Over the course of the questions, it becomes apparent that I define left- and right-wing based on handedness.
Hey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?
September 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Over the course of the questions, it becomes apparent that I define left- and right-wing based on handedness.
Time to bust out the left handedness chart again
September 19, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Time to bust out the left handedness chart again
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
![The history of left handedness
Rate of left handedness among Americans by year of birth
[Attached is a graph showing a dramatic increase in the 1930s]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z26yzeduq24ma5ym7uer3i5w/bafkreihzjeisoynmjrimpnhqgd7zzhc2bmvnuwwv3q2m4xzvd3frqg6d2y)
<left-handedness meme>
July 15, 2026 at 7:12 AM
<left-handedness meme>
Impossible, handedness is binary
March 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Impossible, handedness is binary
Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us.
This is a post about trans kids.
This is a post about trans kids.
May 21, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us.
This is a post about trans kids.
This is a post about trans kids.
“Rising left-handedness rates”.
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“Rising left-handedness rates”.
Left handedness famously didn't appear until the 1970s
August 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Left handedness famously didn't appear until the 1970s
Similar does exist in some other areas like efforts to train autistic children to mask, and historically efforts to train left handedness out of left handed kids.
February 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Similar does exist in some other areas like efforts to train autistic children to mask, and historically efforts to train left handedness out of left handed kids.
![Comic. [Two people considering diagrams on whiteboard] PERSON 1 with ponytail: The W bosons produced by the collider beam will mostly be left-handed. PERSON 2: So we should send in a *right*-handed batter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiclaz76nd4vfvtlhm7bncogauon6wkv4dh6fm7llbx3u4igqfovu4)
September 8, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Left handedness LMAO
August 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Left handedness LMAO
naming weird stuff after left-handedness is kinda sinister
December 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
naming weird stuff after left-handedness is kinda sinister
The Trump Administration's entire raison d'etre is misunderstanding the left handedness graph on purpose
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
April 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Trump Administration's entire raison d'etre is misunderstanding the left handedness graph on purpose
Do other organisms have handedness?
September 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Do other organisms have handedness?
we've barely overcome it with fucking *left-handedness* within our lifetimes
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
we've barely overcome it with fucking *left-handedness* within our lifetimes
Nebraska Rep Don Bacon: “I and most Americans disagree with the President’s heavy handedness. He is threatening NATO members, which is shameful.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Nebraska Rep Don Bacon: “I and most Americans disagree with the President’s heavy handedness. He is threatening NATO members, which is shameful.”
The people who thought that left-handedness was satanic never went away, they just got a thesaurus.
the anti-trans to anti-neurodiversity pipeline continues to flow. it is obviously absurd anywhere, but it's so detached from reality in Ireland, where we have a massive backlog of children seeking autism diagnoses and no public provision of adult diagnosis at all
April 28, 2026 at 11:53 AM
The people who thought that left-handedness was satanic never went away, they just got a thesaurus.
January 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
[Sighs]
[Leaves the room]
[Comes back with the chart]
[Leaves the room]
[Comes back with the chart]
July 23, 2026 at 11:41 AM
[Sighs]
[Leaves the room]
[Comes back with the chart]
[Leaves the room]
[Comes back with the chart]
Left handedness also exploded when it stopped being taboo.
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Left handedness also exploded when it stopped being taboo.
Analyses of common DNA variants & handedness => complex underpinnings with roles of e.g. networks of structural proteins in the cell. New analyses of 38k left- & 313k right-handers by @clydefrancks.bsky.social implicate rare protein-coding changes too, but these explain ~0.9% of trait variance. 10/n
Exome-wide analysis implicates rare protein-altering variants in human handedness - Nature Communications
Left-handedness is a common and partly heritable trait. Here, the authors perform a genome-wide screen for rare, protein-altering genetic variants associated with handedness in over 350,000 people, an...
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Analyses of common DNA variants & handedness => complex underpinnings with roles of e.g. networks of structural proteins in the cell. New analyses of 38k left- & 313k right-handers by @clydefrancks.bsky.social implicate rare protein-coding changes too, but these explain ~0.9% of trait variance. 10/n
what does Gege have against left handedness #TODOTUESDAY
June 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
what does Gege have against left handedness #TODOTUESDAY