it occurred to me this morning that "anyone criticizing Ro is racist" has the same energy as, "anyone criticizing the state of Israel is antisemitic."
in effect, both are co-opting real bigotry in service of obscuring the real power dynamics at play.
Ro is a web developer and consultant. he's a member of the professional-managerial class. he has the ear of the other Big Names in fediverse moderation. The Bad Space is a contributor to the Federation Safety Enhancement Project. dude has a *lot* of power and clout in this community.
meanwhile, the bulk of the transfem people calling Ro out have to crowdfund, do sex work or do artwork commissions just to put food on their damn tables.
this isn't "trans people versus black people." it's an upper-middle-class ego-tripper and his HOA friends crybullying a bunch of powerless, poor, homeless, vulnerable people because he seriously fucked up and was called out on it.
period.
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I have to say that was a line of dialogue I never expected to hear.
On the other hand, it sounds like David thinks you can get an NVQ in it …
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The more I see about this "Bad Space" thing, the more concerned I get. This is like that abortive united federation of instances thingy from last year that was run by the freeze peach crowd, only this one cloaks an apparent trans eliminationist agenda in the language of social justice. Apparently a lot of people find this superficially attractive.
If you are a trans-heavy instance, you might want to consider a fediblock of ubiqueros.com (AFAICS this is the "Bad Space" main instance) as necessary self defence. I am certainly going to.
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Wait, are you talking about The Bad Space project by Ro?
I thought that was basically a directory of fedi instances with crummy mod policies. I think I remember the "united federation" drama from last year too. The Bad Space seems more like a blacklist than a badly-contrived rules manifesto.
I've started seeing some posts floating around regarding some "Good Space" thing, but all I've heard so far is the name. If it stands in opposition to The Bad Space I can see how it would be problematic though.
I think I'm confused…
@Acorn Squashbuckler it appears to be a directory of the sort of instances everyone would want to block, AND instances run by or hosting trans women.
Fair warning, I have seen this shit before and an in a mood to deal with it by creating a fire break. My block finger is very itchy right now.
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@AcornSquashbuckler Some context for what's going on with The Bad Space and FSEP: hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111…
OK, let's get into it. Let's talk about anti-Blackness on this here Fediverse, "civility traps", and "why nazis wear suits."First: there are some trans folk that love Black people, care about our safety, and want to see the Fediverse be more welcoming to Black users.♥️ These kind folk volunteer considerable time, money, effort, and social capital, to make the Fediverse more welcoming for Black folk. We love them for this.
But there are some trans folk that are super fashy, and hate Black folk.
@Ben Hutchings @Acorn Squashbuckler Relevant to this, have also seen posts complaining that trans women (particularly) only ever seem to be welcome in spaces as long as we present as resources to be used, and that the idea that we have a right to just fucking exist somewhere seems utterly alien.
And there’s a lot of that sort of tone in the post you just quoted, along with the “you’re either helping us build our widget or you’re with the Nazis” false dichotomy.
This is a thing we have seen time and time again. When I was in politics, we were only ever engaged with when people wanted us to lend legitimacy to whatever they were doing. It pretty much NEVER got reciprocated.
We are used to being thusly shat on, but it doesn’t mean we have to be fucking nice about it.
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I mean I said a billion times, I don't even care about the blocklists?
Newsflash, I'm not even sure anyone else does care either. I think what's tweaking people is that you've got a whole bunch of instances labeled "no description. Hate speech, poor moderation" and at least some of it bullshit.
Then, when folks point that out, this becomes a larger convo about why white trans femmes are dogshit and trans fascists are a real thing, common enough to require widespread education and condemnation.
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Oh and again, all of this is set against a backdrop where the people who are trying to fuck every single person involved here over forever, are actively telling reactionaries with guns that trans people (and especially trans femmes) are pedophile sex criminals who mean to harm their children and do so just by existing.
I must confess, this is also a significant portion of why I'm upset about this.
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Been vaguely aware of the latest Fedi drama. Been trying to ignore it, but it seems to have ended up at “trans people need to stop being so sensitive to people randomly assuming they’re disgusting perverts who the rest of society needs shielding from, it was a MISTAKE you guys”.
And that just makes me sad.
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Respectability politics, innit.
I'd rather have solidarity with my fellow deviants (read: sex workers, drug addicts, unhoused people). We all deserve liberation, safety and respect.
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with love so it overflows
and leaks through my eyes
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It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the cis are at it again.
Pilot dies after plane crashes during gender reveal party in Mexico
Alan Francisco Rangel of the Sinaloa Red Cross told CNN that paramedics treated the pilot at the crash site in San Pedro, Navolato and then took him to a local hospital, where he died.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/04/americas/mexico-gender-reveal-plane-crash-scli-intl/index.html
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Kentucky governor won't commit to GOP appointment if McConnell steps down
A state law directs the governor to select a Senate appointee from a list of names submitted by the state executive committee of the outgoing senator’s party.Zoë Richards (NBC News)
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Man proclaiming to be a ‘classical liberal’ actually just a bit racist
In a stunning turn of events, a man claiming to be a follower of “Western Liberalism” is not an impish provocateur desiring to keep people and markets free of state interference, but rather a somew…NewsThump
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Things are pretty good for me. Lots of people care about me and it seems to me that when I spend time with them I like myself a little more. I even had a moment of actually appreciating how I look. Some of my fears about the future have started to seem more manageable and navigable, and I've had a pretty good day today, organising for a day's walking in the Peak District next weekend and lounging around before watching what was a pretty exciting Italian Grand Prix.
