I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
Maybe one day people will learn.
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Job hunting, oh my
I'm looking for work again, after the most recent temporary thing came to an end. (Arguably I did it all too quickly!).
Apart from the challenge of persuading myself that I'm actually good enough to do _any_ described job, I find I haven't a clue what job titles mean these days. Cambridge University hides everything under a "Computer Officer" blanket, and I know I'm a system administrator (who does networks and other stuff too), but the job market is full of "Thing Analyst" and "Site Reliability Engineer" and "DevOps" and I haven't a clear idea what boxes if any I fit into.
Trying to imagine the culture shock immigrants to the UK get when, for the first time, they encounter someone like an accountant asking for their electricity bill.
Because, fellow Brits, I have to inform you that that's a bit weird.
It is though.
I arrived in '96 and the first thing my bank did after opening an account was to issue me a cheque book. The last time I'd seen a cheque in Germany was at least 10 years prior...
Later that year I wanted to transfer money to someone (I can't remember the reason) so went to my bank and they told me that was only possible if they had an account with the same bank... Bank transfers had been the standard in Germany since the 60s.
@Ozzy My UK bank keeps asking me, “what’s online banking like in Portugal compared to ours?”, presumably expecting effusive praise about their app, and their face falls when I say, “it’s at least a decade ahead of anything you have”.
So many Brits think they’re living in high tech utopia, when actually it’s backwards as hell in so many ways.
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Star Trek Prodigy is silly.
"You want us to jump? I do not think that option is logically sound"
"In outer space, there is no sound"
"Your rebuttal is correct, but nonsense"
BOLA be like, “I saw geese break someone’s arm”
Did you though?
Geese cheat code: they’re bullshitting. Make it clear that you know this and they will fuck off. Run at them screaming “Dinner!” and flap your arms. They fuck off incredibly quickly.
If that doesn’t work, grab the squawky cunt by the neck and practice Olympic hammer throwing. It’s funny, and it won’t give you shit again.
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@Sesquipedality It's an interesting exercise in attempting to express the reasoning in accessible language. To me it seems a little patronising but it's been a long time since I was 14 so I'm a poor judge of that... and was never very typically 14 anyway.
Problematic how?
“Turbo cancer”?
The fuck is “turbo cancer”?
Dear god, yer racist uncle on Facebook says the most stupid shit.
You know goats have those excellent rectangular pupils in their eyes? Well apparently they give the goat an excellent field of vision to detect predators. They also swivel in their sockets to ensure that the pupil remains parallel to the ground.
Men declaring that “blockers” should be illegal is kinda monkey-paw-tastic.
Should we tell them that they were actually developed to treat prostate cancer?
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Ha! A bit of sciencing reveals that my new dental implant crown, while colour matched perfectly under visible light, is a completely different colour to its neighbouring teeth under UV.
No reason why it wouldn't be, I guess. It's designed to look real to human vision, which it does, apart from the little blob of epoxy filling covering the screw head.
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Enoch Burke to remain in prison for contempt of court
Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is to remain in prison for contempt of court after refusing to engage with an offer from a High Court judge to release him for Easter.Orla O'Donnell (RTÉ)
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“Mrs Jones lost her husband” “Has she looked down the back of the sofa?”
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@Sarah Brown is this based on what they announced, or did you actually check?
I had half an idea to check, but that involved
a) interacting with a post coming from threads
b) enabling javascript from the threads server
and that's was more than I was willing to do 😁
so, to recap,
- the smartest people with accounts on threads (it's a bit of a contradiction)
- from just 3 countries
- that do opt in in their settings
can be followed by us, without reading our replies
i'm not impressed, i'll think about when some personal old uncle will succeed to find me the other way around
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Jeff King: The House of Lords, Constitutional Propriety, and the Safety of Rwanda Bill
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will receive its second reading in the House of Lords on 29 January 2024, having cleared the House of Commons unamended. There are a great many p…UK Constitutional Law Association
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Anyone know about Synologies?
I have a Drobo 5N2, which is obviously orphanware.
I want a Synology to do much the same job. What should I get?
so i have a Synology and it was a bad experience because:
1. they will happily sell small ones where the hardware just isn't up to running the current bloated version of the OS
(specifically I got a DS216 then discovered this new device was below the *stated* reqs)
2. the BIOS is DRMed so you can't just put Debian on it or something sensible.
i have cut down enough of the software, including forcibly deleting bloated shit and making it impossible to auto-reinstall it, that it can serve SMB without running out of CPU
if this thing blows up or catches fire I'll probably get an old HP Microserver (near-silent, reputedly) and run a proper OS on it
I got a DS1019+ (in 2019) to replace my Drobo 5N. It's Just Worked since, but I'm not doing anything very complicated with it.
