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diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
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--- a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
+++ b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ But the squirrels' _novelty-seeking instincts_ didn't track such distinctions. S
 
 Particular squirrels had a subspace of their behavior that characterized them as different from other individuals of the same age and sex: _personality_ being the technical term (coined in Dunbar's volume on social systems). The friendship-forming instinct was most stimulated between squirrels with similar personalities, and the two subspecies had different personality distributions that resulted in frequent incompatibilities: for example, west-valley ground squirrels tended to have a more anxious disposition (reflecting the need to be alert to predators on open terrain), whereas east-valley tree squirrels tended to have a more rambunctious nature (as was useful for ritual leaf fights, but which tended to put west-valley ground squirrels on edge).
 
-Really, the typical west-valley ground squirrel and the typical east-valley tree squirrel wouldn't have been friends at all, if not for the tantalizing allure of exotic secrets. Thus, special cross-subspecies friendships tended to be successfully forged much less often than they were desired.
+Really, the typical west-valley ground squirrel and the typical east-valley tree squirrel wouldn't have been friends at all, if not for the tantalizing allure of exotic secrets. Thus, cross-subspecies friendships tended to be successfully forged much less often than they were desired.
 
 And so, many, many times in the days of auld lang syne, a squirrel in a burrow or a tree would sadly settle down to rest for the night, lamenting, "I wish I had a special friend. Someone who understood me. Someone to share my secrets with."
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/the-signaling-hazard-objection.md b/content/drafts/the-signaling-hazard-objection.md
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--- a/content/drafts/the-signaling-hazard-objection.md
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: politics, coordination, homosexuality
 Status: draft
 
-A common far-right objection to tolerance of male homosexuality is that it constitutes a "signaling hazard": if Society legitimizes the gays rather than oppressing them, that interferes with normal men expressing friendly affection for each other without being seen as potentially gay, which is bad for the fabric of Society, which depends on strong bonds between men who trust each other. (Presumably, latent homosexual tendencies would still exist in some men even if forbidden, but gestures of affection between men wouldn't be seen as potentially escalating to homosexual relations, if homosexual relations were considered unthinkable and to be discouraged, with violence if necessary.)
+A common [far-right objection to tolerance of male homosexuality](https://blog.reaction.la/culture/gay-needs-to-be-suppressed/) is that it constitutes a "signaling hazard": if Society legitimizes the gays rather than oppressing them, that interferes with normal men expressing friendly affection for each other without being seen as potentially gay, which is bad for the fabric of Society, which depends on strong bonds between men who trust each other. (Presumably, latent homosexual tendencies would still exist in some men even if forbidden, but gestures of affection between men wouldn't be seen as potentially escalating to homosexual relations, if homosexual relations were considered unthinkable and to be discouraged, with violence if necessary.)
 
 People who grew up in the current year generally don't think much of this argument: why do you care if someone isn't sure you're straight? What's wrong with being gay?
 
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ The argument might be easier to understand if we can find other examples of "sig
 
 [One person's _modus ponens_ is another's _modus tollens_](https://www.gwern.net/Modus); the implications of the analogy could be read in two ways. Maybe it's especially important that we repress right-wing ideologies, so that good progressive people can afford speak more freely among ourselves without being confused for one of the bad guys.
 
-Or maybe the libs got it right the first time, and it's possible to just—defy the signaling incentives? Why _do_ you care?
+Or maybe the libs got it right the first time, and it's possible to just—defy the signaling incentives? Why _do_ you care what other people think?

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 
 Minor—
+_ Body Anxiety Posting, September 2022
 _ Review of AGP Erotica Automation Tools, September 2022
 _ Happy Meal
 _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes