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Slight delay 😤

My mailing list software has spontaneously stopped working, and that is a BIG problem because there are as many subscribers to the mailing list as there are followers on all the social media stuff combined. And the mailing list software people don't seem to know why it's not working either.

Which means we might have to move the entire website and mailing list software to a new host, in the hope that we won't have the same problem there...?! UGGGGGHHHHHH

The mailing list software is Sendy (used with AWS), and I would consider moving to something that's not self-hosted, except that the current set-up costs less than $10 USD per year, and moving to Mailchimp would cost $1,320 per year, and I don't even know whether that includes tax or not.

Soooooo I will keep you posted...

Check on your Patreon pledges!

I'm starting to gear up for the big annual Gender Census survey, which means I'll be hitting the "collect everyone's pledges" button on Patreon for the year in the next few days. This will cover the costs of the server software, web hosting, etc.

So head to our Patreon page to check that your pledge is what you'd like it to be!

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Check on your Patreon pledges!

I'm starting to gear up for the big annual Gender Census survey, which means I'll be hitting the "collect everyone's pledges" button on Patreon for the year in the next few days. This will cover the costs of the server software, web hosting, etc.

So head to our Patreon page to check that your pledge is what you'd like it to be!

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gender census is welsh?? me too omg!! (also i got machynlleth mixed up with maenclochog and thought it was closer to me than it was. its actually two hours away.) (sorry i get excited when i see welsh ppl in the internet. shwmae!!)

I am actually English, but living in Wales! Though the Gender Census was born in Wales and is therefore authentic Welsh. :D Hi!

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I reblogged this crowdfunder this morning, and 8 hours later it reached the funding goal, so I am here to express some gratitude. All the support means a lot to me personally, and it's going to be a huuuuuge thing for many, many people in Mach in May.

We've never had a proper Pride event here, and the organisers are really good people. (They're working really hard to get lots of local businesses involved and there's going to be a GIANT RAINBOW GAZEBO.) Being ourselves in our rural Welsh town is a big deal.

Thank you. ❤️

Want to help fund a Pride festival in a tiny Welsh town? 🏳️‍🌈

We're Machynlleth and we're small but queerly dense, so the goal is small but impactful, which means it's super easy and satisfying to support a significant amount!

Click here to donate

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HOLY MOLY YOU GUYS DON'T MESS ABOUT, DO YOU?? :D

Thank you! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍🩷🩵

Want to help fund a Pride festival in a tiny Welsh town? 🏳️‍🌈

We're Machynlleth and we're small but queerly dense, so the goal is small but impactful, which means it's super easy and satisfying to support a significant amount!

Click here to donate

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I hope you don't mind a quick bit of selfish reblog - my town is hosting its first ever Pride and I want to support the organisers!

Want to help fund a Pride festival in a tiny Welsh town? 🏳️‍🌈

We're Machynlleth and we're small but queerly dense, so the goal is small but impactful, which means it's super easy and satisfying to support a significant amount!

Click here to donate

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Heyy do u know roughly what time of the year the gender census will be open?

I literally never know from year to year! Sorry!

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TL;DR: We're looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.

Hello!

Professor Kirby Conrod from Swarthmore College is recruiting participants for a paid interview study (in-person in Philly or on zoom). Anyone who uses neopronouns for themself, is 18 or older, and is fluent in English is welcome to participate. The study will consist of a casual interview between you and a researcher, a similar interview with a friend of yours, and an exit survey for each of you. Each will receive $15 as compensation for their time.

If you're interested in participating, please fill out this form: (https://forms.gle/YajpkjxGYiwL7RLF6). Filling out this form does not require you to participate; it's just an expression of interest.

Even on Tumblr, neopronoun use is relatively uncommon, so it would be very helpful if folks could reblog this post to help it reach as many neopronoun users as possible.

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The National [USA] Center for Transgender Equality have released some results from their 2022 survey

"Of the 84,170 adult respondents, 38% identified as nonbinary, 35% identified as transgender women, 25% identified as transgender men and 2% identified as cross-dressers."

More nonbinary people than any other group, and the sample is huge! This echoes what I've seen suggested in other survey results too, it's exciting and interesting to me.

(Also, less than 2% expressed any amount of dissatisfaction with medical transition treatments, of course!)

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some white af names fr

It's true, it's true! I do like the idea of diversifying the responses to any of the surveys I do, but I am not really sure how - I'm open to suggestions. :)

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Thank you everyone for your participation!

Our winner is Rowan!

