Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦

Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free time. Trans girl when JFK was President. San Francisco Bay Area.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
QM Interpretation: MWI (probably)
Previously at the Bad Place: https://twitter.com/debbiegoldsmith
Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/dgoldsmith

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2026-04-25 18:03:28 UTC

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/116463258486755229
If you wonder why the government is pursuing a case against SPLC that they are very unlikely to win, this is the reason. (And animus, of course.)

2026-04-16 15:53:22 UTC

A resounding victory for trans rights in Montana, which also sets an important precedent.
https://open.substack.com/pub/transitics/p/montana-supreme-court-effectively?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

2026-03-02 00:21:36 UTC

Oh goodie.
TL;DR: excess CO₂ in the atmosphere is altering human blood chemistry. It will exceed healthy limits within 50 years if we continue pumping CO₂ into the atmosphere at current rates.
Not to mention what it will do to people who are already unhealthy, and to animal life in general.
And no, beyond a certain level it’s not good for plants, either. That's another myth.
But yeah, let's keep burning gas and oil, and eating meat.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5

2026-02-21 19:24:38 UTC

For those not seeing my boosts, another important article: archive.today (also archive.ph, archive.is, …) are altering the pages they archive. Read the whole thing.
(Note: archive.org is unrelated and is great!)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

2026-02-03 04:13:17 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/004/748/785/147/197/original/8adfe8407e9053d5.mp4

2026-01-29 06:36:11 UTC

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I am pretty sure the Editable Shapes feature does not require a Creator Studio subscription. The newest Pages/Numbers/Keynote have a free tier.

2025-09-17 16:39:12 UTC

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Definitely not yet on .social.

2025-09-17 16:35:02 UTC

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It's not enabled enough for the “quote" option to show in the boost menu.

2025-08-12 16:34:14 UTC

Did you know that all 4-star female officers have been purged from the US military? I didn't until I read this article.
https://journa.host/@atrupar/115015769548101144

2025-08-04 16:42:37 UTC

I last polled about this at the beginning of June. Here is a revised version. Please boost for reach.
If you are a trans woman and have a US passport marked “F”, and have reentered the US since June 1, what was your experience (multiple choice)

2025-08-02 01:11:18 UTC

Hey, apropos of absolutely nothing that might have been going on in the tech industry, you can read this book for free at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518

2025-07-07 16:02:58 UTC

Interesting thread on one person's observations about the impact of technology on developing minds. In the spirit of “don't take everything you read on the Internet as truth,” don't take this as truth. Still worth reflecting on the observations, though, and I'm not saying he's wrong, either.
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/114811505328252889

2025-06-27 03:53:59 UTC

Saruman: corrupted by a Palantir
Silicon Valley: the same

2025-06-03 02:32:16 UTC

If you're a US citizen, a trans woman, the gender on your passport is F, and you've reentered the US since March 1, what was your experience at the border? Please boost for reach.

2025-05-08 15:10:33 UTC

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Any app: Edit> Substitutions> Text Replacement> off
You can turn just Math Results off in Notes:
https://support.apple.com/guide/notes/solve-math-apda85974595/4.11/mac/15.0#apdec5816a35

2025-03-31 22:20:24 UTC

OMG, this week's New Yorker cover…
If you don't get the reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2Wkr5YI
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/259/369/678/279/987/original/7fb332734937dddb.png

2025-03-19 16:40:08 UTC

PSA: if you get a phishing email and you don't know the right place to send it for the organization the phisher is pretending to be, just forward it as an attachment to reportphishing@apwg.org (the Anti-Phishing Working Group). It will make its way into the block lists for most browsers.

2025-03-10 03:21:50 UTC

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I have been waiting for a sterilizing vaccine for COVID-19 (one that prevents infection and transmission) for five years. I hope we're close. I would really like to eat in restaurants again.

2025-03-10 02:22:50 UTC

From another network (non-public account so I can't link to it):
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution.
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5720

2025-01-22 05:12:44 UTC

Every time I see someone on Bluesky say “where's my edit button?" I resist the urge to reply “on Mastodon, where you left it.”