And so why do I find myself suddenly feeling slightly low and on the verge of tears? There's nothing to sadden me, I'm sitting in the summerhouse with the laptop and the new bureau I rescued from Ravensworth Gardens. It's a lovely afternoon. And yet there are tears welling up and something catching at the back of my throat.
I've taken antidepressants as usual, per schedule, and similarly hormones. Whyyyyyyy.
@ceb Could well be though I rather expected most of that to be over and done with by now! Bloody hell I’ve been on hormones for three years now. How did that happen?
Walking on Saturday 9th.
Ah yes, the Four Quartets! (Roses in Four Quartets; hyacinths in The Waste Land).
At the start of 4Q I always think of someone a bit like Eliot himself, a bit like someone like Bertrand Russell or Whtehead, wandering through an autumn garden of a dilapidated stately home maybe after some great sadness and shattering, perhaps the great war (1), kicking up leaves, kicking up dust, running your hand along the sheets covering the furniture in the west wing remembering the great Edwardian dances, etc.
(1)via a linking image of my own: the way people can and have dry-drowned in disused fountains filled with leaves, from the CO2 of the decay, like the trenches in the war).
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Welcome to another #RailwaysExplained thread… this is my first completely new thread on Mastodon, and boy is it going to be an epic one.
HOW IT WORKS (AND WHEN IT DOESN’T) – DISCONTINUOUS ELECTRIFICATION
Something I get asked about A LOT is discontinuous electrification. A typical comment on social media will be something like “well with battery technology so readily available we can just electrify the easy bits and run on battery in between…”
#railways #OLE #OCS #OverheadLine
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It's not just the monetary issue of rebuilding bridges and tunnels - it is also the disruption that it can cause. Take the electrification of the Bolton-Manchester line, for example. The bridge at Moses Gate caused disruption for months as it was a major thoroughfare for the town's car traffic, contained utilities and the geology underneath wasn't as expected.
If they could have run on a battery through this, it would have saved so much time and disruption.
@Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ @John Macintosh UUUUUUUULA!
And presently they came to Tillingham, where, if Wells had done his research properly, he would have known it is basically a mudflat and far too shallow to float a torpedo ram, which had a draft of 6 metres.
Me: Idly browsing through Amazon crap.
Amazon: Would you like a retro telephone handset that connects via bluetooth?
Me: Nah...
Amazon: What if it's RADIATION PROOF?
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#StarWars - 'Reign of the Empire' Trailer concept, this one #TheBadBatch through to #StarWarsRebels. #Ahsoka #AhsokaTano #Andor
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Star Wars - 'Reign of the Empire' Trailer concept
The second of my Star wars concept trailers, this one encompassing The Bad Batch through to Rebels. I've been sat on this video for weeks now as I finished t...YouTube
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I now have a Welcome To Paradise earworm! (~2:30) Wonderfully cathartic song for those brought up in that world.
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Front 242 Welcome To Paradise V 1 0 V
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise. 1988 Wax Trax Records. A slick track by a slick band chastising tele evangelists. Great industrial example of angst and rebe...YouTube
This isn't something we see that often from the #IsleofWight but the weather conditions yesterday were perfectly clear.
These wind turbines are situated near Brighton, some 50 miles or so away. We were up on #CulverDown. I posted a video from there yesterday afternoon.
The Nab Tower is in the picture which is a well known Solent landmark.
#photography
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Counterpoint to the “good news” on German self-id girlcock.club/@Evelynuwu/11094…
it's worse than what we have now it also removes all anti discrimination laws as a compromise 🤡They exchanged one legal assessment to a million daily micro assessments. Now it isn't how much bs u can tell the court but how well u pass
It's not a good law. It also forces newly out trans fems in the military
Misgenders trans parents
Sets legal groundwork for trans exclusion in sport
Atleast if u got ur tsg it's something you can point to and fight discrimination.
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Does anyone know why Nvidia are shipping a firmware updater with a two-year out-of-date signature on it? It doesn't match any of the known-leaked keys, but it's somewhat suspicious to me!
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(In case they replace it, the signing cert at time-of-writing is:
Serial : 329EFDC406C491D67C01DBF8252A885A
Certificate expiration date:
notBefore : Aug 3 00:00:00 2018 GMT
notAfter : Aug 3 23:59:59 2021 GMT
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#Nvidia #infosec #certificate #leak #ResizableBAR
Download NVIDIA, GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla Drivers
Download drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards, video cards, GPU accelerators, and for other GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla hardware. US / English download.www.nvidia.com
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"Given these precedents, there is a growing apprehension that Wu's digital silence signals a new chapter in China's human rights transgressions–one in which the LGBTQ community potentially emerges as the newest target of state-led oppression, in keeping with global trends."
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EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...Jackie Singh (Hacking, but Legal)
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in reply to Rachel, Femme Doux Naturel • • •meadow
in reply to Rachel, Femme Doux Naturel • • •that about sums it up, yeah. it’s what frustrates me most about all this
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in reply to meadow • • •@meadow but far be it from me to suggest that Ro and his professional-managerial-class leftlib clique aren't ready to have a conversation about class politics and how those translate into power dynamics-
...no. no, actually I will suggest that.