# control part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover control part. Page: Feed: --- ## [Sometimes, the question is wrong](https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0024-sometimes-the-question-is-wrong/) _2026-04-09 · Ellie's blog_ A while ago I had a conversation with a psychiatrist which went something like: Psychiatrist: Sometimes, people with ASD 1 (like you) will interpret a question differently to how it was intended, usually more literally, and then when someone points it out, say “I wasn’t wrong, the question was wrong.” But how can the question be wrong, when 99/100 people understood what it meant? Let me give you… ## [The 6th of May](https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0023-the-sixth-of-may/) _2025-05-05 · Ellie's blog_ To me, the 6th of May will always be a day of conflicting emotions. On the 6th of May 1933, the Nazis raided and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin, a home of pioneering queer and trans research, medicine, art, and culture. Four days later, they burned its entire collection — including countless irreplacable items and over a decade of research into the same gender affirming… ## [Chains of Flesh](https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0022-chains-of-flesh/) _2025-03-24 · Ellie's blog_ Beyond the chains of mortal flesh There is a shining light And in that light a figure weeps Surrounded by the night Beyond the chains of brittle flesh There is so soft a gaze Crying out in silent pain Against the fiery blaze Beyond the chains of gendered flesh That bind her soul from you There is a figure shining bright Unbroken, old yet new Beyond the chains of nature’s flesh Another world might… ## [Taking back control (part 5): the tentacles of the attention industry](https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0021-taking-back-control-5/) _2025-01-16 · Ellie's blog_ ← Part 4 Almost three years ago, I decided to write a manifesto detailing how I did — and didn’t — want to use technology. Thus began a series of blog posts; by Part 3 a rosy picture was being painted of how well I was doing. Part 4 , the most recent, detailed the biggest remaining pain point as I perceived it (interoperability of messaging systems), and how I had decided to resolve it. That was… ## [LGBTQ+ people are not going back](https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0020-lgbtq-not-going-back/) _2024-12-03 · Ellie's blog_ This post is part of a collective action started by Julia Serano. The tides really are turning against us queer people, huh? Across the world, the far-right is gaining power. Even here in the UK, one of the only countries to supposedly shift left recently, it hardly matters — the new Labour government continues to uphold attacks on trans rights and pander to transphobes. And now the Democrats in… ## [Segregating sports by sex was always a flawed idea](https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0019-womens-sports/) _2024-11-22 · Ellie's blog_ At the Paris 2024 Olympics, women’s sports once again became a political football. Not only is the scientific and public consciousness finally starting to realise that the so-called sex binary isn’t so binary, but the far-right moral panic about trans people has reached such dizzyingly illogical heights that they have started harassing cisgender women because they are too good at sports, or…