution. It’s nice to read an upbeat sci fi setting, and I think it’s good to show societies absent of capitalism like The Dispossessed does. I found it a bit slow though, like it’s anthology interviews, not a lot of drama or tension.
Before that I raced through Welcome to Dorley Hall and really liked it. I’m trying to wait for the next paperback as I’m trying to get back into physical book reading but it’s so good I might read it online via the patreon.
Not Babs, but I think there's some decent speculation that the "weight loss" associated diabetic medications like glitazones, SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP1 agonists (of ozempic fame) might have a very useful role in gender affirming medical care, in particularly in trans femmes, because of speeding up fat redistribution, basically giving faster and more dramatic results for HRT.
It one of those complicated things where yeah the science lags behind, because medicine and endocrinologists mostly don't care about trans people, and trans people have to take it into their own hands, but also avoiding fueling disordered eating and anti-fatness.
It happened but on Bluesky and it’s a bit account