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diff --git a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
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@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: epistemology
 Status: draft
 
-
 Most disagreements are fake.
 
 
+
 Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criterion for applying the word _woman_ to something.
 
 You've 

diff --git a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ out of the three women present—
 —they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing. 
 
 
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+Maybe [Good Is Dumb](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodIsDumb) doesn't have to be [Truth in Television](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision).
 
 _I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
 

diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ looking for a use—
 >
 > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
 
+(This is Worth a Fight?)
 > "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
 >
 > I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -212,3 +212,21 @@ because that's the impression I got from TMWWBQ'
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 The problem is not social engineering! The problem is _incompetent_ social engineering! The problem is not experimenting on children! The problem is experimenting on children in the service of an ideological crusade rather than in the service of finding out what happens!
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+-----
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+> And in the online communities I encountered on my journey, and still follow today, I see the same question, repeated over and over, as sweet scared humans pour their vulnerability into a text box, entrusting a group of strangers to help them make the decision of a lifetime:
+> 
+> What if this is just a fetish?
+>
+> —https://medium.com/gender-shrug/just-1b8c09a11f18
+
+https://player.fm/series/opening-up-behind-the-scenes-of-our-open-marriage/8-johns-kink-with-consequences
+
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/72vi36/foia_request_for_wansink_emails_show_how_an_ivy/dnmp0q9/ (relate to Conchran on lost knowledge?)
+
+
+Vee String review: still ... noticeably not part of my body.
+
+(That was the same thing I thought about breastforms. Considering how that escalted, maybe it would be better for my health and bodily integrity to not pursue this line of thinking ...)

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 CURRENT PUSH (5)—
 There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention 
-Welcome to Republic City Comic-Con; Or, A Leaf in the Crosswind
+A Leaf in the Crosswind (http://rambleonamazon.tumblr.com/post/97980403389/you-know-whos-trans)
 Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, ... 
 Interlude X (likelihood ratios)
 The View From Nowhere
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Servants of the Egregore; Or, the Joy of Static Analysis
 (the story about my name)
 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
 Interlude XI (four lights)
+Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
+Laser I
 
 FICTION QUEUE (4)—
 An Epistolary Story About Preference Falsification