I had some confusion regarding just which "HR 2616" was just passed today by the US House of Representatives, so for my own records:

What seems to have made it through today is the Rules Committee print of HR 2616, which combines what were formerly HR 2616 and HR 2617 into one bill.

This print requires:

• teachers at schools receiving funds under the ESEA to obtain parental consent (i.e. forced outing) before addressing a student as the gender they state, and
• a ban on "gender ideology extremism" (the bill's words; it is not clear at all how far it goes, though "widest possible applicability" is a reasonable guess) from being taught in said schools.

The print now goes to the Senate.

Y'all know I think both of these changes are bad. I do think y'all should be more concerned about point (2), which is a ban on teaching something that the current administration sees as icky, and which most of US society -- at best -- doesn't see as something worth defending.

I think students will find ways around this should it become law. Banning knowledge makes it cooler, after all, and I have some faith that a significant part of Gen Z and Gen Alpha roll with this stuff just fine.

But I still think you should view this as a live attempt to establish precedent and procedure to take other things from you. Do what you will, or won't, with that thought.

Very cool slides from FuzzingLabs (https://fuzzinglabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Navigating_iOS_MTE_Landscape.pdf)

Quite in depth and very accurate!

How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success:

1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a husband to drag you to the doctor when you’re at your lowest and argue with them

2) finally get escalated to a psychologist who takes a few months to be sure there’s definitely something wrong. She will recommend the GP to prescribe ADHD medication

3) Your prescription mysteriously disappears into the system. After several attempts to follow up that take months, and several confused phone calls from your psychologist to the GP, it turns out the GP refuses to authorize it because *shrug* reasons. Maybe if a psychiatrist also signs off on it?

4) You attempt to get an appointment with a psychiatrist. Every psychiatrist in the Netherlands is booked until 2034.

5) Finally, after a dozen rounds of pleading and nagging, you get a mysterious phone call from an unknown number. They give you an address and tell you to be there at 7 in the evening.

6) You find yourself at the door of a historic art deco mansion in the most exclusive district of Amsterdam. There is absolutely no indication that this is a medical practice. You ring the doorbell. Nothing happens. You wait nervously, and try again.

7) The door creaks open. An elderly man wearing crocs stands before you. He silently bids you follow him up a winding staircase to a parlor filled with a thousand thick and aging books in every tongue of the earth and perhaps a few also of the angels. They concern prophecy, and music, and poetry, and the apocalypse.

8) In a thin whisper of a voice barely to be heard, he asks your name, and where you were born. He slowly, very slowly, so slowly that you think you have died and this is purgatory, types this into a computer. It is in his lap because his desk is covered with strange devices beyond identification.

9) He tells you the prescription will be ready for pickup tomorrow.