2025-01-20 08:23:08 UTC

The next time you hear someone say “the Constitution will keep that from happening,” remember, the Constitution is not going to leap from its display case at the National Archives and fly to the rescue. *People* who want to uphold the Constitution will try to keep it from happening. So when you hear that, make sure to ask: “Which people? Do they have enough power to do so?”

2025-01-06 17:27:08 UTC

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Still the best summary I've seen:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/782/582/457/145/270/original/50e33430db4dbf29.jpeg

2024-12-29 18:09:55 UTC

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You try new ideas in a small scale trial first to see if they work. If they work, you scale them up a little and keep collecting data, because not all ideas that work in small trials scale up.
The point of the thread is you don't know which ideas work in advance. Ideas need to be tested.

2024-12-28 22:21:09 UTC

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I haven’t been in high-energy theory since 1980 when I dropped out of my Ph.D. program to do software, though I’ve been following along. I’ve been wondering if theories where spacetime is emergent rather than fundamental might be a way out of the issues with Lorentz invariance. One example is twistor theory—are you aware of others?

2024-12-28 20:05:19 UTC

Since human minds and human societies are some of the most complex systems we know, predicting how they work from first principles isn’t currently possible (and may never be).
So I'm *deeply* skeptical of utopian plans for society. If you want to convince me we should change society in some way, point me at an example of a society that tried it and had it work out well.
What societies/practices currently give the best outcomes for people? We should learn from those.
#NoUtopias

2024-12-18 18:23:36 UTC

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Ordered!

2024-12-05 17:17:33 UTC

[@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ) How safe would you say Canada is, given the likelihood of a Conservative victory in the 2025 elections? I've heard from Canadian coworkers that their judiciary is in better shape than in the US. My employer is open to relocating me there (to Vancouver BC, specifically).

2024-12-05 06:08:26 UTC

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No liquid core layer means no magnetosphere, which I believe means more problems with radiation. I seem to recall that leading to more rapid loss of atmosphere.

2024-12-02 21:13:05 UTC

Better late than never.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/european-federation-of-journalists-to-stop-posting-content-on-x-386598/

2024-12-01 21:21:56 UTC

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I should point out that the number one way mainstream journalists say Democrats should win back disaffected Trump voters is by abandoning progressive values.

2024-12-01 21:19:14 UTC

I am still seeing tons of articles in the mainstream media about how Democrats need to win back disaffected Trump voters. This is despite the data which clearly shows that Trump's vote did not increase significantly over 2020, but rather that Democratic voters voted in substantially smaller numbers.
I see no articles about how Democrats need to energize their base to vote, which is what the data indicates. The mainstream narrative is pure bullshit.

2024-11-30 19:53:02 UTC

My scorecard so far in getting folks on Bluesky I want to follow to turn on the ActivityPub bridge: 2 did so, 9 didn't respond or I couldn’t find a way to contact them.
I really wish this bridge acted like "request follow" rather than requiring an explicit opt in. The bridge could ask someone on either side whether they want to accept/reject a single person at a time, open up follows completely, or opt out of bridging altogether and not be asked again.
[@snarfed.org](https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/about )

2024-11-29 21:50:12 UTC

When I was a little trans girl in 1965 and first tried to come out, this was one of the standard “therapies” for trans people. I was incredibly lucky that I was ignored rather than “treated.”
The fascists want to take us back to this.
#transphobia #ProtectTransKids https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-jbPATNUTRcuWMfBGAyHb2g%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

2024-11-24 07:32:13 UTC

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It boggles my mind that otherwise educated people can be so painfully naïve. And to back Jill Stein, an obvious grifter… Did he never look for any background information on Trump or Stein?

2024-11-22 21:02:15 UTC

I'm considering creating a Bluesky account, mostly to be able to beg people I want to follow there to turn on bridging so I can follow them here.
I have no illusions about what's going to happen to Bluesky in the long term.

