Just a reminder to our American cousins that in British English, trump means the noise an elephant makes but also to fart: “Sorry I trumped.” Donald the Trump is a noisy noxious unwanted thing on the world stage.

I was puzzled at first: “That’s unclear. What progress is she making? 8 months since what? 8 months weight loss? Yeah she looks great, well done, her. What’s this community? RIP and TERROR? No, she’s not doing well at that at all! She looks really alive and friendly. Wait, no, it’s the transfem community?! Oh wow, yes she IS doing well.”

If you were at all worried about whether you pass, I can assure you that you pass. Go you! And you dress well.

I hope you have a life full of happiness and peace from here on in.

Thinking about it made you feel uncomfortable. Stop thinking about it. Get on with your life as if it didn’t happen.

Not a proof, but a thought experiment. Imagine you have a bunch of equilateral triangles made of plastic that have mangetout sides so they stick to each other. How many can you have around a point?

Two triangles just stick to each other flat and you don’t get a 3D shape.

Three triangles makes the top of a triangular pyramid and you can add one more on the base to get a tetrahedron.

Four triangles makes the top of a square based pyramid and you can make another one like that and put it underneath, giving you an octahedron.

Five triangles makes the top of a pentagonal based pyramid. You could make another one and stick it underneath, but it wouldn’t be regular because the top and bottom points would be surrounded by five triangles whereas the ones on the sides would be surrounded by just four. The trick here is to make a band of ten additional triangles pointing up, down, up down etc to go between the two layers. Then two triangles from the top layer touch at a point where a down, up, down junction is and you get five triangles around the point there too. Same for the bottom layer. Now you have an icosahedron.

Six triangles makes a flat plane and you’ll just tile a surface rather than make a solid.

Seven or more triangles is too many to even lie flat and it’ll go all wrinkly on the large scale.

You may be thinking of a D60 dice, which is based on a stellated dodecahedron - stick three pentagons together at each point but turn each pentagon into the base of a small pentagonal based pyramid. It’s not regular because the points don’t all have the same number of sides touching them, but it is very pretty and rolls very nicely.

But better public support for a month than erasure.

I vote so giving corporations shit for one of the few positive things they do. Honestly, I worry that this backlash against corporations temporarily supporting LGBTQ+ people is actually often being pushed by homophobes.

Maybe it’s shallow and maybe it’s not very long lasting, but at least it’s public and positive.

Dog.