+
+(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women)
+> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
+>
+> —Stan Kelly-Bootle
+
+(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
+> Because it's going to be the future soon
+> And I won't always be this way
+> When the things that make me weak and strange
+> Get engineered away
+>
+> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
+
+(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
+> It's time to put an end to this deception
+> But I'm afraid
+> When the whole thing is at an end
+> And you learn that it's just pretend
+> You'll cry "Deception"
+>
+> —"Deception", _Jem_
+
+> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
+>
+> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
+>
+> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
+>
+> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
+> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
+> You see it's true, an ape like me
+> Can learn to be like you, too
+>
+> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
+
+> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
+>
+> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
+>
+> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan