i was on HRT for five years before i was on transgender HRT. i was on a low dose of spironolactone for my blood pressure. the doc just gave it out like nothing. it's just when someone wants lower T for gender reasons that it's suddenly something the state needs to violently stop.
I feel like surely people on this network would appreciate knowing that the BBC sound effect library, from which you may freely download, has 716 distinct recordings of clocks specifically https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
and consider Europol have such a boner for this they even let slip requirements-creep aspirations to allow other materials to be caught in the net (without even talking about poisoning the hash database with, for example, documents that journalists might have been provided via a whistleblower or which could embarrass a ruling party in one of the more fashy EU states)
It is super frustrating how the mainstream media fail to explain what #chatcontrol actually means.
Surveillance in the physical world is easy to explain, and obviously super creepy.
But surveillance in the digital world is not immediately visible, and unituitive.
What people need to realize is that chat control ist the equivalent of a robot police man with a raised baton standing next to your bed, watching you have sex.
When its elecetronic brain thinks you're doing something immoral, it will automaticlly start beating you up. And there will be nothing you can do to stop it, because as we all know, computers make no mistakes.
Even if years later, some judge decides retroaxctively that the robocop DID make a mistake .... your bones have already been broken, and nothing can undo the violence.
It is an automated life-destroying machine.
And the definition of what makes the robocop beat you up in your own bed can change any time.
What if AfD gets >50% next time on the federal elections, do you think that CSAM material will remain the only thing on the blacklist?
I also think that we should all look at ourselves, at our friends, at our families, and at our neighbors and ask ourselves, and ask THEM, to their faces:
"Are there so many people here, really, sharing CSAM online, to justify the total and complete oppressive surveillance 24/7 of every single one of us, in everything we do, in every private conversation we have?"
There aren't. The question is rhetorical.
And then maybe we can ask ourselves if there aren't much better ways to protect children.
And what perhaps the real cost and the hidden goal of #ChatControl is.
Pro travel tip: if you want to be treated nicely by TSA staff in US wear this t-shirt. Every single airport: DFW, BOS, LAX the TSA staff smiled and were friendly and said “great t-shirt “
Lakes fed by glaciers are often a beautiful blue color due to how sunlight is scattered by particles of finely crushed rock suspended in the water. This one is perhaps the most dramatic example I have ever seen. #norway #glaciers #lakes #hiking
Endless rage at commentators that say things like "Kids these days are addicted to their devices" because:
1. Look at adults. We are too. 2. Why do you think that is? Perhaps because we built cities where you NEED to drive to go anywhere and EVERYTHING costs a ton of money that young ppl don't have? 3. When young ppl DO hang out together they get called loiterers, troublemakers and get the police called. 4 The solution they have is to ban their phones instead of listening to their needs.
Wow, this is actually insanely cool I've loved the prospect of a totally open, patent unencumbered chipset that Intel or ARM don't have dictatorial powers over. RISC-V seems like it's early days in the consumer sphere, but it's awesome to see it coming to laptops from more established brands.
Modular computer company Framework is working with DeepComputing on a new mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13 that uses a RISC-V processor instead of Intel, AMD, or Arm.
Fuck me sideways my mate just shared a fursuit head photoset that made me realize what kinds of seams I actually love to see, and the kinds of seams I always want Calyo to have: sewn fabric seams. 🤩
And I'm now imagining Calyo sometimes mimicking the soft, svelte texture of having neoprene skin. 🥰
QotD: I think, though I can't speak for the universality of it, that one of the fundaments of friendship is being actively invested in how your friends are feeling.
Should I start replying with moans when people post links to "articles" which are actually links to giant computer programs to download to my computer and run; programs which may or may not eventually display an article on my screen and/or try to hack my computer and/or track my behaviour?
Ie, should I start complaining about toots with links that don't work without JavaScript turned on?
If you're in London, I encourage you to visit the national covid memorial wall on the south bank of the Thames. It is about 500m long, between Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Palace, facing Westiminster Palace.
I found it by accident this morning and I really wasn't prepared for the scale of it or the notes written by the bereaved. It stands as a memorial to the 240,000 people who died from COVID in the UK, and a monument to the incompetence of the Johnson government.
It will make you sad, and it should also make you angry.
So messed up right now. Only an hour or two ago I was getting stressed out about never being able to get on with anything and having such a huge backlog of stuff to do that I was feeling utterly overwhelmed by it all, and now I'm sitting here at a loose end, unable to think what to do with myself.
I can only think I need a break. (In both senses, maybe.)
Anyone in south-west London TOMORROW who'd want to come to Mitcham Carnival with me?
I'm going to do the same as last year, and could do with someone to take a few pics (I don't get the chance myself, really) and maybe help a bit with "managing" the people wanting to get photos with Spidey!
I probably won't stay all day, more likely just a couple of hours or so, and it's mainly when I first arrive that help would be most welcome, so it could just be for a short time.
A long shot, I know, and a bit late to ask, but… I have to ask, just in case.
Okay, that was a rather nice time! From the moment I got there I was swamped with people wanting photos. Walked around the showground once or twice, had a lot of nice encounters and a small number where I wasn't sure what was going on but none that were actually bad, which is good. 🙂
No time for pictures while I was there, but I did get a few on the way home.
I've loved the prospect of a totally open, patent unencumbered chipset that Intel or ARM don't have dictatorial powers over. RISC-V seems like it's early days in the consumer sphere, but it's awesome to see it coming to laptops from more established brands.
