2026-04-19 07:47:00
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-fatherhood-how-the-male-brain-and-body-prepare-for-childcare
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-fatherhood-how-the-male-brain-and-body-prepare-for-childcare
Answer: ZERO !!! Question from Blackbird Spyplane via kottke: What is the actual revolutionary potential of a male-gaze-subverting knee-length skirt sewn by women paid piece rates in L.A. and NYC? What is the true liberatory power of a dad cap embroidered with feminist and anti-racist slogans by nonwhite women working 80-hour weeks in a Bangladeshi sweatshop?
Ich gehöre einem Verein an, bei dem es für kleines Geld anwaltlichen Rat von Rechtsanwältïnnen gibt. Dazu bucht man im Voraus ein Beratungsfenster.
Nun ist es gleich zweimal vorgekommen, dass mich die Anwälte mit einer 40-minütigen Verspätung angerufen haben. Beide Male ist man auf die enorme Verspätung mit keinem Wort eingegangen, unabhängig davon, ob ich neutral oder verärgert war. 1/2
This explains something.
My father's side of the family are notably understated in their spoken opinions, a trait I inherited. It's not just English stoicism—my grandfather on that side was born in England, and my grandmother came from the South Downs, then a very English part of QLD—but even more so. A couple of generations farther back, though, the male line crossed the sea from #Germany
Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: [To Jenna] They haven't got him.
PATROL LEADER: Silence!!
GOLA: [To Travis] You know These people?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/115 B7B5
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
So the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.
“And so these disruptions are gonna disru…
The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Explores what really affects sperm health and male fertility, and what men can actually do about it, hosted by Alex Hardy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mens-fertility-nutrition/…
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
GROSE: A great many ways, Madam President. More ways than you've begun to realize. But that isn't why I summoned you to Sardos. [Grose nods at Lector and hands him a card. Lector moves to the machine, and inserts the card.]
SERVALAN: Would you say that again?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…
Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/palantir-ce
Fathers’ tobacco use linked to metabolic changes in their children #health
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Joe Westerlund:
🎵 Nu male uno
#JoeWesterlund
https://open.spotify.com/track/2mGjFkgKfLpatAsC1Dapfl
Justice ✊ for the men owning their male pattern baldness and neither shaving their heads nor getting implants or plugs!
It's #Caturday? I wasn't aware
NYT's Zach Seward details the "Manosphere Report", an in-house LLM-powered tool that summarizes new episodes from about 80 podcasts with largely male audiences (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-
So I was just watching a YouTube playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 by Nyxandchill and I’ve JUST realized what’s so galling about how bad the Male romanceable characters are:
Because JACKIE‽‽ he’s fucking awesome.
I have not YET see anyone play this game and not like Jackie. (RIP Choom)
And if they could write a character like Jackie, they could have written a better male character to be a possible romance. (Yes, yes, Takamura, it’s a crime he’s not) (1/2)
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Hi @…
I need a name for my new (male) Cyberpunk character, and I was thinking of Vakaris. Would you be offended if I stole it?
Best wishes
Simon
Trump won over young, male voters by promising a stronger economy and an anti-interventionist foreign policy.
These voters are losing patience
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-iran-last-straw-1235527012/
The Last Living American White Male: A Novel of Obsolescence and Love
The title may make you uncomfortable. That was the point. For the past year, I have been living inside a grey city that exists only in my imagination, spending my days with a garbage man named Robert James Miller and an administrative processing unit named Alma. Today, their story is finally available to readers. The Last Living American White Male…
The Goddess of Love comforts the Corn Mother with casual, comfy sex.
Illustrated by Sinita for $10 subs:
https://eroticmythology.com/illustrated-fiction-aphrodite-demeter-beauty-lesfic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_…
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116006035158670963
Very interesting and important article about the hazards of making the male human "the norm" - also the two comments are very enlightening! Medical science and product designers please n…
If you remove the light sabres, the telekinesis, and the pseudoscience fiction jibber-jabber, being a Jedi is one of the main fantasies that makes people fall in love with Star Wars. I don't know if it's just a male fantasy, though - choosing the good side against the darkness, showing restraint, selflessness, valour, and acute awareness of the living world. It seems to me it's about knowing right from wrong, be it being a Jedi, a princess, a smuggler, or a Dark Lord of the Sith,…
@… Male Loneliness Epidemic?? Never heard of it
Maybe one of the more surprising things about the current live coding waves is how queer-lead it has become. I wouldn't have said it was ever particularly masculine/macho, but live coding was very cis male-dominated and hetronormative in the early days. Now as far as I know all the people blowing up on tiktok and instagram are LGBQT, and the most active live coding software and community platforms for music and visuals include LGBQT people leading core development (I say leadership here …
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
Imagine being a piece of shit like Gavin Newsom, or a male hockey player, or a POTUS, and then make the choice to be better.