I'm into it, because I ran the same tournament on Mastodon, and the trajectory was quite different, with the Mastodon winner being Ash - but the tree rowan is also known as mountain ash.

As I did with the Pronoust, I made a spreadsheet of various statistics for all polls on both platforms, which you can visit here. Interestingly, even though Rowan and Ash were the final winners, Wren got the most votes as a grand total of all polls in rounds of voting on both platforms, and Alex got the highest percentage of all possible votes based on the polls it was in.

I made a graph where for each name I add all their poll percentage results together from both Tumblr and Mastodon, meaning that names that progressed further have a bigger percentage:

Interesting that Jay is so close to the bottom, because in the big name survey I did a while back Jay was the second most common nonbinary name.

The final was much closer than the Pronoust final. Here's the Pronoust final:

And here's the Nonbinary Name-Off final:

Admittedly there were fewer votes in this poll, but yeah! Oof. And the Mastodon final was even closer, there were only 3 votes in it in the end:

Thank you everyone for your reblogs and your tag enthusiasm. In particular, shoutout to @dragongirlafro, whose sage advice could have saved us a week of agony:

Aaaand it turns out that now it's 2024, which means I should probably think about doing the big annual survey. 🫣 I'm having surgery in February so it might be a bit delayed, OR I might start the survey before surgery so I've got something fun to look forward to during and after recovery.........? Unclear, stay tuned.

Following on from the success of the Pronoun Joust (Pronoust), welcome to the equally well-named

NONBINARY NAME-OFF

Me and @averixus chose the pairs in the first round using a random number generator on the top 32 names from a survey I ran earlier in 2023.

Round 1

Poll 1: Ren vs. Elliot

Poll 2: Aster vs. Rowan

Poll 3: Jay vs. Ash

Poll 4: Casey vs. Mars

Poll 5: Max vs. Quinn

Poll 6: Bee vs. Kit

Poll 7: Oliver vs. Leo

Poll 8: Jamie vs. Blue

Poll 9: Lee vs. Eli

Poll 10: Sam vs. Robin

Poll 11: Ray vs. Jasper

Poll 12: Jack vs. Theo

Poll 13: James vs. Alex

Poll 14: Wren vs. Kai

Poll 15: Charlie vs. Finn

Poll 16: Crow vs. Moss

Round 2

Poll 1: Ren vs. Rowan

Poll 2: Ash vs. Mars

Poll 3: Quinn vs. Kit

Poll 4: Oliver vs. Blue

Poll 5: Eli vs. Robin

Poll 6: Jasper vs. Theo

Poll 7: Alex vs. Wren

Poll 8: Finn vs. Crow

Round 3

Poll 1: Rowan vs. Ash

Poll 2: Quinn vs. Blue

Poll 3: Robin vs. Jasper

Poll 4: Wren vs. Crow

Semi-final

Poll 1: Rowan vs. Quinn

Poll 2: Robin vs. Wren

Final

Rowan vs. Wren

WINNER: Rowan

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Less than 24 hours to go, and it's incredibly close!

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15 hours left on the semi-final polls!

Following on from the success of the Pronoun Joust (Pronoust), welcome to the equally well-named

NONBINARY NAME-OFF

Me and @averixus chose the pairs in the first round using a random number generator on the top 32 names from a survey I ran earlier in 2023.

Round 1

Poll 1: Ren vs. Elliot

Poll 2: Aster vs. Rowan

Poll 3: Jay vs. Ash

Poll 4: Casey vs. Mars

Poll 5: Max vs. Quinn

Poll 6: Bee vs. Kit

Poll 7: Oliver vs. Leo

Poll 8: Jamie vs. Blue

Poll 9: Lee vs. Eli

Poll 10: Sam vs. Robin

Poll 11: Ray vs. Jasper

Poll 12: Jack vs. Theo

Poll 13: James vs. Alex

Poll 14: Wren vs. Kai

Poll 15: Charlie vs. Finn

Poll 16: Crow vs. Moss

Round 2

Poll 1: Ren vs. Rowan

Poll 2: Ash vs. Mars

Poll 3: Quinn vs. Kit

Poll 4: Oliver vs. Blue

Poll 5: Eli vs. Robin

Poll 6: Jasper vs. Theo

Poll 7: Alex vs. Wren

Poll 8: Finn vs. Crow

Round 3

Poll 1: Rowan vs. Ash

Poll 2: Quinn vs. Blue

Poll 3: Robin vs. Jasper

Poll 4: Wren vs. Crow

Semi-final

Poll 1: Rowan vs. Quinn

Poll 2: Robin vs. Wren

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