Looks like the closest current model is the DS1522+ (although that's 2022 hardware).
I like that the storage is just a pile of Linux and can be recovered on any PC.
I tried using it as a general Linux server, it's doable but the OS is a bit too opinionated to make that pleasant. Now it's just NFS mounted to a separate Debian box, as well as CIFS shares.
Things I learned on the internet: apparently the country where a deranged tantrum-prone egomaniac fascist with dementia is leading the polls has a problem with its public education system.
How surprising!
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This analogue landline turnoff at the end of this year is going to be a disaster for older folk. Less than nine months to go and the only official advice is "you may need to buy extra new equipment" *mic drop*.
No advice as to the equipment, nor where they've planted the magic money tree.
Yes *I* know what to do, and yes, *I* can afford it.
@chiffchaff It's been so completely unadvertised. Although to be fair I don't really consume any advertisement channels these days. But no household leafleting, letters from provider ... I might have had an email, but I think I found out about it by accident (and I'm not even sure how).
I'm still wondering how many rural exchanges still don't have fibre connection. Our old place up the valley certainly didn't last time I checked. How are they expected to cope?
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Cis people on Reddit be like, "a trans woman would never need a gynaecologist, and they'd never ask if you might be pregnant because they could tell, and anyway, it will be in your notes, which they will have read".
And I'm like, "literally everything you just said is wrong"
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@NatalyaD
I'm super super lucky with my GP. She seems to have an eidetic memory or something; she will say things like "I wouldn't normally recommend X but given your history of Y and that you're taking Z, I think it's appropriate".
(this is not calling you a liar; I've had waaaay too much healthcare in my life, and the majority are definitely the sort you describe. And I guess GPs are a different kind of thing in terms of having a long-term relationship with their patients.)
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I, for one, welcome the support of our catsnake friends and allies.
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss’s recent attempt to ban transgender women from female spaces ran out of time and will now not be debated after MPs joined forces to “talk it out” for five hours, including discussing ferret name choices.#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Liz Truss’s bid to ban trans women from sports runs out of time after MPs discuss ferrets instead
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss's attempt to ban trans women from female spaces ran out of time after MPs joined forces to "talk it out"Hilary Mitchell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
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Cycle reset. Doctors hate this one simple trick.
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Dear United States; behold your future.
Here's what we're reading today:Presidential elections have begun in #Russia. #Putin will be re-elected for a 5th term.
According to Ukr intelligence, the Russian DefMin has allowed military personnel fighting in #Ukraine to vote for Putin without even showing up at a polling station. This includes those who have already been killed or gone missing.
This makes it easier to falsify the results.
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Russian Defence Ministry allowing soldiers to cast posthumous votes for Putin, says Ukrainian intelligence
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing at the “polling stations.”Ukrainska Pravda
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See news headline including words, “Trump is currently leading the polls”.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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Putin: I will destroy the alliance you built and remake the world in my image.
US politicians: Sure. Cool. No worries.
China: Here is an annoying robot lady narrating cat videos.
US politicians: 💣🔫⚔️🤬🤬🤬
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Me: "I don't think I know $person"
Friend: "I think they know you because you did a politics near them once"
That should be my epitaph. "Did a politics once"
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit healthcare.
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit equality.
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit justice.
Why should trans people recognise any kind of legitimacy cis opinions about us when they won’t even recognise our humanity?
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Recent cis pronouncements:
- Trans people beaten to death is suicide.
- Trans people are too stupid to deserve healthcare
- Trans people had it coming when the OG Nazis tried to exterminate us.
Fuck your cis-supremacy.
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No doubt sage advice in most cases. Kinda cool we have Rep @BriannaTitone in CO though
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I wasn't very online then, so GG missed me entirely. I had to learn about it after the fact. And it was actually really hard to learn about it for a while? One person likened it to cliques at a highschool lunch table which sounds insane, but for a while that was the only video around. Wasn't until I watched Innuendo Studios's videos on it that I actually got some concrete understanding of the events.
I think some of that contributes to this happening over and over again.
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in reply to Jesse Cohn • •@Jesse Cohn I wrote about it a bit on LJ at the time. I think it's probably gone now. There's a 6 month gap in my memory from the nervous breakdown it caused, so documenting it wasn't high on my list of priorities.
I've since managed to get a modicum of revenge on some of the people involved. Not willing to go into further details.
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