David Clarke

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GeneralIT consultant and software architect at #Capgemini
W3CInvited expert on #I18n to World Wide Web Consortium
SocialPractitioner of #Iaido, a samurai martial art
PoliticsLeft wing. More interested in protecting minorities and the vulnerable than enriching the wealthiest. Support #UBI, #BLM, #LQBTQ+

"Two sexes," they say. "Any others are unnatural"

MUSHROOMS: but we have 17,000 sexes. Whoops sorry just discovered another one. Make that 17,001.

"The female of the species," they proclaim, "is the one that carries the fetus to term. Males can't get pregnant. It's unnatural."

SEAHORSES: but our males do.

"It's so simple," they declare, a little nervously, "If you were born with a penis, you're a male. Boom."

SPOTTED HYENA: but our females have penises.

"If you were born with a vaginal canal, you're a girl," they scream. "If you weren't, you aren't. End of story."

TURTLES: but our males are. and they can even breathe through them.

"Biological sex can't be changed," they shriek, self-righteously."That's just science".

CLOWNFISH: but we do it all the time

"You can pretend to be a gender you weren't born as, they gasp, assuring themselves that surely this time they will emerge victorious, "animals can't just up and change their chromosomes. That's common sense."

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: but we can. explosive chromosomal macroevolution is literally a part of our lifecycle.

"But chromosomes determine biologi-"

BEARDED DRAGONS: ours are determined by the weather

"But the Bible says male and female he made th-"

BLUEHEADED WRASSE: all of us are born female

"But you can't just wake up one day and deci-"

GROUPER (MALE): we literally do.

"But gender isn't flui-"

GROUPER (MALE): sometimes we change back

"But you can't just pick what gender you're going to be on any given day!" They shriek, "It doesn't work that way!!"

GROUPER (FEMALE): ahem

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Group update: we just crossed 3,200 followers here! Thanks to you all!
Next stop get us to 3,300 --> boost this post to any pro-#KamalaHarris friends you have!

Remember: our big goal is it to get to *4,000* total followers by October 29th, #EarlyVotingDay and to organize a fediverse-wide push to #voteearly!

Smart field people said that last time the election was won IN OCTOBER by banking so many votes early. Lets do that again! #whenwefightwewin cc: @GottaLaff

Cybersecurity explained

We're also delighted to share that @tink will be speaking at the #w3cTPAC event W3C @ 30 celebrating 30 years of the World Wide Web Consortium!

Join the live stream at 6.10 PM PT time on Wednesday 25th September to hear a host of talks on the theme "Today is better than yesterday, tomorrow will be better than today".

https://www.w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/w3c-30.html

#Accessibility #AccessibilityConference

W3C @ 30

Serval painting for caturday! done in 2019 via Twitch/Picarto 🐱

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"If cats could talk to cops, they wouldn't"
Sticker seen in Portland, Oregon
@Radical_EgoCom I was just saying this again today. It’s not enough to learn and grow throughout life. We must root out the false expectations we absorb in our narrow upbringings.

@dwc @Radical_EgoCom I love that they always miss the other half of the quote....

The customer is always right, in matters of taste....