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Normalize cis people loving their gender.
I don't mean that toxic, competitive "I can gender better than you" crap. I mean taking joy in who you are. I think this is one place where cis folks could stand to learn a lot from the trans community. Y'all take your gender and who you are for granted.
Nearly every day, often several times a day, I stop, think, look down at myself, and go "I love being a girl!" I love everything about it from the new shape my body is taking to the long hair to the fuchsia dress I was wearing yesterday. I love being a girl! I don't need to compete with other girls and I know that I'd probably lose anyway, if I even tried. Y'all have a 30-year head start and less baggage. But I love it none the less. Nothing in my life brings me more joy right now than just getting to be me.
If you're a big guy who loves going to the gym, then love going to the gym. You can do that without putting anyone else down. If you're a woman who loves makeup, love that about yourself. If you're a woman who hates makeup or a guy who hates the gym, love that about yourself. You're a beautiful, amazing person regardless of what you do or enjoy and how that stacks up against anyone else. ๐
U.K. Communist Party Backs Away Slowly After J.K. Rowling Expresses Support
โFor avoidance of doubt, the Communist Party supports the right of trans people to medically transition, to have access to healthcare and live equal, full and meaningful lives, socially, economically and politicallyโ
I will never understand the British flag waving royal loving small boat hating thing
The royal family arrived uninvited in a flotilla of small boats in 1066 and they've been housed at the taxpayers expense ever since...
Sodapop got herself stuck upside down in the sofa cushion gap and couldn't roll herself out.
Needed rescuing.
Tiny idiot.
btw if anyone is hiring do drop me a line
my current cv/work history is at http://tef.computer/
(remote, uk based, database & backend dist-sys)
This is an absolutely metal business decision made by OpenDNS (Cisco).
Court orders in France and Portugal are requiring the big open DNS resolvers (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare, etc.) to block resolution of a small list of domains for anyone in those countries.
OpenDNS seems to have decided to not implement the blocklist, and instead will just not answer any DNS queries from inside those countries.
Change implemented on a Friday evening, for maximum surprise.
#DNS #DNSBlocking #MyHero
well that is complying with the order.
I am not surprised. Iโm almost surprised Google did not do the same, to be honest.
despite Cisco, I think the better option even if fucked up.
What's extra stupid is anyone who wants to get around it very easily can. Fucked how govs try to use law to enforce things like this that don't even have good technical means of tracking. Guh.
The New York Times says Trump has learned his lesson and has been chastened by his 34-count felony conviction.
financial crimes have exploded in the last 20 years to the tune of trillions; with #wageTheft being the single biggest crime committed in the United States every single day.
cops kill more innocent Americans than ever before; while stealing from & enriching themselves with impounded property & assets of extra-judicial suspects.
but #media really want you to believe that working class folks too sick to jump a turnstile means โcrimeโ is down.
don't let them lie to us like that.
IntriguingโฆI wanted to see if the same held true for UK. Sadly itโs not clear it does.
With result appearing to be sure thing, voters may decide to stay home or wavering Tories could drive changes in turnoutPaula Surridge (The Guardian)
There is no positive legacy of the #Sunak government.
Would a stronger, more politically savvy PM have taken on the tobacco lobbyists and called their lawfare out for what it wasโฆbasically ensuring another generation gets ensnared into a filthy, expensive, health destroying habit, so they always have a fresh group to sell vaping to?
Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPsRob Davies (The Guardian)
There is a strong chance you are rightโฆI just have a feeling there will be some outlets, maybe the Times say, who will be itching to call out Labour hypocrisy. Iโm thinking along the lines of the criticism of Brownโs PFI experiments for hospitals.
John Mastodon, Kagari Atsuko, and Miss Key walk into a bar
the bartender says: there sure is a lot of activity in this pub tonight
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut - veggiedefender/open-and-shutGitHub
Who's ready to see this big bat at Anthrocon next week? ๐
โ๏ธ @thatsfurredup
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting
Companies are firing support reps and replacing them with chatbots, even though no one can figure out how to stop bots from "hallucinating." We think the FTC should put companies on notice that their chatbots' fake info will have real consequences:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/how-ftc-can-make-internet-safe-chatbots
No points for guessing the subject of the first question the Wall Street Journal asked FTC Chair Lina Khan: of course it was about AI.Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments
(one of many reports)
Look, let's get this straight.
Homelessness is SOLVABLE. Easily. Especially in a nation with as many empty, bank-owned homes as the US has.
You just have to want to solve it.
America has a homeless problem because corporate America WANTS to have a permanent worst-case underclass. To scare the rest into the corporate yoke.
"See, this could be YOU. Aren't you GRATEFUL that we're offering you a shit job under abusive management for ever-worse pay and substandard โ if any โ benefits?"
I remain convinced that the only reason companies use #fedex is that fedex must have a department dedicated to blackmailing corporate execs.
Ugh.
Lounging at the couch on this #FursuitFriday
๐: Black Forest Lodge Con, Feldberg
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: 2024-05-17
๐ฅฆ: Karl Lauterbrocc
๐ท: @gustl
Pretty sure the orange colouration, hi-vis striped muzzle and shiny disposition should keep the predators at bay!
#FursuitFriday by Crofty ft Gaz
PLEASE show us your bug characters! ๐ Your #bugsona! ๐ชฒYour bees and beetles and butterflies! PLEEEEEEEASE! ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
#fursuit #fursuitmaker #furry #furryfandom #furryart #FursuitFriday
![ah yes, my favorite genre of sculptures - โhey you know whatโd be extremely fucked up to see in the woods at night?"
[Photo of a metal sculpture melding the body of a Buck (Male Deer) and a Human in a Minotaur/Centaur fashion with an antlered Buck's head, upper torso of a human, and then the body of the Buck, standing in the water at the edge of a pond]](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/511147 "ah yes, my favorite genre of sculptures - โhey you know whatโd be extremely fucked up to see in the woods at night?\"
[Photo of a metal sculpture melding the body of a Buck (Male Deer) and a Human in a Minotaur/Centaur fashion with an antlered Buck's head, upper torso of a human, and then the body of the Buck, standing in the water at the edge of a pond]")
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