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Worrying that a cis person might take cross-sex hormones long term by mistake is like worrying that your child will go out and roll in the nettles if you let them in the garden. Sure. Hypothetically they might roll in the nettles. What they’re not very likely to do is go out there and roll in the nettles a second time. Meanwhile trans people are yelling to be let out of the nettle patch while being told that moving around the garden is dangerous and to stay put for our own safety.

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Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.

The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.

This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.

If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.

We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.

As you were.

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kæt

@crocket2001
I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:

1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.

2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.

The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.

The public don''t need to "come round".

People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.

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Sailing lots today, getting lots of practice at taking the helm and tacking the boat. "Helm to lee!" is cried and then there is much winching and pulling in of lines as the boat turns into the wind. When we first did this it was a bit disastrous and chaotic, but after doing it several times the panic distills into a concentrated focus that punctuates the periods where we just sit on the boat and let it go.

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After about the first night or so it’s amazing how you get used to sleeping on a boat. The rocking motion and creaking sounds of the lines just become the comforting background rather than the thing that keeps waking you up.

Reminds me of a holiday where the B&B was right above the platforms of Lancaster station. The noise of trains quickly became the background. So much so that when there was engineering works in the last night it was eerily quiet and hard to sleep.

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I just made a command-line typo: 'locat' in place of 'locate'.

Ubuntu's command-not-found package offered me 'lolcat' as a higher-ranked preference than what I actually intended.

The Internet has won.

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Got a tattoo of the windows mouse cursor so that I can sit like this on Teams calls in the hope that someone frantically tries to move it.

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A few years ago I was on Scarlet (the yacht of @Sarah Brown and @Zoë O'Connell ) and noticed mid morning that I didn't have the bloating sensation I was used to having some time after breakfast. The reason for this, of course, is that Scarlet runs on lactose-free milk. Evidently I was slightly lactose intolerant, started buying lactose-free milk at home, and everything was better.

It shouldn't have been only today that I extrapolated this experience to cover a large takeaway banana milkshake.

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Kerbal Space Program is basically a dollhouse for people with A-Level further maths.
A space station in Kerbal Space Program showing several space planes docked around the moon of Laythe

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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:

If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.

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A new post on misleading Covid charts & why Covid really is low right now, and why we should be glad of it.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/hospitals-...

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Given the news of the xz backdoor, may I recommend this seminal paper from Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award lecture showing how a compiler with no backdoors in the source code can nevertheless propagate a backdoor.

Reflections on trusting trust | the morning paper
blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/09/re…

#SecureSoftwareSupplyChain #SoftwareSupplyChain #XZBackdoor

Reflections on trusting trust | the morning paper

blog.acolyer.org
#xzbackdoor #SecureSoftwareSupplyChain #softwaresupplychain
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A girl can dream...

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on this Trans Day of Visibilty, remember that you are valid, you matter, and you’re trans if you say you are

if you’re not cis, this day is for you

and remember that on this, the most holiest of trans days, TDoV and The Matrix’s 25th anniversary…

she is risen 😉

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Is anyone on Mastodon knowledgeable about Tironian notes? I've got tentative readings of two headings in a 9th c. Text from the Loire Valley, which mix Tironian notes and Latin charaters. But there are 13,000 T. Notes in Schmitz, many of which look very similar. Thanks!!

@histodons @litteracarolina @medievodons @chaprot #bookhistodons @mssprovenance

#bookhistodons @histodons group @mssprovenance @Anna Dorofeeva @Pierre Chambert-Protat @Medievodons group

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Sure! Be forewarned, the MS is very hard to read (which is why it remained for us to decipher.)

Line 1: the start seems to be "Versus in baptisterio" but after that -- "Petri" something maybe. Extremely hard to read. The last character that looks like some Carolingian miniscule A's -- "abstergentis"? "delati"?

Line 14: we read "De petra manante"

We = me + Mike Fontaine (Cornell) + Rachel Fickes (Middlebury library.)

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Happy clock bullshit day to all those who celebrate. May you quickly remember how the fuck to do the oven.
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One of these devices is 24 years old and still mostly operational, so I guess not. It helps that two of them have a rotary dial used to set the clock. The third (which happens to be the oven) has that stupid short capacitive tap to adjust by a minute, medium hold to start racing through many 10-minute increments per second kind of scheme. On the other hand, the cooktop that’s part of the same physical device goes through its 17 regular power levels at only 2 per second.
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One worrying thing about the whole xz debacle is that maintainers are probably going to be even less inclined to trust people they don't know coming in to offer help (99.9% of whom are, one hopes, _not_ state-sponsored attackers ...), and thus it will be even harder to relieve the pressure on overworked maintainers.

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Christians: This Friday we celebrate!

Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?

Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.

Non Christians: You celebrate that?

Christians: There are sound theological reasons.

Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.

Christians: We call it “Good Friday”

Non Christians: …

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RUDE!
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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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TIL >It is also not unheard of for geese to mate with swans, with the offspring of a swan and a goose known as a swoose.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-4305…
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New Zealand goose: How one blind bisexual bird became an icon

Henry the goose spent many years in a love triangle with two swans, helping raise their children.
By Yvette Tan (BBC News)

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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.

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I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.

You can save it as a bookmarklet so it's 1 click away. It's just a tiny IIFE JS function.
gist.github.com/OrionReed/4c37…

3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically.

3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically. - DOM3D.js
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Etymology is so cool.

The term "microblog" comes from micro + blog, ie small blog.

Then, "blog" is a shortened form of "Web log". And a "log" comes from "log book", which is a book used to record events on a journey.

So get this, the "log" in log book is because you would use the book to record the progress and speed of a ship by using a reel attached to a chip log... So called because it's made of wood... ie a log.

So a microblog is a small record of your journey.

I think that's very poetic that this very post is a direct descendent of mariners from 400 years ago.

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I had to sign up to a private dentist (no NHS in the area). One thing I always notice the few times I've had to go private for things is that you don't get lectured.

With the NHS it's like waiting for the NordVPN bit in a YouTube video, except you can't skip it.

You need to lose weight, stop drinking, eat better, exercise, wash behind your ears, phone your mother, come more often, not come as often, get more sleep, work less, just be happier, find some "me" time, stay informed but worry less, get out more, close the door (were you born in a barn?).

I wonder if there's been any papers on contrasting primary care providers who moan at their patients and those who don't. I can't help wondering if it's counterproductive.

It's made me much happier to book checkups knowing that we both start on the basis that I'm trying.

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@MikeFromLFE My personal experience within the same practice is that when you are an NHS patient they just do the bare minimum to patch you up, now I’m a private patient I have a plan for restorative/preventative work to improve my teeth for my future life. Obviously that costs, but it’s silly not to help people to keep their own teeth into older age
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1946 book of reportage by I. F. Stone

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#palestine #israel #refugees #freepalestine #ceasefire #zionism #gaza

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@MyView I've been antizionist for about 20 years (since I worked for an organization that sent interfaith trips there) but have a lot more clarity, and therefore rage, since reading Underground to Palestine. I think the last 6 months have finally removed the veil for most people who were trying not to know.
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