Post #965194

2026-04-01 19:30 UTC

&quot;Why is my subject search for &#39;Gender expression&#39; turning up so many titles on aerodynamics?&quot; I was wondering just now, until I realized the most likely explanation was some catalog update process had done a pattern search-and-replace on &quot;Drag&quot; as a subject without checking the results. (Seen in a HathiTrust subject search. Most likely not their fault, as they take records from partner libraries pretty much as they get them.)

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@platypus@glammr.us 2026-04-01 19:35

@JMarkOckerbloom oh I'd be interested in the search URL if it's shareable

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@scruss@xoxo.zone 2026-04-01 19:35

@JMarkOckerbloom cue bans on aerodynamics books in 5, 4, 3, ... TBH, I fully expect the current regime to make teaching the equal transit time theory (the obsolete and very wrong theory of how airfoils work) mandatory because they can

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@wooramel@furries.club 2026-04-01 22:18

@JMarkOckerbloom Okay so we measure the skill of a cross-dresser by the coefficient of drag?

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@blp@framapiaf.org 2026-04-02 00:48

@JMarkOckerbloom I have a perhaps related anecdote. Several years ago, I was trying to organize a billiards party, but trying to search for materials for it failed because the search engine decided that billiards and pool are synonyms so I must want to search for pool parties. And adding "-pool" didn't help since a lot of sites that talk about billiards also talk about pool.

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@epicdemiologist@wandering.shop 2026-04-02 11:41

@JMarkOckerbloom AHAHAHAHA

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@notsoloud@expressional.social 2026-04-04 16:27

@JMarkOckerbloom So what's your lift-to-gender expression ratio?

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