1,260,000 DEAD IN FOUR YEARS! Putin has officially destroyed the male population of the Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/dead-in-four-years-putin.html
« In 1985, the COTI stood at 30 — the median male worker needed thirty weeks of income to afford a house, a car, health care, and education. By 2018, the COTI had increased to 53—a full-time job was insufficient to afford these items, let alone the others that a family needs. A generation ago, the worker could be confident in his ability to provide his family not only with the basics of food, clothing, and shelter, but also with the middle-class essentials of a house, a car, health care, and…
There will come a time when women shall prefer the ursine over the male of their species.
#BoringNostradamusProphecies
#HashTagGames
A message especially for my Canadian male followers out there today, but it applies to all.
If you see a story from a woman calling out the behaviour of a man, believe them. Yes, believe them over the 'bro’, especially when there are multiple corroborating stories.
Don’t feign impartiality.
Don't ignore.
Just believe them, it's not that hard.
It's long past time we do this as the default.
It will make us all better in the long run.
That is all.
#BelieveWomen #Tech #Mastodon
Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell (in epileptic mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64269-2
Trump taps 'alpha male' influencer as new envoy for American tourism and values - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-influencer/
Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.
Sadly couldn't join myself (wife wasn't feeling good and wanted me to stay home and help parent while she napped) but my SAR team participated in a great inter-agency training this past weekend.
It's always nice to practice alongside volunteers from other teams that we work with on real incidents and get to know each other without the pressure of a real emergency.
One note: I half feel like there should be a CW on this post for mentioning law enforcement in a positiv…
Beautiful Numbness: The Book I Have Been Writing for Fifty Years
Every book has a birthday, but not every book has a conception date. Some books arrive late and fast, fully formed, demanding to be transcribed before they vanish. The Last Living American White Male was like that. Others accumulate across decades, assembling themselves in the background of a life, borrowing material from every stage and every failure and every standing ovation until the writer finally…
Male Georgia mason bee (Osmia georgica) backed into a nesting tunnel in the observation wing of my backyard insect hotel. For some reason the males love these tunnels but the females, who do all the nest provisioning, never move in. He's just loitering, waiting for the temperature to warm up and for the females to arrive in the area. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #MasonBees #bees #insects #nature
Predictably, it turns out that the 21-year-old white male with a shotgun who tried to breach Mar-A-Lago comes from a family of Trumpist magats.
Trump Picks 'Alpha Male' Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/nick-adams-trump-tourism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p123#a260324p123
today at work:
"I may not know how to fix it, but I can throw a tantrum in the voice of a fast-talking, self-confident anglophone white male engineer.
that often gets results"
@… Watching the world indoor athletic championships and the male commentator, who sounds very British, just said "He has taken a lot of scalps".
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 585 nodes and 1755 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
Grist forms hard at work keeping the toilets clean at #FOSDEM
Kind of a dud article, given it promises mid than it delivers about the actual spawning process, but it contains an amazing fact:
Apparently Sigmund Freud did an unsuccessful stint as a marine biologist and was tasked with dissecting 400 male eels to try to find their reproductive organs, which he couldn't because despite being adults they aren't sexually mature until they migrate to their spawning grounds.
I feel like this explains a LOT about Freud's theories' focus on sexual organs (especially of the eel-shaped variety), in light of... Freud's theories.
https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116119712700119977
Link to source linked by article on the Freud factoid:
https://www.freud.org.uk/schools/resources/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/
Cornell student shows off microchips that his club designed
https://c2s2.engineering.cornell.edu/
(as a 🦊this project worried me a bit at first glance...
Wenn die CDU die letzten dreiundbölfzig Male gelogen hat, dann wäre es schon ein sehr großer Zufall, wenn sie das nächste Mal wieder lügt, also sollten wir sie wählen!
I read this, and I thought, she should try the Fediverse. But then I thought again. I present as male here (because I am). So would I see this misogyny here even if it was a problem? So I'd like to ask, would young women actually be better off here?
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian
Juvenile male elephant seal demanding attention — and being ignored. San Simeon Elephant Seal Viewpoint, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #sansimeon #elephantseals
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: They're still here. [Opens the outer cover on one of the containers. There is a male alien in it]
JENNA: Blake, look. Look at his eyes. He's alive. [They bend over and look into the container. Blake touches the outside surface of the unit and draws his hand back quickly.] What is it?
https://
00:30—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
When a computer is given a female voice, it's a reflection of a patriarchal culture. Conversely, when a computer is given a male voice, it's a reflection of a patriarchal culture.
@… de mon experience de la vie en générale (limitée Š une vie privilégiée de blanc-male-cis) les gens qui ont le pouvoir n’ont pas de morale, parce que dans notre monde on obtient rarement du pouvoir sans marcher sur quelqu’un d’autre.