2024-11-13 23:55:38 UTC

From @npub1d7h…nfrz:
Nice to know that most Dems still support us.
#ProtectTransKids #transphobia
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/several-democratic-senators-rebuke

2024-10-26 19:11:31 UTC

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Already voted by mail weeks ago, as soon as I got my mail-in ballot (thank you California).

2024-10-22 03:09:38 UTC

“AI” as a news source is like the Joker poisoning Gotham City's water supply. I really can't believe everyone is so blasé about it.

2024-10-21 20:58:00 UTC

From @npub1d7h…nfrz:
This is a much better summary of the study on trans youth than the Washington Post article. TL;DR: the arguments against gender-affirming care are not supported by the data.
#ProtectTransKids
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-study-trans-youth-satisfied-6

2024-10-17 17:58:34 UTC

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I still cringe whenever I see advice to “pick a server at random." That doesn't tend to end well for people who are frequently targets online: women, people of color, LGBT, etc. Those people need an instance with good moderation, which many don't have.
The Fediverse lost a large fraction of the people who tried it a couple of years ago because of this issue.
Otherwise a great guide and it does mention moderation a couple of times.

2024-10-07 16:58:36 UTC

If human civilization survives the climate crisis, historians will look back at a facility that throws away 300MW of energy as heat, 24/7, by burning fossil fuels (which also generates waste heat) in order to participate in a tulip craze, and be unable to fathom what we were thinking.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113266437383175019

2024-09-26 15:15:18 UTC

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I loathe Meta and don't use any of their products. I also have zero problems with Meta joining the Fediverse or participating in technical standards discussions, or with anyone using any open source projects they produce, or with interoperating with them, as long as they continue to do all of those things properly, which they have, so far. Do the same people who oppose all this also oppose the U.N., or international scientific cooperation or technical standards?

2024-08-01 15:11:00 UTC

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I noticed that the scientific concerns about the Cass review were mentioned only briefly, while lots of space was devoted to people crowing about what a great, robust scientific work it was. No mention of Dr. Cass’s complete lack of expertise in the field.

2024-07-04 05:57:58 UTC

The Cass Review is straight out of "Merchants of Doubt”—pseudoscience manufactured to put established research in doubt by creating the appearance of a true scientific disagreement. It's the same astroturf bullshit we get from the oil companies and the cigarette companies. Why do mainstream media outlets keep falling for this strategy?
https://rss-parrot.net/u/www.erininthemorning.com/status/1720026117659519629

2024-06-30 19:29:10 UTC

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Ignoring the good things Biden has done (and why should we?), people cannot conceive just how fucked we're going to be if Trump wins, because they're not paying attention. It's all out there in plain sight. Women's rights, climate change, LGBTQ rights, and more, all down the drain.
Biden is far from perfect. He has made mistakes. Perfect is not on the ballot, has never been on the ballot, and will never be on the ballot.

2024-06-06 15:23:40 UTC

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I'm trying to figure out where Irish electrons fit in the Standard Model. Is there an additional quantum number that distinguishes them from non-Irish electrons? What would it be called? Do Irish electrons decay into ordinary electrons plus an Irish neutrino/ordinary antineutrino pair? Or is Irishness not conserved?

2024-06-01 06:53:25 UTC

I will never forgive the mainstream media for aiding and abetting the trans moral panic that is causing untold harm to trans kids and adults. Never. The science of gender-affirming care is well-supported, but it was more important to them to perform objectivity (as opposed to actually practice it). The same playbook they've followed for climate change. That isn't journalism.
#BadJournalism #transphobia #ProtectTransKids

2024-05-17 16:50:28 UTC

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That also works for any QR code, not just 2FA setup, I believe.

2024-05-17 16:49:11 UTC

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I haven't tried it recently but I believe when you're in such a situation, you can just long-press the QR code shown on the phone and it will “scan it" from the image itself, then offer to add it to Passwords.

2024-05-15 15:30:35 UTC

From @npub1d7h…nfrz:
Dr. Cass is a hit parade of right-wing mythology.
Opinion: No, Dr. Cass, Porn Will Not Make You Trans https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-no-dr-cass-porn-will-not
#transphobia #ProtectTransKids #pseudoscience