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              Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, host of The Jerry Springer Show and Judge Jerry Springer, and the man responsible for getting The Steve Wilkos Show its start has died today, April 27, 2023, and many trans individuals will be spending the rest of the day celebrating! During his time on television, Jerry Springer caused harm to trans people by using them as the punchline of many jokes and making many of his shows center around the idea that trans women are “traps” meaning people that are men who look like women in a way to trap a man into having “gay” sex with them. During my childhood, my father would often force me to watch The Jerry Springer Show after school and that was the only trans representation I had until I was an adult. Being a trans woman that didn’t start transitioning until age 26, I blame Springer for most of that and believe it is fine to speak ill of the dead in this case beca...

  I hate parenthetical citations; they annoy me, and I find that the people who think they are good for the flow of reading do not have any idea how distracting they are. If there is a sentence that needs a citation putting it in parentheses makes the reader not move through the document in an efficient manner. If the citation is with a footnote or end note it does not distract the reader and if the reader chooses to, they can look at the note to see where this information came from. They can also see through annotations at the bottom of the page whether the source is reliable or just valuable to the reader, and not reliable .   This is also the simplest way to cite information that still gives people all the information they need and ensures that the author is not stealing from the source material. There seems to be no reason for people to use anything other than the Chicago Manual of Style for their citations and I am begging people who choose to use the other formats to ex...

 Imagine how surprised I was to wake up and find out that alongside Lewis Hamilton cocaine was trending. My first thought was this was another racist attack against Lewis Hamilton by the Verstappen family, who have in the past accused the 10-time world champion of using drugs. What I saw was somehow worse. Worse by quite a significant margin. Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla, Solar City, and other companies, who is currently in the process of buying Twitter, tweeted that he was buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in it. When this drink was first brought to market there was cocaine in it, cocaine was legal at the time.2 Coca-Cola is a popular drink that many people of all ages enjoy, and cocaine is a drug that can lead to addiction and other health problems up to and including death. There have been some studies showing the cocaine can be used in some medicinal fields such as dentistry using it in Soda would do more harm than good. Billionaires are not smarter than everyone because o...

  On Sunday at Talladega coming to the checkered flag Kyle Larson set off an accident that ended up crashing both 23XL owned by Denny Hamlin out of the race. Kurt Busch and Bubba Wallace had been on track for a good finish in the race before this. Instead, neither car saw the checkered flag.   On Monday Denny Hamlin shared a meme that implied Kyle Larson a driver of Asian descent, who was once suspended for the entire 2020 season for saying the N-word, could not drive because of his ancestry. This led to many reactions from people in the NASCAR community, some believing he did nothing wrong, others wanting there to be some punishment for his actions, and then of course myself who called for his arrest.   Many people believed that Hamlin did not cause any harm by sharing the racially insensitive meme and nothing should happen to him, NASCAR did not agree with this and has informed him he must complete sensitivity training and begin the process by the end of this w...

  It is Autism acceptance month; my birthday is in two days. I want to talk about something that happened last week Thursday as well as what I expected to happen that didn’t, but I expected it because the last time I was in a similar situation the thing I expected is what happened. I am autistic and this happened because of that. I was in class on Thursday, and it was trans day of visibility, a day where I started off very happy and excited because I am also trans. We happened to be learning about the difference between good and bad presentations, in the begging of class the instructor gave a presentation on trans history. This was very good, the part where she discussed the trans/gay panic defense was very overwhelming for me. Because of this I ended up becoming nonverbal, which has happened to me in classrooms before. Not for a long time mainly because I haven’t been in school in a decade. The last time this happened the teacher noticed and got extremely upset, they screamed ...

Today is two years since the first time I posted a video to TikTok. It was a cringe video that has since been deleted . It wasn’t the first time I have existed online, but it was the first time I decided I want a presence there and that I have a right to take up space. Since then, I have posted a number of things to various platforms .   Over the course of the last two years across all forms of social media I have gathered over 100 million impressions, I only have been keeping a spreadsheet of everything for the last month, but even with just my main account on TikTok where I have 56,000 followers, I gained 65 million impressions in the year 2021 alone. I also had a single tweet get over a million impressions when I called former NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace a jackass.   I have learned that there are a lot of toxic things about social media and people are willing to say and do things that they would never do in person because of the anonymity being online seems to provide...

 Last year the Haas F1 team brought in two rookies one the son of a 7 time champion that many people have high expectations to someday carry the mantle at Ferrari. And the other a Russian driver with a lot of money that barely got the 40 points needed to get a Super License to compete in Formula 1. In late 2020 their was video of Nikita Mazepin the second of those drivers groping a women. This led to the We Say No to Mazepin movement on social media where people on social media shared that hashtag and the reasons they felt Mazepin did not belong in F1. They ranged from not wanting a sexual predator in the sport and his dodgy driving in the junior formula.  Today Haas announced just a few days before the opening test in Bahrain that they have terminated their contract with Nikita Mazepin as well as the company owned by his father Dmitri Mazepin, Uralkali. This is in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  While I believe that Mazepin who finished 21st in the 20 drive...