According to the National Defense Authorization Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in December, the automatic registration will apply to male US citizens and “every other male person” in the country between the ages of 18 and 26. The mandatory registration applies to green-card holders, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented men.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/politics/us-military-draft-registration-2026
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: You make me wonder if I didn't choose badly. You fear him. He and I, together we could have been invincible.
SERVALAN: Really?
CAPTAIN: [V.O., from comm] Commissioner.
SERVALAN: Yes, Captain?
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
The Olympic career of Lindsey Vonn has ended in a sickening,
split-second crash high on the side of the downhill run in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The American, one of the most successful skiers in history,
had come out of a five-year retirement to compete in her fifth Games,
and was hoping to become the oldest athlete, male or female, ever to win a medal in the downhill.
was just 12 seconds into the race when her legs gave way beneath her as she rode a bump.
She…
It's time to crush the patriarchy.
Humanity has to start by ridding itself of religion, because it underpins male hegemony.
No more monarchies.
No private landownership.
Cooperation, not capitalism.
Careful stewardship of the world's resources.
Fair distribution of resources.
Distributed smaller scale energy generation - because power shouldn't mean power over others.
Are these gaming pieces or locker room tokens at the Roman baths?
The term "spintria" to describe these erotic, coin-like tokens is a modern term from scholarship. We don't know what the Romans called them. In #ancientRome, a spintria was a male prostitute.
#PhallusThursday
The city’s chief, Brian O’Hara, confirmed the man had died following the incident, describing him as a white male and a resident of Minnesota.
The man was also a “lawful gun owner” with a permit to carry the weapon, O’Hara said, adding that the victim’s name was known to police but would yet be released.
ICE shooting latest: ‘American citizen’ shot and killed by federal agents in another Minneapolis shooting | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-shooting-minneapolis-latest-updates-b2907013.html
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 468 nodes and 3701 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
Cornell Gen AI Club poses by their sign at the club fair -- and unlike other photos in this series I got the background right!
#photo
POL-GF: Pressemeldung der PI Gifhorn 21./22.02.2026 Landkreis Gifhorn (ots) - Am Samstag, um 09:00 Uhr wurde durch Beamte der Polizei Gifhorn eine Sachbeschädigung im Hängelmoor in Gifhorn aufgenommen. Hier wurde zum wiederholten Male das Fenster einer 80-jährigen mit einem Stein beschädigt. Als ... https://www.pressepor…
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
ON JAN. 20, 2025, his first day back in office,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States would henceforth recognize only two sexes, male and female.
Trump framed the move as one meant to protect the dignity, safety, and well-being of women. But the order also upended a long-standing policy at the National Institutes of Health
— one that was crafted to ensure that females are adequately represented in biomedical research.
Imple…
Watching a YouTube video, and distracted by the "20-something British male" AI voice model they've used keeps pronouncing Gigawatt as "jigga-watt".
(It's often a pronunciation style for people who were children when Back to the Future was a contemporary movie.)
Okay. Yeah. Putting out the call.
If you are a bisexual male who has dated both men and women can you DM or @ me for some private conversations please? #HeatedRivalry (after Episode 4)
RI/SE Mass/Boston area preferred.
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 454 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
NEBROX: Maybe - maybe I could get it back for you.
AVON: How?
NEBROX: If I do, you've got to take me with you.
AVON: I'll think about that.
NEBROX: No, I mean it, you've got to promise.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/110 …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Treorchy Male Voice Choir:
🎵 Myfanwy
#TreorchyMaleVoiceChoir
https://open.spotify.com/track/0p8sKBAha5VPko3hFMNygF
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
SERVALAN: [Shouting] Watch out! [Vila promptly drops the gun. The other man knocks him down and starts pummeling him. Vila, yelping with every blow that hits him, nevertheless fights back, and the two roll through the underbrush. Servalan moves toward them; as she does, Vila manages to rise. The other man grabs Vila's arm and throws him; the th…
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 466 nodes and 2056 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Treorchy Male Choir:
🎵 Ar Hyd Y Nos
#TreorchyMaleChoir
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Hbzs6ykt4gNOt112Zug5C
Went for a coffee walk this morning and met this cheery fellow.
#KingParrot #Sunday #Suburbia #Canberra
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Yes, I created Slave.
AVON: What about these? [He draws his gun]
DORIAN: Those as well.
AVON: And all this?
DORIAN: I found the chambers and tunnels already here. I merely had them adapted to my particular needs.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/386
Costumed Student in Dragon Day Parade
#photo #photography #ithaca #cornell
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
The Treorchy Male Voice Choir:
🎵 Calon Lan
#TheTreorchyMaleVoiceChoir
https://open.spotify.com/track/4018M1GQWCpjdHOwdFmVgU
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
AVON: You can't use that in here.
BAYBAN: Stand still. Both of you. You think I'm a complete amateur?
CALLY: A laser cannon isn't very professional.
AVON: You'll blow away half the city.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/482
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 454 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 454 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted